Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.47.92.1
More on Florida's seminary in Zadar
Zdenko Dundović
orcid.org/0000-0003-1772-1675
; Department of Religious Sciences, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The paper supplements existing knowledge about the establishment of the Florio Latin Seminary in Zadar, established according to the last will and legacy of Zadar Archbishop Bernardo Flori (1642 - 1656). Based on the researched sources from the Procuratori di San Marco "de supra" archival fund, kept in the State Archives in Venice, which were produced by the magistracy that managed the Flori Foundation from the very beginning up to the end of the activity of that seminary in Zadar, the author has revealed new data on rectors, students, as well as regarding the process of the final selection of candidates among the Zadar nobility and citizens, especially in the second half of the eighteenth century. Finally, the author establishes the thesis that the complex relations, together with the interference of secular authorities in spiritual matters, and the inequality of social groups in the early modern times, as well as the busyness of certain rectors significantly influenced the quality of the educational process in Florio's seminary, what consequently led towards its decadence at the end of the eighteenth century.
Keywords
seminary; Zadar; 18th century; ecclesiastical history
Hrčak ID:
313275
URI
Publication date:
23.1.2024.
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