Ferdinando Ughelli
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Ferdinando Ughelli was an Italian Cistercian monk and church historian.
. He entered the Cistercian Order and was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome
, where he studied under the Jesuits Francesco Piccolomini and John de Lugo
.
He filled many important posts in his order, being Abbot of Badia a Settimo near Florence, and, from 1638, Abbot of Tre Fontane in Rome. He was skilled in ecclesiastical history. To encourage him in this work and to defray the expense of the journeys it entailed, Pope Alexander VII granted him an annual pension of 500 scudi. He was a consultor
of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
and theologian to Cardinal Carlo de' Medici; he was frequently offered the episcopal dignity, which he refused. He was buried in his abbatial church.
Among his other writings are:
Biography
He was born in FlorenceFlorence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
. He entered the Cistercian Order and was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, where he studied under the Jesuits Francesco Piccolomini and John de Lugo
John de Lugo
John de Lugo , a Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, was an eminent theologian of the Renaissance.-Biography:He was born at Madrid in November, 1583, though he used to call himself a "Hispalensis", because his family seat was at Seville...
.
He filled many important posts in his order, being Abbot of Badia a Settimo near Florence, and, from 1638, Abbot of Tre Fontane in Rome. He was skilled in ecclesiastical history. To encourage him in this work and to defray the expense of the journeys it entailed, Pope Alexander VII granted him an annual pension of 500 scudi. He was a consultor
Consultor
A consultor is one who gives counsel, i.e. a counselor.In the Catholic Church, it is a specific title for various advisory positions:*in the Roman Curia, a consultor is a specially appointed expert who may be called upon for advice desired by a department...
of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church. A first version was promulgated by Pope Paul IV in 1559, and a revised and somewhat relaxed form was authorized at the Council of Trent...
and theologian to Cardinal Carlo de' Medici; he was frequently offered the episcopal dignity, which he refused. He was buried in his abbatial church.
Literary works
His chief work is Italia sacra sive de episcopis Italae (9 vols, 1643–1662), re-edited with corrections and additions by Nicola Coleti (1717–1722), with a tenth volume. In compiling this work, he frequently had to deal with matters not previously treated by historians; as a result, the Italia sacra, owing to the imperfections of historical science in Ughelli's day, especially from the point of view of criticism and diplomatics, contains serious errors, particularly as the author was more intent on collecting than on weighing documents. Nevertheless his work with all its imperfections was necessary to facilitate the labours of critical historians of a later day, and is consulted even now. In the last volume of the Italia sacra he published various historical sources until then unedited.Among his other writings are:
- Cardinalium elogia ex sacro ordine cisterciensi (1624): elogies on the writers and saints of his order and the papal privileges granted to it;
- Columnensis familiae cardinalium imagines (1650): vitaBiographyA biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
e of the Cardinal from the Colonna family. - genealogical works on the Counts of Marsciano (1667) and the Capizucchi (1653);
- Aggiunte ("additions") to the Vitae et res gestae pontificum by Ciaconius (Alphonsus CiacconiusAlphonsus CiacconiusDon Alphonsus [Francisco] Ciacconius was a Spanish Dominican scholar in Rome. His name is also spelt as Alfonso Chacón and Ciacono. Chacón is known mainly for two of his works: Historia utriusque belli dacici a Traiano Caesaregesti , and Vitae, et res gestae pontificum romanorum et S.R.E....
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