Battista Mantua (the name in the world is Giovanni Battista Spagnoli) ( April 17, 1447 , Mantova , Mantua Margrave - March 20, 1516 , ibid.) - Italian church leader, ascetic , blessed by the Catholic Church, reformer of the Carmelite monastic order, poet , Christian humanist .
| Battista | |
|---|---|
 Blessed Battista of Manto | |
| Birth | or Mantova , Margrave of Gonzaga |
| Death | Mantova , Mantua Margrave |
| Is revered | in the catholic church |
| Beatified | 12/17/1885 |
| In the face | |
| Day of Remembrance | in the catholic church on March 20 [4] . |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Selected Works
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Spanish nobleman. He received a humanistic education, studied grammar in Mantua, philosophy in Pavia .
A quarrel with his father and mystical feelings led him at the age of 17 to the monastery of the reformed Carmelites in Ferrara , about 1470 he was ordained, became a priest. In the 1470s, he taught at the Monastery of San Martino in Bologna. In 1475 he received a doctorate in theology in Bologna .
He was in the service of the Duke of Mantua (hence the name and nickname of Spagnoli - the Spaniard).
Since 1483, he was elected several times by the vicar general, and in 1513 he headed the Order of the Carmelites .
In the 1480s, for the most part, he lived in Rome . Thanks to his requests, Pope Sixtus IV transferred the monastery of San Crisogono to the Carmelites .
A supporter of church reform, he is known for asceticism and personal piety.
He spoke in sermons to Pope Innocent VIII , in which he condemned corruption in the Roman Curia .
Creativity
He became famous as one of the best Italian authors of the Renaissance , who wrote in Latin . His work encompasses various genres: the instructive writings of "On a Blissful Life" (De vita beata), "On Patience" (De patientia), political pamphlets on the events of the Italian Wars and the upcoming crusade against the Turks, a polemic with " pagan " humanism , apologetic works (including in defense of one’s own poems).
Among Battista's poetic works (a total of about 55,000 verses) stand out such as “On the calamities of my time” (De suorum temporum calamitatibus: In 3 vol. Bologna, 1479), which presents paintings of hunger and plague , the Turkish threat and civil war , omnipotence of 7 deadly sins (“monsters”) and the expulsion of Virtue, calling for the unification of Christians; praise of the virginity of Mary (Parthenice mariana: In 3 t. Bologna, 1481), dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and 6 holy virgins - Catherine, Margarita, Agathia, Lucia, Apollonia and Cecilia; "Adolescence" (Adolescentia, seu Bucolica. Mantua, 1498), praised by Erasmus of Rotterdam , who called him "Christian Virgil ."
Widely revered by the Carmelites, was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on December 17, 1885.
Selected Works
- Omnia opera Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae. Bologna, 1502. Anvers, 1576 et al. ed .;
- Baptistae Mantuani prioris generalis Ordinis Carmelitarum libri tres de calamitatibus temporum. R., 1916;
- La Partenice mariana / Introd., Note di E. Bolisani. Padova, 1957;
- Die Fasti des Baptista Mantuanus von 1516 als volkskundliche Quelle / Hrsg. H. Trumpy. Nieuwkoop, 1979;
- Adulescentia: the Eclogues of Mantuan / Ed. by L. Piepho. NY, 1989.
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ National Library Network of Italy - 1985.
- ↑ 1 2 Swartz A. Open Library - 2007.
- ↑ Baptist of Mantua (Spagnoli, “The Mantuan”) 1447-1516). Blessed, priest (inaccessible link) . www.carmelnet.org. Date of treatment April 9, 2017. Archived March 3, 2016.