Cristoforo Marcello

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Cristoforo Marcello (* around 1480 in Venice ; † 1527 probably in the sea fortress Gaëta ) was an Italian Roman Catholic theologian and humanist of the 16th century from the Venetian nobility. In the age of religious separation, Marcello became Martin Luther's Italian literary opponent .

life and work

The exact dates of birth and death of Cristoforo Marcello are unknown. After the untimely death of his father in 1484, Marcello and his male siblings received a pension approved by the Venetian Senate in 1485. Marcello studied from 1498 at the University of Padua and received his doctorate there on October 26, 1501 as a doctor of the arts. In 1501 he became protonotary of the philosophical faculty of this university and held this office until 1503. In 1507 or 1508 he was appointed apostolic protonotary by Pope Julius II .

In the 4th session of the Fifth Lateran Council on December 10, 1512, Marcello delivered his famous eulogy De officio principis on Pope Julius II. In 1514 Marcello became Archbishop of Corfu. Nevertheless he stayed mostly in Rome. He published the so-called Caeremoniale Romanum under his own name under the title Rituum ecclesiasticorum sive Sacrarum caeremoniarum S. Romanae Ecclesiae libri tres . This contained the customs of the Cappella Papale collected in 1488 by the papal ceremonies Agostino Patrizi and Johannes Burckard . He therefore had to face a plagiarism discussion, which was mainly led by the master of ceremonies of the Vatican Paride Grassi . This work was later reprinted several times. The work became significant for liturgical development. Marcello also published numerous works in the border area between philosophy and theology. Marcello attacked the split in faith with the work De authoritate Summi Pontificis against Martin Luther's Resolutio super Propositione XIII. de potestate Papae from 1519 and became its Italian literary opponent.

In 1527 Marcello was arrested at the Sacco di Roma by soldiers from Fernando Alarcón y Mendoza and taken to the sea fortress Gaëta . On July 9th, he asked his brother Gerolamo to pay the required ransom of 6,000 ducats. In August 1527, news of Marcello's death reached Venice. The exact circumstances are not known, but apparently he was treated very badly by soldiers so that he eventually died in the Gaeta fortress.

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  • Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK) . Marcello, Cristoforo. Second, completely revised edition 1957–1968 (special edition 1986). tape 7 . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1957, ISBN 3-451-20756-7 , p. 2-3 .
  • Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK) . Marcello, Cristoforo. Third, completely revised edition 1993–2001 (special edition 2009). tape 6 . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-22100-2 , p. 1302 .
  • Margherita Palumbo: Marcello, Cristoforo. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 69, 2007. 2007 (Italian).;

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK) . Marcello, Cristoforo. Second, completely revised edition 1957–1968 (special edition 1986). tape 7 . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1957, ISBN 3-451-20756-7 , p. 2-3 .
  2. ^ A b c d Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK) . Marcello, Cristoforo. Third, completely revised edition 1993–2001 (special edition 2009). tape 6 . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-22100-2 , p. 1302 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Margherita Palumbo: Marcello, Cristoforo. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 69, 2007. 2007, accessed on August 30, 2019 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Marcello, Cristoforo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Roman Catholic theologian and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 1527
Place of death uncertain: Gaëta fortress