San Benedetto in Polirone

Polirone Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in San Benedetto Po in the province of Mantua and the region of Lombardy .

history

The Monastery of San Benedetto in Polirone was founded in 1007 by Tedald von Canossa on an island that the Po River formed here at that time; today one of the river arms has been drained.

Mathilde transferred the abbey in 1077 to Pope Gregory VII , to whom it was subordinate to the Cluny Abbey . Mathilde chose Polirone as her final resting place. Mathilde made twelve donations to the abbey in the last five years. This made Polirone one of the richest monasteries in Italy. Pope Urban VIII had her bones transferred to Rome in 1630. Her remains were initially stored in the Castel Sant'Angelo . After completing the marble sarcophagus and statue, Mathilde found her final resting place in St. Peter's Basilica in 1644 .

The abbey church, with the rank of minor basilica , was rebuilt in the middle of the 15th century and restored by Giulio Romano from 1540 to 1544 . Other artists who have worked here are Antonio da Correggio and Antonio Begarelli .

The monastery was closed in 1797.

swell

Paolo Golinelli , Emauela Lanza: Codice diplomatico polironiano. 3: 1201-1464. Cartulario del monastero di San Benedetto Polirone, Verona, Biblioteca civica, ms. n.736 (= Il mondo medievale. Vol. 20). Pàtron, Bologna 2016.
Paolo Golinelli, Rosella Rinaldi: Codice diplomatico polironiano. 2: 1126-1200 (= Storia di San Benedetto Polirone. Sez. 2 .: Documenti). Pàtron, Bologna 2011.
Paolo Golinelli, Rosella Rinaldi, Carla Villani: Storia di San Benedetto Polirone. Vol. 2, 1: Codice diplomatico polironiano, 961-1125. Pàtron, Bologna 1993.

literature

Representations

Paolo Golinelli: L'abbazia di Matilde. Arte e storia in un grande monastero dell'Europa benedettina. San Benedetto Po (1007-2007). Pàtron, Bologna 2008, ISBN 978-88-555-2975-4 .
Paolo Golinelli: Storia di San Benedetto. Le origini (961-1125) (= Il mondo medievale. Vol. 6). Pàtron, Bologna 1998, ISBN 88-555-2446-1 .

bibliography

Paolo Golinelli Bruno Andreolli (ed.): Bibliografia storica polironiana, opere generali: il medioevo (= Storia di S. Benedetto di Polirone. Vol. 1–1). Pàtron, Bologna 1983.

Web links

Commons : San Benedetto in Polirone - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Federica Carlini et al .: Abbazia di Polirone - complesso. Lombardia Beni Culturali, 2002, accessed January 18, 2016 (Italian).

Remarks

^ Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: The monastery S. Benedetto di Polirone in its Cluniac environment. In: Josef Fleckenstein, Karl Schmid (Ed.): Nobility and Church. Gerd Tellenbach for his 65th birthday presented by friends and students. Freiburg 1968, pp. 280-294, here: p. 282; Thomas Frank: Studies on Italian memorial documents of the XI. and XII. Century. Berlin 1991, p. 142.
^ Elke Goez: Mathilde von Canossa. Darmstadt 2012, p. 188.
^ Elke Goez: Mathilde von Canossa. Darmstadt 2012, pp. 209-211.
^ Basilica di S. Benedetto on gcatholic.org

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[1] Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: The monastery S. Benedetto di Polirone in its Cluniac environment. In: Josef Fleckenstein, Karl Schmid (Ed.): Nobility and Church. Gerd Tellenbach for his 65th birthday presented by friends and students. Freiburg 1968, pp. 280-294, here: p. 282; Thomas Frank: Studies on Italian memorial documents of the XI. and XII. Century. Berlin 1991, p. 142.

[2] Elke Goez: Mathilde von Canossa. Darmstadt 2012, p. 188.

[3] Elke Goez: Mathilde von Canossa. Darmstadt 2012, pp. 209-211.

[4] Basilica di S. Benedetto on gcatholic.org