Accademia di San Carlo Borromeo

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The Accademia di San Carlo Borromeo (ASCB), also known as the Accademia di San Carlo , was an ecclesiastical scientific academy in Milan , which was dedicated to the work of Carlo and Federico Borromeo and which was newly founded in 2008 as the Classe di Studi Borromaici Accademia Ambrosiana was convicted.

prehistory

The founding of the academy goes back to a wish of Pope John XXIII. who had previously overseen the five-volume edition of the files of Carlo Borromeo's visit to Bergamo as editor ( Fontes Ambrosiani 13–17, 1936–1957) and in 1958 in an unsigned memorandum to the then Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini , who proposed the establishment of a separate institution for the publication of Borromeo's letters and authentic writings.

founding

In 1963, shortly before his own election as Pope, Montini took up this request and ordered the establishment of the Academy by decree of May 8th. It should have its seat in the archiepiscopal palace in Milan and be dedicated to the purpose of collecting the documentary and bibliographical material on Carlo Borromeo and of researching his life and work.

Foundation and start of the academy

Despite its legal existence since the founding date, such functions were not actually exercised until Montini's successor in the episcopate, Giovanni Colombo , gave the Academy a new statute on October 18, 1976 with an expanded definition of its content-related tasks and the Biblioteca as the new seat Ambrosiana committed . According to the new statute, its purpose was to bring together researchers who promoted the studies and publications on the person and work of Carlo Borromeo and on the religious problems of previous and subsequent history connected with this work, this time also expressly including the work of his cousin and successor Federico Borromeos, the founder of the Ambrosiana, was desired.

After the first 24 members had been nominated, the inauguration of the Academy and the first election of its members took place on November 4, 1978, at the beginning of the academic year 1978/79 and at the same time the day after the death and feast day of the saint, with an introductory session Lecture by Henryk Damian Wojtyska on Carlo Borromeo as an exponent of papal policy towards Central and Eastern Europe in the years 1560–1563 .

Since then, the Academy has held conferences on the topics of its statutory work area at regular annual intervals in November at the beginning of the academic year, which since 1980 have assumed the character of scientific congresses and whose lectures have also been published regularly. On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of his death, the fourth of these conferences (1981) was dedicated to Federico Borromeo according to the expanded topic from 1976. On the occasion of the 10th annual conference, the members of the Academy were honored by John Paul II on November 17, 1988 with a reception and a speech.

Colombo's successor in the episcopate, Carlo Maria Martini , renewed the statute on September 26, 1999. According to the statute of 1976, the archbishop had acted as president of the academy, in cooperation with a vice-president (Carlo Marcora, member of the committee of the Dottori della Biblioteca Ambrosiana ) and supported by an Executive Committee of the ASCB and the Congregation of Library Conservators. Since the reform of 1999, however, the Archbishop has held the primarily representative office of Grand Chancellor, while the presidency has been transferred to the Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Franco Buzzi), thereby enabling the academy to be better integrated into the library. The number of members more than doubled from 1993 to 2003, from 36 to 75 members, who belong to a total of eleven nations.

Academic publications

The files of the annual meetings have been published since 1978, initially as consecutively counted volumes under the title Inaugurazione del ... anno accademico (1.1978 to 8.1986 for 1985) and since 1987 they have been included in the newly founded Studia Borromaica series . Under the series title Fonti e Studi , the ASCB also published six monographs and work editions between 2004 and 2007, in particular on Federico Borromeo.

For the project of a national edition of Carlo Borromeo's very numerous letters, the affiliated Commissione dell'Epistolario di San Carlo was founded in November 1993 in the ASCB and an application for support was submitted to the National Research Council (CNR) in 1994 , but the application was rejected there. The considerations for the continuation of the project were published in 1995 in a memorandum of the academy entitled Le lettere di San Carlo Borromeo. Un patrimonio milanese per l'Europa and then started in the early 2000s to make the manuscripts of a first fund of around 40,000 letters under the title Epistolario di San Carlo accessible in digital form on the Internet, as of June 2012 around 20,000 have now become available.

Continuation in the Accademia Ambrosiana

Martinis successor Dionigi Tettamanzi brought in the new foundation of the Accademia Ambrosiana on 20 March 2008, the already at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana Academies make, in addition to the ASCB especially the existing since 2003 Accademia di Sant'Ambrogio , in the new facility one. As the first of a total of nine classes at this facility, the Classe di Studi Borromaici has since been the successor to the ASCB . It has retained the custom of the annual meetings of the Dies academicus in November of the respective year. Today it has around 80 members.

literature

  • Franco Buzzi: L '“Accademia di San Carlo” a quarant'anni della sua nascita , in: Milano , ed. of the Diocese of Milan, year 2003, No. 3, pp. 37–41 ( PDF ), with a facsimile reproduction of the founding document of May 18, 1963
  • Luca Ceriotti: Review of Cultura politica e società a Milano tra Cinque e Seicento, Atti delle giornate di studio (Milano, November 19-20, 1999) , in: Nuova Rivista Storica 86 (2002), pp. 262–267 (digital version of Print template: PDF )
  • Carlo Maria Martini : L'importante compito dell'Accademia di San Carlo , in: Studia Borromaica 8 (1994), pp. 17-22
  • Antonio Rimoldi: La storiografia dei secoli XIX e XX , in: San Carlo e il suo tempo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale nel IV centenario della morte (Milano, 21-26 maggio 1984) , Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1986 (= Studi e fonti su san Carlo Borromeo, 2), pp. 77–131, reference p. 119ff.

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