Bartolomeo Porcia
Bartolomeo Porcia , the family name sometimes also written Portia , (* 1525 (?) In Udine ; † August 12, 1578 in Prague ) was Apostolic Nuncio .
biography
Bartolomeo, a member of the Porcia dynasty from Friuli , studied in Padua and Bologna . In 1566 he was ordained a priest by Charles Borromeo . From 1568 he was initially a visitor to the Patriarch of Aquileia Daniele Barbaro . As nuncio for Bavaria, Salzburg, Tyrol and Styria since 1573, he came into contact with Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and Prince Ferdinand II in Tyrol . He visited the diocese of Regensburg under Bishop David Kölderer von Burgstall . The visitation report in connection with the Council of Trent and the Counter Reformation of August 20, 1573 describes the conditions in the monasteries as the "most depraved" in Germany. Shortly thereafter, Felizian Ninguarda took on the grievances . In 1576 Portia was an advisor to Cardinal Giovanni Morone at the Regensburg Reichstag, from 1577 to 1578 he was nuncio in Cologne, and in 1577 at the same time at the imperial court. Bartolomeo was a friend and patron of the poet Torquato Tasso .
A speech to the Pope on Ash Wednesday 1562 was printed in Dillingen that same year . The files of his southern German nunciature were published by the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome as part of his nunciature reports and reprinted in the 1970s.
literature
- Ekkart Sauser : PORTIA BARTOLOMEO. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1088-1089.
- Josef Staber : Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, p. 126.
- Kurt Malisch: Portia, Bartolomeo. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 597 ( digitized version ).
- Klaus Unterburger: The apostolic nuncios Bartolomeo Portia and Felician Ninguarda and the diocese of Augsburg in the Reformation century . In: Jahrbuch / Verein für Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte eV, 40 (2006), pp. 127–159
Web links
- Urban Fink: Bartolomeo Portia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Bartolomeo Portia in Gateway Bayern
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porcia, Bartolomeo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Portia, Bartolomeo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | apostolic nuncio |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1525 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Udine |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1578 |
| Place of death | Prague |