Cosimo Barnaba Corsi

Cosimo Barnaba Corsi (born June 10, 1798 in Florence , † October 7, 1870 in Agnano, San Giuliano Terme ) was an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church.

Life

Origin and early years

He came from a noble Florentine family and was the son of the marchese Giuseppe Antonio Corsi and the Countess Maddalena della Gherardesca. Another cardinal from this family was Domenico Maria Corsi .

Cosimo Corsi received his first education at the Piarist School of San Giovannino in his native city of Florence. He was the page of the Grand Duchess Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi. After the end of French rule, he decided in 1815 to pursue a career in the church. He received the tonsure from the Bishop of Volterra Giuseppe Gaetano Incontri and the minor orders from the Archbishop of Florence Antonio Martini . Two years later, Cosimo Corsi moved to Rome, where he obtained the academic degree of Doctor iuris utriusque in June 1818 . In the same year he entered the service of the Curia as His Holiness's House Prelate and Relator of the Congregation for the Administration of Goods , and in July of the following year he became a trainee lawyer. Grand Duke Ferdinand III. of Tuscany named Corsi, although he had not yet finished his academic studies, on November 29, 1819 as auditor of the Roman Rota for Florence. Notwithstanding the positive motu proprio of December 4, the appointment met with opposition from the Rota judges. However, Cardinal Ercole Consalvi obtained the approval of the court, as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany granted concessions on the nomination of auditors, and so Cosimo Corsi was admitted as a judge on December 8, 1819, and began serving on December 15 of the same year. He was ordained priest in 1821.

Cardinalate

Pope Gregory XVI accepted him in the consistory of January 24, 1842 in the college of cardinals . The cardinal's hat and Santi Giovanni e Paolo as the titular church were awarded to him on January 27 of the same year. He was a member of the Council Congregation , the Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity , the Congregation of Rites and the Sacra Consulta as well as consultor of the Congregation for Bishops and Regulars and of the Special Congregation for the Reconstruction of the Basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura . He was also the protector of the Vallombrosans .

Episcopal offices

On January 20, 1845, Cosimo Corsi was elected Bishop of Jesi . He received his episcopal ordination on January 26th of the same year in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella by the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia e Velletri and Cardinal Dean , Ludovico Micara ; Co-consecrators were Bishop Francesco Pichi and the secretary of the Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity, Bishop Stefano Scerra . Cosimo Corsi was a participant in the 1846 conclave that Pius IX. elected to the Pope. In 1847 he founded an evening school for young male workers and in 1852 an orphanage for boys. Grand Duke Leopold II nominated him for the Archbishop's See of Pisa , to which Cosimo Corsi was raised on December 19, 1853. In 1860 he refused to celebrate a Te Deum in honor of King Victor Emmanuel II , for which he was imprisoned in Turin for two months, from May 19 to July 6, 1860. Cosimo Corsi was a participant in the First Vatican Council .

Death and burial

Cosimo Corsi died in Agnano and was first buried in the chapel of the university there. The Italian government refused to allow him to be buried in Pisa Cathedral , as Cosimo Corsi had ordered in his will. It was not until June 30, 1898, according to his last will, that he was buried there.

literature

• Giacomo Martina:  CORSI, Cosimo Barnaba. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 29:  Cordier-Corvo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1983.
• Philippe Bountry: Le sacré collège des cardinaux . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 206–208 (French, online edition [accessed July 10, 2019]).

Web links

• Corsi, Cosimo Barnaba. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 10, 2019.
• Entry on Cosimo Barnaba Corsi on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on July 10, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
Giovan Battista Perretti	Archbishop of Pisa 1853–1870	Paolo Micallef
Silvestro Belli	Bishop of Jesi 1845-1853	Carlo Luigi Morichini