Ferdinando Taverna
Ferdinando Taverna (* 1558 in Milan , † August 29, 1619 in Novara ) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop of Novara .
Live and act
Origin and education
Taverna came from a patrician family. His father was the Milanese Senator Palatino Cesare Taverna, Count of Landriano . His mother was Antonia Beccaria. Ferdinando Taverna studied canon law and civil law at the Collegio d'Avocati in Milan. He did his doctorate in utroque iure. He completed his studies with a master's degree. At the suggestion of his uncle Lodovico Taverna, Bishop of Lodi and Governor of Rome, he moved to Rome and began in 1588 as a trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature .
In the service of the Church
This was followed by a steep rise in the service of the Church. He became governor of several church towns: Viterbo (1588 to 1591), Città di Castello (1591 to 1595) and Fermo (vice governor 1595 to 1596). From 1594 he worked as a consultor for the Inquisition .
Taverna went to Portugal in 1596 as a collector for the church . A year later, his powers were expanded to include the colonies and he was given the title of nuncio . In 1598 he returned to Rome for family matters.
In 1599 Taverna became governor of Rome . He held this office until 1604.
Investigator in the Santacroce murder
With his investigation into the murder of Santacroce, Taverna gained the favor of the powerful Cardinal Nepot Pietro Aldobrandini . In 1599, Paolo Santacroce had murdered his mother and was executed. His brother Onofrio Santacroce made Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini an enemy. According to contemporary reports, Pietro Aldobrandini had given a famous Roman courtesan a precious ring. The courtesan left the ring to her lover Onofrio Santacroce. He was vain enough to wear the ring at every opportunity, including an audience with Cardinal Aldobrandini. When he saw the ring on Santacroc’s finger, which he knew only too well, he is said to have sought to have the rival eliminated. The murder of Santacroce's mother provided an opportunity for this. Cardinal Aldobrandini entrusted the further investigation to Taverna. With dubious interrogation methods, he got Santacroce to confess that he had instigated his brother Paolo to murder his mother. Santacroce was executed.
“Taverna, on the other hand, [could] look forward to the award of the red hat at the next cardinal creation in March 1604 [...] - which he did to such an extent that he passed out when the news of his appointment was brought to him - and the Roman vernacular had the opportunity to witty mockery: Taverna had colored its red cardinal's biret with the blood of Santacroce itself. "
Cardinal and Bishop of Novara
On June 9, 1604, Ferdinando Taverna was appointed cardinal priest in the consistory by Pope Clement VIII . He received the cardinal dignity at the instigation of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini. He received the title of Cardinal Priest of Sant'Eusebio . In 1604 he became a legate in the province of Marken and governor of Ascoli, both offices he held until 1606.
Taverna participated in the first conclave of 1605 , on which Pope Leo XI. was elected, and at the second conclave in the same year that Pope Paul V was elected. From 1605 to 1611 he was a member of the Inquisitionis Congregatio . From 1606 to 1608 he was protector of the canons of S. Giorgio in Alga. From 1611 he was protector of the Congregatio S. Mariae de Sturla Genova.
In 1605 Taverna commissioned the construction of the Villa Parisi, which he sold to Cardinalnepot Scipione Caffarelli Borghese in 1614 . From 1613 to 1614 he was the owner of Villa Grazioli .
On November 16, 1615 he became Bishop of Novara. In 1616 he took part in a conversation with Galileo Galilei together with the cardinals Robert Bellarmin , Agostino Galamani, Giovanni Battista Bonsi and Felice Centini . The cardinals were informed by Galileo about the teachings of Nicolaus Copernicus .
Ferdinando Taverna died in Novara and was buried there in the cathedral in 1619.
literature
- Christoph Weber: Legati e Governatori dello Stato Pontificio 1550-1809. Ministero per i Beni culturali e ambientali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, Rome 1994, p. 941.
- Christoph Weber: The papal trainee lawyers 1566-1809. Chronology and prosopography. Volume 3, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2003, p. 936.
- Thomas F. Mayer: The Roman Inquisition. A papal bureaucracy and its laws in the age of Galileo. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2013, pp. 61-62.
- Herman H. Schwedt: The Beginnings of the Roman Inquisition. Cardinals and consultors 1542 to 1600. Herder, Freiburg 2013, pp. 249–250.
Web links
- Ferdinando Taverna. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas F. Mayer: The Roman Inquisition. A papal bureaucracy and its laws in the age of Galileo. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2013, p. 61
- ↑ Klaus Jaitner: The main instructions of Clement VIII for the nuncios and legates at the European royal courts 1592-1605. 2 vol. Tübingen 1984, vol. 1, p. CCLVII
- ↑ Arne Karsten, Philipp Zitzlsperger: Death and Transfiguration. Funerary culture in the early modern period . Böhlau, Cologne 2004, p. 189
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Villa Parisi on the website of the Istituto Regionale per le Ville Tuscolane, accessed on May 15, 2015
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Villa Graziloli on the website of the Istituto Regionale per le Ville Tuscolane, accessed on May 15, 2015
- ^ Galileo: Selected Writings . Translated by William R. Shea and Mark Davie. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2012, pp. 355 f. and 423
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taverna, Ferdinando |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taberna, Ferdinando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of Novara |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1558 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1619 |
| Place of death | Novara , Italy |