Ilarione Rancati

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Ilarione Rancati (born September 2, 1594 in Milan , † April 17, 1663 in Rome ) was an Italian abbot of the Cistercians , theologian, librarian, scholar and Arabist .

life and work

Bartolomeo Rancati entered the Cistercian monastery Chiaravalle Milanese in 1608 and took the religious name Ilarione (Latin: Hilarion , after Hilarion of Gaza ). He studied oriental studies in Milan (at that time Spanish) and in Salamanca (with Ángel Manrique ) and taught from 1619 in the monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme , where he was abbot from 1626 to 1635, and from 1641 to 1645 (and again in 1659) and up to remained after his death as a librarian. From 1635 to 1651 Rancati was General Procurator of the Order. Elected abbot of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan in 1635 , he had to return to Rome a year later because Spain did not tolerate the French-dominated order.

Pope Urban VIII summoned Rancati to the Inquisition in 1624 , where he became an advisor in 1628 and played a role in the treatment of Jansenism (also under Pope Innocent X ) . Pope Alexander VII. Apostolic Constitution Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum of 1661 on the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary was considered Rancati's work. Rancati was involved in the translation of the complete Arabic version of the Bible published in Rome in 1671 (by Sergius Risius and others). He left the Biblioteca Sessoriana , which he had richly stocked, to his student Franco Ferrari to maintain and expand it.

literature

  • Biblia Sacra Arabica, Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide jussu edita, ad usum Ecclesiarum orientalium; additis e regione Bibliis Latinis Vulgatis , Rome, type. Sacr. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1671.
  • Vita del pd Ilarione Rancati milanese dell'Ordine Cistercense scritta dal pd Angelo Fumagalli (1728–1804) monaco dello stesso Ordine , Brescia, Bossini, 1762.
  • Tanja Thanner, Abbot Hilarion Rancati and his position in the Jansenism dispute , in: Analecta Cisterciensia 63, 2013, pp. 516–536.
  • Franca Trasselli, Ilarione Rancati milanese dell'Ordine cisterciense, il Collegio di studi e la biblioteca romana di S. Croce in Gerusalemme, in: Aevum 81, 2007, pp. 792-876.
  • Franca Trasselli, Manoscritti della Biblioteca Sessoriana di Roma. Segnature, inventari, cataloghi , 2 vols., Casamari, Edizioni Casamari, 2011.
  • Herman H. Schwedt : Ilarione Rancati in Biographia Cisterciensis , June 10, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Rancati, Ilarione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rancati, Hilarion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian abbot of the Cistercians, theologian, librarian, scholar and Arabist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1594
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1663
Place of death Rome