Mercurius de Vipera

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Giovanni Mercurius de Vipera (* 1436 in Benevento ; † May 26, 1527 in Rome ) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

Life

Coming from southern Italy , Mercurius de Vipera was initially Regens of the Apostolic Penitentiary and auditor of the Roman Rota . In 1513 he was mentioned in a document in Rome as a Rotanotary who renounced two canon positions at Lübeck Cathedral , one in favor of the later Rotanotary and Lübeck Canon Franz Diemann due to a legal dispute with him and the other in favor of the Lübeck cleric working in Rome Johannes Pumpel .

In 1523, four years before his death, he became bishop of Bagnoregio , a central Italian diocese, which was incorporated into the diocese of Viterbo in 1986 and which today only exists as a titular diocese . From 1524 he was the competent judge appointed in Rome by Pope Clement VII in the dispute between the Hamburg scholaster Heinrich Banzkow and the Hamburg citizenship over the school system in the city.

Mercurio de Vipera perished at the Sacco di Roma ; he was buried in Santo Stefano del Cacco , where both his brother Trajan Vipera and his brother Peter Vipera each set a grave monument for him.

Fonts

  • Oratio [de justiciae laudibus]. [Rome: Johannes Beplin, ca.1513]
  • RPD Mercurii Vipere Beneventani red sacri Palatii auditoris primarii Orationes una de laudibus christiane religionis; Altera de virtutum de coro. [Romae?]: [Sn], [1514?]
  • De divino et vero numine apologeticon. [Rome 1515]
  • De disciplinarum virtutumque Laudibus opusculum. [Rome: Etienne Guilleret, September 14, 1515]
  • Orationes. [Rome: Etienne Guilleret & Ercole Nani, September 30, 1514].
  • De prisco & sacro instituto. 1517
  • De publicis & civilibus institutis.
  • De humanarum divinarumque rerum enarrationibus.
  • De præclare dictis & gestis.
  • Libros decem contra aberrantes a recto divini cultus itinere. Rome 1522

literature

  • Vipera, Mercurius de. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts. Volume 48, 1746, Sp. 1683/1684, digitized in the Google book search.
  • Christiane Schuchard, Knut Schulz: Thomas Giese from Lübeck and his Roman notebook from 1507 to 1526. Lübeck 2003.
  • Ludwig Schmugge : Directory of the supplica registers of the Poenitentiarie Pius III. and Julius II. occurring persons, churches and places of the German Empire (1503–1513). DHI - German Historical Institute, Walter de Gruyter, 2014.

Web links

  • Entry to Catholic Hierarchy (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Meyer: History of the Hamburg school and teaching system in the Middle Ages. Meißmner, Hamburg 1843, p. 172 ff. ( Digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Vipera, Mercurius de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vipera, Giovanni Mercurius de (full name); Vipera, Giovanni Mercurio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 1436
PLACE OF BIRTH Benevento
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1527
Place of death Rome