Pompeo Ugonio

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Pompeo Ugonio or Pompeo Ugoni , also known as Pompeius Ugonius , (born around 1550; died April 28, 1614 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman, librarian and antiquarian ("antiquarian").

Life

Pompeo Ugonio attended the Collegio Romano in Rome and was the first to obtain the degree of Doctor of Liberal Arts at this Jesuit educational institution in 1569 . In his disputation , the publication of which is provided with a comprehensive appraisal of his unnamed teachers, he defended 100 conclusions on Aristotelian topoi from logic to metaphysics. His teachers may have included Giovan Pietro Maffei and Orazio Torsellini . The book itself was dedicated to Cardinal Giacomo Savelli . In 1572, Pompeo Ugonio, who was also a doctor of theology, accepted the post of canon at the Vatican basilica . In the 1570s he served the cardinal and collector Ascanio Colonna (1560–1608) as a librarian and antiquarian. In 1586 he gave his inaugural lecture De lingua Latina at Archiginnasio Romano , the predecessor of La Sapienza University . When Pope Sixtus V had the Vatican obelisk moved to its current location in St. Peter's Square in 1586 - a challenge mastered by the architect Domenico Fontana - Ugonio celebrated this in a series of poems he wrote in 1587 under the title De sanctissima cruce in vertice obelisci vaticani published.

Pompeo Ugonio, who has also emerged as the author of eloxes in the form of funeral writings , for example on the cardinals Giacomo Savelli, Anton Maria Salviati (1537–1602) and Andreas of Austria , and commemorative writings on Pope Leo X. , published his Historia delle in 1588 stationi di Roma a work with lasting effects. The book on the churches of Rome, provided with antiquarian explanations, was designed as a travel guide to the city of Rome and as such was widely used. As a source for individual problems and questions it is still of value today. It was dedicated to Camilla Peretti (1519–1605), the sister of Sixtus V. His older contemporary, the Renaissance humanist and antiquarian Fulvio Orsini , judged Pompeo Ugonio in a letter of July 7, 1589: giovine Romano et assai bene incaminato nelle lettere - "a young Roman and very advanced in the humanities".

The Historia delle stationi , however, was only the prelude to a far more extensive work, which, however, remained unfinished: the Theatrum Urbis Romae or Compendium rerum mirabilium Urbis Romae or Monumenta sacra et profana Romanae urbis , as Ugonios suggested titles. The never published collection of collectans has been preserved in two manuscripts: in Codex Vaticanus Barberinus Latinus 1994 and in Codex I, 161 of the Biblioteca comunale Ariostea in Ferrara . In a series of comparisons, Ugonio tried to depict the unbroken genesis of the city of Rome from its beginnings through the Christianization of the city to the height of its development under Sixtus V and his building policy . This is why his poorly ordered and therefore difficult to decipher representations include both ancient and contemporary monuments with a clear weighting in favor of antiquity.

According to Francesco Maria Torrigio (1580–1650), Pompeo Ugonio was well known for his erudition and was particularly encouraged by Pope Clement VIII , who considered him worthy of a position in the Apostolic Palace : he determined that one of two jugs of wine should be given to the secretary the Stampa Vaticana as the organ of Vatican pronouncements, Pietro Morini, should be given to Pompeo Ugonio.

Publications

  • De lingua Latina oratio. V. Accoltus, Rome 1586 ( Google Books ).
  • Oratio de laudibus literarum habita. J. Ruffinellum, Rome 1588.
  • Oratio in funere Jacobi Sabelli cardinalis. V. Accoltum, Rome [1587].
  • Oratio in anniversariis exequiis Leonis X. V. Accoltus, Rome 1587.
  • De sanctissima cruce in vertice obelisci vaticani. V. Accoltus, Rome 1587 ( digitized version ).
  • Historia delle stationi di Roma che si celebrano la Quadragesima. B. Bonfadino, Rome 1588 ( digitized from the Arachne image database ).
  • In funere anniversario Leonis X. V Accoltus, Rome 1588.
  • Oratio habita in funere sereniss. principis Andreae SRE card. from Austria. S. Paulinum, Rome 1601 ( digitized version ).
  • In funere amplissimi cardinalis Antonii Mariae Salviati oratio ad sacrum senatum. A. Zannettum, Rome 1603.

literature

  • Frederick J. McGinness: The Collegio Romano, the University of Rome, and the Decline and Rise of Rhetoric in the Late Cinquecento. In: Roma moderna e comtemporanea. Volume 3, 1995, pp. 601-624, here pp. 601-603.
  • Christian Hülsen : Le chiese di Roma nel medio evo. Cataloghi ed appunti. Olschki, Florenz 1927, pp. XXXIII – XXXIV ( online ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pierre de Nolhac : La bibliothèque de Fulvio Orsini. Contributions à l'histoire des collections d'Italie et à l'étude de la Renaissance. F. Vieweg, Paris 1887, 177 note 1 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Francesco Maria Torrigio: I sacri Trofei Romanized. Rome 1644, p. 194.
personal data
SURNAME Ugonio, Pompeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ugoni, Pompeo; Ugonius, Pompey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian canon, librarian, antiquarian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1614
Place of death Rome