Rinaldo Corso

Rinaldo Macone Corso (born February 15, 1525 in Verona , † between 1580 and 1582 in Strongoli ) was an Italian clergyman, scholar and bishop of Strongoli .

Life

Origin and early years

He was the son of from Correggio coming Condottiere Ercole Macone and his wife Margherita Merli. He was born in Verona, where his father was in the service of the Estonians . He owed the nickname Corso ("the Corsican") to his grandfather Rinaldo Macone, who came to Emilia from Corsica around 1460 . After his father had died on August 15, 1526 during the siege of Cremona in the course of the Italian wars , the mother returned to Correggio with the little boy. In 1546 he obtained his degree in law in Bologna and became a member of the newly founded knightly order of the Cavalieri Lauretani .

In the same year he took part in the academy founded by the poet Veronica Gambara in Correggio . At that time he married the woman who would profoundly influence his life: Lucrezia Lombardi, a niece of the philosopher Giambattista Lombardi , who in turn was Antonio da Correggio's teacher . At the same time Rinaldo Macone wrote his first important work Fondamenti del parlar thoscano ("Basics of the Tuscan Language"), which was published in Venice in 1549. When Veronica Gambara died in 1550, Rinaldo Macone wrote “Corso”, the Latin epitaph. In 1554 he wrote the small work Gli Honori della casa di Correggio , an octave volume with a few musical interludes that he had composed himself and that appeared in print in Ancona two years later. As a multifaceted talent, he tried his hand at grammar, poetry, music, theater, the aesthetics of painting, but mainly in law and technology, so he wrote a treatise on irrigation in agriculture, a guide to land registry and sewage, a life story of St. Quirinus ( patron saint of Correggio), a treatise on dance, translations of Virgil , biographies of local personalities and much more.

Professional career

He was elected judge and head of the Correggio Notaries College. In 1555 he finished another work that made him famous, Delle private rappacificazioni ("On private reconciliation"), a handbook on extrajudicial settlements , the first of its kind. In it, Macone Corso examines the reasons for a legal dispute and shows ways to an amicable settlement . The work was reprinted numerous times, including one in Latin , which was created by order of Pope Pius IV .

In 1557 his wife left him, whom he then disinherited; and difficulties of a political nature arose for him, which arose from the wavering position of the Da Correggio family, the Signori of Correggio. In the war between the Holy League and the Empire , Rinaldo was accused of having arranged the "change of sides" of two cousins ​​of Count Girolamo to the papal side, which he escaped by publicly declaring that he had nothing to do with the incident. A few weeks later, papal troops destroyed his property at the gates of Rome. Nevertheless, he returned to the city in 1558 and became chief judge in civil matters. He later became a judge in Rossena and was reconciled with his wife. When this left him a few years later - and this time for good - he entered the service of Cardinal Girolamo da Correggio . In Rome he had some affairs that gave birth to two children: Ercole, whom he recognized as a legitimate son in 1580 and who later became his heir, and his daughter Plautilla.

Further life

In 1567, when Rinaldo was in Ancona, his wife was murdered in Fabbrico . He was suspected of instigation, but he denied it by pointing out that his wife's lover at the time had a motive too. Since there was no evidence of legal proceedings, either against one or the other, the murder of Lucrezia Lombardi was never solved.

In 1568 he dealt with the Lutheran Reformation in writings and contacts . In the same year his career reached new heights, he became Apostolic Inquisitor , Consultor of the Inquisition and trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature . He was on June 23, 1576 by Pope Gregory XIII. appointed inquisitor in Malta . At the end of June 1579 he left Malta and was appointed Bishop of Strongoli on August 3, 1579, a position he held until his death.

Rinaldo Macone “Corso” died between 1580 and 1582 at his bishopric. The exact date of his death is not known, information can only be found in notarial files. He was buried in the sacristy of Strongoli Cathedral.

Works

• Dichiaratione sopra la Prima Parte delle Rime di Vittoria Colonna. (1542?)
• Dichiaratione sopra la Seconda Parte delle Rime della divina Vittoria Colonna. Bologna 1543
• Fondamenti del parlar thoscano. Venice 1549
• Del modo di livellare le acque di Correggio e per irrigare le terre del Principato (lost)
• Dent private rappacificazioni. Correggio 1555
• Dialogo del ballo. Venice 1555
• Tutte le rime della illustris. et eccellentiss. signora Vittoria Colonna Marchesana di Pescara, con la esposizione del signor Rinaldo Corso. Venice 1558
• Panthia. Bologna 1560
• Le Pastorali canzoni di Vergilio. Ancona 1564
• Vita di Giberto terzo di Correggio detto il Difensore, colla vita di Veronica Gambara. Ancona 1566
• Gli Honori della casa di Correggio. Ancona 1566
• Indagationum Iuris libri tres. Venice 1568
• Discorso a pittori, sopra l'honestà delle imagini (before 1579)
• Declarationes et variae lectiones dissoltionesque ecc. 1585

Web links

• Entry on Rinaldo Corso on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 10, 2020.

literature

• Riccardo Finzi: Un correggese del rinascimento: Rinaldo Corso, 1525–1582. Aedes Muratoriana, Modena 1959.
• Riccardo Finzi: Correggio nella storia e nei suoi figli. AGE, Reggio Emilia 1968.
• Giovanna Romei:  CORSO, Rinaldo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 29:  Cordier-Corvo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1983.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gregorio Forbicini	Bishop of Strongoli 1579–1580 / 1582	Domenico Petrucci