Pietro Barozzi

Most Reverend Pietro Barozzi
Bishop of Padua
Bartolomeo Montagna, Portraits of bishop Giovanni Battista Michiel (left) and bishop Pietro Barozzi (right), Padua
Church	Catholic Church
Predecessor	Hieronymus Landus
Successor	Sisto Gara della Rovere
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Belluno (1471 - 1487)
Orders
Consecration	1471 by Pope Paul II
Personal details
Born	1441 Venice, Italy
Died	10 January 1507 Padua, Italy
Nationality	Italian

Pietro Barozzi (1441 - 1507) was an Italian Catholic and humanist bishop.

Biography

Son of the senator Ludovico Barozzi, he began to study Latin and Greek letters with his companions Pietro Delfino and Leonardo Loredan, all pupils of the master Pierleone Leoni. He then studied at the University of Padua, where he graduated in jurisprudence. In 1471 he was Bishop of Belluno and in 1487 Bishop of Padua. [1] [2] [3]

He devoted particular attention to architectural studies, which he put into practice in rearranging and decorating public and ecclesiastical structures, influenced by the style of Alberti.[4] Among his works was the frescoed chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli.[3]. It is in Padua in the Museo Diocesano, the former bishop's palace, which Barozzi transformed into a magnificent Renaissance showplace. In 1506 he commissioned Bartolomeo Montagna to paint portraits of one hundred bishops of Padua in the Salone there[5].

In recent times he is considered influential in humanism, and Hubert Jedin describes him as an exemplary bishop.[6]

On his initiative, the Monte di Pietà was established in Padua.[3] Between 1500 and 1506 he was the chancellor of the University of Padua.[7]

Padua Cathedral, Bishop Pietro Barozzi's tomb

He died in 1507. The erudite bishop Pietro Barozzi left a large collection of books: juridical, theological works, of Greek, Latin and vernacular classics and humanist authors.[3][8] Some of his manuscripts are now in England.[9]

References

1. Varanini 2015, p. 531.
2. King 2009, p. 26.
3. Mixson & Roest 2015, p. 33.
4. Arfanotti & 2004-2005.
5. https://www.turismopadova.it/en/places/museo-diocesano/
6. Archivum Historiae Pontificiae, p. 467.
7. Tiraboschi 1781, p. 169.
8. Scipione & Dondi-Orologio 1805, p. 218.
9. Mitsis 2020, p. 623.

Sources

• Varanini, Gian Maria (2015-04-17). Itinerario per la Terraferma veneziana (in Italian). Viella Libreria Editrice. p. 531. ISBN 978-88-6728-369-9.

• King, Margaret L. (2009-05-15). The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello. University of Chicago Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-226-43627-2.

• Mixson, James; Roest, Bert (2015-06-02). A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond. BRILL. p. 33. ISBN 978-90-04-29752-4.

• Arfanotti, Elisabetta (2004–2005). Un cultore dell'Alberti: Pietro Barozzi (2-3ª ed.). Moderni e Antichi.

• Archivum Historiae Pontificiae. Vol. 17. See also Pietroantonio Gios, L'attività pastorale del vescovo Pietro Barozzi a Padova (1407-1507) Istituto per la Storia Ecclesiastica Padovana, 1977. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 467.

• Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1781). Storia della letteratura italiana dell' abate Girolamo Tiraboschi,... Tomo primo [ - Tomo decimo] (Vol 6 ed.). Muccis. p. 169.

• Mitsis, Phillip (2020). Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press. p. 623. ISBN 9780197521991.

• Scipione, Francesco; Dondi-Orologio, Marchese (1805). Serie cronologico-istorica dei canonici di Padova. Stamp: del Seminario. p. 218.

External links

• "Pietro Barozzi, De Ratione Bene Moriendi".