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Perugia and Post-Tridentine Church Reform

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Christopher Black
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There were tears of joy and rounds of applause among the prelates who closed the Council of the Church in Trent Cathedral in December 1563. The 226 signatories to the final decrees and the many other attendant theologians and canon lawyers who had served on sub-committees no doubt had mixed emotions at this conclusion: pride in what had been achieved; relief that the bitter arguments which had characterised many of the final sessions were now ended; thankfulness that, with whatever haste, they had finally agreed on a package of legislation for the sick pope to sign, in case his death would mean that the work was lost or had to be redone; hope and expectation – at least among the genuine reformers – that they could now go out into the world knowing what they had to defend against heretics, and that they had rules – whatever the omissions – to guide their reform of the Church and its members. The sick pope recovered; by June 1564 he had ratified the canons and decrees produced by the Council since its opening in December 1545 and ordered their printing and circulation to diocesan bishops for implementation.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 429 - 451
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* This article is derived from papers presented to groups of historians at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities and has benefited from comments and questions offered then. This origin, and a case for brevity, explains the article's tactical approach and the selective emphasis on certain issues. Archival research in Perugia is indebted to the generosity of the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust and the University of Glasgow Court; and to the especial co-operation of officials of the Sodalizio Braccio Fortebraccio and Father Costanzo Tabarelli of S. Pietro, Perugia.

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23 Ughelli, i. col. 1172; BCP, MS 3288, Anon. ‘Istoria di Perugia’, 113, 116–53, 267, 275–7; Sotii, ‘Annali’, fo. 192; Marinelli, La Compagnia, 33 and note 56; Grohmann, Perugia, 110.

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26 CT, ix. 750, 979; COD, 761. For examples of councils and synods, see Ravennatensia. Centra Studi e Ricerche sulla Antica Provincia Ecdesiastica Ravennate. Atti dei Convegni…, vols. i-iii, Cesena 1969–72, esp. i. 23–4, 144–5, ii 235–75.

27 Constitutioni sinodali, Rome n.d., Bossio's 1569 Gravina synod; Decreta della prima sinodo… 1588, Asti 1589. Panigarola had visited 110 parish churches and other institutions and he now indicates, pp. 62–8, the organisation for the next synod.

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29 Da Nadro, Sinodi, nos. 234–43, 259, 270, 280, 303, 349, 388, 403, 407–8, 421, 435, 448, 463, 469, 532, 582; a number of synods are reprinted in A. Ratti (Pius xi) (ed.) Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis, iv (1900); Mansi, J. D., Sacrorum Conciliorum…collectio, xxxiv, Paris 1902 edition, prints some provincial councils, while xxxvi bis, col. 93 and passim refer to diocesan synodsGoogle Scholar; Sposato, Aspetti, 19, 161–2; Russo, F., Storia dell'Arcidiocesi di Reggio Calabria, Naples 1966, iii. 74–5, 184Google Scholar.

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34 Decreta et Monita edita et promulgata in Synodo Diocesana Perusina… 1582 Die 16 et 17 Mensis Maij, Perugia 1584 (BCP, I.H. 914 (4)), 4v–6r, 16v–19v, 36r–9v, and pp. 25r–34r for the 1566 Bull.

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36 Institutioni et Avvertimentiper il Buon Regimento del Clero Diocesano di Perugia. Fatti in diverse Congregatione et rinnovati ultimamente nella Congregatione fatta sotto il di II de Giugno 1600. Ristampati in Perugia… MDLXII. (BCP, I.L. 460 (4)), 10, listing do-nots, including: ‘leggere libri, lettere, et altre scritture fuor di quelle, che all'hora fossero necessarie per conto de l'offitij’.

37 Lettera Pastorale di Monsignore Napolione vescovo Alia sua deletta Citta e Populo di Perugia, Perugia 1609 (BCP, I.L. 460 (2)); on translation of relics, below note 94.

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41 Sotii, loc. cit., on unpopularity.

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49 I am compiling lists of seminaries founded and active in Italian dioceses, but cannot document findings here. For the general difficulties of finding evidence for seminaries, see, e.g., Rosa, M. (ed.), Problemi e ricercke per le Carle Ecclesiastiche dell'Atlante Storico Italianodell'età moderna, Atti del Convegno di Bari, 1970, Florence 1972Google Scholar. Examples of seminaries in difficulties: Jedin, ‘L'Importanza’, 17; G. Gordini, ‘La Formazione del clero faentino’, Ravennatensia, iii. 169–81, esp. p. 171; P. Lopez, Riforma Cattolica e vita religiosa e cullurale a Napoli, Naples and Rome n.d. (c. 1965), 119–21. Deutscher, ‘Seminaries and education’, 304–5.

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57 C. Crispolti, Idea dello scolare che versa negli studi, Affine di prender il grado di dottorato, Perugia 1604, 58; BCP, MS 3288, Anon. ‘Istoria’, 113, praised this book: ‘opera praticabile allo studente per poter far il corso dell Studio’.

58 Cecchini, G., La Biblioteca Augusta del Comune di Perugia, Rome 1978, 1–38, 147 (Capuchins), 212, 228–9 (inquisitors), 361–2 (Melanchthon), 371–2 (Erasmus), 397 (inquisitors)Google Scholar; BCP, MS 195 (D13), ‘Indice di libri prestati’, esp. fos. 20–2, 49, 53, 91, borrowings in 1590s; MS 186 (D4), ‘Ricordi domestici e note di libri prestati’, Podiani's autograph for period c. 1579–1614, chaotic: fos. 34–5, 44 for religious borrowers; MS 3081, ‘Index librorum Biblioteche Augustae a Prospero Podiani donata’, includes prices for some volumes.

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61 I hope to publish a short monograph on sixteenth-century Italian confraternities. From the considerable literature the following have been important for the general points here: Meersseman, G. G., Ordo Fraternilas. Confratcrnitt e pietà dei laid nel medioevo, 3 vols. Rome 1977Google Scholar; Lopez, P., ‘Le Confraternite laicali in Italia e la riforma Cattolica’, Rivista di Studi Salernitani, 11, no. 4 (1969), 153–238Google Scholar; Meloni, P. L., ‘Topografia, diffusione e aspetti delle Confraternite dei Disciplinati’, extract from Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studio “Risultate eprospettive della ricerca sul Movimento dei Disciplinati” Perugia…1969, Perugia 1972Google Scholar; Casagrande, ‘Ricerche sulle confraternite’, cited above, note 16.

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64 ASP: S. Domenico, Miscellanea 77, ‘Nomi dei Fratelli e delle Sorelle del SS. Nome di Dio, 1601-’, incomplete and poorly organised lists; ASP: Ex Congregazioni di Carita no. 30: S. Pietro Martire I, ‘Adunanzeericordi vari, 1548–1601’, with gaps; cf. Marinelli, Le Confraternite, 880–905.

65 Casagrande, ‘Ricerche sulle confraternite’, 39, 43, 57–61, notes eleven for women.

66 Pizzoni, C., ‘La Confraternità dell'Annunziata in Perugia’, Il Movimento deiDisciplinati nel settimo centenario dal suo inizio… Convegno…1960, Perugia 1962, 146–55Google Scholar: nobles provided dowries for poor girls. The S. Maria della Misericordia confraternity connected with the municipal hospital and its orphanage was socially mixed, Valeri, La Fraternità, and Stroppiana, L., Storia dell'Ospedale di S. Maria della Misericordia e S. Nicolo degli Incurabili a Perugia, Perugia 1968Google Scholar. This one had a clerical membership; for the strictly lay societies, see discussion below.

67 Constitutioni et Capitoli della Venerabile Confraternite della Madonna della Consolatione di Perugia P.S.A. Riformati net Anno MDCXII, Perugia 1613, cap. xvii.

68 E.g., in addition to ones mentioned elsewhere, S. Martino specialised in providing alms for the ‘poveri vergognosi’, Crispolti, Perugia Augusta, 176–7; S. Girolamo ran the Pia Casa della Carita for needy and abandoned girls, and the Morte e Orazione company provided decent burials, organised pilgrimages or Quarantore eucharist celebrations. Nessi, S., ‘La Confraternita di S. Girolamo in Perugia’, Miscellanea Francescana, lxviii (1967), 78–115Google Scholar; G. B. Crispolti, ‘Memorie’.

69 E.g., Costituzioni et Capitoli Gcncrali delle Fraternite di S. Agostino, S. Domenico, et S. Francesco di Perugia, riformate delCAnno 1530 con le aggiunte et riformationi fatte deWanno 1565, Perugia 1565 (ASBF Scaff. B, S. Agostino no. 489); Conslitutioni della Ven. Confraternita del Sacratissimo Corpo di Christo et di S. Pietro Marlire in Perugia P. S. Pietro. Riformate, et ampliati del 1601. Di ordine del molto Illustre et Reverendiss. Monsig. Napolione Comitoli Vescovo digniss. di Perugia, Perugia 1601 (BCP, II. 1 108/4), and cf. old 1531 statutes BCP, MS 3139.

70 The Sodalizio Braccio Fortebraccio, as successor to S. Francesco, houses the Archive of all three confraternities, cited as ASBF. Generally useful were Scaff. C., S. Domenico no. 430 ‘Adunanze 1564–1607’; Scaff. B, S.Francesco no. 457 ‘Libro dei Verbali 1566–90’, and cf. no. 456, ‘Libro dei verbali 1438–1510’ with more meagre activities.

71 ASBF, no. 457, fos. 264–6. Dec. 1586-Jan. 1587.

72 ASBF, sources as in note 70; also Scaff. B, no. 450, ‘Libro della Dote 1536–1598’; no. 442, ‘Libro delle Dote 1590–1617’; no. 508 (a), ‘Carte varie relative al lavori d'arte eseguiti nell'Oratorio… 1573–1849’, notably for the long controversies, esp. 1625–7, over G. A. Scaramuccia's cycle of paintings in S. Francesco's Oratory and their unsatisfactory condition, and his claims for payment - cf. no. 458, ‘Verbali’, fo. 267, for 1618 decision to commission him, and passim on the dispute; ASP: S. Pietro Martire I, ‘Adunanze’, for embellishments to its oratory near S. Domenico.

73 See above note 21, ‘Libro delli Giustitiali’; statistics in Black, ‘Perugia and papal absolutism’, 535. n. 1.

74 Stroppiana, Storia dell'Ospedale, 15–16; F. Verduccioli, Lo Spedal Grande di S.M. della Misericordia di Perugia, Orvieto 1672, the prior of the hospital's own sad report.

75 Session XXII, De Reformatione, canon VIII: COD, 740; 1569 Ravenna provincial council, Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum, xxxv, cols. 620, 639–41.

76 Meloni, ‘Tipografia’, 21–2, 25, 28.

77 ASBF, Scaff. B, no. 509: ‘1564 Visitatio Epi. Cornei’, notarised copy of records, 1620; and ‘1628 Verbali di esami testimoniali sulla questione della pretesa giurisdizione del vescovo sulle Fraternite’; the Bull, according to the MS index, should be Pergamena no. 209, but could not be found; R. Guèze, ‘Confraternite di S. Agostino, S. Francesco e S. Domenico a Perugia’, Il Movimento dei Disciplinati, 597–623.

78 Montari, M., Mille anni della chiesa di S. Pietro a Perugia e del suo patrimonio, Foligno 1966Google Scholar, is disappointingly inaccurate, though he has useful passages on economic aspects; some useful papers in ‘Convegno storico per il Millenio dell'Abbazia di S. Pietro in Perugia’, BSPU, lxiv (1967)Google Scholar; A. S. Pietro, MS (by M. Bini), ‘Memorie storiche del monastero di S. Pietro di Perugia dell'Ordine di S. Benedetto, raccolte… 1848’, a chronology with a guide to the rich archives, though sometimes misleading. The diversity of monastic activities is best seen in the cellarers' records, e.g. Diverse 89, ‘Ricordi dal 1554 al 1621’, and Diverse 38, ‘Libro di Ricordi da 1527 al 1610’. Mazzo, xxxvi, ‘Conti e relatione dello stato del venerabile Mon. ro di S. Pietro di Perugia. Anno 1650’, is a good description of achievements, resources and expenditure by then.

79 A. S. Pietro, Diverse 38, fo. 114.

80 Chiacchella, R., ‘Peruna storia della parrocchia in Umbria nei secoli xvii e xviii’, BSPU, lxxiv (1977), 57–79, at 57 espGoogle Scholar.

81 Key episodes described: A. S. Pietro, Div. 38, fos. 124, 137, i45v-g, 159; Div. 89, fos. iov, 46–51; Libro dei Contratti 32, fos. 22–8 (on S. Costanzo); Bini, ‘Memorie’, i. 132–3, 138, 144–5; Black, ‘Perugia and papal absolutism’, 536.

82 Chiacchella, art. cit., 57.

83 A. S. Pietro, Div. 38, fo. 78, cellarer considers it good to spend money decorating churches; fo. 105, help for nunneries in 1574; Mazzo, xxxvi, pp. 8–10, on 1650 sums.

84 Prodi, Paleotti, i. 223–8, ii. 50–3, 302, 330–4 (on struggle with Governor Doria); idem, II sovrano pontejice, Bologna 1982, 251–93Google Scholar.

85 Burke, Popular Culture, Part 3; Bercé, Y.-M., Fête et réuolte des mentalités populaires du xvie au xviiie siècle. Essai, Paris 1976, 145–7Google Scholar; Davis, N. Z., ‘Some tasks and themes in the study of popular religion’, The Pursuit of Holiness, Trinkaus, C. and Oberman, H. O. (eds.), Leiden 1974, 307–36Google Scholar.

86 Baldacchini, L., Bibliografia delle stampe popolari religiose del xui-xvii secolo, Biblioteche Vaticana, Alessandrina, Estense, Florence 1980, for Perugian publications nos. 9, 23, 49, 50, 72, 111, 143, 149, 154–6, 172, 185, 201–2, 228, 230Google Scholar.

87 Corrain and Zampini, Documenti elnogrqfici, 125–9, summarises 1600 and 1632 synodal legislation.

88 ‘Libro delli Giustitiali’ (cited above, note 21), fo. 26.

89 Pellini, Delia Historia di Perugia, iii. 961; Fabretti, Cronache, iii. 143–8; Black, ‘Perugia and papal absolutism’, 529; BCP, MS 3288, ‘Istoria di Perugia’, 183–6.

90 Sotii, ‘Annali’, fos. 137, 157; BCP, MS 3288, ‘Istoria’, 262.

91 BCP, MS 3288, 295–6; ASP, Ricordanze 3, fo. 156V, the city magistrates in 1586 questioned whether the ring was not now being shown to too many people; the whitish alabaster ring had been brought to Perugia in the 1470s from a monastery in neighbouring Chiusi by a defecting German friar, and it was then made a major cult object by Perugia.

92 Sotii, ‘Annali’, fo. 133; ASBF, Scarf. B, no. 457, fos. 121V–2, 127V–8, on the three confraternities' participation in 1575; A. S. Pietro Diverso 38, fos. 27V–8, on the monastery feasting pilgrims on their way out of the city. In 1577 or 1578 Perugian confraternities reciprocally welcomed members of Rome's S. Trinità confraternity, including the composer Palestrina; Sotii, fo. 153V says 1578, while Div. 38, fos. 121V–2, gives 1577. For the 1600 pilgrimage, Div. fo. 175–6, and Mazzo, xxxvi, has a booklet describing in detail the Compagnia della Morte's pilgrimage.

93 BCP, MS 3288, ‘Istoria’, 173–80.

94 Giovio, Descrittione (above note 63); cf. BCP, MS 3288, ‘Istoria’, 116–53, for a slightly shorter version. I have not traced another description, G. Panziera, Relationc dell'apparalo, e processione fatta in Perugia…, Perugia 1609 (cf. Marinelli, Le Confratemite. 873, no. 4833).

95 Prodi, Il sovrano pontefice, 257–80.

96 Grohmann, Perugia, 108–12, for summary of building activities. ASP, Corporazioni Soppresse: S. Domenico, vol. 8, ‘Ricordanze-Memoriali del Convento 1566–1720’; above cited S. Pietro sources; for Jesuits, Crispolti, Perugia Augusta, 156–63, and Siepi, Descrizio, 523.