Ferdinando Ughelli

Ferdinando Ughelli(21 March 1595 – 19 May 1670) was an ItalianCistercianmonk and church historian.

Ferdinando Ughelli
Ferdinando Ughelli
Born	(1595-03-21)21 March 1595 Florence,Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died	19 May 1670(1670-05-19)(aged 75) Rome,Papal States
Resting place	Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio alle Tre Fontane
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Collegio Romano
Occupation(s)	Cistercian monk,historian
Known for	Italia sacra sive de episcopis Italiae

Biography

He was born inFlorence.He entered theCistercianOrder and was sent to theGregorian UniversityinRome,where he studied under theJesuitsFrancesco PiccolominiandJohn de Lugo.

He filled many important posts in his order, being Abbot ofBadia a Settimonear Florence, and, from 1638, Abbot ofTre Fontanein Rome. He was skilled in ecclesiastical history. To encourage him in this work and to defray the expense of the journeys it entailed, PopeAlexander VIIgranted him an annual pension of 500scudi.He was aconsultorof theIndex Librorum Prohibitorumand theologian to Cardinal Carlo de' Medici; he was frequently offered the episcopal dignity, which he refused.

He died in Rome in 1670 and was buried in hisabbatialchurch.

Literary works

His chief work isItalia sacra sive de episcopis Italiae(9 vols, 1643–1662), re-edited with corrections and additions byNicola Coleti(1717–1722), with a tenth volume. In compiling this work, he frequently had to deal with matters not previously treated by historians; as a result, theItalia sacra,owing to the imperfections of historical science in Ughelli's day, especially from the point of view of criticism and diplomatics, contains serious errors, particularly as the author was more intent on collecting than on weighing documents. Nevertheless, his work with all its imperfections was necessary to facilitate the labours of critical historians of a later day, and is consulted even now. In the last volume of theItalia sacrahe published various historical sources until then unedited.

Among his other writings are:

• Cardinalium elogia ex sacro ordine cisterciensi(1624): writings in praise ofcardinalsof his order and the papal privileges granted to it;
• Columnensis familiae cardinalium imagines(1650): biographies of cardinals of theColonnafamily.
• genealogical works on the Counts of Marsciano (1667) and the Capizucchi (1653);
• Aggiunte( "additions" ) to theVitae et res gestae pontificumby Ciaconius (Alphonsus Ciacconius).

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ferdinando Ughelli".Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• Ditchfield, Simon(2020)."UGHELLI, Ferdinando".Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani,Volume 97: Trivulzio–Valeri(in Italian). Rome:Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.ISBN978-8-81200032-6.
• "Ughelli, Ferdinando".The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.Oxford University Press.2002.ISBN978-0-19-818332-7.Retrieved21 May2023.

Further reading

• Gaetano Moroni(1857)."Ughelli Ferdinando".Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni.Vol. LXXXIII. Venezia: Tipografia Emiliana. pp. 8–12.
• Denys Hay,Muratori and British Historians,inL.A. Muratori storiografo,Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi muratoriani, Modena 1972, Firenze 1975, pp. 323–39.
• Denys Hay (1987). Phyllis Mack,Margaret C. Jacob(ed.). "Scholars and ecclesiastical history in the early modern period. The influence of Ferdinando Ughelli".Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe. Essays in Honour of H.G. Koenigsberger.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press:215–29.ISBN9780521527026.
• Herman H. Schwedt (1997). "Ughelli Ferdinando".Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon(in German). Vol. 12. Herzberg. pp. coll. 812–16.ISBN3-88309-068-9.