Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
Catholic Church.
History.
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Appointment, call, and election.
Clergy.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Biography/History:

Cardinal Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere was the grand-nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, and nephew of Pope Julius II. He was also the half-brother of Sisto Gara della Rovere, and a cousin of Leonardo Grosso della Rovere, both cardinals.

Summary:

Three paper documents from the della Rovere family. The two dated 1508 are respectively from Cardinals Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere and Leonardo Grosso della Rovere, and the 1513 document is from Cardinal Sisto Gara della Rovere. The Galeotto Franciotti document is addressed to a Cardinal Alessandro, regarding a church of Saint Victor of Xanten. The Leonardo Grosso document is dated February 1, and possibly regards a Baldassar. The Sisto Gara document discusses the appointment of a bishop cardinal, choosing between two candidates named Vicentelli and Capellanius for the church of Saint Maurice. The documents from Sisto Gara and Leonardo Grosso both contain seals.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Libreria Antiquaria Docet (Bologna), cat. 57(March 1959), no. 193-194, 205.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 187 (Ms. Lea 196).

Contributor:

Della Rovere, Sisto Gara, Cardinal, -1517.
Della Rovere, Galeotto Franciotti, Cardinal, 1471-1507.
Grosso della Rovere, Leonardo, 1464-1520.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

301592945