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Interesting paper manuscript from the mid-16th century, part of a larger code, there are sheets numbered from 131 to 190, ff.135-136 are missing, measures 310 x 215 mm., written by a single hand and decorated with 13 coats of arms in color applied on the sheets with insert bearing the noble coat of arms of the respective family, corrections and additions. These are biographies relating to the various cardinals, with historical information on their life taken from written and oral sources of various kinds. Elected Pope on 9 April 1378, Urban VI reigned until 15 October 1389 fully experiencing both the transfer of the papal see from Avignon to Rome and above all the schism in the West.
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INTERESTING HISTORICAL DOCUMENT WITNESSING A CRUCIAL PHASE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.
"Thus began the long and tormented period of the schism of West which will end only thirty-nine years later.The Kingdom of Naples undoubtedly played an important role, for the support provided to the second obedience, later it will have it above all for the formation of family clans which, in supporting U. they soon ended up imposing themselves on him.This mechanism was triggered by the need of the Roman pope to create his own Curia from scratch.In fact, together with the cardinals, almost all the staff of the Apostolic Camera, mostly French, had also passed into Clement's retinue. U. thus found himself having to reorganize not only the College of Cardinals but above all a highly efficient and well-prepared body of officials such as that of the Avignon Curia. Thus putting aside the moral rigor, which had prevented him from having nepotistic inclinations - so much so that he was magnified as the best pope for over a hundred years -, he found himself in the position of having to rely on his fellow citizens and relatives. On 17 September 1378 U. appointed the first twenty-five new cardinals, seven of whom were from Naples; in the second designation (1381) of six cardinals, half were Neapolitan; subsequently (1382-1385) two out of three cardinals came from Naples and finally, in 1384, five were Neapolitans out of the nine elected, including two of his relatives, Marino Vulcano and Rinaldo Brancaccio. U.'s political objective was twofold: to re-establish papal authority over those territories which, due to the long absence of the popes from Rome, had become almost independent, and to keep the Kingdom of Naples under control. (...)" (Treccani, Encyclopedia of the Popes, sub vocis).
"Thus began the long and tormented period of the schism of West which will end only thirty-nine years later.The Kingdom of Naples undoubtedly played an important role, for the support provided to the second obedience, later it will have it above all for the formation of family clans which, in supporting U. they soon ended up imposing themselves on him.This mechanism was triggered by the need of the Roman pope to create his own Curia from scratch.In fact, together with the cardinals, almost all the staff of the Apostolic Camera, mostly French, had also passed into Clement's retinue. U. thus found himself having to reorganize not only the College of Cardinals but above all a highly efficient and well-prepared body of officials such as that of the Avignon Curia. Thus putting aside the moral rigor, which had prevented him from having nepotistic inclinations - so much so that he was magnified as the best pope for over a hundred years -, he found himself in the position of having to rely on his fellow citizens and relatives. On 17 September 1378 U. appointed the first twenty-five new cardinals, seven of whom were from Naples; in the second designation (1381) of six cardinals, half were Neapolitan; subsequently (1382-1385) two out of three cardinals came from Naples and finally, in 1384, five were Neapolitans out of the nine elected, including two of his relatives, Marino Vulcano and Rinaldo Brancaccio. U.'s political objective was twofold: to re-establish papal authority over those territories which, due to the long absence of the popes from Rome, had become almost independent, and to keep the Kingdom of Naples under control. (...)" (Treccani, Encyclopedia of the Popes, sub vocis).
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