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Ferdinando Ughelli (21 March, 1595 - 19 May, 1670) was an Italian Cistercian monk and church historian.

as born in Florence
Florence

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. He entered the Cistercian Order and was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome
Rome

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, where he studied under the Jesuits Francesco Piccolomini and John de Lugo
John de Lugo

John de Lugo, a Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, was an eminent theologian of the Renaissance....
.

He filled many important posts in his order, being Abbot of Badia a Settimo near Florence, and, from 1638, Abbot of Tre Fontane in Rome.






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Ferdinando Ughelli (21 March, 1595 - 19 May, 1670) was an Italian Cistercian monk and church historian.

Biography

He was born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
. He entered the Cistercian Order and was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, where he studied under the Jesuits Francesco Piccolomini and John de Lugo
John de Lugo

John de Lugo, a Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, was an eminent theologian of the Renaissance....
.

He filled many important posts in his order, being Abbot of Badia a Settimo near Florence, and, from 1638, Abbot of Tre Fontane in Rome. He was skilled in ecclesiastical history. To encourage him in this work and to defray the expense of the journeys it entailed, Pope Alexander VII
Alexander VII

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 granted him an annual pension of 500 scudi. He was a consultor
Consultor

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 of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Index Librorum Prohibitorum

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 and theologian to Cardinal Carlo de' Medici; he was frequently offered the episcopal dignity, which he refused. He was buried in his abbatial church.

Literary works

His chief work is Italia sacra sive de episcopis Italae (9 vols, 1643-1662), re-edited with corrections and additions by Nicola 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, the Italia 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 the Italia sacra he published various historical sources until then unedited.

Among his other writings are:
  • Cardinalium elogia ex sacro ordine cisterciensi (1624): elogies on the writers and saints of his order and the papal privileges granted to it;
  • Columnensis familiae cardinalium imagines (1650): vita
    Vita

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    e     of the Cardinal from the Colonna family.
  • genealogical works on the Counts of Marsciano (1667) and the Capizucchi (1653);
  • Aggiunte ("additions") to the Vitae et res gestae pontificum by Ciaconius (Alphonso Ciaconio).


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