Giacomo Bosio
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Giacomo Bosio | |
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Born | 1544 |
Died | 2 February 1627 | (aged 82–83)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | History of the Knights Hospitaller |
Giacomo Bosio (1544–1627) was a brother of the
Biography
Giacomo Bosio was born in 1544 in Chivasso, in the present province of Turin in the Piedmont. He was a son of a noble family from Milan that had already contributed many knights to the Order.[1] Giacomo Bosio arrived at Rome in 1587 and was appointed representative of the Hospitaller Order of the Holy See to the cardinal Gregorio Petrocchini. He took advantage of his stay in Rome to write the history of his order, under the title Dell'istoria della Sacra Religione, Giovanni di Santo dell'illustrissima milizia Gierosolimitano. Bosio gave his manuscript to two Franciscan brothers called the "Big Brothers" in Italy, who put his work into the form known today: forty books grouped into three volumes and printed in folio in Rome in 1621, in 1629/30, in 1678 and in Naples in 1684.
Bosio's work deals with the history of the
Bosio is also the author of Corona del Cavaliere Gierosolimitano published in Rome in 1588, the Triomphante e gloriose Croce published in Rome in 1610 and translated into Latin under the title Crux triumphans in 1617 and Imagini de Beati è Santi della sacra religione di santo Giovanni Gierosolimitano published in Palermo in 1633, and then in Naples in 1653.
Giacomo Bosio died in 1627 in Rome.
Bibliography
- 1588 - Corona del Cavaliere Gierosolimitano, Rome, in-4°
- 1589 - Li Privilegii della sacra Religione di Santo Giovanni Gierosolimitano
- 1597 - Gli Statuti della sacra Religione di Santo Giovanni Gierosolimitano
- 1610 - Triomphante e gloriose Croce, Rome, in-folio
- 1621 - Dell'istoria della sacra Religione, dell'illustrissima milizia di Santo Giovanni Gierosolimitano, Rome, in-folio
- 1633 - Imagini de Beati è Santi della sacra Religione di Santo Giovanni Gierosolimitano, Palerme, in-4°
References
Citations
Sources
- De Caro, Gaspare (1971). "BOSIO, Giacomo". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.