Guido Tarlati
Guido Tarlati (died 1327) was a lord and
Tarlati was a member of the leading
The electoral meeting following the death of Bishop Ildebrandino (1289–1312) chose to proceed by the "Way of compromise" and elected two persons, both Canons of the cathedral, to make the selection. They chose Guido, and the rest of the electoral meeting concurred and ratified the election. Guido immediately accepted, and procurators were chosen to carry the record of the election to the Papal Court at Avignon. Pope Clement V appointed a committee of three cardinals to look into the election and the character of the candidate, and when a favorable report was received, he issued a confirmation of the election of Bishop Guido on 7 July 1312.[2]
He embarked on an activist program, building a wall around the city, and creating a new silver and copper currency.[3] His program also included military conquest; on his funeral monument appear the names of: Lusignano, Chiusi, Fronzoli, Castel Focognano, Rondina, Bucine, Caprese, Lacerina, and Monte Sansovino.
In 1321 he was declared seignior of
Tarlati also expanded the territories of Arezzo, and in 1323, with the collaboration of Francesco I Ordelaffi (Ghibelline lord of Forlì), he conquered Città di Castello. Arezzo's expansion caused however the deterioration of the relations with the Papal States, ending with the excommunication of Tarlati by Pope John XXII.
On 19 June 1325,
Tarlati's prestige as the leader in Tuscany of the Ghibelline party, however, was so high that German emperor
A short time before his death Tarlati reconciled with the Pope.[citation needed]
According to
Notes and references
- ISBN 978-0-521-52227-4.
- ^ A copy of the letter survives in the Vatican Archives: Ubaldo Pasqui, Documenti per la storia della città di Arezzo nel medio evo Vol. II (Firenze 1916), pp. 524-525, no. 704. Pasqui's remarks are on pp. xviii–xix.
- ^ Black, p. 2.
- ^ Girolamo Mancini (1897). Cortona nel medio evo (in Italian). Firenze: G. Carnesecchi. p. 97. Bullarum diplomatum IV, p. 313 column 1: "universitas Cortonae, quae hactenus de Aretina dioecesi existebat, sinistrae parlis non declinat in devium, nec suam ponit cum indevotis eiusdem Ecclesiae portionem, sed prono et prompto animo in eiusdem Ecclesiae obsequium totaliter se exponit."
- ISBN 978-90-04-15393-6. Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 104, with note 5.
- ^ Noted by Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1903), A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena... Volume II (London: John Murray), ch. V. "Giotto at Naples," p. 92 note 1.
Sources
- Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum romanorum pontificum taurinensis (in Latin). Vol. Tomus IV. Turin (Augusta Taurinorum): Seb. Franco et Henrico Dalmazzo editoribus. 1859. pp. 312–315.
- Droandi, Enzo (1993). Guido Tarlati Di Pietramala, Ultimo Principe Di Arezzo. Cortona: Calosci. ISBN 978-88-7785-087-4.
- Licciardello, Pierluigi (2015). Un vescovo contro il papato: conflitto fra Guido Tarlati e Giovanni XXII (1312-1339). Studi di storia aretina, 12 (in Italian). Arezzo: Società storica aretina. ISBN 978-88-89754-17-7.
- Scharf, Gian Paolo G. (2014). "La lenta ascesa di una famiglia signorile i Tarlati di Pietramala prima del 1321". Archivio Storico Italiano. 172 (2 (640)): 203–248. JSTOR 26226572.
External links
- [1] (in Italian) [full citation needed]