Philippe de Cabassoles

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Philippe de Cabassoles
Born1305
Avignon
Cavaillon, France
Died27 August 1372
Perugia
Other namesCardinal of Jerusalem
Parentfather: Isnard de Cabassole
Ordained1317
Offices held
Bishop of Cavaillon
Cardinal Priest of Saints
Peter and Marcellinus
Cardinal Bishop of Sabina
(1368-1372)
TitleCanon of the cathedral
chapter of Cavaillon
Philippe de Cabassole's castle ruins

Philippe de Cabassole or Philippe de Cabassoles (1305–1372), the

Francesco Petrarch.[1]

Early life

Philippe was educated by the clergy of Cavaillon and was made Canon of the cathedral chapter of Cavaillon on 22 March 1328. He next was promoted to

episcopate when he was a deacon in 1333 by Pope John XXII.[2][3]

Middle life

Philip was elected bishop of Cavaillon on 17 August 1334. He attended the Council of Avignon in 1337. Philip became guardian of

Archdeacon of Leicester[6]
from 1370 to 1372.

The best friend of Petrarch

Philippe formed a long lasting friendship with Petrarch from 1337 until his death in 1372.[7] Philippe had a villa not far from Avignon in the village of Vaucluse high on a cliff with a view.[8] Petrarch built a home in Vaucluse after visiting his friend Philippe, who had built his castle on the site of a 7th-century BC Oppidum. From Philippe's castle the view was beautiful and is no wonder the bishop selected this lofty spot.

Portrait of Petrarch painted in 1376

Living just a short twenty-minute walk from one another, they developed a very close relationship that lasted a lifetime. Petrarch dedicated a book to his friend, who "treated him as a brother", despite his later status as Cardinal. Among the intimates of Petrarch's old age there seems to be only one name missing in Petrarch's will, which is Philippe's. Their friendship had begun in 1337 when Petrarch moved to

bequest suitable to a man of such high status as that of a prince.[11]

Petrarch made a collection of 350 letters he personally wrote called Epistolae familiares (a.k.a.

Familiar Letters). In among these letters in 1346 Petrarch writes what is called De vita solitaria, a treatise composed of two books and dedicated to Philippe de Cabassoles.[12] In Book XXII of Familiar Letters is Petrarch's books of these letters to Philippe which he delivered 20 years after he wrote them.[13][14] Also in addition to these books of letters he wrote some very special letters that he held out of the set of Epistolae familiares, which was later put into a set of 19 letters called Liber sine nomine. Letters 1 and 12 are letters Petrarch wrote to his friend Phillippe that are in this reserved set of letters "without a name" of the recipient. Petrarch dedicated his work De vita solitaria to his friend Philip. A dedication to him is in the preface.[15]

Historian Wilkens tells of part of a letter Petrarch sent to Philip in 1371 that shows their friendship,

May God grant that I regain enough health and strength to make it possible for me to fulfill my heart's desire - a desire made still stronger by the news of your being here among us - my desire to see you once more. But in this, as in all else, God's will be done. If that desire is not to be fulfilled on earth, I shall see you again, God willing, in our heavenly fatherland. Oh may Christ the Lord not deny me this, that after my death I may no longer be separated from him who was so dear to me in this mortal life! [16]

Death and after

Pope Gregory XI sent Philippe to

Perugia and designated him papal legate and governor of Umbria in early 1372.[17] Before his term ended he died on 27 August 1372 and was buried in the Carthusian monastery of Bonpas, near Avignon. Later his body was transferred to the church of Caumont-sur-Durance in 1833. In October 1926, a commemorative plaque was placed de l'Evêché at Cavaillon in the ruins of his palace.[18]

Works

  • Life of St. Mary Magdalene (Libellus hystorialis Marie beatissime Magedelene) - 1355.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Calthrop Hollway-Calthrop, pp. 83-84
  2. ^ Cook, pp. 341-342
  3. ^ Aldonce, pp. 120-121
  4. ^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Biographical Dictionary, biography of CABASSOLE, Philippe de (1305-1372)
  5. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 6: Northern province (York, Carlisle and Durham)". Retrieved 2012-01-21.
  6. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 1: Lincoln diocese". Retrieved 2012-01-21.
  7. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia, "Archdiocese of Avignon."
  8. ^ Cook, pp. 340-341
  9. ^ Speculum (Jul 1963), Medieval Academy of America, Vol. 38, No. 3, p. 453
  10. ^ On Philippe de Cabassoles see Martellotti's introductory remarks in his edition and Italian translation of "De Vita Solitaria" in Petrarca, Prose, page 286.
  11. ^ Petrarch's Last Will: A Personal Document of his Old Age introduction pages 20 through 22 by Theodor E. Mommesen, Cornell University Press, 1957.
  12. ^ Familiar Letters - XI, XII, XV, XXII, and XXIV letters to Philippe.
  13. ^ Hermitary - resources and reflections on hermits and solitude.
  14. ^ Some short extracts from Petrarch’s Life of Solitude, written to Philippe Archived 2009-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Speculum (Jan 1960), Medieval Academy of America, Vol. 35, No. 1, p. 70
  16. ^ Speculum (Jan 1960), Medieval Academy of America, Vol. 35, No. 1, p. 77
  17. ^ Speculum (Jan 1960), Medieval Academy of America, Vol. 35, No. 1, p. 76
  18. ^ Cook, p. 342

See also

References

  • Aldonce, Jacques François Paul de Sade, The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch, vol. 1, London, Vernor & Hood, 1797.
  • Calthrop Hollway-Calthrop, Henry, Petrarch: his life and times, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1907
  • Cook, Sir Theodore Andrea, Old Provence, Volume 2, C. Scribner's Sons, 1905
  • This article incorporates text from the
    old Catholic Encyclopedia
    of 1914, a publication now in the public domain.
  • This article incorporates text from the
    Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
    , a publication now in the public domain.

Further reading

External links

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