Stefano Borgia
Stefano Borgia (3 December 1731 – 1804) was an Italian
Life
He founded a museum in Velletri, in which, during his whole life, he gathered coins and manuscripts, especially
, and many others were among his enthusiastic friends.Borgia was not left entirely to his chosen field of activity, and was called to fill several important political positions. "He was admitted on all hands to be facile Princeps of the Sacred College."
He was made a cardinal in 1789. In the period of the French invasion, Borgia was given charge of Rome by
Cardinal Borgia was a participant in the
At the half of the 19th century, the manuscripts of the Museo Borgiano were transferred to the Vatican Library, where they are found today. Before the partition of the manuscripts was made the scholar and convert, Georg Zoëga, wrote a complete and accurate description of them in his posthumous work Catologus Codicum Copticorum manuscriptorum qui in Museo Borgiano Velitris adservantur (Rome, 1810).[4] Borgia also published several works bearing especially on historical topics.
The museum of Stefano Borgia in Velletri was also famous for the Charta Borgea which begins Papyrology in the west and the Codex Borgia, discovered by Alexander von Humboldt, is named after him.
Publications
- Esposizione del Monumento di Papa Giovanni XVI (Roma, 1750).
- Interpretazione di un' antica Inscrizione scoperta in Malta (Roma: Pagliani, 1751).
- Istoria della Citta di Tadino nell' Umbria, e relazione delle sue rovine (Roma, 1751).
- Illustrazione su di un antica Inscrizione della Citta di Cupra Montana, contro l'opinione del P.D. Mauro Sarti Camaldolese (Pesaro, 1752; Modena, 1756).
- Apologia del Pontificato di Benedetto X 1752 (Modena, 1756).
- Oratio hab. cor. Bened. XIV P. M. in die Ascension Dom. 1757 (Roma, 1757).
- Meorie Istoriche della Pontificia Citta di Benevento dal secolo VIII al secolo XVIII (Roma: Salomoni, 1763–69).
- Opusculum Augustinei Card. Valerii de Benedictione Agnorum Dei (Roma, 1775).
- Vaticana confessio B. Petri chronoligcis testimoniis illustrata (Roma, 1776).
- De Cruce Vaticana ex dono Iustini Augusti (Roma, 1779).
- De Cruce Veliterna Commentarius (Roma, 1780).
- Breve istoria del dominio temporale della S. Sede Apostolica sulle Due Sicilie (Roma, 1788).
- Defesa del dominio temporale della S. Sede Apostolica in Sicilia (Roma, 1791).
See also
References
- ^ Frederick Rolfe, Chronicles of the House of Borgia, p. 356.
- ^ Sede Vacante 1799-1800; The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church.
- ^ Cf. Ciasca, Fragmenta Copto-Sahidica, I, p.xvii
- ^ Georg Zoëga, Catologus Codicum Copticorum manuscriptorum qui in Museo Borgiano Velitris adservantur (Rome, 1810)
Bibliography
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Stefano Borgia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. cites:
- Paolino da San Bartolomeo, Vitae Synopsis Steph. Borgiae (Rome, 1805)
Further reading
- John Rylands Library, Manchester)