Battista Pallavicino

Most Reverend

Battista Pallavicino
Bishop of Reggio Emilia
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Reggio Emilia
In office1444–1466
PredecessorGiacomo Antonio della Torre
SuccessorAntonio Beltrando
Personal details
Died(1466-05-12)12 May 1466

Battista Pallavicino (died 12 May 1466) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1444–1466).[1]

Biography

On 19 October 1444, Battista Pallavicino was appointed during the papacy of Pope Eugene IV as Bishop of Reggio Emilia.[2]

He died suddenly of apoplexy (a brain hemorrhage) on 12 May 1466, and was buried in the crypt of the cathedral of Reggio Emilia.[3]

Works

Battista Pallavicino was the author of a number of works:[4]

  • Baptistae Marchionis Pallavicini Episcopi Regiensis Historia flendae Crucis, et funeris Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ad Eugenium IV S. P. Parma 1477.
  • Epistola ad Albertum Parisium Reipubl. Bonon. Cancellarium. Regii die 1 Decembris 1465.
  • Baptistae Pallavicini Epistola ad patruum suum, data in Siena l'anno 1443.
  • Ejusdem B. M. P. Fabula. It begins "Jam senior dura forte jacet leo". [twenty-eight poems in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
  • B. Palavicini Ep. Regien. ad Pium II Pont. Max. Gratulatio cum pollicitatione liberali. It begins, "Maxime Christicolum recto quo bella jubente".
  • Baptistae Marchionis Pallavicini Episcopi Regien. Salutano cum deprecatione in Mariam gratia plenam ad illustrem atque inclytum D. Nicolaum Esten. It begins, "Virgo decus mundi", {in hexameters]. Regìi sexto Aprilis mcccclviiiI .

References

  1. ^ Eubel, Konrad (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 222. (in Latin)
  2. ^ Cheney, David M. "Bishop Battista Pallavicino". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. [self-published]
  3. ^ Saccani, p. 107. Eubel, p. 222.
  4. ^ Affò, II, pp. 251-258.
  • Affò, Ireneo (1789). Memorie degli scrittori e letterati parmigiani (in Italian). Vol. II. Stamperia Reale. pp. 242–258.
  • Forner, Fabio (2004). "Pio II e Battista Pallavicino, vescovo di Reggio nell'Emilia," in: Andrea Canova (ed.), Rhegii Lingobardiae. Studi sulla cultura a Reggio Emilia in età umanistica (Reggio Emilia 2004), pp. 93–109. (in Italian)
  • Saccani, Giovanni (1902). I vescovi di Reggio-Emilia, Cronotassi, Reggio Emilia: Tip. Artigianelli 1902. (in Italian) (pp. 105–108)