Böcker av Filip Malesevic

Guglielmo Sirleto has generally been acknowledged as a crucial contributor to defending the papacy's claims over St Peter's primacy, including the apostle's legendary arrival to Rome before his martyrdom. Sirleto established himself as a pivotal prelate, who assisted Pope Paul IV in rearranging the ceremonial apparatus for the solemn celebrations of the Cathedra Petri (St Peter's Throne). Scholars, however, were unable to properly examine his De praestantia basilicae Vaticanae, because the manuscripts of this discourse were never completely identified. The edition of this treatise will therefore primarily provide a reconstruction of Sirleto's working methods in readjusting the ceremonial solemnities prescribed for the feast day of the Cathedra Petri according to Curial Ceremony. The second discourse concerns, on the other hand, a description of the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline Hill, which Sirleto composed for the Cardinal Bishop of Milan, Carlo Borromeo. In contrast to the edition of the first discourse in this volume, the Trattato sopra la chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore is presented according to the correspondence between Borromeo and Sirleto.

This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that theAugustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530¿1568) assembled in the 1560s for the CardinalAlessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio isprimarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient Rome and for his editionof Bartolomeo Platinäs Lives of the Popes. His preoccupation with the Roman rite,however, remains until today largely unnoticed by modern scholarship. This editionof Panvinio¿s Vetusti aliquot rituales libri highlights his interests in the developmentof Roman liturgy during the last sessions of the Council of Trent (1545¿1563) by presentingthe various documentary as well as cultural layers of Panvinio¿s collection ofRoman ritual manuscripts.

Innerhalb der Forschung mangelt es immer noch an einer kritischen Neuauswertung der Arbeiten des Oratorianers und Kardinals Cesare Baronios sowie seiner kirchlichen Laufbahn innerhalb der römischen Kurie. Deshalb geht es in der hier dargelegten Untersuchung darum, eine vertiefte, auf die verfügbaren Quellen gestützte und die historischen Disziplinen sowie Methoden des 21. Jahrhunderts bündelnde Geschichte von Liturgie, Zeremoniell und Kirchenhistoriographie der katholischen Kirche während der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts vorzulegen. Das Konzil von Trient (1545-1563) schuf die Grundlagen für eine Reform, mit welcher die Kurie die liturgischen Bücher bearbeiten und mit Hilfe derselben ihre eigene Zeremonialkultur neu organisieren konnte. Auf diese Neufassung des Kurienzeremoniells zwischen den Pontifikaten Pius' V. und Gregors' XIII. soll der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung gelegt werden, indem Kirchen-, Politik-, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte zu einer Einheit verschmelzen. Der Beitrag Baronios steht in engstem, aber bisher noch kaum bemerktem Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung seiner zwölfbändigen "Annales Ecclesiastici", mit denen die katholische Kirchengeschichtsschreibung für Jahrhunderte gültige Referenztexte vorlegte.

The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries.