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New article name goes here new article content ... Tesauro Beccaria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. San Tesauro Beccaria Tesauro Beccaria in a painting by Domenico Pestrini Tesauro Beccaria in a painting by Domenico Pestrini Abbot and Cardinal Birth	 ? Death	September 12, 1258 Revered by	Catholic Church Recurrence	September 12 Tesauro Beccaria, OSB Vallombrosae Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Born	Pavia Created Cardinal	1255 by Pope Alexander IV Deceased	Florence, September 12 1258 "Thou hast beside him of Beccaria which gorget Florence slit asunder. » ( Inf. XXXII, 118-119 ) Tesauro Beccaria , also known as Tesauro of Beccheria or San Tesauro ( Pavia , ... - Florence , September 12 1258 ), was a clergyman and a politician , who lived in the thirteenth century.

Index Finger [ Hide ] 1 Biography 2 Assumptions on the guilt 3 Worship 4 External links 5 Bibliography Biography [ edit | edit wikitext ] Descendant of the noble and important family of Pavia Beccaria, was born in Pavia in an unspecified date. He entered the community of Vallombrosani, a branch of the ' Benedictine order , becoming abbot general.

Pope Alexander IV sent him to Florence, as papal legate , with a mandate to seek an agreement between the Guelph and Ghibelline factions in the city. After the death of Frederick II (1250), the Guelph faction had taken over in Florence, making a long series of vendettas and purges them, culminating with the exile of the Ghibelline families and the destruction of their homes.

In 1258 Tesauro Beccaria was arrested on charges that he had secretly treated with Manfredi to encourage the return of the Ghibellines in Florence. Tried and sentenced to death, the 4 (or 12) in September 1258 he was executed by beheading, in the ancient Piazza of St. Apollinaris, currently Piazza San Firenze. The execution caused the city of Florence 's interdict papal that lasted for over seven years. The murder of the abbot also provoked condemnation by the City of Pavia who threatened to imprison the Florentine merchants and to confiscate its assets. The Florentines replied, through the pen of Brunetto Latini, that if the abbot had resurrected a thousand times, a thousand times deserved death, while declaring themselves willing to peace talks.

Assumptions about the guilt [ change | change wikitext ] Actual guilt abbot scholars are quite divided, as well as on his investiture as cardinal. Although that period was characterized by great instability and confusion, remains hard to believe that the papal delegate tramasse with the main enemy of the papacy against his supporters.

As investiture, some scholars argue that Beccaria was appointed cardinal by Pope Alexander IV in 1254, others that he was appointed cardinal, but he held the post of vicar of Cardinal Ottaviano Ubaldini.

As part of Domenico Pestrini ( seventeenth century ), kept in the chapel of St. Bernard of Santa Prassede in Rome, shows some scenes from the life of St. Tesauro Beccaria, sent by Pope Alexander IV in Florence, to quell the discord towns, and decorated the sacred purple, in time to suffer martyrdom. It is possible that the news of his appointment as cardinal had been spread to discourage Florentine Guelphs from executing the death sentence of the abbot.

Dante Alighieri, who came to know each other according to the version of Brunetto Latini , the abbot placed in the ninth circle of ' Inferno , in ' Antenora , among the traitors ( Inf. XXXII 118-119).

Nell ' Abbey of Vallombrosa, located about forty miles from Florence, there is a painting of Niccolò Lapi (XVII century - XVIII century ) that is, in key hagiographic, running Tesauro Beccaria.

The cult [ change | change wikitext ] In martyrology Benedictine is revered as a martyr cardinal, the 4 September and remembered by the Catholic Church, as San Tesauro, September 12.

External links [ edit | edit wikitext ] ( EN ) The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Beccheria References [ edit | edit wikitext ] Lorenzo Cardella, Historical Memoirs de 'cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Rome, Printing Pagliarini, 1792, I, pt. 2, 290-291; Alfonso Chacon, Vitæ, et res gestae Pontificvm Romanorum et SRE Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque to Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max (2 volumes), Romae, Typis Vaticanis, 1630, II, col. 144; ( FR ) Essai de lists générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux XIIIè du siècle in Annuaire Pontifical Catholic in 1929, Paris, Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1929, p. 123; ( DE ) Conradus and Gulik, Guglielmus van Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, Volumen I (1198-1431), Münich, Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1913; reprint, Padua, "The Messenger of St. Anthony", 1960, p. 7; Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Cardinals of the Curia and "familiae" cardinals. From 1227 to 1254. 2 vol. Padua, Antenor, 1972. (Italian sacred, 18-19), II, 539.