The Life and Works of Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolemy of Lucca)

by Blythe, James M.

• ISBN13: 9782503529233
• ISBN10: 2503529232
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-07
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

Tolomeo Fiadoni (1236-1327) was one of the most remarkable of medieval writers. Living to almost one hundred years of age, Tolomeo bore witness to some of the most important events of the period. He studied and travelled with Thomas Aquinas and was elected Dominican prior in Lucca and Florence. He attended the saintly Pope Celestine V during Celestine's doomed reign, lived at the papal court in Avignon, served in the households of two cardinals, and associated with the infamous Pope John XXII. At the age of eighty, Tolomeo was appointed bishop of Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, where his superior, the Patriarch of Grado, subsequently excommunicated and jailed him. Tolomeo is known today for his major contribution to republican political thought, most notably his continuation of Thomas Aquinas's only political treatise. However, he also wrote treatises on imperial and ecclesiastical power, a commentary on the six days of creation, a massive Church history, and a European history from 1063 onward. Drawn from all known surviving sources, The Life and Works of Tolomeo Fiadoni is the first full-length study of Tolomeo's life. It discusses each of his works, and addresses numerous problems of authorship and dating. Its companion volume, The Worldview and Thought of Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolemy of Lucca), provides an in-depth analysis of Tolomeo's beliefs and thought.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Life, Mind, and Character
Tolomeo Fiadoni and his Times	p. 3
Complexity and Contradiction	p. 11
Sources for Tolomeo's Life	p. 25
Biography	p. 31
Works
De iurisdictione imperii et auctoritate summi pontificis (On the Jurisdiction of the Empire and the Authority of the Highest Pontiff, better known as Determinatio compendiosa de iurisdictione imperii)	p. 141
De operibus sex dierum (On the Works of the Six Days better known as Exameron)	p. 149
De regimine principum (On the Government of Rulers)	p. 157
Annates (Annals)	p. 191
De origine ac translatione et statu Romani Imperii (On the Origin and Translation and State of the Roman Empire)	p. 195
De iurisdictione ecclesiae super regnmn Apuliae et Siciliae (On the Jurisdiction of the Church over the Kingdom of Apulia and Sicily)	p. 199
Historia ecclesiastics, nova (New Ecclesiastical History)	p. 203
Lost and Apocryphal Works	p. 211
Chronology of the Life, Times, and Works of Totomeo Fiadoni	p. 219
Selected Documents	p. 239
Corrections to my Translation of XV regimine principum	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 251
Citation Index to the Works of Tolomeo Fiadoni	p. 265
General Index	p. 267
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