Antonio Agustín y Albanell
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| Most Reverend Antonio Agustín y Albanell |
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| Archbishop of Tarragona | |
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Antonio Agustín y Albanell.
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| In office | 1576–1586 |
| Predecessor | Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete |
| Successor | Joan Terès i Borrull |
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| Ordination | 18 Dec 1557 |
| Consecration | 21 Dec 1557 by Giovanni Giacomo Barba |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 Feb 1517 Zaragoza, Spain |
| Died | 31 May 1586 (age 69) Rome, Italy |
Antonio Agustín y Albanell (1516–1586), also referred to as Augustinus, was a Spanish Humanist historian, jurist, and Roman Catholic archbishop of Tarragona, who pioneered the historical research of the sources of canon law.[1]
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Life
Born in Zaragoza, Agustín studied law and classical literature in Alcalá, Salamanca, Padua and Bologna, notably as a pupil of Andrea Alciati.
With his nomination as an auditor of the Sacra Rota Romana in 1544, Agustín started his ecclesiastical career, which saw him become a papal nuncio in 1554/55. On 21 Dec 1557, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Giacomo Barba - Bishop of Terni, with Cesare Cibo - Archbishop of Turin, and Ferdinando Pandolfini - Bishop of Troia, serving as co-consecrators.[2] In 1556, he was named Bishop of Alife, and then named Bishop of Lleida in 1561. After participating in the Council of Trient in 1561–63, he was named Archbishop of Tarragona in 1576.
Work
Agustín is now primarily remembered as the first canon law historian; Peter Landau counts him among the other authors that enabled us to consider the 16th century the founding age of the science of history.
His first main work, Emendationum et opinionum libri IV, proposed the now widely accepted thesis that the Littera Florentina manuscript was the source for all other copies of the Pandects. This undermined the authority, fundamental to medieval Roman law, of the Latin Vulgate text of the Pandects.
Agustín's other main historical works are:
- Antiquae Collectionis Decretalium (1576)
- De Emendatione Gratiani dialogorum libri duo (1587), a textual criticism of the Gratian Decree
- Epitome iuris pontificii veteris (1587/1611), a compendium of canon law prior to Innocent III
- De quibusdam veteris canonum ecclesiasticorum collectoribus iudicium ac censura (1611, posthumously published), a history of the pre-Gratian sources of ecclesiastical law
Notes
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References
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- «Agustí i Albanell, Antoni, 1517-1586» Antics Posseïdors (Universitat de Barcelona. CRAI Biblioteca de Reserva)
| Catholic Church titles | ||
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Alife 1557–1561 |
Succeeded by Diego Gilberto Nogueras |
| Preceded by | Bishop of Lérida 1561–1576 |
Succeeded by Miguel Thomàs de Taxaquet |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of Tarragona 1576–1586 |
Succeeded by Joan Terès i Borrull |
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- 1516 births
- 1586 deaths
- People from Zaragoza
- Historians of the Catholic Church
- Spanish jurists
- Spanish historians of religion
- Bishops of Lleida
- Archbishops of Tarragona
- 16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain
- Canon law jurists
- Spanish Latinists
- University of Salamanca alumni
- 16th-century jurists
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