Giacomo Filippo Tomasini

Most Reverend

Giacomo Filippo Tomasini
Most Reverend; Giacomo Filippo Tomasini
Bishop of Novigrad
	Giacomo Filippo Tomasini. From the book "Le glorie degli Incogniti", 1647
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Novigrad
Appointed	16 June 1642
Term ended	13 June 1655
Orders
Consecration	16 June 1642 (Bishop); by Marcantonio Bragadin
Personal details
Born	17 November 1595; Padua, Republic of Venice
Died	13 June 1655 (aged 59); Novigrad, Republic of Venice

Giacomo Filippo Tomasini (17 November 1595 – 13 June 1655) was an Italian Catholic bishop, scholar and historian.

Biography

Giacomo Filippo Tomasini was born at Padua, Nov. 17, 1595. Instructed by Benedetto Benedetti of Legnano, he joined the Venetian order of secular Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga when he was fourteen, and received the degree of doctor at Padua in 1619.^[1]

He went to Rome, where he was cordially received, especially by Pope Urban VIII, who would have appointed him to a bishopric in the island of Candia. At his own request, this was exchanged for the see of Cittanova d'Istria, to which he was consecrated in 1642. There he remained until his death, in 1654.^[1]

Tomasini was a close friend and main collaborator of the Greek scholar Leone Allacci. Their correspondence indicates that they had started exchanging scholarly materials in the early 1630s, and rapidly became on very good terms. For the next twenty years, Tomasini acted as Allacci's main contact with antiquarian circles in Padua and Venice. Allacci sent Tomasini information about Petrarch manuscripts in the Vatican for the Petrarcha redivivus which appeared in 1635.

In 1644 Tomasini saw through the presses the Romanae aedificationes, the work Allacci had compiled many years earlier about his first patron Lelio Biscia's administration of public works in Rome under Pope Paul V.

Works

Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, De tesseris hospitalitatis liber singularis, in quo jus hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur. Amsterdam, sumpt. A. Frisii, 1670.

A prolific scholar, Tomasini is especially known for his critical editions of the letters of Cassandra Fedele (1636) and Laura Cereta (1640), and for several works on archaeology, most notably his De Donariis ac Tabellis Votivis, a learned work on the votive offerings of the ancients.^[2]

His works include:

Illustrium Virorum Elogia Iconibus Exornata (Padua, 1630, 4º; 2nd vol. 1644)
Titus Livius Patavinus (ibid. 1630, 4º; Titi Livii Historiarum libri, ed. Arnold Drakenborch, v. 7, 1746, p. 4; v. 15, pt. 1, 1828, p. 8)
Manus aeneae, Cecropii votum referentis, dilucidatio (Padua, 1649, 4º; Jakob Gronovius, Thes. Gr. antiq. v. 10, p. 657)
De Donariis ac Tabellis Votivis, etc. (Utin. 1639, 4º; Johann Georg Graevius, Thes. antiq. Rom. v. 12, p. 737)
Vita, bibliotheca, et museum Laurentii Pignorii (Venice, 1632, 4º; Graevius, Thes. antiq. Ital. v. 6, pt. 3)
De tesseris hospitalitatis, (Padua, 1647, 4º; Gronovius, Thes. Gr. antiq. v. 9, p. 213)
Petrarcha Redivivus Integram Poetae Celeberrimi Vitam Iconibus Ære Celatis Exhibens (ibid. 1635, 4º)
Clarissimae feminae Cassandrae Fidelis Venetae Epistolae et Orationes Posthumae. Padua: Francesco Bolzetta. 1636.
Laurae Ceretae Epistolae, cum Notis etc. Padua: Sebastiano Sardi. 1640.
Bibliothecae Patavinae Manuscripta, etc. (ibid. 1639, 4º)
Bibliothecae Venetae Manuscripta, etc. (Utin. 1650, 4º).
Vita della B. Beatrice della famiglia de prencipi d'Este il di cui corpo da quattrocento, e settanta due anni in circa intiero ancora si conserua nella chiesa interiore del venerando Monasterio di S. Sofia nella città di Padoua già descritta da monsig. Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, et hora nouamente ristampata ad istanza della reuerendissima madre abbadessa suor Quieta Ottata nobile padouana, et di tutte le madri del sudetto monasterio, et dalla medeme dedicata all'eminentissimo, Gregorio cardinale Barbarigo, In Udine : per Nicolo Schiratti, 1652

Notes

^ ^a ^b Trebbi 2019.
^ Alison Cooley (2000). The afterlife of inscriptions: reusing, rediscovering, reinventing & revitalizing ancient inscriptions. University of London Institute of Classical Studies. p. 88. ISBN 978-0900587863. The De donariis et tabulis votivis of Giacomo Tomasini [...] examines what sorts of votive offering were made by the Romans [...]. [Tomasini] explains their origins, and then uses the evidence of inscriptions widely for different types of dedications, such as those made by parents, virgins, or sailors. Among his material he quotes some then unpublished inscriptions for which he thanks Doni, though his use of epigraphic evidence can be rather tendentious: he quotes a dedication made at Diana's sanctuary at Lake Nemi by a man and his wife to claim that the goddess Diana was protector of married couples. As well as citing inscriptions, Tomasini's work also refers to non-textual visual evidence, indicative of a movement in antiquarian scholarship in which writers looked increasingly to the evidence of illustrations on Roman monuments and small, non-inscribed objects for information about the life and customs of the ancient Romans.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from McClintock, John; Strong, James (1867–1887). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper and Brothers.
«Giacomo Filippo Tomasini Padovano». In : Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 188–191 (on-line).
Hutton, James (1935). The Greek Anthology in Italy to the Year 1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 267–268.
Thomas Cerbu (1986). Leone Allacci, 1587-1669: The Fortunes of an Early Byzantinist. Harvard University Press. p. 41.
Amy N. Worthen (2017). Brigit Blass-Simmen; Stefan Weppelmann (eds.). "Cassandræ Fidelis venetæ literis clarissimæ in Padua". Padua and Venice: Transcultural Exchange in the Early Modern Age. Walter de Gruyter: 123–136. doi:10.1515/9783110465402-010. ISBN 9783110465402.
Trebbi, Giuseppe (2019). "TOMASINI, Giacomo Filippo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 96: Toja–Trivelli (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.

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[2] Alison Cooley (2000). The afterlife of inscriptions: reusing, rediscovering, reinventing & revitalizing ancient inscriptions. University of London Institute of Classical Studies. p. 88. ISBN 978-0900587863. The De donariis et tabulis votivis of Giacomo Tomasini [...] examines what sorts of votive offering were made by the Romans [...]. [Tomasini] explains their origins, and then uses the evidence of inscriptions widely for different types of dedications, such as those made by parents, virgins, or sailors. Among his material he quotes some then unpublished inscriptions for which he thanks Doni, though his use of epigraphic evidence can be rather tendentious: he quotes a dedication made at Diana's sanctuary at Lake Nemi by a man and his wife to claim that the goddess Diana was protector of married couples. As well as citing inscriptions, Tomasini's work also refers to non-textual visual evidence, indicative of a movement in antiquarian scholarship in which writers looked increasingly to the evidence of illustrations on Roman monuments and small, non-inscribed objects for information about the life and customs of the ancient Romans.

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