L’abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano e la commenda del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni (1663-1675)

Enrico Angiolini; Gabriella Cainazzo

L’abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano e la commenda del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni (1663-1675)

Authors

Enrico Angiolini

State Archives of Modena

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3660-8601

Gabriella Cainazzo

De Statutis Society

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2075-7540

Keywords:

Benedectine monasticism, Commendam, Cardinalate, Kingdom of Naples, Gargano

Synopsis

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 19

Pages: LVII, 128

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-46-2

The monastery of Santa Maria di Pulsano, founded by Saint John of Matera in the 12th century, became the center of influence for the Pulsano congregation, which enjoyed great success before experiencing its usual course of spiritual and material decline. From the beginning of the 15th century, it underwent a centuries-long assignment in commendam. An unpublished source held in the State Archives of Bologna sheds new light on the commendatory abbey of Cardinal Girolamo Boncompagni (1622–1684) in Pulsano: the «Registro di memorie delle abbazie di Santa Maria di Pulsano in Puglia, di Santa Maria di Castion e di Vidore possedute un tempo dal cardinal Boncompagni, arcivescovo di Bologna» is a veritable collective volume containing original and copy documents relating to Boncompagni's vast estate.

The documentation relating to Pulsano, which is here fully edited and analyzed, allows us to follow Girolamo Boncompagni's systematic approach, first in his attempt to gain knowledge of the actual size of the Pulsano household's assets; then in the development of a plan for the resumption of both a religious life worthy of the name, and the reinstatement of a substantial patrimony that still consisted of large farmhouses, vast pastures, various types of crops, fishing rights, and numerous emphyteutic leases to be enjoyed on landed properties, spread across much of the Gargano promontory and beyond and threatened by famine, insolvency, neglect in their previous governance, and baronial usurpations.

Summary

Francesco Panarelli, Presentazione VII

Introduzione XI

Una testimonianza superstite dell’abbaziato pulsanese del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni XI

L’abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano e la commenda del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni XVII

La memoria di Pulsano fuori da Pulsano XLVII

Criteri di edizione LV

Tavola delle abbreviazioni LVII

«Registro di memorie delle abbazie di Santa Maria di Pulsano in Puglia, di Santa Maria di Castion e di Vidore possedute un tempo dal cardinal Boncompagni, arcivescovo di Bologna». Estratti relativi a Santa Maria di Pulsano 1

Tavole e carte 105

Indice dei nomi 113

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Author Biographies

Enrico Angiolini, State Archives of Modena

Enrico Angiolini (Castelfranco Emilia, 1967) combines his work as a freelance archivist with historical research. His historiographical interests focus on the political and institutional history of Romagna between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, which he primarily investigates through chronicle and statutory sources. Among his most recent publications are: I capitoli del castello di Torino di Sangro. Il viaggio di uno statuto dall’Abruzzo alla Romagna (2023), Le pergamene della Rubiconia Accademia dei Filopatridi (2025), Liber statutorum Comunis castri Sancti Marini (2025).

Gabriella Cainazzo , De Statutis Society

Gabriella Cainazzo (San Giovanni Rotondo, 1973) combines her work in language and history teaching, with a particular focus on history and heritage education methodology, with historical and archival research on religious institutions, devotion, and hagiography. She has published: L’Archivio della Congregazione della Regina dei Cieli e del Santuario della Madonna dei Poveri in Bologna (1637–1951). Inventario (2018).