Ferruccio Baffa Trasci (27 August 1590 – 30 October 1656) was an Italian bishop, theologian and philosopher.
Ferruccio Baffa Trasci | |
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| bishop of Maximianopolis | |
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| Installed | July 1656 |
| Term ended | October 1656 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ferrante Marco Antonio Baffa Trasci 27 August 1590 |
| Died | 30 October 1656 Rome |
| Buried | Proceno |
| Nationality | Italian-Albanian |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Parents | Antonio Baffa Trasci (father), Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli (mother) |
Life edit
Born Ferrante Marco Antonio Baffa Trasci in one of the most noble and wealthy families of the Arbëreshë world in Bisignano, he was the son of Pietro Antonio Baffa Trasci and Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli. After his teens he moved to Rome and Naples when, as a priest, became one of the most close confessors and confidents of Isabella della Rovere,[1] Princesse of Bisignano, member of the Sanseverino family.
Last years edit
After many years spent in the Castle Proceno in a voluntary exile, in 1656 he came back to Rome and was created Bishop of Maximianopolis (in partibus infidelium) by Pope Alexander VII. S.E.R. Ferruccio Baffa Trasci died in Rome the same year in the Great bubonic Plague. His bones were buried several years later in Proceno the church of S. Martin.[2]
Works edit
- Universam Aristotelis philosophiam
- Summa Aristotelicha
- Summa Theologica Dogmatica[3]
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ Bonita – Bojani, I della Rovere nell'Italia della corti, Ed. Quattroventi 2002
- ^ Giuseppe Tomassetti, Cenno storico sulla vita di S.E. Ferrante Baffa Trasci Illustrissimo Vescovo di Massimianopoli 1590–1656
- ^ D. Baffa Trasci Amalfitani di Crucoli, Ferruccio Baffa Trasci-un erudito italoalbanese del XVII secolo ormai dimenticato, Edizioni MIT Cosenza 2008
