1496 GREGORIUS IX FAMOUS DECRETALS AGAINST FREDERICK II

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1496 GREGORIUS IX RENOWNED DECRETALS AGAINST FREDERICK IISCARCE LAW TREATISE ON PAPAL LEGAL THEORY FOUNDATION GREGORIUS IX, POPE (FORMERLY, UGOLINO COUNT OF SEGNI). Decretales cum summarijs suis et textuum divisionibus. Ac etiam rubricarum con tinnationibus . (at colophon:) Venetijs Per Batistam de Tortis. M.cccc.lxxxxvj. die. x. Octobris ( Venice : 10th October 1496 ). Folio maximo (415x280mm), XVIIIth century stiff half vellum with handwritten title on spine, ff. (4), 303, (1, blank bound at beginning).Gothic type. COMPLETE ENTIRELY PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK. ALL DOUBLE-COLOUR EDITION ARE VERY PRECIOUS, SINCE THEY REQUIRED TWO PRINT PROCEEDINGS. EXTREMELY RARE GIANT SIZE INCUNABLE EDITION OF THE POPE GREGORIUS IX DECRETALES. Decretals ( Epistolae decretales ) is the name given in Canon law to those letters of the pope which formulate decisions in ecclesiastical law. Pope Gregory IX (Anagni, circa 1170 - Rome 1241) ordered in 1230 his chaplain and confessor, St. Raymond of Peñaforte (Pennafort), a Dominican, to form a new canonical collection destined to replace all former collections. It remained the basis of canon law so far as it has not been modified by subsequent collections and by the general laws of the Church. T hey were written in the first years of Gregorius IX Papacy, as an instrument to reinforce his papal authority after the promulgation of Melfi's Constitutions by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II of Sicily (cfr. Enciclopedia Cattolica , VI, 1136). Pope Gregory IX , former Ugolino of Count of Segni, was Pope from 1227 to 1241. Gregory IX began his pontificate by suspending the Emperor Frederick II , whose lawyers in Naples and Capua asserted his position as universal temporal ruler. The suspension was followed by excommunication and threats of deposition, as deeper rifts appeared - Frederick II's control of the Sicilian Church , his feudal obligations to the Pope, even his continued presence in Sicily . Frederick II publicly appealed to the sovereigns of Europe complaining of his treatment. Frederick II went to the Holy Land and skirmished with the Saracens to fulfill his vow, but was soon back in Italy, w Gregory IX had taken advantage of his absence by invading his territories. A consequent invasion of the Papal states in 1228 having proved unsuccessful, the Emperor was constrained to give in his submission and beg for absolution.Although peace was thus secured (August 1230) for a season, the Roman people were far from satisfied; driven by a revolt from his own capital in June 1232, the Pope was compelled to take refuge at Anagni and invoke the aid of Frederick II. Gregory IX and Hohenstaufen came to a truce, but when Frederick II defeated the Lombard League in 1239, the possibility that he might dominate all of Italy , surrounding the Papal States , became a very real threat. A new outbreak of hostility led to a fresh excommunication of the emperor in 1239, and to a prolonged war. Gregory IX denounced Frederick II as a tic and summoned a council at Rome to give point to his anathema, at which Frederick II attempted to capture or sink as many ships carrying prelates to the synod as he could. The struggle was only terminated by the death of Gregory IX on August 22, 1241 . He died before events could reach their climax; it was his successor, aptly named Pope Innocent IV (1243-54) who declared a crusade in 1245 that would finish the Hohenstaufen threat.This pope, being a remarkably skillful and learned lawyer, caused to be prepared Nova Compilatio decretalium , which was promulgated in numerous copies in 1234 and first printed at Mainz in 1473. This New Compilation of Decretals was the culmination of a long process of systematising the mass of pronouncements that had accumulated since the Early Middle Ages, a process that had been under way since the first half of the 12th century and had come to fruition in the Decretum compiled and edited by the papally-commissioned legist Gratian and published in 1140. The supplement completed... read more

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