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Jan Filipec and his Pontificale. Antonín Kalous Philosophical faculty, Palacký University, Olomouc 18 February 2010, Esztergom. Jan Filipec (1431–1509). b. Prostějov Olomouc Hungary – Esztergom, Felhévíz, Várad, Buda travels: Italy – Milan, Rome, Venice, Ferrara, Naples. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Jan Filipec and his Pontificale
Antonín Kalous
Philosophical faculty, Palacký University, Olomouc
18 February 2010, Esztergom
Jan Filipec(1431–1509)
• b. Prostějov• Olomouc• Hungary –
Esztergom, Felhévíz, Várad, Buda
• travels: Italy – Milan, Rome, Venice, Ferrara, Naples
Career in royal service
• Matthias Corvinus• royal chancery + ecclesiastical
benefices (royal patronage right: Esztergom, Felhévíz, Várad)
• diplomacy• internal matters of Matthias’s
Kingdom of Bohemia (in Moravia, Silesia)
• privy chancellor• death of the king → life in
seclusion (OFM)
Diplomacy• diplomatic service• Italy
– 1476 Venice – Ferrara – Naples – Manfredonia – Chioggia – Ferrara – Venice
– 1481 Venice (?)– 1482–1483 Rome– 1487 Venice – Ferrara – Venice – Milan – France –
Milan• France• Austria, Germany, Bohemia• political service in Hungary and other lands of
Matthias Corvinus
Matthias & Milan• friendly relations• 1473 cooperation treaty
(against Venice)– signed by Jan z Rabštejna,
a Czech humanist in the service of Matthias
• 1487 wedding of John Corvinus & Bianca Maria Sforza– Filipec active – wedding act
per procuram– big promises (also in
Czech lands)– Giovanni Francesco
Marliani’s Epithalamium– finally not successful
Ecclesiastical service
• specific situation in Hungary (patronage right)• Esztergom – 1474 provost, metropolitan chapter• Felhévíz – 1475 provost, collegiate chapter
– close to the royal court• Várad – 1476 bishop
– resigned in Esztergom– wealthy bishopric– traditionally related to diplomacy and service in the privy
chancery• Olomouc – 1483 administrator
– conflicts of concepts– conflict with the Papal curia (from originally ‘heretical’ family)– various candidates
• 1490 resignation of all → Franciscan friar
Filipec’s Pontificale
• one of the liturgical books• bishop’s office in liturgical
terms – description of and instructions for all his duties
• Filipec’s book– created in Buda, late 1470s
or early 1480s– many illuminations– owned by Filipec, later by
István Podmaniczky, bishop of Nitra; 19th c. – cardinal János Simor, archbishop of Esztergom
Pontificale• benedictions• ordinations• coronations
Coronations
• this book mentioned in connection to the coronation of Vladislav II (II. Ulászló) (1490) and Ferdinand I (1527) as Kings of Hungary
Coronation of Vladislav/Ulászló
• sources
• Bonfini × Pontificale– Antonio Bonfini, Italian humanist historian– drawing heavily on the pontificale, when
describing the coronation
• ideal coronation…
• description of rituals
Other coronations • pope• emperor• queen
Cultural context
• Buda (later Vienna) court of Matthias Corvinus• Italian connection HU• Beatrix of Aragon (from Naples), wife of Matthias
– many Italians in her court (scholars, humanists, artists, diplomats, churchmen)
• transmission of ideas, concepts and art– Italy – Hungary – Czech lands– Humanism?– Renaissance?
• diplomatic service – very much developed
Thank you for your attention.