Stefano Infessura
Stefano Infessura (* around 1440 in Rome, † 1499 or 1500 ) was an Italian lawyer, magistrate and official chronicler at the time of the Renaissance.
Life
Infessuras birth is unoccupied. His date of death can thereby determine in about that on January 2, 1500 two of his sons ordered a weekly eternal requiem mass in Saint Nicholas chapel of the Church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. This suggests that died Infessura end of December 1499 or early January 1500.
Infessura came from a middle-class Roman family and was related to the family de Fredi, in connection with the discovery of the Laocoon group in 1506 later became known.
After studying law, he was municipal official Podestà ( 1478) in places, a small town about 80 kilometers north of Rome. 1481 he was a lecturer in law at the University of Rome.
His first signature as Senate clerk ( scribasenato ) is delivered to a deed dated January 1487th This important and extensive Roman Office also meant that he received access to credible and official sources led.
Infessura Diario della città begins his di Roma ( urbis Romae diary ) in 1303 with the death of Pope Boniface VIII ( authentic beginning, the beginning of today's Diario begins in 1294 with the election of this pontiff, but this part was added later ). It describes the events in Rome until April 26, 1494 in particular, the pontificates of Paul II, Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII and the beginning of the pontificate of Alexander VI. together with all related scandals and those stories that would not mention an official historical work.
Infessuras writing style is not objective, he often used scorn and ridicule as well as open annoyance. His political line is clearly anti- papist, he is a radical Ghibelline. In his Diario he used some bad Latin, partly Italian with Roman dialect.
Nevertheless, his Diario, the only one of it preserved book, a rich and important source of both the history of the Renaissance and the events in Rome at that time, as well as to understanding the political maneuvers and the reaction of the "simple" Roman it.
In Rome, a street was named after him ( Via Stefano Infessura ).
Works
- Oreste Tommasini (ed.): Diario della città di Roma di Stefano Infessura scribasenato, Roma 1890 ( Fonti per la storia d' Italia, 5); Reprints Tuirn 1960 and 1966.
- Roman diary. Translated and introduced by Hermann Hefele. Erstdruck Jena 1913 ( The Age of the Renaissance ). Re: Diederichs, Dusseldorf, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3- 424-00667 -X.