Guido Tarlati
Guido Tarlati as Pietra Mala (* in Arezzo (AR), † October 21, 1327 ) was an Italian bishop.
Life
Guido Tarlati was the sixty-first bishop and at the same town or Mr. First Lord of Arezzo. He came from the Ghibelline family of Tarlati of Pietra Mala, today a district of Firenzuola, and was the son of Angelo Tarlati. His mother came from the Frescobaldi family, his brothers were Piero da Pietra Mala Tarlati called Saccone (1261-1356), and Delfo Tarlati. The family was first recorded in 1110 and and he and / or his brothers had briefly several possessions in the province of Arezzo, such as Talla ( 1314-1327 ), Chitignano (from 1325 ) and Sansepolcro ( 1321-1335 ).
He was consecrated at Avignon in 1312 by Pope Clement V and belonged to the Benedictine Order of Olivetans. In 1320 he commissioned Pietro Lorenzetti with the polyptych of the church of Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo.
The city of Arezzo men for life ( Signore della Città a vita ) he was appointed in 1321. In this role, he consolidated the budget and led the city for a short period of economic prosperity. He strengthened the city walls and then tried to heal the breach between Guelphs and Ghibellines in the city and tried a direct confrontation with Siena and Florence to avoid. He supported the enemies of Florence as Uguccione della Faggiola in the Battle of Montecatini and Castruccio Castracane in the Battle of Altopascio. At the Guelph family of the Guidi di di Romana from Prato Vecchio he had a negative attitude and had several castles in the capture, such as the fortress of Caprese Michelangelo 1324.
Since 1323 he advocated with the assistance of Francesco I Ordelaffi from Forlì an expansionist policy and captured, among other things Città di Castello and came in from the May 11, 1325 Monte San Savino destroy. The same fate befell the place Laterina 1326.
The legate to John XXII. then opened on August 30, 1326 in Florence the trial of Castruccio Castracane and against Guido Tarlati who had already been relieved on April 17, 1326 by the Pope in Avignon and the consistory of his duties, however, defied the pope and the imperial cause further supported. The judgment, which excommunicated and all its offices relieved the two defendants, was announced in Florence in the presence of Charlemagne in the square of Santa Croce. As the new bishop of Arezzo has been appointed 1325 Boso Ubertini from the rival and pro- Florentine Aretines family of Ubertini, the Tarlati did not let enter the city. Shortly before his death he asked the Pope for forgiveness.
Guido Tarlati was buried in the cathedral of Arezzo ( Cattedrale di San Donato ), the burial was in 1330 given by his brothers Delfo and Pier Saccone commissioned and designed by Agostino di Giovanni and Agnolo di Ventura.