Enciclopedia Cattolica

ANNI BALDI DELLA MOLARA, RICCARDO DEGLI

Volume I · p. 835 · 1948

English translation · Testo originale italiano

ANNI BALDI della MOLARA, RICCARDO degli - Frammento del sepolcro del card. A. di Arnolfo di Cambio (sec. XIV). Roma, basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano.
ANNI BALDI della MOLARA, RICCARDO degli - Frammento del sepolcro del card. A. di Arnolfo di Cambio (sec. XIV). Roma, basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

He held direct dominion over the government of Armenia and Pontus. While he was marching to war against Shapur II, king of the Persians, who wished to invade those provinces, he learned of the death of Constantine (337) and suspended the expedition; soon after, in the massacres that occurred in Constantinople, he was killed together with other relatives of the deceased emperor.

BIBL.: J. Burckhardt, Das Zeitalter Constantins des Grossen, new ed., Stuttgart 1920; A. Olivetti, Sulle stragi di Costantinopoli del 337, in Rivista di Filologia, 43 (1915), p. 67. Paolo Brezzi