CESTARI, GIUSEPPE. - Priest, b. in 1751 in Naples, where he lived with a reputation as a Jansenist, together with his brother Gennaro, belonging to that group of philosophers and regalists concerned only with asserting the sovereign's rights over the appointment of prelates, over the churches and their property, over the discipline of priestly ordinations, of monastic professions, and over marriages.
He collaborated with Francesco Mario Pagano and Giuseppe Logoteta on the drafting of the Constitution of the Neapolitan Republic of 1798. His principal work, Dimostrazione de i titoli della S. Sede sulle Sicilie (Naples 1789), is a reply to the work of Cardinal Stefano Borgia, Breve istoria del dominio temporale della sede apostolica nelle due Sicilie (Rome 1788). Another of his works is the Esame della pretesa donazione fatta da s. Arrigo II imperatore alla S. Sede (Naples 1785), which aroused bitter polemics. He commented on the Istoria del Giannone and continued the Annali del Regno di Napoli of F. A. Grimaldi. He was prefect of the Archives of the Royal Mint and of the Royal Chamber of the Sommaria.
Then, together with the other Neapolitan Jansenists and regalists, he took part in the republic of 1799 and was killed in combat at the entry of the masses led by Cardinal Ruffo for the restoration of the monarchy.
Bibliography4 worksA. C. Jemolo, Il giansenismo in Italia, Bari 1928, p. 390; G. Natali, Il Settecento, I, Milan 1929, pp. 30, 460, passim; E. Michel, s. v. in
BIBL.: A. C. Jemolo, Il giansenismo in Italia, Bari 1928, p. 390; G. Natali, Il Settecento, I, Milan 1929, pp. 30, 460, passim; E. Michel, s. v. in Diz. del Risorg. Naz., II (1930), pp. 663-64; B. Croce, Varietà di storia letteraria e civile, 1st series, Bari 1935, p. 35 ff.
Morseletto, Maria. “Cestari, giuseppe.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1362–1363. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cestari-giuseppe.
MLA
Morseletto, Maria. “Cestari, giuseppe.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1362–1363. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cestari-giuseppe.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_cestari_giuseppe,
author = {Morseletto, Maria},
title = {Cestari, giuseppe},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1362--1363},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cestari-giuseppe}
}
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