Also known as:
Angelo Maria Cardinal Querini;
Italian: Angelo Maria Querini
QUERINI, ANGELO MARIA. - Cardinal and scholar, b. in Venice on 30 March 1680, d. in Brescia on 6 Jan. 1755. Having entered the Benedictines of Florence in 1696, he attained a vast erudition, particularly in history. In 1710 he traveled in Germany, Holland, England, and France, collecting manuscripts and rare books and establishing relations with the greatest scholars of the time. Having returned to Italy (1714) and been appointed writer of the Benedictine annals, he published in 1717 his principal historical-methodological work, De Monastica historia conscribenda.
Archbishop of Corfu (1724) and then bishop of Brescia (1727), he attended to his pastoral duties, residing constantly in his diocese, except for brief periods, even after being created cardinal (1727) and librarian of the Holy Roman Church. His relations with Benedict XIV were close, and he exchanged a substantial correspondence with him. Esteemed by Voltaire and by Frederick II of Prussia, he welcomed their flattery, and had epistolary relations with them. A prolific polygraph, he left numerous writings. He was also noted for his charity and patronage; to him is due in Brescia the foundation of the Queriniana Library (1745: opened to the public in 1750; it is today the civic library of Brescia and holds ca. 1500 manuscripts, precious documents, 900 incunabula, 217,000 volumes) and the construction of the new church.
BIBL.:sources
l'autobiografia del Q. in Commentarium de rebus pertinentibus ad A. M. card. Q., Brescia 1749; A. Sambuca, Lettere intorno alla morte del card. A. M. Q., ivi 1757; Epistulae E. mi et R. mi A. M. Q., Venezia 1786; A. Baudrillart, De card. Q. vita et operibus, Parigi 1889 (con l'elenco bibliogr. di tutte le opere del Q.); C. Castelli, Il card. A. M. Q., in Brixia Sacra, 12 (1920), pp. 103-37; Pastor, XV-XVI (v. indici); M. De Caro, Storia monastica e il metodo del card. A. M. Q., in Rivista storica italiana, 50 (1933), p. 90 sgg.; R. Mazzetti, Il card. A. M. Q., Brescia 1933; B. Trifone, Alcune lettere inedite del card. Q., in Benedictina, 4 (1950), pp. 133-42; P. Guerrini Il card. A. M. Q. nel bicentenario della sua biblioteca, in Mem. stor. della diocesi di Brescia, 17 (1950), p. 57 sgg.
Sannazzaro, Piero. “Querini, angelo maria.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, coll. 395–396. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/querini-angelo-maria.
MLA
Sannazzaro, Piero. “Querini, angelo maria.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 395–396. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/querini-angelo-maria.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec10_querini_angelo_maria,
author = {Sannazzaro, Piero},
title = {Querini, angelo maria},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {395--396},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/querini-angelo-maria}
}
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