Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
SIGONIO, CARLO. - Historian, b. in Modena in 1523 (?), d. in his villa at Ponte Basso near Modena on 28 Aug. 1584.
He taught in Modena (1546-52), Venice (1552-60), Padua (1560-63) and Bologna (1563), where he remained until his death. Turning his study to the Middle Ages, he wrote in fluent and elegant Latin the Historiarum de Regno Italiae ab anno 570 ad annum 1200 (1574); Historiae ecclesiasticae libri XIV (written on commission from Gregory XIII and left unfinished); Historiarum Bononiensium ab initio civitatis usque ad a. 1257 libri VI.
Noteworthy in S. are his passion for erudition and the search for documents, his personal criterion as a “humanistic” historian, and above all the emphasis he placed on the force of law in the varied evolution of political life.
BIBL.: L. A. Muratori, Vita, in Opera ommia, I, Milano 1732; G. Tiraboschi, Bibl. modenese, V, Modena 1784, pp. 76 ff.; L. Simeoni, Docum. sulla vita e la bibliot. di C. S., in Studi e mem. per la stor. della Univ. di Bologna, XI, Imola 1933; E. Fueter, Storia della storiografia moderna, Italian trans., I, Napoli 1943, pp. 157-58 (with bibliography).
SIGÜENZA, DIOCESI DI - Tomb of Martín Vázquez de Sosa, called El Doncel (1486), in the chapel of St Catherine – Sigüenza, Cathedral.
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“SIGONIO, CARLO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), p. 355. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/sigonio-carlo.
