He spent his youth in the intimacy of Pietro Barbo, the future Paul II, and studied at Padua, where he received his doctorate in utroque (1440). He was then in Venice, with the Giustiniani family, and in Florence, where in the great assemblies of the Council he came into contact with eminent figures and displayed his culture. In 1444 he was in Rome as apostolic subdeacon; in 1447 he was elected by Nicholas V bishop of Belluno and Feltre, assistant and apostolic referendary; on 26 March 1460 he was transferred to Padua; but from 30 Aug. 1464 (when Paul II was elected) until the spring of 1469 he resided again in Rome.
He left a museum, a rich library and many works distinguished for style and thought, among which (besides many reports or chronicles, orations and epistles, for the most part unpublished): De vita, moribus rebusque gestis Caroli Zeni ad Pium II (RIS, XX [v. bibl.], pp. 1-163); Vita b. Nicolai card. Albergati Carthusiani episcopi Bononiensis (Cologne 1618 and Acta SS. Maii, I, Venice 1738, pp. 469-77); Vitae Summorum Pontificum down to Clement V (cod. Vat. lat. 5942 and Chig. F. VIII, 198).
Bibliography4 worksA. Zeno, Giorn. de' lett., XVIII, Venice 1714, p. 407; id., Dissertaz. Vossiane, II, ibid. 1753, pp. 126-33; RIS, XIX, part 6, Bologna 1940,
BIBL.: A. Zeno, Giorn. de' lett., XVIII, Venice 1714, p. 407; id., Dissertaz. Vossiane, II, ibid. 1753, pp. 126-33; RIS, XIX, part 6, Bologna 1940, pp. III-VII (life and works); E. Govi, La biblioteca di J. Z., in Bollettino d. Ist. It. Patologia d. libro, 10 (1951), pp. 34-118.
Felice da Mareto. “Zeno, jacopo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1791. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/zeno-jacopo.
MLA
Felice da Mareto. “Zeno, jacopo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 1791. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/zeno-jacopo.
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@incollection{ec12_zeno_jacopo,
author = {Felice da Mareto},
title = {Zeno, jacopo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1791},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/zeno-jacopo}
}
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