ZINZINO. - He is improperly counted among the antipopes.
At the death of Pasquale I (11 Feb. 824) there was a double papal election (a circumstance passed over in the Lib.
Pont.), as appears from the so-called Einhardia annales (ad a. 824: ed. G. H. Pertz, in MGH, Scriptores, I [1826], p. 212), from the Vita Walae (28: ed. Pertz, ibid., II [1829], p. 545), and from Tegano’s Vita Hludowici imp. (30: ibid., p. 595). One candidate was supported by the exercitus (the nobility), the other by the Familia S. Petri (the ecclesiastical bureaucracy); the effective intervention of the monk Wala brought victory to the former, who became Eugenio II. The other did not persist, and the sources do not even record his name, which is mentioned, on no one knows what basis, by O. Panvinio (Romani Pontifices et Cardinales S. R. E. ab eisdem a Leone IX ad Paulum III... creati, Venezia 1557, p. 45; Chronicon ecclesiasticum, Lovanio 1573, p. 72).
A. Pietro Frutz