Baldo Lupetina

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Baldo Lupetina[1][2][3] or Baldo Lupetino[4][5][6] (also Lupatino and Baldo d'Albona)[a] (1502 – 1556) was a Protestant preacher.

Biography[]

He was born in Labin, in Istria. His ethnicity is not known. However, he spoke both Chakavian and Italian, and he preached to the local people in both languages.[4]

His family was related by marriage to the local Luciani family. His sister Ivanka married Luciano Luciani, the brother of Jacobea (Jakovica) Luciani, mother of Matthias Flacius Illyricus.[10]

He entered the Franciscan order in his hometown, and was ordained a priest. He entered the convent when he was but 14 years old, being immediately noted by his ability to preach both in Italian and in the local Croatian dialects.[4] By the end of the 1530s he had probably already embraced the Reformation, based on the fact that he urged Flacius to go study in Germany instead of Venice. At this time, Baldo reportedly introduced Flacius to the Reformation movement.[1][11] In the 1530s he got into contact with the Barbo brothers, who were related to the Petriš (Patrizi) from Cres. Thereafter, Baldo went to preach in Cres several times, since as early as 1535, invited by the council of the island, wherein Stefano Patrizi held a prominent position.[4]

Although he had found support on the island, even that of some of its prominent citizens, Baldo found an obstacle in Giacomo Curzolan, a Venetian chancellor, who denounced him to the Venetian authorities in October 1541, after he heard him deny several points of the Catholic dogma in his sermon for Lent. On November 4, 1542, Baldo was incarcerated and brought to Venice. On June 26, 1543, Flacius went from Wittenberg to Venice to present a letter signed by the leaders of the Schmalkaldic League to the Venetian authorities, on the behalf of his uncle-in-law. However, Baldo was condemned to life imprisonment and a fine of 100 ducats.[4]

While in prison, he "kept on manifesting his Lutheran faith." He was presented with the heretical Lutheran statements that had been attributed to him, and he confirmed them all, since according to Baldo they were in agreement with scripture. As Baldo didn't show repentance, he was thence accused of heresy and sentenced to death. He appealed against the judges to the futuro Concilio generale libero (to the future free general council).[4]

Whilst he was awaiting his execution, he managed to let his answer to the judges get out of the jail to his Istrian friends, who then had it printed. The text reached Germany and was spread in Venice, with the authorities requesting an inquiry. Baldo continued to preach during his imprisonment, and as a result he was punished with his meals being reduced to bread and water for five months.[4]

After unsuccessfully attempting to force him to recant, with Baldo continuing to affirm his beliefs, and now directly attacking the Pope, they decided to have him quietly executed (sine sonitu et sine strepitu). His sentence was pronounced on September 17, 1556. He was to be expelled from the ecclesiastic order and drowned immediately thereafter.[4]

Notes[]

  1. ^ In the 16th century, when Venice ruled Labin (Albona), with Italian as the official and institutional language of the Republic, Lupetino was the most common transliteration of this surname[4] of unknown origin (of German origin according to autodidact atuthor Hermann Stemberger[7]). The Lupatini were still present in Labin at least into the 1830s.[8] The variant Lupetina is still found in Istria today.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Vlačić, Matija Ilirik". Croatian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. ^ Stuart Rossiter (1969). Yugoslavia: the Adriatic Coast. Benn. pp. xviii, 237. ISBN 0510025056.
  3. ^ Timothy J. Wengert, Mark Granquist, Mary Haemig, Robert Kolb, Mark Mattes, Jonathan Strom (2017). Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions. Baker. pp. xviii, 237. ISBN 978-1493410231.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Silvano Cavazza. "LUPETINO, Baldo". Enciclopedia Italiana. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  5. ^ John Jeffries Martin (1993). Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City. Baker. pp. 68. ISBN 0520912330.
  6. ^ Timothy McCain (2006). Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions : a Reader's Edition of the Book of Concord. Concordia. p. 689. ISBN 0758613431.
  7. ^ Herman Stemberger (1983). Labinska povijesna kronika: povijesne skice Kožljaka, Čepića, Kršana, Šumbera. Labin: Radničko sveučilište.
  8. ^ Pietro Stancovich (1992). Biografia degli uomini distinti dell'Istria del canonico Pietro Stancovich ... Tomo primo [-terzo]: 2, Volumes 1-3. Biblioteca di Cremona. p. 111.
  9. ^ "Prezime Lupetina". Acta Croatica. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  10. ^ Ilić, Luca (2014). Theologian of Sin and Grace: The Process of Radicalization in the Theology of Matthias Flacius Illyricus Volume 225 of Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 34. ISBN 9783647101170.
  11. ^ M. Mirkovič (1980). Matija Vlačić Ilirik. Pula-Rijeka. pp. 46–67, 96–101, 119–122.
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