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- Title
I PERETTI DA MONTALTO SENZA LEOPARDI.
- Authors
Gatti, Isidoro Liberale
- Abstract
Sixtus V (1585-1590), a Conventual Friar, was a member of the Peretti da Montalto Family. The title of this study refers to the legend that associates St. George with a dragon that has no basis in history, but serves only as a symbol of evil. In the very same way, there is a legend that associates the Peretti Family with leopards, heraldic animals of the coat of arms of Dalmatia, in order to signify the family's Dalmatian/Croatian ethnic origins. The author tries to show that leopards were introduced only as a symbol of a type of honorary citizenship granted to Sixtus V in 1590 by the Dalmatians/Croatians as a token of thanks for the extensive benefits that he bestowed on the Croatian community of Rome beginning in 1570 when, as cardinal, he became the titular of their national Church of St. Jerome of the Slavs. Throughout his entire life Felice Peretti (Sixtus V) was known to have come from Ascoli in the Marches (as he himself never ceased to affirm). Only during the first decade of the 1600s was the fable spun that his father (then it was said his great-grandfather) was of Croatian extraction and had immigrated to Italy from Dalmatia. Supplied with detailed official documents from the Commune of Montalto (Marches) that were completely unknown to those who had spun the leopard fable, the author shows that there is no historical record of Peretti immigrating to the Marches during any century that would situate their arrival prior to the very end of the 13th Century, when the Peretti were listed among the earliest known inhabitants of Montalto, precisely as Sixtus V had always stated in his writings and papal bulls.
- Publication
Miscellanea Francescana, 2013, Vol 113, Issue 1/2, p235
- ISSN
0026-587X
- Publication type
Academic Journal