Most Reverend

Antonio Piccolomini
Archbishop of Siena
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Siena
In office1458–1459
PredecessorEnea Silvio Piccolomini
SuccessorFrancesco Todeschini-Piccolomini
Orders
Consecration16 April 1459
Personal details
Died8 November 1459
Siena, Italy

Antonio Piccolomini, O.S.B. (died 1459) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Siena (1459) and Bishop of Siena (1458–1459).[1][2]

Biography

Antonio Piccolomini was the son of Andrea Piccolomini, of the lords of Modanella, in the same branch of the Piccolomini family as Pope Pius II.[3]

He was ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict.[2] He was appointed abbot of the Camaldolese monastery of S. Vigilio in Siena, which was under the patronage of the Piccolomini family.[4] He was succeeded by Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini (Pope Pius III), who was named Abbot Commendatory in 1458.[5]

On 18 September 1458, Antonio was appointed Bishop of Siena by the newly-elected Pope Pius II, who had just vacated the bishopric of Siena.[6] Pius II granted him the privilege of being consecrated a bishop by any bishop he chose who was in communion with Rome.[7] As bishop-elect, he took possession of his new diocese on 28 September 1458.[8] On 16 April 1459, he was consecrated bishop, though the names of the consecrators remain unknown.[2]

On 18 April 1459, at the urging and with the cooperation of Pius II, who lent Bishop Antonio the services of Agapito Cincio de' Rusticii, a Referendary and Auditor Causarum in the papal Court, there was issued a new Constitution for the diocese, consisting of fifty-six articles.[9]

On 23 April 1459, Pope Pius II elevated the diocese of Siena, of which he had recently been the bishop, to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishop of Siena.[10]

Antonio Piccolomini served as Archbishop of Siena a total of seventeen months, until his death on 8 November 1459.[1][2] He had gone to Monte Amiata to the baths of S. Filippo, for health reasons, and died at the castle of Crevole, which belonged to the bishops of Siena.[11] He was succeeded on 6 February 1460 by Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 Konrad Eubel (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 235.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Archbishop Antonio Piccolomini, O.S.B." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Giuseppe Cappelletti (1862). Le chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. decimosettimo (17). Venezia: Antonelli. p. 494. In an inscription of 1459 in a hall in the Public Palace in Siena, he is called Pius II's gentilem: Giovanni Antonio Pecci (1748). Storia del Vescovado della città di Siena (in Italian). Lucca: Marescandoli. p. 324.
  4. ↑ Ferdinando Ughelli; Nicolò Coleti (1718). Italia sacra sive de Episcopis Italiae, et insularum adjacentium (in Latin). Vol. Tomus tertius (secunda ed.). Venice: Apud Sebastianum Coleti. p. 575. Eubel II, p. 235.
  5. ↑ Matteo Sanfilippo (2015), "Pio III, papa." Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 83, places the grant in October 1458.
  6. ↑ Pecci, p. 324.
  7. ↑ Pecci, p. 325.
  8. ↑ Pecci, p. 324, quoting Sigismondo Tizio, Historiae Senenses: "Die interea Septembris оctаvа, atque vicesima Antonius Abbas S. Vigilii electus Episcopus possessioncm Episcopii magna pompa, et comitantibus multis Civibus apprehendit."
  9. ↑ Pecci, pp. 329-331.
  10. ↑ The bull "Triumphans Pastor", dated 23 April 1459, is quoted in full by Cappelletti, pp. 495-498.
  11. ↑ Pecci, p. 331
  12. ↑ Eubel II, p. 235.
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