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Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius (23 February 1529 – 27 April 1568) was an Italian historian and
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, who was librarian to
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Life and work

Panvinio was born in
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. At the age of eleven, he entered the order of
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and in 1539 he went to
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and became fascinated by the city, whose
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and inscriptions, ancient and medieval history, writers and great papal families he would document through a spectacularly productive brief lifetime. After graduating in Rome as bachelor of arts in 1553 and teaching the novices of his order in Rome and Florence, in 1557 he obtained the degree of doctor of theology. He visited the libraries of Italy, pursuing historical research and went to Germany in 1559. Refusing the position of bishop, he accepted the more grateful office of corrector and reviser of the books of the
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in 1556. He died in
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while accompanying his friend and protector Cardinal Farnese to the Synod of Monreale, 1568. He was recognized as one of the greatest church historians and archaeologists of his time. The scholarly printer
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called him ''antiquitatis helluo'' ("a glutton for antiquity"), and
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styled him ''pater omnis historiae'' ("father of all history"). His great archaeological map of ancient Rome was produced in 1565. About the same time he began to collaborate with the French engraver Étienne Dupérac, who continued to provide illustrations for posthumous printings of Panvinio's works. Not all of his numerous historical, theological, archaeological, and liturgical works were published, even posthumously; some are preserved in manuscript in the
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. His portrait by
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is in the
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Publications


''De fasti et triumphi Romanorum a Romulo usque ad Carolum V''
(Giacomo Strada, Venice, 1557), "''
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of the Romans from
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to
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"; *A revised edition of
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's ''Fasti consulares'' (Venice, 1558); *''De comitiis imperatoriis'' (Basel, 1558); *''De republica Romana'' (Venice, 1558); "On the Roman Republic"; *''Epitome Romanorum pontificum'' (Venice, 1557); "Brief history of the Roman pontiffs"; *A revised edition of
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's ''De vitis pontificum'' (Venice); "On the lives of the popes"; *''XXVII Pontif. Max. elogia et imagines'' (Rome, 1568); "Elogies and images of twenty-seven pontiffs"; *''De sibyllis et carminibus sibyllinis'' (Venice, 1567) ("Of
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s and Sibylline oracles"); *''Chronicon ecclesiasticum a C. Julii Caesaris tempore usque ad imp. Maximilianum II'' (Cologne, 1568); "Ecclesiastical chronicle from the time of Julius Caesar to that of Emperor Maximilian"; *''De episcopatibus, titulis, et diaconiis cardinalium'' (Venice, 1567);"of the bishoprics, '' tituli'' and diaconates of the cardinals"; *''De ritu sepeliendi mortuos apud veteres Christianos'' (Cologne, 1568); "Of burial rites for the dead among the early Christians"; *''De praecipuis urbis Romae santioribusque basilicis'' (Rome, 1570; Cologne, 1584); *''De primatu Petri et apostolicae selis potestate'' (Verona 1589): "Of the primacy of Peter and the power of the apostolic see"; *''Libri X de varia Romanorum pontificum creatione'' (Venice, 1591); *''De bibliotheca pontificia vaticana'' (Tarragona, 1587); "On the pontifical
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"; *''Augustiniani ordinis chronicon'' (Rome, 1550); "Chronicle of the Augustinian Order"; *''De ludis circensibus'' (Venice, 1600); "On the circus games". A posthumous publication with etchings by Dupérac that date to the 1560s. ** A second edition with Notes and Additions by Giovanni Argoli and Niccolò Pinelli was published at Padua, 1642,''Onuphrii Panvinii Veronensis De Ludis Circensibus Libri II - De Triumphis Liber unus - Quibus universa fere Romanorum veterum sacra, ritusque declarantur, ac figuris aeneis illustrantur, cum notis J. Argoli J.U.D. et additamento N. Pinelli,'' Padova, 1642. and reprinted in: *''Epitome antiquitatum romanarum'' (Rome, 1558); *''De antique Romanorum religione''; "On the ancient religion of the Romans"; Karl Gersbach, OSA, has published numerous articles on aspects of Panvinio's career. Philip Jacks set his career in the context of early antiquarian investigations in ''The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought''. (Cambridge University Press) 1993. Jean-Louis Ferrary's study, ''Onofrio Panvinio et les antiquités romaines'' (Rome) 1996, focuses on Panvinio's works on Roman antiquity. For a modern biography of Panvinio, see Stefan Bauer, ''The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform'' (Oxford University Press, 2020).


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External links

*Stefan Bauer
''The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform''
(Oxford University Press, 2020). * Stefan Bauer
'Historiographical Transition from Renaissance to Counter-Reformation: The Case of Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568)'
(2016).
Onofrio Panvinio
in ''Dizionario biografico degli Italiani'' (Stefan Bauer), vol. 81, 2014, pp. 36–39. *
De ludis circensibus
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Falvey Memorial Library
at Villanova University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Panvinio, Onofrio Italian archaeologists Italian antiquarians Historians of the Catholic Church 1529 births 1568 deaths