Ferruccio Baffa Trasci

Ferruccio Baffa Trasci
bishop of Maximianopolis
InstalledJuly 1656
Term endedOctober 1656
Personal details
Born
Ferrante Marco Antonio Baffa Trasci

27 August 1590
Bisignano, Calabria, Italy
Died30 October 1656
Rome
BuriedProceno
NationalityItalian-Albanian
DenominationCatholic
ParentsAntonio Baffa Trasci (father), Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli (mother)
Arms of Baffa-Trasci Family.

Ferruccio Baffa Trasci (27 August 1590 – 30 October 1656) was an Italian bishop, theologian and philosopher.

Life

Born Ferrante Marco Antonio Baffa Trasci in one of the most noble and wealthy families of the Arbëreshë world in Bisignano, he was the son of Pietro Antonio Baffa Trasci and Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli. After his teens he moved to Rome and Naples when, as a priest, became one of the most close confessors and confidents of Isabella della Rovere,[1] Princesse of Bisignano, member of the Sanseverino family.

Last years

After many years spent in the Castle Proceno in a voluntary exile, in 1656 he came back to Rome and was created Bishop of Maximianopolis (in partibus infidelium) by Pope Alexander VII. S.E.R. Ferruccio Baffa Trasci died in Rome the same year in the Great bubonic Plague. His bones were buried several years later in Proceno the church of S. Martin.[2]

Works

  • Universam Aristotelis philosophiam
  • Summa Aristotelicha
  • Summa Theologica Dogmatica[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Bonita – Bojani, I della Rovere nell'Italia della corti, Ed. Quattroventi 2002
  2. ^ Giuseppe Tomassetti, Cenno storico sulla vita di S.E. Ferrante Baffa Trasci Illustrissimo Vescovo di Massimianopoli 1590–1656
  3. ^ D. Baffa Trasci Amalfitani di Crucoli, Ferruccio Baffa Trasci-un erudito italoalbanese del XVII secolo ormai dimenticato, Edizioni MIT Cosenza 2008