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Marsilius of Padua (
Italian Marsilio or
Marsiglio da Padova; c.
1275 – c.
1342) was a late-Medieval Italian scholar.
Born at
Padua, Marsilius began studying medicine in his native country of Italy. He practiced various professions including the life of a soldier, and went to
Paris in
1311. The reputation which he'd gained in the physical sciences soon caused him to be raised to the position of rector of the
university (for the first term of the year
1313). While still practicing medicine he composed the famous
Defensor pacis (
1324), one of the most extraordinary political and religious works which appeared during the
Fourteenth century. A violent struggle had just broken out between
Pope John XXII and
Louis (Ludwig) IV the Bavarian, the imperial candidate at that time, and the latter, on being excommunicated and called upon to give up the empire, only replied to the pope’s threats with fresh provocations. Marsilius of Padua and
John of Jandun, though they'd both reason to be grateful for the benefits of John XXII, chose this moment to depart France for the German court. Marsilius - writing alone, not with John, as once thought - set out to demonstrate, by arguments from reason [DictioI] and from authority [DictioII] the independence of the Empire from the papacy, and the emptiness of the prerogatives “usurped” by the sovereign pontiffs—a demonstration naturally calculated to give him a claim on the gratitude of the German sovereign.
When in
1326 Louis IV saw the arrival in
Nuremberg of the book dedicated to him, startled by the boldness of its political and religious theories, he was at first inclined to it as
heretical. He soon changed his mind, however, and, admitting Marsilius and John to the circle of his intimates, loaded them with favours. John XXII, for his part, excommunicated Louis IV on
April 3 1327. Having become one of the chief inspirer's of the imperial policy, Marsilius accompanied Louis IV to Italy, where he preached or circulated written attacks against the pope, especially at
Milan, and where he came within the sight of the realization of his wildest dreams. To see a king of the Romans crowned emperor at Rome, not by the pope, but by those who claimed to be the delegates of the people (
January 17,
1328), to see John XXII deposed by the head of the Empire (
April 18), and a mendicant friar, Pietro de Corbara, raised by an imperial decree to the throne of St Peter (as
Antipope Nicholas V) after a "popular" election (
May 12), all this was seemed an application of principles laid down in the
Defensor pacis. Marsilius, appointed imperial vicar, persecuted the clergy who had remained faithful to John XXII. In recompense for his services, he seems to have been appointed
archbishop of Milan (althouhgh still a layman), while John of Jandun obtained from Louis IV the
bishopric of Ferrara.
Marsilius of Padua also composed a treatise
De translatione [Romani] imperii , which is merely a rearrangement of a work of Landolfo Colonna,
De jurisdictione imperatoris in causa matrimoniali, intended to prove the exclusive jurisdiction of the emperor in matrimonial affairs, or rather, to justify the intervention of Louis of Bavaria, who, in the interests of his policy, had just annulled the marriage of the son of the king of Bohemia and the countess of Tyrol. But, above all in the
Defensor minor, Marsilius completed and elaborated on different points in the doctrine laid down in the
Defensor pacis. He dealt here with problems concerning ecclesiastical jurisdiction, penances, indulgences, crusades and pilgrimages, vows, excommunication, the general church council, marriage and divorce, the unity with the Greeks. Here his challenging theory still more clearly leads up to a proclamation of the imperial supremacy.
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