Giuseppe Ciantes Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Giuseppe Ciantes
Bishop of Marsico Nuovo
Church:Catholic Church
Diocese:Diocese of Marsico Nuovo
Term:1640–1656
Predecessor:Timoteo Castelli
Successor:Angelo Pineri
Consecration:19 March 1640
Consecrated By:Marcantonio Franciotti
Birth Date:1602
Death Date:24 February 1670 (age 68)
Death Place:Marsico Nuovo, Italy

Giuseppe Ciantes, O.P. (1602–1670) was a Roman Catholic prelate, hebraist and theologian[1] who served as Bishop of Marsico Nuovo (1640–1656).[2]

Biography

Giuseppe Ciantes was born in Rome, Italy in 1602 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.[3] He completed his studies at the Roman studium of the Dominican Order at Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which later developed into the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and was professor of theology and philosophy there before 1640. He devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, and had the opportunity of applying his knowledge of Hebrew for the conversion of the Jews, to whom Urban VIII had appointed him preacher in Rome. On 5 March 1640, he was appointed Bishop of Marsico Nuovo in the Kingdom of Naples. On 19 March 1640, he was consecrated bishop by Marcantonio Franciotti, Bishop of Lucca, with Lelio Falconieri, Titular Archbishop of Thebae, and Giovanni Battista Altieri (seniore), Bishop Emeritus of Camerino, serving as co-consecrators. He distinguished himself by the good example which he set in his diocese. In January 1656 he resigned the episcopal functions to retire to the convent of Minerva. In 1657 Ciantes published a "monumental bilingual edition of the first three Parts of Thomas Aquinas' Summa contra Gentiles, which includes the original Latin text and a Hebrew translation prepared by Ciantes, assisted by Jewish apostates, the Summa divi Thomae Aquinatis ordinis praedicatorum Contra Gentiles quam Hebraice eloquitur…. Until the present this remains the only significant translation of a major Latin scholastic work in modern Hebrew."[4] He died in the convent of Minerva on 24 February 1670.

Works

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

External links and additional sources

Notes and References

  1. Book: Matt Goldish. Karl A. Kottman. Richard Henry Popkin. James E. Force. 2. Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: Catholic Millenarianism: From Savonarola to the Abbé Grégoire. 28 May 2019. 2001. Springer Science & Business Media. 71–78. 978-9048156658. D. J. Fitzgerald . A Seventeenth Century Hebrew Translation of Saint Thomas . 10.1007/978-94-017-2280-3_6.
  2. Book: HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Gauchat. Patritius (Patrice). 233. 1935. Libraria Regensbergiana. Münster. (in Latin)
  3. Web site: Cheney . David M.. Bishop Giuseppe Ciantes, O.P. . Catholic-Hierarchy.org. June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
  4. "Kabbalah and Conversion: Caramuel and Ciantes on Kabbalah as a Means for the Conversion of the Jews", by Yossef Schwartz, in Un'altra modernità. Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1606-1682): enciclopedia e probabilismo, eds. Daniele Sabaino and Paolo C. Pissavino (Pisa: Edizioni EPS 2012): 175-187, 176-7, https://www.academia.edu/2353870/Kabbalah_and_Conversion_Caramuel_and_Ciantes_on_Kabbalah_as_a_Means_for_the_Conversion_of_the_Jews Accessed 16 March 2012. See Summa divi Thomae Aquinatis ordinis praedicatorum Contra Gentiles quam Hebraicè eloquitur Iosephus Ciantes Romanus Episcopus Marsicensis ex eodem Ordine assumptus, ex typographia Iacobi Phaei Andreae filii, Romae 1657.