Antonio Bonombra (?-1480)

BONOMBRA (Bonaumbra, Bonumbra, Bonumbre), Antonio. - He was probably born in the region of Savona, in the first half of the century. XV. He entered the Augustinian convent of Oulx (Oulx), became dean of St. And John S. Salvatore Costa Vado (dependent on the convent church), as shown by a power of attorney he signed on Jan. 30. 1454 in favor of a resident priest in Genoa, he still bears this title in a document dated Sept. 7. 1459, which appears as a witness.

In 1461 in as apostolic notary issued on behalf of Leonardo de Fornari Campofregoso vicar of Paul, Archbishop of Genoa, monitory letters of excommunication against those who arbitrarily detenesse sums of money belonging to the family Fieschi. The following year, the 9ottobre, Campofregoso obtained from the Hospital Chaplaincy S. Biagio Rivarolo (near Genoa). According to the Eubel (Hierarchia catholica, II, Monasteries, 1914, p. 78) also had the title of archpriest of Rhodes.

On May 4, 1467, on a proposal by Cardinal Alain de Coet, B. Paul was appointed by Bishop of Acci in Corsica, the vacant since 1466, since when G. Andrea Buss had been transferred to the bishopric of Aleria.

The Diocese of Accio, although very poor and of little importance, was then the subject of conflicting claims, and B. faced a situation especially because of the intricate claims of Natalino's Failure, also known as Fra 'Antonio: these canonically elected Bishop of Acci in November 1450, but deposed and excommunicated by the pope the following year for not paying the servitium spelling to Apostolic Camera, however, had continued to claim the title and to exercise the episcopal functions improperly, whether at the time of Bussi is the beginning of the bishopric of B., strong even see the ruling of the Biguglia who had sided with him. But against this rival B. acted with great firmness.

During his episcopate B. received a series of posts by Paul II. In December 1467, together with the Bishop of Nebbi, was appointed to settle a dispute between the priest Abraham Belgodere and the monastery of St. Venerio Tino (Portovenere), who owned land in the area. As apostolic delegate, therefore, B. repeatedly summoned the parties to his presence, but for the failure of Abraham compariziane the dispute dragged on until June 1458 without reaching a settlement.

In 1469 Paul II was responsible for monitoring the spread of a heretical movement in the island in August 1470 and appointed him general collector of tithes for the whole of Corsica.

On 20 September the same year he was again appointed by the pope as arbiter and judge in a dispute between the bishop of Mariana and Cardinal Francesco della Rovere. With his compatriot, he had to establish some significant ties, if the cardinal the following year became Pope Sixtus IV called him to Rome on B. that appears between the members of his family.

The most significant episode in the life Delbo. remains the task entrusted to accompany, with the title of legate a latere and apostolic nuncio, Princess Zoe (Sophia) Palaeologus - which, on 1 June 1472, had celebrated their wedding by proxy at the Vatican with the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III the Great - as she travels to Moscow. In such a marriage, the pope had placed hopes in the sense of a rapprochement of the Orthodox Church in Rome. The mission should also extend to the regions of Kaffa and Pomerania.

On June 20, B. received 600 ducats for the expenses of the mission and its aftermath, in which there was a number of Italians. The procession left Rome on 26giugno, and the transport route (reconstructed by both the pope and letters of recommendation from local chronicles notations registrants impressions of wonder and curiosity about the incident) was marked by the stages of Siena, Bologna, Vicenza, Nuremberg, Lübeck, Revel (Tallinn) and Pskov. Even here, however, that just entered Russian territory, they began linked to the difficulties: his refusal to venerate the icon to the way the Eastern aroused hostility in fact, and then arrived at the gates of Moscow, he was able to enter the city with the parade (the November 12) only by accepting the condition of not wearing the insignia solemnly that his title implies.

After attending the wedding blessing ceremony in Moscow celebrated by Metropolitan Philip, B.extend his stay at the court of Ivan III until January 1473. There are about notations on the one hand, the Venetian sources, who accuse suspicious perfidious influence on the Tsar of the papal legate, Genoa, Venice against the rival (P. Pierling, A vénitien à Moscou au XVS ., in Revue des questions historiques, XLVII [1890], pp. 600 sn 3), and, secondly, from Russian sources that accentuate the naturally religious polemic to the left of Rome (always designated as "Cardinal Antonio", while never B. had the dignity of Cardinal), which gives an unarmed inability to support his views against the dialectics of terse Orthodox theologians. We lack a relationship instead of B. on the same mission, which did not correspond in any case the Roman expectations, as the same Paleologo went to the practice of Orthodoxy.

The departure of B. from Moscow, with rich gifts, took place Jan. 26. On the return journey he passed through the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where he was received and made contact with all the honors of: United Russia in Rome and Poland.

It seems that the B. had other important positions by Sixtus IV. We find yet appointed a 6 weeks.1479, when Pope commits Accia archdeacon of the church of the decision in a matter pending between the B. and the rector of the church of S. Quilico of Rostino. He died before April 14 1480 (date of appointment of his successor in the diocese of Accio, Bartholomew Pannoli), probably in Corsica, certainly far from Rome.

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