- Joseph Miseratione Divina Tituli Sancti Laurentii in Lucina S.R. E. Prim. Presb. Card. Puteobonellus, S. Mediol. Eccl. Archiepiscopus

Lucina, Italy, Saint Lucina / Sancti Laurentii, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. In essence, a scarce item indeed, a decree of Cardinal Giuseppe Pozzobonelli which certifies that Lorenzo Cesana, son of Giovanni, born in Olginate (in the Diocese of Milan) on 11 August 1747, is contemplating a marriage that would be contracted outside the Diocese of Milan (aided in translation by Dr. Francesca Nepori). A softpaper broadside roughly the size of a restaurant menu when folded in half, 17 3/4" x 13 3/4", respectively, folded into eighteen panels. Pretty to look at. Text in Italian but mostly Latin. Church's red-stamped insignia in top-middle panel of bottom half, overlapping a fold. Printed, it reads, "Joseph Miseratione Divina Tituli Sancti Laurentii in Lucina S.R.E. Prim. Presb. Card. PUTEOBONELLUS, S. Mediol. Eccl. Archiepiscopus." Four lines follow of fine hand-penned inscription difficult to make out but maybe something like the remarks of a Notary Public (dated 2, January 1780), then "Universis, &c. Fidem facimus, & attestamur, sicuti ex informationibus jussu nostro judicialiter sumptis ad formam Instructionis Sacrae, Supremaeque Congregationis S. Officii, constitit, & constat," which translates as "Universal, &c. We make faith, and attest, as it has been and is established from the information judicially taken at our command in the form of the Sacred Instruction, and of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office." Another eight lines of fine penned remarks follow, with tabbed line marks at left. Then at bottom appears, "&c. Dat. Mediolani ex Palatio Archiepiscopali die . . . [filled in] an. 17 Septuagesimi," which translates as "&c. He gives Milan from the Archbishop's Palace on . . [filled in] an. 17 Seventy [1770]. Signed at middle bottom, then signed again at bottom corner. On rear of the broadside is written in pen five additional lines, seemingly having been sent to the Diocesi di Milano, Italy, and dated 1779. The Wikipedia entry about the Church says that "The Minor Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina (Italian: Basilica Minore di San Lorenzo in Lucina or simply Italian: San Lorenzo in Lucina; Latin: S. Laurentii in Lucina) is a Roman Catholic parish, titular church, and minor basilica in central Rome, Italy. The basilica is located in Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina in the Rione Colonna, about two blocks behind the Palazzo Montecitorio, proximate to the Via del Corso." The entry for the church on Catholic-Hierarchy dot org/diocese/dl105 dot html provides a lengthy genealogy beginning in 1158 of the initial appointment (Alberto de Morra) and subsequent ordinaries, to 2010. The "Joseph" of the decree was Giuseppe Pozzobonelli (11 August 1696 – 27 April 1783); his Wikipedia entry (translated from the original Italian) notes that he was "an Italian cardinal, known for his diplomatic skill in relations between the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy See . . . His eight decades of regency over the archdiocese of Milan made him one of the greatest ecclesiastical figures in eighteenth-century Milan, to the point that his work was compared by many of his contemporaries to that of his illustrious predecessors on the Milanese see such as St. Charles and Frederick Borromeo, in particular in the constancy of pastoral visits and in the works of government and reform" (Wikipedia). All in, a scarce item connecting a diocese and Catholic Church hierarchy to local authorities and a desire to marry.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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