Goričan Mihael Rabatta, avtor potopisa Iter sancti sepulcri.
Michele Rabatta went to the Holy Sepulchre with his friend Morando Porcia in 1396 and left a chronicle of their journey, which is preserved in the State Archives in Gorizia (Archivio di Stato di Gorizia). The transcription of his travelogue Iter sancti sepulcri was published in 2007 in Pordenone by...
| Publicado en: | Clotho Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 11 - 26 |
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University of Ljubljana, Faculty of the Arts
2024
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| Sumario: | Michele Rabatta went to the Holy Sepulchre with his friend Morando Porcia in 1396 and left a chronicle of their journey, which is preserved in the State Archives in Gorizia (Archivio di Stato di Gorizia). The transcription of his travelogue Iter sancti sepulcri was published in 2007 in Pordenone by the Accademia San Marco. The travel diary describes a journey that lasted three months, from 27 August to 28 November 1396. Drawings and sketches of some of the places have been preserved. The text draws particular attention to the indulgences that were awarded to pilgrims visiting Jerusalem and other biblical sites. Michele Rabatta served the Carrara lords of Padua as a soldier and diplomat from the early 1370s, remaining loyal to them until the fall of Padua to the Venetian Republic in 1405. He was known in diplomatic circles not only in the northern Italian area but also, and above all, at the royal court of Hungary. His diplomatic skills were in demand both by the Patriarchs of Aquileia in Friuli and by the Counts of Gorizia. Michele's father, Antonio, came to Gorizia from Tuscany. The family got its name after the village of Rabatta near Borgo San Lorenzo. The late medieval trilingual Gorizian environment in which Michele grew up gave him knowledge also of Slovene and German. Shortly after he arrived from the Holy Land, Michele received Dornberk Castle as a fief from the Counts of Gorizia. Dornberk Castle thus became the core of the Rabatta family's estate in the county of Gorizia until the family's extinction in 1794. In March 1398, Michele and his brother Giovanni, who was the governor of Henry IV, Count of Gorizia, obtained Pope Boniface IX's permission to build the Church of the Holy Spirit below Gorizia Castle. A third brother, Pietro, the parish priest of Solkan-Gorizia, was also indirectly involved. The Rabattas were therefore a prestigious family in Gorizia in their time. Mihael Rabatta se je s svojim prijateljem Morandom Porcio odpravil k Božjemu grobu leta 1396 in zapustil kroniko potovanja, ki jo hrani Državni arhiv v Gorici. Iter sancti sepulcri je v prepisu leta 2007 v Pordenonu objavila Accademia San Marco. Dnevnik opisuje potovanje, ki je trajalo tri mesece, od 27. avgusta do 28. novembra leta 1396. Ohranile so se tudi risbe in skice nekaterih krajev. Posebna pozornost je bila namenjena odpustkom, ki so jih romarji prejeli ob obisku Jeruzalema in drugih svetopisemskih krajev. Mihael Rabatta je kot vojak in diplomat od začetka sedemdesetih let 14. stoletja služil padovanskim gospodom Carrara in jim ostal zvest do padca Padove pod oblast Beneške republike leta 1405. V poslanskih krogih ni bil znan le v severnoitalijanskem prostoru, pač pa tudi v prvi vrsti na ogrskem kraljevem dvoru. Po njegovih diplomatskih veščinah so povpraševali tako oglejski patriarhi v Furlaniji kot grofje Goriški. Mihaelov oče Anton je v Gorico prišel iz Toskane. Rodbina je nosila ime po vasi Rabatta pri Borgu San Lorenzo. Poznosrednjeveško trojezično goriško okolje, v katerem je Mihael odraščal, je botrovalo njegovemu poznavanju tudi slovenskega in nemškega jezika. Kmalu po prihodu iz Svete dežele je Mihael od goriških grofov prejel v fevd grad Dornberk. Dornberški grad je tako postal jedro posesti družine Rabatta na Goriškem do izumrtja rodbine leta 1794. Marca 1398 je Mihael skupaj z bratom Ivanom, ki je bil glavar goriškega grofa Henrika IV., od papeža Bonifacija IX. izposloval dovoljenje za gradnjo cerkve sv. Duha pod goriškim gradom. Pri postavitvi je bil posredno udeležen še tretji brat, solkansko-goriški župnik Peter, kar priča o prestižu družine Rabatta v tedanji Gorici. |
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