A CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LIFE OF PACE GIORDANO, THE BISHOP OF TROGIR (1623-1649)

Središnji predmet istraživanja jest Pace Giordano (Pax Jordanus), podrijetlom i rođenjem s talijanskog prostora (rođen u mjestu Valle dei Conti kraj Vicenze oko 1587. godine), obnašatelj časti trogirskoga biskupa od 1623. do smrti 1649. godine. Tragom izvornoga gradiva iz Državnog arhiva u Zadru (Arhiv Trogira: Oporuke), kao i na osnovi postojećih spoznaja historiografi je, raščlanjuju se životni put i djelovanje Pacea Giordana na časti trogirskoga biskupa. Posebni istraživački interes upravljen je na raščlambu Giordanove oporuke iz 1646. godine, čiji su podaci vrijedno vrelo za upoznavanje crkvenih i kulturnih prilika u gradu Trogiru i na prostoru Trogirske biskupije, ali i izravno posvjedočenje povezanosti biskupa Giordana sa sredinom u kojoj je proveo punih 26 godina svoga stvaralački i djelima plodnoga života.The central part of this article is life of Pace Giordano (Pax Jordanus), who was born in Valle de Conty nearby Vicenza (Italy). He was bishop of Trogir from 1623 up to his death in 1649. As a learned doctor of the both laws (cannon and laic), at the beginning of the seventeenth century Giordano acted as an assistant and secretary in the noble Florentine family Aldobrandini. Since his appointment for the bishop of Trogir in 1623, Giordano helped to development of ecclesiastical education, and tried to renew pastoral life in the regions under the Ottoman rule. He also helped to bring relics of St. Sverin from Rome to Trogir (1640). He died in Trogir in 1649, and according to his last will he was buried in the tomb of the bishops of Trogir in the cathedral. His last will, which is kept in the State Archives in Zadar, is a valuable source that witness ecclesiastical and cultural circumstances in contemporary Trogir. Authors are analysing this testament and at the end giving the full transcript