Members of the Barbo Family as Patrons of the Reformation in the Pazin County Cover Image

Članovi obitelji Barbo kao zaštitnici reformacije u Pazinskoj knežiji
Members of the Barbo Family as Patrons of the Reformation in the Pazin County

Author(s): Maja Ćutić Gorup
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, 16th Century
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Pazin County; Barbo family; Urach printing house; Habsburg Counterreformation; Early Modern Period;

Summary/Abstract: Based on the testimony of Pietro Manelfi, leader of the Italian Anabaptists, as well as Grison’s and Valier’s apostolic visitations, correspondence between the workers and collaborators of the Urach printing house, and the relationship between Claudio Sosomeno, bishop of Pula, and Antonio Zara, bishop of Pićan on the one side, and the Apostolic See on the other, the author has investigated the Protestant activities of some members of the Barbo family and the extent to which they contributed to the spread of the Reformation in the Pazin County. The paper also focuses systematically on the history of the Barbo family, lords of Kožljak and Paz, during the Reformation period. The author has identified some of the reasons why the Reformation was so successful in the Pazin County and why some members of the Barbo family could retain their property despite the fact that they had been denounced to the Austrian administration as “heretics.” An analysis of the relevant historical sources has shown that there were tightly connected Protestant circles in Kožljak and Paz. Members of the Barbo family distributed Protestant books, offered shelter to the Protestants, and tended to bring up their children in the new religious spirit. The paper thus confirms the hypothesis that the Barbo family adopted and spread the Protestant faith in the Pazin County.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 71-97
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Croatian