16th century AD

(138.) Basilio di Leone (Basilio I da Mantova) professed at Polirone in 1489 and died there in 1549. He was abbot of the monastery in 1510-14 as well as 1538 and president of the Congregation of S. Giustina (Cassinese) twelve times. Series monachorum Congregationis Benedictino-Casinensis alias S. Justinae de Padua (Rome: Apud Antonium Fulonium, 1787), x-xi; Bossi, 129.

(139.) Lucrezia purchased Dragoncello near Sermide in 1490. Rezzaghi, 91.

(140.) Luciano degli Ottoni (Luciano da Mantova) professed at Polirone in 1507 and died in 1552. He represented the Congregation of S. Giustina at the Council of Trent. He is documented at Polirone in 1511-14 and 1520-23. His whereabouts in the 1530s and early 1540s are only sketchily known, although he has been placed at Polirone in 1533-34. D'Arco (as in n. 113), vol. 5, fol. 188; Carla Faralli, "Per una biografia di Luciano degli Ottoni," Bellettino della Secieta di Situdi Valdesi 134 (1973): 34-51; Henry Outram Evenett, "Three Benedictine Abbots at the Council of Trent 1545-1547," Studia Monastica 1 (1959): 343-77; and Menegazzo (as in n. 137), 378-79.

(141.) On the contract for the columns, to be published in a future article by the author on the library of Polirone, see Holman, 77-83,472 (doe. 13).

(142.) Luichino, 162, 164.

(143.) ASMil, FPR, SBP, b. 219, no. 65; I secoli di Polirone, vol. 1, 38-39. On Cortese, see Gigliola Fragnito, "II Cardinale Gregorio Cortese (1483?-1548) nella crisi religiosa del cinquecento," Benedictina 30 (1983): 129-71, 417-59; 31 (1984): 79-134.

(144.) Papal bull, July 23, 1538 (see n. 143 above): "cum magno scandalo et murmuratione secularium personar(um) istar(um) partium maxime quia secundum novam designationem hui(usm)o(d)i antiquam necesse est destruere eccl(es)iam."

(145.) On Tedaldo's church, see also BAR ms 99/3, fols. 472r-v; Luchino, 7-8, 10. In a chronicle of S. Andrea, that monastery's former abbot Antonio Nerli (fl. 1380-ca. 1413) asserted that Tedaldo built Polirone; Nerli (as in n. 18), cols. 1073-74. Nerli wrote the chronicle after he was elected abbot of Polirone in 1406. Pietro Torelli, "Antonio Nerli e Bonamente Aliprandi cronisti mantovani," Archivio storico lombardo, 4th ser., 15, anno 38 (1911): 209-10, 218-24. The rebuilding of the church at Polirone by Tedaldo's son Bonifacio was not mentioned by Renaissance historians such as Luchino, although the relevant documents were recorded in an 11th-century manuscript at the monastery and apparently were published in the (now lost) Officium Sancti Symeonis monachi (Venice: Eredi di L. A. Giunta, 1552), attributed to Giovan Battista Folengo. Piva, 1980, 31; Paolo Golinelli, "La 'vita' di S. Simeone monaco," Studi Medievali, 3d ser., 20 (1979): 734-36. The British Museum's copy of the Officium Sancti Symeonis was destroyed during World War II, and another copy has not been located. Paolo Golinelli and Bruno Andreolli, Bibliografia storica polironiana: Opere generali--il modievo (Bologna: Patron, 1983), 128, no. 207.