Philippe de Cabassole or Philippe de Cabassoles (1305–1372), the

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Early life

Philippe was educated by the clergy of Cavaillon and was made Canon of the cathedral chapter of Cavaillon on 22 March 1328. He next was promoted to archdeacon on 26 August 1330. He then took a position as provost on 18 September 1331. Philippe was promoted to the

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when he was a

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in 1333 by Pope John XXII.

Middle life

Philip was elected bishop of Cavaillon on 17 August 1334. He attended the Council of Avignon in 1337. Philip became guardian of

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's granddaughter at his death, Queen

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. He became chancellor of Sicily in 1343 and

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of Pope Innocent VI in Dauphiné in 1353 and in Germany in 1358. He was named

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Latin patriarch of Jerusalem on 18 August 1361 and remained as administrator of the see of Cavaillon until 23 September 1366. He became rector of Comtat-Venaissin starting 17 November 1362. Philip was also named administrator of the see of Marseille on 23 September 1366 and was there until 9 December 1368. Philip created a cardinal priest of

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in the ecclesiastical council of 22 September 1368. He was made a cardinal by

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in 1368 and entered the papal curia in Avignon on 4 June 1369. He was also named by Pope Urban V the governor of Avignon and

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during the pope's absence. He opted for the order of cardinal bishops and the

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see of Sabina on 31 May 1370 and also participated in the conclave of the same year to elect

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. Gregory designated Philip papal legate of Tuscany, Campagna and Sabina. He was also

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and

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from 1370 to 1372.

The best friend of Petrarch

Philippe formed a long lasting friendship with Petrarch from 1337 until his death in 1372. Philippe had a villa not far from Avignon in the village of

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suitable to a man of such high

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as that of a prince. Petrarch made a collection of 350 letters he personally wrote called ''Epistolae familiares'' (a.k.a. Familiar Letters). In among these letters in 1346 Petrarch writes what is called ''De vita solitaria'', a treatise composed of two books and dedicated to Philippe de Cabassoles. In Book XXII of Familiar Letters is Petrarch's books of these letters to Philippe which he delivered 20 years after he wrote them. Also in addition to these books of letters he wrote some very special letters that he held out of the set of ''Epistolae familiares'', which was later put into a set of 19 letters called Liber sine nomine. Letters 1 and 12 are letters Petrarch wrote to his friend Phillippe that are in this reserved set of letters "without a name" of the recipient. Petrarch dedicated his work '' De vita solitaria'' to his friend Philip. A dedication to him is in the

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. Historian Wilkens tells of part of a letter Petrarch sent to Philip in 1371 that shows their friendship,

Death and after

Pope Gregory XI sent Philippe to

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and designated him papal legate and governor of Umbria in early 1372. Before his term ended he died on 27 August 1372 and was buried in the Carthusian monastery of Bonpas, near Avignon. Later his body was transferred to the church of

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in 1833. In October 1926, a commemorative plaque was placed ''de l'Evêché'' at Cavaillon in the ruins of his palace.Cook, p. 342

Works

*Life of St. Mary Magdalene (''Libellus hystorialis Marie beatissime Magedelene'') - 1355.

Footnotes

References

* Aldonce, Jacques François Paul de Sade, ''The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch'', vol. 1, London, Vernor & Hood, 1797. * Calthrop Hollway-Calthrop, Henry, ''Petrarch: his life and times'', G.P. Putnam's sons, 1907 * Cook, Sir Theodore Andrea, ''Old Provence,'' Volume 2, C. Scribner's Sons, 1905 * This article incorporates text from the old Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, a publication now in the public domain. * This article incorporates text from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, a publication now in the public domain.

External links

JSTOR - Petrarch's Exul ab Italia by Ernest H. Wilkins; Speculum, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul., 1963), pp. 453-460JSTOR - Philippe de Cabassoles on Petrarch by Ernest H. Wilkins; Speculum, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan., 1960), pp. 69-77
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