Isidoro Chiari

Most Reverend

Isidoro Chiari
Bishop of Foligno
Giuseppe Teosa (attr.), Ritratto di Isidoro Clario, Chiari, sacrestia della Collegiata
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Foligno
In office1547-1555
PredecessorBlosio Palladio
SuccessorSebastiano Portico
Previous post(s)Abbot of S. Maria (Cesena) (1540-1547)
Orders
Consecration17 April 1547
by Giovanni Barba, O.S.A.
Personal details
Born
Taddeo Cucchi

1495
Died18 March 1555 (aged 59–60)
Foligno, Italy

Isidoro Chiari, or Isidoro Clario or Isidoro da Chiari,[1] perhaps better known by his Latin name Isidorus Clarius and sometimes called Brixianus after the land of his birth, was a founding father of the Council of Trent[2] and an editor of an edition of the Vulgate.[3][4]

  1. ^ "ISIDORO da Chiari in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  2. ^ R. Gerard Hobbs, "Is Abbot Isidore also among the prophets?: Protestant influences upon the annotated Bible of Isidore Clarius", in: Renaissance and Reformation vol. 17, no. 1 (1973), pp. 53-71.
  3. ^ "Preface". The King James Bible. 1769. • 16 If they say, it was one Pope's private opinion, and that he consulted only himself; then we are able to go further with them, and to aver, that more of their chief men of all sorts, even their own Trent champions, Paiva and Vega, and their own inquisitors, Hieronymus ab Oleastro, and their own bishop Isodorus Clarius, and their own cardinal Thomas à Vio Caietan, do either make new translations themselves, or follow new ones of other men's making, or note the vulgar interpreter for halting, none of them fear to dissent from him, nor yet to except against him.
  4. ^ Townley, James (1821). "Sixteenth century biblical literature". Illustrations of Biblical Literature: Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Century : Including Biographical Notices of Translators, and Other Eminent Biblical Scholars. Vol. 2. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. p. 488.