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ZABARELLA, dza''ba-rell'a, FRANCESCO: Cardinal, jurisprudent, and diplomatist; b. at Padua in 1360 (not 1339); d. at Constance (?) Sept. 26, 1417. He came of the Paduan patrician family of Sabarini or Sabarelli, began his study of law in Bologna under the canonist John of Lignano, and received his degree of licentiate in 1383. He continued his studies at Florence, where he took his doctorate in 1385, and delivered lectures which were well attended; he took orders and served also as vicar of Bishop Acciajola, and was the logical successor to the bishopric when Acciajola resigned had it not been for the pope's opposition. In 1390 he returned to his own city and labored there for twenty years as teacher and author, in 1398 becoming archpresbyter at the cathedral. After the subjection of Padua to Venice he became prominent in diplomatic ways, and at the Council of Pisa (1409) he was counsel to the Venetian embassy. By John XXIII. he was made bishop of Florence and then cardinal with the title S. Cosma a Damiano. He was henceforth much in the public eye. He treated with King Sigismund with reference to the place and date of assembling of the Council of Florence and took part in the same; after John XXIII. (q.v.) fled from the council, Zabarella remained as his representative, and was deputed to communicate the council's decision. He was active also in the proceedings against Benedict XIII. (q.v.), and took part in those against Huss and Jerome of Prague (qq.v.), in which he sought to secure mild action.

His writings are partly philosophical and philological, as De felicitate (written c. 1398, printed Padua, 1655); De arte metriea; and De natura rerum diversarum; and the theological tract De corpore Christi. But the most of his works are on ecclesiastical law: Lectura super Clementinis (1471); Commentaries in libros decretalium (1502); Tractatus de unions ecclesia; De schismatibus authoritate imperatoris tollendis. A large number of letters remain in manuscript in the Vienna library; two letters to Zabasella from Coluccio Salutato are in Fonti per la stories d'Italia, xvii (1896), 408 sqq., 456 sqq.

(K. Benrath.)

Bibliography: Not to be overlooked is the literature on the Council of Constance, particularly the work of Van der Hardt, i. 537 sqq. Consult further: A. Kneer, Kardinal Zabarella. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des grosser abend Idndischen Schismas, Münster, 1891; J. P. Tomasmi, Il ludrium virorum dogia, pp. 3-10, Padua, 1630; B. Bru dersenius, De augusta regulque origine . . familice Za bardla, ib. 1670; A. Gloria, Monumenti della univ. di Padova, ib. 1888; A. Finke, Acta concitii Constanciensis, vol. i., Münster, 1896; and the dissertation of Keppler, Die Politik des Kardinalskollepiums in Konstanz, ib. 1899;

there is a very full and excellent treatment, from the Roman standpoint, in KL, iii. 1845-50; cf. also Creighton, Papacy, i. 287, 331 sqq., ii. 40-44, 74, 118.