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At the foothills of the Apennines north of Florence in the fertile valley of the Ombrone, a tributary of the Arno, lies the city of Pistoia, seat of an ancient diocese. In the eighteenth century this diocese was known as Pistoia and Prato from the fact that the city of Prato had from 1625 to 1653 been the see of a separate diocese. This attempt at dismembering the diocese of Pistoia had resulted in the establishment of two cathedrals for one diocese. When Ricci became Bishop he offered to resign half his territory in order to form two separate dioceses, but nothing came of the idea.1
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© 1969 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Bolton, C.A. (1969). Ricci as Bishop of Pistoia and Prato. In: Church Reform in 18th Century Italy. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3365-7_2
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