L'arcivescovo otrantino Pietro Antonio Di Capua tra suggestioni luterane e orientamenti ortodossi

In retracing the essential steps of the archdiocese of Otranto from the 1480 massacre at the Council of Trent confirming the excommunication of Martin Luther, among the prelates who took turns in the archdiocese government, deserves particular attention the Neapolitan mons. Pietro Antonio Di Capua (March 22, 1536 - 1579), notoriously considered close to reformists, and active in Neapolitan "spiritual" circles, so as to be accused of heresy, of which the fundamental stages of life and of his ecclesiastical commitment are traced, before in the conciliar sessions and then in the seat of Otranto, where the reforms approved by the council were carried out to implement the Provincial Synod in 1567. This research focuses on this character.