Compare the narrative in the Liber pontificum (a partisan papal statement), which makes no mention of Reggio, unless perhaps it is included in the 'entire duchy of Ferrara'. Augustin Theiner (1861). Codex diplomaticus dominii temporalis S. Sedis (in Latin) (Tome premier ed.). Rome: Imprimerie du Vatican. p. 1.
Ficarelli was born in Reggio in 1780. He studied locally, and on ordination became a high school teacher of the Liberal Arts. He was named a Canon of the Cathedral Chapter in 1819, and Vicar General in 1820. At the death of Bishop d'Este, he was elected Vicar Capitular, to govern the diocese during the sede vacante. He was presented to the diocese of Reggio by Duke Francesco IV, and preconised (approved) by Pope Pius VII on 19 April 1822. He was consecrated in Rome by Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca on 21 April. He was installed in the cathedral on 19 May. He died on 5 June 1825, at the age of only forty-five. Enrico Manzini (1878). Memorie storiche dei reggiani più illustri nelle scienze, nelle lettere e nelle arti (in Italian). Reggio: Degani e Gasparini. pp. 172–177. Saccani, pp. 149-150. Ritzler-Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 320.
Panciroli. p. 173. Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri (1894). La Zecca di reggio nell'Emilia (in Italian). Milano: Tip. L.F. Cogliati. pp. 10–13.
J.L.A. Huillard-Bréholles (1860). Historia diplomatica Friderici Secundi (in Latin). Vol. Tomus VI. Pars i. Paris: Plon fratres. p. 37. Panciroli, Storia della città di Reggio I, pp. 180-182.
Élie Berger, ed. (1884). Les Registres d'Innocent IV (in Latin). Vol. Tome premier. Paris: Fontemoing. pp. 20, no. 92.
Local hagiographical tradition insists that Prosper was Prosper of Aquitaine. But this identification belongs to the Life, composed in the 8th century (La citata Vita è molto sospetta.). There are items in the story which lead back to Africa and to Spain, neither of which places was ever seen by Prosper of Aquitaine. A bishop Prosper is said to have been consecrated in Rome by the pope, but in the 5th century, bishops of Reggio were elected by the clergy and people and consecrated by the Archbishop of Milan. Lanzoni distinguishes three separate Prospers. Germain Morin, "Saint Prosper de Reggio. Consultation historique et liturgique," in: Revue bénédictine (in French). Vol. 12. Belgique: Abbaye de Maredsous. 1895. pp. 241–257. Lanzoni, pp. 795-797.
Maltraversi was a native of Padua (or Vicenza), and a Canon in the cathedral of Padua. He made his formal entry into Reggio on 1 June 1211. He was also Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Vicenza from 1212 to 1219. He was much praised by the Franciscan chronicler Salimbene de Adam of Parma, and several times served as ambassador to Emperor Frederick II, in 1231, 1232, and 1237. He died at Melfi in Apulia, at the Court of Frederick II. He was dead by 24 August 1243, when Pope Innocent IV ordered an inventory of his goods. Gams, p. 760, column 2. Saccani, pp. 74-79. Eubel, I, p. 417, note 1. I Compagni di Francesco e la prima generazione minoritica: atti del XIX convegno internazionale, Assisi, 17-19 ottobre 1991 (in Italian). Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull' Alto Medioevo. 1992. p. 186.
Rangoni was the son of Count Alessandro Rangoni of Modena. He had been a Privy Chamberlain of Pope Gregory XIII. He was appointed bishop of Reggio in the consistory of 16 December 1592, and took possession of the diocese on 9 January 1593. On 20 October 1598 he was named papal Nuncio to Poland, a post he held until 16 September 1606. He held diocesan synods in 1595, 1597, and 1613. He died on 2 September 1621. Girolamo Tiraboschi (1783). Biblioteca modenese (in Italian). Vol. Tomo IV. Panciroli-Sadoleto. Modena: Società tipografica. p. 281. Saccani, pp. 129-132. Eubel, III, p. 284. Gauchat, p. 294 with note 2.
Born in Fosciandora nella Carfagnana (in the Archdeaconate of Modena) in 1791, Raffaelli had been professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Modena. He was transferred from the diocese of Carpi, where he had been bishop from 1839 to 1849, by Pope Pius IX at a consistory held in exile in Gaeta on 20 April 1849. He died on 23 July 1866. Gaetano Moroni, ed. (1852). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica (in Italian). Vol. LVII (57). Venice: Tipografia Emiliana. p. 47. Annuario Pontifico (Roma: Cracas 1864), p. 200. Gams, pp. 759 column 1; 761 column 1.
Manicardi was born in Rubiera (diocese of Reggio) in 1825. He had been Rector and teacher of logic, metaphysics, and ethics at the Seminario di Finale. He was censor of books in the diocese of Modena. He was then Bishop of Borgo San Donnino (Faenza) (19 September 1879), and was transferred to the diocese of Reggio by Pope Leo XIII on 7 June 1886. La gerarchia cattolica e la famiglia pontificia per l'anno 1897 (in Italian). Roma: Tipografia Vaticana. 1896. p. 294.
J. D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XXI (Venice: A. Zatta 1776), pp. 569-572. C. J. Hefele, Histoire des Conciles Tome VII (Paris: Adrien Le Clere 1872), p. 288. (in French)
