Francesco Panigarola (born at Milan, 6 February 1548; died at Asti, 31 May 1594) was an Italian Franciscan preacher and controversialist, and Bishop of Asti. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio Asti is a city and Comune in the Piemonte or Piedmont region, in north-western Italy, about 55 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic
Life
As a student of law at Pavia and Bologna he led a dissipated life; he then entered the Order of Friars Minor at Florence, 15 March, 1567. Pavia (pronounced Pavìa,) the ancient Ticinum, is a town and Comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy At the age of twenty-three he was sent to Rome, where his sermons attracted much attention.
Pope Pius V had him sent to Paris where for two years he studied the Church Fathers and the Councils, Greek and Hebrew. Pope The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church Returning to Italy he preached during thirteen years in the principal towns. He converted many Calvinists in France and Savoy; at Naples there was collected, through one of his sermons, enough money to build a hospital for incurables. He also assisted in the construction of the Italian church of Antwerp, and of the Franciscan buildings at Genoa, Venice, Milan, and Turin.
In 1579 Panigarola attended, as custos of his province, the general chapter at Paris. Custos means a superior or an official in the Franciscan Order. Finally in 1586 Pope Sixtus V appointed him titular Bishop and Coadjutor of Ferrara, whence in 1587 he was transferred to the See of Asti. Pope Sixtus V ( December 13, 1521 &ndash August 27, 1590) born Felice Peretti di Montalto, was Pope from 1585 to 1590 Shortly after he was sent to France as assistant to the papal legate, Cardinal Henry Cajetan. A Papal Legate – from the Latin authentic Roman title Legatus – is a personal representative of the Pope to Foreign nations or to some part of the Catholic When Henry IV of France had renounced Calvinism, the bishop returned to Asti. Henry IV (Henri IV ( 13 December 1553 &ndash 14 May 1610) ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and as Henry III
Works
Melchiorri] (Annales Min. cont. XXIII ad a. 1594, n. 76-81) gives the most complete catalogue of Panigarola's works. The most important are:
- "Il Compendio degli Annali ecclesiastici del Padre Cesare Baronio", Rome, 1590; 2nd ed. , Venice, 1593, comprises only the first volume of Baronius.
- "B. Petri Apostolorum Principis Gesta . . . in rapsodiæ, quam catenam appellant, speciem disposita", Asti, 1591.
- "Lettioni sopra dogmi, dette Calviniche", Venice, 1584. This work, translated into Latin (Milan, 1594), was attacked by Giacomo Picenino in "Apologia per i Riformatori e per la Religione Riformata contro le Invettive di F. Panigarola e P. Segneri ", Coira, 1706.
- "Il Predicatore di F. Francesco Panigarola . . . overo Parafrase, comento e discorsi intorno al libro dell' Elocutione di Demetrio Falerco . . . ", Venice, 1609.
He also wrote commentaries (Psalms, Jeremias etc. ) and many collections of sermons, published in Italian and Latin.
References
- Luke Wadding, Scriptores Ord. Luke Wadding ( 16 October 1588 - 18 November 1657) Irish Franciscan friar and Historian, Life Wadding Min. (Rome, 1806), 87-89 (Rome, 1906), 88-90;
- Sbaralea, Supplementum ad Script. Giovanni or Gian Giacinto Sbaraglia (1687-1764 otherwise Joannes Hyacinthus Sbaralea, was a historian of the Franciscan Order. (Rome, 1806), 176-78, (Rome, 1908), 292-94;
- Rodulphius Tossinianensis, Historiarum Seraphicae Religionis libri tres (Venice, 1586), fol. 317;
- Ughelli, Italia Sacra, IV (2nd ed. Ughelli is a town in Delta State, Nigeria. The city of Ughelli has an 'Ovie' which is the traditional ruler , Venice, 1719), 401-02;
- Boatteri, Serie cronologico-storica de' Vescovi della Chiesa d'Asti (Asti, 1807), 110-14;
- Tiraboschi, Storia della Letteratura italiana, VII (Rome, 1785), iii, 424-29; VII (Rome, 1784), i, 366;
- Melchiorri, Annales Minorum Wadd. Girolamo Tiraboschi ( December 8, 1731 - June 3, 1794) was an Italian literary critic the first historian of Italian literature. cont. , XXIII (Ancona, 1859), 157-64, ad an. 1594, n. 57-84;
- Marcellino da Civezza, Storia Universale delle Missioni Francescane, VII (Prato, 1883), i, 436-49.
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