Franco Ferrari (theologian)

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Franco Ferrari (* 1635 , † 1711 in Milan ) was an Italian Cistercian , abbot, theologian, librarian and scholar.

life and work

Ferrari entered the Cistercian monastery Chiaravalle Milanese and made his profession in 1652 . Then he studied in the monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Rome) with Ilarione Rancati , whom he served as secretary from 1659. On his death (1663) he took over the important Biblioteca Sessoriana as librarian . 1671 he was selected by Pope Clement X to the adviser to the Congregation of the Index ordered. Later he was abbot of the monastery of San Giovanni Battista in Caravaggio (Lombardy) . He died in the monastery of Sant'Ambrogio (Milan) . The Ferrari library catalog was published in 1980. Since then, further works on the Sessoriana and its founders have appeared.

literature

  • Vita del pd Ilarione Rancati milanese dell'Ordine Cistercense scritta dal pd Angelo Fumagalli (1728–1804) monaco dello stesso Ordine , Brescia, Bossini, 1762 (passim).
  • Marco Palma, Sessoriana. Materiali per la storia dei manoscritti appartenuti alla biblioteca romana di S. Croce in Gerusalemme , Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1980.
  • Viviana Jemolo and Marco Palma, Sessoriani dispersi. Contributo all'identificazione di codici provenienti della biblioteca romana di S. Croce in Gerusalemme , Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1984.
  • Viviana Jemolo, Marco Palma, Lucia Merolla and Franca Trasselli, Bibliografia dei manoscritti sessoriani , Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1987.
  • Franca Trasselli, Manoscritti della Biblioteca Sessoriana di Roma. Segnature, inventari, cataloghi , 2 vols., Casamari, Edizioni Casamari, 2011 (contains a history of the library).

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personal data
SURNAME Ferrari, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Cistercian, abbot, theologian, librarian and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1635
DATE OF DEATH 1711
Place of death Milan