Giovanni Battista Scanaroli

Bishop Scanaroli

Giovanni Battista Scanaroli (* 1579 in Modena ; † September 10, 1664 ) was an Italian Catholic bishop .

biography

On October 7, 1630 he was ordained titular bishop of Sidon .

For 20 years, Monsignor Scanaroli was prelate of the Arch-Brotherhood of Saint San Girolamo della Carità , whose task it was to provide physical and spiritual aid to the prisoners of Rome. He was the author of the extensive work De visitatione carceratorum that anticipates the teachings by more than a century, Cesare Beccaria in his famous treatise: Dei delitti e delle pene represents

Works

Giovanni Battista Scanaroli: De visitatione carceratorum . typis Reuerendae Camerae Apostolicae, Rome 1655 (Latin, google.it ).

Individual evidence

↑ Alessandro Visconti: L'Università di Macerata nel passato e nel presente . In: Macerata e la sua università . Bianchini, 1933, p. 52 : “In his de Visitatione carceratorum , printed in 1655 , he appears almost as a forerunner of Beccaria: while he is undoubtedly a forerunner of the Englishman Howard , who with the work The State of the prisons in England and Wales of 1777 was the initiator of the classical penal system applies. "
↑ Luigi Anfosso: Giovanni Howard e Cesare Beccaria . In: Studi penitenziari . 1911, p. 154 : “Beccaria had many predecessors; first and foremost Giovanni Botero , then a bishop: Giovanni Scanaroli, who published since 1655: "De visitatione carceratorum libri tres, quibus omnia ad visitationem, patrocinium et liberationem carceratorum spectantia explanantur" "

Web links

Scanaròli, Giovanni Battista. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
Vincenzo Lavenia: SCANAROLI, Giovanni Battista. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 91: Savoia-Semeria. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2018.
Entry on Bishop Giovanni Battista Scanaroli (Scannaroli) † on catholic-hierarchy.org

personal data
SURNAME	Scanaroli, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scannaroli, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	1579
PLACE OF BIRTH	Modena
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1664
Place of death	Rome

[1] Alessandro Visconti: L'Università di Macerata nel passato e nel presente . In: Macerata e la sua università . Bianchini, 1933, p. 52 : “In his de Visitatione carceratorum , printed in 1655 , he appears almost as a forerunner of Beccaria: while he is undoubtedly a forerunner of the Englishman Howard , who with the work The State of the prisons in England and Wales of 1777 was the initiator of the classical penal system applies. "

[2] Luigi Anfosso: Giovanni Howard e Cesare Beccaria . In: Studi penitenziari . 1911, p. 154 : “Beccaria had many predecessors; first and foremost Giovanni Botero , then a bishop: Giovanni Scanaroli, who published since 1655: "De visitatione carceratorum libri tres, quibus omnia ad visitationem, patrocinium et liberationem carceratorum spectantia explanantur" "