Isidoro Marcionetti

Isidoro Marcionetti (born July 6, 1916 in Monte Carasso , † January 18, 1999 in Lugano ) was a priest, pastor, lecturer, art historian, researcher and publicist.

Life

After studying at the seminary of Lugano, Marcionetti became pastor of Astano and preacher at the Radio della svizzera italiana in Lugano-Cassarate. During the time of Italian fascism, on September 11, 1943, he helped the former minister Dino Alfieri near Astano to flee to Switzerland . Later he worked as a pastor in Novaggio and as a lecturer at the Lyceum of Lugano, where he taught the Roman Catholic doctrine.

Later he was pastor at the churches of San Rocco and Santa Maria degli Angioli in Lugano. As a lover of history and figurative art, he researched various art monuments in the canton of Ticino and published several non-fiction books. He was also a member and president of the Commissione cantonale dei monumenti storici e artistici .

Fonts

• (with Giuseppe Martinola :) Antiche vasche battesimali del Ticino. Lugano 1969.
• (with Romano Amerio :) La chiesa di San Lorenzo in Lugano: storia e simbologia. Lugano 1972.
• Chiesa e convento di Santa Maria degli Angeli in Lugano. Banca del Sempione, Lugano 1975.
• (with Carlo Speziali :) San Carlo di Negrentino. Lugano 1977.
• Il Battistero di Riva San Vitale: storia, arte liturgia. Tipografia SA Natale Mazzuconi, Lugano 1978.
• L'antica Pieve di Biasca. Lugano 1979.
• Cenacoli della Svizzera italiana. Natale Mazzuconi, Lugano 1981.
• (with Fulvio Caccia :) Settantacinque anni della Commissione dei monumenti storici ed artistici del cantone Ticino. Bellinzona 1984.
• San Carlo nell'antico Borgo di Lugano. Self-published, Lugano 1984.
• Cristianesimo nel Ticino. Pedrazzini, Locarno; Alberti Libraio, Verbania 2004.

Web links

• Publications by and about Isidoro Marcionetti in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Isidoro Marcionetti Bibliography on worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79081964/