ALIOTTI, GIROLAMO. - Benedictine writer, b. at Arezzo in 1412, d. in 1480. Having entered the abbey of St. Flora (1430), in 1437 he was prior of St. Cecilia of Foiano. He went to France in 1440, in the retinue of the apostolic legate Cardinal Zabarella. He was abbot of St. Mary in Mamma (1442) and finally (1446) of the abbey of St. Flora, whose fortunes he raised, aggregating it to the congregation of St. Justina of Padua.

G. M. Scarmalli published his works under the title: Hieronymi Aliotti Aretini Ordinis sancti Benedicti Abbatis Monasterii SS. Florae et Lucillae epistolae et opuscula, 2 vols., Arezzo 1769. The letters reflect the political and religious life of the period. The principal opuscules are ascetic in character: De optimo vivendi genere deligendo; De monachis erudiendis; De felici statu religionis monasticae; Contra Religiosos studium improbantes; De futuro statu Ecclesiae.

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BIBL.: G. M. Scarmalli, ed. cit., I, pp. XIII-XXVI (life of the author): Mazzuchelli, I, 1, p. 497; M. Armellini, Bibliotheca Benedictino-Casineni, I, Assisi 1731, pp. 201-208.

Francesco Tinello

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Aliotti, Girolamo

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