AMBROGIO da CORI (dei MASSARI, CORANUS, CORIOLANUS). - Augustinian preacher, humanist and theologian, died in Rome in 1485. A student in Florence in 1452, bachelor in '58, master in '61, regent in Perugia in '63 and in Naples in '65, he was superior of the Roman province (1466-70), procurator of the Order (1470-76) and prior general (1476-85). Esteemed by Pius II, Paul II and Sixtus IV, he was confined in Castel S. Angelo by order of Innocent VIII in March 1485; transferred days later to S. Agostino, he died in May of the same year. He wrote: Commentarii super regulam d. Augustini; Defensorium ordinis; Chronica Ordinis fratrum heremitarum (Rome 1841); Orationes, some printed, others unpublished (Paris, Bibl. Nat. ms. 5621); De animae dignitatibus, etc.

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BIBL.: L. Torelli, Secoli agost., VII, Bologna 1682, pp. 248-249, 336-44; J. F. Ossinger, Bibliotheca aug., Ingolstadt 1768, pp. 260-64; D. A. Perini, Bibliographia aug., II, Florence 1931, pp. 194-97. And for A.'s action in favor of reform and of studies: Analecta Aug., 7 (1917), pp. 165, 268-318, 353, and the two registers of his governance preserved in the general archive of the Order.

David Gutiérrez

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Ambrogio da Cori (Dei Massari, Coranus, Coriolanus)

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