ANGELO MARIA da VICENZA. — Capuchin theologian and preacher, whose secular name was Marchesini, famous in his time, born in Vicenza in 1615, and died there in April 1690. He wrote extensively in prose and verse, in Italian and Latin, in a style displaying all the defects of his century.
As an orator, he spoke preferably on the Eucharist. Indeed, the three volumes La tromba nimicita (Bassano 1676), L'araldo evangelico (Venice 1686), and Il Cornucopia eucaristico (Vicenza 1688) are collections of discourses delivered on the occasion of Eucharistic adoration in the form of the Forty Hours devotion. He published a work of spirituality, Riflessi morali (2 vols., Venice 1683), in which the very titles of the chapters reveal the contrived and bombastic manner of the worst seventeenth-century style. He also composed a Dialogo Spirituale tra il corpo e l'anima, il demonio e l'angelo santo (Venice 1678), and a short poem, Il Pianto Redentore e gli Strumenti adorati (Vicenza 1682). Emidio da Ascoli