BALDASSARE OF SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA. - Discalced Carmelite mystical theologian, in the world Machiavelli, b. at Bologna in 1597, d. there on 23 Aug. 1673. He took the habit at Bologna and professed at S. Maria della Scala in Rome on 6 Dec. 1615. He held various offices, up to that of procurator general of the Order (1662).

A most erudite theologian, he is one of the most representative authors of the Carmelite mystical school for his unsurpassed synthesis on the contemplative states (the seven "Dwellings"): Splendori riflessi di Sapienza celeste vibrati de' gloriosi gerarchi Tomaso d'Aquino e Teresa di Gesù, sopra il Castello Interiore e Mistico Giardino, metafore della Santa (Bologna 1671). At Rome (1664) he published the Italian translation of vol. I of the recent work by Quiroga, Salita dell'anima a Dio.

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BIBL.: Eusebio di tutti i Santi, Enchiridion chronologicum Carmel. Disc., Rome 1737, p. 328; Gabriele di S. Maria Maddalena, Balthazar de ste Catherine de Sienne, in DSp, I, coll. 1210-

1217; Alessandro di S. Giovanni della Croce, Un mistico italiano del Seicento, in Vita Carmelitana, 1941, pp. 13-24.
Silverio di Santa Teresa

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Baldassare of Saint Catherine of Siena

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