Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
BANCHI, SERAFINO. – Dominican writer, born in Florence in the second half of the 1500s, died in Paris. BANCO - Carved wooden bench of the Collegio del Cambio. Work of the Tasso brothers — Perugia.nel 1622. Having entered the Order at S. Domenico in Fiesole, he completed his studies in Paris, under the protection of Catherine de' Medici, and returned to his homeland upon her death (1589). Sent to France by Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, he foiled an assassination attempt (1593) against Henry IV, who, in gratitude, offered him the bishopric of Angoulême (1604), which he refused out of humility. Remaining in Paris, he lived always in the convent of S. Giacomo. He wrote, in French, a pamphlet against the king's assassins (1586), and a work on the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin (1610).
BIBL.: J. Quétif - J. Echard, Script. Ord. Praed., II, Paris 1721, p. 429 ss.; Mazzucchelli, II, 1, p. 198. Angelo Walz
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“BANCHI, SERAFINO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 463. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/banchi-serafino.
