BARTOLINI, DOMENICO

Domenico BARTOLINI. — Cardinal, born 16 May 1813 in Rome, died in Florence on 2 October 1887. Author of various writings of an hagiographical and historical nature, but entirely surpassed from a critical standpoint.

Among his works are Il cimitero d'Aproniano detto anche d'Eugenia su la Via Latina (1840), though corrected and recast by Fr. G. Marchi; La sotterranea basilica di S. Marco (1844); Le catacombe di Siracusa (1847); Le nuove catacombe di Chiusi (1852); Sopra l'antico oratorio dei primitivi cristiani della regione dei Marsi oggi basilica di S. Cesidio prete e martire presso Trasacco alle sponde del lago Fucino (1855).

In the field of hagiography, his monographs on the acts of the martyrdom of St. Agnes (1858), of SS. Abdon and Sennen (1859), and of St. Cecilia (1867) have lost all value, as has his treatment of the so-called ampullae (v.) of blood (1863).

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Bartoli, Davilello — Title page of the work: Della Vita e dell'Istituto di s. Ignatio, Rome 1650.

BARTOLINI, LORENZO — Detail of the monument to Countess Zamojska — Florence, church of S. Croce, Salviati chapel.

BIBL.: Hurter, V, col. 1649; G. Ferretto, Note storico-agographiche di Archeologia cristiana, Vatican City 1942, p. 304 and passim; A. Ferrua in the historical introduction to the Memorie di G. B. De Rossi, Sulla questione del vaso del sangue, ibid. 1944, pp. 36, 78-79 and passim. Giuseppe Bovini