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Italian: B. Cambi, Bartolomeo Cambi
BARTOLOMEO DA SALUTIO, Venerable. - Franciscan orator, mystic and poet, in the world B. Cambi, b. at Socana in the Casentino on 3 April 1558, called "da Salutio" from the place of origin or residence of his father at the time he entered religious life. A Friar Minor at 18, he studied in the best schools of the Order, and very young passed to preaching and teaching with success. After a brief period of waywardness outside the convent, which he expiated with harsh penances, he went preaching with apostolic ardour, often in an apocalyptic tone, at times with prodigies, throughout Italy, arousing such enthusiasm as to alarm the authorities, who forbade him to preach. He spent the last 15 years of his life devoted to contemplation, and died in Rome in the odour of sanctity on 15 Nov. 1617.
Of his sermons, which were genuine public events, with work suspended, shops closed, etc., echoes remain in the archives and chronicles of the time, as well as their reflection in his spiritual works, in which he also reveals himself as one of the greatest Italian mystics of the 17th century. His spirituality is Franciscan, but bearing the stamp of the Counter-Reformation and of his own ardent and impetuous character.
As a prose writer and mystical poet (here he recalls Jacopone) he has an indisputable value. Not entirely free from the defects of his time, he rises above them through his strong personality and through the abundance and sincerity of his feeling.
Bibliography5 worksFor the works (some published some twenty times and translated into various languages) see Opere spirituali del r. p. f. B. da S., 2 vols.,
BIBL.: For the works (some published some twenty times and translated into various languages) see Opere spirituali del r. p. f. B. da S., 2 vols., Venice 1639; the first comprises: Orticello d'orazione, Testamento dell'anima, Paradiso dei contemplativi, Invenzioni d'amore, Scuola del Divino Amore, L'amoroso discepolo, Lo scrupoloso, Lettere spirituali, L'alfabeto del divino amore; the second: Sette trombe, Porta della salute, Conforto del peccatore, Vita dell'anima, Cuore cioè testamento dell'anima, Praticello del Divino Amore, Compagnia d'amore, Musa spirituale. - Studies: F. Sarri, Il ven. B. Cambi da S., Florence 1925; U. D'Alençon, La spiritualité franciscaine, in Etudes franciscaines, 39 (1927), pp. 600-601; A. Gemelli, Il Francescanesimo, Milan 1936, pp. 194-96.
Caggiano, Egidio. “Bartolomeo da Salutío, venerabile.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 928–929. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bartolomeo-da-salutio-venerabile.
MLA
Caggiano, Egidio. “Bartolomeo da Salutío, venerabile.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 928–929. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bartolomeo-da-salutio-venerabile.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_bartolomeo_da_salutio_venerabi,
author = {Caggiano, Egidio},
title = {Bartolomeo da Salutío, venerabile},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {928--929},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bartolomeo-da-salutio-venerabile}
}
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