BUONRICCIO, ANGELICO

BUONRICCIO, ANGELICO. — Venetian theologian, who entered at a young age among the Canons Regular of the Most Holy Savior of Bologna, of which he became superior general in 1588; died in Venice in 1610.

Paraphrases of the Gospels and of the Epistles of S. Paolo, in Italian, by B. have been preserved: Pious and Devout Paraphrases on all the Epistles of S. Paolo and the Canonical Epistles (Venice 1565); Pious and Devout Paraphrases on the Gospel of S. Giovanni (Venice 1569), a work incorporated that same year, together with the paraphrases of S. Matteo, into the collection “Ghirlanda spirituale” (XIIth flower), published in Venice by Giolito. In 1566 he published a paraphrase of Aristotle’s books De Anima, and in 1584 a florid, exhortatory Declaration of the Sacred Psalms of David, King and Prophet.

BIBL.: Mazzuchelli, II, parte 4°, p. 2414; Archivio di S. Pietro in Vincoli, Manoscritti Cavalieri. Nicola Wiedloecher
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“BUONRICCIO, ANGELICO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 151. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/buonriccio-angelico.