CAPANNA, PUCCIO - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. III, p. 401

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CAPANNA, PUCCIO. — Painter; he was active in Florence in 1347, where he ran a workshop. Vasari recalls him as a pupil and assistant of Giotto in Assisi (perhaps between 1320 and 1330), considering him one of the finest masters of the time.

Attributed to him are the frescoes in the vault of the Covoni Chapel in the Badia and the *Noli me tangere* (Strozzi Chapel) in S. Miniato, a visible repetition of Giotto’s work in the Arena Chapel in Padua, as well as collaboration on the Giottesque *Crucifix* on the inner door of S. Maria Novella. In Assisi, some frescoes in S. Chiara and S. Francesco, the decoration of the vault, and the twelve Scenes of the Life of Francis in the church of the same name in Pistoia (1343); in these works, C. shows himself mindful of the assisted cycle, demonstrating, with some reminiscences of Sienese art, a new sensitivity to the value of light and shadow.

BIBL.: O. Siren, *Giotto and some of his followers*, I, Cambridge, 1917, pp. 125-29; R. van Marle, *The development of the Italian Schools of Painting*, III, 1° The Hague, 1924, p. 227 ff.; A. Chiappelli, *P. C. e gli affreschi ora scoperti nel coro di S. Francesco a Pistoia*, in *Dedalo*, 10 (1929-30), pp. 199-228; L. Coletti, *I Primitivi. - I Senesi e i Giotteschi*, II, Novara, 1946, pp. XXXIII and XXXIX.

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CAPELLETTI BENEDETTO

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CAPECE, ANTONIO. — Missionary and martyr, born in Naples on 11 Aug. 1606, died in Japan on 25 Mar. 1643. He entered the Jesuits on 30 July 1624 and in 1634 obtained permission to be sent to Japan together with Fr. Marcello Mastrilli. He landed in Goa in Dec. 1637 and (after a stay in Manila) in Macao in Apr. 1638, where he taught theology for a short time. Finally, after three years of mission in Cambodia (1638-41), he was able to reach Japan (1642) with Frs. Antonio Rubino, Alberto Mencinski, Diego de Morales, Francisco Marques, and three Christians. Discovered and arrested the following day, they endured the torture of water more than a hundred times over seven months and were then condemned to the pit. Surviving for nine days in it, C. was beheaded.

BIBL.: A. de Rhodes, *Breve relatione della gloriosa morte che il p. Antonio Rubino... sofferse nella città di Nangasachi... con quattro altri Padri...*, Rome, 1652; M. Volpe, *P. A. C. S. I. martire nel Giappone*, Naples, 1912.

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CAPECELATRO, ALFONSO. — Cardinal, writer, born in Marseille on 5 Feb. 1824; his father, Francesco, Duke of Castel Pagano, had taken refuge there to avoid the reprisals of Ferdinand I, who had returned to Naples with Austrian military support. In 1830 the C. family returned to Italy and settled in a villa at S. Paolo Belsito (Nola). At sixteen, C. entered the Congregation of the Oratorians in Naples. Around twenty, during a visit to Montecassino, he formed a friendship with the monk Don Luigi Tosti. Ordained priest in 1840 at the Girolamini near the Church of S. Filippo in Naples, he devoted himself to scholarly and religious work: among those who met with him were Alfonso Casanova, Fr. Lodovico da Casoria, Enrico Cenni, Fr. Gaetano Bernardi, and Federico Persico. In recognition of his historical-literary merits, Leo XIII in 1879 appointed him first vice-librarian and soon after Archbishop of Capua (1889); he was made a cardinal in 1885 and in 1893 librarian and prefect of the Vatican Library. He died in Capua on 14 Nov. 1912.