CAPORELLA, PIETRO PAOLO. - Minor Conventual Scotist theologian, b. at Potenza in the second half of the 15th century, d. at Crotone in 1556. Regent of the Studium of Palermo, a capable writer and active theologian at the Council of Trent. He established in Palermo the Monte di Pietà for poor orphan girls and the "Compagnia dei Bianchi" (ecclesiastics and nobles) for the assistance of those condemned to death. He was created bishop of Crotone in Calabria on 28 Sept. 1552.

Among his writings are remembered the Quaestio de matrimonio et divortio Henrici VIII (Naples 1531) and the Operum infidelium fideliumque in peccato manentium elucidatio (ibid. 1542).

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BIBL.: Wadding, Scriptores, p. 192; Sbarales, II, p. 355; Concilium Tridentinum... edidit Societas Goerresiana, I: S. Merkle, Diaria, Freiburg im Br. 1901, p. 596, n. 9; V: St. Ehses, Actu, II, ibid. 1911, pp. 850, l. 31, 880, l. 17, 882, l. 31; Eubel, III, p. 196; I. Abate, Series Epp. O.F.M. Conv., in Miscell. francesc., 31 (1931), p. 106.

Giovanni Bastianini

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Caporella, Pietro Paolo

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