CASATI, Felice. — Capuchin, he is Fr. Felice of the Milan plague, made famous by Manzoni. In 1583, at the age of twenty-two, he received the habit from Count Alfonso, was novice master at Orta and Vigevano, guardian at Cremona, Como, Erba, and Milan, provincial of Lombardy, and from 1632 (not 1630, as Manzoni leads one to believe) until 1656, definitor of the Order, having left the lazar house in that year. In 1630, when he was entrusted with the mission at the lazar house, he was preaching Lent at Santa Maria del Castello in Milan; in 1644 he was sent by the city of Milan to Madrid to obtain relief from Philip IV for the disorders and misery of the duchy. Elected in 1656 to represent the Lombard province at the General Chapter in Rome, he died en route at Livorno.
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