CATALANI, MICHELE. - Patrician of Fermo, where he was born on 27 Sept. 1750; he died at Bologna on 10 May 1805. He was a pupil, in the local Jesuit schools, of Morelli and Lanzi. Admitted into the Society of Jesus on 20 Nov. 1766, after the suppression (1773) he became part of the diocesan clergy and devoted himself to historical and archaeological research, rising to great fame.
On 18 March 1782 he was appointed canon of the Metropolitan church. He was buried in the charterhouse of Bologna.
A scholar of strong mettle, he left many works, all excellent for their judicious criticism and elegant literary form, especially in Latin. The following are remembered: 1) Della origini dei Piceni (Fermo 1777); 2) Origini e antichità fermane (ibid. 1778), both of which were received in G. Colucci's Antichità picene (I and II); 3) Memorie della Zecca e delle monete fermane (Bologna 1782), inserted in vol. III of G. A. Zanetti's Nuova raccolta delle monete e Zecche d'Italia; 4) De Ecclesia Firmana, eiusque episcopis et archiepiscopis commentarius (Fermo 1783), from which all later historians, of Fermo and elsewhere, have drawn; 5) Memorie storiche di s. Vittoria v. e m. (Camerino 1778, Fabriano 1807).
He edited the edition of the commentary of Enea S. piccolomini (Pius II) De rebus Basilicae gestis stante vel dissoluto concilio according to the forgotten Vatican manuscript (Fermo 1803), and the 2nd ed., with changes and additions, of the Vita di s. Fernando, Benedictine abbot, described by G. Marsigliano (ibid. 1784). Also very important is his commentary De vita et scriptis Dominici Capranica (ibid. 1793). Other works of his remained unpublished.
Bibliography9 worksF. Vecchietti and T. Moro, Biblico piceno, III, Quino 1793, pp. 187-89 (the C. being still alive); A. Evangelista Memorie su la vita e gli s
BIBL.: F. Vecchietti and T. Moro, Biblico piceno, III, Quino 1793, pp. 187-89 (the C. being still alive); A. Evangelista Memorie su la vita e gli scritti del canonico M. de' conti C. di Fermo, Fermo 1834; id., Biografia di M. C. in A. Hercolani, Biografie e ritratti di uomini illustri piceni, I, Forlì 1837, pp. 187-94 (with portrait); G. Fracassetti, s. v. in E. De Tipaldo, Biografia degli italiani illustri, II, Venice 1835, p. 431 f.; G. Da Fieno, Del risorgimento degli studi storici nel Piceno, in Atti della Soc. st.-archeol. delle Marche in Fermo, I, Fermo 1875, pp. 5-19; Sommervogel, II, coll. 872-874; Hurter, V, col. 746; G. Natali, Il Settecento, I, Milan 1936, p. 410; S. Prete, I santi martiri Alessandro e Filippo nella Chiesa fermana (Studi di antichità cristiana a cura del Pont. istituto di archeol. crist., 16), Vatican City 1941, p. 16 and passim.
Cecchetti, Igino. “Catalani, michele.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1063–1064. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/catalani-michele.
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Cecchetti, Igino. “Catalani, michele.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1063–1064. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/catalani-michele.
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@incollection{ec3_catalani_michele,
author = {Cecchetti, Igino},
title = {Catalani, michele},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1063--1064},
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/catalani-michele}
}
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