CERTANI, GIOVANNI FILIPPO. - Oratorian ascetical writer, b. in Bologna in 1646 to a noble Florentine family, d. 23 Nov. 1717. A relative of Francesco C., co-founder of the Congregation of the Oratory of Florence, after his priestly ordination he passed to the same Congregation in Bologna. Having dedicated himself particularly to the redemption of sinful women, he established the convent of St. Mary of Egypt, then, at the invitation of Card. Tanara, legate of Urbino, he went to Pesaro to reconstitute that oratory, by then in decline.

His principal works: L'uomo di orazione (Bologna 1686); Le Costituzioni di S. M. Egiziaca (ibid. 1702); Ritiramento spirituale di un giorno per ciascun mese (translated from the French; reprinted several times); Epitalamio dell'anima sposa di Gesù Cristo, cioè pratiche per ben disporsi alla S. Comunione; La maniera di ben predicare (several reprints); Riti della Messa privata (posthumous, dedicated to Card. Lambertini, Bologna 1737 and 1750).

Bibliography

BIBL.: C. A. de Rosa di Villarosa, Memorie degli scrittori filippini, I, Naples 1837, pp. 78-90.

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Certani, Giovanni Filippo

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