DEL CORONA, PIO ALBERTO. — Dominican, born in Livorno on 5 July 1837, died in Florence on 15 August 1912. A professor, writer, and eminent spiritual director, he was elected coadjutor bishop of S. Miniato in 1874 with the right of succession, which took place in 1897. In 1906 he resigned the diocese and retired to the convent of S. Domenico at Fiesole. In 1872 he had founded the Asilo, a new congregation of Dominican women.
He left many works, besides the pastoral letters; those worthy of mention are: I quattro cardini della felicità secondo s. Tommaso di Aquino (Florence 1874); Elevazioni sul ministero della Eucaristia raccolte dalle opere di s. Alberto Magno (ibid. 1874); I misteri di G. C. secondo la dottrina di s. Tommaso d'Aquino (3 vols., ibid. 1889–92); Fiori di meditazioni (ibid. 1913).