FEDERICI, GIACOMO. - Bolognese doctor and professor of theology and law, d. at Trieste on 8 Sept. 1652.
In the De electione et potestate prædiciorum et eliberum officiolium regularium tractatus (Bologna 1625) he gathered all the theological and juridical material, as well as the decisions of the S. Romana Rona on this subject. Having become a Capuchin Friar Minor, he obtained from Urban VIII permission to republish the work (Bologna 1626 and Milan 1628?), under his religious name of Sigismondo da Bologna. But on 30 Apr. 1628 the major superiors disapproved some of his interpretations of the legislation and practice of the Order. He was a preacher and guardian.
BIBLI: G. A. Bumaldi, Minervalia Romanianum civium, Bologna 1641, p. 214; Michael a Tugio, Ballarium Ordinii Min. Capuccinorum, II, Rome 1743, pp. 230-31; Ballarii Ordinii recentum, in Analecta Ordinis Min. Capuccinorum, 9 (1803), p. 187, no. 821; Melchior a Pobladura, Historia generali Ordinis Min. Capuccinorum, parte 21, I, Rome 1948, pp. 118-19; Donato da S. Giovanni in Persicam, Biblioteca dei Proti Min. Capuccinii della provincia di Bologna, Bologna 1940, pp. 376-77.
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