FERRAIOLO. - It is a wide mantle of silk or other light cloth, red, purple or black in color, depending on the rank of the one who wears it: cardinal, bishop, priest, and it is tied at the neck with strips of the same color.
It is always worn over the plain dress, but the black f., in wide and also reduced form, is commonly considered an integral part of clerical dress, and it is worn over the black cassock in the summer months.
A pleated black f. that falls from the shoulders to the knee is worn by certain dignitaries of the pontifical court (chamberlains of sword and cape, bussolanti, etc.) as their own insignia.
The f. was part of the dress of nobles in the 16th and 17th centuries, to which class clerics belonged.
Oppenheim, Filippo. “Ferraiolo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1181. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/ferraiolo.
MLA
Oppenheim, Filippo. “Ferraiolo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1181. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ferraiolo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_ferraiolo,
author = {Oppenheim, Filippo},
title = {Ferraiolo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1181},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ferraiolo}
}
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