FERRARI, PAOLO AGOSTINO. - Genoese Benedictine of the 17th century. He professed in the year 1649 in the monastery of St. Jerome of Cervara near Genoa; a few years later he moved to Montecassino, where he cultivated his studies with love.

Availing himself extensively, as he himself states, of the work of his confrere Angelo della Noce, he prepared a critical edition of the Rule of St. Benedict: Sanctissimi Patriarchae Benedicti Regula ex vetustissimis membranis s. Monasterii Casineni (Naples 1659). The work is furnished with numerous historical notes that make it still useful today. Two other editions were prepared with the types of the Abbey of Montecassino in 1872 and in 1888.

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BIBL.: M. Armellini, Biblioteca Benedictino-Casineni, II, Assisi, p. 119; M. Zieglobatov, Historia rei litterariae O. S. B., III, Augusta 1754, p. 11; G. Morin, Revolve S. Benedicti tradicio codicum mit. Casinenium, Montecassino 1900, pp. x-21; A. Albareda, Bibliografia de la Regla Benedictina, Monestero 1933, pp. 87, 411, 542, 560.

Ambrogio Mancena

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