FRANCESCO, GIOVANNI. — Benedictine, born in Brescia, who lived between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. In 1500 he published in Venice a new edition of the Rule of s. Benedetto, with the commentary of Cardinal de Tocquemada and the Clementines, adding to it Book II of the Dialogues of s. Gregorio Magno and the text of the Rules of s. Basilio, s. Agostino and s. Francesco, together with a short treatise De laude religionis et voti. The work was subsequently reprinted in Paris in 1510.
F. was an advocate of the priesthood of s. Benedetto.
BIBL.: M. Armellini, Bibliotheca Benedictino-Casinesis, II, Assisi 1732, p. 38; C. Butler, Benedictine monachium, Londra 1919, p. 180; A. Albareda, Bibliografia de la Regla benedictina, Monserrato 1933, pp. 202, 297–98. Ambrogio Mancena