GHETTI, ANDREA da VOLTERRA. - Augustinian theologian, preacher and educationist, b. at Montecatini Val di Cecina, near Volterra, at the beginning of the 16th century, d. on 12 June 1593. He preached in the principal cities of Italy. People sought to discern in his discourses reformist or wholly heretical ideas; but he always defended himself against the accusation, even though it was repeated throughout his life. Several times he was forbidden to preach, to teach, to hear confessions, and he was even imprisoned and deprived of any office in his Order. Protected by Cardinal Seripando, in 1563 he took part in the Council of Trent, where at the session of 19 August he delivered an oration of unexpected orthodoxy.

There remain by him: Della Grazia e delle opere (Florence 1544); Sopra la cura e diligenza che debbono avere i padri e le madri verso i loro figliuoli (Bologna 1572), orthodox short works republished by Battistini in an appendix to his monograph, and separately in 1928.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: A. M. Venusti, De Andrea Valaterrano teologo et oratore optimo epistola ad card. Ioannem Montepidiam, Venice 1567; M. Battistini, P. A. G. da V., Florence 1928 (it is the best study on G.); D. A. Perini, Bibliographia Augustiniana, II, Florence 1931, pp. 106-107.

Davide Falcioni

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Ghetti, Andrea da Volterra

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