Enciclopedia Cattolica

GIORDANO DA PISA, BEATO

Giordano da Pisa, Blessed

Volume VI · p. 283 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

GIORDANO da Pisa, beato. - Insigne predicatore domenicano, n. a Pisa (o a Rivalto?) nel 1260 c.a., m. a Piacenza il 19 ag. 1311.
GIORDANO da Pisa, beato. - Insigne predicatore domenicano, n. a Pisa (o a Rivalto?) nel 1260 c.a., m. a Piacenza il 19 ag. 1311.
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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GIORDANO da Pisa, Blessed. — Distinguished Dominican preacher, b. at Pisa (or Rivalto?) c. 1260, d. at Piacenza on 19 Aug. 1311.

He donned the religious habit in the Dominican convent of S. Caterina in Pisa (1280). There he began his studies, which he continued at Bologna and completed at Paris. He traveled in France, England, and Germany; at the General Chapter of Cologne in 1301 he was a definitor. He taught at Pisa, expounded the *Sentences* of Lombardus at S. Maria Novella in Florence, and was finally destined to teach at Paris when death overtook him while traveling.

More than as a professor, however, he left a name as a preacher. He spoke in Pisa and Florence two, three, and even five times a day. Of his Latin or vernacular sermons, collected by his hearers, only a part saw print. Notable are those in the vernacular, which, for the purity of their language, are a monument of Italian literature from both a philological and literary standpoint.

Testimony to his zeal is the founding of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Savior, known as the Crocione, in Pisa, with the aim of leading men to a more intense religious life. Gregory XVI on 23 Aug. 1833 confirmed its cult. Feast on 6 March.

BIBL.: Works: B. G. da R., *Prediche scelte*, ed. P. G. Colombini, Florence 1924, important for the biography and bibliography on the Blessed pp. 7-29. Studies: F. Del Rosso, *Notizie intorno alla vita del b. G. da R.*, fondatore e istitutore della *ven. arciconfraternita del S.mo Salvatore*, detta il Crocione, in Pisa, Pisa 1834; *Chronica antiqua conventus S. Catharinae de Pisis*, ed. F. Bonaini, Florence [1845], pp. 451-67; D. Scorzi, *Notizie storiche del b. G. da P. e dell'alma Arciconfraternita del Crocione*, Pisa 1891; L. G. da R., *Encyclopedia del b. G. da R.*, ibid. 1900; A. Levasti, *Mistici del Duecento e del Trecento*, Milan-Rome 1935, pp. 58-61, 469-527, 999-1001.