GIUSTINIANI, PAOLO. - In the world, Vincenzo. Founder of the Camaldolese Congregation of Monte Corona, b. in Venice on 15 June 1476, d. at S. Silvestro del Monte Soratte on 28 June 1528. Of a noble family, he was sent in 1494 to the University of Padua, where he studied philosophy and theology. In 1505, together with Pietro (in the world, Tommaso) Quirino and Sebastiano Giorgi, he withdrew to a villa on the island of Murano, where he met Pietro Delfin (v.), by whom he was induced to pay a visit to the hermitage of Camaldoli (1510). Enthusiastic about that manner of life, he embraced it together with his two friends. Following the advice of the recluse Bl. Michele Pini, he became a priest in 1518; the following year he was elected superior of the sacred hermitage. In 1520, with the permission of Leo X, he left Camaldoli to propagate the eremitical institute; after many vicissitudes he formed the first nuclei of what later became the Camaldolese branch of Monte Corona.
A prolific writer, in his numerous works (almost all unpublished) he impressed the marks of his profound piety and of his refined humanistic formation. Among the published ones we recall: Regula citate eremitica (Camaldoli 1519); De dodici gradi de obediencia (Venice 1535); Libellus ad Leonem X (in G. B. Mittarelli-A. Costadoni, Annales Camaldulenses, IX, Venice 1773, pp. 612-719); a broad program for the reform of the Church, drawn up together with P. Quirino; Secretum meum mihi o dell'amor di Dio (Frascati 1941; preface by A. Stolz O. S. B.).
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(by courtesy of Fr. Attorio Vaccaro) GIUSTINIANI, AGONTINO - Page of the Patterium Octaplum of A. G. Genoa 1516, with biographical notes on Christopher Columbus added as a marginal gloss to Ps. 18, 5. Copy of the Pont. Inst. Biblico - Rome.
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