Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 History & biography Historians, various biographies

William of Tocco

GUGLIELMO DI TOCCO

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Also known as: Italian: Guglielmo da Tocco; Latin: Guillelmus de Tocco

WILLIAM OF TOCCO. - Dominican historian, b. in the Benevento area ca. 1238, d. between 1323 and 1325. Preacher general (1288), prior of Benevento (1291) and inquisitor general of the Kingdom of Naples (1300), he nevertheless owes his fame to the zeal and love with which he collected the documents concerning St. Thomas Aquinas, with a view to the canonization process, and to the Vita s. Thomae de Aq. Ord. Praed., which is regarded as the first biography of the Saint. It was published in Fontes vitae s. Thomae Aq., edited by D. Prümmer, II, Toulouse 1912-24, pp. 65-160.

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BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, I, p. 552; D. Prümmer, op. cit., pp. 57-64; I. Taurisano, Discepoli e biografi di s. Tommaso, Rome 1924, pp. 34-44; H.-M. Laurent, Fontes vitae s. Th. Aq., IV, San Massimino (Var) 1934, pp. 345-55.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 1270.

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Redigonda, Abele. “Guglielmo di Tocco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1270. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/guglielmo-di-tocco.

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Redigonda, Abele. “Guglielmo di Tocco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1270. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/guglielmo-di-tocco.

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  author    = {Redigonda, Abele},
  title     = {Guglielmo di Tocco},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {1270},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/guglielmo-di-tocco}
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