ISLAND of CAPO RIZZUTO - P. Lucania, Calabria, VIII, Milan 1937, p. 193)
(from T.C.I., Puglia, Lucania, Calabria, VIII, Milan 1937, p. 193)
ISLAND of CAPO RIZZUTO - P. Lucania, Calabria, VIII, Milan 1937, p. 193) of the Aragonese castle (15th-16th centuries).
Among the prelates of I., mention should be made of the Benedictine Onorato Fascitelli, a man of letters who took part in the Council of Trent; Annibale Caracciolo, his munificent and zealous successor; and above all St. Luke of Melicuccà, a Basilian monk who governed it at the end of the 11th century and obtained privileges from Count Roger the Norman in 1092.
BIBL.: Ughelli, IX, pp. 709-717; G. Fiore, Calabria illustrata, II, Naples 1743, pp. 338-340; P. Bottazzi, in Enciclopedia dell'esemplastica, IV, ibid. 1845, pp. 596-597; Hierolis Synecdeum et notitiae Graecae episcopatuum, ed. Parthey, Berlin 1866, p. 129, no. 657; G. Minassi, Le chiese di Calabria, Naples 1896, pp. 255-258; F. Russo, La metropolia di S. Severina, in Arch. storico della Calabria e Lucania, 16 (1948), pp. 1-20.