LUDOVICO da FOSSOMBRONE. - Of the most noble family Tenaglia, from 1526 promoter and first organizer of the Franciscan reform of the Friars Minor Capuchins, died outside the Order, probably in the region of Cagli, after 1555.
He passed from a military career to the Friars Minor Observants; toward the end of 1525, he joined Matteo da Bascio to establish a strict observance of the Franciscan Rule.
He obtained an initial authorization from the Holy See on 18 May 1526, which was expanded by the bull *Religiosi zelus* (Clement VII, 3 July 1528) of canonical constitution; in 1529 he promulgated the first Constitutions. After Matteo da Bascio resumed his freedom of action, as vicar general (1529-35), he skillfully defended the Order against obstacles and opposition, recruited notable religious, and spread its convents. But he erred in wishing to maintain command to impose his own direction of hermetic life, contemplation, and manual labor, against the Chapter of November 1535, reiterated on 22 September 1536, which tempered the primitive form with choral liturgy, studies, preaching, and works of charity. Expelled from the Order, he maintained an edifying conduct; around 1550 he was readmitted by the Superior General to the Convent of Amelia; but Cardinal Protector R. Pio Leonelli ordered his removal. He lived as a penitent hermit.