Enciclopedia Cattolica

LUDOVICO DA VICENZA

Volume VII · p. 989 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

LUDOVICO da VICENZA. - Predicatore francescano, della nobile famiglia Volpe, n. a Vicenza nei primi decenni del sec. XV, m. il 21 apr. del 1507 ca.
LUDOVICO da VICENZA. - Predicatore francescano, della nobile famiglia Volpe, n. a Vicenza nei primi decenni del sec. XV, m. il 21 apr. del 1507 ca.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

LUDOVICO da VICENZA. – Franciscan preacher, of the noble Volpe family, born in Vicenza in the early decades of the 15th century, died around 21 April 1507.

He belonged to the Observance and was a disciple of St. Bernardino da Siena; in 1455 he was appointed apostolic preacher for the Crusade against the Turks by Callistus III; in 1461 he became vicar general of the Observance. By order of the Chapter held in Ferrara in 1481, he wrote an official biography of St. Bernardino, which was reduced at the Chapter of 1484 to liturgical readings for the Franciscan Breviary: it is the first of the Lives of St. Bernardino in Acta SS. Maii, V, Antwerp 1685, pp. 262-72.

Bibl.: Acta SS. Aprilis, II, Paris 1865, p. 838; Wadding, Annales, XII, p. 335; XIII, p. 220 ff.; XIV, p. 6 ff.; A. Berengo-Morte, S. Bernardino da Siena nelle Venezie, Verona 1944, p. 5 ff.