Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VII, 1951 Homiletics & catechetics

Ludovico da Vicenza

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LUDOVICO da VICENZA. - Franciscan preacher, of the noble Volpe family, b. in Vicenza in the first decades of the 15th century, d. on 21 April ca. 1507.

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

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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.

Alberto Ghinato

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), coll. 1646–1647.

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Ghinato, Alberto. “Ludovico da Vicenza.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, coll. 1646–1647. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/ludovico-da-vicenza.

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Ghinato, Alberto. “Ludovico da Vicenza.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1646–1647. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ludovico-da-vicenza.

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  author    = {Ghinato, Alberto},
  title     = {Ludovico da Vicenza},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1646--1647},
  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/ludovico-da-vicenza}
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