MARINONI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO. - Barnabite ascetical writer, b. at Clusone (Bergamo) on 30 June 1678, d. at Milan on 27 Feb. 1761. A religious of outstanding virtue, he wrote short ascetical works full of doctrine, reprinted several times.

Among them should be remembered: Distribuzione del tempo (during the spiritual exercises at the Barnabites'; Milan 1706); Speculum asceticum (ibid. 1719), with a first part of Sacra monita drawn from the Fathers and from Holy Scripture and arranged in the form of a little mirror, and a second of Alimenta mentis et cordis, devout aspirations, prayers and various commentaries on the Pater noster; Avvertimenti intorno alla Confessione (ibid. 1720); I venerdì in onore dei sette dolori di M. Vergine (ibid. 1730), where one reads a historical notice of the « Compagnia dei sette Dolori di M. detta del Suffragio » erected in 1615 in the Barnabite church of S. Alessandro in Milan.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: O. Branda, Notizie intorno al p. M..., preface to the 1776 edition of the Venerdì; G. Boffito, Scrittori barnabiti, II, Florence 1933, pp. 425-28; L. Levati, Menologio dei Barnabiti, II, Genoa 1933, pp. 248-52.

Virginio M. Colciago

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Marinoni, Giovanni Francesco

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