Enciclopedia Cattolica

MARRACCI, IPPOLITO

Volume VIII · p. 138 · 1952

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MARRACCI, IPPOLITO. - Mariologist, b. at Lucca on 17 Jan. 1604 and d. at Rome, at S. Maria in Campitelli, on 18 May 1675; religious of the Congregation of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God.

According to the manuscript biography by his brother Luigi, he composed 115 works, 31 of which were published. Worthy of note are those collecting information on Marian writings and writers: Pontifices maximi mariani (Rome 1642), Apostoli mariani (ibid. 1643), Reges mariani (ibid. 1654), Fundatores mariani (ibid. 1643), Purpura mariana (ibid. 1654), Antistites mariani (ibid. 1656), Caesares mariani (ibid. 1656). Also: Bibliotheca mariana (2 vols., ibid. 1648), a collection of bibliographical data on 3,000 authors and more than 6,000 works; Polyanthea mariana (Cologne 1683), with an appendix of a further 1,000 authors.

BIBL.: F. Sarteschi, De scriptoribus Congregationis Matris Dei, Rome 1753, pp. 135-46; Hutter, IV, cols. 27-29; J. H. Schütz, Summa mariana, III, Paderborn 1913, pp. 624-27; F. Ferraironi, I fratelli M., in L'osservatore romano, 89 (1940), no. 259.
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