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

According to the manuscript biography by his brother Luigi, he composed 115 works, of which 31 were published. Worthy of note are those that gather 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). In addition: Bibliotheca mariana (2 vols., ibid. 1648), a collection of bibliographical data on 3000 authors and more than 6000 works; Polyanthea mariana (Cologne 1683) with an appendix of another 1000 authors.

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BIBL.: F. Sarteschi, De scriptoribus Congregationis Matris Dei, Rome 1753, pp. 135-46; Hutter, IV, coll. 27-29; J. H. Schütz, Summa mariana, III, Paderborn 1913, pp. 624-27; F. Ferraironi, I fratelli M., in L'osservatore romano, 89 (1940), n. 259.

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