PAOLO UCCELLO - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. IX, p. 471

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

F. Cavallera, Paul de Thèbes et Paul d'Oxyrhynque, in Rev. d'actiique et de mystique, 7 (1926), pp. 302-305; H. Leclercq, Paul de Thèbes, in DACL, XIII, 2700-2706.

Vincenzo Monachino

PAOLO (MANASSEI) da TERNI. - Capuchin, preacher, missionary in Rhaetia, spiritual writer, b. Feb. 21, 1587, d. in the province of Brescia in May 1620.

He preached in his homeland, then in Rhaetia, from where, exhausted by labors and penances, he retired to the province of Brescia.

At the urging of the celebrated apostolic preacher Fr. Girolamo da Narni, he wrote: *Paradiso interiore, ovvero corona spirituale nella quale con trentatrè esercizi si praticano tutte le virtù per arrivare alla perfezione* (Bergamo 1631, 1684), which had numerous editions; but, suspected of quietism, it was placed on the Index (dec. Apr. 26, 1689).

BIBL.: Bernardus a Bononia, Bibl. Script. Cap., Venezia 1747, p. 208; V. BONARIA, I conventi e i Cappuccini bresciani, Milano 1891, p. 247; Sbaralea, II, pp. 312-13, n. 3072; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della prov. serafica, Foligno 1922, pp. 60-74; Melchior a Pobladura, Hist. gen Ord. FF. MM. Cap., parte 2°, I, Roma 1948, pp. 264-65; M. Petrocchi, Il quietismo italiano del Seicento, ivi 1948, V. indice.

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