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PIRRONI, CARLO GIOVANNI. - Piarist, born in Campi Salentina (Lecce) on June 7, 1640, died in Rome on April 13, 1685. Founder, together with Fr. Angelo Morelli, of the philosophical studentate of Chieti in 1660, he ensured that the scientific-literary movement which, in the late seventeenth century, gradually spread throughout the Order, established itself there.
PISA, ARCIDIOCESI di - Nino da Gallura is driven from P. by Count Ugolino, who re-enters the city and is welcomed with jubilation. Miniature from the Cronaca of Villani - Vatican Library, cod. Chig. L. VIII, 296, f. 127v. (fot. Enc. Cati.)Teaching in 1670 in Rome at the Collegio Nazareno, he was greatly favored by Pope Clement X, who entrusted him with the composition of the hymns of s. Venanzio, which are found in the Breviary. In 1677, at only 37 years of age, made general of the Order, he gave a great impulse above all to studies and extended the Piarist institute to Spain. He hosted the great scientist G. A. Borelli in the motherhouse of S. Pantaleo in Rome and, after his death (1679), oversaw the edition of the work De motu animalium (2 vols., Rome 1680). After a six-year term of government, he was confirmed in office, which he held for another two years until his death.
BIBL.: L. Picanyol, Giovan Alfonso Borelli e il p. C. G. P. d. S. P. Note e memorie inedite, Roma 1933; id., Le Scuole Pie e Galileo Galilei, Roma 1942, pp. 184-92; id., Primo generalato del p. C. G. P., in Rassegna di storia e bibliografia scolopica, 17 (1931), pp. 21-28. Leodegario Picanyol
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“PIRRONI, CARLO GIOVANNI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), p. 942. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/pirroni-carlo-giovanni.
