QUADRUPANI, CARLO GIUSEPPE. - Barnabite, preacher "tota Italia celeberrimus," b. at Induno (Varese) in 1740, d. there on 14 July 1806. He was provost of S. Alessandro in Milan and provincial Superior of Lombardy.
After his first Lenten course of sermons in 1771 in the church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome, his ordinary mission was preaching: for 38 continuous years he preached the Lenten sermons in the principal cities of Italy, while he expounded Scripture in the churches of his Order, gave spiritual exercises to the clergy and to laypeople, and was much sought after in the confessional and at the bedside of the dying. Q.'s fame is linked to his Documenti per istruzione e tranquillità delle anime tratti da' santi più illuminati e massime da s. Francesco di Sales left by Fr. D. C. G. Q., regular cleric Barnabite, on the occasion of the Spiritual Exercises that he gave in the cathedral of Turin, after the octave of Easter of 1795 (Turin 1795; P. B. Lanteri [v.] lent his assistance in preparing this 1st ed.). The title Documenti per tranquillare le anime timorose nelle loro dubbiezze was given from the 50th ed. onward (Milan 1807); the work was subsequently republished down to our own day and translated into several languages, with more than a hundred editions.
Also by Q. are the Documenti pratici per vivere cristianamente (posthumous, Milan 1807; and then in many editions, sometimes together with the Documenti per tranquillare etc., and often under the cumulative title Documenti di vita spirituale).
Bibliography5 worksO. Premoli, Storia dei Barnabiti, III, Rome 1925, pp. 387-88; G. Boffito, Bibliot. barnabitica illustrata, III, Florence 1934, pp. 225-34 an
BIBL.: O. Premoli, Storia dei Barnabiti, III, Rome 1925, pp. 387-88; G. Boffito, Bibliot. barnabitica illustrata, III, Florence 1934, pp. 225-34 and IV, ibid. 1937, p. 431; T. Abbiati, Un illustre oratore e direttore di spirito del sec. XVIII a Milano, in La Scuola cattolica, 63 (1935), pp. 582-99; P. L. Manzini, Origine di un capolavoro ascetero, in I Barnabiti, Rome 1935, pp. 358-62; [A. P. Frutaz], Positio super introductione consae et super virtutibus Pii Brunonis Lanteri (S. R. Congregatio, sec. hist., 63), Vatican City 1945, pp. 532-33.
Colciago, Virginio Maria. “Quadrupani, carlo giuseppe.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 364. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/quadrupani-carlo-giuseppe.
MLA
Colciago, Virginio Maria. “Quadrupani, carlo giuseppe.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 364. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/quadrupani-carlo-giuseppe.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec10_quadrupani_carlo_giuseppe,
author = {Colciago, Virginio Maria},
title = {Quadrupani, carlo giuseppe},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {364},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/quadrupani-carlo-giuseppe}
}
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