QUANDEL, GIUSEPPE. - Abbot of Montecassino, b. in Naples on 22 Aug. 1833, d. at Montecassino on 27 Feb. 1897. Son of General Giovan Battista, he entered the military college of the Nunziatella; by 1860 he had already reached the rank of major.
After Garibaldi's landing he fought in Sicily, then joined the sovereign at Gaeta and took part in the defense of that last bulwark of Bourbon rule. Once the fortress had fallen he renounced military life. He graduated in mathematics and published in 1862 a Diario de' lavori del Genio napoletano nella difesa di Gaeta, but, having been diagnosed with [an illness] of the world, he withdrew on 10 March 1864 to the abbey of Montecassino and took his vows on 26 Dec. 1865. After teaching mathematics in the monastery school, he held various administrative offices until he was elected abbot on 28 June 1896. His name is linked to two works begun by his predecessor, Abbot D'Argement: the restoration of the Torretta di S. Benedetto and the establishment of the diocesan Seminary of S. Giuseppe. Active and practical, he nevertheless did not neglect literary and historical studies: in 1887 and 1891 he in fact published a Codex diplomaticus Coictanus, which constitutes the first two volumes of the Tabularium Casinense.
Bibliography2 worksanon., Nécrologie, in Revue bénédictive, 14 (1897), pp. 236-38; Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti ab anno 1893 ad annum 1908, Rome 1912, p. 109.
BIBL.: anon., Nécrologie, in Revue bénédictive, 14 (1897), pp. 236-38; Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti ab anno 1893 ad annum 1908, Rome 1912, p. 109.
Furlani, Silvio. “Quandel, giuseppe.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 368. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/quandel-giuseppe.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “Quandel, giuseppe.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 368. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/quandel-giuseppe.
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@incollection{ec10_quandel_giuseppe,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {Quandel, giuseppe},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {368},
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/quandel-giuseppe}
}
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