QUARESMIO (QUARESMI), FRANCESCO. - Franciscan Palestinologist, b. at Lodi on 4 April 1583, d. at Milan on 25 October 1656.
President of the Holy Land (1618-19), he was sent by Urban VIII in 1629 to Mesopotamia to induce the Nestorian patriarch to unite with Rome; he did not succeed, however. Having returned to Italy, he was guardian, provincial, and procurator general of the Order in Rome. In order to compose his principal work, the Elucidatio, he undertook several journeys to the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt, and also to several European countries.
His principal work is the Historica, theologica et moralis Terrae Sanctae elucidatio... (2 vols. in folio, Antwerp 1634-1639; new edition by Fr. Cipriano da Treviso, 2 vols., Venice 1880-81), in which Q. in 8 books treats of the privileges of the Holy Land according to the bulls and decrees of the Popes, of pilgrimages, and of the individual places of the Holy Land; it presents a geographical map, drawings of Jerusalem, of the Holy Sepulchre and of the basilica of Bethlehem. The work is highly esteemed and is still useful today.
Bibliography6 worksCipriano da Treviso, In vitam p. Franciaci Quaresmii commentarium, in Elucidatio, cit., I, pp. IX-XIII; Wadding, Scripto res, pp. 91; Sbaral
BIBL.: Cipriano da Treviso, In vitam p. Franciaci Quaresmii commentarium, in Elucidatio, cit., I, pp. IX-XIII; Wadding, Scripto res, pp. 91; Sbaralea, I, p. 296; M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane, VIII-XI, Florence 1895, pp. 597-608; G. Golubovich, Serie cronologica dei Superiori di Terra Santa, Jerusalem 1898, p. 68 ff.; A. Teetart, Quaresmii, in DThC, XIII (1937), coll. 1442-44.
Kleinhans, Arduino. “Quaresmio (Quaresmi), francesco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 380. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/quaresmio-quaresmi-francesco.
MLA
Kleinhans, Arduino. “Quaresmio (Quaresmi), francesco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 380. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/quaresmio-quaresmi-francesco.
BibTeX
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author = {Kleinhans, Arduino},
title = {Quaresmio (Quaresmi), francesco},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {380},
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/quaresmio-quaresmi-francesco}
}
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