Also known as:
Italian: Fra Serafino Razzi, Serafino de' Razzi;
Latin: Seraphinus Razzi
RAZZI, SERAFINO. - Dominican historian, b. at Marradi di Mugello on 13 Dec. 1531, d. at Florence on 8 Aug. 1611. He entered religious life at Florence in the convent of S. Marco (28 June 1549), and studied at Perugia and Florence. He taught in various cities (1560-74), was prior in several convents (1574-82) and regent of studies at Perugia from 1582 to 1587, in which year he was sent to Dalmatia (1587) as vicar general to bring the convents of that Dominican Congregation back to regular observance. Having returned to Italy, he held other offices.
He was above all an elegant hagiographer; he wrote: Vita de' santi, beati e venerabili del S. Ordine dei Predicatori (Florence 1577, 2nd ed., with the addition of other Lives, ibid. 1588, Lucca 1596, Palermo 1605; French trans. Paris 1616); Vita della b. Osanna da Cattaro (Florence 1592); Vita della serva di Dio Caterina de' Ricci (Lucca 1594); Vita del glorioso s. Zacinto confessore (Florence 1596); Historia degli homini illustri del S. Ord. dei Predicatori (ibid. 1596). He also left in manuscript sermons, works of philosophy, theology and Holy Scripture, various lives of saints, the history of the monastery of S. Vincenzo at Prato, and the life of Girolamo Savonarola.
Bibliography4 worksQuatif-Echard, II, pp. 386-88; L. Ferreri, Fra S. R., appunti biografici, in Il Rosario Mem. domenicisme, 20 (1903), pp. 168-73, 211-16, 310
BIBL.: Quatif-Echard, II, pp. 386-88; L. Ferreri, Fra S. R., appunti biografici, in Il Rosario Mem. domenicisme, 20 (1903), pp. 168-73, 211-16, 310-18, 361-64, 421-29, 456-62; with a Bibliography of the works, ibid., pp. 364-66, 429-32, 463-64; G. Rotondi, Fra S. R. ed il suo viaggio in Lombardia nel 1572, in Arch. stor. lombardo, 51 (1924), pp. 186-214.
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Razzi, serafino.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 590. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/razzi-serafino.
MLA
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Razzi, serafino.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 590. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/razzi-serafino.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec10_razzi_serafino,
author = {D'Amato, Alfonso},
title = {Razzi, serafino},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {590},
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/razzi-serafino}
}
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