ROBERTO CECCHETTO da Nove. — Capuchin preacher, born at Nove on 18 Nov. 1869, died at Udine on 23 Aug. 1939. Having become a Capuchin (solemn profession in 1902), he immediately began his preaching in Italy and abroad, which lasted 30 years.
Precise and up-to-date in his themes, he passionately addressed social and philosophical problems and studies in order to grasp what was good and useful to oppose to the errors of the time, blending his thought into inimitable forms of manly eloquence. He published numerous articles, speeches, conferences, panegyrics, a manual of oratory (Vicenza 1933, reissued under the title Ministerium verbi the following year) and Le piccole virtù (2 vols., ibid. 1933-37).
Bibl.: G. Crisostomo da Cittadella, Biblioteca dei Fr. Min. Capp. della provincia veneta, Padova 1944, pp. 232-44. Giovanni Crisostomo da Cittadella