STRUMI. - Ancient Benedictine abbey in the Casentino, founded by Teugrimo or Teudegrimo, of the family of the Guidi, at the end of the 10th century.

Dedicated to St. Fedele, it perhaps owes its origin to the revival of the cult of this saint (cf. Anal. Bolland., 9 [1890], pp. 354-59, and 21 [1902], p. 29 ff.; BHL, 2925); but around the middle of the 11th century it was already in decline, so much so that around 1085 the Vallombrosans took over from the Benedictines (it certainly depended on the latter in 1090, as can be gathered from a privilege of Urban II: Jaffé-Wattenbach, 5433), whose first abbot was the blessed Andrea da Parma. Shortly after the middle of the 12th century, Giovanni (v.) held the abbatial government, later antipope under the name Callixtus III. Toward the end of the same century, under the abbot Placido, the seat having become unsafe because of the continuous struggles between Guelphs and Ghibellines, the exodus of the monks toward Poppi, fortified by the Guidi, began.

The new abbey, also dedicated to St. Fedele, had a flourishing life until the 15th century, while S., abandoned, was reduced to the state of a ruin (the church was still standing in 1583, but no longer in 1850).

The abbey of Poppi was given in commendam to the archbishops of Florence during the 15th century, but in 1510 Julius II restored it to the Vallombrosans. Suppressed in 1809 following the Napoleonic law, it was never reconstituted: the church of S. Fedele still remains, with some valuable canvases and a panel depicting a Madonna of the Tuscan school of the 13th century.

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BIBL.: sources: Chartularium abbatiae Strumensis (ms. 13th cent.), Poppi, Bibl. comunale, cod. 36; Chartularium Puppiense (ms. 18th cent.), Florence, Arch. di Stato, conv. soppr. 224, vol. 227; various compilations of local scholars, manuscript in the Bibl. comunale of Poppi, codd. 120, 384, 394 (17th cent.), and 290 (a. 1821), and in the Marucelliana of Florence, cod. B I, 19 (18th cent.); cf. P. F. Kehr, Italia pontif., III, Berlin 1908, p. 169 f. - Studies: F. Soldani, Hist. monasterii S. Michaelis de Passiniano, Lucca 1741, pp. 110-24; G. B. Mitterelli-A. Costadoni, Annales Camaldulenses, III, Venice 1758, pp. 74 ff.; G. Domenici, La badia di S. Fedele di S. presso Poppi, in Riv. stor. bened., 10 (1915), pp. 72-92; Cottineau, II, coll. 2337 ff., 3097.

Alessandro Pratesi

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