TONDELLI, LEONE. - Exegete and historian, b. at S. Bartolomeo (Reggio Emilia) on 5 May 1883, d. at Reggio Emilia on 5 Jan. 1953.

After completing his studies at the diocesan seminary, he was ordained a priest on 28 Oct. 1905; in Rome he earned a degree in canon law

TONDELLI, LEONE - Portrait.(phot. R. Servadi, Reggio Emilia)

(Rome 1928); Le profezie di Ezechiele (Reggio Emilia 1930); Mani: rapporti con Bardesane, s. Agostino e Dante (Milan 1932). The last years of his life were the most industrious: Gesù Cristo (Turin 1936); Apologia del cattolicesimo (Rome 1939); Il libro delle figure dell'abate Gioachino da Fiore (2 vols., Turin 1940); Gesù secondo s. Giovanni (ibid. 1943); Da Gioachino a Dante (ibid. 1944); Gli gnostici (ibid. 1950); L'Eucaristia vista da un esegeta (Alba 1951). In the meantime he was revising and reorganizing his Christological studies in a definitive edition: I Vangeli (Turin 1946); Gesù nei primi Vangeli (ibid. 1947); Il disegno divino nella storia (ibid. 1947).

Bibliography

BIBL.: P. Simonelli, Mons. L. T. in La Scuola Catt., 81 (1953), pp. 321-28, with a list of T.'s publications.

Corrado Baisi

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