TURCHI, ADEDATO. - Capuchin, orator, bishop. Born at Parma on 5 Aug. 1724, died there on 2 Sept. 1803. He entered the Capuchins at Carpi on 21 Aug. 1739.

Within his Order he held all the most honorable offices, from lector to provincialate. From 1768 he was preacher at the court of Parma; in 1778 tutor to the Royal Infants and confessor to the Royal Family; in 1788 bishop of Parma. He was accused of having once been a freethinker and favorable to the jurisdictionalist policy of Du Tillot. Today, however, T.'s orthodoxy and devotion to the Holy See have been fully recognized.

Besides the foremost cities of Emilia, Arezzo, Pisa, Florence, Genoa, Rome, and Naples heard him with acclaim, where he also preached at court in 1767. Among the first he raised his voice against the errors of French "philosophism." The needs of the times directed him toward apologetic preaching. His preferred themes are common sense and natural rectitude. All his works: Quaresimali, Omelie, Prediche alla corte, Lettere pastorali, Orazioni funebri, Panegirici, display originality, force of argumentation, frankness of speech; his masterpiece, however, is considered to be the Orazione funebre per Maria Teresa. Of his works (493 in all), besides the numerous partial editions, mention should be made of the complete and fundamental one of Modena (10 vols., 1818-20; Venice, 20 vols., 1832-34), by which all later ones have been inspired.

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BIBL.: Nouvelles ecclésiastiques, ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la constitution « Unigenitus » pour l'année 1788, Utrecht 1788, p. 208 (there is an allusion to an alleged appeal against T. by some prelates of the diocese of Parma); [Vittore Sopransi, Jansenist], Riflessioni sulle Omelie di fr. T. vesc. di Parma, 2 vols., s. n. t., placed on the Index on 5 Sept. 1825; G. Giac. Andrà, Apologia delle Omelie di mons. A. T., vesc. di Parma, o Apologia della Verità e della Religione, 2 vols., Assisi 1803-1804 and Carmagnola 1804; G. Ferrari Moreni, Il cappuccino T. e la Corte di Parma, Modena 1870; G. Drei, Notizie sulla politica ecclesiast. del ministro Du Tillot, sua corrispondenza segreta col vesc. di Parma, in Arch. st. per le Prov. Parmensi, new series, 15 (1915), pp. 197-230; E. Santini, L'elequenza it. dal Conc. Tridentino ai nostri giorni, I, Palermo 1925, pp. 197-210; C. A. Jenolo, Il giansenismo in Italia prima della Rivoluzione, Bari 1928, pp. 391-93; Placido da Pavullo, A. T. fu giansenista?, Reggio Emilia 1933; P. Savio, Devozione di mons. A. T. alla S. Sede, Rome 1939; G. Natali, Il Settecento, II, 2nd ed., Milan 1947 (see index); Lex. Capucc., Rome 1951, coll. 1743-44.

Felice da Mareto

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