VENTIMIGLIA, MARIANO. - Carmelite, general and historiographer of the Order, b. at Vatolla (Salerno) on 18 Feb. 1703, d. at Naples on 28 Apr. 1790.
A professed member of the Carmine Maggiore of Naples, after several years of teaching philosophy at Piacenza and then at Naples, he was there regent of studies, prior and commissary general. Subsequently he was elected provincial of the Neapolitan province (1758), assistant general (1759) and prior general of the Order (1762-68). An esteemed theologian and preacher, he devoted himself by preference to the history of the Order, publishing three works still highly esteemed today: Degli uomini illustri del regal convento del Carmine Maggiore di Napoli (Naples 1756); Historia chronologica priorum generalium latinorum Ordinis B. V. M. de Monte Carmelo (ibid. 1773; Rome 1929), biographies of the Carmelite generals from the beginning of the Order up to 1773, with accounts of the most notable events that occurred during the generalate of each of them; Il sacro Carmelo italiano (Naples 1779), a historical-statistical outline of the Order in Italy in the 18th century, of particular interest because it was made shortly before the suppressions.
Bibliography3 worksM. Ventimiglia, Il Sacro Carmelo Italiano, Naples 1779, pp. 264-66; C. Minieri Riccio, Memorie storiche degli scrittori nati nel Regno di Na
BIBL.: M. Ventimiglia, Il Sacro Carmelo Italiano, Naples 1779, pp. 264-66; C. Minieri Riccio, Memorie storiche degli scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli, ibid. 1844, p. 367; M. Ventimiglia-G. Wessels, Historia chronologica Priorum Generalium O. Carm., 2nd ed., Rome 1929, pp. 329-34, 355.
Valentino di Maria. “Ventimiglia, mariano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1237. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/ventimiglia-mariano.
MLA
Valentino di Maria. “Ventimiglia, mariano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 1237. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ventimiglia-mariano.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_ventimiglia_mariano,
author = {Valentino di Maria},
title = {Ventimiglia, mariano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1237},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ventimiglia-mariano}
}
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