Moschetta, Valerio.

[RARE VITA OF THE DOMINICAN PREACHER, A KEY FIGURE OF THE 1233 'DEVOTION' – NO COPIES IN WORLDCAT] B. Ioannis Cognomento Vicentini Ord. praed. professi coenobii Paduani a. Aug. doctina, sanctitate, & miraculis insignis praeclara gesta ex variis scriptoribus in vnum congesta...

Padua: Apud Laurentium Pasq. (Lorenzo Pasquato), 1590. Quarto (22.5 × 16.4 cm). Original limp interim boards; 28 leaves printed to recto and verso. Title printed in decorative border, with printer's mark; engraved frontis portrait to verso (signed CF); decorative head and tail pieces, both typographic and woodcut. Light overall wear; small shelfmark to title; small wormhole to gutter affecting ffep and first three leaves; overall still a very good, wide-margined copy. Item #55094

Evidently the first (and possibly only separate) vita of Blessed John di Scledo (ca. 1200 to ca. 1265, also known as John of Schio or Vicenza), a Dominican priest and preacher of the thirteenth century who was originally from Vicenza. The Acta Sanctorum note that: "John Vincent of the Order of Preachers, convent of Bologna, was famous for so many miracles in his life that Gregory IX congratulated him on this grace by letters... he raised ten dead people and worked two hundred other miracles, some of which Cantipratus also reports. Although we regret that not everything was written in ancient times, we regret even more that no one of the ancients wrote a Life, nor did he reveal anything about his death or burial, as to the day, year, manner and place." The present text is one of the main sources the Bollandists relied on.

John of Vicenza had served as prior of the St. Augustine monastery in Padua, before being delegated to gather documentation about Saint Anthony of Padua as part of the canonization process. He is best known, however, for his role in the "Great Devotion" of 1233, a large-scale expression of religious fervor and conversion that combined Dominican mendicant preaching, political peace-making efforts, communal reforms, and the prosecution of movements deemed heretical. In addition to his renown skill at fostering peace, as Padua, where he pacified the civil war by his homilies, he was said to have performed numerous miracles, primarily at Bologna, leading to a cult following his death.

Little is known about the author, Moschetta, or Muscheti, a Dominican friar in Padua, who became prior of the St. Augustine monastery in 1586 or 1587.

As of April 2025, not in KVK, OCLC.

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