The College of St Bonaventure ( la, Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae; it, Collegio di San Bonaventura) at
Quaracchi ('), near
Florence, Italy, is a publishing centre of the
Order of Friars Minor.
History
It was founded 14 July 1879, by Mgr.
Bernardino del Vago
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*Bernardino Baldi (1533–1617), Italian mathematician and writer
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Archbishop of Sardis, then minister general of the order. The first director and superior of the college was Father
Fidelis of Fauna, under whose management a new edition of the works of
St. Bonaventure was inaugurated. His successors were
Ignatius Jeiler and
Leonard Lemmens
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Quaracchi editions
Works published at Quaracchi, and edited by the "Patres editores", besides the ''Opera Omnia'' of St. Bonaventure, included the ''Analecta Franciscana'', edited in greatest part by
Quinctianus Muller, O.F.M. (d. 1902), which contain a collection of chronicles relating to the early history of the Franciscan order. Besides these, there were the "Bibliotheca Franciscana scholastica medii aevi", and the "Bibliotheca Franciscana ascetica medii aevi", inaugurated in 1904 with a critical edition of the writings of
Francis of Assisi
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As well as continuing the "Annales" of
Luke Wadding
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Life
Early life
Wadding was born on 16 October 1588 in Waterford to Walter Wadding of Waterford, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Anastasia ...
, the twenty-fifth volume of which appeared in 1899, the Fathers of the college edited a number of other publications of a purely devotional and literary character. In 1903 a new critical edition of the work of
Alexander of Hales was undertaken. The "Acta Ordinis", a monthly in Latin, and the official organ of the order, and the new "Archivum Franciscano-Historicum", were published at Quaracchi.
Attribution
* The entry cites:
**''St. Anthony's Almanac'' (1906);
**Carmichael in ''The Month'' (January, 1904).
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Franciscan universities and colleges
Book publishing companies of Italy
Publishing companies established in 1879