Filippo Picinelli (1604 - c.1679) was an Augustinian canon.

Biography

Picinelli was born in

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in 1604 and joined the Augustinian Order in 1614. He studied philosophy and theology at

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and Piacenza, and lived in Milan. Picinelli believed that the world of God's creation could read as a symbolic book. This led him to assemble an encyclopaedia of

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s extending to more than a thousand pages, his ''Mondo simbolico'' (''Symbolic World'').

Books

* ''Ateneo dei letterati milanesi'', Milan, 167
Ateneo dei letterati milanesi
* ''Foeminarum S. Scripturae Elogia'', 1694 Latin editio
Foeminarum S. Scripturae Elogia: Centuria Singularis
* ''Labores Apostolici'' (1711 Latin edition, Vol.
Labores Apostolici: Quibus accessêre Sermonis geminati in sesto Nativitatis Domini, ... Cum Indicibus Copiosis Sermonum, Rerum, & Applicationum ad singgulos does Quadragesimae. Labores Apostolici, Exhibiti in Secundo Quadragesimali
* ''Lumi riflessi'', 1667 (1702 Latin edition ''Lumina reflexa
Lumina reflexa seu Omnium veterum classicorum ac ethnicorum authorum exactissimus consensus ...: deserviens instar commentarii ad totam S. Scripturam
* ''Mondo simbolico'', 1635 (1681 Latin edition, ''Mundus Symbolicus'', Vol.
Mundus Symbolicus: In Emblematum Universitate Formatus, Explicatus, Et Tam Sacris, quam profanis Eruditionibus ac Sententiis illustratus: Subministrans Oratoribus, ... Innumera Conceptuum Argumenta. Cum quadruplici copiosissimo Indice, Lemmatum, Applicationum, Rerum notabilium, & locorum S. Scripturae. 1
1687 Latin edition, Vol.
Mundus Symbolicus in emblematum universitate formatus, explicatus, et tam sacris, quàm profanis eruditionibus ac sententiis illustratus ...
* ''Sacrarum religionum'' (1696 Latin editio
Sacrarum religionum maximae ex Regula S.P.N. Augustini ...: desumptae ac centrum discursibus Italicis explicatae
* ''Symbola virginea'' (1694 Latin editio
Symbola virginea, ad honorem mariae matris dei ...
* ''Tributa encomiorum'' (1697 Latin editio
Tributa encomiorum: heroicis quorundam sanctorum virtutibus

References

External links

* 4 Enoc

{{DEFAULTSORT:Picinelli, Filippo 1604 births 1679 deaths Augustinian canons 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians