- Pietro Caperolo
Pietro Caperolo (date of birth unknown; d. at
Velletri in 1480) was an ItalianFranciscan preacher.Life
He was known as a preacher in
Brescia , Velletri, and other cities of Northern Italy. Caperolo played an important part in the religious disturbances, which arose about the year 1475, between the Franciscan provinces ofMilan andVenice , and which were occasioned in great measure by the war then going on between Milan and the Venetian Republic.Caperolo succeeded in obtaining permission from
Pope Sixtus IV to separate several convents of the Venetian provice from the obedience of theObservants , and to form a vicariate, which was placed under the obedience of theConventuals , but retained the right to elect its own provincial superior. The members of the new congregation were known as Caperolani.The death of Caperolo, however, put an end to the Caperolani as a distinct branch within the order, and the members of the new vicariate returned to the obedience of the Observants.
References
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Luke Wadding , "Annales Minorum" (Rome, 1732), XIII, 402; XIV, 242;
*Kobler in "Kirchenlexikon ", s.v.
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