Fulvio Androzzi or Androzio (1523–1575) was an Italian

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and author of devotional literature.

Life

Androzzi was born in 1523 in Montecchio (since renamed

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), in the

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. He bore the title

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, probably having graduated from the

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, and became

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to Berardo Bongiovanni,

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, and was appointed to a

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in the

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in Loreto.Alberto Merola,
Androzi, Fulvio
, ''

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'', vol. 3 (1961). In December 1555 he joined the

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, founded just 15 years previously, and returned to

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as an itinerant missionary. From late 1557 he was rector of the Jesuit college in

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, and from 1561 of the college in

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. He was professed of the

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in Ferrara on 14 September 1562. He was active helping victims of the plague in 1570–1571, and began the extension of the college buildings (completed in 1580). He died in Ferrara on 27 August 1575.

Writings

After Androzzi's death, his manuscript writings were prepared for publication by Francesco Adorno, rector of the Jesuit college in Padua, and were printed in Milan at the press of Pacifico Pontio in 1579, under the title ''Opere spirituali del R. P. Fulvio Androtio della Compagnia di Gesù''. This contained a meditation on the life and passion of Christ, a treatise on frequent communion, and a treatise on widowhood and the spiritual life. The collection went through many reprints between 1580 and 1626, in Milan, Venice and Naples, and individual treatises were translated into all the major languages of Western Europe. ;Editions and translations * ''Opere Spirituali'', vol. 2 ''Della Frequentia della Communione'' (Venice, Ziletti, 1580) * ''Devot memorial des saints mysteres de la mort et passion de nostre sauveur et redempteur Jesus Christ'', translated by

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(Arras, Jean Bourgeois, 1595) * ''Traictè de la frequente communion et des fruicts qui en procedent'', translated by Antoine Gazet (Douai,

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, 1599)

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and Malcolm Walsby (eds), ''Netherlandish Books: Books Published in the Low Countries and Dutch Books Printed Abroad before 1601'', vol. 1 (Leiden, Brill, 2011), p. 45. * ''Onderwys oft practycke om dikwils het H. Sacrament des Autaers profytelyck te nutten'', translated by Nicolaus Burenus (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens, 1618)

References

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