Dom Placido Puccinelli (16091685) was a Cassinese monk, historian and scholar.

Biography

Placido Puccinelli was born at Pescia and educated at the abbey of S. Maria in

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. He began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. For a long time, he was itinerant, travelling between the cities of

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. At one time he was a master of novices at Gessate. Frances Andrews, ''The Early Humiliati'' (1999), p. 18
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He frequented the then-young Ambrosian Library in

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, founded by

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. Back in Florence, he served in various offices at the Badia Fiorentina. He wrote numerous works based on unpublished documents from the Badia's archive. He died in the Badia Fiorentina in 1685. Puccinelli was interested in historical studies, but above all

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and

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, in which the abbey had a tradition. He modelled his style after that of the historian of

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, , whom he befriended. Another scholarly friendship was with . Like Puricelli he wrote on the history of the Humiliati.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Puccinelli, Placido 1609 births 1685 deaths 17th-century Italian historians Italian male non-fiction writers 17th-century Italian male writers 17th-century Italian Christian monks