The College of St Bonaventure (; ) at Quaracchi ('), near

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Order of Friars Minor The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a Mendicant orders, mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis ...

History

It was founded 14 July 1879, by , Archbishop of Sardis, then

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of the order. The first director and superior of the college was Fidelis of Fauna, under whose management a new edition of the works of St. Bonaventure was inaugurated. His successors were and .

Quaracchi editions

Works published at Quaracchi, and edited by the friars there, besides the of St. Bonaventure, included the , edited in greatest part by Quinctianus Muller (d. 1902), which contain a collection of chronicles relating to the early history of the Franciscan order. Besides these, there were the , and the , inaugurated in 1904 with a critical edition of the writings of

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., As well as continuing the "" of

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, the twenty-fifth volume of which appeared in 1899, the friars 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

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was undertaken. The "", a monthly in Latin, and the official organ of the order, and the new "", were published at Quaracchi.

Attribution

* The entry cites: **''St. Anthony's Almanac'' (1906); **Carmichael in ''The Month'' (January, 1904). {{Authority control Franciscan universities and colleges Book publishing companies of Italy Publishing companies established in 1879