Sermoni Mariani di Alessio da Seregno vescovo di Piacenza (1412-1448)

Abstract

Alessio da Seregno OFM (1360/65-1448) was a lector in S. Francesco Grande at Milan, and became bishop of Bobbio, afterwards ofPiacenza. He was active at the Councils of Pisa (1409), Constance (1414-18), Basle (since 1431). As a lector he commented Peter Lombard's Sententiae, and he gave several speeches / homilies at the Councils, particularly at Constance. His homilies are transmitted by 15th-Century MSS: Stresa, Centro internazionale di studi rosminiani, 22 (datable ca. 1430-35); Brescia, Bibl. Queriniana, A.VI. 30; Assisi, Bib1. del Sacro Convento, 560. Three sermons for the Visitation and the Assumption of Our Lady are here edited.