Ilarione Rancati "Milanese dell'Ordine cisterciense", il Collegio di studi e la biblioteca romana di S.Croce in Gerusalemme

The Cistercian monk from Milano, llarione Rancati (1594-1663), theologian, jurist, orientalist of the Roman Curia, is connected with the establishment of the College of studies in Philosophy and Theology of the Abbey of S. Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome and with the collection of books and manuscripts which is the original library in Rome of the Cistercian Congregation of "S. Bemardo in Italia". All the writings left by Rancati have been searched for in Milan and Rome, in the libraries Ambrosiana, Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II of Rome, Sessoriana of S. Croce in Gerusalemme of Rome. The manuscripts preserved in the Ambrosiana and described by Filippo Argelati in the 18th century are listed in the Appendix.