Giulio Prudenzio di Alvito, nephew of Mario Equicola and courtier of Federico Gonzaga first and then of Vittoria Colonna, retired in old age in Alvito, and was the first of the few learned countrymen to write a «Discrizione d'Alvito et suo Contato raccolta parte dal trovato, parte dal visto et parte dallo inteso». The county of Alvito, in that [...]
Settefrati, a municipality in the Comino Valley, belongs to the district of Alvito, the district and diocese of Sora and the military district of Frosinone; it depends on the Civil and Correctional Court of Cassino, the Court of Assizes of S. Maria Capua Vetere and the Court of Appeal of Naples. It is part of the electoral college of Sora [...].
On 25 September 1656, d. Giovanni Macari of Settefrati, in a holographic will, signed by five witnesses, wrote his last will regarding the destination to be given to his property after his death. Prominent among his dispositions was the bequest made to the church of S. Maria di Canneto, which began with the ritual formula: “Likewise [...]
Picinisco is the last village on the Canneto itinerary, before tackling the roughness of the high mountains and reaching the coveted destination, for the companies or processions of devotees, who every year on August bank holiday come on foot from the plains of lower Liri, from Cassinate and from the mountainous hinterland of the Mainarde, preserving one of the oldest and most [...].
From the Acts of the sacred visit of the bishop of Sora, Monsignor Felice Tamburrelli, emerge the first details of the interior of the church of Canneto, and the first historical news of the traditional feasts of the Madonna and the existence of a small church dedicated to the SS. Annunziata, located on the esplanade of the temple. The visit to the sanctuary, by mandate [...].
Paolo Mattia Castrucci (1575-1633), a historian from Alvito, like his fellow-citizen Giulio Prudentio (1574) a little earlier, and like every good Alvitano, who had always been a devotee of the Madonna Bruna, one day also wanted to make himself a pilgrim of Canneto, climbing from the Settefrati side along the same path that generations of pilgrims had already travelled for centuries [...].
As will be remembered, it was aggregated with other parish benefices of the diocese to the seminary of Sora since June 1569 for the support of the pious institute. From the inventory of the real estate of this church, compiled in August 1619 by Fr Giulio Annichino, archpriest of Settefrati, and transcribed in the “Green Book” of the diocesan archives, we learn for the first time [...].
There were many. We have a first hint of this during the provostship of Fr Federico de Manlion (...l530-l534); then a second, more precise hint in 1574 by Prudenzio di Alvito, who tells us that among those many relics there was also a piece of the wood of the cross. The bishop of Sora Giovannelli (1609-1632), convinced and [...]
On 15 July 1563, with the decree “Cun adolescentum”, the Council of Trent decreed that the individual cathedral, metropolitan and other major churches, depending on the means and size of the diocese, should religiously educate and instruct in ecclesiastical disciplines a certain number of children to be held in a “college”, located in the same churches [...].
The first mention of the church of S. Maria di Canneto, as a building, is found in the collective letter “Deum placare” of 25 November 1475, the contents of which are well known. In it, the two cardinals of S.R.C., Bartolomeo Roverella and Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II, at the request of the commendatory abbot of Canneto, Francesco de [...].