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Placido Puccinelli

Italian monk, historian and scholar (1609–1685)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Dom
name	Placido Puccinelli
honorific-suffix	OSB
title	abbot
birth_date	1609
birth_place	Pescia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
death_date
death_place	Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
nationality	Italian
resting_place	Badia Fiorentina
occupation
religion	Roman Catholicism
order	Benedictines
ordination	17 January 1626

| honorific-prefix = Dom | honorific-suffix = OSB 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 Florence. He began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. For a long time, he was itinerant, travelling between the cities of northern Italy. At one time he was a master of novices at Gessate. He frequented the then-young Ambrosian Library in Milan, founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. 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 He wrote numerous works based on unpublished documents from the Badia's archive.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 genealogy and prosopography, in which the abbey had a tradition. He modelled his style after that of the historian of Lucca, , whom he befriended. Another scholarly friendship was with . Like Puricelli he wrote on the history of the Humiliati.

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[[Frances Andrews (historian)

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