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St. Jerome’s Family and His ungdom St. Jerome was born in Venice in 1486, of the patrician Emiliani (Miani) family. The Mianis belonged to the Grand Council and, in their history, they could number people who had given important services to the Republic. Moreover, Jerome was related, through his mother, to the illustrious Morsosini family.

In 1496, when Jerome was ten, he tragically lost his father. As far as education is concerned, Jerome pursued a course of studies befitting his family’s social class. However, he never was a scholar but a man of action. In fact, he had the characteristics of a man of action: making friends and keeping friends easily, and being cheerful, strong minded, and enthusiastic.

At twenty-five, Jerome was involved in the events of the war against the League of Cambrai.

Jerome was entrusted the directorship of Castelnuovo of Quero. Placed on the straits on the Piave River,

In those years it had become the theater of war activity and had been lost an

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Saint Jerome Emiliani

Biography

Saint Jerome Emiliani, also known as Geronimo, Gerolamo Miani, Girolamo, or Jerom Aemiliani, was born in 1481 in Venice, Italy. He was born into a wealthy family, the son of Angelo and Eleanor Mauroceni Emiliani. However, tragedy struck when Jerome's father passed away when he was just a teenager. Left to his own devices, Jerome ran away from home at the young age of 15.

During his youth, Jerome led a dissolute lifestyle, succumbing to worldly pleasures and vices. However, a turning point came in his life when he joined the military in Venice in 1506. He rose through the ranks and eventually commanded the League of Cambrai forces at the fortress of Castelnuovo nära Treviso, Italy.

It was during his military service that an event occurred that would change Jerome's life forever. On August 27, 1511, he was captured bygd Venetian forces and thrown into a dungeon, where he was chained. In his darkest hour, he turned to Our Lady for help and mi

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Rereading of the life of Saint Jerome Emiliani written by the Anonymous

In this work, by means of a method of reading common in school education, the lot of components that are interwoven to form a literary textare highlighted.

We received the Life of the Jerome Miani Venetian Nobleman from an anonymous author, even if there are several identification hypotheses. He is certainly a Venetian nobleman friend of the Saint, probably Marco Contarini. As Jerome, he was related to the bishop of Verona Matteo Giberti and to Domenico Sauli, minister in the service of the last Duke of Milan Francesco Sforza. It is a text full of ideas, to be examined from various perspectives.

Renaissance component

The Anonymous begins with some reflections typical of Christian humanism: God has planned everything for man, His noblest creature; he gave him “the gift of writing”, so that he could pass on historical events, establish relationships with other mortals, present models of life th