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Galatino, Pietro

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Author(s): Morisi, Anna
Galatino, Pietro, * ca. 1460 (Galatina (Puglia)), † about 1540 (Roma) Galatino's surname derives from the town where he was born from a family of Albanian origin which, some time before, had reached the Italian coast under pressure of the Turkish expansion. According to one tradition, the name of the family was Colonna, according to other sources, Mongiò. While still young, Galatino joined the Observant Friars Minor in St. Catherine's monastery in Galatina; in 1515 he became Vicar of the Franciscan Observa…