Works
His published works include:
- Historica, theologica et moralis terræ sanctæ elucidatio: in qua pleraque ad veterem et præsentem ejusdem terræ statum spectantia accurate explicantur (2 fol. vols., pp. xxx-924-98 and 1014-120, Antwerp, 1639); second edition edited by P. Cypriano da Treviso (4 pts. in 2 fol. vols., Venice, 1880-1);
- De sacratissimis D. N. J. Christi quinque vulneribus, varia, pia et luculenta tractatlo . . ., approved by the examining theologians in 1643, but unknown to bibliographers; only three copies are extant -- one in the library of Brera, the Ambrosiana of Milan, and the National Library (Florence);
- Jerosolymæ afflictæ et humiliatæ deprecatio ad suum Philippum IV Hispaniarum et Novi Orbis potentissimum ac Catholicum Regem (1 quarto vol., pp. 74, Milan, 1631), very rare; there is a copy in the Ambrosiana of Milan;
- Ad SS. DD. N. Alexandrum VII Pont. Opt. Max. Fr. Francisci Quaresmii Laud. Ord. Min. Pia Vota pro anniversaria Passionis Christi solemnitate (1 quarto vol., pp. xx-58, Milan, 1656), of which there is one copy in the Ambrosiana;
- Pro confraternitate SS. Stellarii B. Virginis Mariæ tractatus (1 quarto vol., Palermo, 1648);
- Itinerario di Caldea del Rev. P. Francesco Quaresmio e di Fr. Tomaso da Milano suo compagno. Min. Oss. e Giov. Batt. Eliano. Maronita, ed Elia Patriarca e con li Nestoriani etc. l'anno 1629, edited by Marcellino da Civezza in Storia delle Missioni Francescane, XI, 595-608.
Still in manuscript are:
- Apparatus pro reductione Chaldæorum ad catholicam fidem" ("six manuscript volumes, says Fr. Cyprian), which Quaresmius wrote when among the Chaldeans, and to which he refers in Elucidatio terræ sanctæ, I, li;
- Adversus errores Armenorum ("three volumes in folio", says Sbaralea), preserved in the Convent of Lodi;
- Deipara in Sanguine Agni dealbata, left incomplete by the author;
- Epistolæ ex oriente, in the archives of the Propaganda Fide.
These and other manuscript works are said to be preserved, some in the municipal library of Pavia and Lodi and some at Jerusalem.
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