to Rome in November 1649 where he presented the Pope with a repport entitled "Relazione delle cose in Irlanda", which recounts his stay in Ireland in 36 chapters. Rinuccini returned to his diocese in Fermo in June 1650. He died on 13 December 1653 in Fermo. Commentarius Rinuccinianus Rinuccini had planned to write a detailed account of his mission after his return to Fermo and had asked two Irish Capuchin friars, Richard O'Ferrall and Robert O'Connell, to come to Fermo to help him with that task. After his death, the two Cupuchins wrote in Florence the work now called the Commentarius Rinuccinianus in five volumes. It stayed in manuscript from and would only be printed in 1949. This account blames personal vainglory and tribal divisions for the Catholic disunity in Ireland. In particular, it blames the Old English for the eventual Catholic defeat. The Gaelic Irish, it claimed are more sincere Catholics, despite being less civilised. Literary works Rinuccini wrote books on philosophy, rhetoric, history and geography. While he considered his religious writings his most important works, his most popular book was Il Cappuccino Scozzese () (The Scottish Capuchin), a fictionalised life of the Scottish monk George Leslie. References Notes Citations Sources Subject matter monographs: Click here. Rev. Edward Alfred D'Alton 1912 in Catholic Encyclopedia Click here. Tadhg hAnnracháin in Dictionary of Irish Biography Click here. Stefano Tomassetti in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Online edition – Online edition – History Further reading – Does not seem to be available online – (Not available online) – Aphorismical Discovery, 1641 to 1648 1592 births 1653 deaths 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Archbishops of Fermo Diplomats of the Holy See Clergy from Rome People of the Irish Confederate Wars University of Bologna alumni University of Perugia alumni University of Pisa alumni