Aimone Taparelli

Aimone Taparelli was born around 1395 in Savigliano to nobles who were the counts of Lagnasco. He first pursued a career in law and even married but soon became widowed and felt the call to the religious life instead.[1] In the 1500s - after him - there was the Bishop Gianmaria Taparelli and in the 1600s there was the Jesuit priest Cesare Michele Taparelli who moved to the United States of America.[3]

Taparelli studied - and later taught - at a college in Turin and entered the Order of Preachers at Savigliano in 1441 at the San Domenico convent; he also served as the chaplain to Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy but left his court because he was not satisfied with being there. Taparelli served as the Inquisitor-General for his order in the Lombard and Ligurian regions.[3] He was appointed as such to replace the murdered Bartolomeo Cerveri. He organized for the relics of Antonio Pavoni to be moved to Savigliano and interred at the Dominican church there.[1] In 1468 he became abbot of his convent and then prior of it in 1483; he was confirmed twice as the Inquisitor-General in 1483 and in 1489.

He died - he predicted his death date - on 15 August 1495 and his remains were later moved to the Saint Dominic church in Turin sometime in the 1900s.

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