Alessio da Seregno OFM (1360/65-1448) was a lector in S. Francesco Grande at Milan, and became
bishop of Bobbio, afterwards of Piacenza. He was active at the Councils of Pisa (1409), Constance
(1414-18), Basle (since 1431). As a lector he commented Peter Lombard’s Sententiae, and he gave
several speeches / homilies at the Councils, particularly at Constance. His homilies are transmitted
by 15th-Century MSS: Stresa, Centro internazionale di studi rosminiani, 22 (datable ca. 1430-35);
Brescia, Bibl. Queriniana, A.VI. 30; Assisi, Bibl. del Sacro Convento, 560. Three sermons for the
Visitation and the Assumption of Our Lady are here edited.
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