Bibliography
The fact that San Gaetano is an obscure Saint especially for English speaking peoples, has been an obstacle for me in gathering the right sources of information. Moreover books published about him are scarce and many times unavailable.
I have gathered information about our Saint from the Internet especially, so it is impossible to acknowledge all my sources for the only reason that all the thousands of little bits of information came from different sources and in different languages. I do have the advantage of being well versed in Italian and French and of picking up a little bit of Spanish and Portuguese through their affinity with Italian and Latin. It was harder for me to decipher German and other languages. A rough translation from Google Translate, all be it sometimes literal, helped a lot here and there.
Books about San Gaetano are hard to get, and even though I tried to make contact with the Theatines themselves (The Order San Gaetano founded) in Italy, Spain and the U.S., I never received an answer. Pity, because the Italians have an ongoing web site of their own and the web site of the Spanish Theatines used to advertise an extensive list of books about the Saint both in Italian and Spanish. Of these books, further down, I am presenting just the outside front cover.
The few booklets I have are translations into Maltese and when I have to quote from these it takes a twist of the brain to translate from a translation!
* Most of my efforts were in freely translating the basic story of his life from San Gaetano Thiene by Michele Gianpietro which is published on the internet in a shorter version in Italian and building upon that with more information from elsewhere.
* San Gejtanu Thiene in Maltese translated by Mariosa Camilleri from the book in Italian Lettere di San Gaetano Thiene by P. Pasquale di Pietro C.S.
* Niltaqghu ma San Gejtanu (Let us meet St.Cajetan) Written in Maltese by Walter Camilleri on the 500th anniversary of the Saint’s Birth. (I found this booklet useful in finding places connected to the Saint in Malta)
* Ittri ta' San Gejtanu Thiene Published 2005. An up to date translation of the letters of the Saint from the archaic Italian into Maltese by Father Nikol Debono Montebello. This book also has a few beautifully rendered pictures of paintings of the Saint in Maltese towns and villages. (I found this book useful in my chapter about the Spirituality of the Saint)
* Fr. Martin Micallef, Parish Priest of Wied il-Ghajn Malta was very helpful in sending me information from the writing of Kan. Joe Abela, Marsaskala, Malta 1999 pg. 35-36, about the small San Gejtanu chapel in that village.
* Maltese Hymns to San Gejtanu are from a book Innijiet, a compendium of hymns to local Patron Saints by Dun Frans Camilleri, a priest of Hamrun, a great friend of mine and a well known poet.
* John Mary Gatt from the Collegiate Church of St.Paul's Shipwreck in Valletta took me around the church showing and explaining anything connected to San Gejtanu. He also sent me a number of pictures by e-mail, some of which I posted on this website.
Also Online:
* Some information about the Sacking of Rome from Mario Francini’s Fatti, fattacci e fatterelli di vita Italiana giorno dopo giorno attraverso i secoli Frassinelli, Milan 1985.
* Pictures of San Gaetano Church in Rogoredo Milano Italy kindly sent to me by members of the Choir Corogoredo.
* Absolute astronomy.com encyclopedia
* Catholic Encyclopedia.
* Dizionario del pensiero cristiano alternativo for some information about the life of Gian Matteo Giberti
* Online friends from Malta like Ian Pintley and Mario Micallef for numerous pictures and amount of information connected to the Saint.
* Photoplay Malta for permission to use the picture of a painting in Provvidenza chapel Siggiewi in the Malta page.
* Many other web sites too innumerable to mention, especially for my lengthy chapter All over the world.
Books written about San Gaetano and his Theatines:
Letters of S.Gaetano da Thiene.
In Italian - compiled by Pasquale di Pietro C.R. 1980
San Gaetano Thiene
by Michele Gianpietro 1980
San Gaetano and the start of Catholic Reformation.
In Italian - by Enrico Lucatello 1941 Rep. 1995
Gaetano Thiene the Saint - Priest
In Italian - by P.Bernardo Laugeni C.R.1997
San Gaetano Thiene -
Heart of Catholic Reform
In Italian - by Piero Chiminelli 1848
Christ waits and no one moves
The letters of San Gaetano
In Italian - compiled by V.Cosenza C.R. 1988
S.Gaetano Thiene great man and great saint
In Italian - by Giovanni B. Mattoni C.R. 1981
I Gaetano Priest
Life of San Gaetano from his letters
In Italian - by Vincenzo Cosenza C.R. 1992S.
Gaetano Thiene from Vicenza and his precious Heritage.
In Italian - by Pasquale di Pietro 1997
Life of San Cayetano
In Spanish - by Eduardo Gonzales
Illustrated life of San Cayetano
In Spanish - by Juan Bautista Caastaldo C.R. 1985
Compendium of the life of San Cayetano
In Spanish - by P. Cayetano Vergara C.R. 1921
San Cayetano Thiene Saint of (Divine) Providence
In Spanish - by Fray Contardo Miglioranza 1990
San Cayetano of Thiene Patriarch of the Clerics Regular
In Spanish - by D.A.Veny Ballester C.R. 1950
On the footsteps of The father of (Divine) Providence
In Spanish - by D.Pedro Rullan C.R. 1949
The Constitution of the Order of Clerics Regular
Madrid 1995 - In Spanish.
The devotion to San Cayetano in Spain
In Spanish - by Francisco Gil C.R.
The Theatines Charisma - History - Makeup
In Spanish - by Antonio Oliver C.R. 1991
San Cayetano Father of Providence
In Spanish - by A.V.Ballester C.R. 1952
Cayetano of Thiene A witness to the Sermon on the Mount
In Spanish - by Valentin Arteaga 1986
Cayetano of Thiene A guide of hope for the 3rd Millenium
In Spanish - by Valentin Arteaga 1997
Letters and ascetical writings of San Cayetano of Thiene
In Spanish - by A.V.Ballester C.R. 1977
All the above books used to be advertised on a Spanish Theatine website until recently.