Camaldunians, or Camaldolites, an order of religious, founded by Romuald, an Italian fanatic, in 1023, in the horrible desert of Camaldoli, otherwise called Campo Malduli, situated in the state of Florence, on the Apennines. Their rule is that of St Benedict; and their houses, by the statutes, are never to be less than five leagues from cities. The Camaldulians have not borne that title from the beginning of their order; till the close of the eleventh century they were called Ronnaldins, from the name of their founder. Till that time, Camaldulian was a particular name for those of the desert Camaldoli; and D. Grandi observes, was not given to the whole order in regard it was in this monastery that the order commenced, but because the regulation was best maintained here.

Guido Grandi, mathematician of the grand duke of Tuscany,