a congregation of religious in Italy, so called from Peter Caperole their founder, in the 15th century.

The Milanese and Venetians being at war, the enmity thereby occasioned spread itself to the very cloisters. The superiors of minor brothers in the province of Milan, which extended itself as far as the territories of the republic of Venice, carried it so haughtily over the Venetians, that those of the convent of Brescia resolved to shake off a yoke which had grown insupportable to them. The superiors, informed of this, drove out of the province those whom they considered as the authors of this design, the principal of whom were Peter Caperole, Mat-