Inside the church, in the chapel to the right of the high altar, is buried the maccheronico poet, Teofilo Folengo, better known as Merlin Cocai (1492 - 1544). He was the most famous parodic-verist poet in the Maccheronica language, who retired here in 1543.
The fame of Campese, a characteristic small city at the entrance of the Valsugana, is mainly linked to this famous presence. In fact, Tassoni says: "Campese, whose fame in the West and in terms of Ireland and the Catajo, stretches the tomb of Merlin Coccaio" (La secchia Rapita, 8, 24). To understand the halo of poetry and cheeky joy that hovers around this poet, remains a significant anonymous inscription that makes even more the idea of his burlesque spirit: "De Verzilio Maron, la bucolica soa ghe fa d'inchin: è questo il gran Merlin che stroppada ghe l'ha col macheron". The beauty and healthiness of the place made the convent an oasis of rest for religious seeking refreshment; on the other hand, its isolation transformed it into a place of confinement for monks suspected of unorthodox sympathies.
