an Italian Minorite of Sestola, in Modena, was born in 1598. He was a good Arabic scholar, and spent most of his time at Rome, where he died Aug. 1, 1666. He wrote, Dilucidatio Speculi Vetum Ostendentis pro Achmned Filio zin Alabedin, contra Politorem Speculi (Rome, 1625, and often): Catalogus Haeresium et Hereticorum (ibid. 1661): — Catalogus Conciliorum Catholicorum et Heterodoxorum a Calvinistis et Lutheranis Celebratorum (ibid. eod.): — Compendio Istorico della Basilica de' Santi Apostoli (ibid. 1663). See Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d' Italia; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)