a Sicilian theologian, was born in Palermo in 1599, and died in the same city in 1663. He became a Jesuit in 1614, and taught successively belles- lettres, philosophy, theology, and the Scriptures. Of his religious and philosophical works, the most important are Disputationes philosophicae, de quantitate, ejusque Compositione, Essentia, etc. (Palermo, 1644, fol.); and Immaculata Deiparce Conceptio theologicae Commissa trutinae (Lyons, 1666, fol.). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale; Mongitore, Bibliotheca Sicula; Bibliotheque des Ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus. (J.W.M.)