Diavolo, Fra (lit. Brother Devil), Michele Porsa, a Calabrian, originally a monk, who left his monastery and joined a set of bandits, who lent themselves to and conducted insurrectionary movements in Italy; taken prisoner, was hanged at Naples; Auber's opera, “Fra Diavolo,” has no connection with him except the name (1760‒1806).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Diastase * Diaz, Barthélemy