, a doctor of the Ambrosian college at Milan, and grand penitentiary
, a doctor of the Ambrosian college at Milan, and grand penitentiary of that diocese, who
died in 1640, at a very advanced age, made himself famous by a treatise “De Animabus Paganorum,
” published
in two volumes 4to at Milan, in 1622 and 1623. He
here examines into the final state in the world to come of
several illustrious pagans, and hazards bold and ingenious
conjectures on matters far beyond the reach of his intellect. He saves the Egyptian midwives, the queen of
Sheba, Nebuchadnezzar, &c. and does not despair of the
salvation of the seven sages of Greece, nor of that of Socrates; but condemns Pythagoras, Aristotle, and several
others though he acknowledges that they knew the true
God. This work, properly speaking, seems to be nothing more
than a vehicle for the display of the author’s erudition, of
which it doubtless contains a great deal. It is now ranked
among the curious and rare. He also wrote “Conclusiones theologies,
” De sanguine
Christi,
” full of profound disquisition and citations innumerable, Milan, de Animabus.
”
les lettres in his native city, and afterwards was employed as a missionary. In 1703 he was admitted a doctor of the Ambrosian college at Milan, and eight years afterwards
, or Sassi [Joseph Anthony), an ecclesiastical
historian, was born at Milan in 1673. He for some time
taught the belles lettres in his native city, and afterwards
was employed as a missionary. In 1703 he was admitted a
doctor of the Ambrosian college at Milan, and eight years
afterwards was appointed director of that college, and keeper
fits fine library. He died about 1756. He was author
of many theological, historical, and chronological works,
among which are, 1. “Epistola ad Card. Quirium de Literatura Mediolanensium,
” 4to. 2. “De Studiis Mediolanensium Antiquis et Novis,
” Milan, Archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium Series critico-chronologica,
”
ibid. St. Caroli Borromei Homilise, prefatione et notis,
” Rerum Italicarum Scriptores
” by Muratori.