Filippo Ferrari
Filippo Ferrari (Philippus Ferrarius) (1551 – 1626)[1] was an Italian Servite friar and scholar, known as a geographer, and also noted as a hagiographer.[2]
Life
[edit | edit source]He was born at Oviglio in Piedmont.[1] It is near Alessandria, and he was nicknamed Alessandrino (Philippus Ferrarius Alexandrinus). He taught mathematics for 48 years at the University of Pavia.[3]
Ferrari was prior general of his order from 1604 to 1609, and vicar general in 1624/5.[4] He was therefore head of the Servites at the time of the Venetian Interdict, and was consulted by Paolo Sarpi in Venice.[5][6] A detailed account of Ferrari's dealings with Pope Paul V during the confrontation of those years was given by Fulgenzio Micanzio, Sarpi's ally.[7] It was with Ferrari's approval that Sarpi took up the appointment as theological consultant to Venice on 28 January 1606.[8]
Works
[edit | edit source]Ferrari published his Epitome Geographicum in 1605.[9] His Lexicon Geographicum was published internationally in a number of later editions: edited by William Dillingham (London, 1657),[10] and by Michel Antoine Baudrand (Paris, 1670).[11] It was used in the Dictionarium Historicum, (Oxford, 1670) of Nicholas Lloyd.[12]
Other works included:
- Nova Topographia in Martyrologium Romanum (1609).[13]
- Catalogus sanctorum Italiae in Menses duodecim distributus (1613).[14]
- Catalogus generalis sanctorum (1625).[15]
Notes
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- ^ (in Italian) treccani.it, Micanzio, Fulgenzio.
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- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Lloyd, Nicholas (1630–1680), historical compiler, by Thompson Cooper. Published 1892.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- CERL page.
- (in Italian) Italian dictionary entry.
- (in Italian) Comune de Oviglio.
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- 1551 births
- 1626 deaths
- Servites
- 17th-century Italian astronomers
- 16th-century Italian Christian monks
- 17th-century geographers
- 17th-century Italian scientists
- Academic staff of the University of Pavia
- Italian geographers
- Linguists from Italy
- Italian lexicographers
- Christian hagiographers
- Catholic clergy scientists
- 16th-century Italian mathematicians
- People from Oviglio