an Italian theologian, born at Florence on November 25, 1547, died at Kempten, Bavaria, on July 17, 1626. He occupied important posts at several Italian courts, but had to leave his native country when he embraced Protestantism. He lived afterward at Augsburg, Innsbruck, and (after 1606) at Kempten. He published Sermones in Matthoeum (Augsburg, 1609, 8vo); Principium Christianorum Summata (1612, 12mo); De principiis religionis Christianae (1612); Exercitationes theologicae (Kempten, 1616, 4to).