an Italian theologian and poet, was born at Rome, May 2,1683. He joined the Jesuits, taught rhetoric, philosophy, and theology at, the Germanic college of Rome, and died there about 1765, leaving seven Tragedies in Latin verse (Vienna, 1746; Rome, 1750): — De Jesu Infante (Rome, 1747); both works are published under his academic name, Tirfro Ercopolita: — some Latin poems inserted in Arcadtum Carmina (ibid. 1757). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gé neralé, s.v.