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Filippo Ferrari (Philippus Ferrarius) (1551 – 1626)[1] was an Italian Servite monk and scholar, known as a geographer, and also noted as a hagiographer.[2]

Life

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

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

External links

• CERL page.
• (in Italian) Italian dictionary entry.
• (in Italian) Comune de Oviglio.

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