Girolamo Dandini (; 1554–1634) was an Italian

Jesuit The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

and academic. Dandini de corpore animato

Life

He was born in

Cesena Cesena (; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy; and - with Forlì - is the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. Served by Autostrada A14 (Italy), Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine M ...

. With Juan Maldonado he was the first Jesuit professor in Paris, at the

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; there he taught

François de Sales Francis de Sales, C.O., O.M. (; ; 21 August 156728 December 1622) was a Savoyard Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Geneva and is a saint of the Catholic Church. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the reli ...

. Later he was professor of theology at

Perugia Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ...

. He was sent in 1596 by

Pope Clement VIII Pope Clement VIII (; ; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 January 1592 to his death in March 1605. Born in Fano, Papal States to a prominen ...

nuncio An apostolic nuncio (; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international organization. A nuncio is ...

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

, to preside at a general

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council, for the purpose of introducing certain liturgical reforms. It was held at the Qannubin Monastery. On the way Dandini visited

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; he was accompanied by Fabio Bruno, who had been on an earlier mission in 1580 with

Giovanni Battista Eliano Giovanni Battista Eliano (; 15303 March 1589) was a Jesuit priest and scholar of Oriental languages. Life Giovanni Battista Eliano, sometimes called Giovanni Battista Romano, was a convert to Roman Catholicism from Judaism, and flourished ...

Works

His ''De corpore animato'' was one of the last scholastic analyses of the intelligible species concept in

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

. He was author of an ''Ethica sacra: hoc est de virtutibus, et vitiis libri quinquaginta'', published in 1651. In 1656 his account of his mission in Lebanon was published as '' Missione apostolica al patriarca,

e maroniti del Monte Libano E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''e'' (pronounced ); plu ...

''. It was translated into French by Richard Simon as ''

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'' (1675).Guy G. Stroumsa, ''A New Science: the discovery of religion in the Age of Reason'' (2010), p. 183 note 9
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dandini, Girolamo 1554 births 1634 deaths Academic staff of the University of Perugia 16th-century Italian Jesuits People from Cesena 17th-century Italian Jesuits Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers