Filippo Ferrari (Philippus Ferrarius) (1551 – 1626) was an Italian

Servite The Servite Order, officially known as the Order of Servants of Mary (; abbreviation: OSM), is one of the five original mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church. It includes several branches of friars (priests and brothers), contemplative nun ...

friar and scholar, known as a geographer, and also noted as a

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Officia Propria Festorum Fratrum Ordinis Servorum 1609

Life

He was born at

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. It is near

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, and he was nicknamed ''Alessandrino'' (Philippus Ferrarius Alexandrinus). He taught mathematics for 48 years at the

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. Ferrari was prior general of his order from 1604 to 1609, and vicar general in 1624/5. He was therefore head of the Servites at the time of the

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, and was consulted by

Paolo Sarpi Paolo Sarpi, O.S.M. (14 August 1552 – 15 January 1623) was an Italian Servite friar and Catholic priest who was a notable historian, scientist, canon lawyer, polymath and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period ...

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. A detailed account of Ferrari's dealings with

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during the confrontation of those years was given by

Fulgenzio Micanzio Fulgenzio Micanzio (1570 in Passirano – 1654 in Venice) was a Lombardic Servite friar and theologian. A close associate of Paolo Sarpi, he undertook correspondence for Sarpi and became his biographer. He also was a supporter of Galileo Galile ...

, Sarpi's ally. It was with Ferrari's approval that Sarpi took up the appointment as theological consultant to Venice on 28 January 1606.

Works

Ferrari published his ''Epitome Geographicum'' in 1605. His ''Lexicon Geographicum'' was published internationally in a number of later editions: edited by William Dillingham (London, 1657), and by Michel Antoine Baudrand (Paris, 1670). It was used in the ''Dictionarium Historicum'', (Oxford, 1670) of

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. Other works included: *''Nova Topographia in Martyrologium Romanum'' (1609). *''Catalogus sanctorum Italiae in Menses duodecim distributus'' (1613). *''Catalogus generalis sanctorum'' (1625).

Notes

External links

CERL page.

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