NICHOLAS ALBERTI. — Theologian and preacher, born in Palermo in 1652, died there in 1707. Learned and pious, he published, among other works: *Commentari sacro-istorici della vita, dottrina e miracoli di Gesù Cristo* [Sacred-historical commentaries on the life, doctrine, and miracles of Jesus Christ] (2 vols. in folio, Palermo 1703). A. Mongitore composed his biography as a preface to Alberti’s posthumous work, *La terra dei viventi scoperta ai mortali* [The land of the living revealed to mortals] (in folio, Naples 1709).
BIBL.: A. Mongitore, *Biblioteca Sicula*, II, Palermo 1714, pp. 85 and 45; G. M. Mira, *Bibliografia Siciliana*, I, Palermo 1875, p. 19; G. Salvo-Cozzo, *Giunte e correzioni alla lettera A della Bibl. Sic. di G. M. Mira*, Palermo 1881, p. 43. Antonino Romeo