ALLÈ, GIROLAMO. - Bolognese preacher, b. 1852, d. 1860. He entered (1607) the Order of St. Jerome of Fiesole, becoming definitor there. For thirty years he taught Sacred Scripture at the University of Bologna. His works, oratorical, ascetical, and polemical (Mazzucchelli, I, 1, pp. 500-501, and numbered 14) reflect the bombastic style of the 17th century.
Notable works include: *Il folle sogno* (1613), a discourse delivered at the Accademia dei Costanti of Camerino, of which the author was a member under the name "Rugiente"; *I concitati e confusi Ebrei*, discourses and Venetian ones, published in Ferrara in 1619; *Estratto spirituale per curare un'anima*, Bologna 1640; *Anatomia delle religioni*, ibid. 1645; *L'uomo che parla poco e ragiona molto*, ibid. 1646; *Il concatenato sconcatenamento di pensieri, parole e attioni umane...*, ibid. 1654; *Le chimere Pitagoriche, Cabalistiche, Chimiche e Giudiziarie dissipate dal vento della verità*, ibid. 1654; and various *Rappresentazioni spirituali* (sacred dramas) in verse.