Amadei, Girolamo - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 581

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

AMADEI, GIROLAMO. — Theologian, born in Siena around the year 1483, died in Lucca on 16 February 1543. He was a Servite religious and became vicar general for Germany. Through his teaching of theology at Bologna and Siena and, above all, through the zeal he displayed in combating Lutheran doctrines, to whose refutation he devoted several unpublished writings, he earned the esteem of Pope Adrian VI, who appointed him superior general of the Or-

Article illustration — AMADEO, GIOVANNI ANTONIO — Spire called “dell’Amadeo.” Milan, Cathedral.

dine. Of him there is an Apologia sull'immortalità dell'anima (Milan 1518).

BIBL.: A. Vacant, s. V. in DThC, I, col. 932; I. Fraikin, s. V. in DHG, II, cols. 915–16. Cesare Bertola