ANGIOLINI. — Four brothers, born in Piacenza, who lived in the Society of Jesus at the time of its suppression.
FRANCESCO, born in 1750, entered the novitiate at Venice in 1765, and distinguished himself as a Hellenist and Hebraist. Important is his translation of Flavius Josephus, with learned notes: Dell'opere di Giuseppe Flavio dall'originale greco nuovamente tradotto in lingua italiana (4 vols., Verona 1779–80; various reprints in Rome and Florence up to 1840). He also translated the finest tragedies of Sophocles. However, after re-entering the Society at Polock in White Russia in 1783, he died there in 1788.
GAETANO, the best known of the four, born in 1748, entered the novitiate at Venice in 1765, and returned to White Russia in 1783. Preacher for the Italians in St Petersburg, he published there (1802) Guida sicura al Cielo. In 1803 he was sent to Italy as procurator general by the vicar general, Fr. Gabriele Gruber. In 1804, together with Blessed Giuseppe Pignatelli, he obtained from Pius VII and Ferdinand IV the restoration of the Society in the Kingdom of Naples; in 1805 he founded the new province of Sicily. His impetuous character soon led to his removal from the office of procurator and caused no small difficulty for his superiors. Appointed consultor to the S. Congregation of Rites, he died in Rome on 17 November 1816. Some of his correspondence is preserved in the Casanatense Library in Rome.
GIUSEPPE, born in 1747, a Jesuit first at Venice in 1762 and again at Polock in 1783, died there in 1814. As the fruit of his teaching at the Academy of Polock, he left Institutiones philosophicae (St Petersburg 1819).
LUIGI, born in 1754, entered the Order in Russia in 1784 and died at Polock in 1793, before reaching the priesthood.