ANGIOLINI. - Four brothers, born in Piacenza, who lived in the Society of Jesus at the time of its suppression.
FRANCESCO, b. in 1750, entered the novitiate of Venice in 1765, distinguished himself as a Hellenist and Hebraist. Important is his translation of Flavius Josephus with erudite 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. But, having returned to the Society at Polotsk in White Russia in 1783, he died there in 1788.
GAETANO, the best known of the four, b. in 1748, entered the novitiate of Venice in 1765, returned to White Russia in 1783. A preacher for the Italians at St. Petersburg, he published there (1802) Guida sicura al Cielo. In 1803 he was sent to Italy as procurator general by the vicar general Father Gabriele Gruber. In 1804, together with Blessed Joseph Pignatelli, he obtained from Pius VII and from Ferdinand IV the re-establishment of the Society in the kingdom of Naples; in 1805 he founded the new province of Sicily. His impetuous character caused him shortly afterwards to be deposed from the office of procurator and occasioned no little difficulty for his superiors. Appointed consultor of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, he died in Rome on 17 Nov. 1816. His correspondence is preserved in the Casanatense Library in Rome.
GIUSEPPE, b. in 1747, a Jesuit first at Venice in 1762 and again at Polotsk in 1783, died there in 1814. As the fruit of his teaching at the Academy of Polotsk he left Institutiones philosophicae (St. Petersburg 1819).
LUIGI, b. in 1754, entered the Order in Russia in 1784 and died at Polotsk in 1793, before reaching the priesthood.