ANGIOLINI

ANGIOLINI. - Four brothers, born in Piacenza, who lived in the Society of Jesus at the time of its suppression.

FRANCESCO, b. 1750, entered the novitiate in Venice in 1765, distinguished himself as a Hellenist and Hebraist. Important is his translation of Flavius Josephus with harsh notes: *Dell'opera di Giuseppe Flavio dall'origine greca nuovamente tradotto in lingua italiana* (4 vols., Verona 1779-80; various reprints in Rome and Florence until 1840). He also translated the finest tragedies of Sophocles. But, having returned to the Society in Polotsk in White Russia in 1783, he died there in 1788.

GAETANO, the best-known of the four, b. 1748, entered the novitiate in Venice in 1765, returned to White Russia in 1783. Preacher for Italians in St. Petersburg, there he published (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 the 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 deposition from the office of procurator and caused 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. 1747, a Jesuit first in Venice in 1762 and again in Polotsk in 1783, died there in 1814. As a fruit of his teaching at the Academy of Polotsk he left *Institutiones philosophiae* (St. Petersburg 1819).

LUIGI, b. 1754, entered the Order in Russia in 1784 and died in Polotsk in 1793, before reaching the priesthood.

BIBL.: Sommervogel, cols. 391-95; P. Bernard, s. V. in DHG, III, cols. 127-29.