Ansalone, Pietro - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 849

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

ANSALONE, PIETRO. – Ascetic writer, born at S. Severino (Salerno) in 1633, died at Naples in 1713. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1651, taught literature and philosophy, and for 40 years was a preacher in Naples.

He left sermons and various spiritual works, published at Naples, among them: The Open Book, Jesus in the Passion (1696); The School of Christian Virtues in the Heart of Sorrowful Mary (1693); a commentary on the litanies of Our Lady: The Sighs of the Devout Soul of Mary Most Holy (1700); a com-

(photo: Superintendency of Monuments, Liguria, Genova)
ANSALDO, GIOVANNI — St. Peter heals the lame man, fresco in the church of the Annunziata — Genoa.

ment to the Magnificat: The Crown of Canticles (1700); Spiritual Exercises (1701); The Treasure of the Christian Soul: the Most Holy Wounds of Jesus (1703). These little works, together with a brief biography of the author, were reprinted in 2 volumes in 1721.

BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, cols. 413–15; VIII, col. 1660. Ambrogio Piocchi