ANTONIO da GERUSALEMME. — Franciscan missionary in Palestine. It is not known exactly where or when he was born; he knew four Oriental languages. In 1717 he was appointed lecturer in the Arabic language at the missionary college of S. Pietro in Montorio in Rome and penitentiary for the Oriental languages at S. Pietro. He returned to his homeland in 1722. In 1742, a translation of the Imitation of Christ into Arabic by him was published in Rome.
Several other publications by him are known, almost all anonymous or pseudonymous; the following may be mentioned: Lettere del conte Aurelio Rosalbi al sig. Carminio Donzelli, letterato di Salerno, Firenze e Palermo 1728, defending the teaching method of the Jesuit colleges, and Esamea dissertationis theologicae negantis baptismum infantis in utero, editae a d. Martino Orelli Barnabita, Firenze 1710.