Born in Naples in 1654, died in Rome in 1737. A Jesuit in 1669, he taught rhetoric in Rome and served as rector in Tivoli. He was a member of the Accademia degli Arcadi. His principal works are collected in three volumes of Carmina (Rome 1701–1703) and two of Orationes (1714); he also translated the Divina Commedia into Latin verse (Naples, actually Rome 1728, 3 vols.). He also left a Lexicon militare (Rome 1724).
BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, cols. 402–95. Edmondo Lamalle