BRUNO, ANTONIO. – Jesuit missionary, born in Messina ca. 1588, entered the novitiate on 6 January 1605. Having set out for the Indies, he completed his theological studies at Goa, from where he sailed in 1620 for Ethiopia. He worked zealously and successfully at Fremona, Collela (1624), Adaxà (1626), and again at Collela (1631). But expelled from Ethiopia by the new emperor Fasiladas together with Patriarch Mendez and the other missionaries (1633), he died at Goa on 8 September 1640.
BIBL.: C. Beccari, Rerum Aethiopicarum Scriptores occidentales inediti, Rome 1903–1917, passim (cf. the Index in vol. XV); A. Leanza, Albori di fede e d'italianità in Etiopia: p. A. B. messinese missionario in Etiopia, Acireale 1938.