BURGOS (Isveglies), Alessandro. — Conventual Franciscan friar, philosopher, theologian, orator, and historian of wide learning and most pious life, was born at Messina in 1668 and died at Catania on 20 July 1726. He taught in Rome, Perugia, Turin, Padua, and Bologna, where he also served as theological examiner and synodal examiner. Highly esteemed by the scholars of his time and well known at the Roman Curia, he was consultor of the Index, member of the Arcadia and of other Italian and foreign academies, and was finally elected and consecrated by Benedict XIII (20 Feb. 1726) as Bishop of Catania.
He published various works on philosophy, theology, ecclesiastical history, and poetry, as well as juridical-moral dissertations, discourses, and treatises on eloquence and ascetics. The most important of all is the *De Scriptoribus ecclesiasticis veteribus, praemissa Artis Criticae et eius regularum notitia*, judged an “opus ingens” (manuscript).