CANTINI, TOMMASO. – Carthusian, died on 18 November 1649. A doctor of theology, he left the Society of Jesus to enter the Carthusian Order at the monastery of Naples, where he made his profession on 21 December 1608. He was prior of Trisulti, Capri, and Calabria.
We have from him: Expositio in Canticum Canticorum... opus... emendatum ac in meliorem formam redactum... in lucem editum a ven. Patre D. Victore Felicissimo (Nabantino) Calabrae Cartusiae... Priore, Naples 1859. Among the manuscripts he left: Sacra Carmina (manuscript in the Barberiniana Library, Rome, no. CXXIX); De bonitate et malitia humanorum actuum, ll. II.
BIBL.: S. Autore, Scriptores S. Ordinis Cartusiensis, manuscript of the Grande Chartreuse, IV, pp. 268–69; D. Taccone-Gallucci, Memorie storiche della certosa di Calabria, Naples 1885, p. 51. Gabriele Costa