COLOMBO, Sisto. - Salesian priest, scholar of ancient Christian literature, b. in Milan in 1878, d. in Turin in 1938. He was a free lecturer in Latin literature at the University of Turin and held the position of lecturer in ancient Christian literature at the Sacred Heart University. He left a copious output: editions, commentaries, and anthologies of Latin writers, as well as popular articles. But his name will remain in the field of Catholic culture for the advancement he gave to the study of ancient Christian literature.
He published numerous articles in *Didaskaleion* (v.), to whose foundation he contributed with P. Ubaldi, and of which he was editor and co-director, studying in particular Tertullian, Cyprian, Minucius Felix, Arnobius, Prudentius, and John Chrysostom.
Major works: *La poesia cristiana antica*, Part 1: *La poesia latina* (Rome 1910); *Arnobio Afro e i suoi sette libri «Adversus Nationes»* (in *Didaskaleion*, 18 [1930], pp. 1-124); *Primavera cristiana* (posthumous, Turin 1939); the critical edition of Tertullian’s *Apologeticum*, with commentary (ibid. 1915, and in the *Corpus Paravianum* [ibid. 1915]). He established the plan for the *Corona Patrum Salesiana* and contributed two volumes: *De sacerdotio* by St. John Chrysostom (1934) and the *Opuscula* of St. Cyprian (1935). In the series *Pagine cristiane antiche e moderne*, which he directed first with Ubaldi and then alone, he published a selection of *Acts of the Martyrs* in translation (1928).