FRUSIUS (Des Freux), André. - Jesuit humanist, b. at Chartres at the beginning of the 16th century, d. 26 Oct. 1556.
A man of letters and scholar, proficient in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, he translated the *Spiritual Exercises* into Latin, thus producing the *editio viaggia*. In 1547, together with St Peter Canisius, he went to the College of Messina where he taught Greek, instructed Paul and devoted himself to the reform of the Sicilian clergy. Rector of the College of Venice in 1551, he moved in 1553 to that of Rome, continuing always in teaching, and was also rector of the German College.
He did not, however, neglect his humanist inclinations, writing Latin epigrams and dialogues, editing classical texts *ad usum invenuti*, and composing a Latin syntax and a kind of stylistics: *De utraque copia verborum et rerum praecepta*, in verse.