GHISLERI, MICHELE. – Theologian and exegete, born in Rome in 1563, died there on 27 June 1646. A religious of the Theatine Order (1584), he had Antonio Agellio as his teacher, from whom he learned the Oriental languages and a great love for Sacred Scripture, of which he became an outstanding student. A friend and confessor of Giovanni Battista Vives, he inspired the pious prelate with the idea of an international college for the missions (the seed of the College of Propaganda).
His principal work: Commentarii in Canticum (Rome 1600), with an ecclesiological-Marian interpretation.
BIBL.: F. A. Vezzosi, Scrittori dei Chierici Regolari Teatini, I, Rome 1780, p. 393 ff.; Hutter, III, cols. 445–46; C. De Rosa, I Teatini e le origini del Collegio Urbano, in Alma Mater, 3 (1948), pp. 6–14, especially p. 7. Antonio Piolanti