GIROLAMO da PISTOIA. - Theologian and Capuchin preacher, born ca. 1508 into the Finucci (or Finugi) family, died at Suda (Crete) on 29 Nov. 1570. He entered the Observant Friars Minor in 1531, and after 1552 definitively passed to the Capuchin Friars Minor. He served as General (1555–58; 1567–70), Provincial Minister of Tuscany (1558), of Naples (1560), and of Bologna (1566).
At the Council of Trent (1562) he reported on the sacrament of Order. From his teaching at the general studies in Rome (1567) and Genoa (1570) came the *De quanto titatibus rerumque distinctionibus dialogus* (Rome 1570), a commentary on the *Formalitates* of G. Duns Scotus. To foster the Bonaventurian direction of the Order’s schools, he contributed to the corrected edition of the *Scriptum d. Bonaventurae... in quatuor libros Sententiarum* (4 vols., ibid. 1568–69, edited by the Conventual friar A. Posi). Pius V named him Apostolic Theologian (1568) and employed him as a counsellor. In his preaching he polemicized against Protestant doctrine; at the request of his hearers he published 22 Sermons (Bologna 1567, Venice 1570). CARNESECCHI, PIETRO (v.) to receive the Sacraments on the eve of his execution. He negotiated with Pius V regarding the naval expedition against the Turks in 1570; as superior of the Capuchin chaplains, he sacrificed his life in caring for plague-stricken soldiers.