GIROLAMO da PISTOIA. – Capuchin theologian and preacher, born c. 1508 to the Finucci (or Finugi) family, died at Suda (Crete) on 29 November 1570. He entered the Friars Minor Observants in 1531; after 1552 he definitively joined the Friars Minor Capuchin: general definitor (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 Orders; from his teaching at the general houses of studies in Rome (1567) and Genoa (1570) came the De quantitatibus rerumque distinctionibus dialogus (Rome 1570), a commentary on G. Duns Scotus’s Formalitate; in order to provide for the Bonaventurian orientation of the Order’s schools, he contributed to the corrected edition of the text Scriptum d. Bonaventurae... in quatuor libros Sententiorum (4 vols., there 1568–69, edited by the Conventual Friar A. Posi); Pius V appointed him apostolic theologian (1568) and made use of him as an adviser. In his preaching he polemicized against Protestant doctrine; at the request of his listeners he published 22 Prediche (Bologna 1567, Venice 1570). Carnesecchi (v.) to receive the Sacraments on the eve of his execution. He discussed with Pius V the naval expedition against the Turks in 1570; as superior of the Capuchin chaplains, he sacrificed his life assisting soldiers afflicted by plague.