LONGO, FRANCESCO. — Capuchin theologian, born in Corigliano Calabro in 1562, died in Rome on 21 December 1625. A member of the Roman province, he was a theology lecturer, provincial of Cosenza (1612–15), and visitor of the Lyon province (1616).
In the first volume (De Deo uno et trino) of an unfinished Summa theologica of St. Bonaventure (Rome 1622), he represents, among the Bonaventurian scholars of the Order, the eclectic attempt to reconcile the doctrine of the Seraphic Doctor with Thomism and Scotism. He later improved the Tractatus de casibus reservatis iuxta regulam Clementis VIII (Lyon 1616; 2nd ed. Cologne 1619; 3rd ed. Lyon 1623), included ecclesiastical history in the Breviarium chronologicum pontificum et conciliorum omnium (Lyon 1623), and that of synods in the Summa conciliorum omnium (Antwerp 1623), which was later completed by others (Paris 1639; 3rd ed. there 1645). His ascetical writings include the Horologio spirituale intorno alla Passione di N. S. Giesù Christo (Venice 1621) and the Horologio spirituale ovvero venti quattro meditazioni sopra tutti i principali misteri della vita della gloriosa Vergine Maria (Rome 1625; French trans., Lyon 1628).