LUPI, ANTONIO MARIA - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. VII, p. 1018

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

LUPI, ANTONIO MARIA. - Jesuit, born in Florence on 14 July 1695, died in Palermo on 3 Nov. 1737. Most erudite in theology, philosophy, Church history, literature, mathematics, and civil and military architecture.

Marangoni (v.) BOLLANDISTI (v.), he collected copies of many Christian sepulchral and church inscriptions preserved in cod. Lat. 9143 and in mss. 507, 532, and 2661 of the Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele. His principal work is: *Dissertatio et animadversiones ad nuper inventum Severae martyris epitaphium* (Palermo 1743). This, however, is not the inscription of a martyr, but rather of a simple faithful woman who died in the year 269, whose tomb was discovered on the Via Salaria in 1730; the inscription is now preserved in the Museo cristiano Lateranense.

BIBL.: Sommervogel, V, cols. 187-92. Other works were collected by Fr. F. Zaccaria under the title *Dissertazioni, Lettere ed operette del p. A. M. L.* (2 vols., Faenza 1784-85, of which Vol. I contains 13 sacred dissertations; Vol. II, 15 profane dissertations and 23 erudite letters); A. Silvagni, *Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae, nova series*, I, Rome 1922, p. L1, p. 103; G. Ferretto, *Note storiche bibliografiche di archeologia cristiana*, Vatican City 1942, pp. 230-33.