SACCHINI, FRANCESCO. - Jesuit, historian and man of letters, b. at Paciano (Perugia) on 10 Nov. 1570, d. at Rome on 16 Dec. 1625.

After teaching rhetoric at Florence and at the Collegio Romano, he was charged in 1606 with continuing the history of the Order, begun by Fr. Orlandini; during this work he was also for 17 years secretary of the general Mercurian. He published with slight revisions vol. I of the Historia Societatis Iesu, left by Orlandini (1614), then followed: vol. II, on Laínez (Antwerp 1620); the III on Borgia (Rome 1649); the IV on Mercurian (ibid. 1652), the first part of the V on Acquaviva (ibid. 1661). In this work, his lively love of truth is clearly displayed in the evaluation of sources, in the observance of chronology and in the documented investigation of the most minute particulars. In the field of pedagogy he left De ratione libros cum profectu legendi deque vitanda moribus noxia (Ingolstadt 1614); Protrepticon ad magistros scholarum inferiorum (Rome 1625); Paraenesis ad magistros scholarum inferiorum (ibid. 1625); all rich in enthusiasm for the art of teaching and in acute observations on the characters of the pupils.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, VII, 362-68; Cenni biografici of Fr. P. Poussines in the preface to vol. V of the Historia; G. B. Germi, Gli scrittori pedagogici italiani del sec. XVII, Turin 1900, pp. 41-56.

Celestino Testore

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