SAVIO, FEDELE. - Jesuit, historian, b. at Saluzzo on 31 Jan. 1848, d. at Rome on 18 Feb. 1916.
SAVOY, HOUSE of - Great seal in green wax, with counter-seal in red wax, of Count Edward who reigned from 1233 to 1329. The equestrian figure and the counter-seal (EDUARD[us] COMES SABAVD[us]) bear the arms (silver cross on a red field (in the seal the background appears latticed with lozenges on which crosses are reproduced), assumed by Amadeus V the Great who reigned from 1285 to 1323. Property of Msgr. A. P. Frutaz.
Having entered the Order already a priest on 6 Nov. 1873, he taught history first at the College of the Visitation in Monaco Principality, then at the Istituto sociale of Turin; in the period 1893-94 he was attached to the writers of the Civiltà Cattolica; then, having returned to Turin, he devoted himself to teaching and to the publication of his works, until in 1906 he was called to the chair of ecclesiastical history at the Gregorian University.
The numerous historical works published deal with the history of Italy and the history of the Church; among the former are to be remembered: Studi storici sul march. Guglielmo III di Monferrato ed i suoi figli (Turin 1865); I primi Conti di Savoia (ibid. 1887); Le famiglie della Rovere e Tana, parenti di s. Luigi Gonzaga (Pisa 1890); I conti di Ventimiglia nei secc. XI, XII e XIII (Genoa 1894); among the latter, very numerous, are cited: Dell'origine dell'abbazia di S. Michele della Chiusa detta la Sagra di S. Michele (Turin 1888); Il papa Vigilio (Rome 1888); Il papa Zosimo, il Concilio di Torino e le origini del primato pontificio (ibid. 1906); Il 3º Centenario del card. Baronio, Rome 1907; La questione di papa Liberio (ibid. 1908); Nuovi studi sulla questione del papa Liberio (ibid. 1911); Punti controversi nella questione di papa Liberio (ibid. 1911); L'apparizione della Croce e la conversione di Costantino Magno, Rome 1913; but above all his capital work must be remembered: Gli antichi vescovi d'Italia dalle origini al 1300, descritti per regioni: I. Il Piemonte, Turin 1898; II. parte 1ª, Milano, Florence 1913; posthumous, parte 2ª, vol. I. Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Bergamo 1929; vol. II. Cremona, Lodi, Mantua, Pavia, ibid. 1932. To these may be added studies on the legends of St. Sirus, of Sts. Faustinus and Jovita; Nazarius and Celsus; Fedele, Alexander, Carpophorus and other martyrs, etc.; and the school textbooks of Storia d'Italia and Storia della Chiesa for upper and lower schools.