He studied in Savona at the College of the Lazarists, then at the University of Genoa. In 1814 he decided to enter the restored Society of Jesus, but was hindered by his mother, a widow with no other sons. After three years, already a deacon, he fled from his father’s house and entered the Jesuit novitiate at the church of S. Ambrogio in Genoa (1817). He taught in Turin, then in Rome (1820) and Naples (1821), where he continued to distinguish himself by angelic piety and virtue, following the example of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, whose name he adopted in place of his own Agostino. Ordained priest in 1824, he died prematurely in Benevento after a few years of intense and fruitful apostolate, especially promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. His cause of beatification was introduced by Pius X in 1906.
SOLARI (SOLARIO), CRISTOFORO, known as IL GOBBO — Monument to Ludovico Sforza, known as il Moro, and to Beatrice d’Este — Pavia, church of the Certosa.
SOLARIO, ANDREA — SOLARO DELLA MARGARITA
which is stylistically akin to the impetuous Madonna in the Salting collection in London. From his final period are the Rest in Egypt in the Poldi Pezzoli collection, and the Lamentation in Scotland. The artist died about 1520 in Pavia while executing the Assumption in the Certosa, completed in 1576 by Bernardino Campi. — See pl. LIX.