Filippo Ferrari
{{Short description|Italian Servite friar and scholar (1551–1626)}}
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Filippo Ferrari (Philippus Ferrarius) (1551 – 1626){{cite book|author1=Mirella Ferrari|author2=Marco Navoni|title=Nuove ricerche su codici in scrittura latina dell'Ambrosiana: atti del Convegno, Milano, 6-7 ottobre 2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VH_xoHBdT_sC&pg=PA409|year=2007|publisher=Vita e Pensiero|isbn=978-88-343-1486-9|page=409}} was an Italian Servite friar and scholar, known as a geographer, and also noted as a hagiographer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.servidimaria.org/it/storia/uomini_illustri/ferrari/index.htm |title=servidimaria.org, Ferrari Filippo |access-date=2012-04-11 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909080329/http://www.servidimaria.org/it/storia/uomini_illustri/ferrari/index.htm |archive-date=2012-09-09 |url-status=dead }}
File:Officia Propria Festorum Fratrum Ordinis Servorum 1609.jpg, in front of Roberto Bellarmine.]]
Life
He was born at Oviglio in Piedmont. It is near Alessandria, and he was nicknamed Alessandrino (Philippus Ferrarius Alexandrinus). He taught mathematics for 48 years at the University of Pavia.{{cite book|author1=John Aikin|author-link=John Aikin|author2=William Johnston|title=General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YUg_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA74|year=1803|publisher=Robinson|page=74}}
Ferrari was prior general of his order from 1604 to 1609, and vicar general in 1624/5.{{Cite web |url=http://www.servidimaria.org/en/storia/breve_storia.htm |title=A Short History |access-date=2012-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705103554/http://www.servidimaria.org/en/storia/breve_storia.htm |archive-date=2010-07-05 |url-status=dead }} He was therefore head of the Servites at the time of the Venetian Interdict, and was consulted by Paolo Sarpi in Venice.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/paulpopepaulfria00trol#page/208/mode/2up|title = Paul the pope and Paul the friar : A story of an interdict|year = 1861}}{{cite book|author=Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini|author-link=Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini|title=Biografia di frà Paolo Sarpi, teologo e consultore di Stato della repubblica Veneta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIYDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239|year=1836|page=239|language=it}} A detailed account of Ferrari's dealings with Pope Paul V during the confrontation of those years was given by Fulgenzio Micanzio, Sarpi's ally.{{cite book|author=Fulgenzio Micanzio|title=The life of the most learned Father Paul: of the order of the Servie. Covncellour of state to the most serene republicke of Venice, and authour of The history of the Covnsell of Trent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107|year=1651|publisher=Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Richard Marriot|page=107}} It was with Ferrari's approval that Sarpi took up the appointment as theological consultant to Venice on 28 January 1606.{{in lang|it}} [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fulgenzio-micanzio_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ treccani.it, Micanzio, Fulgenzio.]
Works
Ferrari published his Epitome Geographicum in 1605.{{cite book|author=Filippo Ferrari|title=Epitome geographicum: in quattour libros divisum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ppBAAAAcAAJ|accessdate=11 April 2012|date=1605|publisher=Viani}} His Lexicon Geographicum was published internationally in a number of later editions: edited by William Dillingham (London, 1657),{{cite DNB|wstitle=Dillingham, William}} and by Michel Antoine Baudrand (Paris, 1670).{{cite book|author=Filippo Ferrari|title=Lexicon geographicum... Illud primum in lucem edidit Philippus Ferrarius,... nunc Michael Antonius Baudrand,... hanc editionem... dimidia parte auctiorem fecit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mavtyw70ofAC|accessdate=11 April 2012|date=1670|publisher=Apud F. Muguet}} It was used in the Dictionarium Historicum, (Oxford, 1670) of Nicholas Lloyd.Dictionary of National Biography, Lloyd, Nicholas (1630–1680), historical compiler, by Thompson Cooper. Published 1892.
Other works included:
- Nova Topographia in Martyrologium Romanum (1609).{{cite book|author=Filippo Ferrari|title=Nova Topographia in Martyrologium Romanum|publisher=Apud Bernardum Iuntam, Io. Baptistam Ciottum, & Socios|url=https://archive.org/details/ita-bnc-mag-00002790-001|accessdate=11 April 2012|date=1609}}
- Catalogus sanctorum Italiae in Menses duodecim distributus (1613).{{cite book|author=Filippo Ferrari|title=Catalogus sanctorum Italiae in menses duodecim distributus|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2kb5Q5Tj8QsC|accessdate=11 April 2012|date=1613|publisher=Bordonius}}
- Catalogus generalis sanctorum (1625).{{cite book|author=Filippo Ferrari|title=Catalogus generalis sanctorum, qui in Martyrologio Rom. non-sunt, ex variis martyrologiis, kalendariis, tabulis, monumentisque ecclesiarum, necnon vitis eorundem impressis; ... collectus, ac in duodecim menses instar martyrologij distributus suis vbique n|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZi7dliggywC|accessdate=11 April 2012|date=1625|publisher=apud J. Guerilium}}
Notes
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External links
- [http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00966200 CERL page.]
- {{in lang|it}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202817/http://193.205.158.207:8082/fabitaliano2/dizionari/corpus/biografie/FerrariF_vita.htm Italian dictionary entry.]
- {{in lang|it}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120408050230/http://www.comune.oviglio.al.it/1/cenni_storici_1028540.html Comune de Oviglio.]
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