an Italian historian, was born at Rome, April (or August) 13, 1633, studied law, but devoted himself to antiquities, enjoyed several offices at the pontifical court, founded a scientific school, and died July, 12, 1698. He wrote, De Duobus Emblematibus in Cimelio Cardinalis CarpiniAsservatis (Rome, 1691): — An Pontifex Romanus Baculo Pastorali Utatur (ibid. 1690): — De Sacris Edificiis a Constantino Magno Constructis (ibid. 1693): — De Perpetuo Azymorum usu in Ecclesia Lat. (ibid. 1688): — De Cruce Stationali (ibid. 1774): — Examen Libri Pontificalis (ibid. 1688). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:573, 613, 620, 632, 635, 680; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)