Quotes:Alagona, Pietro

Zirkoff, Boris

Alagona, Pietro. Sicilian Jesuit theologian, b. at Syracuse, 1549; d. in Rome, Oct. 19, 1624. Entered the Society of Jesus at Palermo, Dec. 22, 1564. Showed from early youth profound knowledge of canonical law; taught for twenty years philosophy and theology at Palermo and Messina, and was vice-rector of the College of Trapani. Called to Rome by Claudio Aquaviva, he exercised there for some thirty years the difficult function of examiner of bishops, being also the rector of the penitents at the Vatican. His earlier works were published under his mother’s name, Givvara. Best known for his Compendium of the works of Martin Aspilcueta (Rome, 1590; Lyons, 1591, etc.); his * S. Thomae Aquinatis theologica summae compendium, which went through twenty-five editions (Rome, 1619, 1620; Lyons, 1619; Würzburg and Cologne, 1620; Paris, 1621; Turin, 1891; British Museum has the Venice ed. of 1762, 4to.); and his Enchiridion, seu manuale confessariorum, which went through more than twenty editions. He also published a Compendium of the whole Canon Law (Rome, 1622-23, etc.).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 404