Antonio Amico (died 1641) was a
Roman Catholic
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of
Palermo, and ecclesiastical historian of
Syracuse and
Messina. He was also known as a historiographer of
Philip IV of Spain
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and the religious and secular history of
Sicily
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Amico conducted extensive archival research in Sicily, discovering and transcribing important documents relating to the history of the island. He died in 1641, having published several historical works of great value, and leaving many others in
manuscript
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. Amico's manuscripts were deposited after his death in the libraries of the duke of Madonia and of Jaime de Palafox y Cardona,
archbishop of Palermo
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, and entitled ''Chronologia de los Virreyes, Presidentes, y de otras personas que han governado el Reyno de Sicilia'', Palermo, 1640, 1687, 4to.
* ''Brevis et exacta narratio....Siciliæ regum annales ab anno 1060 usque ad præsens sæculum''.
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1641 deaths
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
Italian historians of religion
Year of birth unknown
Religious leaders from Palermo
17th-century Italian historians