Girolamo Dandini ( la, Hieronymus Dandinus; 1554–1634) was an Italian

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and academic. Dandini de corpore animato

Life

He was born in

Cesena Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137. History Cesena was o ...

. With Juan Maldonado he was the first Jesuit professor in Paris, at the

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; there he taught

François de Sales Francis de Sales (french: François de Sales; it, Francesco di Sales; 21 August 156728 December 1622) was a Bishop of Geneva and is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to ...

. Later he was professor of theology at

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

. He was sent in 1596 by

Pope Clement VIII Pope Clement VIII ( la, Clemens VIII; it, Clemente VIII; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1592 to his death in March 1605. Born ...

as nuncio to Lebanon, to preside at a general

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council, for the purpose of introducing certain liturgical reforms. It was held at the

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. On the way Dandini visited

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; he was accompanied by Fabio Bruno, who had been on an earlier mission in 1580 with

Giovanni Battista Eliano Giovanni Battista Eliano (; died 1580) was a Jesuit priest and scholar of Oriental languages. Life Giovanni Battista Eliano, sometimes called Giovanni Battista Romano, was a convert to Roman Catholicism from Judaism, and flourished in the se ...

Works

His ''De corpore animato'' was one of the last scholastic analyses of the intelligible species concept in

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

. He was author of an ''Ethica sacra: hoc est de virtutibus, et vitiis libri quinquaginta'', published in 1651. In 1656 his account of his mission in Lebanon was published as ''Missione apostolica al patriarca, e maroniti del Monte Libano''. It was translated into French by Richard Simon as ''Voyage au Mont Liban'' (1675).Guy G. Stroumsa, ''A New Science: the discovery of religion in the Age of Reason'' (2010), p. 183 note 9
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dandini, Girolamo 1554 births 1634 deaths Academic staff of the University of Perugia 16th-century Italian Jesuits People from Cesena 17th-century Italian Jesuits Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers