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Seventh General of the Society of Jesus , born at Naples, 5 May, 1585; died at Rome, 6 June, 1649. He was of the family of the Counts of Montorio and a relative of Pope Paul IV . He entered the Society of Jesus , 4 October, 1604, and was sixty years of age at his election as general. He died four years after. He had taught philosophy and governed the principal house of the Society at Naples, and was provincial at the time of the election to the generalship. In 1635 he had published his "Fascetto di Mirra" (Bundle of Myrrh), which has been translated into several languages. He is the author of several other ascetical works such ascetical works such as
- Cammino del Cielo ,
- Cittadino del Cielo ,
- Il Peregrino della terra ,
- Idea Christiani hominis , and
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