Apostoli, Pietro Francesco Deglt

Apostoli, Pietro Francesco Deglt an Italian theologian, was a native of Novara. He studied canonical law under Marco Antonio Ottelio of Padua. He afterwards. distinguished himself as a preacher at Palermo, Genoa, Rome, Malta, and elsewhere. He became successively chaplain of cardinal Orsini, counsellor of the Inquisition, and finally abbot of Grazie di Novara, where he collected a choice library. He died in 1650. He wrote, Delle Lodi di S. Car lo Borromeo Panegirico (Rome, 1617):-Plura ad quinque Libros Decretalium:-Ad Loca Selecta Sacrce Scripturce:-a De Immunitate Ecclesiastica, in Rosini, Lycei Lateranensis Illustrium Scriptorum Elogia, and in Cotta, Museo Novarese. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.