Archinto, Alessandro (2)

Archinto, Alessandro (2)

an Italian Jesuit and a miscellaneous writer, was born at Milan in 1577, and died in 1645. He wrote a Compendium of Rhetoric the Rules of Rhetoric: — an historical Treatise, which-is preserved in MS. in the Casa Archinta: — also several eulogies upon members of the Jesuit Order, which are preserved in the Library of the Fathers at Milan. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.