Belli, Paolo

Belli, Paolo an Italian Jesuit, was born at Messina in 1588; joined his order in 1603; and died at Messina, Jan. 15, 1658. He wrote, Gloria Messanensium, seu de Epistola DeipareeVirginis ad Messanenses (Messina, 1647): — Theatri' Mamertini Descriptio Poetica: — Historia Dominicce Passionis ex iv Evangel. contexta (Venice, 1643): — Sacrifizio d'Abramo (Rome, 1648). Cappellanum sen . Eleenzosynarium Christi pro Sancts Animabus Purgatorii (M'essina, 1654, 1677). He also left (MS. in 2 vols. fol.) Millelogium Encoiniasticon Marianum, Mille. — Titulis Totidemnque Elogiis in Laudem B. Marice Virginis. See Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d'ltalia (Brescia, 1753); Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen., s.v.; Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v. (B. P.)