Cajetan, Ottavio

Cajetan, Ottavio an Italian Jesuit, was born at Syracuse, in Sicily, Aug. 22, 1566; and died, as rector of the college at Palermo, March 8,1620. He wrote Vitce Sanctorum Siculorum ex Antiquis Graecis Latinisque Monumentis (edited by Peter Salernus, Palermo, 1657): -Isagoge ad Historiam Sacram Sicuke (ibid. 1707). See Alegambe, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 676, 815; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)