Carisio, Antonio

Carisio, Antonio an Italian hagiographer and founder of an order, was a native of Cuggione, in the district of Milan, and lived in the middle of the 17th century. He was curate of Milan, where he founded a congregation of monks for the aid of the sick. He wrote, I Capeli della bella Penitente Riveriti (Milan, 1649):

—Ritratto di Gesi, etc. (ibid. 1671): —Esercizj sopra i Dolori di Gesu Cristo (ibid. 1,672). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, s.v.