Cavalieri, Marcello

Cavalieri, Marcello an Italian theologian of the order of Dominicans, brother of Giovanni Michele, was born at Bergamo about 1649. After having been professor of philosophy at Naples, he became vicar-general of cardinal Vincente Orsini, and then bishop of Gravina, in 1690, where he died in 1705. His principal works are, A Treatise on the Mass (Naples, 1686): Constitutiones Synodales (1693): —A Treatise on the Construction of Churches (in Italian, several times reprinted). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.