PALLAVICINO (or PALLAVICINI), PIETRO

See also:

• SFORZA
• SFORZA, CATERINA (1463-1509)

SFORZA (16o7-1667)  , Italian cardinal and historian, son of the Marquis Alessandro Pallavicino of Parma, was born at Rome in 1607 . Having taken holy orders in 163o, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1638, he successively taught philosophy and theology in the Collegium Romanum; as professor of theology he was a member of the congregation appointed by Innocent X. to investigate the Jansenist heresy, In 1659 he was made a cardinal by Alexander VII . He died at Rome on the 5th of June 1667 . Pallavicino is chiefly known by his history of the council of Trent, writtenin Italian, and published at Rome in two folio volumes in 1656-1657 (znd ed., considerably modified, in 1666) . In this he continued the task begun by Terenzio Alciati, who had been commissioned by Urban VIII. to correct and supersede the very damaging work of Sarpi on the same subject . Alciati and Pallavicino had access to many important sources from the use of which Sarpi had been precluded; the contending parties, however, are far from agreed as to the completeness of the refutation . The work was translated into Latin by a Jesuit named Giattinus (Antwerp, 167o-1673) . There is a good edition of the original by Zaccharia (6 vols., Faenza, 1792-1799) . It was translated into German by Klitsche in 1835-1837 . He also wrote a life of Alexander VII. and a tragedy (Ermenegildo, 1644), &c . His collected Opere were published in Rome in 1844-1848 .