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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Robert Bellarmine, Giuseppe Casoria, Francesco Marmaggi, Giovanni Tonucci, Diomede Falconio, Alessandro Borgia, Angelo Comastri, Benedetto Lorenzelli, Filippo de Angelis, Giulio Boschi, Giovanni Cheli, Richard Palmer, Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Nikolaus von Schonberg, Ersilio Tonini, Marcello Mimmi, Giuseppe Betori, Alfonso Capecelatro, Giovanni Domenico Mansi, Mario Mocenni, Carlo Gualterio, Giovanni Andrea Archetti, Luciano Storero, Giuseppe Firrao, Jr., Paolo Polidori, Tommaso Caputo, Giuseppe Molinari, Ignazio Cannavo, Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro, Giovanni Battista Bussi, Latino Orsini, Pietro Accolti, Giacomo Filippo Fransoni, Luigi de Magistris, Francesco Colasuonno, Antonio Saverio De Luca, Felix of Ravenna, Poppo of Treffen, Gaetano Alibrandi, Luigi Amaducci, Giuseppe Mani, Ettore Cunial, Ascanio II Piccolomini, Pasquale Macchi, Piergiorgio Nesti, Anastasius Germonius, Byzantius, Giuseppe Palica, Andrea dei Mozzi, Carmelo Pujia, Paulinus I of Aquileia, Alphonso Carinci, Andrea Cassone, Juan Pilars, Mario Peressin. Excerpt: Robert Bellarmine (full name in Italian: Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino) (4 October 1542 - 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation. He was canonized in 1930 and is a Doctor of the Church. Bellarmine was born at Montepulciano to a noble if impoverished family, the son of Vincenzo Bellarmino and his wife Cinzia Cervini, who was sister of Pope Marcellus II. He never grew taller than five feet three inches. As a boy he knew Virgil by heart and composed a number of poems in Italian and Latin. One of his hymns, on Mary Magdalene, is included in the Breviary. He entered the Roman novitiate in 1560, remaining in Rome three years. He then went to a Jesuit house at Mondovi, in Piedmont, where h...