Orazio Torsellino

Title page of Orazio Torsellino's Histoire universelle, 1708

Orazio Torsellino (1545–1599), known in Latin as Horatius Torsellinus, was an Italian historian and man of letters. He wrote books on Christianity, world history, and Latin grammar.

He was born in Rome and joined the Jesuit order. He was later assigned to Florence and Loreto, before returning to Rome. Among his writings were:^[1]

• De vita San Francisci Xaverii libri VI (Rome, 1596, in quarto)
• De particulis Latinae orationis (1598, 12avo)
• Epitome historiarum a mundo condito ad ann. 1598 (Rome, in quarto)

which continued under the editors PC Caraffa and Filippo Briet. The work in 1761 was decreed to be prohibited by the inquisition.

References[]

• Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952, v. 1, p. 22

External links[]

• Orazio Torsellini in the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University

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