PALLAVICFNO. FERItANTE, an Italian, b. at Piacenza about 1618. He was well educated, entered the monastery of the Augustinian friars at Milan, and joined the house of his order at Venice. For a few years lie bore a high character for piety and learning, but a love affair led him to desert the monastery, and he gave himself up to a course of licentiousness, supporting -himself for a time by writing obscene books. lie wrote a collection of satirical letters called I he Courier Robbed of his in which he inveighed bitterly against the Spaniards, but the secretary of the republic declined giving it his imprimatur. He afterwards went to Germany as chaplain to time duke of Amalfi, and on his return resolved vengeance on all who had prevented the publication of his MSS. Recasting and enlarging his Courier, he induced his bookseller to print it secretly. But a pretended friend, acting as a spy, informed the pope's nuncio, and the author was cast into prison. Having obtained his liberty, he wrote a piece called La Bureinata orero Ratarella per le api liarbarini, satirizing severely his enemies, the Barberini, with a dedi cation expressing great contempt to the nuncio Vitelli. The nuncio, in revenge, bribed a Frenchman to decoy the poet into the hands of a gang of sbirri. lie was taken to the papal territory of Avignon and imprisoned. _There was a mock trial, he was condemned for apostasy and treason, and beheaded Mar. 5, 1644, at the age of 20. lie wrote a
number of small pieces characterized by the grace and genius which appear in his larger works. Ills Opens Permesse, edited by Brusoui, with a life of the author, was published in 4 vols. in 1665.
PALLAVICIIi'O, PIETRO SFORZA, an Italian historian, son of the marquis Alessandro Pallavicino of Parma, was h. at Rome, Nov. 20, 1607. Much to the disgust of his father, be took priest's orders, and held several important ecclesiastical appointments during the pontificate of Urban VIII. In 1637 he became a member of the Jesuit society. and was created a cardinal in 1657 by pope Alexander VII. lie died at Rome, June 5, 1667. Pallavieino was a line scholar, and often presided in the famous Roman academy of the Umoristi. The best known of all his writings is his Istoria dc/ Coneillo de Trento (Rome, 1656-57), intended as a reply to the still more celebrated and liberal, althong-h, by Catholics, deeply suspected, work of Paul Sarpi. Among his other works may he men tioned Yindieationes Soc. des. (Rome, 1649); Arts della PeVezione Cdstinna—I ldmsti Siteri (the unpublished MS. is in the library of Parma); Ermengilda. a tragedy (Rome, 1641); Gli Arcertimenti Grammatieali (Rome, 1601); Trattato dello Stilo e del hialugo (Rome, 1662), and Letters (Rome, 1068).