Filippo Ferrari (Philippus Ferrarius) (1551 – 1626)[1] was an Italian
Servite friar and scholar, known as a geographer, and also noted as a
hagiographer.[2]
Ferrari was prior general of his order from 1604 to 1609, and vicar general in 1624/5.[4] He was therefore head of the Servites at the time of the
Venetian Interdict, and was consulted by
Paolo Sarpi in
Venice.[5][6] A detailed account of Ferrari's dealings with
Pope Paul V during the confrontation of those years was given by
Fulgenzio Micanzio, Sarpi's ally.[7] It was with Ferrari's approval that Sarpi took up the appointment as theological consultant to Venice on 28 January 1606.[8]
Works
Ferrari published his Epitome Geographicum in 1605.[9] His Lexicon Geographicum was published internationally in a number of later editions: edited by
William Dillingham (London, 1657),[10] and by
Michel Antoine Baudrand (Paris, 1670).[11] It was used in the Dictionarium Historicum, (Oxford, 1670) of
Nicholas Lloyd.[12]
Other works included:
Nova Topographia in Martyrologium Romanum (1609).[13]
Catalogus sanctorum Italiae in Menses duodecim distributus (1613).[14]