Bianchi
Bianchi [1]
(Ital. for White men), a name given to a section of the Flagellants (q.v.), in the 14th century, which came down from the Alps into Italy, scourging themselves as they went.
(Lat. Blancus), Andreas, an Italian Jesuit, was born in Genoa in 1587, and died there, March 29, 1657. He is the author of, Pistomachia sive Pugna Fidei: — Conciones de Festis Christi et S. S. Sacramento: De Passione Christi Sermones XII: — De Passione Christi Figurata Et Historica Sermones Xxx : — Paraphrasis In Psamnum Miseree : — Epigrammatum Libri Vi, or De Singulari Sapientia Caroli Borromcei : — Tractatus De Cambio : — Pii ' Mores Et Sancti Amores Epigrammatis Expressi. Finally, under the name of Candule Philateli, he published a volume of Philosophical And Academic Questions, in Italian . See Alegambe, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)
