Girolamo Dandini (Jesuit)

Girolamo Dandini (Latin: Hieronymus Dandinus; 1554–1634) was an Italian Jesuit and academic.

He was sent in 1596 by Pope Clement VIII as nuncio to Lebanon, to preside at a general Maronite council, for the purpose of introducing certain liturgical reforms.

[2][3] On the way Dandini visited Cyprus; he was accompanied by Fabio Bruno, who had been on an earlier mission in 1580 with Giovanni Battista Eliano.

[4] His De corpore animato was one of the last scholastic analyses of the intelligible species concept in Aristotle.

[5] He was author of an Ethica sacra: hoc est de virtutibus, et vitiis libri quinquaginta, published in 1651.

Title page from De corpore animato (1611).