Antonio Amico

Antonio Amico — Amico, Antonio, canon of Palermo, and ecclesiastical historian of Syracuse and Messina (d. 1641). He wrote also on the royal house and the admirals of Sicily. Among his works is a "Brevis et exacta narratio .... Siciliæ regum annales ab anno 1060 usque ad pnesens sæculum" (Giraud, Bibl. Sacr., I, 438).—Bernardino (d. 1590), a Neapolitan Franciscan, prior of his convent at Jerusalem, and author of a "Trattato delle piante ed imniagini do' sacri edifizi in Jerusalemme" (Rome, 1609; 2d ed., Florence, 1620), of value for the appearance of the Holy Places in the sixteenth centiry. The drawings are by Callot (Vigouroux, Dict. de la Bible, I, 483).^[1]

Thomas J. Shahan.