Antonio Amico

Antonio Amico was a canon of Palermo, and ecclesiastical historian of Syracuse and Messina (.

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Antonio Amico, 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).