Life

Ferruccio Baffa Trasci was born in one of the most noble and wealthy families of the arbëreshë

Arbëreshë

The Arbëreshë are a linguistic and ethnic Albanian minority community living in southern Italy, especially the regions of Apulia, Basilicata, Molise, Calabria and Sicily...

 world in Bisignano

Bisignano

Bisignano is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza, part of in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is situated on hills in the Crati valley, between the Pollino and Sila National Parks .-History:...

 on August 17, 1590. His parents were Pietro Antonio Baffa Trasci and Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli. After his teenhood he moved to Rome

Rome

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 e Naples

Naples

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 when, as a priest, became one of the most close confessor and confident of Isabella della Rovere, Princesse of Bisignano, member of the Sanseverino

Sanseverino

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 family.

Last years

After many years spent in the Castle Proceno

Proceno

Proceno is a comune in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Latium, located about 110 km northwest of Rome and about 45 km northwest of Viterbo...

 in a voluntary exile, in 1656 he cames back to Rome and was created Bishop of Maximianopolis

Maximianopolis

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 in partibus infidelium by Pope Alexander VII.
S.E.R. Ferruccio Baffa Trasci died in Rome the same year in the Great bubonic Plague.
His bones were buried several years later in Proceno

Proceno

Proceno is a comune in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Latium, located about 110 km northwest of Rome and about 45 km northwest of Viterbo...

the church of S. Martin.

Works

• Universam Aristotelis philosophiam
• Summa Aristotelicha
• Summa Theologica Dogmatica