Antonino Amico

Antonino Amico
Born	1586 Messina, Kingdom of Sicily
Died	21 October 1641(1641-10-21) (aged 54–55) Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Catholic priest, medievalist, paleographer
Title	Canon
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Messina
Influences	Flavio Biondo[1] Giulio Cesare Capaccio[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Medieval studies
Sub-discipline	History of Sicily
Influenced	Rosario Gregorio[1]

Antonio Amico (1586 – 21 October 1641), better known as Antonino, was a Roman Catholic Canon of Palermo, and ecclesiastical historian of Syracuse and Messina.^[2] Philip IV awarded him with the title Royal Historiographer of Sicily in 1622.^[3] Amico conducted extensive archival research in Sicily, discovering and transcribing important documents relating to the history of the island. He died in 1641, having published several historical works of great value, and leaving many others in manuscript. Amico's manuscripts were deposited after his death in the libraries of the duke of Madonia and of Jaime de Palafox y Cardona, archbishop of Palermo.

Main works

• Sacræ Domus Templi, sive Militum Templariorum, Notitiæ et Tabularia, Palermo, 1636, fol.
• Dissertatio historica, et chronologica de antiquo Urbis Syracusarum archiepiscopatu. Naples: apud Octavium Beltranum. 1640. This work relates to the serious disputes between the three churches of Syracuse, Palermo, and Messina, respecting the metropolitan title and rights, and was inserted, with the answers, in the Thesaurus Antiquitatum Siciliæ, tom. II, Leyden, 1723.
• Series Ammiratorum Insulæ Siciliæ ab anno Domini DCCCXLII usque ad annum MDCXL. Palermo: apud Petrum Coppola. 1640.
• De Messanensis Prioratus Militum Sancti Joannis Origine. Palermo: apud Petrum Coppola. 1640.
• A history of the Sicilian viceroys written in Spanish, and entitled Chronologia de los Virreyes, Presidentes, y de otras personas que han governado el Reyno de Sicilia, Palermo, 1640, 1687, 4to.
• Brevis et exacta narratio....Siciliæ regum annales ab anno 1060 usque ad præsens sæculum.

References

1. Zapperi 1960.
2. Herbermann 1913.
3. "AMICUS (Antonin)". Bibliothèque sacrée : ou, Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique, canonique, géographique et chronologique des sciences écclésiastiques. Vol. 2. Paris: chez Méquignon fils aîné. 1822. pp. 118–119.

Works cited

• Zapperi, Roberto (1960). "AMICO, Antonino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 2: Albicante–Ammannati (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Antonio Amico". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

• The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 2. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1843. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• "AMICO (ANTONINE D')". Alexander Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. J. Nichols. 1812. p. 113. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.