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Masina

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Ancient and very noble family originally from Spain and spread in various European countries. The ancient nobility of the Masina family is confirmed by the presence of the coat of arms in the most authoritative heraldic archives in Spain. Among the many illustrious characters of this family we note a Fra Eliseo Masina, living in the seventeenth century, religious of the Dominican Order, Master of Sacred Theology, read in the Schools of his Order in Venice, Faenza, and Bologna, and thus distinguished himself by his learning, probity, and prudence, that he became Inquisitor, and carried this charge in Mantua, Ancona, and Genoa, and in the latter Government he had occasion to show off his zeal for the Catholic Religion against the Heretics. There were those who were deceived by some of his works published, as will be said, during the time he was Inquisitor in Genoa, under the name of Cesare Masina, which was perhaps the one he had in the century, of one they made two Subjects, including Fontana in his Theater of the Illustrious Dominican names. Of P. Eliseo we have the Sacred Arsenal or Practice of the Office of the Holy Inquisition. Rome for the heirs of Corbelletti 1639. This edition has two dedicating letters, the first to S. Pietro Martire, the other addressed to the inquisitors ...

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