Ferruccio Baffa Trasci

Ferruccio Baffa Trasci (27 August 1590 – 30 October 1656) was an Italian bishop, theologian and philosopher.

Ferruccio Baffa Trasci
bishop of Maximianopolis
Installed	July 1656
Term ended	October 1656
Personal details
Born	Ferrante Marco Antonio Baffa Trasci 27 August 1590 Bisignano, Calabria, Italy
Died	30 October 1656 Rome
Buried	Proceno
Nationality	Italian-Albanian
Denomination	Catholic
Parents	Antonio Baffa Trasci (father), Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli (mother)

Arms of Baffa-Trasci Family.

Life

Born Ferrante Marco Antonio Baffa Trasci in one of the most noble and wealthy families of the Arbëreshë world in Bisignano, he was the son of Pietro Antonio Baffa Trasci and Elisabetta Anna Trentacapilli. After his teens he moved to Rome and Naples when, as a priest, became one of the most close confessors and confidents of Isabella della Rovere,^[1] Princesse of Bisignano, member of the Sanseverino family.

Last years

After many years spent in the Castle Proceno in a voluntary exile, in 1656 he came back to Rome and was created Bishop of Maximianopolis (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 the church of S. Martin.^[2]

Works

• Universam Aristotelis philosophiam
• Summa Aristotelicha
• Summa Theologica Dogmatica^[3]

See also

• Catholic Church in Italy