( b Piazza Armerina [now Piazza], Sicily; fl 1607–31). Italian composer . He was in the Carmelite convent of Piazza Armerina in 1607 and remained there until at least 1611. His place of birth, vocation of Carmelite friar and position as director of music of Catania Cathedral are known from the title-page of his one surviving work, Sacrarum cantionum … liber primus (Venice, 1614, ed. in Musumeci, 1991), for two and three voices and organ continuo. He was maestro di cappella and organist in Caltagirone in 1626–7 and in Piazza in 1627–8. From 1629 to 1631 he was prior of the Carmelite convent of Licodia. In the dedication to the 1614 collection he referred to his long musical experience and to his previous works, which apparently were secular; he is known to have published at least two sets of five-part madrigals. The surviving book contains 19 motets, four for three voices and 15 for two, one of the latter being by his pupil Giuseppe Ferraro; they are scored for various similar or mixed combinations of soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Most of the texts are biblical, mainly from the Song of Songs, but there are also liturgies for specific saints, for example ...