CAESAR, a pious and learned cardinal, was born at Sore in 1538. He studied at Rome, and put himself under the discipline of St Philip de Neri. In 1593, he was made general of the congregation of the Oratory by the resignation of the founder Philip de Neri. Pope Clement VIII. made him his confessor, and created him a cardinal in 1596. He was afterwards made librarian to the Vatican; and died in 1605, at 68 years of age. He wrote several works, the principal of which is his Annales Ecclesiastici, from A. D. 1 to 1108, in 12 vols folio; which has been abridged by several persons, particularly by Henry Spontanus, Bzovius, and Ludovico Arello.