or Algisi, Francesco, an Italian musical composer, was born at Brescia in 1666, and died there in 1733. He was organist of the cathedral in his native city, and composed, during a residence at Venice, two operas, which had great success. In his latter years, his severe abstinence procured him the reputation of a saint.

Galeazzo, an eminent Italian architect, of the latter end of the sixteenth century. He was a native of Carpi, in Modena, and held the office of architect to the Duke of Ferrara, for whom he designed a magnificent palace. His work, Della Fortificazione, on military architecture, published at Venice in 1570, was the best architectural production that had then appeared.—Tiraboschi, Storia.

ALGIUSI, Tomasso, an eminent Italian surgeon, especially celebrated as a lithotomist. He was born at Florence in 1669, and died in 1713. He studied anatomy under Lorenzo Bellini, and surgery under his father, who was surgeon to the hospital of Sta Maria Nuova, at Florence. In 1703, he received his degree of Doctor at Padua, from the celebrated Vallisneri. He afterwards became professor of surgery in his native town. His work, entitled Litotomia, ovvero del cavare la Pietra, published at Florence in 1707, and at Venice in 1708, with plates by himself, describes his treatment of lithotomy.—Mazzucchelli Scritti di Italia.