Paul, a learned Jesuit (1617-1707), born at Placentia. After having taught mathematics and divinity at Rome, he was sent to Sweden to Queen Christina, and prevailed on her to embrace the popish religion. He afterwards presided over the university of Parma. He wrote, 1. Vacuum proscripsum; 2. Terra machinis mota, Rome, 1668, 4to; 3. Mechanicum libri octo; 4. De Ignis Dissertationes, Parma, 1686 and 1695, 2 vols. 4to; 5. De Angelis Disputatio Theologica; 6. Hydrostaticae Dissertationes; 7. Opticae Dissertationes. The last mentioned treatise he wrote at the age of 88, and after he was blind.