title: Girolamo Dandini (Jesuit)
text: # Girolamo Dandini (Jesuit)
  
  Girolamo Dandini (Latin: Hieronymus Dandinus; 1554–1634) was an Italian Jesuit and academic.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was born in Cesena. With Juan Maldonado he was the first Jesuit professor in Paris, at the Collège de Clermont; there he taught François de Sales. Later he was professor of theology at Perugia.
  
  He was sent in 1596 by Pope Clement VIII as nuncio to Lebanon, to preside at a general Maronite council, for the purpose of introducing certain liturgical reforms. It was held at the Qannubin Monastery. On the way Dandini visited Cyprus; he was accompanied by Fabio Bruno, who had been on an earlier mission in 1580 with Giovanni Battista Eliano.
  
  ## Works
  
  His De corpore animato was one of the last scholastic analyses of the intelligible species concept in Aristotle.
  
  He was author of an Ethica sacra: hoc est de virtutibus, et vitiis libri quinquaginta, published in 1651.
  
  In 1656 his account of his mission in Lebanon was published as Missione apostolica al patriarca, e maroniti del Monte Libano. It was translated into French by Richard Simon as Voyage au Mont Liban (1675).
  
  