Battaglini, Marco

Battaglini, Marco, an Italian prelate and antiquary, was born March 25, 1645, of a noble family, in a little town of the diocese of Rimini. In 1690 he was appointed bishop of Nocera, in Umbria, and in 1716 was made bishop of Cesena, in the Romagna, and died Sept. 19, 1717. He is the author of, Istoria Universale di tutti Concilii Generali e Particoliari celebrati nelli Chiesa (Venice, 1686 a. o.). See Giomale de Letterati d' Italia; Lami, Mnemorabilia Italoruum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theolog. Literatur, i, 655; Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)