Sebastiano Ayala
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Born | (1744-02-28)28 February 1744 |
Died | 29 December 1817(1817-12-29) (aged 73) |
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Sebastiano Ayala (28 February 1744 – 29 December 1817) was an Italian Jesuit, philosopher and diplomat.[1]
Sebastiano Ayala was born of a noble family, in the city of CastrogiovanniinSicily, in the year 1744.[1] He studied at Palermo, and was appointed professor of rhetoricatMalta. When the Jesuits were driven out of Malta, Ayala went to Rome, he having been excepted from the order which prohibited any Jesuit, a subject of the House of Bourbon, being received in that city. He studied theology in the Roman College during two years, and made such progress in mathematics and astronomy, that Lorenzo Ricci, the general of the order, determined to associate him with Leonardo Ximenes as his colleague and future successor in the observatory at Florence.[2] Count Kaunitz, however, by whom he was held in great esteem, took him to Vienna, and by his influence, after the suppression of the Society of Jesus, Ayala was made minister from the Republic of Ragusa at the imperial court. He occupied that position for almost 30 years. Ayala was the only individual who had regular contact with Kaunitz in the weeks of the Chancellor's final illness.[3] He was the friend and biographer of Metastasio. He died in Vienna on December 29, 1817.[1]
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