Cerutti

( Giuseppe Antonio Gioachino), poet, converted Jesuit, b. Turin, 13 June, 1738. He became a Jesuit, and wrote a defence of the Society. He afterwards became a friend of Mirabeau , adopted the principles of 1789, wrote in defence of the Revolution, and wrote and published a Philosophical Breviary , or history of Judaism, Christianity, and Deism, which he attributed to Frederick of Pru ia. His opinions may also be gathered from his poem, Les Jardins de Betz , 1792. Died Paris, 3 Feb. 1792.