anta Barbara
(pop. 10,367) was annexed to Calasiao. It is in the midst of a fertile
district and has manufactures of hats and various woven fabrics.

CALASIO, MARIO DI (1550-1620), Italian Minorite friar, was born at a small
town in the Abruzzi whence he took his name. Joining the Franciscans at an
early age, he devoted himself to Oriental languages and became an authority
on Hebrew. Coming to Rome he was appointed by Paul V., whose confessor he
was, to the chair of Scripture at Ara Coeli, where he died on the 1st of
February 1620. Calasio is known by his _Concordantiae sacrorum Bibliorum
hebraicorum_, published in 4 vols. (Rome, 1622), two years after his death,
a work which is based on Nathan's _Hebrew Concordance_ (Venice, 1523). For
forty years Calasio laboured on this work, and he secured the assistance of
the greatest scholars of his age. The _Concordance_ evinces great care and
accuracy. All root-words are treated in alphabetical order and the whole
Bible has been collated for every passage containing the word, so as to
explain the original idea, which is illustrated from the cognate usages of
the Chaldee, Syrian, Rabbinical Hebrew and Arabic. Calasio gives under each
Hebrew word the literal Latin translation, and notes any existing
differences from the Vulgate and Septuagint readings. An incomplete English
translation of the work was published in London by Romaine in 1747. Calasio
also wrote a Hebrew grammar, _Canones generates linguae sanctatae_ (Rome,
1616), and the _Dictionarium hebraicum_ (Rome, 1617).

CALATAFIMI, a town of the province of Trapani, Sicily, 30 m. W.S.W. of
Palermo direct (511/2 m. by rail). Pop. (1901) 11,426. The name of the town
is derived from the Saracenic castle of _Kalat-al-Fimi_ (castle of
Euphemius), which stands above it. The principal church contains a fine
Renaissance reredos in marble. Samuel Butler, the author of _Erewhon_, did
much of his work here. The battlefield where Garibaldi won his first
victory over the Neapolitans on the 15th of May 1860, lies 2 m. S.W.

CALATAYUD, a town of central Spain, in the province of Saragossa, at the
confluence of the rivers Jalon and Jiloca, and on the Madrid-Saragossa and
Calatayud-Sagunto railways. Pop. (1900) 11,526. Calatayud consists of a
lower town, built on the left bank of the Jalon, and an upper or Moorish
town, which contains many dwellings hollowed out of the rock above and
inhabited by the poorer classes. Among a number of ecclesi