Amico, Francesco
Amico, Francesco
One of the greatest theologians of his time, b. at Cosenza, in Naples, 2 April, 1578. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1596. For twenty-four years he was professor of theology at Naples, Aquila, and Gratz, and, for five years, chancellor in the academy of the last named place. To his eminent science he united a profound humility. He was scholastic in his method, adapting his treatises to a four years’ course of teaching. He wrote “De Deo Uno et Trino”; “De Naturâ Angelorum”; “De Ultimo Fine”; “De Fide, Spe, et Charitate”; “De Justitiâ et Jure”, which was prohibited, 18 June, 1651 “donec corrigatur”, on account of three propositions in it, which Alexander VII and Innocent XI objected to. The corrected edition of 1649 was permitted. He wrote also on the Incarnation, and the sacraments. In a complete edition, it is said, in the preface that “his doctrine is according to St. Thomas, and is brief, clear, subtle and solid.”
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HURTER, Nomenclator, I, 384; DE BACKER, Bibliothèque de la c. de J., I, 280.
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Amico, Francesco
a Roman Catholic theologian, was born at Cosenza, in Italy. He was a member of the Order of Jesuits, and for some time taught at Aquila and Naples. After he had been sent to Germany, he was appointed professor of theology at Vienna, where he remained nine years, and acted as chancellor of the University of Graz for five years. He died at Graz, Jan. 31, 1651. He wrote Cursus Theologice Scholastice (Antwerp, 1650, 9 vols. fol.). The fifth volume, treating de jure et justitia, was placed on the Index with the remark donec corrigatur, but was allowed, after due correction, by a decree dated July 6, 1655. See Sotwell, Bibl. Script. Soc. Jesu; Backer, Bibl. des Ecriv. de la Comp. de Jesus; Hurter, Nomenclator Literar. (1873), i, 59,709. (B. P.)