Mozzi, Luigi
Mozzi, Luigi
Controversialist, born at Bergamo, 26 May, 1746; died near Milan, 24 June, 1813. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1763, and on its suppression was received into the Diocese of Bergamo, where he was shortly made a canon, and appointed archpriest and examiner of candidates for the priesthood. The zeal and ability with which he opposed the progress of Jansenism in Italy gained him a well-merited reputation, and Pius VI called him to Rome, where he became an Apostolic missionary. He was elected a member of the Accademia degli Arcadi (see ACADEMIES, ROMAN). In 1804 he hastened to rejoin the Society, which had been restored in Naples. Worn out at length by his charitable labours and penitential practices, he retired to the residence of Marquis Scotti near Milan, where he died. Among his important writings are: “Vera idea del Giansenismo” (1781); “Storia compendiosa della scisma della nuova chiesa d’Utrecht” (Ferrara, 1785); “Storia delle revoluzioni della Chiesa d’Utrecht” (Venice, 1787); “Compendio storico-cronologico…sopra il Baianismo, Giansenismo e Quesnellismo” (Foligno, 1792), all against Jansenism; “Il falso discepolo di S. Agostino e di S. Tommaso” (Venice, 1779), a defence of Molinism. He translated from the English the Duke of Brunswick’s “Fifty Reasons for preferring the Roman Catholic Religion” (Bassano, 1789); and from the French, “Les projets des incredules pour la ruine de la religion, dévoil;és dans les oeuvres de Frédéric, roi de Prusse” (Assisi, 1791).
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HURTER, Nomenclator, III, 540; Vita del P.L. Mozzi (Novara, 1823).
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XCopyright © 1911 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Mozzi, Luigi
a learned Italian ecclesiastic, was born at Bergamo May, 26, 1746. Of a patrician family, he was admitted (1763) into the Society of Jesus. He was professor at the college of the Nobili at Milan when (1773) that order was dissolved by pope Clement XIV. Returning to Bergamo, he was charged with the examination of candidates for holy orders, and became canon and archpriest. The piety and zeal which he manifested against the Jansenists in Italy gave him high repute; he was called to Rome, nominated apostolic missionary, and member of the Academy degli Arcadi. In 1804 he joined his confreres in the kingdom of Naples; but the Jesuits were again soon dispersed, and Mozzi found a refuge at the villa of the marquis Scotti, situated in the environs of Milan, where he died, June 24, 1813. Of the numerous writings left by him, his most important refer to the Jallsenist controversy. Thus he wrote, Jansenism by Daylight, or the Idea of Jansenism (Venice, 1781, 2 volumes, 8vo): Brief History of the Schism of the New Church of Utrecht (Ferrara, 1785, 8vo; Ghent, 1829, 8vo): The Fifty Reasons why the Catholic Church should be Preferred (Bassano, 1789). He published also The Plans of the Unbelievers to Ruin Religion, as Revealed in the Works of Frederick, King of Prussia (3d ed. Assisi, 1791, 8vo): Historical and Chronological Abridgment of the most important Decrees of the Holy See regarding Brianism, Jansenzism, and Quesnellism.