Francesco Amico was a prominent
Catholic
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theologian, born in
Cosenza, in
Calabria, 2 April 1578.
He entered the
Society of Jesus
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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 Gratz.
[ He was scholastic in his method, adapting his treatises to a four-year course of teaching. He wrote ''De Deo Uno et Trino''; ''De Natura Angelorum''; ''De Ultimo Fine''; ''De Fide, Spe, et Charitate''; ''De Justitia et Jure,'' which was prohibited, 18 June 1651 ''donec corrigatur,'' on account of three propositions in it, which Pope Alexander VII and ]Innocent XI
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objected to.[ The corrected edition of 1649 was permitted. He wrote also on the Incarnation, and the sacraments.][
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17th-century Italian Jesuits
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
1578 births
17th-century deaths
People from Cosenza