Giovanni Maria Cornoldi (29 September 1822 – 18 January 1892) was an Italian Jesuit academic, author, and preacher.

Life

Born at

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, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1840 and taught philosophy at

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and

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for many years. In 1879 on the occasion of the VII centenary of Thomas Aquinas Cornoldi gave the encomium in honor of the angelic doctor at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum''.''La filosofia scolastica di San Tommaso e di Dante: ad uso dei licei'', by , 1889, 107, https://books.google.com/books?id=WHoNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false Accessed 13 May 2013 From 1880 until his death he belonged to the editorial staff of the ''Civiltà Cattolica'', at Rome and often preached at the church of the Gesù. He died in Rome.

Works

He was a follower of

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wit ...

, and wrote many works in explanation of his doctrine and in refutation of Rosminianism. His ''Lezioni di Filosofia'' (1872) was translated into Latin by Cardinal Agostini under the title ''Institutiones Philosophicæ ad mentem divi Thomæ; Aquinatis''. In addition to his purely philosophical writings he published a commentary on the '' Divina Commedia'' of

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian people, Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', origin ...

, illustrated from philosophy and theology. He founded academies in honour of Thomas at

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and at Rome and established two periodicals, ''La Scienza Italiana'' and the journal of the ''Accademia di S. Tommaso''.

References

*''Civilità Cattolica'', 1892, I, 348–352, gives a full list of his writings *

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, ''Nomenclator''

External links

''Catholic Encyclopedia'' article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cornoldi, Giovanni Maria 1822 births 1892 deaths Clergy from Venice 19th-century Italian Jesuits Italian male writers Italian theologians Writers from Venice