Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi

Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi
Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi
Born	Duchy of Parma
Died	1780 ; Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia
Nationality	Italian

Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi (7 March 1710, Piacenza, Italy – 1780, Turin) was an Italian professor, theologian and archaeologist.

Biography

In 1726 Ansaldi entered the

Angelo Maria Cardinal Quirini and Pope Benedict XIV

.

Work

His published works fill several volumes, and have been prized for a combination of theological and historical erudition. Most of them are directed against the anti-Christian tendencies of his day. His most important works are:

De Causis Inopiae veterum Monumentorum pro copia Martyrum Dignoscenda
De Martyribus sine Sanguine Dissertatio (Milan, 1739)
Patriarchae Josephi, Aegypti olim proregis, religio a criminationibus Basnagii vindicata (Naples, 1738), vol. XIII in the Raccolta d'opuscoli di P. Calogerà (Venice, 1741)
"Dissertatio de veteri Ægyptiorium Idolatriâ", in the Raccolta Calogerana, 23, 135.
De Principiorum Legis naturalis Traditione, Libri tres (Milan, 1742)
De Romanâ tutelarium deorum in oppugnationibus urbium evocatione liber singularis (Brescia, 1742; Venice, 1753, 1761; Oxford, 1765)
De traditione principiorum legis naturalis (Brescia, 1743; Oxford, 1765)
De martyribus sine sanguine (Milan, 1744; Venice, 1756, in the Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum of Ugolini), a valuable anti-Dodwellian dissertation on the sufferings of the primitive Christians
De Forensi Judaeorum Buccina Commentarius (Brescia, 1745)
Herodiani infanticidii vindiciae against those who impugned its historicity (Brescia, 1746)
De authenticis sacrarum Scripturarum lectionibus (Verona, 1747), a learned and solid work in favor of the accuracy of the Fathers in quoting Scripture
De baptismate in Spiritu Sancto et igni commentarius sacer philologicocriticus (Milan, 1752)
De Theurgiâ deque theurgicis a divo Paulo memoratis commentarius (Milan, 1761)
Riflessioni sopra i mezzi di perfezionare la filosfia morale (Turin, 1778), with a biography of the author
De perfectione morali (Turin, 1790)
Praelectiones theologicae de re sacramentaria (Venice, 1792)

Controversy

His controversy with

Constantine I

; another brother, Pietro Tommasso Ansaldi, wrote a dissertation on the divinity of Christ (Florence, 1754).

References

A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose, 1857

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schwertner, Thomas M. (1907). "Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.

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