Giovanni Maria Cornoldi

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Giovanni Maria Cornoldi (29 September 1822 – 18 January 1892) was an Italian

Jesuit
academic, author, and preacher.

Life and career

Born at Venice, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1840 and taught philosophy at Brixen and Padua 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.[1]

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 on 18 January 1892.

Works

He was a follower of

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

Dante, illustrated from philosophy and theology. He founded academies in honour of Thomas at Bologna
and at Rome and established two periodicals, La Scienza Italiana and the journal of the Accademia di S. Tommaso.

References

  1. ^ Cornoldi, Giovanni Maria (1889). La filosofia scolastica di San Tommaso e di Dante: ad uso dei licei (in Italian). A. Befani.
  • Civilità Cattolica, 1892, I, 348–352, gives a full list of his writings
  • Hugo von Hurter
    , Nomenclator

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Giovanni Maria Cornoldi". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.