Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Francesco Amico
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Jesuit · 1578–1651
In the Index: Amicus, F.
Dates differ: Prümmer 1578–1651; Haringer ?–1651.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Amicus, Franc., S.J., Italian (1578-1651), published a work entitled Cursus theologicus, scholasticus et moralis, 9 folio volumes, Antwerp, 1650. He proposed some opinions which were afterward condemned by Alexander VII and Innocent XI. Cf. Hurter, Nomenclator litt. III, 933.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [**: weighty, probabilist] “Amicus Franciscus, Italian, S.J., taught theology at Naples, Aquila, and Graz, and there was made chancellor of the university; died 1651.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XII, sign read on the page)
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
Every report quoted in the author's own words and linked to its place; point at a name to see his words. Haringer's signs give St. Alphonsus's judgment as Haringer found it in St. Alphonsus's works (his notice, Gury-Ballerini, 1884, p. XI); a sign on a writer the 1884 editor added to the list is the editor's own, and is said to be his.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Bucceroni, Commentarii, n. 108 |
| “Amicus Franciscus, Italian, S.J., taught theology at Naples, Aquila, and Graz, and there was made chancellor of the university; died 1651.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XII |
| Charged with laxity | |
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, the moral systems |
In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
“Francesco Amico”, vol. 1, by Thomas Campbell. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).
One of the greatest theologians of his time, b. at Cosenza, in Naples, 2 April, 1578. He entered the Society of Jesus 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 the last named place. To his eminent science he united a profound humility. He was scholastic in his method, adapting his treatises to a four years' course of teaching. He wrote "De Deo Uno et Trino"; "De Naturâ Angelorum"; "De Ultimo Fine"; "De Fide, Spe, et Charitate"; "De Justitiâ et Jure", which was prohibited, 18 June, 1651 "donec corrigatur", on account of three propositions in it, which Alexander VII and Innocent XI objected to. The corrected edition of 1649 was permitted. He wrote also on the Incarnation, and the sacraments. In a complete edition, it is said, in the preface that "his doctrine is according to St. Thomas, and is brief, clear, subtle and solid."
Sources: HURTER, Nomenclator, I, 384; DE BACKER, Bibliothèque de la c. de J., I, 280.