Francesco Antonio Zaccaria

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Jesuit · 1714–1795

Dates differ: Prümmer 1714–1795; Haringer 1712–1796.

In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Zaccaria, Franc. Anton., S.J., Italian (1714-1795), is an author of indefatigable labor and perhaps too fecund, since, besides his works not yet edited, 161 printed works are enumerated. He also re-edited with annotations the works of other authors, for example Tamburini, Busenbaum, Lacroix, and Natalis Alexander. For moral theology, mention must be made of his dissertation De casuisticae theologiae originibus, locis ac praestantia. This dissertation, written at the request of St. Alphonsus, treats of the places of moral theology.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
[**: weighty, probabilist] “Zacharia Franciscus Anton., Italian, S.J., born 1712, died 1796.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXXII, sign read on the page)

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Probabilist
“the probabilistic dissertation of Father Zacharia, S.J. (cf. [n. 6]), had also been expunged”Marc: his probabilistic dissertation, once printed with St. Alphonsus's Moral Theology, was expunged from its eighth edition	Marc, Institutiones I, n. 87
“Zacharia Franciscus Anton., Italian, S.J., born 1712, died 1796.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist)	Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XXXII

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“See more in the outstanding dissertation of Father Zacharia, on the origins of casuistic theology”Marc commends his dissertation on the origins of casuistic theology	Marc, Institutiones I, n. 6
“Franciscus Antonius Zacharia excellently vindicated Diana, a man otherwise most distinguished in knowledge and erudition, from the note of laxity.”Haringer’s index: Zaccaria vindicated Diana from the note of laxity	Haringer, Index of writers, note 2
“J. A. P. Zaccaria, S.J., defended Lacroix's teaching in his Apologie de la Theologie Morale, 1758”Koch-Preuss: he defended Lacroix's teaching	Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology

In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

“Francesco Antonio Zaccaria”, vol. 15, by Michael Ott. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).

Theologian, historian, and prolific writer, born at Venice, 27 March, 1714; died in Rome, 10 October, 1795. He joined the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus, 18 October, 1731, taught grammar and rhetoric at Gorz, and was ordained priest at Rome in 1740. He spent some time in pastoral work and Ancona, Fermo, and Pistoia, gaining renown as a preacher and controversial lecturer. In 1751 he succeeded Muratori as ducal archivist and librarian of Modena, but was removed in 1768, owing to his "Antifebronio", in which he strenuously defended the rights of the Holy See. He was now appointed librarian at the Jesuit professed house in Rome. Clement XIII allowed him an annual pension, continued under Clement XIV, and increased by Pius VI, who appointed him professor of church history at the Sapienza and director of the Accademia de'Nobili Ecclesiastici. He was a member of at least nineteen Italian academies. Of the 161 printed works ascribed to him by Sommervogel the following are the most important. On Church History: "Series episcoporum Cremonensium" (Milan, 1749); "Laudensium" (ibid., 1763); "Auximatium" (Osimo, 1764); "Vico Æquensium" (Rome, 1778); "Caesenatium" (Cesena, 1779); "Forocorneliensium" (Imola, 1820); "De' santi martiri Fedele, Capoforo, Gratiniano, e Felino" (Milan, 1750) "Acta SS. Bollandiana apologeticis libris in unum volumen nunc primum contractis vindicata" (Antwerp, 1755); "De rebus ad historiam atque antigitates ecclesiae pertinentibus" (Foligno, 1781); "Raccolta di dissertazioni di storia ecclesiastica" (22 vols., Rome, 1792-7). Theology and Canon Law: "Thesaurus theologicus", a compilation of theological treatises by various authors, arranged so as to form an orderly exposition of the different topics of theology (13 vols., Venice, 1762); "De causuisticae theologicae originibus, locis atque praestantia", written at the instance of St. Alphonsus and prefixed to the third edition of the latter's "Moral Theology"; "Apparatus omnigenae eruditionis ad theologiam et jus canonicum" (Rome, 1773); etc. Polemics: "Antifebronio" (Pesaro, 1767), Latin edition (Cesena, 1771-2; and in Migne, "Theol. Cursus Completus", XXVII, 463-1300); "Storia polemica del celibato sacro" (Rome, 1774), German translation by Pius John (1783); "Storia polemica delle proibizione de' libri" (Rome, 1777); "Difesa di tre Sommi Pontefici Benedetto XIII, Benedetto XIV, e Clemente XIII, e del Concilio Romano tenuto nel 1775" (Ravenna, 1784). Liturgy: "Dell' anno santo" (Rome, 1774); "Bibliotheca ritualis" (2 vols., Rome, 1776-8); "nuovo effermerologio universale" (Rome, 1780); "Onomasticon rituale selectum" (Fäenza, 1787). Archaeology: "istituzione antiquario-lapidaria" (Rome, 1770); "Istituzione antiguario-numismatica" (Rome, 1772). Literary History: "Storia Letteraria d'Italia", a literary review edited by Zaccaria with the assistance of Leonard Ximenes, Dominicus Froili, and Joachim Gabardi (14 vols., Modena, 1750-57); "Excursus litterarii per Italiam" (Venice, 1754); "Iter Litterarium per Italiam" (Venice, 1762); "Saggio critico della corrente letteratura straniera" (3 vols., Modena, 1576), written by Zaccaria, conjointly with Gabardi and Froili; "Annali letterarii d'Italia" (3 vols., Modena, 1762-3); "Biblioteca antica e moderna di storia letteraria" (3 vols., Pesaro, 1766-8). He furthermore issued annotated editions of: Menochius, "Commentarius totius s. Scripturae" (Venice, 1743); Dante, "La Divina Comedia" (Verona, 1749); Tamburini, "Theologia Moralis" (Venice, 1755); Busenbaum-LaCroix, "Theologia Moralis" (1755); Viva, "Opuscula omnis theologico-moralia" (Ferrara, 1757); Abelly, "Medulla theologica" (Venice, 1757); Petavius, "Opus de ulla theologica" (Venice, 1757); Pichler, "Jus Cononicum" (Pesaro, 1758); Tirinus, "In universam Scripturam Commentarius" (Venice, 1759); Gavanto, "Opera theologico-canonica" (Ferrara, 1760); Tournély, "Praelectiones" (Venice, 1765); Natalis Alexander, "Historia Ecclesiastica" (Venmice, 1776-7); Ferraris, "Bibliotheca canonicojuridica" (Rome, 1748-90); Pallavacino, "Istoria del Concilio di trento" (Fäenza, 1797-7).

Sources: SOMMERVOGEL, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, VIII (Brussels, 1898), 1381-1435; CUCCAGNI, Elogio storico dell' abate Francesantonio Zaccaria (Rome, 1769); HURTER, Nomenclator, V (Innsbruck, 1911), i, 484-498.