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Agostini, Giuseppe

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AGOSTINI, GIUSEPPE. - Jesuit moralist, b. in Palermo on 15 March 1575, d. there on 29 May 1643. He taught philosophy in Rome and theology in Lyon, in Avignon and in Palermo, where for eighteen years he was prefect of studies.

He published: Nucleus casuum conscientiae... (Palermo 1658): a work that was very successful, reaching more than fifty editions within a century (often under the title: Brevis notitia eorum quae scitu vel necessaria vel valde utilia sunt confessaria); Commentarii in primam partem Summae s. Thomae (Palermo 1639).

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BIBL.: Mazzuchelli, I, p. 214; Sommervogel, I, coll. 69-73; E. Aguilera, Provinciae Siculae societatis Iesu ortus et res eritae, II, Palermo 1760, pp. 416-18.

Francesco Tinello

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 501.

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Tinello, Francesco. “Agostini, giuseppe.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 501. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/agostini-giuseppe.

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Tinello, Francesco. “Agostini, giuseppe.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 501. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/agostini-giuseppe.

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  title     = {Agostini, giuseppe},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {501},
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  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/agostini-giuseppe}
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