ALAMANNI, COSIMO. — A renowned student of Thomistic philosophy, born in Milan in 1559 and died there on 24 May 1624. He entered the Society of Jesus at a young age (1575) and, after the customary training, was sent to complete his studies in Rome, where his teachers were Suarez and Vasquez. Returning to Milan, he was professor of philosophy, then of theology, and finally of casuistry at Brera College. In 1606 he went to the episcopal curia of Pavia, where he remained for 20 years as the bishop’s consulting theologian. During this period he devoted himself to compiling his Summa philosophiae ex variis libris d. Thomae in ordinem cursus philosophici accommodata, first published in Pavia in 1618–29 and praised by Leo XIII. In 1623 he returned to Milan, where, in addition to carrying out his ministry, he continued to work assiduously as prefect of studies at Brera College.
ALAMANNI, COSIMO
BIBL.: C. Alamanni, Summa philosophiae, etc., I, new ed., Paris 1883, preface, pp. vi–x; Sommervogel, I, cols. 113–14.
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“ALAMANNI, COSIMO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 387. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/alamanni-cosimo.