ALBERGOTTI, AGOSTINO. - Bishop of Arezzo, born there on 25 Nov. 1755 and died on 6 May 1825. He completed his sacred studies in Rome and became a priest in 1779. In the struggle against Jansenism and the religious encroachment of Grand Duke Leopold I, he supported Msgr. A. Martini, archbishop of Florence, whose vicar general he was for 14 years. He assisted the French and Italian priests who had taken refuge in Tuscany. He paid devout homage to Pius VI (1798), who was passing through Florence as a prisoner of the French. Arrested by the latter (1799) and taken to Livorno, he managed to escape. Elected bishop (1801) of Arezzo, during the 24 years of his governance he restored the diocese and was a model of apostolic life. He wrote: La via della santità... nello spirito e nella pratica della vera devozione... al S. Cuore, (2nd ed., Lucca 1797; new ed. revised by P. Severi, Milan 1931); Dal Cenacolo al Calvario (new ed. edited by P. Severi, Milan 1936).

Bibliography

BIBL.: G. Baraldi, Notizia biografica su mons. A. A. Vescovo di Arezzo, in Memorie di religione, morale e letteratura, 11 (1827), pp. 533-81.

Francesco Tinello

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