ALBERTINI, GIORGIO-FRANCESCO. - Dominican theologian and preacher, born on 20 February 1732 at Parenzo, where he died on 29 April 1810. In 1745 he took the religious habit in Venice and completed his studies there. He preached with incisive and solid eloquence in many cities of Italy. He taught theology in Venice, at the Collegio di Propaganda (1789) in Rome, where he had been since 1787, having been summoned there by Pio VI, and at Padua (1791), whither he was sent by the Riformatori of that University to succeed Fr Antonio Valsecchi, where (1708-91) he remained with honour until the suppression of that faculty (1807). He refused three chairs of philosophy,
offered him by the new authorities of the Regno italico; he declined to join the Collegio dei Dottori established by them or to attend the electoral assemblies at Bologna, in protest against the persecution of the Church and the Pope. He published various clear and moderate apologetic works. In his theological lectures (Acroases, 5 vols., Padua-Venice 1798-1802, to which he added a sixth volume of Scholia, Venice 1808), he drew upon a broad concordism, thereby winning the sympathies of non-Thomists and the attacks of Thomists. Fr Domenico Pellegrini (1737-1820) criticized him in his In Acroases p. G. A. animadversionum theologicarum specimen (Verona 1803), to which A. replied. There also remain to us two ingenious works in which he attempts to determine the chronology of the world from creation.