ALBERTINI, Giorgio Francesco. — Dominican theologian and preacher, born on 20 Feb. 1732 at Parenzo, where he died on 29 Apr. 1810. In 1745 he entered 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 College of Propaganda (1789) in Rome, where he had been summoned by Pius VI since 1787, and at Padua (1791), sent by the Reformers of that Studium to succeed Fr. Antonio Valsecchi, or rather (1708–91), he remained with honor until the suppression of that faculty in 1807. He refused three chairs of philosophy offered him by the new authorities of the Kingdom of Italy, declined to become a member of the College of Doctors instituted by them, and refused to attend the electoral assemblies in Bologna in protest against the persecution of the Church and the Pope.
He published various apologetic works, clear and moderate. In his theological lectures (*Aroases*, 5 vols., Padua-Venice 1798–1802, to which he added a sixth volume of *Scholia*, Venice 1808), he was inspired by a broad concordism, winning the sympathy of non-Thomists and drawing the attacks of Thomists. Fr. Domenico Pelgrini (1737–1820) criticized him in his *In Aroases p. G. A. animadversionum theologicarum specimen* (Verona 1803), to which Albertini replied. Two ingenious works by him also remain, in which he attempts to determine the chronology of the world from creation.