BOSSIO (BOSSI), GIOVANNI ANGELO. - Milanese Barnabite, theologian and jurist, superior general of his Order, b. in Milan in 1590, d. in Rome on 27 Jan. 1665. He was a confidant of Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of Giuliano de' Medici, Archbishop of Pisa: he was distinguished for religious piety and for learning. He published various works, very useful both for the ecclesiastical forum and for the civil one, concerning marriage, written with clarity and pithy brevity. He left: De matrimonii contractu (Venice 1643); Moralia varia (3 vols., Lyon 1649); The third part of these Moralia varia, that is, the treatise De conscientia scrupolosa, printed separately, was placed on the Index (decree of 4 Dec. 1674), «donec corrigatur». St. Alphonsus often cites B.

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BIBL.: L. Ungarelli, Bibliotheca Script... Cler. Regg. S. Pauli, Rome 1863, p. 344, holds that the condemned work is not by Bossio; G. Boffito, Scrittori Barnabiti, I. Florence 1933, pp. 315-19; M. Petrocchi, G. A. B. o degli scrupoli, in L'uomo e la storia, Bologna 1944, p. 36; add.

Iginio Tarocchi

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Bossio (Bossi), Giovanni Angelo

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