BRUNENGO, GIUSEPPE. - Jesuit, b. 12 Jan. 1821 at Piverone (Turin), d. at Rome 11 Nov. 1891. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1835, and because of the revolution of 1848 he went to the United States, where he taught philosophy at Worcester; having returned to Italy, he was a writer for La Civiltà Cattolica from 1854 until his death. His numerous articles deal mainly with Holy Scripture, the primacy of the Pope and the history of the Papal State. Among the writings published in volumes, the following are remembered: Le origini della sovranità dei Papi (Prato 1862), Il patriziato romano di Carlo Magno (ibid., 1864-66); I destini di Roma (4 vols., Turin 1874-77); as well as L'impero di Babilonia e di Ninive..., secondo i monumenti cuneiformi comparati con la Bibbia (2 vols., Prato 1885). The historical part of the book (due mainly to p. Greglia) Il Papato, l'Impero e il Regno d'Italia (Rome 1861), against the work of the same name by Liverani, is also his.

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BIBL.: F. S. Rondina, Necrologia del p. G. B., in La Civiltà Catt., 14th series, 10 (1891, II), pp. 619-23; Sommervogel, II, Addenda, pp. III-IV; VIII, col. 1937; S. Casagrandi, De claris solidibus Prav. Taurinensis S. I., Turin 1906, pp. 183-90; A. De Bil, s. v. in DHC, X, col. 934.

Edmondo Lamalle

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Brunengo, Giuseppe

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