CADONICI, GIOVANNI. - Italian theologian, b. in Venezia in 1705, d. 27 Feb. 1786, canon of Cremona. Tenaciously opposed to the papal court, he favored Josephinism. In supporting his theses, he did not scruple to distort the thought of the Fathers. He attracted notice as an anti-Molinist. But his greatest notoriety is due to the strange opinion he upheld against the common sentiment and the tradition of the Church: namely, that even before the Redemption the saints in limbo enjoyed the beatific vision.
His thought is set forth in his works: Vindiciae augustinianae ab imputatione regni millenarii (Cremona 1747); Dialoghi tre in difesa delle vindicie agostiniane (Rovereto 1753); S. Augustini de piorum statu in sinu Abrahae ante Christi mortem sententia (Venezia 1763); De dicto Augustini: «Ecclesiam Christi servituram sub regibus huius saeculi» (Pavia 1784).