Enciclopedia Cattolica

COLLIO, FRANCESCO

Volume III · p. 1157 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

COLLIO, Francesco. — Italian theologian, born in Brusimpiano, parish of Arcisate, in the second half of the 16th century, died in Milan in 1640. Having become an Oblate of SS. Ambrose and Charles in 1609, he was one of the first doctors of the Ambrosiana. In 1631 he was made canon and penitentiary of the Duomo. As a theologian he was praised by Lugo.

He published the theses he had defended before Cardinal Federico Borromeo and 16 bishops on 7 May 1609 (*Conclusiones in sacro theologia*, Milan 1609) and two extensive monographs: *De Sanguine Christi* (ibid. 1617) and *De animabus paganorum* (2 vols., ibid. 1622). In the latter, after stating that pagans can perform good deeds and explaining the various ways in which God enlightens them, he discusses, on the basis of the Fathers, the salvation of the most celebrated among them.

BIBL.: P. Bosca, *De origine et statu bibliothecae Ambrosianae*, Milan 1722, pp. 44–45; F. Argelati, *Bibliotheca scriptorum mediolanensium*, I–II, Milan 1745, pp. 441–42; B. Heurtebize, *Collio*, in *DThC*, III, col. 369; [A. P. Frutoz], *Positio super introductione Causae del servo di Dio Giorgio Martinelli* (Sectio Historica S. R. Congreg.), Vatican City 1950, pp. 99–100.