CONTI (DE COMITIBUS), BIAGIO. - Italian theologian and philosopher, b. at Canzo in the Como region in 1636, d.
at Prague on 4 Apr. 1685. Having entered the Conventuals at Milan and completed his education, he was regent of studies at Breslavia (ca. 1658–59) and at Prague (ca. 1665), and at the same time consistorial assessor of the archbishopric of Prague, theologian and counsellor to the various archbishops who succeeded one another in that see.
In 1677 he undertook the final drafting of his philosophical and theological courses. The latter, published only in part, bears the title: Theologia scholastica p. Mag. Blasii de Comitibus a Mediolano, Pars prima I Sentent., de Deo trino et uno (Prague 1687); Pars secunda I Sentent., de intellectu, scientia, providentia, praedestinatione et reprobatione (ibid. 1687); Pars prima II Sentent., de creatione, statu innocentiae et angelis (ibid. 1688).