COZZA-LUZI, GIUSEPPE. - Learned Italian Basilian monk, b. at Bolsena on 4 Dec. 1837. He became a Basilian at the abbey of Grottaferrata, where he became a hieromonk (1860) and later secretary to Abbot Contieri (1866), whom he succeeded (1879). In 1882 he was called to the Vatican as vice-librarian. He died at Bolsena on 1 June 1905.
C.-L. left a strong imprint of his personality on the liturgical reform of the abbey of Grottaferrata, but even more so in the cultural field, where he distinguished himself as a most prolific writer in palaeography, history, archaeology, theology, and liturgy. With the collaboration of his teacher Toscani, he published in 1862 his first essay, De Immaculata Deiparae Conceptione, hymnologia Graecorum (Rome, 1862). According to A. Rocchi (A. Mai, Nova Patrum Biblioth., X, Rome 1905, pp. xxv-xxviii), C.-L.’s publications numbered 130 in all, to which must be added numerous journal articles.