MATTIUSSI, GUIDO. - Jesuit philosopher and theologian, b. at Vergnacco (Udine) on 14 April 1852, d. at Gorizia on 12 March 1925. A graduate in theology, philosophy, and science at Paris, he was professor at the Gregorian University, lecturer, and writer.
A profound connoisseur of the doctrine of s. Tommaso, he drafted the celebrated 24 theses approved by the S. Congregation of Seminaries and Universities and produced the best commentary on them, Le 24 tesi della filosofia di s. Tommaso (Rome 1917). His other works include: Fisica razionale (2 vols., Milan 1896-1901), De Verbo incarnato (Rome 1914), De Deo Uno et Trino (ibid. 1913), De Sacramentis (ibid. 1915). He also wrote against Kant’s immanentism: Il veleno kantiano (Monza 1907); against modernism: Il giuramento antimodernista (Bergamo 1909); and, moreover, numerous articles and works of a philosophical, apologetic, and dogmatic character, L'Assunzione della B. V. nel domma (Milan 1924).