MUSSO, CORNELIO. - Preacher and theologian of the Conventual Friars Minor, b. at Piacenza on 16 April 1511, d. at Rome on 9 Jan. 1574. He was a preacher and professor of metaphysics at the Universities of Pavia and Bologna, preacher to Paul III and Pius IV in the Vatican, and theologian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. On 4 Nov. 1541 he was elected bishop of Bertinoro, and on 27 Oct. 1544 he was transferred to the see of Bitonto.
When the Council of Trent was convened, he delivered the opening address (13 Dec. 1545) and played a notable part in its work; Pallavicino called him "the right hand of the Council." He labored zealously also in his dioceses, particularly at Bitonto, where he held a synod and pressed for the reform of morals.
He was an assistant and domestic prelate to Pius IV and Gregory XIII, and a member of the Altemps mission, which Pius IV sent in 1560 to the emperor Ferdinand at Vienna. He was buried in the basilica of the SS. Apostoli.
The most important of his writings are: Prediche (8 vols., repeatedly published at Venice and Turin from 1554 to 1590 - the editions of 1575 and 1579, edited by his nephew Giuseppe M., are notable - partly translated into Latin, French and Spanish); Synodus Bituntina (Venice 1579); Divina historia, a treatise De Deo uno et trino (ibid. 1585); Commentaria in b. Pauli Epistolam ad Romanos (ibid. 1588); Vita di Maria Vergine Madre di Cristo (Naples 1592).
Bibliography10 worksG. Musso, Vita del rev.mo mons. C. M. vescovo di Bitonto (written in 1584-85 and prefixed to the edition of the Prediche quadragesimali, Ven
BIBL.: G. Musso, Vita del rev.mo mons. C. M. vescovo di Bitonto (written in 1584-85 and prefixed to the edition of the Prediche quadragesimali, Venice 1586 and 1588, pp. 9-24); G. Franchini, Bibliografia di scrittori O.F.M., Modena 1693, pp. 16, 151-56, 252-53; Wadding, Scriptores, pp. 66-68; Sbaralea, I, pp. 218-20; III, pp. 305-307; H. Jedin, Der Franziskaner C. M., in Römische Quartalschrift, 41 (1933), pp. 207-75; G. Cantini, C. M. O. F. M. Conv. predicatore, scrittore e teologo al Concilio di Trento, in Miscellanea Franc., 41 (1941), pp. 146-74, 424-63; R. J. Bartman, C. M. tridentine theologian and orator, in Franciscan studies, 5 (1945), pp. 47-76; G. Odoardi, Fra C. M. O. F. M. Conv. padre oratore e teologo al Concilio di Trento, in Miscell. Franc., 48 (1948), pp. 223-42, 450-78; 49 (1949), pp. 46-71.
Odoardi, Giovanni. “Musso, cornelio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 1564–1565. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/musso-cornelio.
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Odoardi, Giovanni. “Musso, cornelio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1564–1565. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/musso-cornelio.
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author = {Odoardi, Giovanni},
title = {Musso, cornelio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1564--1565},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/musso-cornelio}
}
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