SALZANO, TOMMASO MICHELE. - Dominican writer and archbishop, b. in Naples in April 1807, d. at Nocera Inferiore on 12 Sept. 1890. He held important offices in the Order, in the State and in the Church. Pius IX first elected him titular bishop of Tanes (13 Jan. 1854), then (22 Dec. 1873) promoted him to titular archbishop of Edessa. He took an active part in the Vatican Council. In 1882 Leo XIII wished to call him to Rome as master of the Sacred Palaces.

He left numerous and valuable publications, especially on canon law and history, among them: Lezioni di diritto canonico pubblico e privato (4 vols., Naples 1845, which went through 13 editions); Corso di storia ecclesiastica dalla creazione del mondo sino ai giorni nostri (4 vols., ibid. 1855); Il cattolicesimo nel sec. XIX (ibid. 1880); Saggio sul pauperismo nel sec. XIX (ibid. 1883).

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BIBL.: anon., Necrologio di mons. T. S., in Il Rosario. Memorie domenicane, 7 (1890), pp. 285-91; B. Minichini, Ritratto storico di mons. T. M. S., Naples 1891; Hutter, V. col. 1640; V. Arangio-Ruiz, s. v. in Enc. Ital., XXX, p. 289; M. Vanni, T. S., in Alba domenicana, 4 (1940), p. 36.

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