SCAVINI, PIETRO. - Moral theologian, b. at Intra on 22 Oct. 1791, d. at Novara on 17 Nov. 1869. Still a young priest, he held the office of vicar general of the diocese of Novara and kept it until 1856.
In 1831 he was proposed by Charles Albert as bishop of Susa, but S. refused. He was a candidate in the elections of 15 Nov. 1857, but was not elected owing to the manoeuvres of the Cavour supporters. A cordial friend of A. Rosmini (v.), he had with him a controversy over the universality of the reflex principle Lex dubia non obligat, contradicted by Rosmini in various letters, one of which, addressed to Msgr. Barciulli on 16 Dec. 1846, was published in the journal Pragmologia cattolica of Lucca. There were replies and counter-replies, which also digressed onto the historical question de mente s. Alphonsi with the intervention of third parties (such as Gilardi, Fedelini, Missiaglia, Angeleri, Bertazzi, Pagani). What was at issue was in fact the interpretation of probabilism given by S. in his Theologia moralis universa (Novara 1841, with successive editions of which the last [16th] at Milan in 1901), a work of useful consultation even today. His pamphlets of a polemical nature: S. Alfonso presso l'ab. Rosmini (Novara 1860), Il sig. d. A. Rosmini presso s. Alfonso (ibid. 1860), are of little importance.
Bibliography3 workssome letters of S. of a scientific nature are in the Archivio rosminiano of Stresa. Other letters of S. to Rosmini and of Rosmini to S. are
BIBL.: some letters of S. of a scientific nature are in the Archivio rosminiano of Stresa. Other letters of S. to Rosmini and of Rosmini to S. are published in the Epistolario completo di A. Rosmini, III, Casale 1888, pp. 580-85, 757, etc. Cf. furthermore: G. B. Pagani, Vita di A. Rosmini, II, Turin 1897, pp. 361-364, 597-98; G. Cavigioli, Il teologo mons. P. S., Pallanza 1920; G. Mattai, A. Rosmini e il probabilismo, Turin 1951, pp. 24-30.
Roberti, Annunziata. “Scavini, pietro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 20. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/scavini-pietro.
MLA
Roberti, Annunziata. “Scavini, pietro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 20. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/scavini-pietro.
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@incollection{ec11_scavini_pietro,
author = {Roberti, Annunziata},
title = {Scavini, pietro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {20},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/scavini-pietro}
}
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