TOSETTI, URBANO. - Piarist scientist, b. in Florence on 28 June 1714, d. in Rome on 9 March 1768.

He devoted himself chiefly to the physical sciences, which he first taught in Cortona and then in Rome, at the Collegio Nazareno, where he was also rector. He was the first in Italy, together with the other two Piarists, Fr. Petrini and Fr. Audrich, to publish and enrich with new experiments Haller's discovery concerning the insensitivity of certain parts of animals, and to discuss it with great learning in certain printed letters to his friend Dr. Valdambrini. He was a close friend of the popes Benedict XIV and Clement XIV; the former even wished him to be tutor to his nephews. He gave to the press many essays and works of a philosophical and didactic character: the Compendio della vita di s. Giuseppe Calazanzio, published in 1767 on the occasion of the canonization, has already had more than forty editions.

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BIBL.: A. Checcucci, Elogio del p. U. T. d. S. P., premesso al vol. Operette sacre del p. U. T. d. S. P., pubbl. la prima volta in un sol volume, Urbino 1844, pp. IX-XXVI; T. Viñas, Index scriptorum Scholarum Piarum, Roma 1909, pp. 440-42.

Leodegario Picanyol

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