ZACCHI, ANGELO. — Dominican theologian and philosopher, born on 23 November 1874 at Raggiolo in the Casentino, died in Rome on 17 October 1927.
Ordained a priest in 1897, two years later he began teaching philosophy at the convent of S. Maria del Sasso near Bibbiena, continuing this work (from 1903) with success at the Minerva and at the Angelicum Athenaeum. A member of the Arcadia, he delivered learned dissertations there (La morale scientifica di Spencer, Del pessimismo, Del progresso umano, Benedetto XI); as a lecturer at the Catholic University Circle of Rome, he carried out an effective intellectual apostolate, which found its continuation in works of religious philosophy, in which, with lucid expression and vigorous thought, he addressed the most vital issues of the modern age: Il problema del dolore (Rom. 1920); L'uomo (2 vols., ibid. 1921); Il miracolo (ibid. 1922); Lo spiritismo (ibid. 1922); Dio (2 vols., Rome 1925); Il neoidealismo di Croce e di Gentile (2nd ed., ibid. 1925). Worn out by his intense labors, during the days he spent in a clinic he composed a spiritual diary, which reveals his profound interior life (Il diario di p. A. Z., in Memorie domenicane, 45 [1928], pp. 45–56, 204–10).