work as professor of moral philosophy at Turin, to which he had been appointed in 1861, and began a series of Advent addresses in the church of San Carlo at Milan. But on arriving in order to preach his second sermon he found himself met by an inhibition on the part of Mgr. Cacao, the administrator, of the archdiocese of Milan. Elected deputy in the Italian parliament, he still advocated strongly the cause of Italian independence, and at a later period wrote a defense of the rights of the episcopate under the title of La Causa di sua eminenza il cardinaic d'Andrea. He also (1864) wrote against Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus. Eight days before his death he endeavored to be reconciled to the pope, and made a full retractation. He died at Turin on 12 March 1887. Works His chief works are: an edition of the Enchiridion of St. Augustine, with copious notes (Naples, 1847); De prærogativis b. Petri (Rome, 1850); Conferences given at the Gésu and published in Civiltà Cattolica (1851); Commentariorum theologicorum partes 3 (1 vol. Rome, 1850–51); De ecclesia Christi (3 vols., Ratisbon, 1853 — incomplete); De æternitate poenarum (Ratisbon, 1854). References External links Italian male writers 19th-century Italian Jesuits People temporarily excommunicated by the Catholic Church Italian people of the Italian unification Former Jesuits Religious leaders from Lucca 1812 births 1887 deaths