Luigi Mozzi
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Life
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1763, and on its suppression was received into the Diocese of Bergamo, where he was shortly made a canon, and appointed archpriest and examiner of candidates for the priesthood. The zeal with which he opposed the progress of Jansenism in Italy gained him a reputation, and Pope Pius VI called him to Rome, where he became an Apostolic missionary.
He was elected a member of the Accademia degli Arcadi. In 1804 he rejoined the Society, which had been restored in Naples. He retired to the residence of Marquis Scotti near Milan, where he died.
Works
Among his important writings are:
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all against Jansenism;
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He translated from the English Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel's "Fifty Reasons for preferring the Roman Catholic Religion" (Bassano, 1789); and from the French, Script error: No such module "Lang". (Assisi, 1791).
References
- Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator, III, 540
- Vita del P.L. Mozzi (Novara, 1823).