Quotes:Amico, Francesco

Zirkoff, Boris

Amico, Francesco (Francis Amicus). Italian Jesuit theologian, b. at Cosenza, April 2, 1578; d. at Graz, Jan. 31, 1651. Began his novitiate, 1596. At first taught philosophy for some years, then occupied for 24 years the chair of theology at Aquila and at Naples, later at Graz and Vienna; after returning to Graz, he was for five years chancellor of the University. He is the author of * Cursus theologica juxta scholasticum hujus temporis Societatis Jesu methodum, 9 vols., folio, Duaci, 1640-49, and Antwerp, 1650; its first vol. appeared in Vienna, 1630; its fifth vol., “De iure et iustitia,” was placed on the Index, June, 1651, on acc. of three propositions, and was again condemned by Alexander VII and Innocent XI. Pascal in his Les Provinciales, t. I, pp. 339-44 (Paris: Maynard, 1851), speaks of Amico and his ideas on homicide.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 404