Francesco Amico

Francesco Amico was a prominent Catholic theologian, born in Cosenza, in Calabria, 2 April 1578.^[1]

Francesco Amico entered the Society of Jesus in 1596. For twenty-four years he was professor of theology at Naples, Aquila, and Gratz, and, for five years, chancellor in the academy of Gratz.^[1] He was scholastic in his method, adapting his treatises to a four-year course of teaching. He wrote De Deo Uno et Trino; De Natura Angelorum; De Ultimo Fine; De Fide, Spe, et Charitate; De Justitia et Jure, which was prohibited, 18 June 1651 donec corrigatur, on account of three propositions in it, which Pope Alexander VII and Innocent XI objected to.^[1] The corrected edition of 1649 was permitted. He wrote also on the Incarnation, and the sacraments.^[1]

• Southwell, Nathaniel (1676). Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Iesu. Rome: Ex Typographia Iacobi Antonij de Lazzaris. pp. 210 ff.

• Merola, Alberto (1960). "AMICO, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 2: Albicante–Ammannati (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
• Lehner, F. C. (2003). "Amico, Francesco". In Berard Marthalar (ed.). New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: A-Azt (2 ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. p. 358.