Francesco Amico

Francesco Amico SJ 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.