Giovanni Lorenzo Berti

His huge Opus de Theologicis Disciplinis expounded not the private views of a theologian, but those of the Augustinian Order and therefore had a semi-official status in the Roman Catholic Church.

[1] brought to the attention of the ecclesiastical hierarchies, was dropped at the behest of Pope Benedict XIV.

[3]Berti in his defense published (Rome, 1747) Augustinianum systema de gratia ab iniqua Bajani, & Janseniani erroris insimulatione vindicatum....[3] Another work of his of note is Ecclesiasticae historiae breuiarium (Pisa, 1760), a text that was widely circulated[3] and had numerous reprints until the last one by the publisher Remondini (firm) of Bassano del Grappa in 1823.

[4] In 1762 Three Consultations, made in defense of smallpox inoculation by three living learned Tuscan theologians, was printed in Milan.

The work, in defense of the inoculation in the individual to be immunized, of material taken from smallpox lesions (the “Variolation”) contains, in addition to a text by Berti, two other articles by the theologians Francesco Raimondo Adami and Gaetano Veraci.