Matteo Liberatore

Matteo Liberatore, SJ (born at Salerno, Italy, 14 August 1810; died at Rome, 18 October 1892) was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and writer.

[1] On returning to Italy he was appointed to teach theology, but gave up his professorship in 1850 to cofound Civiltà Cattolica, a periodical founded by the Jesuits to defend the cause of the Church and the papacy, and to spread the knowledge of the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas.

In 1879 he contributed to Leo XIII's encyclical Aeterni Patris on scholastic philosophy, promoting the teaching of Thomism in all Catholic schools.

[1][2] Sommervogel records more than forty of his published works, and gives the titles of more than nine hundred of his articles (including reviews) which appeared in Civiltà Cattolica alone.

[3] His works include: English translations of Degli universali and Principii di economia politica were published by Edward Heneage Dering.