Luigi Desanctis

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Luigi Francesco Leonardo Desanctis (also de Sanctis; ) (born December 31, 1808 in Rome , † December 31, 1869 in Florence ) was an Italian Roman Catholic and later Waldensian theologian and was one of the most important personalities of Italian Protestantism in the nineteenth century. He published his liberal political ideas, which were widely spread in Italy.

Life

Luigi Desanctis was born to Biagio Desanctis and Camilla Forzi, the eldest son of twenty-four children whom his father had with four other wives.

In 1831 he was ordained a Catholic priest as a member of the Camillian Order , having previously taught in Genoa. For a while he was pastor at the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome before he went to Genoa in 1835 to work as a pastor for the sick during the cholera epidemic there . Doubts about the truth of Catholic doctrine, which through the work of Pope Pius IX. were reinforced, moved him to go to Malta in 1847 . There he married and stayed on the island until 1850, paying a brief visit to Tuscany in 1848. Then he went to Switzerland . He later joined the Waldensian Church. On August 31, 1853 he was ordained as their pastor in Torre Pellice and also worked in Turin. In later life he devoted himself mainly to his writing activities and wrote apologetic and polemical writings against the Roman Catholic Church .

Works

  • La tradizione. Trattato in opposizione al monaco Belli nella sua dottrina sulla confessione, 1850
  • Il celibato dei preti. Considerazioni Religose, morali, storiche, 1850
  • Popery and Jesuitism at Rome in the nineteenth century, with remarks on their influence in England . London, 1852
  • Compendio di controversie tra la parola di Dio e la teologia romana ad uso dei cristiani evangelici , Turin, 1858
  • Si può leggere la Bibbia? questione indirizzata al buon senso di tutti i cattolici , Turin, Claudiana, 1860
  • Il Celibato dei Preti, riflessioni storico-dommatiche . Livorno, 1861
  • La Confessione, saggio dommatico-storico ... riveduto ed accresciuto dall'autore . Turin, Claudiana, 1858
  • Quattro lettere al cardinale Patrizi , Florence, Claudiana, 1862
  • Il Papa: osservazioni dottrinali e storiche . Rome, 1864
  • Roma papale descritta in una serie di lettere, 1865
  • Accuse contro il Papismo , Florence: Claudiana, 1870
  • La Parola di Dio. Saggi dommatici . Florence, Claudiana, 1870
  • La Porta e la via della vita eterna . Florence: Claudiana, 1870
  • La Francia ed il papato; con un dialogo dello stesso authors
  • A Pio IX Vescovo di Roma , Florence: Claudiana, 1872
  • Valdesi . Seconda edizione. Florence: Claudiana 1872
  • Il Papa non è successore di San Pietro. Osservazioni storiche ...  Seconda edizione. Rome, 1872
  • Confession injurious to Faith and Morals , London, 1877
  • Confession opposed to sound reason . London, 1877
  • Confession: a doctrinal and historical essay. Translated from the eighteenth Italian edition by MHG Buckle , London, 1878
  • Roma papale descritta in una serie di lettere con note , Rome, Florence: Claudiana, 1882
  • Popery, Puseyism, Jesuitism. Described in a series of letters by Luigi Desanctis. Translated by Maria Betts . London: Calvinistic Protestant Union, 1903

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personal data
SURNAME Desanctis, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Desanctis, Luigi Francesco Leonardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Roman Catholic and later Waldensian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1869
Place of death Florence