Mozzi, Luigi, controversialist, b. at Bergamo, May 26, 1746; d. near Milan, June 24, 1813. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1763, and on its suppression was received into the Diocese of Bergamo, where he was shortly made a canon, and appointed arch-priest and examiner of candidates for the priesthood. The zeal and ability with which he opposed the progress of Jansenism in Italy gained him a well-merited reputation, and Pius VI called him to Rome, where he became an Apostolic missionary. He was elected a member of the Accademia degli Arcadi (see Roman Academies). In 1804 he hastened to rejoin the Society, which had been restored in Naples. Worn out at length by his charitable labors and penitential practices, he retired to the residence of Marquis Scotti near Milan, where he died. Among his important writings are: “Vera idea del Giansenismo” (1781); “Storia cornpendiosa della scisma della nuova chiesa d’Utrecht” (Ferrara, 1785); “Storia delle revoluzioni della Chiesa dUtrecht” (Venice, 1787); “Compendio storico-cronologico… copra it Baianismo, Giansenismo e Quesnellismo” (Foligno, 1792), all against Jansenism; “It (also discepolo di S. Agostino e di S. Tommaso” (Venice, 1779), a defense of Molinism. He translated from the English the Duke of Brunswicks “Fifty Reasons for preferring the Roman Catholic Religion” (Bassano, 1789); and from the French, “Les projets des incredules pour la ruine de la religion, devoiles dans les oeuvres de Frederic, roi de Prusse” (Assisi, 1791).
A. A. MACERLEAN