Stoppani and «Il Rosmini»

The Rosminian Influence on the Thinking of the Naturalist Priest Antonio Stoppani and His Involvement in the Conciliarist Cause

Abstract

Antonio Stoppani (1824-1891) was one of the most important exponents of ‘conciliatorism’. The aim of my paper, based on the works of Stoppani and on his partially unpublished correspondence with priests and intellectuals of the time, is to focus on the Rosminian theoretical premises that allowed a devoutly Catholic man of science to reconcile his religious vocation with an equally fervent scientific passion and that lead him to be the main reference point of the Rosminian opposition to the intransigent front dominating the Italian Church in the late 1880s.