Luigi Tosti

Luigi Tosti

Luigi Tosti (b. Naples, 13 Feb., 1811; d. at Monte Cassino, 24 Sept., 1897) was a Benedictine historian.

Life

His father, Count Giovanni Tosti, descended from an ancient Calabrian family, died young, and so his mother, Vittoria Corigliano, entrusted the child to its uncle, a monk at Monte Cassino. In 1819 Tosti because a pupil at the abbey, and was drawn early towards the monastic life.

He was sent to Rome to complete his studies, was ordained priest in 1833, and soon returned to Monte Cassino, where for twenty years he taught the doctrines of Thomas Aquinas. About 1829 he had begun a deep study of history, and in 1842 he published his "Storia della badia di Monte Cassino", soon followed by the "Storia di Bonifazio VIII" (History of Pope Boniface VIII). His "Storia della Lega Lombarda" (History of the Lombard League, dedicated to Pius IX, appeared in 1848 and was a trumpet-call to the Neo-Guelph party. He worked so hard that in 1851 he published the "Storia di Abelardo e dei suoi tempi", the "Storia del Concilio di Constanze" (History of the Council of Constance) in 1853, the "Storia dell' origine dello scisma greco" in 1856, "La Contessa Matilde e i Romani pontefici" in 1859, and in 1861 the "Prolegomeni alla storia universale della Chilsa".

Tosti took part in the nationalist movement blessed by Pius IX. In 1844 he had planned a review, "L'Ateneo italiano", for the purpose of putting the papacy at the head of his Risorgimento. The Neapolitan police authorities opposed it, and forbade Tosti to take part in the projected mediation (between the pope and the triumvirs of the ephemeral Roman Republic), which was advocated by the French envoy, Comte d'Harcourt. Pius IX intervened personally to secure the liberation of the monk, who had been accused, as Cardinal Alfonso Capecelatro relates, of belonging to a band of murderous conspirators, and put in prison. Temple, the English ambassador at Naples, also opposed his imprisonment. Tosti sought consolation in the study of the Holy Scriptures and his book, "Ricordi biblici", was the fruit of this experience.

He was sad to see convents threatened by a law passed by the Parliament of the new Italian Kingdom and appealed to distinguished friends, such as W. E. Gladstone, to obtain some exemption for Monte Cassino, which he likewise procured later for the Abbey of Grottaferrata, the Sacro Speco of Subiaco, etc. Pained by these events, Tosti refused a chair in the University of Pisa, but later became assistant archivist of the Vatican, under Leo XIII. This pope's allocution in May, 1887, inviting the Italian Government to make peace, presided over by the former revolutionary, Francesco Crispi, rekindled Tosti's patriotism.

Deputed by the pope to negotiate the restoration of St. Paul's to the Benedictines, Tosti hoped to effect an official reconciliation of the Vatican and the Quirinale. Crispi's impatience, mutual opposition, and the distrusts of French diplomats, thwarted his efforts, and he had to retract publicly his brochure "La conciliazione". He withdrew to Monte Cassino and undertook his "Della vita di S. Benedetto" (Of the Life of St Benedict). Moved by the pope's appeal to the English in 1896, he renewed his efforts with Gladstone, in favour of a reunion of the Churches.

ources

*BELLESHEIM in "Katholik", I (1899), 136 sqq.;
*CAPECELATRO, "Commemor. di D. Luigi Tosti" (Monte Cassino, 1899);
*CIPOLLA, "Luigi Tosti e le sue relazioni col Piemonte in Atti d. R. acad. delle sc. di Torino XXXVI "(seance of 25 Nov., 1900);
*OVIDIO, "Il padre Luigi Tosti in Revue de Italia", I (1898), 24 sqq.;
*GAY, "Le pere Tosti chivio stor. ital.", series V, XXI, 241 sqq.;
*QUINTAVALLE, "La conciliazione fra l'Italia e il papato" (The Reconciliation between Italy and the Papacy; Milan, 1907).
*Catholic|Luigi Tosti


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