Vincenzo Palmieri

Vincenzo Palmieri (1757 - 18 March 1820) was an Italian oratorian priest and theologian with Jansenist leanings.

Biography

He was born in Genoa. He obtained for him an appointment as professor of church history in Pisa and subsequently at the University of Pavia. In Pavia, he became allied with his fellow professors Tamburini and Zola, who proposed, among other ideas, a more decentralized Catholicism, with less papal power and more freedom to local bishops. He participated in the Synod of Pistoia.

Works

Among his works:^[1]

Istituzioni di storia ecclesiastica (1789) dedicated to Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pietro Leopoldo
Trattato historico, critico, e dogmatico delle indulgenze (1788) - Treatise criticizing the granting of indulgences in exchange for either actions or donations, often at the time, churches would post on tablets the "rates" quoted for indulgences.
La libertà e la legge considerate nella libertà di opinione e nella tolleranza dè culti

References

^ Continuazione al Nuovo dizionario istorico degli uomini che si sono renduti piu celebri... Tomo VI; Gioacchino M. Olivier-Poli, Published by R. Marotta and Vanspandoch, Naples (1825); page 365.

[1] Continuazione al Nuovo dizionario istorico degli uomini che si sono renduti piu celebri... Tomo VI; Gioacchino M. Olivier-Poli, Published by R. Marotta and Vanspandoch, Naples (1825); page 365.

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