Cornelio Musso

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Title page of Musso’s "Comment. in epist. ad Romanos" (Venice, 1588)

Cornelio Musso (or Cornelius) (1511–1574) was an Italian Friar Minor Conventual, and Bishop of Bitonto, prominent at the Council of Trent. He was, perhaps, the most renowned orator of his day, styled the "Italian Demosthenes". Returning to ancient patristic models, he raised the homily to a high form of perfection.

Musso was born at Piacenza. He was among the first three bishops present at the Council of Trent, where he delivered the inaugural oration, distinguishing himself especially at the debates on justification. In 1560 he was sent as papal legate to Emperor Ferdinand.

He wrote: "De divina historia libri tres" (Venice, 1585; 1587); "Comment. in epist. ad Romanos" (Venice, 1588); "De operibus sex dierum" (Venice, 1598). His "Conciones evangeliorum" and "Sermones" (ed. by Jos. Musso, Venice, 1580) were translated into Latin by Michael ab Isselt (Cologne, 1594).

Musso was buried in the Basilica of Santi Apostoli, the Curia of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, in Rome.

References[]

  • Gaudentius Guggenbichler, Beiträge z. Kirchengesch. d. 16. und 17. Jahrh. (Bozen, 1880), 48 sqq.
  • Manuale dei Minori Conventuali, 324 sq.
  • Pallavicino, Istoria de concilio di Trento (Rome, 1883), passim
  • Keppler in Theologische Quartalschrift (Tübingen, 1892), 98
  • Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator Lit., III (3rd ed.), 84 sqq.

External links[]

  • Foresta, Patrizio (2012). "Musso, Cornelio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 77: Morlini–Natolini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Cornelius Musso". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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