New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-17
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yICENTIO GIOBERTG.

yIcYYrro GIoBERTI ranks foremost among
the master.minds of Italian genius, and of the
most genuine, the purest cast. He was born
u the Sandman kingdom, in the year 1893, and
lied recently in Paris of q fit Of apOplexy. At
early age he entered the Catholic priest
| IOOd, and as an AJbate soon fixed the attention
4 the literary and the learned world, by sew
| nl publications in the field of Catholic meta
Ayscal philosophy. The most celebrated
nOng these publications are Introduction to
&Study Of The Science Of Philosophy; trea-
te on The Beautiful and The Good Del BuOno
| Bello). His erudition was immense. AS
| Alcsopher he followed the theological ideas
Plato and st. Augustine, in opposition to
he system and method of the still living and
lot less prominent and celebrated Abbate ROs-
Ehi, who in his speculatiOns, as for example in
hvork On the Formation Of Heas, is a disci-
| pc Of Aristotle and the great St. Thomas
=! Aquinas.
{ GiOberti attracted moro general attention
when, il. ls4l, by the influence of the Jesuits,
levS deprived of the chair OF moral phlloso-
| lly at Turin, and even obliged TO emigrate to
Ntid further prosecutions by the same frater-
MY, He went to Paris and thence to Brus-
ss The unrelenting Jesuits reached him
Here, and tried to prevent him from celebra-
ing the mass, which in his destitute position
EHa means Of an income and subsistence. In
fnis as well as in Brussels he continued his
literary occupations and earnest studies. From
Brussels he shook all Italy with his pen. He
odthis by the publication of the Ndkaa Sapre-
Hsg (Primato Italano) in all the walks OF
'cence, art, industry, warm al the manlies-
ations of the higher civilization. Such was
Nay in the past, and such, he commended, she
ought to be and will be again in the future.
kerOvating herself and the Christian world
Italy must remain faithful to her highest mission
she must remain Catholic and therefore Papal.
HE Roman Catholic idea is thus the real ont
cog.
Transplanting this idea from the moral and
Intellectual field into the social and political,
the old Guelhc tendency, sentiment and princi-
PIE were to be again called into life Italy was
10 be purified from Ghibellinism, from the in
fuence. interference Of the Caesar, the Ger
nan, and finally to get rid Of Austria, ant
unite herself under the temporal supremac.
u the Pope. This work appeared during tn
lie time of Gregory XVI, and was prohibited
trough the whole peninsula The Jesuit
sse foremost in denouncing it. To these dc
saeiations GiobeIti replied by another, no
philosophical, learned, Guelic and inhamed
der the title: PrO'ogcmeHa 10 the Work OF
Afeiion Supremacy In this the Jesaits az
eectly denounced as being the allies aud Tx
S', active, devoted and unprincipicd agents
sAustiia. The San-Fedist party united &
1 % Jesuits, tried to repcl the accusation AM
~snSWer GiOberti. Among Others, Father Pei
.c0'a brother of the celebrated Silvio, an'
ssas even rumored that the poet lent his pei
"ne jesuit. The answer most spoken OF
most approved by all the Governments o
T'Sas that made by Neapolitan jesuit
1er Curci. Ii was called witty, but it wa
"a! seeona-rate and very paltrywit twas
~wVggler as the French prOyer3 says, o