A selection from THE ASCETICAL LETTERS OF ANTONIO ROSMINI Volume II 1832-1836 Translated and edited by John Morris Inst. Ch. 1995 John Morris, Our Lady’s Convent, Park Road, Loughborough LE11 2EF ISBN 0 9518938 3 1 Phototypeset by The Midlands Book Typesetting Company, Loughborough Printed by Quorn Litho, Loughborough, Leics and reset with OCR 2004 ii Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................................................................................................... iii TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD .................................................................................. 1 1. To His Holiness Pope Gregory XVI .......................................................................... 2 2. To Don Sebastian De Apollonia at Udine ................................................................. 4 3. To the deacon Don Clemente Alvazzi at Domodossola ........................................... 6 4. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ........................................................... 7 5. To Don Pietro Bruti (curate at Praso) ...................................................................... 8 6. To Don Giacomo Molinari at Domodossola ............................................................. 9 7. To the priests Lissandrini and Teruggi at Arona .................................................. 10 8. To Niccolò Tommaseo in Florence .......................................................................... 12 9. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ......................................................... 13 10. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ....................................................... 15 11. To Count Giulio Padulli in Milan .......................................................................... 17 12. To Don Andrea Fenner at Pomarolo [a suburb of Rovereto] ............................. 19 13. To Mr Ambrose Phillips at Garendon Park, England ........................................ 21 14. To the deacon Clemente Alvazzi at Domodossola................................................ 23 15. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................... 25 16. To Mgr Pietro Scavini at Novara .......................................................................... 26 17. To Emilio Belisy at Domodossola .......................................................................... 28 18. To Don Giuseppe Maria Suryn, S.J., Professor of Philosophy in the College of Novara ....................................................................................................................... 30 19. To Mgr Carlo Sardagna, Bishop of Cremona ...................................................... 32 20. To Mgr Sardagna, Bishop of Cremona ................................................................. 33 21. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................... 35 22. To Niccolò Tommaseo in Florence ........................................................................ 37 23. To Mgr Luschin, Bishop of Trent.......................................................................... 38 iii 24. To Don Pietro Bruti at Praso ................................................................................. 39 25. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ....................................................... 40 26. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................... 41 27. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ....................................................... 42 28. To Don Clemente Alvazzi at Domodossola ........................................................... 43 29. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ....................................................... 45 30. To Giuseppe de’Rosmini Serbati in Rovereto ...................................................... 46 31. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................... 47 32. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................... 48 33. To Michele Parma at Asti ...................................................................................... 49 34. To Don Giulio Padulli in Milan ............................................................................. 50 35. To Mgr Carlo Sardagna, Bishop of Cremona ...................................................... 51 36. To Don Giovanluca, Procurator General of the Passionists, at SS John and Paul in Rome ................................................................................................................. 52 37. To Mr Ambrose Phillips in England ..................................................................... 53 38. To His Eminence Cardinal Placido Zurla in Rome ............................................. 55 39. To Mgr Luschin, Bishop of Trent.......................................................................... 57 40. To Don Giulio Padulli in Milan ............................................................................. 58 41. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Locarno................................................................ 60 42. To Don Pietro Rigler at Trent ............................................................................... 61 43. To the brethren of the Institute in the house at Trent ......................................... 62 44. To Don Pietro Rigler at Trent ............................................................................... 66 45. To Don Andrea Quinn in Rome............................................................................. 67 46. To Don Giambattista Boselli at Trent ................................................................... 69 47. To Niccolò Tommaseo in Florence ........................................................................ 70 48. To Don Pietro Rigler at Trent ............................................................................... 72 49. To Don Giulio Todeschi at Trent ........................................................................... 73 iv 50. To Leonardo Rosmini in Milan ............................................................................. 75 51. To Mr Ambrose Phillips at Garendon Park in England ..................................... 76 52. To Don Giuseppe Penz at Trent ............................................................................ 78 53. To Niccolò Tommaseo in Florence ........................................................................ 80 54. To Don Pietro Rigler at Trent ............................................................................... 81 55. To Don Paolo Orsi at Rovereto .............................................................................. 83 56. To Count Giacomo Mellerio in Milan ................................................................... 85 57. To Don Teruggi Celestino, Director of the Seminary of Varallo ........................ 86 58. To Don Giambattista Boselli at Trent ................................................................... 88 59. To Count Mellerio in Milan ................................................................................... 89 60. To the artist Giuseppe Craffonara at Riva ........................................................... 90 61. To the Marchesa di Canossa in Verona ................................................................ 91 62. To Mgr Giuseppe Grasser, Bishop of Verona ...................................................... 92 63. To Cristina Pilotti, Daughter of Charity, at Verona ........................................... 93 64. To his mother, Giovanna Rosmini Serbati at Rovereto ...................................... 94 65. To Mgr Carlo Sardagna, Bishop of Cremona ...................................................... 95 66. To Giovanna Rosmini Serbati at Rovereto........................................................... 97 67. To the Daughter of Charity, Cristina Pilotti, in Verona ..................................... 98 68. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ....................................................... 99 69. To Count Giacomo Mellerio in Milan ................................................................. 100 70. To Don Giovanni Padulli in Milan ...................................................................... 101 71. To a person unnamed at Domodossola ............................................................... 102 72. To Giuseppe Flecchia ............................................................................................ 103 73. To Don Giulio Todeschi at Cremona .................................................................. 105 74. To Don Paolo Orsi at Rovereto ............................................................................ 106 75. To Don Clemente Alvazzi at Domodossola ......................................................... 107 76. To an unnamed priest at Domodossola ............................................................... 108 v 77. To Don Antonio Rey at Domodossola ................................................................. 110 78. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................. 112 79. To Don G. B. Loewenbruck at Domodossola ..................................................... 113 80. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................. 116 81. To Don Luigi Gentili at Domodossola ................................................................