Biographical Summary
1797
24 March Antonio Rosmini Serbati born at Rovereto of Modesto and
Giovanna dei Conti Formenti from Biacesa near Lake Garda
25 March He was baptized on the feast of the Annunciation by the angel
to the Virgin Mary
1804–1808 Went to the
grammar school in Rovereto
1808–1812 Latin
Studies
1812–1814
Went to secondary school in Rovereto. His Personal Diary dates back to
this time in which he wrote his first notes which mention his
vocation to follow the Lord more closely.
1814–1818
Two years of private study of philosophy, mathematics and physics under
the guidance of the Roveretan priest Pietro Orsi
1816
On 22 November Rosmini enrolled in the University of Padua for
theological studies; during lectures in Canon Law he got to
know
and became friends with Nicoḷ Tommaseo
1821 21
April, ordained priest.
1823
September he gave the Panegyric on the Holy and Glorious Memory of Pius
VII in the church of San Marco
in Rovereto
1826 He
published the Essay on Divine Providence on the government of temporal
good and evil
1826 March
His stay in Milan where he made friends with Count Giacomo Mellerio and
Alessandro Manzoni
1828
20 February Antonio Rosmini began Lent in the solitude of Monte
Calvario di Domodossola and wrote the Constitutions of the
Institute of Charity
1829
15 May He was received in audience by Pope Pius VIII, who confirmed his
twofold mission of writing books and as founder
1830 He
published his Maxims of Christian Perfection in Rome
1832–1833
He wrote Five Wounds of Holy Church (published in 1846)
1838 20
December Pope Gregory XVI approved the Rule of the Institute of Charity
1839 He
wrote the Philosophy of Politics
1839
He published the Treatise on Moral Conscience which aroused a severe
polemical reaction with certain Jesuits
1841–1845
He drew up the Philosophy of Right
1843
Gregory XVI intervened imposing the Decree of Silence on both parties
1845 He
published the Theodicy
1846 He
published his work On the Five Wounds of Holy Church. Dedicated to the
Catholic Clergy
1848 He
wrote The Plans of the Constitution for the Papal State
1848
August The Pope welcomed Rosmini amicably in Rome and invited him to
prepare for the Cardinalate in December
November He
accompanied the Pope in his flight and the exile of the Pope in Gaeta
1849 April
Pius IX exhorted Rosmini to reflect on his works “in order to modify,
correct, or retract them”
1849
June The little works On the Five Wounds of Holy Church and The Civil
Constitution according to Social Justice were put on the
Index on
6 June
1850
April The Memoriale was sent to the Pope, with its incriminating
subjects, signed by about twenty bishops
1851 The Pope subjected all the
remaining works of Rosmini to examination by the Congregation of the
Index
1854
3 July Sentence of full acquittal given by the General Congregation of
the Index
1855
1 July Antonio Rosmini passed away in the early hours of the day
dedicated to the Most Precious Blood, to which he was very
devoted