Boscovich was a professor of mathematics in the Collegio Romano for about twenty years, from 1741 to 1760. The list of Boscovich’s best Italian pupils is much longer than the chronological collocation of the "Elementa Universae Matheseos" in the last years of the Company of Jesus before its suppression (1773). Carlo Benvenuti, born in Livorno, had begun his novitiate with the Jesuits in Rome, he then taught in Fermo and later returned to Rome. He was a highly regarded lecturer but exposed himself to church censorship with two Latin papers on Newtonian physics (1754) that were clearly influenced by Boscovich’s works. After the suppression of the order he took refuge in Poland, where he kept on defending the Society and claiming the non-validity of the Papal Bull of suppression in the lands of the Russian Empire. He died in Warsaw. Francesco Luino had an eventful life. Born in Luino on Lake Maggiore, he entered the Jesuit College of Brera where he was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Lecchi for mathematics, and there he met Boscovich, who was a teacher in Pavia at that time (1764). In the appendix of Luino’s mathematical work, "Delle progressioni e serie libri due" (Milan, 1767) there are two memoirs by Boscovich, one about the way to avoid negative logarithms and one about raising to powers of a polynomial series. Luino taught elementary geometry and physics at the University of Pavia. Luino’s "Meditazione filosofica" came out anonymously in Pavia in 1778 and was condemned by the Church and placed on the Index. Luino lost the chair, and was substituted by Carlo Barletti, (whose place was then taken by Alessandro Volta). In 1783 Luino began a journey in Europe which was described in a volume of "Lettere a diversi amici" (Pavia, 1785). Luigi Panizzoni played an important role in the reconstruction of the Society of Jesus. After the canonical suppression of the order he moved to Byelorussia where Catherine II refused to enforce the papal brief of suppression of the Society (1773). Panizzoni was sent to Parma in 1793, with the aim of re-establishing the order in the dukedom. In 1800 Panizzoni sent to Pius VII, the newly-elected Pope, a "Supplica per ottenere l’estensione e la dilatazione della Compagnia di Gesù fuori dei confini della Russia".
Boscovich as Mathematician and his Italian Pupils
PEPE, Luigi
2014
Abstract
Boscovich was a professor of mathematics in the Collegio Romano for about twenty years, from 1741 to 1760. The list of Boscovich’s best Italian pupils is much longer than the chronological collocation of the "Elementa Universae Matheseos" in the last years of the Company of Jesus before its suppression (1773). Carlo Benvenuti, born in Livorno, had begun his novitiate with the Jesuits in Rome, he then taught in Fermo and later returned to Rome. He was a highly regarded lecturer but exposed himself to church censorship with two Latin papers on Newtonian physics (1754) that were clearly influenced by Boscovich’s works. After the suppression of the order he took refuge in Poland, where he kept on defending the Society and claiming the non-validity of the Papal Bull of suppression in the lands of the Russian Empire. He died in Warsaw. Francesco Luino had an eventful life. Born in Luino on Lake Maggiore, he entered the Jesuit College of Brera where he was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Lecchi for mathematics, and there he met Boscovich, who was a teacher in Pavia at that time (1764). In the appendix of Luino’s mathematical work, "Delle progressioni e serie libri due" (Milan, 1767) there are two memoirs by Boscovich, one about the way to avoid negative logarithms and one about raising to powers of a polynomial series. Luino taught elementary geometry and physics at the University of Pavia. Luino’s "Meditazione filosofica" came out anonymously in Pavia in 1778 and was condemned by the Church and placed on the Index. Luino lost the chair, and was substituted by Carlo Barletti, (whose place was then taken by Alessandro Volta). In 1783 Luino began a journey in Europe which was described in a volume of "Lettere a diversi amici" (Pavia, 1785). Luigi Panizzoni played an important role in the reconstruction of the Society of Jesus. After the canonical suppression of the order he moved to Byelorussia where Catherine II refused to enforce the papal brief of suppression of the Society (1773). Panizzoni was sent to Parma in 1793, with the aim of re-establishing the order in the dukedom. In 1800 Panizzoni sent to Pius VII, the newly-elected Pope, a "Supplica per ottenere l’estensione e la dilatazione della Compagnia di Gesù fuori dei confini della Russia".I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
