Andrea Spagni (8 August 1716 – 16 September 1788) was an ItalianJesuit theologian, educator, and author. Spagni was born atFlorence. He entered the Society of Jesus on 22 October 1731, and was employed chiefly in teaching philosophy and theology, though for a time he lectured in mathematics at the Roman College, and assistedFather Asclepi in his astronomical observations. He died in Rome.
The most noted of his writings is the workDe Miraculis (Rome, 1777), which he revised in two succeeding editions (Rome, 1779 and 1785). In this work, besides giving the positive doctrine on the nature and reality ofmiracles, he marshalled together the objections brought forward by the rationalists of his own and preceding times against the chiefBiblical miracles. The work may be considered as a compendium of the literature on the subject, up to the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
His other chief works are:
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