Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bottalla, Paul
BOTTALLA, The Rev. Paul, S.J., born Aug. 15, 1823, in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, and educated at the Jesuit Colleges of Palermo and Rome. After being admitted to holy orders he was successively appointed Sunday preacher in the Gesù of Naples; Professor of Universal History in the Collegio Massimo of Palermo; of Ecclesiastical History in the Roman College; of Dogmatic Theology in St. Beuno's College, North Wales; and of Theology at Poitiers. Father Bottalla is one of the writers of the Civiltà Cattolica of Rome. He has published at Palermo and Genoa a course of History of the Middle Ages, in two volumes ("Corso di Storia e di Geografia universale—Medio Evo"), which has been translated into French; "Studii storici sulla Chiesa e l'Imperio" (in the Civiltà Cattolica); at Brussels, "Histoire de la Révolution de 1860 en Sicile: de ses Causes et de ses Effets dans la Révolution générale de l'Italie" (2 vols. 1861); in London, "The Pope and the Church considered in their Mutual Relations with reference to the Errors of the High Church Party in England" (vols. i. and ii. 1868 and 1870),—the third volume has not yet appeared; "Pope Honorius before the Tribunal of Reason and History," 1868, being a reply to the pamphlet of P. Le Page Renouf, entitled "The Condemnation of Pope Honorius;" "The Papacy and Schism: Strictures on Ffoulkes's Letter to Archbishop Manning," 1869; a reply in the Dublin Review, 1871–73, to Mr. Renouf's second pamphlet on Pope Honorius; "De la Souveraine et Infaillible Antorité du Pape dans l'Église, et dans les rapports avec l'État" (2 vols. Poitiers et Paris, 1877). The two last-named volumes sum up what Father Bottalla wrote while resident in England, and also furnish a further and more perfect execution of his plan.