ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci shortly called as Leo XIII. He was born at Carpineto in 1810. He received a doctorate of theology in 1832, and was ordained priest, December 31, 1837. He became bishop of Perugia and, in 1853, was created a cardinal. In 1860 he issued a pastoral letter on the necessity of the temporal power of the pope; but in September of that year, the pope lost Perugia and the whole of Umbria. In 1872, Cardinal Pecci established an Accademia di S. Tommaso. In 1877, Pope Pius IX appointed him camerlengo, and the cardinal moved to Rome. A year later, Pius IX died, and Cardinal Pecci succeeded to the papacy, assuming the name of Leo XIII. He was pope for a quarter of a century, and died in 1903.
