Georgetown's Second Founder

Father Giovanni Antonio Grassi was born in Schilpario, in the region of Lombardy, Italy, in 1775. He studied in the seminary of Bergamo and joined the Jesuits as a novice in 1799. In 1810 he traveled to the United States, where he met John Carroll, Bishop of Baltimore. Grassi served as president of Georgetown University from 1811 to 1817. He returned to Italy in 1817, where he died in Rome in 1849. Roberto Severino is a professor emeritus of Italian at Georgetown University. Robert Emmett Curran is a professor emeritus of history at Georgetown University and is the author of the three-volume series A History of Georgetown University (Georgetown University Press, 2010).

Italian map of the United States, ca. 1812-15 frontispiece Foreword Introduction: Father Giovanni Grassi, SJ, "Second Founder" of Georgetown University Acknowledgments Notizie 1. News on the Present Condition of the Republic of the United States of Northern America 2. On the Various Sects That Exist in the United States 3. On the Present Condition of the Catholic Religion in the United States A Contemporary Unicum: The North American Review Piece of 1823 Bibliography Table of All the Most Remarkable Things to Be Found within the Geography of the United States in North America Index