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John Pitts was an English Roman Catholic scholar and writer

Background

Pitts was born in Alton, Hampshire in 1560 and attended Winchester College.

Education

From 1578 to 1580 he studied at New College, Oxford.

Career

In 1581 he was admitted to the English College, Rome. In 1588 he was ordained priest, and became professor at the English College, Reims. He then graduated Lic.D. at Trier (1592) and Doctor of Divinity at Ingolstadt (1595).

He became Canon at Verdun, then confessor and almoner to the Duchess of Cleves.

After her death he became Dean of Liverdun. He died in Liverdun, Lorraine.

(the last three parts remained in manuscript in Liverdun)

Tractatus de legibus, published in Trier in 1592

Tractatus de beatitudine, published in Ingolstadt in 1595

Libri septem de peregrinatione published in Düsseldorf in 1604.