His works, as enumerated in
Sommervogel, number 112 books and pamphlets. They include: Latin plays for the use of his Latin sodality, which periodically staged such productions for the pleasure and edification of the literary men of Munich; sermons which he had delivered in the pulpit of Augsburg cathedral; works on
asceticism; treatises on rhetoric and poetry; and some essays on
moral theology in defence of the Jesuit system. Some of his Latin plays were republished in two collections: • (871 pp., Ingolstadt and Augsburg, 1747, 5 editions) contains dramatic renderings of such subjects as the conversion of St. Augustine, devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the evil of sin, the fear of God, Divine Mercy and Love. • (Augshurg and Ingolstadt, 1760, 518 pp.) contains episodes from the lives of
Eutropius,
Papinianus, Anastasius,
Dicorus,
Tobias, and Sara, etc. These plays, besides numerous others were published also in separate booklets. On his ascetical writings probably the most famous and most valuable is the little book , a posthumous work first published in Rome by Alexander Monaldi in 1839. It has gone through five editions in Latin and has been translated into various languages. The English edition bears the title:
The Science of the Spiritual Life. He wrote also several works in defence of
probabilism. Of his literary treatises, the deals with the precepts and use of rhetoric; is a similar volume on poetry and in the title he says of the art, . ==References==