J.D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XIII (Florence: A. Zatta 1767), p. 383. Ughelli, p. 925. Gams, p. 848. See Louis Duchesne, (1902), "Les évèchés de Calabre," Mélanges Paul Fabre: études d'histoire du moyen âge (in French). Paris: A. Picard et fils. 1902. p. 15.
Born in 1788, Cosenza was a native of Naples, held a doctorate in theology, and was Canon Theologian of the Cathedral Chapter of Naples. Cosenza was transferred to the diocese of Capua on 10 September 1850. He was named a Cardinal by Pope Pius IX on 30 September 1850. He died on 30 March 1863. Ritzler-Sefrin, VII, pp. 74; VIII, p. 51, 180. Martin Bräuer (2014). Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012 (in German). Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 1862. ISBN978-3-11-026947-5.