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VERY RARE, ORIGINAL 1612 EDITION OF: "COMMENTARIORUM, AC DISPUTATIONUM IN TERTIAM PARTEM S. THOMAE." This important 17th century treatise was written by Gabriel Vasquez [also Gabriel Vazquez Bellomontano] and printed at Ingolstadt, Germany by Martini Nutii. Author was a celebrated Spanish Jesuit best remembered for his influential studies of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine and other important Church figures. This early folio contains Vasquez's highly regarded dissertation on Aquinas's epic "Summa Theologica." This is a particularly scarce edition [Volume II only] with all other known copies institutionally held [see Oxford University copy, OCLC # 159956812]. "The Society of Jesus, founded in 1540, made an important contribution to the scholastic revival of the sixteenth century...The first Jesuit theologian and philosopher of note was Cardinal Francis Toletus, who was born at Cordova about 1533 and died at Rome in 1596...Peter de Fonseca (1528-1599) was the main figure in a group of Jesuit professors at the University of Coimbra in Portugal known as Conimbricenses...Of greater fame is Louis de Molina (1535-1600), who may have studied under Fonseca...Another outstanding Spanish Jesuit was Gabriel Vasquez (c.1551-1604), who taught principally at Alcala and Rome and published a commentary on St. Thomas' 'Summa Theologiae'. Vasquez was one of the most important links between medieval scholasticism and Cartesianism." [Maurer , Armand Augustine; Medieval Philosophy]. "The turning point in the making of the Jesuit mind arrived with the adoption and adaptation of [Bartolome de] Medina's formula of Probabilism by the leading Iberian Jesuit thinkers - Gabriel Vazquez (1551-1604) and Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) in their classes on the 'Prima Secundae' of Aquinas's 'Summa', taught respectively at the College of Alcala (1579-84) and at the Roman College (1581-85). Vazquez contributed to elaborating Medina's rule by pointing out the combinations of safer/less safe probable opinions." [Maryks, Robert A.; Saint Cicero and the Jesuits]. "For scholasticism had been rejuvenated in the work of the great fifteenth and sixteenth century commentators on St. Thomas, most of them Spanish. The way was shown by Cajetan (Tommaso de Vio: 1468-1534) and Ferrariensis (Francisco de Silvestris of Ferrara: 1480-1566) and was followed by a succession of important writers like Melchior Cano (1509-1560), Domingo de Soto (1494-1560), Bartolome de Medina (1527-1581), Domingo Banez (1528-1604), Luis de Molina (1536-1600) and Gabriel Vazquez (c.1551-1604)." [Crowe , Michael Bertram; The Changing Profile of the Natural Law]. Gabriel Vasquez (c.1551-1604) was a renowned Spanish Jesuit theologian. He made his primary and grammar studies at Belmonte, and went to Alcalá for philosophy, where he entered the Society of Jesus [i.e., Jesuits] in 1569. Having completed his novitiate he continued his theological studies there, closing with a public defense of his thesis. At the Fifth Provincial Congregation at Toledo he also defended a thesis. Between these events he lectured to the Jesuit students on the " De Anima ", and returned to Alcalá to study Hebrew. Following this he taught moral theology two years at the college of Ocaña two more at Madrid, and for some time at Alcalá. From there, although not yet thirty years of age, he was called to Rome to fill the same post at the Roman College. Before his departure he made his profession at Belmonte. He remained six years in Rome, then returned to Alcalá, where he taught theology until his death. In him, according to Haringer, virtue competed with doctrine, obedience with genius, and piety with learning. The Duke de Lerma, favourite of Philip III of Spain, frequently consulted him in the most important matters, and Benedict XIV called him the luminary of theology. He was especially noted for his exact knowledge of the opinions and theories of the different Schools and authors, and commendable for clearness of expression and a strict philosophical method. Vasquez was a rival of Francisco Suárez, whom he so... read more

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