Serafino Porrecta (b. 1536; d. at
Bologna
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, 2 January 1614) was an Italian
Dominican theologian.
His family name was Capponi; he was called ''a Porrecta'' from his place of birth.
He is best known as a commentator on the ''Summa'' of
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas ( ; ; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican Order, Dominican friar and Catholic priest, priest, the foremost Scholasticism, Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the W ...
; he also wrote commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testaments.
Life
He joined the Dominican Order at Bologna in 1552. His life was devoted entirely to study, teaching, writing, and preaching.
He taught philosophy, theology (dogmatic and moral), and Sacred Scripture. In 1606, Capponi was invited to teach theology and Sacred Scripture to the
Carthusians
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in a monastery near Bologna. He accepted the invitation, but two years later he was recalled to Bologna, where he died. , who wrote his life, states that on the last day of his life Porrecta completed his explanation on the last verse of the Psalms. The people of Bologna venerated him as a saint; miracles are said to have been wrought through his intercession and his body was taken (1615) from the community burying-ground to be deposited in the Dominican church.
Works
Until the Leonine edition of Thomas Aquinas's works appeared, the Porrecta-
Cajetan commentaries were classical. Features of these commentaries are set forth in the title of the Venice edition of 1612. His principal works are:
* (Venice, 1588, 1596);
* (Venice, 1612; Padua, 1698; Rome, 1773).
To the first volume were added:
* Five indices.
Jacques Échard censures the addition of the and of ;
* (Venice, 1590);
* "Commentaries on St. Mattew" (Venice, 1602);
*"St. John" (Venice, 1604); those on St. Mark and St. Luke were not published;
* (Venice, 1588, 1590). Échard says the compendium was not by
Albertus Magnus
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(I, p. 176);
* (Venice, 1597);
* (one volume published, Bologna, 1692).
References
;Attribution
* The entry cites:
**
Quétif and
Échard, , II (Paris, 1721), 392;
**Serafino Capponi, (Bologna, 1615).
External links
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1536 births
1614 deaths
Italian Dominicans
16th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians