Thomas de Vio Caietani. - In quatuor evangelia, ad graecorum - Lot 221

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Thomas de Vio Caietani. - In quatuor evangelia, ad graecorum - Lot 221
Thomas de Vio Caietani. - In quatuor evangelia, ad graecorum codicum fidem emendata, commentarii luculentissimi, ad sensum literalem quam maxime accommodati... Lyon, Guillaume Roville, 1573. In-8, bound in full contemporary vellum, boards with arms and framed in gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons - accidents to head and tail boards with missing and reattached parts, splits to jaws, first free endpaper missing - [24 ff.], 503 ff. This work is an exegesis of the Bible based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Arms of Pierre d'Espinac (1540-1599) motto "Quadrant et acuta rotondis". "Appointed archbishop of Lyon in 1574, he was a deputy to the States of Blois in 1577, and as primate of the Gauls, he presided over the assembly of French clergy held in Melun in 1579, and took part in the League. The grief he felt at Henry IV's triumph hastened his end. He had an immense library" (OHR pl. n ° 1856 fer n° 1). Thomas de Vio, known as Caietan (1469-1534), was a 16th-century Italian theologian, philosopher and cardinal. He was also Grand Master of the Order of Friars Preachers between 1518 and 1528. A leading figure in the defense of the papacy against the ideas of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, he was appointed papal legate at the Diet of Augsburg in 1518. He took part in the drafting of Luther's bull of excommunication, and commented on St Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica to counter Luther's theses. Thomas de Vio is considered one of the first Thomistic thinkers, thanks to his precise, logical interpretations. He also distinguished himself as an exegete. From 1523 to 1532, he published several volumes of a literal translation and commentary of the Bible, including much of the Old Testament and almost all of the New Testament (with the exception of the Apocalypse of John). His insistence on the literal meaning of the text places him at the origins of the modern Catholic exegetical tradition.
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