AQUARIUS, MATTIA dei GIBBONI. - Dominican theologian born at Aquaro, near Eboli, at an uncertain date, and died in 1591 at the convent of S. Domenico in Naples. He studied in Bologna (1558), was professor at the University of Turin in 1569, at that of Naples in 1572, at that of Rome in 1575, and later again at Naples.
Among his works are: Oratio de excellentia theologiae (Turin 1509 and Naples 1572); Adnotationes super IV libris Sententiarum Joannis Capreoli... (Venice 1580); Controversiae inter D. Thomam et caeteros theologos... (Venice 1589); Formalitates iuxta doctrinam D. Thomae Aquinatis (Naples 1605), published under the care of Fr. Alfonso de Marcho, O.P.
BIBL.: J. Quétif-J. Echard, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum, II, Paris 1720, p. 302; Hutter, III, cols. 153; P. Mandonnet, s.V. in DTHC, I, cols. 1725. Cesare Bertola