BALDASSARRI, DOMENICO ANTONIO. - Theologian of the Conventual Friars Minor, b. at Osimo in 1713, d. at Montegiorgio on 8 Jan. 1791. His theological work concerns mainly the questions on grace, in which he polemicized with Tamburini and other theologians of the time, defending, following in the footsteps of St. Augustine, the absolute gratuitousness of grace together with human freedom. A sharp and prolific theologian, he wrote: De restituenda divinae Gratiae idea, epistolae 26, 2 vols., Venice 1777 ff.; Dissertatio de Gratia...; a large manuscript work in 4 books: S. Aurelii Augustini... de Auxiliis divinae gratiae... He returned to the subject again with ascetical writings.

Also to be remembered are the Epistola apologetica pro Patribus Sextae Synodi (s. 680-81) against the bishop of Feltre G.B. Baroli (Foligno 1756), and the four biblical dissertations: De omnium hominum primo, De virtute arboris vitae, De antidiluvianorum hominum cibo, De universalitate diluvii (translated into Italian by D. P. Rotti, Venice 1758).

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BIBL.: D. Sparacio, Frammenti di scrittori Min. conv., Assisi 1931, pp. 12-13, and in Miscell. Franc., 27 (1927), pp. 20-21; J. H. Sbaralea, Suppl. ad script. Ord. Min., III, 2nd ed., Rome 1936, pp. 216-17. Lorenzo Di Fonzo

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