BARBIERI (DE BARBERIS), FILIPPO. - Dominican theologian, b. at Syracuse ca. 1426, d. at Palermo in 1487. He taught theology at Catania. From 1476 to 1486 he was inquisitor general in Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. He was held in high esteem at the Roman Curia and the Aragonese court. The king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, honored him with his friendship and assigned him an annual pension for life.

He wrote various works of theology in an elegant Latin; in the most important ones (De animarum immortalitate, divina providentia, mundi gubernatione et hominum praedestinatione atque reprobatione, 1st ed., Rome 1475) he upholds the Thomist doctrine of predestination ante praevia merita.

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BIBL.: J. Quétif-J. Echard, Scriptores O. P., I, Paris 1719, p. 873; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, III, Leipzig 1928, nos. 3384-88; M. A. Coniglione, La Provincia Dom. di Sicilia, Catania 1937, pp. 50, 70-72, 173-75; G. Meerseman-D. Planzer, Magistrorum ac Procuratorum generalium O. P. Registra Litterarum minore (1469-1523) (Mon. O. P. hist., 21), Rome 1947, p. 51.

Alfonso D'Amato

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