CABEZUDO, NUÑO DIEGO. - Dominican theologian and polemicist, b. at Villalón (Castile), d. at Segovia in Feb. 1614, while he was prior. He entered religious life at the age of 16 and soon distinguished himself by the sharpness of his intellect. He taught for 30 years in many studia of the Order, especially in the college of St. Gregory at Valladolid, where he was also regent. A profound connoisseur and clear expositor of the doctrine of St. Thomas, he was a strong defender of it against the Molinist Jesuit Antonio de Padilla (1594). As a result of these polemics his fame was greatly increased, and throughout Spain his word enjoyed considerable authority.
He wrote: Commentarii ac disputationes in III partem Summae Theologiae D. Thomae Aquinatis, cum additionibus eiusdem nunc primum accurate juxta atque luculenter discussis (2 vols., Valladolid 1601-1609, Venice 1612, Cologne 1630). In the following Cologne edition (1663) the work was given this title: Divus Thomas explanatus sive... commentaria scholastica in III partem D. Thomae de Sacramentis, and four new treatises were added to it: 1) De auctoritate summi Pontificis et conciliorum, 2) De indulgentiis, 3) De auxiliis divinae gratiae, 4) De bulla cruciata dicta. Another posthumous work of his is: Tractatio in III partem Summae theologiae D. Thomae nunc primum in lucem edita, sed accurate recognita (Rome 1682), which was published under the care of the future master general A. Cloche.
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