CAPISUCCHI, RAIMONDO. - Dominican theologian and cardinal, b. in Rome on 5 Nov. 1616, d. there on 22 Apr. 1691. He entered religious life in the convent of the Minerva in Rome (8 June 1630), where he studied and then taught for several years. Master in theology in 1644, he became associate of the Master of the Sacred Palaces, then secretary of the Congregation of the Index (1650–54), and Master of the Sacred Palaces from 1654 to 1663, when he was compelled to resign because of the envy and intrigues of his adversaries. But ten years later (10 Jan. 1673), amid general approval, Clemente X recalled him to that delicate office and also appointed him consultor to various Roman congregations. He was created cardinal on 4 Sept. 1681. He was buried in the family chapel in S. Maria in Portico; his heart is preserved in the basilica of the Minerva.
He left various theological, historical, and oratorical works. Worth mentioning are: Controversiae theologicae selectae scholasticae, morales, dogmaticae, scripturales ad mentens divi Thomae (Rome, 1670); Appendices ad easdem controversias theologicae (there, 1671); both works were revised and republished in Rome in 1678; Quaestiones theologicae selectae morales et dogmaticae, to which is added a Dissertatio historico-theologica de haereticis praedestinatiensis et illorum erroribus (there, 1648).
Alfonso D'Amato