CONCINA, DANIELE. - Dominican preacher and moral theologian, born at Clauzetto in Friuli on 2 Oct. 1687, died at Venezia on 21 Feb. 1756. He entered religious life at Conegliano on 16 March 1708, studied at Venezia, taught philosophy and theology at Cividale (1717–20), and preached in the principal cities of Italy. An exemplary religious, an acclaimed preacher, of keen and lively intelligence, from 1730 onward he spent his life in continual controversies (the vow of poverty, fasting, probabilism, and lending at interest). He fought especially against laxism and probabilism. In various opinions (lending at interest, the theatre, etc.) he was a rigorist.
Among his many writings may be mentioned: Commentarius historico-apologeticus ecc. (Venezia 1736; on the vow of poverty, against the Bollandists and Raffaele da Pornasio); La Quaresima appellante ecc. (there 1739; on fasting); In Epistolam Benedicti XIV adversus usuram Commentarius (Roma 1746); Usura contractus trini (there 1746); Storia del probabilismo e del rigorismo (Lucca 1743); Theologia christiana dogmatico-moralis (12 vols., Roma 1749, various editions); De Spectaculis theatralibus (there 1752); Difesa della Compagnia di Gesù (Venezia 1767). Each of these works elicited replies and counter-replies.
Alfonso D'Amato