CORNEJO PEDROSA, PIETRO de. - Carmelite theologian, b. in 1566 at Salamanca, d. there on 31 March 1618.

Appointed to one of the chairs of philosophy at the University of Salamanca in 1566, he defended his doctoral thesis in the presence of King Philip III and received the degree of master of theology on 30 June 1600. He was then (1601-1607) professor of moral philosophy and held (1607-1608) the chair of St. Thomas, and from 1608 until his death that of Durandus. He was one of the best commentators on St. Thomas and was held in the highest esteem also by Paul V, who listened to him preach in St. Peter's in Rome, and by King Philip, who consulted him on matters of great importance. His commentaries on St. Thomas were published at Valladolid in 1628-29 and later at Bamberg in 1671. He is not to be confused with a namesake of his, a historiographer b. ca. 1536.

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BIBL.: Hutter, III, col. 304; C. de Villiers, Bibl. Carm., 2nd ed., II, Rome 1927, coll. 566-68; P. Servais, s. v. in DThC, III, coll. 1864-65.

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