FABBRI, FILIPPO. - Scotist philosopher and theologian of the Conventual Franciscans, b. at La Spianata, near Faenza, in 1564, d. at Padua on 28 Aug. 1630. A religious at Faenza, he professed in 1583. He completed his philosophical and theological studies at Ferrara and Padua and taught in his Order and at the University of Padua.

Principal works: Philosophia naturalis J. Duns Scoti (Parma 1601, Venice 1602, Paris 1622); Expositiones et disputationes in 12 libros Aristotelis Metaphysicorum (Venice 1637, ed. by Ferchio); Disputationes theologiae in 4 libros Sent. (ibid. 1613-14, Paris 1620); Theologicae disputationes de praedestinatione (Venice 1623, 1626). F. had the merit of having made the philosophical and theological thought of Scotus easy and clear.

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BIBL.: Wadding, Scriptores, p. 196; Sbaralea, II, pp. 378-79; G. Franchini, Bibliografia di scrittori O. F. M. Conv., Modena 1693, pp. 204-18, 583-84; A. Montanari, Gli uomini illustri di Faenza, I, II, Faenza 1883, pp. 68-72; Hurter, III, coll. 643-44; U. Smetta, Lineamento bibl. Statistica, Rome 1942, pp. 50, 93-94, 146, nos. 230-31, 586-89, 1060.

Giovanni Odoardi

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