FABBRI, FILIPPO - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. V, p. 576

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

FILIPPO FABBRI. — Scholastic philosopher and theologian of the Conventual Franciscans, born at La Spianata near Faenza in 1564, died at Padua on 28 August 1630. He entered the religious life at Faenza, professed in 1583, completed his philosophical and theological studies at Ferrara and Padua, and taught within his Order and at the University of Padua.

Principal works: *Philosophia naturalis* of J. Duns Scotus (Parma 1601, Venice 1602, Paris 1622); *Expositiones et disputationes in 12 libros Aristotelis Metaphysicorum* (Venice 1637, ed. Ferchio); *Disputationes theologicae in 4 libros Sententiarum* (ibid. 1613–14, Paris 1620); *Theologicae disputationes de praedestinatione* (Venice 1623, 1626). Fabbri deserves credit for making the philosophical and theological thought of Scotus clear and accessible.

BIBL.: Wadding, *Scriptores*, p. 196; Sbaralea, II, pp. 378–379; G. Franchini, *Bibliografia di scrittori O. F. M. Conv.*, Modena 1693, pp. 204–218, 583–84; A. Montanari, *Gli uomini illustri di Faenza*, I, II, Faenza 1883, pp. 68–72; Hurter, III, cols. 643–44; U. Smettas, *Lineamenta bibl. Scoticis*, Rome 1642, pp. 50, 59–64; 1646, nn. 230–231, 586–89, 1060.