FERRARIS, LUCIO. - Franciscan, theologian and canonist, b. at Solero (Alessandria) on 18 April 1687, d. at Alessandria on 24 February 1763. For many years he was professor of theology and law at the studentate of St. Bernardino in Alessandria, a synodal examiner and, for a time, provincial of the Order. In Rome he was a consultor of the Holy Office and of various other Congregations.

He is very well known for his Promptia bibliotheca canonica, iuridica, moralis, theologica (8 vols., Bologna 1746), a very rich collection, in encyclopedia form, of juridical, moral and theological doctrine, of legislation, jurisprudence and administrative practice. The work, published several times and later updated with notes and a supplementary volume by Fr. G. Bucceroni (Rome 1885-99), enjoyed an undisputed primacy until the new codification and is still usefully consulted today. As a moralist Ferraris takes the middle way between rigorism and laxism and can be classified among the probabilists. From the technical-scientific point of view he combines the systematic method with the scholastic-casuistic one.

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BIBL.: J. F. von Schulte, Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts, III, 1, Stuttgart 1880, p. 531; Hutter, IV, col. 1620 ff., P. F. Maccone, I Francesconi a Casale Monferrato, Casale 1929, p. 159 ff.; B. Kurtscheid - F. A. Wilches, Historia Iuris Canonici, I, Rome 1913, p. 299 ff.

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