GIACOMO di LILIENSTEIN. - Dominican theologian of the early sixteenth century. Professor of theology at the philosophical-theological academy of Budapest, conducted by the Dominicans, G. wrote, from 1504 to 1505, a Liber de divina sapientia, which he dedicated to Vladislao II, king of Hungary (1490–1516). Thus far, only one manuscript is known, in Munich (Clm. 26827), described by Grabmann.
The scholastic and mystical work of G. is inspired by the Susonian concept of eternal Wisdom; its style approaches the humanistic manner. The five books of the work concern divine Wisdom in relation to: 1) the mysteries and works of God, 2) the human intellect and its acts, 3) the world of angels and of man in his spiritual and bodily parts, 4) the three theological virtues, 5) the four cardinal virtues; and they are subdivided into “eulogies.” The subject matter of the principal questions of theology and philosophy is developed in an original systematic form, without subtleties. Among the authorities cited, Sacred Scripture, various Fathers, Ugo da San
