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Latin: Domenicus Gravina, Dominicus Gravina
GRAVINA, DOMENICO. - Dominican theologian, b. in Naples ca. 1547, d. in Rome on 26 Aug. 1643. He taught in various convents and was promoted master of theology in 1608. From 1610 he was professor at the College of St. Thomas in Rome, and in 1622 regent at the Studio of Taranto; he was also provincial of Naples and finally procurator general and vicar general of the Order (1643). He was buried in the Church of the Minerva.
One of the most learned and illustrious Dominicans of the period. He left various works, the greater part still in manuscript. Worth remembering: Catholicae praescriptiones adversus omnes veteres et nostri temporis haereticos, in 12 tomes, of which only four were published in 7 vols. (Naples 1619-39). Against Card. Bellarmine, who in his De gemitu columbae had criticized the ancient religious Orders, he wrote: Vox torturis seu de florenti usque ad nostra tempora... sacrarum Religionum statu (ibid. 1625). To the reply of a Jesuit (U. Roth), he retorted with Congeminata vox turturis... iterato occinentis (ibid. 1633). Against the apostate Dalmatian Marc'Antonio de Dominis, formerly bishop of Segni and archbishop of Split, he published: Pro sacro fidei catholicae et apostolicae deposito... apologeticus (ibid. 1628), and Pro sacrosanto Ordinis sacramento vindiciae orthodoxae (ibid. 1634). He also wrote: Ad discernendas veras a faisis visionibus et revelationibus βασανίστης haec est lapis Lydys (2 vols., ibid. 1638).
Bibliography5 worksQuétif-Echard, II, pp. 532-34; P. Th. Milante, De viris illustribus Congregationis S. Mariae Sanitatis, Naples 1745, pp. 190-99; Acta Capitu
BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, pp. 532-34; P. Th. Milante, De viris illustribus Congregationis S. Mariae Sanitatis, Naples 1745, pp. 190-99; Acta Capitularum generalum O. P., VI (Adonum. Ord. FF. Praed. Hist., 11), ed. B. M. Reuchert, Rome 1902, pp. 106, 152, 341; VII, pp. 50, 139, 140; R. Coulon, s. v. in DThC, VI, coll. 1769-72.
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Gravina, domenico.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1016. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/gravina-domenico.
MLA
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Gravina, domenico.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1016. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/gravina-domenico.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_gravina_domenico,
author = {D'Amato, Alfonso},
title = {Gravina, domenico},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1016},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/gravina-domenico}
}
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