LEDESMA, PEDRO de. — Dominican theologian, born in Salamanca around 1550, died there on 9 September 1616. He taught theology first at Segovia, then at Avila, and finally at Salamanca, where from 1604 he held the “chair of Durandus” and in 1608 the second chair of St Thomas, which he occupied until his death. His probabilism was that of his teacher B. Medina.
He took part in the famous controversy de auxiliis, publishing the Tractatus de divinae gratiae auxiliis (Salamanca 1611). He also wrote: the classic De magno matrimovii sacramento super doctrinam s. Thomae (there 1592); Tractatus de divina perfectione, infinitate et magnitudine (there 1596); Primera parte de la Summa (there 1598); Segunda parte de la Summa (there 1598). The first part was translated into Latin by R. de Ladesou (Douai 1630), the second by Nicola della Croce (Cologne 1618).