MARIALES, XANTES. - Dominican theologian, b. in Venice around 1578, d. there at the end of April 1660. He studied in Spain and, in homage to that nation, changed his surname from Pinardi to that of
M., by which he is known. Having returned to Italy, from 1610 he taught theology at Padua, where he was also regent of the Studies until 1624. In that year he withdrew to Venice to devote himself entirely to study, and amid the esteem of all he lived a very retired life.
In this solitude he wrote various works, among which stand out the Controversiae ad universam Summam theologiae s. Thomae A. necnon ad IV libros Magistri sententiarum (Venice 1624). In 1638 he finished another powerful work, which, owing to various circumstances, could not be published until 1660: Bibliotheca interpretum ad universam Summam theologiae d. Thomae A. (ibid. 1660). Because of the excessive exaltation of the doctrine of St. Thomas, compared almost to Revelation, it was placed on the Index (22 June 1662). With his usual vehemence he took part in the struggle against Gallicanism and wrote (under the pseudonym of Pietro P. Torelli): Quali presagimenti possono haversi delle presenti sconvolte dell'Austria e della Spagna e da i progressi de gl'eretici e de' Francesi (Cologne 1643) and Stravaganze nuovamente seguite nel cristianissimo regno di Francia (ibid. 1646). Under the pseudonym of S. Campeggi he published: Enormità inaudite nuovamente uscite in luce nel cristianissimo regno di Francia (Frankfurt 1649). The Venetian Senate, to please Louis XIV, ordered M. to leave the Republic. He went first to Milan, then to Ferrara and finally to Bologna. Shortly before his death he was able to return to Venice. At Bologna he published a commentary on the Quaestiones disputatae of St. Thomas (1658).
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