MASTRIO, BARTOLOMEO. - Philosopher and theologian of the Conventual Friars Minor, called "princeps scotistarum," b. at Meldola (Forlì) in the night between 7 and 8 December 1602, d. there at the beginning of January 1673. He entered religious life at Cesena in 1617, and moved to Bologna for his philosophical and theological studies.

"Having revealed himself as a speculative mind, he was directed by his superiors toward theological specialization, and went to Naples to the general study of S. Lorenzo Maggiore, where he was able to attend (1623-25) the courses of Fr. Giuseppe da Trapani, promoter of the theory of 'concomitant decrees' in the question of freedom and Grace, grounding himself ever more firmly on Scotist doctrine. He completed his theological formation at the Sistine College of S. Bonaventura (1625-28), in Rome, where he was probably ordained a priest, and obtained his doctorate in theology.

He was then regent and professor at Cesena, Perugia, Padua, a Lenten preacher in various cities of Italy (1633-40), provincial minister of Bologna (1647-50), commissary general in Italy and the adjacent islands in the absence of the minister general, who was visiting Germany and Poland (1662), and was preconized for the generalate at the Chapter of 1656.

Meanwhile he devoted himself to his studies, composing a course of philosophy "ad mentem Scoti," with the collaboration of his confrere B. Belluti (v.) until 1643, and thereafter alone, and preparing two other courses of dogmatic and moral theology "ad mentem Scoti et s. Bonaventura," which reveal him as one of the most profound theologians of the 17th century: Philosophiae ad mentem Scoti cursus integer (5 vols., Venice 1678), already published in separate treatises and in several editions from 1630 to 1660; Disputationes theologicae in quatuor libros Sententiarum ad mentem Scoti tomi 4 (ibid. 1675), likewise published in separate books and in various editions from 1655 to 1664; Theologia moralis ad mentem dd. Seraphici et Subtilis concinnata (ibid. 1617).

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BIBL.: Wadding, Annales an. 1620, n. 116; an. 1632, n. 22; id., Scriptores, p. 38; Regesta O. F. M. Conv., mss. Archivio SS. Apostoli, Rome, codd. 29, f. 35; 33, ff. 15-225; 34, f. 162; 35, f. 153; 44, f. 47; G. Franchini, Bibliosofia di scrittori O. F. M. Conv., Modena 1693, pp. 80-100; Sbarska, I, p. 123; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Scoto nel mezzogiorno d'Italia, Rome 1927, pp. 144-46; Hurter, IV, coll. 20-21; E. Longpré, s. v. in DThC, X, coll. 281-82; B. Crowley, The life and works of Mastris B., O. F. M. Conv., in Franciscan studies, 8 (1948), pp. 97-152.

Giovanni Odoardi

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