PALMIERI, Domenico. – Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Piacenza on 4 July 1829, d. at Rome on 28 May 1909. He taught philosophy, theology, and Sacred Scripture at the Seminary of Fermo, at the College of Spoleto, at the Gregorian University (1863–79), and at Maastricht in Holland (1880–87). Returning to Rome, he served as theologian of the Penitentiary, consultor of the Holy Office, and later as a member of the Commission for the Code of Canon Law.
He wrote numerous works, notable for the depth of their doctrine and clarity of exposition. In the Institutiones philosophiae (3 vols., Rome 1874–76), he appears as a keen reasoner, though he did not always thoroughly grasp the principles of Scholasticism, as in the question of the distinction between accidents and substance and the union of the soul with the body. His theological works are of greater value (De Deo creante et elevante, Rome 1878; De poenitentia, ibid. 1879; De matrimonio christiano, ibid. 1880; De Gratia divina actuali, Gulpen 1885; De novissimis, Prato 1908; De ordine supernaturali et lapsu angelorum, ibid. 1910; in particular the Tractatus de Romano Pontifice cum prolegomeno de Ecclesia, Rome 1877, 3rd ed., Prato 1902). In the field of moral theology, he prepared new editions of the Compendium theologiae moralis by Gury and the Opus theologicum morale by Ballerini (3rd ed., 7 vols., Prato 1898–1901). He also wrote works on Sacred Scripture and studies on
