PASQUALIGO, ZACCARIA.— Theatine religious, canonist, and one of the classical authors in moral theology. Born in Verona in 1600, he taught philosophy at Padua and then scholastic theology for 15 years in Rome, where he died on 17 February 1664.
His principal work is entitled De Sacrificio Novae Legis quaestiones theologico-luridico-morales (2 vols., Lyon 1662, with subsequent editions), in which the author exhaustively treats the subject in 1,347 questions. He also wrote: Decisiones morales iuxta principia theologica et sacras atque
civiles leges (Verona 1641). The work comprises 510 decisions and contains a review and evaluation of the opinions of earlier theologians and canonists; but because of its laxist tendencies, by decree of 18 May 1683 it was placed on the Index « donec corrigatur ». The same occurred with the other work: De statu supernaturali humanae naturae sacra moralis doctrina (Venice 1650), by decree of 12 May 1655; once corrected, the work was rehabilitated by decree of the Holy Office of 19 March 1656. Two other works are casuistic in character: Variarum quaestionum moralium canonicarum centuriae (4 vols., there 1647–52); Singulares selectae quaestiones morales-iuridicae (there 1662: comprising 520 questions).