PINY, ALEXANDRE. - Dominican mystical writer, b. at Allos (Provence) on 25 Feb. 1640, d. at Paris on 20 Jan. 1709. He took the religious habit at Draguignan. He taught at Marseille and at Aix, where he was regent of studies (1671-75). He then moved to Paris, first to the convent of St. James, then to that of the Most Holy Annunciation, in which he died.

He left ascetico-mystical works, widely circulated down to the present day, on pure love practiced through abandonment (v.): Etat du pur amour (3rd ed., Lyon 1682, Bordeaux 1683); La clef du pur amour (Lyon 1681, 1682, 1683); Le plus parfait (Paris 1683, often reprinted). Mention should also be made of his scholastic works: Cursus philosophicus thomisticus... (5 vols., Lyon 1670) and Summae Angelicae s. Thomae Aquinatis compendium resolutorium... (4 vols., ibid. 1680-81).

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BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, p. 772-73; III, ed. R. Coulon-A. Papillon, Rome-Paris 1909-34, pp. 116-20; A. Touron, Histoires des hommes illustres de l'Ordre de st Dominique, V, Paris 1749, pp. 774-82; H. Bremond, Hist. littér. du sentiment relig. en France, VIII, ibid. 1928, pp. 78-178; M.-M. Gorce, Figures dominicaines, Ligugé 1935, pp. 121-34; id., s. v. in DThC, XII, III (1935), coll. 2119-24; M. Gasnier, Les Dominicains de st Honoré, Ligugé 1950, pp. 209-16.

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