REMIGIO de' GIROLAMI. - Dominican theologian, b. in Florence in 1235, d. there in 1319. He studied in Paris, where he had St. Thomas Aquinas as his master; he taught for 42 years in the convent of S. Maria Novella in Florence and had Dante Alighieri among his disciples. Twice prior (1294, 1313) in the Florentine convent, he was also superior of the Roman province (1309-11). He perhaps lectured on the Sentences in Paris (1284-1285), where he was promoted master in 1303. A much sought-after counselor, he was several times ambassador of the Republic.

He left poems in Latin and in the vernacular, many sermons and various treatises on philosophy and on dogmatic and moral theology. Almost all his works are still unpublished (Florence, Biblioteca nazionale). Mentioned are: Quaestiones theologicae per alphabetum (the question Determinatio de uno esse in Christo was printed by M. Grabmann in Miscellanea Thomista, Barcelona 1925, pp. 257-77); Contra falsos Ecclesiae professores (an original apologetic synthesis, interesting for the history of culture); De misericordia; De iustitia; De contrarietate peccati; De peccato usurae; De bono pacis; De bono communi. Everywhere R. shows a great attachment and a sincere devotion to the doctrine of the Aquinate.

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BIBL.: V. Fineschi, Memorie istoriche..., I, Florence 1730, pp. 157-257; G. Salvadori - V. Federici, I sermoni d'occasione, le sequenze e i ritmi di R. G., Rome 1901; I. Taurisano, Discepoli e biografi di s. Tommaso, ibid. 1924, pp. 33-29; M. Grabmann, Fra R. G. discepolo di s. Tommaso d'Aquino e maestro di Dante, in La scuola cattolica, 53 (1925), pp. 267-81, 347-68; id., Mittelalterliches Geistesleben, I, Munich 1926, pp. 361-73; II, ibid. 1926, pp. 530-47; I. Rivière, s. v. in DThC, XIII, coll. 2376-79, Acta cap. prov. provinciae Romanae, ed. Th. Kappeli-A. Don-dame (Monum. O. P. hist., 20), Rome 1941, pp. 57, 105, 111, 128, 145, 154; M. De Wulf, Stor. della filosofia mediev., II, Florence 1945, p. 196.

Alfonso D'Amato

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