REMIGIO DE' GIROLAMI. - Dominican theologian, born in Florence in 1235, died there in 1319. He studied in Paris, where his teacher was St. Thomas Aquinas; he taught for 42 years in the convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence and among his disciples was Dante Alighieri. He served twice as prior (1249, 1315) of the Florentine convent and was also superior of the Roman province (1309-11). He may have lectured on the Sentences in Paris (1284-1285) and was promoted to master in 1303. A sought-after advisor, 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, moral, and theological subjects. Almost all his works remain unpublished (Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale). Noteworthy among them 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, of interest for the history of culture); *De misericordia*; *De iustitia*; *De contrarietate peccati*; *De peccato usurae*; *De bono pacis*; *De bono communi*. Throughout, R. shows a strong attachment and sincere devotion to the doctrine of Aquinas.
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