TRIGOSO, PIETRO DA CALATAYUD

He studied at the Universities of Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares, entered the Jesuits on 15 December 1556, and professed on 2 May 1568. He was professor of arts and theology and preacher at Alcalá, Toledo, and Medina del Campo; sent to Antwerp (1570–77), he strengthened the Society in the Low Countries as superior. During a journey from Spain to Rome (1580–81), he entered the Capuchin novitiate at Tabano (Jesi). He distinguished himself as a preacher; while holding Lent in Ancona (1583), he founded an orphanage there. The fruit of his teaching at the generalate in Bologna from 1585 is the *Summa theologica S. Bonaventurae* (vol. 1, part 1: *De Deo uno*, Rome 1593, 1613; 2nd corrected ed., Lyon 1686; death interrupted the manuscript of vol. 2: *De Deo trino*). He initiated commentaries on the doctrine of St. Bonaventure, but rather than acting as a Bonaventurian theologian, he harmonized the thought of the Seraphic Doctor with that of St. Thomas; his conciliatory approach prevailed in the Bonaventurian school of the Order’s theologians during the 17th century. Alongside this work, he composed a *Summa sive seminarium rerum praedicabilium* (also printed separately, Paris 1612–13). In Naples after 1587, he devoted himself to the religious care of the Spanish colony, founded the Royal Reclusory of the Solitary of the Palace for Spanish orphans, and organized the Monte della Misericordia with specific regulations.