VERRATI, GIOVANNI MARIA. - Carmelite theologian and controversialist, b. at Ferrara ca. 1490, d. there on 20 July 1563.
For many years he taught Sacred Scripture and theology at Bologna and Ferrara; he was definitor general of his Congregation and several times prior at Ferrara. A determined opponent of Lutheranism, he fought it in the Disputationes adversus lutheranos (Bologna 1538), where in 15 treatises he addresses the most controversial points (faith and works, free will and predestination, the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, Purgatory and indulgences). Furthermore, also with an anti-Lutheran background: Super sermone Domini in monte (Venice 1547); De incarnatione Verbi Domini (ibid. 1551); Homiliae, or commentaries on the Sunday gospels of the whole year (ibid. 1556). Among his opuscules are to be remembered: De iustificatione (ibid. 1547); De divina et aeterna praedestinatione (ibid. 1556); De Gratia et libero arbitrio (ibid. 1558); De suffragiis annuisque legalis defunctorum (ibid. 1558); and the last in favor of the Council of Trent: Contra responsiones et protestationes eorum, qui ad generale concilium venire contemnunt (Ferrara 1561).
Bibliography4 workscomplete edition of the works, 6 vols., Venice 1571; the VII. Bologna 1581. Studies: P. De Licht, Carmelitana Bibliotheca, Florence 1533, ff
BIBL.: complete edition of the works, 6 vols., Venice 1571; the VII. Bologna 1581. Studies: P. De Licht, Carmelitana Bibliotheca, Florence 1533, ff. 50-51; C. Vighi, Commentaria fratrum et sororum Ord. B. Mariae V. de M. Carmelo Congregationis Mantuanne, Parma 1725, pp. 25-26; F. Lauchert, Die italienischen literarischen Gegner Luther, Freiburg im Br. 1912, pp. 423-39.
Nilo di S. Brocardo. “Verrati, giovanni maria.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, coll. 1304–1305. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/verrati-giovanni-maria.
MLA
Nilo di S. Brocardo. “Verrati, giovanni maria.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, coll. 1304–1305. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/verrati-giovanni-maria.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_verrati_giovanni_maria,
author = {Nilo di S. Brocardo},
title = {Verrati, giovanni maria},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1304--1305},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/verrati-giovanni-maria}
}
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