ZAMORO, GIOVANNI MARIA da UDINE. — Capuchin theologian, born in Udine in 1579, died in Verona on 30 August 1649. He entered the novitiate in Bassano on 8 September 1598, after having taught philosophy and theology for several years.
In 1626 he published in Venice the *Disputationes theologicae de Deo uno et trino*, which may be considered the first attempt at a universal reconciliation of controversial issues between the great masters of Scholasticism and their disciples; however, ZAMORO does not conceal his preference for the principles of the Scholastic school, in light of which he often interprets the opinions of other doctors. Three years later he printed a substantial Mariological treatise: *De eminentissimae Deiparae Virginis perfectione* (Venice 1629), which provoked lively controversy during the pontificates of Urban VIII and Innocent X among anti-conceptionist circles; ZAMORO argued, among other things, that the Blessed Virgin, by a special privilege, had been free from the proximate debt to contract original sin, a doctrine which he explained further in other pamphlets, and for which his first treatise was placed on the Index on 9 May 1636, remaining there until the revision ordered by Leo XIII and printed in 1900.