Vicente Ferre

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Vicente Ferre (b. at Valencia, Spain; d. at Salamanca in 1682) was a Spanish Dominican theologian, a leading Thomist of his time.

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Life

He entered the Dominican Order at Salamanca, where he pursued his studies in the Dominican College of St. Stephen. After teaching in several houses of study of his order in Spain, he was called from Burgos to Rome, where for eighteen years he was regens primarius of the Dominican College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.

From Rome he went to Salamanca, where he became prior of the convent and, after three years, regent of studies.

Works

Ferre died while publishing his commentaries on the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. These include the following folio volumes:

His confrère Pérez à Lerma added to Q. cxiv the treatise on merit.

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