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Bernardo de Rossi | |
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| Born | Giovanni Francesco de Rossi  8 January 1687 Cividale del Friuli,Republic of Venice |
| Died | 25 January 1775 (aged 88) Venice,Republic of Venice |
| Occupation | Historian,librarian,theologian,philologist, Catholic theologian |
Bernardo de Rossi[1] (8 January 1687 – 2 February 1775) was an ItalianDominican theologian and historian.
Rossi was born atCividale del Friuli. He made his religious profession with the Dominicans atConegliano, 1704, after which he studied atFlorence and Venice. He taught at Venice for fifteen years, and was twice general vicar of his province. In 1722 he was theologian to a Venetian embassy toLouis XV and remained in Paris five months. He resigned his chair in 1730 and devoted the remainder of his life to literary activity. He died inVenice.
His sanctity and learning won for him a wide reputation, and his correspondence with the great men of his time fills nine volumes. His works, written in elegant Latin, show a vast erudition and a mind at once critical and profound. Amongst his dogmatic writings must be mentionedDe Peccato Originali (1757).
He is famous especially for his new edition of the works ofThomas Aquinas with a commentary (1745–60, 24 vols.). He was also the author of thirty-two dissertations on the life and writings of Aquinas, which have been placed in the first volume of the Leonine Edition of Aquinas's works.
De Rossi also ranks high as a writer on historical,patristic, andliturgical subjects. Besides his numerous works which are published, he left thirty volumes in manuscript.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Bernardo de Rossi".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
