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Ireneo Brasavola

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Ireneo Brasavola, O.F.M.
ChurchCatholic Church
SeeCastro del Lazio
Appointed9 January 1617
Term ended23 March 1621
PredecessorAntonio Massa
SuccessorAlessandro Carissimi
Orders
Consecration15 Jan 1617 (Bishop)
by Card. Bevilacqua
Personal details
Bornc. 1562
DiedMarch 23, 1621(1621-03-23) (aged 58–59)
Castro, Lazio
BuriedCathedral of Castro

Ireneo Brasavola (or Brassavola, Latin: Irenaeus Brasauolus, born as Francesco Brasavola; 1562 – 1621) was an Italian theologian[1] and bishop of Castro, Lazio, from 1617 to his death.[2]

Life

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Ireneo Brasavola was born at Ferrara on about 1562 and he was educated by Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. On 17 December 1578 in Bologna he entered in the Order of Friars Minor taking the religious name of Ireneo. He was ordained priest in 1584 and celebrated his first Mass in Urbino. He became a teacher of philosophy and theology in the convents of his order. As a theologian, Ireneo was a follower of Duns Scotus, he also a Franciscan. From 1608 he served as superior of the Friars Minor in Bologna and on 15 January 1611 he became Provincial superior.[3]

He was appointed on 9 March 1617 by Pope Paul V, to the Bishopric of Castro,[2] a town North of Rome but ruled by Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, protector of Brasavola. The episcopal consecration followed on 15 January in Rome by the hands of Cardinal Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini.[2]

Ireneo Brasavola died in Castro on 23 March 1621. He was buried in the cathedral of that town.[3]

Works

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Quaestio de primis, ac secundis intentionibus (Venice 1591), Quaestionum vniuersalium Ioan. Duns Scoti expositio eruditissima, & accurata (Venice 1599), Quaestiones quolibetales, seu Miscellaneae theologicae, ac philosophicae, omnibus, praecipuèque doctrinam Scoti profitentibus necessariae (Venice 1600).[3]

References

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  1. ^ Agostini, Igor (2008). L'infinità di Dio : il dibattito da Suárez a Caterus (1597-1641) (in Italian). Roma: Editori Riuniti. p. 300. ISBN 9788835960706.
  2. ^ a b c David Cheney. "Bishop Ireneo (Francesco) Brasavola, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 12 Jan 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Mazzucchelli, Giammaria (1763). Gli Scrittori d'Italia (in Italian). Vol. 2 part 4. Brescia. pp. 2030–2031.