Tommaso Turco
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Tommaso Turco (died 1649) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1644 to 1649.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Cremona and taught metaphysics at the University of Padua.[1] Tommaso Turco was elected master at the 1644 Chapter of the Dominican Order, over the opposition of Pope Urban VIII, whose preferred candidate was Michel Mazarin, brother of Cardinal Mazarin.[2]
As master, Turco conducted extensive visitations of Italy, Spain, the Kingdom of France, and the Spanish Netherlands.[2]
He died in 1649.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 442.
- ^ a b c Benedict M. Ashley, The Dominicans, ch. 6 Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine