Francisco de Toledo (Jesuit)

Biography

After studying under Domingo de Soto, Toledo became a professor of philosophy at the University of Salamanca from 1555 to 1559.

He was ordained priest at Salamanca in 1556 and two years later, in 1558, entered the Jesuit order. After a brief period of spiritual formation he was called to Rome by the Superior General, Diego Láynez, where the budding Roman College was in great need of professors. Toledo successively (and successfully) taught Philosophy (1559-1562), Scholastic and Moral Theology (1562-1569), and was prefect of studies of the fast-growing university.

In the 1570s he published a number of commentaries on Aristotle's works.

He directed the work on the Clementine Vulgate, the revision of the Latin Vulgate that was published in 1598; this built on the Sistine Vulgate (the 1590 text), approved by Pope Sixtus V.

He died in 1596 and was buried in the Santa Maria Maggiore. The tomb monument was created in 1598 by the Flemish sculptor Gillis van den Vliete after a design by Giacomo della Porta.

Works

The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia organizes Toledo's works into three classes: the philosophical, the theological, and the exegetical.

Philosophical works

• Introductio in dialecticam Aristotelis (Rome, 1561), thirteen editions, apparently the first work of a Jesuit to be printed in Mexico
• Commentaria una cum quæstionibus in universam Aristotelis logicam (Rome, 1572), seventeen editions
• Commentaria de physica auscultatione (Venice, 1573), fifteen editions
• De generatione et corruptione (Venice, 1575), seven editions
• De anima (Venice, 1574), twenty editions
• Opera omnia. Opera philosophica (Lyons, 1586–92), only one volume issued

Theological works

• In Summam theologiæ S. Thomæ Aquinatis enarratio (4 vols., Rome, 1869), published by José Paría, S.J.
• Summa casuum sive instructio sacerdotum (Lyons, 1599), forty-six editions (Spanish tr., Juan de Salas; Italian, Andreo Verna; French, Goffar; summaries in Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian)

Exegetical works

• In sacrosanctum Joannis Evangelium commentarium (Rome, 1592), nine editions

Other works

• Emmendationes in Sacra Biblia vulgata, manuscript, corrected by direction of Clement VIII
• Regulæ hebraicæ pro lingua sancta intelligenda, manuscript
• Motivós y advertencias de casas dignas de refomación cerca del Breviario, sermons

Notes

References

1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041105180136/http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=T&t2=o Christian Cyclopedia]
2. Roger Ariew, ''René Descartes and the Jesuits'', p. 164, in Mordechai Feingold (editor), Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters (2002)
3. [https://www.academia.edu/17663852/The_Tomb_of_Francisco_de_Toledo_at_S_Maria_Maggiore_A_New_Work_by_Giacomo_della_Porta_and_Egidio_della_Riviera_Ricerche_di_Storia_dellarte_21_1983_ Steven F. Ostrow, ''The Tomb of Cardinal Francisco de Toledo at S. Maria Maggiore: A New Work by Giacomo della Porta and Egidio della Riviera''], Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, 21, 1983, pp. 87-96
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