Tommaso Badia

Tommaso Badia Thomas de Abbatis de Mutina ( born December 10, 1483 Modena, † September 6, 1547 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most learned Dominicans of his time and involved in the decision of Pope Paul III. Recognize the Jesuits.

Life and work

Badia came from the noble family Dall'Abbazia. He joined at a young age in the Dominican convent of Modena and moved in 1520 to Bologna. His studies he graduated first in Ferrara and then in Venice.

As the successor of Silvester Mazzolini († 1523), he was Master of the Sacred Palace ( Magister sancti palatii ) and as such court chaplain of the pope and the senior authority for censorship. In this role he censored et al in 1535 the first edition of Sadoletos commentary on Romans, in the following year, the " Problemata " by Francesco Zorzi.

In 1537 he was a consultant of Cardinal Gasparo Contarini involved in the work of a Papal Reform Commission, the Consilium de emendanda ecclesia, an opinion with reform proposals for the redress of grievances in the Roman church created under the auspices of Contarini. Badia approved in 1539 Summa Instituti of the Jesuits. When Ignatius of Loyola in Rome the papal recognition of the launched by him the Order of the Jesuits operation and this, with the support Contarini presented the draft of a religious statute, Badia was in 1539 involved in the papal mandate at the examination of the document, which assesses positive effect on earnings and then in the papal bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae (27 September 1540) was incorporated for the recognition of the Order. In the religious discussions in Worms in 1540, at the Diet of Regensburg in 1541 Badia each was involved as a debater.

Paul III. informed Badia on 31 May 1542 that he should be elevated to Cardinal and had to remove him from his residence in Rome. On 2 June 1542, he was called by Pope Paul III. made a cardinal, the simultaneous appointment as Bishop of Urbino ( with titular church of San Silvestro in Capite ) he refused. He worked within the Council of Trent and published pamphlets against Luther. At his own request he was buried after his death in addition to Cardinal Cajetan.

Works

  • Questiones physicae et metaphysicae
  • Liber de anima
  • Tractatus III: De intensione formarum; De analogy of being; De pluralitate intelligentiarum iuxta Aristotelem
  • Tractatus II: De immortalitate animae; De opinantes
  • De divina providentia
  • De pugna duorum Angelorum homini astantium, ad Gabrielem Ferrarium
  • Tractatus adversum Lutheranorum errores
  • Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum praelatorum de ecclesia emendanda SDN Paulo III petent conscriptum et exhibitum anno 1537 ( memorandum to Pope Paul III. )
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