Bartolommeo Fumo (died 1545) was an Italian Dominican theologian.

Life

Fumo was born at Villo ("Villaurensis"), near

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.Nicolli, Francesco. Riscontri e note di alcune carte topografico-moderne degli stati ducali di Parma, Piacenza, e Guastalla. Piacenza: Tipografia del Majno, 1830, p. 33 At an early age he entered the Dominican Order and made great progress in all the ecclesiastical sciences, but especially in

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. He was distinguished as an

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at Piacenza.

Works

He is best known for his work, "Summa casuum conscientiae, aurea armilla dicta". This work, which was dedicated to

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, went through many editions, including those of Antwerp (1591) and Lyons (1594). It contained, in brief and compendious form, a digest of all similar explanations since the thirteenth century. He gives a clear case against

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. He is also the author of "Expositio compendiosa in epistolas in Pauli et canonicas", and book entitled, "Poemata qaedam". His first work, "Philothea, opus immortalis animi dignitatem continens", was dedicated to Catalano before he became bishop.

References

;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fumo, Bartolommeo 1545 deaths Italian Dominicans 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Year of birth unknown