Giacomo Nacchiante (born 15 October 1502 at Florence

Florence

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; died at Chioggia

Chioggia

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, 6 May 1569) was an Italian Dominican

Dominican Order

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 theologian.

Life

He was placed by his father under the protection of the superintendent of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence's foundling hospital, in 1509. In 1518 he joined the Dominican Order at the convent of San Marco, in Florence.

He studied at Bologna

Bologna

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, where Michael Ghislieri, afterwards Pope Pius V, was his fellow-student. He subsequently taught philosophy and theology for a number of years, in the college of St. Thomas of Minerva, Rome.

Pope Paul III

Pope Paul III

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, struck with his talents, made him Bishop of Chioggia (30 January 1544). At the Council of Trent

Council of Trent

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 he made a vigorous protest against the words of the decree of the IV Session (8 April 1546), which asserts that the traditions of the Church are to be received with the same reverence and piety as the Scriptures; but he gave assent to the decree, when he saw it confirmed by the assembly. Further serious suspicions of his orthodoxy seem afterwards to have arisen, and the papal secretary at the Council of Trent, Angelo Massarelli, undertook an Inquisition. The records of the parallel Venetian Inquisition of Nacchiante's orthodoxy can be found in the Venetian state archives. As Pallavicini

Pallavicini

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 remarks, Pope Pius IV

Pope Pius IV

Pope Pius IV , born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565. He is notable for presiding over the culmination of the Council of Trent.-Biography:...

 assigned to him grave affairs of trust, and he returned to the second and third sessions of the Council of Trent as a full participant in the Council's debates.

Works

His works were published by Pietro Fratino at Venice

Venice

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in 1567. Among them are:

• "Enarrationes ... in ep. D. Pauli ad Ephesios";
• "Inep. ad Romanos";
• "S. Scripturæ medulla";
• "Tractationes XVIII theologales";
• "Theoremata metaphysica";
• "Theoremata theologica".

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