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Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries on the Summa and using it as a starting point for many theological and philosophical discussions. Some of the works of major authors such as Vitoria, Soto, Molina, Suarez and Arriaga are nothing more than commentaries on the Summa. This book is the first scholarly endeavour to investigate this commentary tradition. As it examines late scholasticism against its institutional backdrop and contains studies of manuscripts and texts unpublished, it will remain an authoritative source for the research of late scholasticism. Contributors: Igor Agostini (University of Salento), Monica Brinzei (CNRS-IRHT, Paris), William Duba (University of Fribourg), Matthew Gaetano (Hillsdale College), Helen Hattab (University of Houston), Lidia Lanza (University of Lisbon), Mauro Mantovani (Salesian Pontifical University), Daniel D. Novotny and Tomas Machula (University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice), Chris Schabel (University of Cyprus), Jean-Luc Solere (Boston College), Marco Toste (University of Fribourg), Andreas Wagner (Goethe University of Frankfurt), Ueli Zahnd (University of Geneva)

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[...] overall the collection is impressive and all the contributions are of a high standard. Dominic Ryan OP, New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1110, Mar 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12812 No fim desta algo inusitadamente longa recensão, creio que ficou bem claro todo o nosso apreço por esta tão relevante publicação e acima de tudo pelo louvável trabalho dos seus editores. Qualquer que seja a sua proveniência – a teologia, a filo-sofia, a história e a história das ideias, o género comentarístico, etc . – encontrará o/a leitor/a um rico manancial de informações e um opulento cadinho de pistas para fu-turas e cada vez mais aprofundadas pesquisas. Resta ­nos, por isso, deixar sem qual-quer reserva os parabéns e votos de continuação de tão notável e competente inves-tigação aos dois tão jovens investigadores, Lidia Lanza e Marco Toste. Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Revista Filosófica de Coimbra — n.o 60 (2021), https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/rfc/article/view/10392/7567 A highly instructive, even outstanding, review article by the editors is followed by several detailed case studies.Benjamin Dahlke, Theologische Rundschau (ThR), Jahrgang 87 (2022) / Heft 2, S. 227-237 (11), DOI: 10.1628/thr-2022-0009 Trotzdem zeichnet es den Sammelband aus, eine jedenfalls bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert einflussreiche Epoche der Philosophie und Theologie mit wichtigen Beispielen sehr kundig zu präsentieren und damit hoffentlich weitere Forschungen anzuregen. Bernhard Knorn SJ, Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie, Bd. 144 Nr. 3 (2022), DOI: 10.35070/ztp.v144i3.3839 Äußerlich überzeugt der Band durch seine Kompaktheit und Struktur. Alle Beiträge liegen in zumeist sehr gutem Englisch vor; zudem achten die Herausgeber auf eine einheitliche Zitation der Summa Theologiae und anderer historischer Quellen. Die im Anhang befindlichen Indizes verwendeter Handschriften wie auch (vor-)moderner Autoren ermöglichen den raschen Zugriff auf Detailergebnisse. Gabriel J. Theis OP, Wien, Archa Verbi 18 (2021). Accanto a tutti gli altri meriti già menzionati, un pregio indiscutibile del volume curato da Lidia Lanza e Marco Toste è il bilanciamento molto ben studiato, nell’analisi della tradizione dei commentari, tra le questioni metafisiche e quelle etico-giuridiche (per quanto le une e le altre compaiano, in questa stessa tradizione, in un quadro d’insieme che resta – com’è anche naturale che sia – squisitamente teologico). Maria Evelina Malgieri, «Quaestio», 22 (2022), 533-561, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.QUAESTIO.5.133425 The overall achievement of this volume shows that the tradition of commenting on the *Summa should be studied as a subject in its own right.* Joerg Alejandro Tellkamp, Renaissance Quarterly, 76(1), 316-317, https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.170 Overall, this collection of essays provides a sampling of the fruitful exchanges that 'Summa' commentators carried on within the centuries indicated. - Romanus Cessario, The Thomist, October 2023, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/907650

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Lidia Lanza is research fellow at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. Marco Toste is affiliated with the University of Fribourg.

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