- Francisco Peña
Francisco Peña (Pegna) (born at
Villarroya de los Pinares , nearSaragossa , about 1540; died at Rome, in 1612) was a Spanishcanon lawyer .Life
He devoted himself to the study of law at Valencia. Later
Philip II of Spain appointed himauditor of the Rota for Spain.He formed one of the commission charged with the preparation of the official edition of the "Corpus juris canonici", published in 1582, and the anonymous notes appended to the edition of the
Decretals are attributed to him. He was also concerned in the canonization of several saints:Didacus , Hyacinth, Raymond,Charles Borromeo , andFrances of Rome , publishing biographies of several of them.Works
His principal works are:
*"In Directorium Inquisitorum a Nicolao Eimerico conscriptum commentaria" (Rome, 1578);
*"De officio Inquisitionis" (Cremona, 1655);
*"In Ambrosii de Vignate tractatum de hæresi commentaria et in Pauli Grillandi de hæreticis et eorum pœnis notæ" (Rome, 1581);
*"In Bernardi Comensis Dominicani Lucernam inquisitorum notæ et ejusdem tractatum de strigibus" (Rome, 1584);
*"Responsio canonica ad scriptum nuper editum in causa Henrici Borbonii quo illius fauntores persuadere nituntur episcopos in Francia jure illos absolvere potuisse" (Rome, 1595);
*"Censura in arrestum Parlamentale Curiæ criminalis Parisiensis contra Joannem Castellum et patres Societatis Jesu" (Rome, 1595);
*"De temporali regno Christi" (Rome, 1611).His "Decisiones sacræ Rotæ" were published by Urritigoiti (2 vols., Saragossa, 1648-50).
References
*
Nicolaus Antonius , "Bibliotheca Hispana nova", I (Madrid, 1783), 457-58;
*Schulte, "Die Geschichte der Quellen und Lit. des canonischen Rechts", III (Stuttgart, 1880), 734.External links
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11611b.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia" article]
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