Francisco de Vitoria
Francisco de Vitoria Francisco de Vitoria was born between c. 1483 and 1486 (the date and the place, Burgos or Vitoria, are disputed) and died in Salamanca on 12 August 1546. A Dominican friar, he studied in Paris, where he became familiar with the method of commenting on the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, and taught there before returning to Spain. He lectured at Valladolid and, from 1526, held the principal chair of theology at the University of Salamanca, where he adopted the Summa as the reference text in place of Peter Lombard’s Sentences. He is regarded as the founder of the School of Salamanca, a group of sixteenth-century theologians and jurists (among them Domingo de Soto and Melchor Cano) who renewed scholasticism and which later counted Francisco Suárez among its heirs. ...