Vincent Louis Gotti
Vincent Louis Gotti (
September 5,
1664 –
September 18,
1742) was a
Cardinal and
theologian of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Gotti was born in
Bologna. Educated by
Jesuits, he entered the
Dominican Order at the age of sixteen. After studies in
Salamanca in
Spain, he was assigned to various posts teaching theology and
philosophy first in
Mantua and then in Bologna in
Italy. In
1708, he was elected
Prior of the Dominican monastery in Bologna. On
April 30,
1728,
Pope Benedict XIII made him
Cardinal Priest and appointed him
Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Together with
Charles René Billuart, Gotti was the leading proponent of the
Thomistic school in his time. His writings include several polemics against
Lutherans and
Calvinism as well as commentaries on
Thomas Aquinas.
*
Biography from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
*MacCaffrey, J.:
History of the Catholic Church, Vol I, ch. 10; 1914.
