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{{Short description|Italian Dominican theologian and historian}}
{{For|the Renaissance bishop|Bernardo de' Rossi}}
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'''Bernardo de Rossi'''<ref>Giovanni Francesco Bernardo Maria de Rossi, De Rubeis.</ref> (8 January 1687 &ndash; 2 February 1775) was an Italian [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] theologian and historian.

==Biography==
Rossi was born at [[Cividale del Friuli]]. He made his religious profession with the Dominicans at [[Conegliano]], 1704, after which he studied at [[Florence]] and Venice. He taught at Venice for fifteen years, and was twice general vicar of his province. In 1722 he was theologian to a Venetian embassy to [[Louis XV]] and remained in Paris five months. He resigned his chair in 1730 and devoted the remainder of his life to literary activity. He died in [[Venice]].

His sanctity and learning won for him a wide reputation, and his correspondence with the great men of his time fills nine volumes. His works, written in elegant Latin, show a vast erudition and a mind at once critical and profound. Amongst his dogmatic writings must be mentioned {{lang|la|De Peccato Originali}} (1757).

He is famous especially for his new edition of the works of [[Thomas Aquinas]] with a commentary (1745–60, 24 vols.). He was also the author of thirty-two dissertations on the  life and writings of Aquinas, which have been placed in the first volume of the Leonine Edition of Aquinas's works.

De Rossi also ranks high as a writer on historical, [[patristic]], and [[liturgical]] subjects. Besides his numerous works which are published, he left thirty volumes in manuscript.

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{CE1913|wstitle=Bernardo de Rossi}}

==External links==
* {{DBI|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/de-rubeis-bernardo-maria_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=DE RUBEIS, Bernardo Maria|first=Paolo|last=Preto|volume=39}}

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