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year after the appointment of the commission, the plan of a
great and exhaustive refutation of the Centuriators could
not be carried out.^ The Pope, however, saw the publication
of the new edition of the works of St. Thomas, which filled
seventeen folio volumes ; this had been prepared by the
Spanish Dominican, Tommaso de Manriquez, with the help of
his brethren, and was dedicated to Pius V.^ A bull of April
nth, 1567, ordered that henceforth the day of the death of
the " angel of the schools," March 7th, should be kept
throughout the Church in the same way as the feasts of the
four great Doctors of the Church.^ The most celebrated and
valuable work which was dedicated to Pius V. came from the
pen of the great Biblical scholar, Sisto da Siena, whose life
the Pope had saved when he was commissary-general of the
Roman Inquisition. This was the Bibliotheca Sancta, printed
at Venice in 1566, which has served as a rich mine to later
students of the Holy Scriptures.'* The Dominican, Jacopo
Nacchianti, a fellow-student of the Pope, dedicated to him
his commentaries on the Epistles to the Ephe'sians and the
Romans.^ A learned German, Doctor Georg Eder, also
dedicated to Pius V. a kind of introduction to the Holy
Scriptures.^
Certain other works dedicated to Pius V. are also character-
istic. Besides a poem on the birth of Christ,'^ there is a dis-
1 See ScHMiD in Histor. Jahrbuch, XVII., 83 ; Eichhorn, II.,
463 seq. Cf. also Corresp. dipl., IV., Ix. seq.
^ See QuETiF-EcHARD, II., 230, and infra p. 200.
3 Bull. Rom., VII., 564 seq.
* Cf. Kaulen, Einleitung in die hi. Schrift, Freiburg, 1898,
9 seq.
5 See Lauchert, 587 seq.
* For the " Oecononiia Bibliorum " oJ Eder, Cologne, 1568, see
Paulus in Hist.-pol. Blatter, CXV., 25 seq. For his Vite dei Santi
Surius received two briefs of praise. See Laderchi, 1570, n. 446 ;
1571, n. 39. Martin Eisengrein also was repeatedly honoured by
Pius V. ; see Pfleger, Eisengrein, 72 seq., 79 seq.
' *Laevinii Torrentii, Hymni de partu Virginis ad Pinm Y., in
Cod. Ottob. 886, Vatican Library.