Melchor Cano

Melchor Cano or Melchior Cano (born on January 1st 1509 with Tarancón, Province of Cuenca - died the September 30th 1560 with Madridejos, Province of Tolède) was a monk Dominicain, Théologien, Philosophe and Spanish bishop of the 16th century, which is attached to the current of thought of the École of Salamanque.

One should not confuse Melchior Cano with its nephew Melchior of Prego Cano (born in 1641, with Illana, Province of Guadalajara), also monk, who was the son of his sister Anna Cano Cordido and Mateo de Prego.

Biography

His/her father, Fernando Cano, lawyer, sent it to study with the Université of Salamanque, where it entered to the Dominicain S and was the pupil of Francisco de Vitoria. From 1524, Melchior Cano taught with the convent San Esteban.

In 1531, it was ordered priest and sent to the Collège san Gregorio of Valladolid, in order to continue there its formation with Bartolomé de Carranza and Luis of Granada. In 1536 it obtained the pulpit of Théologie of san Gregorio and with died of Francisco de Vitoria, that of Salamanque in 1546.

Melchior Cano took part in the first phase of the Controverse of Valladolid (1550), which tried to solve the Polémique of natural the or of the Justes titles between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé of mow Casas about the indigenous question. Charles I {{er}} sent it to the Concile of Thirty in 1551, with Domingo de Soto, and the following year, it was promoted by the king bishop of the Canary islands, which was a kind of exile, that it perhaps owed with its standpoint marked against the Jésuite S. It had to be dislocated rather quickly (1553) of its post of bishop, and returned in Valladolid to become vice-chancellor of san Gregorio.

In 1556 it writes its famous Consultatio theologica , where it invites the king (Charles Quint) to resist the abusive claims of papacy, and as an absolute monarch, to maintain his rights on the ecclesiastical incomes, which would have been worth the nickname of to him wire of perdition on behalf of the pope Paul IV.

Its personal influence on the king Philippe II of Spain was worth a back in favor to him.

In 1557, it was named provincial Dominican Ordre in Castille. Its election was disputed, inter alia by its adversary in the university quarrels which was Bartolomeo of Carranza, another Dominican, which would become then archbishop of Tolède, but which did not escape a judgment for heresy. Cano had to go to Rome, where the pope who was not very favorable for him having been replaced by Pie IV, it obtained the confirmation of his title. He dies however as of sonr return in Spain, in 1560.

Theological places

Its most important work is “ De Locis Theologicis ”, published in Salamanque in 1563, in which it distinguished ten sources for the theological demonstration: the Scriptures, the apostolic tradition, authority of the Catholic church, authority of the ecumenical councils, authority of the sovereign pontiff, doctrines of the Fathers of the Church, doctrines of the Theologist S and the canonists, the human rational truth, the doctrines of the philosophers and the History.

External bonds

Short biography of Melchor Cano on the site of the Center Cisneros
To read a text of Melchor Cano on the divergences between the pope Paul IV and the emperor Charles-Quint on the site of the virtual library Miguel de Cervantès
a page on the “School of Salamanque” on a site devoted to the history of the economic thinking
Catholic Encyclopedia
the text of the edition of Salamanque of its principal work is also in Migne I, 1837,78,908.

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