Domingo de Soto

Domingo de Soto (1494–1560) was born in Segovia, studied at Alcalá and Paris, and entered the Dominican order in 1524. He taught theology at Salamanca, first in the vespers chair and later in the prime chair, and was sent by Charles V as an imperial theologian to the Council of Trent. For a time he was also the emperor's confessor.

Soto was Vitoria's colleague and the first systematic writer of the school. His *De natura et gratia* was written for the debates at Trent on justification. His *De iustitia et iure* turned Thomas's questions on justice into a complete treatise on law, property, contracts and exchange, and became a standard work of the Salamanca tradition. His commentaries on Aristotle's logic and physics are remembered for treating falling bodies as uniformly accelerated.

None of his works is in the library yet.