Francisco Zumel

Francisco Zumel (1540–1607) was a Spanish friar of the Order of Mercy (the Mercedarians), born in Palencia. He taught at Salamanca for most of his life, held its chair of moral philosophy and later a chair of theology, and served as master general of his order.

Zumel wrote commentaries on the *Prima Pars* of the *Summa* and on Aristotle. He took part in the controversy *de auxiliis* on grace and free will, writing against Molina, and represents the Mercedarian voice at Salamanca: Thomist in method, but independent of the Dominican school on several disputed points. Zurbarán painted him in the series of Mercedarian portraits made for the order's house in Seville.

None of his works is in the library yet.