Melchor Cano

Melchor Cano (c. 1509–1560) was a Dominican theologian and a central figure of the School of Salamanca. Born at Tarancón, he entered the Salamanca Dominicans in 1523 as a pupil of Francisco de Vitoria and succeeded Vitoria in the chair of theology at Salamanca.

His rivalry with fellow Dominican Bartolomé Carranza divided the university, and Cano took part in his condemnation for heresy. At the Council of Trent he debated the Eucharist and indulgences. In 1552 his Jesuit opponents had him made bishop of the Canary Islands to remove him from Spain; he resigned a year later. His De locis theologicis appeared posthumously in 1563.