Sylvester Maurus SJ (31 December 1619 – 13 January 1687) was an Italian Scholastic theologian.
After his novitiate, he spent three years (1639-1642) studying philosophy at the Roman College, where his principal teacher was Sforza Pallavicino.
He took final vows in the Order in 1654, and five years later was promoted to the Chair of Theology, which he retained until his appointment in 1684 as Rector of the Roman College.
This latter embodies the results of the great thirteenth-century commentaries and is considered a model of clearness and conciseness.
[1] Maurus worked on the Greek text and the best Latin versions available in his time, namely those by Argyropoulos, Bessarion, Theodorus Gaza and Lambin.