Albertus de Parma (Alberto di Parma)

OM. Italian friar.

works

Sermones de Correctione Fraterna: Naples, Naz., VII. D. 22 ff. 160a-164b (his work or the work of Albertus de Perusio?)

literature

Cenci, Napoli, I, 458.

Albertus de Perusio (Alberto da Perugia)

OM. Italian friar.

works

Sermones de Correctione Fraterna: Naples, Naz., VII. D. 22 ff. 160a-164b (his work of the work of Albertus de Parma).

Quaestio utrum videlicet confessor habeat auctoritatem absolvendi...: Naples Naz., I. H. 43 f. 302rv..

literature

Cenci, Napoli, I, 156.

Albertus de Pisa (Alberto da Pisa, d. 1240)

OM. Italian friar. Received into the order by Francis of Assisi in 1212. He was send to France in 1219, together with his brother Agnello, to establish a foothold in Paris. In 1223, at the general chapter of Assisi, he was elected provincial minister of the new Germany province. In this quality, he presided over the provincial chapters of Speyer (8 September 1223), Würzburg (15 August, 1224), and Mainz (2 Februari, 1227). In 1227, he was relieved from his post by Elias of Cortona at the general chapter of Assisi, and became subsequently provincial minister in Hungary, the Italian Bologna province, the March of Ancona, the March of Treviso, and Tuscany. When his brother Agnello died in 1236 as the provincial minister of England, the English friars asked for Alberto as his replacement. Elias of Cortona gave his permission, so that Alberto arrived in England on 13 December 1236.  In England, Alberto stimulated the creation of studia in London and Canterbury. On 15 May, 1239, after the deposition of Elias, Alberto was chosen minister general of the order at the general chapter of Rome. He apparently died on 23 January of the following year at Pisa. Pope Gregory IX, who admired him, composed after hearing about his death an eulogy (Plange Turba Paupercula). Alberto is the author of a Sermo de caritate Salvatoris

works

Sermo de caritate Salvatoris: MS Arras, 759 (691), f. 254vb

literature

Chronica Fratris Jordani, AF I, 11-12, 14-16; Eccleston, Tractatus de Adventu, AF I, 227, 233, 236, 238, 243-250, 261, 263, 269, 273-274; Salimbene, Chronica, passim; AF I, 286-287; Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, 14, 28-29, 31, 40, 42-44, 46, 49-50, 61; Chronica XXIV Generalium, AF III, 24, 217, 230-233, 696; Liber Conformitatum, AF IV, 329, 454, 5011, 517; Wadding, Annales Minorum I, 115, II, 74, 104, 164, III, 22-23; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 18; Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Quaracchi, 1908), 171-174; AFH 1 (1908), 206; AFH 2 (1909), 98, 104; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Albert de Pise’, DHGE I, 1544-1545; Schneyer I, 150; Rosalind Brooke, Early Franciscan Government, passim; Michael Robson, 'Albert of Pisa, Minister Provincial of England (1236-1239)', in: A Pilgrimage Through the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, ed. André Cirino & Josef Raischl (Canterbury: Franciscan International Study Centre, 2008), 33-64. Re-issued in: Idem, The Greyfriars of England (2012), 73-96.

Albertus Silvaducese (Albertus van ‘s-Hertogenbosch/Johannes van Gent, 1664-1740)

OFMCap. Dutch Capuchin friar from Brabant. Spiritual author. Entered the Capucin order at Louvain. Made his profession on 22 November 1682 (fulfilling his noviciate under the novice master Franciscau van Breda). After two years of religious formation in the solitary monastery of Tervuren, he was entitled to start his studies of philosophy and theology in 1686. Probably was ordained priest in the 1890s. Thereafter, active at Gelder (present-day Germany), where he stimulated the establishment of a community of female tertiaries at Horst (between Venlo and Venraay), for which Albertus wrote a.o. a set of constitutions. In 1711, we find Albertus in Tienen, where he preached at the St. Germanus church. In 1714, he was vicar of the St.-Truiden monastery. In the same year, he was appointed lector in philosophy. Yet he soon retreated from his teaching (1718) and became a simple clerical friar in Ghent, spending his time with writing and with preaching in Ghent and in neighbouring centres (a.o at Westdorpe). After 1728 he apparently lived and worked in Antwerp. He died in 1740.

works

Den Boom des Levens, gheplant in den Lusthof der Seraphiecke Religie van den H. Vader en Patriarch Franciscus der Minderbroeders Capucinen van de Nederlandtsche Provincie, Dragende soete Vruchten voor haer Kinders, besonder voor de Novitien, ende oock voor alle Geestelycke Persoonen (Louvain: By Guiliam Stryckwant in de gulde Lamp achter het Stadt-huys, 1701).

Trouw Vierighe Begeerten, Vierige ende Uyterste Wille Door C.A.B. Priester. Gemaeckt Voor alle Godtminnende zielen, dickwils uyt Gehoorsaemheyt te Oeffenen, om haer selven meer ende meer te ontsteken in de Goddelijcke Liefde, ed. A.C.V.G.G.D (Antwerp; Weduwe Joan Scheff, 1703).

Constitutiën gemaect naar de Constitutiën der PP. Capucinen, ende Beschreven in alles volgens hun Maniere van Leven, Voor Alle geestelycke Persoonen; Sonderlinge voor Geestelycke Doghters die naer haren Staet ende gelegenheyt willen naervolgen den Regel en De maniere des levens der Minderbroeders genaemt Capucinen ende oock Voor degene die een Strenger maniere des levens wwillen onderhouden, onder den Derden Regel van onsen Seraph. Vader Franciscus: MS ACB III 9019 [manuscript once in the possession of Anna Catarina van Gendt] & MS ACB III 9014.

Maniere des Levens Met de principaelste puncten des Derden Reghels Voor alle Persoonen van wat staet of conditi die sijn, leerende hoe sy den derden Reghel van den Seraphienschen Vader S. Franciscus, Altydt wel en behoorelyck konnen onderhouden, soo wel heymelyck als in’t openbaer; met een kort tractaet van de H. Communie. Beschreven door den E.P.A.V.D.B. Capucien; en uyt ghegheven door G. de Ridder Ouwt Deken (Antwerp: Alexander Everaerts, 1726).

Het Geestelyck Verborgen Manna tot een Spys ghegheven Aen alle Godtvruchtige soo werelijcke als Geestelijcke Persoonen, die geen Religieusen en zijn, haer leerende, in wat staet, oft van wat conditie dat sy zijn, te konnen leven een waerachtigh volmaeckt geestelijck ende Religieus leven. En dat oock in Geloften van Gehoorsaemheyt, Van Armoede des Geest, En van Suyverheyt. Ghemaeckt door den E.P.A.V.D.B.S.T.E. (Antwerpen, 1709?/Antwerpen: Alexander Everaerts, 1726) [in principle for everyone, but more in particular written for the sisters of Horst.]

Het Goddelijck Camerken, met syne Toe-behoorten ende Fundamenten, bereyt voor den Hemelschen Bruydegom komende tot de Ziele door de H. Communie, Waer in dat geleert wort hoe dat-men Godtvruchtelijck ende volmaecktelijck sal leven, hoe geduerich met groote Vruchten Communiceren, Biechten, Mis-hooren, etc. Beschreven door P. Albertus van s’ hertogenbosch, Capucien, Vicarius, en Leesmeester (Hasselt: Petrus van Langenacker, 1713/14/Antwerp, 1727/ Antwerp, 1738/Antwerp, 1779).

Litanie, Gebeden ende Lof-Sanck tot de Alderheyligste Onbevlekte Maeget ende Bedruckte Moeder Godts Maria van Schrey-Boom. Met andere korte Devotie, ende het Sterrekransken van Godts Moeder onbevleckt de Alderheyligste Maeget Maria (Ghent: Petrus de Goesin, 1723). Dit werk verscheen in in 1729 met een  gewijzigde titel: Litanien ende kleyn getyden met devote ghebeden tot Maria in Schrey-Boom op haer droeve ween; met de Beschryvinge der Aflaeten, Reghels van het Broederschap, ende Outheyt van Schrey-Boom, Beschreven door P.A.V. Capucin, en uytgegeven door H.B.P.P.V.D.A.S.P. (Ghent: Petrus de Goesin, 1729/Ghent: Petrus de Goesin, 1754; Ghent: Weduwe M. de Goesin, after 1761/Ghent: Weduwe M. de Goesin, 1787-90; Ghent: J. Poelman, ca. 1830?).

Epitome Rituum Sacrorum, Ac Caeremoniarum, in Missis tam privatis, quam Solemnibus, adhiberi debitis. Juxta Rubricas Missalis Romani et annotationes Gavanti, aliorumque Auctorum probatissimorum, quibus adduntur Praxes Divinum Officium Studiose, ac devote, persolvendi, Missasque celebrandi (Antwerp: Typis Alexandri Everaerts, 1728).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 781; P. Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een vergeten ascetische schrijver en apostel der veelvuldige Communie: P. Albertus van den Bosch’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 2 (1928), 176-188, 245-275; Franciscaansch Leven 1 (1917), 173, 225 & 11 (1928), 36, 83, 94, 124 P. Hildebrand, ‘Albert de Bois-le-Duc’, DSpir I, 283-284; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een vergeten ascetische schrijver en apostel der veelvuldige communie: P. Albertus van Den Bosch († 1740)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 658-701; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een apostel der H. Communie in de XVIII^e eeuw, P. Albertus van den Bosch, Kapucijn’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 632-637; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Albertus van ’s-Hertogenbosch te Westdorpe’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 639-645; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een portret van P. Albertus van ’s-Hertogenbosch (1740)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 646-649; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Albertus van ’s-Hertogenbosch en de Zusters van Horst (Limburg)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 650-657.

Albertus Sarteanensis (Alberto da Sarziano/Alberto de Sarteano/Alberto a Sartiano/Alberto Berdini, 1385-1450)

OMConv & OMObs. Italian friar from Sarteano (Sarziano, Tuscany). Entered the Conventual branch of the order in his home town in 1405, where he would have received the first immersion in the Franciscan life by Bartolomeo of Pisa (by then 110 years old>> spurious tradition?). Alberto transferred to the observantist movement in 1415, and received additional training into the Observant way of life by Angelo da Civitella. Sometime after his transfer to the Observance, Alberto went to Verona. There he followed in 1422 a training in Rhetoric under the humanist Guarino (under whom he apparently had already learned Latin and Greek before 1405 [check]). In that same year, Alberto began his preaching career, guided by Bernardino of Siena, who sent Alberto in November 1422 as a preacher to Modena. Between 1424 and 1430, Alberto preached throughout Tuscany, gaining the nickname ‘rex praedicatorum’. In 1430, Alberto apparently suffered from a bout of the Plague, which necessitated a break from his preaching tours. However, at Pentecost 1431, when Alberto took part in the Observant general chapter of Bologna, he was chosen as one of the six friar who, on request by pope Eugenius IV, were sent to Basel, to preach the crusade against the Turcs. In 1433, he preached a Lenten cycle at Naples. Between 1435-1437, Alberto worked and travelled in the Byzantine Empire and in Palestine. And it would seem that in this period (and again later, when traveling in Spain, Palestine and Egypt, see further doen) he also sought martyrdom in the Holy Land, which did not come to pass. He also had a role as organiser and interpreter at the council of Ferrara in 1438, where papal and byzantine delegations negociated about the union between the Greek and the Latin churches. The intial successes of this council stimulated pope Eugenius IV to use Alberto in 1439 as an embassador to Christian Copts, with a letter asking them to participate in the Council of Florence and to obtain a union with the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. Armed with papal letters, Alberto once again travelled to Palestine (Jerusalem), Egypt and Sudan (1439-1441). Although a union with the mythical Ethiopean church was out of the question – Albert got into serious trouble during preaching sessions in the Sudan and also was troubled by illnesses that forced him to break off his planned visit of Ethiopea - Alberto was able to persuade the Coptic patriarch John of Alexandria to assent to union with the Catholic church. Back in Italy, Alberto was chosen as the provincial vicar of the St. Anthony province (June 1442). Soon thereafter, on 18 July 1442, he was appointed general vicar of the Observants, in which capacity Alberto sent Giovanni da Capistrano to France, to stimulate the Observant reforms there. The pope saw Alberto as a good candidate for the position of general minister, in order to unify the order. Yet, at the general chapter of May 1443, he was deemed unacceptable by the Conventuals (who apparently had had him removed with force from the premisses). Antonio da Rusconi was elected instead. Pope Eugenius IV then asked Alberto to preach the crusade against the Turcs in Aquilea. By the end of that year, Alberto is found again in Constantinople, helping his friend Jacopo da Primadizzi in reforming the Franciscan friaries there. In 1445, we find Alberto preaching during Lent in Milan. In 1446, he pacified the town of Brescia, helping to end its civil strife and establishing two Observant houses of Poor Clares (1445-1446). On 18 May 1449, he once more took part in the general chapter of the Observants (Mugello, near Florence). He died the next year, on 15 August 1450 in Milan. He is considered as one of the ‘four pillars’ of the Observance (next to Bernardino da Siena, Giovanni da Capistrano and Giacomo della Marca) and is venerated by his order. A large number of his letters (more than 125), as well as sermons and orations have survived.

works

Sermo: Naples Naz. V.F.18 f. 130v-136r. (see Cenci, Napoli, check!)

Epistolae, Orationes, Apologiae etc, : Killiney, `Bibl. Franc.' B 56 [see AFH 57 (1964), 165-190].
For editions of several of these texts, see: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688, reprint G.B. Bussoto (ed.), Opera Omnia, (Rome, 1698); Seraphinus Gaddoni, ‘Epistola B. Alberti Sarthianensis frustra S. Joanni a Capistrano attributa’, AFH 9 (1916), 448; H. Lippens, ‘S. Jean de Capistran en Mission aux Etats Bourguignons, 1442-1443’, AFH 35 (1942), 254-95 (one letter by Alberto, pp. 284-6); Bulletti, ‘Frate Bernardino da Siena e frate alberto da Sarteano con gli ambasciatori senesi alla corte di Eugenio IV’, Bulletino di studi Bernardiani 4 (1938), 64-75 (one letter, pp. 72-74)

Apologia contra Poggium Florentinum, see: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688, reprint G.B. Bussoto (ed.), Opera Omnia, (Rome, 1698).

Contra Hermaphroditum Obscaenissimum Antonii Panormitani, see: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688, reprint G.B. Bussoto (ed.), Opera Omnia, (Rome, 1698).

Oratio Contra Martyrum Vituperatores. See: Studi Francescani 36 (1939), 298-304.

Quod Nihil Nocet ad Virtutem Humili Loco Nasci, see: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688, reprint G.B. Bussoto (ed.), Opera Omnia, (Rome, 1698).

Oratio de Corpore Christi, alias De sanctissimo Eucharistiae sarcamento: Naples Naz. V.F. 18 f. 263r-269r (see Cenci, Napoli, check!). Included in: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688, reprint G.B. Bussoto (ed.), Opera Omnia, (Rome, 1698); Studi Francescani 36 (1939), 298-304. (edition De Corpore Christi/De sanctissimo Eucharistiae sacramento)

De Conditione Amicitiae et de Malitiae Invidentia ? (see: Wadding, Sbaralea, and Mariano da Firenze, AFH, 3 (1910), 707)

De Insolentibus Corrigendis ? (see: Wadding, and Mariano da Firenze, AFH 3 (1910), 707)

Tractatus de Pace, see: F.Biccellari, ‘L’Opera del Beato Alberto da Sarteano per la pace e per la regola disciplina’, StF 11 [36] (1939), 213-29 & StF 11 [36] (1939), 288-310.

Oratio pro electione Ministri Generalis, included in: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688), 117-136.

Oratio in Laude Penitentiae, included in: Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno (Rome, 1688), 136-148.

Per la regola discipina, see: F.Biccellari, ‘L’Opera del Beato Alberto da Sarteano per la pace e per la regola disciplina’, StF 11 [36] (1939), 213-29 & StF 11 [36] (1939), 288-310.

literature

Glassberger, Chronica, in: AF II, 307-308; Bernardino da Fossa, Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. Lemmens (Rome, 1902), 19, 30-31; Wadding, Annales VIII, 380, X, 169-171, 180, 212, 226-228, 274, XI, 59, 71-77, 119-136, 156-160, 175-176, 238-239, 263, 266, 322, XII, 29, 63-64; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 8; Arthurus a Monasterio, Martyrologium Franciscanum (Paris, 1653), 369-370); D. de Gubernatis, Orbis Seraphicus (Rome, 1682) I, 184, II, 68, III, 91; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 8; Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 19; B. Neri, La vita e i tempi del beato Alberto da Sarteano (Quaracchi, 1902) [very tendentious, not always factually reliable but with some revealing insights]; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Albert de Sarziano’, DHGE I, 1554-6; Zawart, 317; Dict. de Spir. V, 1345; Guido Ionati, ‘La predicazione del b. Alberto da Sarteano a Brescia (1444-1449)’, Miscellanea Francescana 37 (1937), 55-76; Enrico Bulletti, ‘Frate Bernardino da Siena e frate Alberto da Sarteano con gli ambasciatori senesi alla corte di Eugenio IV’, Bullettino di Studi Bernardiniani 4 (1938), 65-75; F. Biccellari, ‘Un franciscano umanisto. Il B. alberto da Sarteano’, Studi Francescani 35 (1938), 2-48 & 36 (1939), 265-87; Idem, ‘Il beato Alberto da Sarteano, apostolo e apologista’, Studi Francescani 3rd. Ser., 10 (1938), 97-127; Idem, ‘Missioni del Beato Alberto in Oriente per l’Unione della Chiesa Greca e il ristabilimento dell’Osservanza nell’Ordine Francescano’, Studi Francescani 11 (1939), 159-73, 213-229, 265-316; Floro Bicellari, ‘Il B. Alberto da Sarteano letterato e santo’, Studi Francescani 36 (1939), 265-287; E. Bulletti, ‘Sospensione del beato Alberto da Sarteano dalla predicazione’, Studi Francescani 25 (1953), 95-6; Floro Bicarelli, ‘Lettera inedita del b. Alberto da Sarteano a s. Giovanni da Capestrano’, Studi Francescani 53 (1956), 382-385; R. Pratesi, ‘Nuovi documenti sul Beato alberto da Sarteano (d. 1345)’, AFH 53 (1960), 78-110; Enrico Cerulli, ‘Berdini, Alberto (in religione Alberto da Sarteano)’, Dizionario biografico degli italiani VIII (1966) [now available at http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alberto-berdini_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/ ]; P. Santoni, ‘Albert de Sarteano, observant et humaniste, envoyé pontifical à Jérusalem et au Caïre’, MEFRM 86 (1974), 165-211; Martino Bertagna, ‘Ricordando Alberto da Sarteano’, Studi Francescani 82 (1985), 201-206 [part of a theme issue: Alberto da Sarteano nel sesto centenario della nascita: 1385 - 1985]; Amleto Spicioni, ‘Alberto Berdini da Sarteano (1385-1450): Cronologia bibliografica’, Studi Francescani 82 (1985), 359-365; R.L. Guidi, ‘Sottintesi e allusioni tra Poggio e Sarteano a proposito di una polemica mancata’, AFH 83 (1990), 118-61; Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Alberto da Sarteano (1385-1450)’, in: Mistici Francescani. Secolo XV, 747-761; Alison Knowles Frazier, Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 83-84, 88, 90 [on Alberto's martyrdom ambitions downplayed in much Franciscan scholarship]; Daniele Solvi, 'La missione di Alberto da Sarteano in Egitto (1439-1441) e una lettera di Eugenio IV al Sultano', Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia 72:2 (2018), 435-456.

Albertus Stadensis (Albert von Stade] (before 1200- † after 1264)

OM. German friar. Probably of ministerial descent. He received his education in Bremen. He became prior and later abbot (1232) of the Benedictine monastery St. Mary near Stade. He left this position when he was unable to reform his cloister into a Cistercian one, thanks to the opposition of the Archbishop of Bremen, Gerard II. He then entered the Franciscan convent in Stade. As friar minor, Albert was able to pursue his literary interests. Already before his entrance in the Franciscan order he wrote a versified version of the Summa de casibus poenitentiae of Raymundus de Penyaforte (the so-called Raimundus, full title: Summa de Poenitentia et Matrimonia), the Auriga (a Gospel harmonization in proze for preaching purposes) and the Quadriga (a poetical adaptation of the Gospels). Not all of these works did survive. As Franciscan he wrote a Troilus (1249), a poem of 5320 verses after the Troy-story of Dares Phrygius. Aside from that he elaborated the Apocalypse commentary of Alexander Minorita, and he continued writing his Chronica, or Annales Stadenses (written between 1240-1256), a universal history with much information on the German and Northern regions. In it also is found his Itinerario, a pilgrimsguide to Rome and Jerusalem, written as a dialogue between two pilgrims. In his chronicle the history from creation to Christ is presented in a synoptical manner, with computations of the five aetates. The sixth aetas, the period after Christ, is presented in the form of annals. There exists a continuation of his chronicle, known as the Annales Lubicenses, running from 1294 to 1324. About the author of this continuation almost nothing is known. For a good inkling of the content of the work and for a rather balanced evaluation concerning the question whether this work was predominantly conceived within a Franciscan context, see Honemann (2015), who questions some of the findings of Maeck (2000).

works

Troilus: a.o. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek Cod. Guelf 278 Gud. Lat. 8°. It was edited as well: Troilus Alberti Stadensis, ed. Th. Merzdorf, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Aevi Teubneriana (Leipzig, 1875); Troilus: mit Quellenapparat, ed. Thomas Gärtner (Hildesheim, 2007).

Quadriga, edited in: Monumenta inedita rerum germanicarum, praecipue Bremensium I/2, 136-7.

Chronica Alberti Stadensis, ed. R. Reineccius (Helmstedt, 1587); Annales Stadenses, ed. J.M. Lappenberg, MGH SS XVI 271-379. (Partial edition); Die Chronik des Albert von Stade, ed. Franz Wachter (Leipzig, 1940). A new edition with German translation has in prepation by Dieter Berg (not yet issued?). See also Continuatio; Annales Lubicenses. in: MGH SS XVI, 411-429; Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae, BBb, I, 181-185; IHC, IV, 1-10.

Elaboration of the Apocalypse commentary of Alexander Bremensis (Alexander Minorita). See there.

vitae

Vita Alberti Stadensis Abbatis Chronici Auctoris, ed. T. Eckhard (Goslar, 1726).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 8; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 17; Lappenberg, ‘Ueber die bevorstehende Ausgabe der Chronik des Albert von Stade’, Archiv für altere deutsche Geschichte 6 (1838), 326-363; Lappenberg, ‘Ueber den Continuator Alberti Stadensis’, Archiv für altere deutsche Geschichte 6 (1838), 547-553; Lappenberg, ‘Ueber den Catalogus Pontificum in Alberti von Stade Chronik’, Archiv für altere deutsche Geschichte 6 (1838), 741-750; L. Weiland, ‘Ueber das Verhältniss der Annales Stadenses zu den Annales Hamburgenses und Annales Bremenses’, Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte 13 (--), 157-198; Wattenbach-Schmale, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, 6^th ed. II, 439-441; Karl Fiehn, `Albertus Stadensis. Sein Leben und seine Werke', Historische Vierteljahrschrift 26 (1931), 536-572; Idem, `Zum Troilus A. v S.', in: Studien sur lateinischen Dichtung des Mittelalters. Ehrengabe für Karl Strecker zum 4. September 1931, ed. W. Stach & H. Walter (Dresden, 1931), 45-59; Edward Schröder, 'Firri und Tyrri. Zur Quellenkunde Alberts von Stade', Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 49 (1932), 550-552; Helmut Plechl, ‘Albert von Stade, Abt, Chronist und Dichter, * Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts in Norddeutschland, † 5. oder 9. 2. wahrscheinlich nach 1264 (1256?)’, Neue Deutsche Biographie I, 136; Jürgen Stohlmann, 'Albert von Stade.' Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon I (Berlin-New York, 1978), 141-151; Hans Patze, 'Albert von Stade, Chronist (+ nach 1265)', Lexikon des Mittelalters I (1980), 290; Heinz-Joachim Schulze, 'Zisterzienserinnen im Kloster Midlum? Auch ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Abtes Albert von Stade', in: Kultur - Geschichte - Strukturen. Beiträge zum Bilde der Landschaft zwischen Weser und Elbe. Festschrift für Thassilo von der Decken (Stade, 1986), 153-172; M. Wesche, Studien zur Albert von Stade (Freiburg, 1988); Thomas Gärtner, Klassische Vorbilder mittelalterlicher Trojaepen (Stuttgart-Leipzig, 1999),>> ; M. Zips, ‘Franziskanische Didaxe und Geschichtsschreibung im späteren Mittelalter (…)’, in: Ihr sult sprechen willekomen. Festschrift H. Birkan, 839-857; Gerda Maeck, ‘Vom Benediktinerabt zum Minderbruder. Studien zur Geschichtsschreibung Alberts von Stade’, Wissenschaft & Weisheit 63 (2000), 86-135; Arend Mindermann, 'Ein ungewöhnlicher mittelalterlicher "Reiseführer": Abt Albert von Stade und seine Reise nach Rom im Jahr 1236', Zwischen Elbe und Weser 20:3 (2001), 3-6; Arend Mindermann, 'Abt Albert von Stade: Ein Chronist des 13. Jahrhunderts', in: Stupor Saxoniae inferioris. Ernst Schubert zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Wiard Hinrichs, Siegfried Schütz & Jürgen Wilke (Göttingen, 2001), 51-58; Giorgina Pezza Tornamè, 'Sulle tracce di San Severo: da Boppard a Perugia; ipotesi di ricerca in rapporto al quadro itinerario degli 'Annales Stadenses", in: La 'melior via' per Roma: la strada dell'Alpe di Serra, dalla valle del Bidente alla val di Chiana; atti del convegno di studi tenutosi il 25 e 26 maggio 2001 a Galeata, Arezzo e Bibbiena, ed. Fabrizio Vanni & Renato Stopani (Poggibonsi, 2002), 103-130; Kurt Smolak, 'Nulli non suaformaplacet (Ovid, ars 1,614 = Albert von Stade, Troilus 1,360): Formale Künsteleien in literarischen und nicht literarischen Epigrammen des lateinischen Mittelalters', in: Die kulturhistorische Bedeutung byzantinischer Epigramme: Akten des internationalen Workshop, (Wien, 1. - 2. Dezember 2006), ed. Wolfram Hörandner (Vienna, 2008), 113-122; Gerlinde Bretzigheimer, 'Der Porträtkatalog des Dares Phrygius und seine Rezeption bei Joseph von Exeter und Albert von Stade', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 45 (2010), 419-444; Jochen Heinke, 'Der Rompilgerweg des Abtes Albert von Stade', Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreises Rhön-Grabfeld 32 (2010), 80-83; Christoph Dartmann, 'Die Rezeption der Frühgeschichte des Erzbistums Hamburg-Bremen bei Adam von Bremen, Helmold von Bosau und Albert von Stade: ein Beitrag zur norddeutschen Geschichtsschreibung des Hochmittelalters', Rotenburger Schriften 92 (2012), 289-316; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 755-766.

Albertus Vacetta de Pergamo (Albertus Vaccetta/Alberto Vacetta di Bergamo, fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Philosopher, known for a commentary on Aristotle's De generatione, once present in the Santa Croce friary. This commentary is also ascribed to the Dominican Albertus Magnus.

works

Summa super libro de generatione edita a Fr. Alberto Vacetta de Pergamo de Ordine Fratrum Minorum: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Conv. Soppr. A.6.1160.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 8; Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum I (Leiden, 1963), 154; Paolo Marangon, Alle origini dell'aristotelismo padovano (sec. XII-XIII) (Antenore, 1977), 125.

Albuinus Wahl (Albuin Wahl, 1719-1786)

OFMRef. Austrian friar and member of the Sankt Leopold province. Preacher in Kenzingen, and at the court in Innsbruck, as well as guardian in Riedlingen. He died on 25 April 1786.

works

Endingen, ein mit theurem Christen Blut gecrönter Altar des Herrn, Lob- Ehr- und Sitten-Rede an dem Fest deren heiligen Unschuldigen Kinder, als an welchem Tag in der löbl. vorderösterreichischen Stadt Endingen im Breißgau die jährliche Gedächtnuß zweyer Unschuligen Kindern samt ihren von denen Juden allda grausamst ermordeten Eltern feyerlichst begangen wird, vorgetragen (...) von P.F. Albuino Wahl, (...) dermaligen Pfarr-Prediger zu Kenzingen (Freiburg i.Br.: Felner, 1754).

Neue königliche Landstraßen, i. e. Exercitia Via Crucis (Freiburg i.Br., 1755).

Höchst-schuldiges Dank-Opfer für das durch Judiths-Arm entsetzte Bethulia, das ist: Lob- Ehr- und Dank-Rede wegen der den 20. Junii 1757 siegreich entsetzten Böhmischen Haupt-Stadt Prag, bei feyerlichster Absingung des Ambrosianischen Lob-Gesangs in der kayserl. königl. Hof- Kirchen zu dem Heil. Kreutz, von P.F. Albuino Wahl, (...) dermaligen Hof-Prediger den 3ten Tag Julii des besagten Jahrs (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1757).

Himmlisches Wunder in denen auf Erden grünenden Winter-Palmen der siegreich- österreichischen Judith Mariae Theresiae, das ist: Ehr-, Lob- und Dank-Rede aus Gelegenheit des, wegen jüngsthin glückseeligst-eroberten Festungen Schweidnitz und Breßlau, wie auch erfochtenen herrlichen Sieg, allerhöchst-verordneten Danck-Fest in der kays. königl. Hof- Kirchen bey dem H. Creutz zu Ynsbrugg den 11. Decembris 1757 als dem 3ten Advent-Sonntag vorgetragen (...) von P.F. Albuino Wahl, (...) dermaligen Hof-Prediger alda (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1757).

Der halb-hundert jährige Herzens-Freund des Herrn, in einer Lob- Ehr- und Sitten-Rede an dem Fest des heil. Joannis Evang. als an welchem der wohlehrwürdige in Gott geistliche P. Roman Beck, Ord. Min. Reform. tyrolischer Provinz fünfzig jähriger Priester sein zweyterstes hochheiliges Meß-Opfer in dem löbl. Gotteshauß zu liebreichen Mutter Gottes bey denen P.P. Franciscanern in Ehingen offentlich in Gegenwart einer ausserordentlichen Volksmenge entrichtet, vorgetragen von P.F. Albuino Wahl, (...) vormal geweßten Hofprediger zum H. Creuz in Innsprugg, nun aber des gemeldten Convents würklichen Guardian (Riedlingen: Ulrich, 1764).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 199 [Accessible via https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/2820520/veroffentlichungen-der-tiroler-franziskaner-aus-schwaz and https://docplayer.org/7754630-Die-schriftsteller-der-tiroler-franziskanerprovinz-vom-hl-leopold-gesammelt-von-p-gerold-fussenegger-ofm-1901-1965.html]

Aldobrandus de Ammonatis (Aldovrando, d. 1284)

OM. Italian friar from Florence. His name pops up in 1277, when he signed a deposition in favor of the Portiuncola indulgence. He departed for Armenia after 1279 and was killed at Salmasa in 1284.

literature

Bartolomeo da Pisa, Liber Conformitatum, AF (Quaracchi, 1906), 332; Wadding, Annales Minorum V, 128; Paul Sabatier, Fr. Francisci Bartholi de Assisio Tractatus de Indulgentia S. Mariae de Portiuncula (Paris, 1900), xlv; Golubovich, Bibliotheca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa (Quaracchi, 1906) I, 429; Études franciscaines 20 (1908), 344; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Aldobrando de Ammonatis’, DHGE II, 54.

Aldobrandus de Lugo (Aldovrando da Lugo, fl. later 14^th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Master of theology. Taught as regent of the Franciscan studium at Bologna in 1371. In 1385, he was enlisted into the Bologna collegium of university professors. Author?

literature

Repertorio dei professori della celebra università di Bologna (Bologna, 1847), 19 (no. 81); Check Celestino Piana's work on the university of Bologna.

Aldobrandus de Tuscanello (Aldobrando da Toscanella, d. 1314)

OM. Italian friar. Preacher. Should he be identified with Ildebrandinus de Tuscanella? See letter I and the info on that friar there)

works

Anna Pecorini Cignoni, ‘Un sermone latino ‘Francisci confessoris’ di Aldobrando da Toscanella’, Studi Francescani 98 (2001), 285-299.

Alexander Albertinus (Alexander Albertinus a Rocha/Alessandro Albertino da Mantova, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Mantua. Known for his Malleus daemonum, a popular exorcism manual. Due to its relative cautious approach to exorcism, it escaped later ecclesiastical censure until 1709, when it was place on the index.

works

Malleus daemonum, sivè, Quatuor experimentatissimi exorcismi, ex Evangelijs collecti. In fine eru[n]t due Benedictiones, & una vulgaris deprecatio pro ignaris, & mulieribus, ut possunt semetipsos præseruare, & liberare Deo auxiliante: si non habuerint sacerdotem (Verona: Typis Bartolomaei Merli, 1620/Milan: Haeredes Pacifici Poncii & Ioan. Baptistam Piccaleum, impressores archiep., 1624). The work was re-issued in 2012 by Lulu.com.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 10; Maria Sofia Messana, ‘I francescani di Noto e l’Inquisizione’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura a Noto, ed. Diego Ciccarelli & Simona Sarzana (Palermo: Bibliotheca Francescana-Officina di Studi Medievali, 2005), 163-175: 173; Bert Roest, ‘Demonic Possession and the Practice of Exorcism: An exploration of the Franciscan Legacy’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 301-340 (esp. 331)

Alexander Altdorfensis (Alexander von Altdorff, d. 1622)

OFMCap. Swiss friar. He entered the order in 1582. Several times provincial minister and well-respected preacher. He died on 19 January 1622. In 1619, he wrote a special letter on the task of preaching.

works

'Ein Brief des P. Alexanders von Altdorff über das Predigtamt (1619)', Collectanea Helvetica Franciscana 2 (1937-1942), 327f.

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 35.

Alexander Barcleius (Alexander Barclay, c.1475/1484?-1552)

OFM. English or Scottish friar after a career as a secular priest. Old bibliographers are uncertain about his whereabouts, but the fact that his translation of The Ship of Fools contains six stanzas in praise of King James IV of Scotland suggests a connection with that country. At the same time, he had cousins living in Londen near the end of his life. Not much is known about his early years. The fact that he had a good command of several European languages has given rise to the idea that a part of his adolescence was spent with travels and study abroad. During thess year, he also must have obtained a good grounding in Latin, for he later worked as a schoolmaster and edited a Latin schoolbook. Unknown whether he attended university in this early period. During the early sixteenth century, he lived in the diocese of Lincoln, where he probably was trained to become a priest. The earliest dependable information concerning him dates from 1508, when he was ordained subdeacon, deacon, and priest at Exeter Cathedral, and obtained a benefice of some kind by the collegiate church of Ottery St Mary in Devon. Barklay worked at the church of Ottery, probably as chaplain/choirmaster of the lady chapel, responsible for teaching singing to the choristers and young adult clerics of the college and for organizing the daily services in the chapel in honor of the Virgin. During his stay at Ottery, which apparently did not last very long, he translated Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff (1494) as the Ship of Fools (issued by Richard Pynson in London in 1509). Barclay’s translation, which included numerous additions, was dedicated to Thomas Cornish, warden of the college and suffragan bishop in the diocese of Exeter, who may have been responsible for bringing him to Ottery, and included complimentary references to Henry VIII, and a number of church dignitaties. Barclay apparently left Ottery in 1509 and four years later, by 1513, he is found as a Benedictine monk in Ely Cathedral priory. Whether motivated by a genuine motivation or not, the Ely Cathedral priory provided him with the material security to continue writing: most of his subsequent writings were done at Ely. The best known of these are five verse Eclogues, written between 1513 and 1530. The first three of which (lamenting the problems at court), were translations from Latin works by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II). The other two (on the lacking maecenate of rich men and on the contrast between urban citizens and country dwellers), went back to poems by Mantuan (Baptista Spagnuoli). Other works from his Ely period include a (now lost) Figure of our Mother Holy Church Oppressed by the French King (possibly from 1512 or 1515, criticizing French military campaigns in Italy), a versified Life of St George (ca. 1515), again based on a work by Mantuan, and the versified The Mirror of Good Manners (1518), which was a translation of a Latin work by Domenico Mancini. In subsequent years, he worked on school texts. He revised the Vocabula by John Stanbridge, a Latin grammer (his revision published in 1519, 1524 and 1526–1527). He also produced an English translation of Sallust's History of the Jugurthine War (ca. 1520) and an Introductory to Write and to Pronounce French (1521), which again was based on older works of the genre. Barclay’s Introductory later received a mixed review in John Palsgrave’s L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530). Other works ascribed to Barclay, such as a series of lives of St Katherine and St Margaret, etc. have not yet been confirmed. All in all, Barclay had become an established man of letters, who was appreciated by contemporary authors, when he changed course, for sometime between 1521 and 1528 he abandoned Ely to become a Franciscan friar, possibly at the Observant house of Canterbury. He stopped writing and embarked in the study of theology, By 1538, he was called magister or doctor, which indicates some higher degree of theology, but he apparently did not enlist officially as a student at Oxford or Cambridge (or at least did not obtain a degree there). In October 1528, Barclay was mentioned in an accusatory notice of the German informer Hermann Rinck, who suggested to Cardinal Wolsey to arrest and punish several dissidents, including ‘William Roy, William Tyndale, Jerome Barlow, Alexander Barclay (…) formerly Observants of the Order of St Francis but now apostates’ for Lutheranism [(LP Henry VIII, 4/2.2083 (no. 4810))] All men other than Barcley were living at that time in Germany, but it remains unclear whether Barclay was also outside the country at the moment. In any case, one of the men mentioned, namely Tyndal, was not a Franciscan. It can not be corroborated whether Barclay exhibited Lutheran tendencies at this time. In any case, when the English Observant houses were closed in 1534 (several years before dissolution of all monasteries), Barclay was apparently back in England and in 1535 he was found in Cornwall, where preached and lectured for an annuity of £4 by Launceston Priory. In 1538, his name is mentioned by the London chronicler Charles Wriothesley, as a friar who for a while refused to give up wearing his religious habit in public until he was compelled to do so. During the Summer and Autumn of that year, Barclay engaged in clandestine private preaching, for instance at Thetford Priory, Norfolk; Barking, Suffolk, at Whitsuntide, as well as in the diocese of Exeter. All this was brought to the attention to Cromwell. [LP Henry VIII, 13/2.222 (no. 571), 232 (no. 596), 272 (no. 709)]. It is unknown what happened to Barclay in subsequent years, but eight years later, in 1546, he was a beneficed clergyman in the Church of England. In March 1546 William Bowerman, subdean of Wells Cathedral, presented Barclay to the vicarage of Wookey, Somerset (Wells). In the summer of 1547, Barclay replaced Richard Eldon as the headmaster of the Wells Cathedral school. He filled this position until Michaelmas or Christmas 1548, when he transferred to become vicar of Great Baddow, Essex. This apparently was a valuable benefice, and Barclay appeared to have become reasonably well off, also because he received permission to keep the income from Wookey as well. In 1552, the dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, handed him the even more affluent rectory of All Hallows, Lombard Street, London. He died at Croydon (surrey) before he could fully take possession of this new position, early June of the same year. Barclay’s will has survived, and contains a substantial number of beneficiaries, including a number of men, such as John Cheke, tutor to Edward VI, and several associates of the duke of Northumberland, all convinced upholders of the new Protestant regime. It would seem that Barclay had ended his life appeased with the Church of England.

works

This present boke named the shyp of folys of the worlde was tr. out of Laten, Frenche, and Doche in the college of saynt mary Otery by A. Barclay (1509)/ The Ship of Fooles (…) with diuers other workes, ed. John Cawood (1874)/ The ship of fools, ed. T. H. Jamieson, 2 Vols. (1874).

The gardyners passetaunce touching the outrage of fraunce (1512?)/ The Gardyners Passetaunce, ed. Franklin B. Williams, Jr., and Howard M. Nixon (London: Roxburghe Club, 1985).

The fyfte eglog of Alexander Barclay of the cytezen and Uplondyshman (1518?)/The boke of Codrus and Mynalcas. The fourthe eglog of A. Barcley (1521?)/ Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexander Barclay prest wherof the fyrst thre conteyneth the myseryes of courters & courtes (1530?)/ The eclogues of Alexander Barclay, ed. Beatrice White, EETS original ser., 175 (London, 1928).

The Towre of Vertue and Honoure (1514).

Here begynnyth the lyfe of the gloryous martyr saynt George (verse translation of a work by Giovanni Battista Spagnolo of Mantua, issued in 1515?)/ The life of St George, ed. William Nelson, EETS original ser., 230 (1955).

Here begynneth a ryght frutefull treatyse, intituled the myrrour of good maners, conteynyng the.iiii. vertues (translation of Domenico Mancini’s De quattuor virtutibus, issued in 1518?)/ The Mirrour of Good Manners by Alexander Barclay. (1885).

Here begynneth the introductory to wryte, and to pronounce Frenche (London: R. Coplande, 1521).

literature

John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytannie (1557–9), 723; Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, 4/2.2083; 4/3.2406; 13/2.222, 232, 272; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 9; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 20; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 13; Angelus a S. Francisco, Certamen seraphicum provinciae Angliae (Quaracchi, 1885), 294; Viktor Dalheimer, Die Sprache Alexander Barclay's in The shyp of Folys of the worlde (1509) (Zürich, 1899); Sbaralea, Supplementum ad scriptores (ed. Rome, 1908), 14; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexandre Barcleius’, DHGE II (1914), 252; Edward Bensly, 'A forgotten English translation of Barclay's 'Argenis', The modern language review 4 (1909), 392-395; John Richie Schultz, ‘The Life of Alexander Barclay’, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 18:3 (July 1919), 360-368; John Richie, 'The method of Barclay's 'Eclogues", Journal of English and Germanic Philology 32 (1933), 549-571; Fitzroy Pyle, 'The barbarous metre of Barclay', The modern language review 32 (1937), 353-373; Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards, 'A manuscript portion of Barclay's 'Life of St. George", Studies in Scottish Literature 8 (1970), 66-67; R.J. Lyall, ’Tradition and Innovation in Alexander Barclay's Towre of Vertue and Honoure’, Review of English Studies 23:89 (February 1972), 1-18; Yguichi Midunoe, 'Alexander Barclay and the 'Ship of fools", The Renaissance Bulletin 12 (1985), 9-12; Nicholas Orme, ‘Alexander Barclay, Tudor Educationist’, in: Education and Society In Medieval and Renaissance England (London: The Hambledon Press, 1989), 259-270; Alistair Fox, ‘Beatus ille: The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay’, in: Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1989), 37-55; Robert C. Evans, 'Forgotten fool: Alexander Barclay's Ship of Fools', in: Fools and Folly, ed. Clifford Davidson (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1996), 47-72; Candance Barrington, ''Misframed fables': Barclay's gower and the wantonness of performance', Mediaevalia 24 (2003), 195-226; Stella Pates, 'Alexander Barclay and his mysterious friend, Sir John Bishop of Exeter', Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 39 (2003), 92-94; David R. Carlson, 'Skelton and Barclay, Medieval and Modern’, Early Modern Literary Studies 1:1 (April 1995), 2.1-17; Nicholas Orme, ‘Barclay, Alexander (c.1484–1552)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1337, accessed 3 Dec 2014]); Maggie Gallup Kopp, 'Saints and the Social Order: Alexander Barclay's The Life of St. George', Quidditas 31 (2010), 102-126; Anthony Hasler, Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), passim; Anne-Laure Metzger-Rambach, 'Une reformulation anglaise du français: le cas de 'The Introductory to wryte and to pronounce Frenche d'Alexander Barclay' (1521)', in: Les langues étrangères en Europe: apprentissages et pratiques (1450 - 1700), ed. Jean-François Chappuit, Marc Zuili & Susan Baddeley (Paris, 2012), 221-232.

Alexander Bonanus (Alessandro Bonano di Palermo, fl. later 16th cent)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Palermo. Master of theology and preacher.

works

Portus Panhormi, siue Sermones Quadragesimales, auctore Alexandro Bonanno Panhormita (Venice: Domenico & Giovanni Battista Guerraei, 1574). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 20; La Circolazione libraria tra i Francescani di Sicilia, ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Palermo: Biblioteca francescana di Palermo, Officina di studi medievali, 1990), xv.

Alexander Borviza (Alexander Borviza/Alexius Borviza, fl. 1505)

OMObs. Polish Observant friar. Preached against the Orthodox Christians in Poland and Ukraine. He would have died in the Franciscan friary in Sambir–Drohobych. Unclear as to whether his sermons survived.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum; Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 37 [as Alexius Borviza]; Sbaralea, Supplementum (e. 1806), 22 [as Alexius Borviza]; Adam Benedykt Jocher, Obraz bibliograficzno-historyczny Literatury i Nauk w Polsce I, 61.

Alexander Bovius (Alessandro Bovio, fl. mid 17th cent.)

TOR. Italian regular tertiary from a Bolognese patrician family. Master of theology, preacher and theologian at the court of the Duke of Parma between 1650 and 1672. Dean of the Theological college of Fermo.

works

Vultus sacer de Lucca contemplatus/Il volto santo di Lucca contemplato (Milan: Dionisio Garimboldi, 1639/Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1657).

Divozione ad onore de'Santi Angeli Custodi (Bologna: Ferroni, 1657).

Apparato della Tragedia della Passione del Salvatore nostro Gesù Cristo tradotta in versi Italiani (...) colla Descrizione in versi Latini del P. Daniel David della Compagnia di Gesù (1672).

Curiose ed erudite Osservazioni accompagnate dalla pietà verso degli Angeli, divise in tre parti (Venice: Benedetto Miloco, 1676).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca franciscana I, 20; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 13; Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Gli Scrittori d'Italia, cioè Notizie Storiche, e Critiche intorno alle Vite, e agli Scritti dei Letterati Italiani II,iii (1762), 1918.

Antonius de Alexandro de Petra Pagana (Antonio d'Alessandro da Piscopagano, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Studied at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae from 1644 onwards. Taught at several studia and became regent master in Venice. Elected provincial minister at the Naples chapter on May 31, 1667. He died at the Sant'Anna friar of Naples.

works

Breve modo di fare l'Oratione mentale (Naples: Novello de Bonis, 1670).

Modo per giongere alla perfetione della vita Spirituale (Naples: Novello de Bonis, 1774).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 59-60.

Alexander de Alexandria (Alessandro Bonini, ca. 1270-1314)

OM. Italian friar from Piemont. Theologian and philosopher outside Scotist lines of thought. Born in Alessandria della Paglia (Piemont). Took the habit in the Genoa province. After initial studies in his home province, he was sent to Paris to read the Sentences, ca. 1301-1303 (`published' second version ca. 1309). Returned to Italy as Sententiarius or Formatus, and was given the doctorate by papal bull on 29 November 1303 (by Pope Benedict XI). Lector at Bologna and Lector Sacri Palatii. Between 1307-1308, he is Magister Regens at Paris, as Scotus’ successor (his name appears on the list of doctors who advised King Philip Le Bel of France in the context of his persecution of the Templars (25 March, 1308)). In 1309 he became provincial minister in the Naples/provincia Ianuae/Terra Laboris. In that quality, he represented the community at the papal court in Avignon in 1310 against the Spirituals (represented by Ubertino da Casale). In 1312, he defended the community at the council of Vienne. At the general chapter of Barcelona, he was elected minister general (2 June 1313), a position he kept until his death in Rome on 5 October 1314. As minister general, he took action against the spirituals (see also on this David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans), also writing on 13 November 1313 to the King of Aragon to ask his brother, King Frederic of Sicily, not to give refuge to Franciscan dissenters. He died at Rome, on 5 October 1314. His Sentences commentary has not yet been edited. He also wrote commentaries on the Metaphysics of Aristotle and De Anima, Quaestiones Quodlibeta, a Tractatus de Usuris, as well as commentaries on several Biblical books.

works

De Anima: MSS Venice, Bibl. Marc. Z. Lat. 260 (14th cent.); Assisi, Bibl. Conv. di S. Francesco 326 (14th cent.); Escorial Real d.III.19 (14th cent.) ff. 1-125; London, Lambeth Palace 100 (15th cent.) ff. 1-99; Oxford, Magdalen College 80 (14th cent.) ff. 68-161; Oxford, Oriel College 58 (15th cent.); Cambridge, Peterhouse 239 pt. 2 (15th cent.) ff. 1r-40v; [attributed to Alex of Hales] [See Lohr, 353-4]
For early imprints, see: Commentarium de Anima/Sententiosa expositio venerabilis Alexandri super tertium librum de anima (Oxford, 1481/Venice, 1502).

Commentarium in Metaphysicam: MSS Padua Anton. Scaff. XVIII 386 (14th cent.); Naples Naz., VIII. E. 2; VIII. E. 37 (Cenci, Napoli, II, 819, 845); München, Staatsbibl. Clm 11591 ff. 9-13 (fragments); Córdoba, Bibl. del Cabildo 57; Córdoba, Bibl. del Cabildo 129 Est. 3 ff. 1-229v; Erfurt SB Ampl. F 325 (14th cent.) ff. 1r-214r, 232r; Kraków, Bibl. Jag. 650 (14th cent.); Florence Laurenz. Plut. 84 Cod. 15 (14th cent.) ff. 1-48.
The work was printed in the sixteenth century under the name of Alexander of Hales: Commentarium in Metaphysicam (Venice: Simone Galignani, 1572).

Liber de Demonstratione: See Glorieux, Rép. II, 340.

Liber de Intellectu (?): Erlangen, Univ. Bibl. - Nürnberg, 210 ff. 6v-12

Comm. de Libro V. Meteorum: Florence Laurenz. Plut. LXXXIV, 15 [Inc. In hoc quinto libro philosophus intendit distinguere nomino…] See Thorndike, `Further Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin', Speculum, 26 (1951), 673-695.

In I-IV Sent. Red. Prior, ante annum 1303 [Is this the work of William of Falgar?]: MSS Assisi Conv. 124; Naples Naz., VII. C. 40; BAV Ross. 252 (14th cent., books I, II, III); Florence, Naz. D.4.26 (Santa Croce, books II, II, IV)
In I-IV Sent. Red. Posterior: MSS Padua Anton. 200 Scaff. X (Book IV); Florence, Laurenz. Plut. 24 Dext. 7 (books II, III, IV (?, check!)); Florence, Naz. D.4.27 ff. 1r-48r (book III); Florence, Naz. E.4.24; BAV Borghes. 311; Sarnano, Bibl. Comun. E. 56 (14th cent.) (books II and III); Venice, Marc. Z.l.105 (book 1); Turin, Naz. K.III.6 ff. 65v-99r (book I); London, British Museum Add. 22011 ff. 55r-99v (book IV); London, British Museum Add. 14077 ff. 3r-145v (book I + Prologue and preface) (see Doucet)
For editions of fragments/individual questions, see: A. Emmen, `Wilhelm von Ware, Duns Scotus' Vorlaufer in der Immakulatalehre', Antonianum, 40 (1965), 363-94 [Quaeritur utrum Caro Virginis Fuerit Sanctificata Antequam Animata, pp. 392-4]; O. Lottin, `La connexion des vertues morales acquisés au début du XIVe siècle', RThAM, 22 (1955), 288-293 [Utrum Virtutes Morales Sunt Connexae, pp. 289-91]

Abbreviatio In I & III Sent Fr. Bonaventurae: MSS Naples Naz., VII. C. 40; VII. F. 23; VII. F. 21.; Milan, Ambros. B. 5 sup. [Libri I, II, III & IV]; Assisi, Bibl. Conv. S. Francesco B.IX.1 [Quaestiones Abbreviatae ex I, II, et III Sententiarum]

Quaestiones Disputatae, MSS Rome, Vat.Lat., 932, ff. 27v-32, 80-86; Padua Anton. 282 Scaff. XIII (sec. xiv); Naples Naz. VII. C. 47 f. 69d-73b; Bologna, Municip. A.886 ff. 1r-46ra (also 46ra-70rb?)

Quodlibeta: MSS Tortosa, Biblioteca de la Catedral 139 (21 quodlibetal questions); Naples Naz. VIII. E. 16 f. 67a-76b; Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio A.886 (fragment/excerpts); Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 8717 f. 93a & f. 47a (questions 1 & 14); Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, lat. 1447 ff. 96-142; Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine 889 ff. 184ra-220vb; Rome, BAV Lat. 932 ff. 1r-27v & 72v-80r; London, British Library Add. 14077 ff. 148r-182v
Combining the info provided by Glorieux, Duba and readings from the London manuscript, I can discern at least the following list of quodlibetal questions (differing slightly from both Glorieux, Duba): 1. Queritur primo utrum in una et eadem re simplici possint includi diverse formalites sive diversa esse quidditativa; 2. Secundo queritur utrum aliquis relativus sit de primario intellectu alicuius absoluti; 3. Utrum similitudo inter Cain et Abel, sive inter duo individua eiusdem speciei (que fuerunt de individuo eiusdem speciei), sit relatio realis; 4. Quarto queritur que est maior distinctio, aut illa que est inter attributa aut illa que est inter relationes divinas; 5. Quinto queritur utrum magnitudo sit in divinis ex natura rei; 6. Sexto queritur utrum actio in divinis ad intra et relatio differant formaliter; 7. Septimo queritur utrum cognitio creaturarum in Patre precedat productionem Verbi; 8. Octavo queritur utrum Deus possit facere subiectum absque omni accidente absoluto; 9. Nono queritur utrum Deus possit causare cognitionem intuitivam sine existentia rei vel sine reali presentia obiecti; 10. Decimo queritur utrum, cum dicitur Deus creator celi et terre, exprimatur unus articulus fidei; 11. Undecimo queritur utrum mundus potuerit produci ab eterno; 12. Duodecimo queritur utrum fieri cuiuslibet rei factibilis arguat materiam que sit pars rei facte (substantie eius); 13. Tertiodecimo queritur utrum intellectus possibilis sit effectivus sue operationis; 14. Quartodecimo queritus utrum omnes actus intellectus sint eiusdem speciei; 15. Quintodecimo queritur utrum aliquid aliud a voluntate possit causare actum voluntatis in voluntate; 16. Sextodecimo queritur utrum de ratione voluntatis, ut est distincta contra naturam, sit libertas cum indifferentia ad multa; 17. Queritur utrum fieri substantiarum separatarum excludat ab eis necessitatem essendi; 18. Utrum fieri substantiarum separatarum arguat relationem realem in Deo; 19. Utrum in substantiis separatis individuum aliquid addat supra speciem ita quod in eis sit compositio ex natura et individuo; 20. Utrum possint esse duo angeli eiusdem speciei; 21. Utrum Christus fuerit verus homo in triduo.
The first of these questions has been edited in B. Jansen, `Beiträge zur geschichtliche Entwicklung der Distinctio formalis', ZKTh, 53 (1929), 538-543 (edition of: Utrum in Una et Eadem Re simplici Possint Includi Diverse Formalitates sive Diversa Esse Quidditativa). For an edition of the third question by A. Horowski, see Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012), 23-56 (edition on pp. 37-56).

Tractatus de Usuris: MS Naples Naz., VI. D. 7 f. 116a-133b (Cenci, Napoli, I, 322)
See the editions: Un traité de morale économique au XIVe siècle. Le Tractatus de usuris de maître Alexandre d'Alexandrie, ed. A.M. Hamelin (Louvain-Montréal-Lille, 1962). Cf. also F. Veraja, Le origini della controversia teologica sul contratto di censo nel XIII secolo (Rome, 1960) & A.M. Hamelin, `Le tractatus de usuris de maître Alexandre d'Alexandriee', Culture, 16 (1955), 129-161, 265-287.

Tractatus de Usu paupere (Declaratio Communitatis et Responsio `Religiosi Viri' [with Aegidius de legnaco, Gundisalvi de balboa, Martinus de Anglia, Vitalis de Furno]), edited in A. Heysse, `Ubertini de Casali Opusculum `Super tribus Sceleribus'', AFH, 10 (1917), 103-174 (116-22); A. chiappini, `Communitatis Responsio `Religiosi Viri' ad Rotulum fr. Ubertini de Casali', AFH, 7 (1914), 654-675 & AFH, 8 (1915), 56-80; F. Delorme, `Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit franciscain', Coll. Franc., 15 (1945), 5-9 (67-91).

In Job. (?): MSS Assisi, Comun. 47 ff. 158-244; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibl. 4587 (the work of Alexander of Hales?)

In Eccles. (?): MSS Assisi, Comun. 47 & 75; MS Troyes, 546; Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracoviae, MS 1559 (ca. 1414), ff. 1r-336v [also ascribed to William of Meliton (Guilelmus de Militona)]

In Iesaiam: MSS Assisi, Comun. 76; Leipzig, Univers.bibl. 448 ff. 1-193; Paris, BN Lat. 15580 ff. 1-67 & 14432 ff. 152-222 [Cf: G. Dahan, `Réflexions sur l'exégèse des livres prophétiques à la fin du Moyen Age', in: Pensée, image et communication en Europe médiévale. À propos des stalles de Saint Claude, ed. P. Lacroix & A. Renon (Besançon, 1993), 195] In all probability the work of Alexander of Hales. See Horowski (2007).

In Joh. IV: MSS Naples Naz. VIII. AA. 31 f. 427r-434r (extracts, see Cenci, II, 794); Padua Anton. 359 (309) Scaff. XVI; Kraków, Jagell. 1185 (an. 1428) ff. 1-229v & Jagell. 1186 (late 14th cent.) ff. 1-224v & Jagell. 1187 (an. 1450) ff. 1-210

In Ep. Ad Romanos: MS Padua Anton. 345 Scaff XVI; Vat. Lat. 931.

Postilla in Apocalypsim, edited under the name of Alexander of Hales (Paris, 1647).

Sermones de Tempore: MS Kraków, Jagell. 1190 (an. 1425) ff. 1r-13v, 74r-95v, 96v, 97r-105r, 107v-197r, 303v-329v, 337r-357r.

Epistolae: Estudios franciscanos (1917), 134-6 & 364-5 (two letters to James II of castille); AFH, 14 (1921), 419-20 (partial edition of a letter to friar Aycard, provincial minister of the Milan province).

literature

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Alexander de Ariostis de Bononia (Alessandro de Ferrara/Alessandro Ariosto, d. ca. 1484)

OMObs. Italian friar. Probably born in Ferrara, in a family of lawyers. (also related to the famous Lodovico Ariosto, author of Orlando Furioso) Probably studied law before his entrance in the Observant branch of the order. In 1460 or 1463 (?), he is found in Palestine where he wrote his Topografia Terrae Promissionis. Not known whether, after his return to Italy in the later 1460s, he took up a teaching position within the order. In 1475, he was asked to travel to Libanon, to help with the pastoral care among the Maronite Christians. From there, Alexander travelled to various other places in the Middle East (Cyprus, Syria, the Holy Land, Egypt, details of which can be found in his Itinerarium. Also active as crusade preacher in and after 1480 (after the Turcs invaded Italy). Friar of the convent S. Paolo in Monte (Bologna) . He probably died after the fifth of June, 1485 (date of the latest dated letter written by Alexander from Bologna). He was a rather prolific author with humanist inclinations, as can be seen in his Latin style. In one of his letters (to Simon of Reggio, edited by Fussenegger, see below), Alexander wrote at length about his travels and about his literary production, information that indicates that, aside from his letters, Alexander wrote at least eight other works (see below).

works

Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum seu Serena Conscientia/Tractatus de Vero et Perfecto Statu Minorum (ca. 1456-1458): a.o. MS Assisi, Bib. Comun. 589 ff. 218r-234r.
For sixteenth-century imprints, see: Serena Conscientia (Brixiae, 1502); Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1506) Tractatus III ff. 115v-145r; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Speculum Minorum (Venice, 1509-1512) Tractatus III, ff. 101v-125r/134-151?; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511) Tractatus II, ff. 116r-147v; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Firmamenta Trium Ordinum (Venice, 1513) III, ff. 133v-151; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Girolamo Menghi da Viadana, Giardino delitioso de i Frati Minori (Bologna, 1592), 121-275 (interpolated Italian version.). [Alexander’s commentary (which dates from ca. 1456-1458), consists of 107 questions which, following the chapter order of the Regula Bullata, provide elucidations, with reference to most older rule commentaries (including the rule commentary of Olivi), papal decrees, bulls, and order constitutions (including the Farinarian constitutions of 1359 and the Martinian constitutions of 1430, but apparently not using the constitutions issued by John Capistran in 1443.)]

Florilegium Textuum seu Dictorum e Sacra Scriptura, sanctis Patribus, Corpore Iuris canonici et operibus rhetorum antiquitatis. [opus deperditum?, see Fussenegger, 150. Would have amounted to an preacher’s manual with praedicabilia, examples, and handy canonist information].

De Usuris: MSS Pavia, Bibl. Universitaria Aldini 65 ff. 42-91; Parma, Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 85.
The work was issued as an incunable: De Usuris (Bologna: Balthasar de Hyberia, 1486) [Alexander wrote this work on request of the preacher Marco of Rimini. In the prologue to the work, Alexander teaches us that ‘Libellum sex dumtaxat capitulis distinximus, que pluribus sunt referta paragraphis. Agitur in primo de usurae definitione, eius denominatione et merita reprobatione, de creditorum licita usurarum exactione ob proprium interesse. In secundo et tertio capitulo de usura quae per aequipollentiam in contractibus soccidae emptionis venditionisque et negotiantium societatibus potest incidere. In quarto, qui manifeste censeantur ururarii et quibus poenis ab Ecclesia puniantur. In quinto participes usurarum foeneraticorumque contractuum quo pacto ex his ad restitutionem teneantur. In sexto, quando, quibus de rebus, quibus in locis quibusve personis usurarii vel eorum heredes satisfacere teneantur atque ad id quibus poenis per iudices valeant compelli. Demum cuiusmodi debeat esse ista satisfactio, ut ex ea salutem miseri consequantur.’]

Abbreviatio Tractatus Restitutionum S. Bernardini: MS Oxford Bodl. Canonic.-Miscell. 267 ff. 199v-245r. [This work, which can be interpreted as a practical hand guide for restitution issues for preachers and confessors, is heavily dependent on the sermons on usury and restitution in his De Christiana Religione (Cf. Bernardinus Senensis, Opera Omnia I (Quaracchi, 1950), 400-532.]

Enchiridion sive Interrogatorium perutile pro animabus regendis (...) (1475): a.o. MSS Washington D.C. Holy Name College, 28; Bologna, Bibl. Universitaria 172 (provenance: the Observant St. Paul convent in Bologna).
There are a number of sixteent-century imprints: Enchiridion sive Interrogatorium pro Animabus Regendis sive Interrogatorium Confessorum pro Animorum Curanda Salute (Venice: Philippus Pincius Mantuanus, 1513/Venice: Georgius de Rusconibus, 1516/Paris: Jehan Petit, 1514/Paris: Jehan Petit, 1520/ Paris: Regnault Claudière, 1522/Pavia: Giacomo da Borgofranco, 1516/Venice, 1522/Lyon, 1540 etc. ). Several editions are now accessible via Google Books and other digital portals. The work was later re-issued as Compendium sive summa confessorum, casus omnes ad animarum curam attinentes (Brescia: Tomas Bozzola, 1579/ and other editions). The 1579 edition is accessible via Google Books. [For more edition information, see Fussenegger (1956), 153. Fussenegger makes clear that this work, finished in 1475 and dedicated to Marco of Bologna, ex vicar general of the Observants, was well-received, witness its re-issues in the early sixteenth century: ‘Est enim manuale casuisticum de administratione sacramenti poenitentiae, in tres partes divisum. In quarum prima auctor de septem virtutibus pertractat quibus oportet sacerdotem insignitum esse ut suae aliorumque hominum bene consulat saluti; debet enim esse bonitate conspicuus, scientia idoneus, potestate praeditus, in interrogando cautus, in absolvendo providus, in poenitentiis dandis circumspectus, rerum auditarum secretus. Quae omnia ex iure canonico et auctorum sententiis copiose explicantur. In parte secunda de interrogationibus faciendis circa decem decalogi praecepta septemque peccata capitalia agit. In tertia vero de interrogationibus ad condicionem cuiuslibet confitentis pertinentibus disserit. Permultae sunt personae, quarum statum Fr. Alexander in hac parte respicit, v.g. Summus pontifex, cardinales, episcopi, sacerdotes beneficiati, praelati religiosorum, religiosi professi, doctores et magistri, iudices, advocati, medici, rectores hospitalium, caupones, macellarii, sutores, cerdones, pictores, nauclerii etc.’ Ibidem, 152-153.]

Topografia Terrae Promissionis: a.o. MSS Bologna, Convent of St. Anthony 14 ff. 264v-309r; Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 2539 (with dedicatory letter to the Duke of Este) & 2926 (with dedicatory letter to Marco of Bologna); Paris, BN Nouv. Acquis. Lat. 758 ff. 208r-262v.
The Topografia Terrae Promissionis was edited in: Marcellino da Civezza, Storia universale delle Missioni francescane (Rome, 1861) V, 637-682. Also edited as: Fratri Alexandri Ariosti de Bononia Topografia Terrae Promissionis, ed. Marcellino da Civezza (Rome, 1863) and in Ch. Kohler (ed.), `Description de la Terre Sainte par un franciscain anonyme', Revue de l'Orient Latin, 11 (1909-12), 1-67, 484ff. [it amounts to a typical description of the holy places, following the Franciscan tradition in these matters as developed since the later thirteenth century.]

Itinerarium sive de Sacra Peregrinatione: a.o. MSS Piacenza Bib. Com. Passerini-Landi 154 ff. 1r-191r; Ferrara, Bib. Com. Ariostea 4 (not complete)
The work was edited as: Viaggio nella Siria, nella Palestina, nell'Egitto fatto dal 1475 al 1478 da frate Alessandro Ariosto, missionario apostolico, ed. G. Ferraro (Ferrara, 1878) [incomplete edition on the basis of the Ferrara ms only. This is a far more geographically and ethnographically oriented work, based on Alexander’s travels during his three years trip through the Middle East. At the same time, it deals with relics recovered and brought back to Italy.]

Vita Beati Marci Fantuzzi Bononiensis [Opus deperditum? See the remarks in Wadding, Annales Minorum, an. 1274, no. 20 & Fusenegger (1956), 155]

Vita Sancti Bonaventurae [Opus deperditum? See Fusenegger (1956), 155]

Epistolae: MSS Piacenza, Bib. Comm. Passerini-Landi 154 ff. 44r-50r, 192-199v, 202rr-215v; Bologna, Univ. 2539 ff. 29rv.
Several of these letters have received editorial attention:
Epistola Petri Patriarchae Antiocheni ad Sixtum IV (translatio ex Arabico in Latinum), edited in: Ferdinando da Bologna, Memorie istoriche della provincia dei Minori-Osservanti detta di Bologna (Bologna, 1717), 155-6.
Epistola ad Sixtum IV (23 August 1476). Edited in: Ferdinando da Bologna, Memorie istoriche della provincia dei Minori-Osservanti detta di Bologna (Bologna, 1717), 152-4 (letter to Sixtus IV de statu Eccl. Antiochenae).
Epistola ad Georginus Contarino (1 October 1477, from Jerusalem)
Epistola ad Dominicum Mauriceno nautam (8 December 1478)
Epistola ad Angelum Lupum de Cavis, episcopum Tiburtinum et gubernatorem Caesenae (June 1484)
Epistola ad Baptistam Ariostum nepotem (5 June 1485)
Epistola ad Fr. Simonem de Rhegio OFM (undated)
Epistola ad Fr. Simonem de Rhegio OFM, edited in: Fussenegger (1956), 158-165. [This letter not only gives an insight in Alexander’s literary production and travels, but also presents the writing of praedicabilia and hagiographical works as a suitable form of religious labour. For editions and references to the other letters (most of which can be found in the Piacenza manuscript mentioned above), see also: M. da Civezza - Th. Domenichelli, Orbis Seraficus de Missionibus, II (Ad Claras Aquas, 1886), II/I, 792; Picconi de Cantalupo, Cenni biografi sugli uomini illustri della francescana osservante provincia di Bologna (Parma, 1894), 16-9; G. Ferraro, Viaggio nella Siria, nella Palestina, nell'Egitto fatto dal 1475 al 1478 da frate Alessandro Ariosto, missionario apostolico (Ferrara, 1878), 38-43.]

Minorica Elucidativa Rationabilis Separationis Fratrum Minorum de Observantia ad aliis Fratribus eiusdem Ordinis (Paris, 1497). Spurious? The work is also known under the title Elucidatio rationabilis separationis FFr. Minorum de Observantia (...). The work is included in Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511) [second treatise] and in Firmamentum trium Ordinum (1513)

See for more manuscript information especially Piana, Il beato Marco, 95-105.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 9; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 20; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 12-13; Wadding, Annales, XIV, 149, 281; L. Oliger, ‘Alessandre d’Ariosti’, DHGE, IV, 174-7; G.Fussenegger, `De vita et scriptis Fratri Alexandri Ariosti (d. 1486)', AFH, 49 (1956), 143-165; Alessandro Pratesi, 'Ariosto (Ariosti), Alessandro', in: Dizionario biografico degli italiani IV (1962) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-ariosto_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/ ]; C. Piana, Il beato Marco da Bologna e il suo convento di S. Paolo in Monte nel Quattrocento (Bologna, 1973), 95-105; C. Piana, `L'evoluzione degli studi nell'Osservanza francescana nella prima metà del '400 e la polemica tra Guarino da Verona e fra Giovanni da Prato a Ferrara (1450)', Analecta Pomposiana, 7 (1982), 268-269.

Alexander de Arles (Alexandre d’Arles, fl. ca. 1700)

OFMCap. French friar from the St. Louis province in the Provence. Preacher and historian. He is mentioned in the annals of the Provençal Capuchins now kept in the Franciscan Provincial Library at Couvin (MS 94 & 95).

works

Histoire de la fondation du monastère de la Miséricorde de la ville d’Arles (Aix, 1704 &1705). The work was dedicated to François de Maillé, archbishop of Arles.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 3; H. Brémond, La Provence mystique au XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1908); Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alexandre d’Arles’, DHGE II (1914), 252.

Alexander de Bassano (Alexandro da Bassano, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar from the Roman province. Lector and preacher, known for his mnemonic techniques.

works

La Passione di Maria a fronte della Passione di Gesù Cristo e altri Panegirici soliti farsi nella Settimana Santa in varie Città d'Italia (Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1726). Accessible via the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina in Rome and via Google Books.

Controversiae philosophicae, coelestae, elementarae et subterraneae. Check!

Vita del servo di Dio f. Crispino da Viterbo religioso laico professo dell'ordine de'frati minori di S. Francesco cappuccini (Venice: Giovanni Tevernin, 1752/1761).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 781.

Alexander de Bergamo (Alessandro da Bergamo, d. 1790)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Brescia province. Took the habit in 1740. Was an avid book collector, to the benefit of the convent library of Bergamo, as well as a historian of local and order history. Also a member of local historical academies. He left behind a number of historical studies.

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 35.

Alexander Crispius/Crespius (Alessandro Crespi da Busto Arsizio, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Busto Arsizio and member of the Milan province. Promotor of the quaranti'ore prayer cycle.

works

Sermoni divoti, et affettuosi per l'oratione delle quarant'ore (Milan: Marc'Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta, 1677).

Sermoni quarantadue per l'Orazione delle Quarant'Ore (Milan: Pandolfo Mala- testa, 1680).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 21; Fontes Ambrosiani 18-19 (1937), 8.

Alexander de Caen (Alexandre de Caen, fl. 17^th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Normandy province. Preacher and anti-protestant polemical writer.

works

La ruine des presches et de la religion réformée (Le Havre, 1675 & 1685).

Le triomphe de Louis le Grand sur tous les hérétiques de France (Le Havre, 1685).

Le triomphe du saint Sacrement de l’autel sur l’hérésie (Le Havre, 1685).

All these various works also appeared in one volume, as: La ruine totale du calvinisme ou le triomphe de Louis le Grand sur l’hérésie calviniste, dédiée à sa Majesté (Rouen, 1687).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 21; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 3; N.N. Oursel, Nouvelle biographie normande (Paris, 1886) I, 6; Fr. Martin, Athenae Normannorum, ed. J. Bourrrienne (Caen, 1901), 39-40; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alexandre de Caen’, DHGE II (1914), 255; LexCap.

Alexander Bremensis (Alexander Minorita/Alexander von Bremen, d. ca. 1271)

OM. German Lay friar from the Bremen region. (Saxony province, bremen custody). Author of an Apocalypse commentary, which he composed not so long after his entry into the order in three redactions between 1235 and 1249. Following a sudding insight during the Easter celebrations, he understood the Apocalypse as a consistent prophecy on the course of history since the times of Christ, in which the visions of the Apocalyps are not recapitulated (as in most existing commentaries) but indications for a continuous and teleological process of Church history in six aetates. The end times will arrive shortly, although Alexander refrained from making explicit what is going to happen in the near future. With recourse to pseudo-Joachite writings, he underlined the importance of the mendicant orders in the last period of Church history prior to the arrival of Antichrist and the Last Judgment. In some manuscript versions of the work can be found peculiar image cycles. The work as such had an impact on the likewise 'historizing' Apocalypse commentaries of Peter Aureol and Nicholas of Lyra. For more information see especially the studies of Schmolinky (1987, 1996, 2000, 2002) and the introduction provided by Honemann (2015).

works

Expositio in Apocalypsim: MSS Oxford, Bodleian MS. Lat.th.e.21 - Part 1, ff. 1r-77v; Cambridge, University Library Mm.5.31. For other manuscripts (Breslau/Wroclaw, Wolfenbüttel etc), see the works of Schmolinsky, as well as Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, 2nd ed. I, 220 & XI, 59. The work was edited as: Commentarium in Apocalypsim, ed. A. Wachtel, MGH Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte, 1 (Weimar, 1955).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 19; M. Huggler, 'Die Bilderkreis in der Hss. der Alexander-Apokalypse.' Antonianum 9 (1934) 85-150, 269-308; A. Wachtel, 'Die weltgeschichtliche Apocalypse-Auslegung des Minoriten Alexander von Bremen.' Franziskanische Studien. 24 (1937) 201-259, 305-363; B. Hirsch-Reich, 'Der Apokalypsenkommentar des norddeutschen Minoriten Alexander.' Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 24 (1957) 361-364; Stegmüller, RB. VIII. no. 1115; Dieter Berg, 'Alexander Minorita.' Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon. 1. Berlin-New York, 1978. 220-22 & 11 (2004), 59; S. Schmolinsky, Der Apokalypsenkommentar des Alexander Minorita. Zur frühen rezeption Joachims von Fiore in Deutschland (Hannover, 1991); S. Schmolinsky, ``Multifariis vaticiniis iam usque ad fastidium repleti sumus'? Deutsche Franziskaner des 13. Jahrhunderts im Umgang mit joachitischen Ideen', W&W, 50 (1987); J.M. Phelps, A Study of Renewal Ideas in the Writings of Early Franciscans: 1210-1256, U. of California PhD., 1972 (Ann Arbor, 1974), 18-198; David Burrr, Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary (Philadelphia, 1993), passim; Helmuth Kluger, 'Alexander Minorita (A.v. Bremen u. A. v. Stade), franziskanischer Laienbruder', LThK 3rd Ed. I (1993), 366; G.L. Podestà, `I frati minori e lo studio della Bibbia', in: La Bibbia nel Medioevo, ed. G. Cremascoli & C. leonardi (Bologna, 1996), 269-90; S. Schmolinsky,`Merkmale der Exegese bei Alexander Minorita', in: Neue Richtungen in der hoch-und spätmittelalterlichen Bibelexegese, ed. R.E. Lerner & E. Müller-Luckner (Munich, 1996), 139-148; Sabine Schmolinsky, ‘Ordensprophetie nach Joachim von Fiore? Franziskaner und Dominikaner im Apokalypsenkommentar des Alexander Minorita’, in: Geistesleben im 13. Jahrhundert, ed. Jan A. Aertsen & Andreas Speer, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 27 (Berlin, 2000), 321-332; Sabine Schmolinsky, ‘Prophezeite Geschichte und früher Joachitismus in Deutschland. Zur Apokalypsendeutung des Alexander Minorita’, in: Ende und Vollendung. Eschatologische Perspektiven im Mittelalter, ed. Jan A. Aertsen & Martin Pickavé, Miscellanea Medievalia 29 (Berlin-New York, 2002), 525-544; Dieter Berg, 'Alexander Minorita', Die deutsche Literatur des Mitteralters. Verfasserlexikon 11 (2004), 59; Johannes Schlageter, ‘Franziskanische theologie des Mittelalters in der Saxonia’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 445-451; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 739-755.

Alexander Burgos/Alexander de Burgo Messanensis (Alessandro Burgos, 1666-1726)

OFMConv. Italian friar of Spanish descent. Born in Messina. Theology lector in the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in Rome (ca. 1708). Preacher, and bishop of Catania in 1725.

works

Sicilia Piangente su le rovine delle sue piu belle città atterate da' tremuoto a gli undeci di Gennaio dell'anno 1693. Elegia del padre Alessandro Burgos (...) (Palermo: Agostino Epiro, 1693). Accessible via Google Books.

Lettera del P. Alessandro Burgos Scritta ad un suo Amico, che contiene le notizie fin'ora avute de danni caggionati in Sicilia da Tremuoti a 9. & 11. Gennaio 1693 (1693). Accessible via Google Books. See also ASVat., Fondo Carpegna, vol. 55 ter, ff. 18r-21v & Rome, ASRoma, Miscellanea carte politiche e riservate, busta 8, fasc. 379.

F. Alexandri de Burgos Messanensis Theologi Ord. Min. Conv. & eccl. publ. Profess. de ecclesiastiace historia in theologia auctoritate atque usu praefatio (Perugia: Constantini, 1702). Accessible via Google Books and via the British Library.

De usu et necessitate eloquentiae in rebus sacris tractandis (Rome: Gonzaga, 1710). Accessible via the University Library of Turin, and via Google Books.

In exequiis Leonis X Oratio (Rome: Gonzaga, 1710)?

F. Alexandri de Burgo Messanensis Ord. Min. Con. Theologi, et publici Metaphysices Professoris Oratio pro studiis primae philosophiae habita in Gymnasio Patavino anno 1713 (Padua: Typ. del Seminario, 1713). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books (does not always pop up. Search with title & variations, not with author name).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 20-21; Harry Caplan & Henry H. King, ‘Latin Tractates on Preaching: A Book-List’, The Harvard Theological Review 42:3 (Jul., 1949), 201.

Alexander Halensis (Alexander of Hales, ca. 1185 - 21, 08, 1245, Paris)

OM. English theologian and friar. Born in Hales (Gloucester). Embarked on an ecclesiastical career. Several prebends provided him with the opportunity to study, first in England and then at the University of Paris. In 1210 magister regens at the arts faculty of the University of Paris. Was involved with the school controversies of 1229. Opted for the priesthood and obtained a benefice as Archdeacon of Coventry, which soon enabled him to continue his studies of theology at Paris. Around 1225, he became magister regens in theology at the same university, a position he kept until his death. In or after 1231, he entered the Franciscan order, thus becoming the first Franciscan regent master at Paris (among his pupils were, among others, Jean de La Rochelle (whom Alexander chose as his co-regent in 1235) and Bonaventura). Alexander wrote an important commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and was a seminal force behind the introduction ofLombard’s Sentences as the standard textbook at the theology faculty. Together with several of his Franciscan pupils, Alexander embarked on a large Summa Theologiae. This was completed after his death, and became animportant handbook within the Franciscan schools. Alexander also wrote sermons and several biblical commentaries, yet the Apocalypse commentary found under his name probably is from the hand of an other Franciscan (Alexander of Alexandria or Vital du Four?, not according to David Burr (1990/1993)). Alexander subscribed to the 1241/1244 condemnations of Paris and took part in the first council of Lyons (1245). He also fulfilled several diplomatic missions for King Henry III of England at the french Royal Court.

works

Quaestiones Disputatae Antequam Esset Frater, ed. V. Doucet, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 19-21, 3 Vols. (Quaracchi, 1960); F. Lynch ‘The Theory of Alexander of Hales on the Efficacy of the Sacrament of Matrimony’ Franciscan Studies 11 (1951), 69-139 [131-9: Quaestiones antequam esset frater: de matrimonio, de repudio et divortio]; F. Pelster, ‘Die ‘Quaestiones’ des Alexander von Hales’, Gregorianum 14 (1933), 401-422, 501-522.

Sermones de sanctis et de tempore, Paris, Nat. Lat., 16502, f. 116ra; Paris, Nouv. Acquis., 1740 ff. 144rb, 154ra [The sermons in Pavia, UB, Aldini 479, ff. 128ra-180vb, described by Schneyer in AFH 58 (1965), 537-551, should be ascribed to Petrus Remensus]

Sermo de Sancta Maria Magdalena: Kraków, Bibl. Jagiell. 1190 ff. 23r-30v

Expositio Pater noster[inc.: ‘Dicite ‘Pater’ in principio invocate, dicite, inquam, non voce tantum, sed et corde’]: MS Reims 1960 [s. xiv], ff. 93d-94v.

De Articulis Fidei.

Expositio decem praeceptorum [inc.: ‘Primum praeceptum appropriate respicit’]: Oxford, Magdalen College 68 [Glorieux, Répertoire 301 (x), 345 (am) mentions it under the name of Nicholas of Lyra.]

Exoticon, ed. Hunt, in: Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England, Three Vols. (Cambridge, 1991) I, 298-322 (304-319).

Expositio Quattuor Magistrorum Super Regulam Minorum (1241-1242). Accedit eiusdem Regulae textus cum fontibus et locis parallelibus, ed. L. Oliger (Rome, 1950). Cf. A. Tabarroni, in: Dalla `Sequela Christi' di Francesco d'Assisi all' Apologia della povertà. Atti del XVIII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 18-20 ottobre 1990 praef. R. Rusconi, (Spoleto, 1992), 79-122.

De concordia iuris divini et humani seu Concordia utriusque Testamenti:>>?? See: Stegmüller no. 1148 and F. Pelster ‘Exegetische Schriften des Alexander von Hales’, Biblica 2 (1921) 453-7 [453].

?Summa de Virtutibus (See Bloomfield, no. 2273 & Doucet, Summa, IV, cccxxxviii [compilation from the writings of Alex of Hales, Odo Rigaldus, William Milton etc.] This compilation was printed as Summa de Virtutibus (Paris, 1509 etc.)

?Summa de Vitiis: Salins, Bibl. Munic. 10 (an. 1468) ff. 1r-144 [Bloomfield no. 1254; Stegmüller, Sent., 63]

?Post. in Job [the work of Alexander Bonini? ]: Bologna, Coll. di Spagna 32 (13th/14th cent.) ff. 1r-67r; Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pl. IV sin. 9, ff. 46-106; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 47, ff. 158-244.

Glossae in Psalmos [lost work? Maybe the same work as Glosae fratris Alexandri found in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek 163, s. xiii]

Postillae in Isaiam (?): Assisi, Comun. 76; Leipzig, Univers. bibl. 448 ff. 1-193; Paris, BN Lat. 15580 ff. 1-67 & 14432 ff. 152-222 [Like the Commentary on Job, this work too is sometimes ascribed to Alexander of Alexandria/Bonini. Dr. Aleksander Horowski OFMCap (who very kindly also gave us several other references to other works of Alexander), informed us that, according to him, only MS Assisi Communale 76 ascribes the work to Alexander of Alexandria. He also informed us that Stegmüller ascribed MS Leipzig 448 explicitly to Alexander of Hales (something we missed ourselves), whereas MSS Paris Bn Lat. 15580 and 14432 are anonymous, and that the studies by I. Brady and B. Guyot mention that an anonymous Introitus in Isaiam in MS Praha Univ. IV.D.13 (dated. 1245-1250) testifies to the existence of Alexander of Hales Postillae in Isaiam. (B. Guyot cites this particular passage in the Prague MS: apud iudeos amos pater ysaie scribitur per aleph et sadhe, ille uero per ayn et sameth. alie d^r in postillis alex. (p. 29).]. See on all this the study of Horowski in Collectanea Franciscana 77 (2007), 519-540 mentioned below.

Post. in Lucam: Durham Cathedral A.II.22 (13th. Durham) ff. 109r-155; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale, 355, ff. 110-153; Reims, BM 162 (B. 90) [s. xiii], ff. 134-204; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 17047 ff. 19r-26v (fragment)
The prologues to Alexander’s Postills on the synoptic Gospels have been edited by Aleksander Horowski, in Collectanea Franciscana 77:1-22 (2007), 27-62.

Post. in Marcum: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 355, ff. 66-109 [anon.]; Reims, BM 162 (B. 90) [s. xiii], ff. 87-133; Durham, Cathedral Library A.II.22 [s. xiii], ff. 74r-109r.
The prologues to Alexander’s Postills on the synoptic Gospels have been edited by Aleksander Horowski, in Collectanea Franciscana 77:1-22 (2007), 27-62.

Post. in Matthaeum: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 355, ff. 1-65 [anon,]; Reims, BM 162 [s. xiii], ff. 1-86; Durham, Cathedral Library A.II.22 [s. xiii], ff. 5r-72r.
The prologues to Alexander’s Postills on the synoptic Gospels have been edited by Aleksander Horowski, in Collectanea Franciscana 77:1-22 (2007), 27-62.

Post. in Johannem: MSS Durham Cathedral A.II.22 (13th. Durham) ff. 155v-238v; Bayerische Staatsbibl. clm 17047 (13th cent.) ff. 111r-114v [fragment]; Prague, Metropol. Chapter Library A. 108 vol. 3 (15th cent.) ff. 1r-198v; Paris, BN Lat., 14438 pt. 1 (13th cent.); Reims, Bibl. Munic. 162 (13th cent.) ff. 205r-306v; Troyes, Médiathèque municipale ms 650, olim Clairvaux E. 61, E. 83, Steg. nº 5785 [complete, but without the first prologue. With thanks to Aaron Gies for this manuscript reference]; Seville, Bib. Capitular y Colombina 7-2-26 (13th cent.) ff. 156r-175v [fragment] See also: A.A. Young, `Accessus ad Alexandrum (...)', Mediaeval Studies 52 (1990), 1-23 (text 17-23). Aaron Gies also has brought to our attention that the heavily damaged MS Dresden, Sächsischen Landesbibliothek, P. 36, ff. 102-135 does not contain Alexander's Postilla in Johannem, counter to what states Ludwig Schmidt, Katalog der Handschriften der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek zu Dresden, Vol. 3 (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), 169, but in fact contains fragments of the Postilla in Johannem of John of La Rochelle/Johannes Rupella.
The commentary on the Gospel of John received a partial edition in: A.A. Young, ‘Accessus ad Alexandrum: the ‘‘Praefatio’’ to the ‘‘Postilla in Johannis Evangelium’’ of Alexander of Hales (1186?-1245)’, Mediaeval Studies 52 (1990) 1-23 [17-23].

Commentarii in Apocalypsim sancti Ioannis. in: Opera Omnia. ed. Joannis de la Haye, Antwerpen, sumptibus Antonii Bertier, 1647 & Paris, 1647.[Work of Alexander of Alexandria?]

Alexander of Hales, On the Signification and Exposition of the Holy Scriptures, introd. & trans. Aaron Gies (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2018).

?Mariale Majus [inc.: ‘Mariae praecellentissimae matris Dei caeli imperatricis’]: Lambeth Palace, 52 pt. 2 (second half 14th cent.) ff. 67r-201r; Reading [attested copy in the sixteenth century, Friars 233] [Doucet, Maitres, 536-537, thinks that the work probably should be ascribed to Thomas Halensis]

Quaestiones Disputatae Postquam Fuit Frater. See for the MSS the edition of the Summa, IV, clxxii-cxcvii; B.-G. Guyot, Quaestiones Guerrici, Alexandri et aliorum magistrorum parisiensium (Praha, Univ. IV. D. 13), in Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 23 (1962) 5-125, and Aleksander Horowski, ‘Il Manoscritto Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 292 e Le Questiones disputatae postquam fuit frater di Alessandro di Hales’, Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012), 485-516 (a desciption of the manuscript and of the 27 questions of Alexander contained therein, including comparisons with existing works and editions on these texts and an incipit list).

Quaestio Postquam fuit Frater de Iudicio, ed. J.G. Bougerol , in: ‘Autour de ‘La Naissance du Purgatoire’’, AHDL, 58 (1983), 32-48 [In reality this is the Quaestio de Igne Purgatorio (q. 218 in Doucet’s Prolegomena). The title De Iudicio refers to the first three questions of the series containes in MSS Troyes 1245 e Todi 71] What is the relationship between this text and the questions edited in Aleksander Horowski, ‘Le questioni disputate sul giudizio finale di Alessandro di Hales. Introduzione ed edizione’, Collectanea Franciscana 75 (2005), 27-101?

Quaestio de adventu Christi ad iudicium; De ipso iudicio; De forma iudicii. See: Le questioni sul giudizio finale di Alessandro di Hales. Introduzione ed edizione, ed. A. Horowski, in Collectanea Franciscana 75 (2005) 27-101.

Quaestiones Postquam Fuit Frater: Quaestio de eo quod Angelus dicitur assummere Corpus, in: S. Bonaventura e la scala di Giacobbe. Letture di angelologia (Napoli, 1995).

Quaestiones de fato, ed. J. Görgen, in: ‘Untersuchungen und Erläuterungen zu den Quaestiones de fato, de divinatione, de sortibus des Magister Alexander’, Franziskanische Studien 19 (1932) 13-39.

Quaestiones de Aeternitate, Aevo et Tempore, ed. D.M. Nathanson, in Idem, Alexandri de Hales Quaestiones ‘de aeternitate, aevo et tempore» et ‘de duratione mundi’ in: Dissertation Abstracts 47 (1987), 1449A.

Quaestio de doctrina theologiae del ms. Vat. Lat. 782, ed. F. Chavero Blanco, in: Carthag. 15 (1999) 49-72 [ascription uncertain]

Quaestio de Beatitudine, ed. Francisco de Asís Chavero Blanco & Francisco Martínez Fresneda, Carthaginensia 18 (2002), 115-166.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Dotibus Animae, edited in: Aleksander Horowski, ‘Questione disputata ‘De dotibus animae’ di Alessandro di Hales – Introduzione ed edizione’, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80^o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam (Rome: Ed. Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 337-395.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Gratia, in: Alexander de Hales, ‘Quaestiones disputatae de gratia’. Editio critica. Un contributo alla Teologia della Grazia nella prima metà del sec. XIII, ed. Jacek Mateusz Wierszbicki, Studia Antoniana, 50 (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2008). See the lengthy review in Collectanea Franciscana 79 (2009), 659-670.

Alexandri de Hales, Quaestiones disputatae de peccato originali, ed. Hyacintho Matthaeo Wierzbicki, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 30 (Rome-Grottaferrata: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 2013) [Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 304-306].

Quaestiones disputatae de moralibus, ed. Hyacintho Matthaeo Wierzbicki, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 33 (Rome: Fondazione Collegio san Bonaventura-Frati editori di Quaracchi, 2020).

Alexandri de Hales, Quaestiones disputatae quae ad rerum universitatem pertinent: De aeternitate, aevo et tempore. De duratione mundi seu de materia prima. De duobis principiis. De malo. De oppositione mali, ed. Hyacintho Matthaeo Wierzbicki, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 29 (Grottaferrata (Rome): Frati Editori di Quaracchi, 2013). Review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 107:1-2 (2014), 190-193.

Quaestiones Theologicae: Oxford, Bodl. Bodley 292

Quodlibeta: MSS Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 2554 [s. xiii], ff. 76r-v [quodlibet II]; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 292 [s. xiv²], ff. 321r-323v [quodlibet I]; Paris, BNF, lat. 15272 [s. xiii], ff. 169r-170r [quodlibet I]; Paris, BNF, lat. 16406 [s. xiii], ff. 40v-43r [quodlibet I], 70r-72v [quodlibet II]; Vat lat. 782, f. 26v-28v [quodlibet III]; Vat lat. 782, f. 79r-81v = Assisi, Bibl. Comunale 138, f. 16r-17r [quodlibet IV]; Praha, Univ. IV. D. 13, f. 241r [quodlibet V (fragment)]. For editions of individual questions, see:
Quodlibet de Pertinentia [Quodlibet II], ed. O. Lottin L’identité de l’âme et ses facultés pendant la première motié du XIIIe siècle RNSF 36 (1934) 198-9 [Cf. Glorieux, Litt. quod. II.57-9, 319]; Aleksander Horowski, ‘Questione "De quolibet III" di Alessandro di Hales', Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012) 23-56; Aleksander Horowski, ‘Questione ‘De quolibet IV’ di Alessandro di Hales’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:1-2 (2011), 31-70.

Sententiae magistri Alexandri: Siena G.VIII.27 [anon.]; Basel, Universitätsbibliothek [Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität] AN.VI.13 [s. xiii]

Glossa in IV Sent.: a.o. MS Arras 855 (526), etc.
For an edition, see: Glossa in IV Libris Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, ed. V. Doucet, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 12-15 (Quaracchi, 1951-57; Editio anastatica, Grottaferrata, 1997); Alexander of Hales, Gloss on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Vol. 1: On Divine Unity and Trinity, Part One: Book One, Distinctions 1-18 English translation by Roland Teske, revised by Aaron Gies. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations (Louvain: Peeters, 2020). Cf. also F.M. Henquinet, ‘Le commentaire d'Alexandre de Hales sur les Sentences enfin retrouvé’, in: Miscellanea G. Mercati (Vatican City, 1946) II, 359-382.

Liber I Sententiarum [inc.: ‘Altissimus creavit de terra medicinam. Eccli. 38. In hiis verbis singulariter expositis’]: a.o. MSS Amiens, BM 234 [s. xiii; anon.]; Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket (Carolina) C.167 [s. xiii]. The Liber I Sententiarum with the inc.: ‘Vidi in dextera sedentis super tronum … Apoc. 5. Liber vite dicitur S. Scriptura’, which can be found in Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana 183 [s. xiii] and in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale «Vittorio Emanuele III», VII.C.3 [s. xiii], is also ascribed to Peter Aureol.

Tractatus magistri Alexandri de significationibus et expositione S. Scripturarum [inc.: ‘Cum secundum apostolicam sententiam invisibilia Dei’]: Sevilla, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina 7-2-26 [s. xiii; anon.], ff. 102r-103v; Mayence (Mainz), Bibliothèque de la Ville (Stadt…) 553, ff. 25r-32v [s. xv] [Cf. Stegmüller no. 1157 and Doucet, Maîtres, 538.]
For an edition, see Tractatus de significationibus et expositione sacrarum scripturarum, edited in: Aleksander Horowski, ‘Tractatus magistri Alexandri de significationibus et expositione sacrarum scripturarum. Introduzione ed edizione critica’, Collectanea Franciscana 79:1-2 (2009), 5-44. For an English translation, see: Alexander of Hales, On the Signification and Exposition of the Holy Scriptures, intro. & trans. Aaron Gies (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2018).

Alexandre de Halès, La science divine, ed. & trans. Marc Ozilou, in: Sur la science divine. Textes présentés et traduits sous la direction de Jean-Christophe Bardout & Olivier Boulnois, Épiméthée: essais philosophiques (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002), 152-176.

Summa Halensis or Summa Theologiae: many mss, a.o. Oxford, Bodl. Canon Pat. Lat. 154 (ca. 1470-80); Siena, Bibl. degli Intronati F.IX.13 ff. 355r-357v [excerptum]; Bologna, Coll. Hisp. 33.
For editions, see: Summa Halensis, ed. V. Doucet et.al. (Quaracchi, 1924-1948) & Index (Grottaferrata, 1979); Summa Fratris Alexandri. Tomus II - Liber Secundus - I, studio et cura PP. Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad fidem codicum edita (Quaracchi, 1928: Editio anastatica, Grottaferrata, 1997). [The critical edition by Doucet et al. is not complete. It contains only Books I-III [lib. I = t. 1; lib. II = t. 2-3; lib. III = t. 4]. For book IV the old printed editions should be consultated. There are, in fact many of these older editions, reaching back to the fifteenth century (a.o. Nuremberg, 1481-1482 in 4 Vols.; Pavia, 1489 in 4 Vols.; Venice, 1496 in 4 Vols.; Lyon, 1515-1516 in 4 Vols; Venice, 1575-1576 in 4 Vols.; Cologne, 1622 in 4 Vols.). The Quaracchi edition of the first quaestio has been reprinted in: Alexander of Hales, Summa theologica, quaestio I, in: Theologie als Wissenschaft, 79-109 (text, with commentary by Bruno Niederbacher on pp 110-130). See also: Summa theologica Halensis: De legibus et praeceptis. The Tract on Laws and Commands of the Summa Halensis: Latin Text, German Translation, and Commentary, ed. Michael Basse, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie, 62 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018); A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis, ed. & trans. Oleg Bychkov & Lydia Schumacher, Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies (Fordham UP, 2022) [a wide selection of passages taken from the Summa Halensis presented in an English translation]. The Summa as such is not written by Alexander himself, but is a collaborative effort of various of Alexander’s Franciscan pupils, notably Jean de La Rochelle and William of Meliton, partly based on Alexander’s own writings, partly on the basis of works initiated by these pupils themselves.]

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Andreas Sohn & Jacques Verger, Aufbrüche, 4 (Bochum: Verlag Dieter Winkler, 2012), 37-47; Boyd Taylor Coolman, 'Alexander of Hales', in: The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity, ed. Pavel L. Graviljuk & Sarah Coakley (Cambridge, 2012), 121-139; Andrew Rosato, ‘The Interpretation of Anselm’s Teaching on Christ’s Satisfaction for Sin from Alexander of Hales to Duns Scotus’, Franciscan Studies 71 (2013), 411-444; Gianpiero Tavolaro, ‘La doctrina theologica come scienta a sapore affectionis nella Summa fratris Alexandri’, Miscellanea Francescana 113:3-4 (2013), 311-336; Travis Dumsday, ‘Alexander of Hales on Angelic Corporeality’, Heythrop Journal 54 (2013), 360-370; Sophie Delmas, ‘Ateliers de recherches «Autours d’Alexandre de Halès», Paris, 2014-2015’, Franciscan Studies 74 (2016), 385-388; Mateusz J. Wierzbicki, 'L'irremissibilità del peccato degli angeli secondo Alessandro di Hales', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 109:3-4 (2016), 585-596; Hubert Philipp Weber, 'Alexander of Hales's Theology in His Authentic Texts (Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Various Disputed Questions)', in: The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350), ed. M. Robson (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 273-293; Riccardo Saccenti, 'Sic bonum cognoscitur et similiter lux. Divine Ideas in the First Franciscan Masters (Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle)', in: Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought: (XIIIth-XIVth century), ed. Jacopo Francesco Falà & Irene Zavattero (Canterano, 2018), 1-24; Alice Lamy, 'La localisation de l’ange chez Alexandre de Halès', Picenum Seraphicum n.s. 32 (2018), 7-22; Aaron Gies, 'Biblical Exegesis in the Summa Halensis', in: Early Franciscan Theology: Sources and Context, ed. Lydia Schumacher. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters (Leiden: Brill, 2019); Aaron Gies, 'Primi duces hierarchiae nostrae: Bonaventure, Alexander of Hales and Theological Exegesis in John’s Gospel', in: Frater, Magister Minister et Episcopus: The Work and Worlds of Saint Bonaventure, ed. Timothy Johnson, Marie Kolbe & Katie Wrisley-Shelby (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2019); Aaron Canty, 'Christ's Co-assumed Defects According to the Summa fratris Alexandri', in: 'Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor...' (1 Celano 22). Essays in Honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, ed. Michael F. Cusato & Steven J, McMichael, The Medieval Franciscans, 18 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020), 363-381; Matthew Beckmann, 'Bonaventure and Alexander: Friend or Foe?', in: 'Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor...' (1 Celano 22). Essays in Honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, ed. Michael F. Cusato & Steven J, McMichael, The Medieval Franciscans, 18 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020), 382-395; The Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates, ed. Lydia Schumacher, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie, 66 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020) [An important publication on Alexander's Summa. It contains the following articles: Lydia Schumacher, 'The Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates', 1-9; Antoine Côté, 'The Summa Halensis on Whether Universal and Particular Are Said of God', 11-30; Jacob W. Wood, 'Forging the Analogy of Being: John of La Rochelle’s De divinis nominibus (Trier, Abtei St. Matthias, 162) and the Summa Halensis on Knowing and Naming God', 31-58; Lydia Schumacher, 'The Proof for a Necessary Existent in the Summa Halensis', 59-72; Franklin T. Harkins, 'Defusing Theological Dynamite: Predestination and Divine Love in the Summa Halensis, 73-88; Corey L. Barnes, 'Providence and Causality in the Summa Halensis', 89-106; Boyd Taylor Coolman, 'The Comprehensive Trinitarianism of the Summa Halensis', 107-140; Justus H. Hunter, 'The Contribution of the Summa Halensis to the Reason for the Incarnation', 141-152; Theo Kobusch, 'The Summa Halensis: Towards a New Concept of ‘Person’', 153-170; Vincent L. Strand, 'The Ontology of Grace of Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle', 171-192; John Marenbon, 'Idolaters, Philosophers and an Elusive Jew: The Problem of Paganism in the Summa Halensis', 193-209; Silvana Vecchio, 'Passions and Sins: The Summa Halensis and John of La Rochelle', 211-226; Riccardo Saccenti, 'From ‘Lex aeterna’ to the ‘leges addictae’: John of La Rochelle and the Summa Halensis', 227-250; Riccardo Saccenti, 'Beyond the Positive Law: The Oath and Vow as a Theological Matter Between the 12th and Early 13th Centuries', 251-274; Ian Christopher Levy, 'Contrition, Confession, and the Power of the Keys in the Summa Halensis', 275-302; Marcia L. Colish, 'The Eucharist in Early Franciscan Tradition', 303-324; Timothy J. Johnson, 'Place, Person, and Prayer in the Summa Halensis', 325-342; Mary Beth Ingham, 'The Sanctification of Mary: Summa Halensis and the status quaestionis prior to William of Ware and John Duns Scotus, 343-358.]; Brendan Case, 'Universal Hylomorphism and Angelic Mutability', Franciscan Studies 78 (2020), 19-50; Timothy J. Johnson, 'Fides ex auditu: Alexander of Hales and the Franciscan School on the Ministry of Preaching', Franciscan Studies 78 (2020), 51-66; Aaron Gies, 'A new source for Alexander of Hales: Anselm of Laon, Glosae super Iohannem', 'Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 113:3-4 (2020), 587-610; The Legacy of Early Franciscan Thought, ed. Lydia Schumacher, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2021), passim; Aaron Gies, 'Medieval Images of Alexander of Hales', in: Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought, ed. Lydia Schumacher, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie 68 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2021), 77-93; Lydia Schumager, Human Nature in Early Franciscan Thought: Philosophical Background and Theological Significance (Cambridge: CUP, 2022), passim.
With thanks to dr. Aleksander Horowski OFMCap., Prof. dr. Philip L. Reynolds, dr. Lydia Schumacher and dr. Aaron Gies for their corrections and additions.

Alexander Hurtado (Alexius Salamanca/Alejo Hurtado de Salamanca, fl. c. 1550)

OFM. Spanish friar from Salamanca. Member of the Santiago province. Language specialist with politial interests.

works

F. Alexii Salamancae Zamorensis, Ordinis Minorum, Regular. Observantiae. provinciae D. Iacobi, De republica Christi dialogi tres. Quibus primò suum quisque legislatorem obseruet : deinde leges pro virili seruet : postremò quàm absolutissimus ciuis [...] euadat [...]. His passim inspersa sunt prophanæ literaturæ quaeda[m] haud prorsus indigna lectu (Salamanca: 1528 [manuscript?]/Lyon: Sebastian Bartolomé Honorat, 1556). The 1556 Lyon edition is accessible via Google Books and via the University Library of Ghent (with as author Alexius Salamanca).

(spurious?)De assertione Monachismi Duci Alvano dicatus liber (1574): MS Salamanca, Bibl. Com. ?

(spurious?)De optimo genere concionandi liber (1571).

(spurious?)De querela pacis liber (1574).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 8 & 37; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 23; AIA 28 (1968), 435-442; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 129 (no. 423); Gonzalo Díaz Díaz, Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española, IV: H-LL (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1991), 89-90.

Alexander Langley (14th cent.)

OM. English friar.

works

In I-IV Sent. [16 reported questions]: Vat. Lat. 13002 (s. xiv) ff. 175r-218v (15 qq of Libri I-III); Vat. Lat. 986 f. 18r. An edition is preparation by R.D. Edwards

literature

Sharpe, Handlist, 217; BRUO, 1094; Doucet, Comm., 100-101; W.J. Courtenay, `Alexander Langley OFM', Manuscripta, 18 (1974), 96-104; F. Genest, Prédétermination et liberté crée à Oxford au XIVe siècle. Buckingham contra Bradwardine (Paris, 1992), 88-9; Raymond Edwards, ‘Themes and personalities in ‘Sentence’ commentaries at oxford in the 1330’s’, in: Mediaeval Commentaries on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard. Current Research, ed. G.R. Evans (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2002), 379-393 (esp. 385-389).

Alexander de Lyon (Alexandre de Lyon/Alexandre de La Forge?, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Three times provincial in the 1720s, 1730s and 1740s, Hagiographical author…

literature

DSpir I, 300; Frédéric Meyer, Pauvreté et assistance spirituelle: les franciscains récollets de la province de Lyon aux xviie et xviiie siècles (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne - C.E.R.C.O.R., 1997), passim.

Alexander de Montepulciano (Alessandro di Montepulciano, d. 1631)

OFM. Italian friar and spiritual author. Same as Alexander Giglius de Monte Pulciano?

literature

DSpir VI, 365-366.

Alexander de Riciis de Aquila (Alexander de Riciis Aquilanus/Alessandro de Ritiis/Alessandro Ricci/Alexander de Domo Petri Ricci, 1434-1497)

OMObs. Italian friar. Born in Collebrincioni (near L'Aquila). Was enticed to enter the order (the regular Observance sub vicariis) when he was 12, after hearing a series of quadragesimal sermons by Paolo da Siena (Paulus de Senis). He took his official profession on 5 July 1450 in the San Giuliano friary near L'Aquila. From there he visited several times relics of San Bernardino kept in the nearby San Francesco church. Later, in 1456, he was in Capestrano (where he apparently escaped a major earthquake due to a happenstance visit to Chieti at that very moment). In Capestrano, he visited the archive of Giovanni of Capestrano, many documents of which he transcribed. A number of these transcriptions he included in his chronicles. Afterwards, he returned to the L'Aquila region, where he became involved with raising funds for the San Bernardino friary in 1464. In that same year, he also participated in the general chapter of Assisi. In subsequent years he was several times guardian of the San Bernardino friary. He fulfilled this function at least in and after 1469, and again in 1475, when he encountered Giacomo della Marca. Four years later, in 1479, he was elected provincial vicar for one year in the Abruzzo province, In 1485, he resided in the San Nicola friary of Sulmona, in the company of Vincenzo Aquilano, who he knew from his early years in the San Giuliano friary, and who would later be beatified. In 1487, he was again guardian of the San Bernardino friary of L'Aquila, supervising the extension of the church, and in 1493 he accompanied Queen Juana of Aragon on a visit to Bernardino da Siena's grave site. In the same year he participated in the general chapter of the Observants in Florence. Along the road, he also visited La Verna. Near the end of his life, he retired to the San Giuliano friary, where he finished his historical works between 1493 and 1497. Alessandro is known for his large Chronica civitatis Aquilae, which started out as a continuation and reworking of the macaronic (i.e. mixed Latin-Italian) Cronaca of Buccio di Ranallo. Alessandro also wrote a Chronica Ordinis Minorum, a Dominicale totius anni (1470 with later additions), a Quadragesimale de credibilibus fidei (70 sermons on theological topics, possibly held at L'Aquila in 1480, Officia b. Mariae Virginis et Passione Christi, followed in the same manuscript by 50 Marian sermons (Mariale per minimum Minorum minimum fr. Alexandrum de Aquila), and a Corollarium Marialis (1488). According to his own remarks, Alessandro was also the author of other works, now lost, namely a Quodlibetum, a Festivum sermon collection, a Regula fratrum minorum (possibly a commentary of some type of the rule), and possibly also another quadragesimal collection, referred to as a Quadragesimale de Sacramentiis and an additional Sacrarium. It is not totally clear whether this Quadragesimale de Sacramentiis and the Sacrarium are different works or not. Aside from MSS Naples Naz., I.H.43 and Naples Naz., V.H. 145, nearly all of his works can be accessed via the autograph manuscripts Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila, Arch. civ. aquil., S 71-74. For the whereabouts of these manuscripts prior to their entry into the Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila, see the 1927 study of A. Chiappini, the 1982 work edited by Walter Capezzali, and Paolo Cherubini's entry on Alessandro de Riciis in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.

works

Sermo de Iudicio Universali (Domenica Prima de Adventu): Naples Naz., V.H. 67 f. 38r-39r (also other sermons?)

Quodlibetum:MS ?

Mariale & Officium B. Mariae Virginis et Passionis Christi: Naples Naz., V. H. 145; Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila, Arch. civ. aquil., S 74.

Repertorium Juris: Naples Naz., I.H.43 ff. 3r-193v

Corellarium Marialis: Naples Naz., V.H. 145.

Sermones Quadragesimales: MS ?

Regula Fratrum Minorum: MS ?

Sacrarium: MS ?

Quadragesimales de credibilibus Fidei: Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila, Arch. civ. aquil., S 71.

Chronica civitatis Aquilae: Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila, Arch. civ. aquil., S 71-74; Naples Naz., V.H. 145.
For an edition of the Chronica Civitatis Aquilae, see: L. Cassese, 'La « chronica civitatis Aquilae » di Alessandro de Ritiis', Archivio storico per le Provincie Napoletane n.s. 27:66 (1941), 151-216; 29:68 (1943), 185-268. [Alessandro's Chronica civitatis Aquilae consists of three main parts: a Chronicon Mundi, which is largely dependent upon Orosius, Paulus Diaconus, Martinus Polonus, and (for more recent information) Buccio di Ranallo. This part also contains synoptic tables in three columns to portray in graphic form the chronology and history of biblical events, the Roman and German Emperors, the Popes and the Kings of Naples (not unlike Paolino da Venezia in his Chronologia Magna?). The second part is the vernacular Chronica de Aquila scilicet Butii de Ranallo, which follows the history of L'Aquila from its foundation until 1362. This part is mainly the work of Buccio, with added poems by Alessandro, who also attempted some restructuring and the introduction of a chapter division. The final part is Alessandro's continuation of Buccio until 1495, and this part ends with a description of the general chapter of the Observants held on 7 June 1495.]

Chronica Ordinis Minorum: Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila, Arch. civ. aquil., S 71-74; Naples Naz., V.H. 145.
A partial edition in: A. Chiappini, 'De vita et scriptis fr. Alexandri de Riciis', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 20 (1927), 314-35, 563-574; 21 (1928), 86-103, 285-303 & 553-579 [The Chronica Ordinis Minorum is to a large extent depending on earlier Franciscan order chronicles, yet includes at the same time a large number of documents, including writings copied from the archive of Giovanni da Capestrano and documents pertaining to the Abruzzo province.]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 35; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 21; G. Pansa, 'Di frate A. D. e delle sue cronache', Rivista abruzzese di scienze e lettere VII (1892), 105-110; G. Pansa, 'Intorno alla supposta stampa d'una cronaca aquilana del sec. XV', Rassegna Abruzzese di Storia ed arte 3:9 (1899), 265f; G. Pansa, Quattro cronache e due diarii inedite relativi ai fatti dell'Aquila (Sulmona, 1902), XXXV-XLI; Cronaca aquilana rimata di Buccio di Ranallo di Popplito di Aquila, ed. Vincenzo De Bartholomaeis, Fonti per la storia d'Italia, XLI (Rome, 1907/Reprint Nabu Press, 2010), VII, XLVIIIff; Vincenzo De Bartholomaeis, Il teatro abruzzese del Medio Evo (Bologna 1922/Reprint 1997), 317-328, 355-358; A. Chiappini, ‘De vita et scriptis fr. Alexandri de Riciis’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 20 (1927), 314-35, 563-74; 21 (1928), 86-103, 285-303, 553-79; L. Cassese, La "Chronica civitatis Aquilae" di Alessandro de Ritiis', Archivio Storico per le Provinze Napoletane n.s., 27 (1941), 151-216 & 29 (1943), 185-268; S. Piacentino, 'Fonti bernardiniane nell'Archivio di Stato di Aquila', Bullettino della Deputazione abruzzese di storia patria 41:12 (1950), 3-65 (47-56); A. Chiappini, 'Regestum chronologicum vitae s. Bernardini Senensis ex Chronica Ordinis fr. Alexandri de Ritiis', Franciscan Studies 27 (1967), 109-113; Graziano Basciani, 'La cronaca di Buccio di Ranallo compendiata da Fr. Alessandro De Ritiis in un ms. inedito di P. Aniceto Chiappini', Bullettino della Deputazione abruzzese di storia patria ser. 3, 57-59 (1967-1969), 7-30; A. Centofanti Verini, 'Note alla storia della basilica di S. Bernardino. Documenti, Bullettino della Deputazione abruzzese di storia patria 57-59 (1967-1969), 159-188; Ernesto Giammarco, Storia della cultura e letteratura abruzzese (Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1969), 432-443; Cenci, Napoli, check! ; Dal manoscritto al libro a stampa. Castello dell'Aquila, giugno-novembre 1982 (catal.), ed. Walter Capezzali (L'Aquila: Comitato per il 5. centenario della introduzione della stampa in Abruzzo, 1982), 24, 97; Repertorium fontium historiae Medii Aevi IV, 168; Paolo Cherubino, 'DE RITIIS, Alessandro', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 39 (1991); Raffaele Colapietra, 'La cronaca aquilana di Alessandro De Ritiis e la cronachistica meridionale del Quatrocento', Critica Letteraria 21 (1993), 425-488; Maria Rita Berardi, I monti d'oro: identità urbana e conflitti territoriali nella storia dell'Aquila medievale (Liguori editore, 2005)

Alexander de Sancta Familia (1736-1818)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Preacher and poet. Almost against his will, he was appointed bishop of Malacca in 1763. He was transferred to the Angola diocese in 1785 and to the Angra diocese in 1815. Several of his poetic works and biblical translations have survived, among which a Portuguese translation of the Canticum Moyse.

works

Religious poetic works.

literature

Gams, Series episcoporum, 117, 473, 474; Études franciscaines 5 (1901), 420; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexandre de la Sainte-Famille’, DHGE II (1914), 270.

Alexander de Verona (Alessandro da Verona/Francesco Maioli, d. 1775)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Venetian province. Teacher of theology in several friaries and studia. At the general chapter of Mantua (1762), he presented a famous defense in 51 theses of Catholic dogma (against other forms of Christianity). In 1768, he fulfilled a canonical visit of the Brescia province. He died at Verona on 27 March 1775. Some of his philosophical-theological works have survived. These show his adherence to dominant Scotist tendencies within the Franciscan order of his day.

works

Theses Theologico-Scholasticae ad Mentem Doctoris Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti (Padua, 1762).

literature

Antonio Maria da Vicenza, ‘Commentariolum de Veneta provincia reformata’, in: Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 319, 335; Scriptores Provinciae S. Antonii Venetiarum (Venice, 1877), 115; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexandre de Vérona’, DHGE II (1914), 278.

Alexander de Villa Dei (Alexandre de Villedieu/Alexander Dolensis/Alexander de Villadei, 1170-1250)

OM. French friar from Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy. He studied in Paris, becoming a master of arts, and later was active in Dol-de-Bretagne. He joined the order as an adult. Author of several mathematical treatises, as well as of grammatical and more philosophical works, all or most in verse. To him is also ascribed a Summarium Biblicum sive Compendium Scripturae. His most famous work no doubt is his versified Doctrinale Puerorum, issued long before he became a Franciscan friar, and based on Donatus and Priscian. His best known arithmetic work is the Carmen de Algorismo, which introduces students to work with Hindu-Arabic numerals (called Tales Indorum).

works

Admirantes Quondam Philosophi (no edition of manuscript known?).

Algorismus seu Carmen de Algorismo, seu De Arte Numerandi, ed. J.O. Halliwell, Rara Mathematica (London, 1839 & 1841), pp. 73-833; R. Steele (ed.), The Earliest Arithmatics in English (Oxford, 1922), 722-780.

Alphabetum Minus, ed. A. Mai (Rome, 1836).

Carmen de Musica cum Glossis (?), ed. A. Saey (Colorado Springs, 1977).

Alphabetum Majus (lost).

De Sphaera (ms?).

Domine Labi Mea aperies (no mss?)

Ecclesiale seu Clericale, edited as Ecclesiale by Alexander of Villa Dei, ed. Levi Robert Lind (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1958).

Doctrinale Puerorum. This had a significant manuscript dissemintion and saw the printing press several times, starting from 1483. See for instance Doctrinale totius grammatices artis compendiose in unum digestum (1517), which is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books. A late nineteenth-century edition of the Doctrinale with a lengthy introduction and a detailed description of the manuscript dissemination and the early imprints was issued as: Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa-Dei. Kritisch-Exegerische Ausgabe, ed. Dietrich Reichling, Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogicae. Schulordnungen, Schulbücher und pädagogische Miscellaneen aus den Landen deutscher Zunge, 12 (Berlin: A. Hofmann & Comp., 1893). This edition is now accessible via Google Books. It was re-issued in facsimile in New York, 1974.

Glossae in Doctrinale secundum ordinem alphabeticum: MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. >>>?.

In Principio Cujuslibet Scientiae: MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 15170, f. 41.

Margarita Philosophiarum: MS Boulogne-s. Mer, Bibl. municipale 184.

Massa Compoti, ed. R. Steele, in: Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi (Oxford, 1926), VI, 268-289 & ed. W.E. van Wijk, Le nombre d'or. Etude de chronologie technique suivie du texte de la `Massa Compoti', d'Alexandre de Villedieu, avec traduction et commentaire (La Haye, 1936), 52-84.

Liber de computo ecclesiastico: Oxford, Bodleian Library 1623, NO. 22.

Praesens Opus in Prima Sui Divisione Potest Dividi: MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat., 8513, ff. 3-48v.

Quoniam Humana natura Tribus Modis Molestatur: MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 8427, ff. 104-127v.

Secundum Sententiam Platonis in Thimeo: MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat., 14747, ff. 1-212v.

Sermones (no mss?).

Summarium Bibliorum Metricum/Summarium Biblicum sive Compendium Scripturae/Summa brevis utriusque Testamenti (Venice, 1498). This work was reprinted in part and different configurations, with different titles with other texts during the 16th century and after. See for instance also Summa sive argumenta capitum omnium Biblicorum utriusque Testamenti & Compendium totius Scripture Sacrae Librorum, & Capitum in adjutorium memorie eorum qui illi studium & operam impendunt (Bruges: Paulus Roose, 1705). This later Bruges edition is accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library and via Google Books.

literature

Wadding, Script., 10; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 35-36; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 21-22; Stegmüller, Rep. Bib., 1175-82 & Suppl. 1182, 4 - 1182, 14; B. Hughes, `Franciscans and Mathematics, II', AFH, 77 (1984), 8-11; F. Stella, `La trasmissione nella letterature: la posia', in: La Bibbia nel Medioevo, ed. G. Cremascoli & C. Leonardi (Bologna, 1996), 47-64 (info on the Summarium Biblicum); W. Maaz, `Zur Rezeption des Alexander von Villa Dei im 15. Jahrhundert', MLJ, 16 (1981), 276-281.

Alexander Diaczoviscz (Alexander Diaczoviscz de Petricovia/Petricoviensis, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Polish friar from Piotrków Trybunalski/Petrikau. Master of theology and preacher. He died in Cracow in 1654

works

Sermons on saints in the Polish vernacular. Probably never printed.

Funerary eulogies/sermons published in the Polish vernacular, printed in Warshaw?

Coelestis lunae exequatio pro funere Abrahmi Goluchouski dicatur (...) (Cracow: Valerianus Pratchouski, 1648).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 27-28; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 13.

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Bologna region. Member of the Fioravanti family. Philosopher, theologian and mathematician.

works

In Praedicamenta Aristotelis, Lib. II: MS.

De Sophismatibus: MS.

De Coelo et Mundo: MS.

De Multiplicatione Specierum: MS.

In De meteoris: MS.

De modo practicandi Rethorarium Mathematicum, eo quod ad retis similitudinem sit expansum (Venice: Roberto Majetto, 1585).

literature

Melchior a Pobladura, Historia Generalis, Paris Prima, 232; Dionysius Genuensis, Bibliotheca scriptorum O.M.S.Francisci Capuccinorum (1680), 3; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 21; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 13; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri: che fiorirono nel Francescano istituto, 504; Ch. Lohr, ‘Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors D-F’, Renaissance Quarterly 29 (1976), 714-745 (739).

Alexander Giglius de Monte Pulciano (Alexander Lilii/Alessandro Gigli da Monte Pulciano/Alessandro Lilii, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar Productive religious author.

works

Congregatione Spirituale del Divino Amore, dedicato alle Suore delli Angeli di Bologna (Bologna: Heredi del Cocchi, 1624).

Regno del Divino Amore, e Paradiso delle Anime spirituali, secondo li trè gradi purgativi, illuminativo, unitivo, 2 Vols. (Modena: Giuliano Cassiani, 1626-1627).

Cura spirituale per gl'infermi, et insieme esercitio quotidiano per i sani. In unione della santissima passione di Giesù Christo, per seco santamente vivere, e morire. Distinta in dodici visite, secondo l'ordine di dodici principali misteri di quella, con sessanta cinque sorti di medicine salutari (...) Composta, dedicata alla Beatiss. V. Maria da f. Alessandro da Monte Politiano Min. Con. di S. Francesco (...) Parte terza del non. libro del Regno del divino amore (Modena: Giulian Cassiani, 1628).

Via della Croce, cioè Orationi, e meditationi per la Croce, divise in quindici stationi, ò sermate fatte dal Signore in portarla al Calvario (Bologna: Heredi Benacci, 1629/Bologna: Antonio Pisari, 1630?).

to be continued

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 28; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 20; Mors certa, hora incerta. Tradiciones, representaciones y educación ante la muerte, ed. Sara González Gómez, Iván Pérez Miranda & Alba María Gómez Sánchez (FahrenHouse, 2016), 238.

Alexander Maraffius (Alessandro Maraffi, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and preacher in the Bologna province (from Pontremoli, Massa-Carrara province). He had studied law prior to his entry into the order. He published under the name of his nephew Peregrinus Maraffi.

works

Monita pro illis qui spiritualem aegrotantium curam exercent, cum modo perfacili ad illos consolandos, & ad piam, sanctamque mortem disponendos (Modena: Giovanni Cassiano, 1623). Issued under the name of his nephew Peregrino Maraffi?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 33; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 21; Gaetano Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani o come che sia aventi relazione all'Italia, 2 Vols. (Milan: Luigi di Giacomo Pirola, 1852) II, 159.

Alexander Matheos Venrel (fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Andalucia province. Preacher and religious educator, who issued a Spanish translator of Bernard of Besse's Speculum Disciplinae, then still considered to be a work by Bonaventure.

works

Espejo de disciplina de el Serafio Dr. de la Iglesia S. Buenaventura (...) Sacalo a luz el P. Fr. Alexandro Matheos Venrel, hijo de la Santa Prouincia de Andalucía, de la Regular Observancia de N. P. S. Francisco (Sevilla: Lucas Martin de Hermosilla, 1685).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 33.

Alexander Pardini (Alessandro Pardini, d. 1751)

TOR. Italian Franciscan tertiary. Lector and Historian.

works

Ristretto di notizie del tempio e venerabile compagnia di S. Maria della Minerva della città di Assisi (..) raccolte dal M.R.P.M. Alessandro Pardini, reggente de studi del terz 'Ordine di S. Francesco (Assisi: Andrea Sgariglia, 1735).For a modern imprint, see: Paolo Capitanucci, ‘La ‘storia locale’ di Alessandro Pardini TOR’, Analecta TOR 176 (2006), 169-237 (pp. 185-237).

Alexander Poquelinus (Alexandre Poquelin/Alexandre Pocquelin, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar from the Saint Denis province. Provincial minister.

works

Sommaire de la vie et mort du Bienheureux Père Pierre d’Alcantara (1622).

Livre d'oraison et de méditation de S. Pierre d'Alcantara (...) (Paris. 1622/Rouen, 1626).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 34; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 21; Fabienne Henryot, 'Portrait du récollet en écrivain au XVIIe siècle', in: Les récollets, en quête d’une identité franciscaine, actes du colloque de Paris, 1er-2 juin 2012, ed. C. Galland, F. Guilloux & P. Moracchini (Tours: PUFR, 2014), passim.

Alexander Presburgensis (Alexander von Presburg, d. 1496)

OMObs. Hungarian friar, active in the Austrian and Bohemian provinces. Entered the order after studies in the liberal arts. Became a well-known anti-Hussite preacher. In 1468 he travelled with the apostolic nuntius Lorenzo Rovella (bishop of Ferrara) through the dioceses of Salzburg, Styria and Carinthia, preaching the crusade against George Podiebrad (the Bohemian protector of the Hussites). In 1471, Alexander became the first guardian of the the St. Leonhard friary outside Graz (Styria). In 1484, he was provincial vicar. In 1491, he took over for the Observants the former Conventual friary of Laibach. He died there in 1496. Author?

literature

V. Greiderer, Germania franciscana (Insbruck, 1777) I, 85, 308, 322, 436, 509; Herzog, ‘Cosmographia Franciscano-Austriacae Provinciae’, Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 94, 102, 127; Guido Raut, Die Franziskaner der österreichischen Provinz, ihr Wirken in Nieder-Oesterreich (Stein in Krain, 1908), 64, 99; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexander de Presbourg’, DHGE II, 269-270.

Alexander Rubeus/Rossus (Alessandro Rossi da Lugo, 1607-1686)

OFMConv. Spanish friar. Born on 14 November 1606 as the son of Alessandro Rossi da Lugo and Isabella Mengacci da Bagnacavallo. He joined the order in 1624, finishing his noviciate in Cesena. Afterwards, he received his philosophical, religious and theological education in Parma, Cesena (under Mastrius and Belluto), and in Bologna (under the regent master Paolo Antonio Losi da Carpi and Guglielmo Plati da Montaino). After completing his studies, he was regent in Piacenza, Baccalareus in the Assisi friary, regent in Urbino and later in regent in Assisi and Bologna (together with Lorenzo Brancati da Lauria). Subsequently active as order secretary. Later in life, he was again regent master of Bologna and 20 years lector of the Franciscan seminary of Lugo and guardian of the Lugo friary. In 1680, he became order procurator and in 1683 provincial minister of the Bologna province. He died on 2 November 1686. Alessandro Rossi was a propagator of Scotist thought.

works

Controversiae Theologicae inter Scotistas in quibus potiores difficultates examinantur atque germana mens Scoti aperitur, 2 Vols. (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1652-1653). The first volume is accessible via Google Books.

Totius philosophiae cursus in quo potiores difficultates examinantur atque germana mens Scoti aperitur (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1653). This is probably the second volume of the previous work. It is also accessible via Google Books under this title.

Controversiarum metaphysicales inter Scotistas in quibus potiores difficultates examinantur atque germana mens Scoti aperitur tomus unicus (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1653/4). The 1653 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Resolutionum moralium in quibus potiores casus conscientiae frequentius in qualibet materia occurentes iuxtamentum Scoti et Divi Thomae examinantur et soluuntur tomus unicus ((Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1653). Accessible via Google Books.

In octo libr. Physicorum (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1656).

In libro de Caelo, eosque de Generatione, & corruptione ad eundem (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1657).

In libro Aristotelis de Anima (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferronio, 1659).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 30-31; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 35.

OFMCap. Italian friar. Bibliophile.

literature

Federica Dallasta, ‘La biblioteca di Alessandro Tagliaferri dottore in utroque e frate cappuccino’, Collectanea Francisana 79:1-2 (2009), 61-121.

Alexander Terzi (Alessandro Terzi, d. 1761)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Bergamasco region. Studied in Lucignano, Siena and Bologna and taught theology for his order in Montepulciano, Pisa, Genoa, and Florence. He also had a significant preaching career for some three decades, working in many Italian towns, and held the post of general procurator.

works

Prediche Quaresimali del padre Maestro Alessandro Terzi Minor Conventuale dedicate a sua eminenza il signor Cardinale Lorenzo Ganganelli del medesimo ordine (Bergamo: Fratelli Rossi, 1765). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Collectio casuum ad mores spectantium, quos proposuit, ac resolvit in congregatione episcopali bergomensi fr. Jo. Franciscus Rovetta, ord. min. convent. S. Francisci exprovinc. parochus S. Euphemiae in ven. semin. s. script. prof. examin. prosynod. theol. ac definitor, et cum aliis casibus in eadem congregatione propositis, ac resolutis a P. Mag. Alexandro Terzi, ejusdem ord. ex-proc. generali (...) (1770).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 794.

Alexander Theatinus (Alessandro Teatino, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar and theology master. He would have died at a relatively young age.

works

Opus panagyricum Franciscanae Religionis. Was this ever published? Mentioned by Wadding and Sbaralea.

literature

Wadding-De Cerreto, Annales Ordinis Minorum XXIV (ed. 1860), 325 (ad. an. 1610); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 21.

Alexandrinus Civitatensis (Alexandrin de la Ciotat/Alexandrin de La Cieutat, 1629-1706)

OFMCap. French (Provençal) friar. Took the habit in 1648 in the St. Louis province. guardian in several provinces; spiritual author in line with the apophatic teachings of Pseudo Dionysius Areopagita.

works

Parfait dénuement de l’ame contemplative (Paris, 1680/Marseille, 1681)

Selections of his works have been included in La vie mystique chez les franciscains du dix-septième siècle. Tome II: Florilège de figures mystiques de la réforme capucine, ed. Dominique Tronc, Collection Sources mystiques (Mers-sur-Indre: Paroisse et Famille-Centre Saint-Jean-de-la-Croix, 2014).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 37; DSpir I, 302-303; Annales Franciscanes (1924), 209-301; Etudes Franciscanes 39 (1927), 466-468; Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 38.

Alexius Binet (Alexo Bonet/Aleix Bonet, fl. ca. 1700)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Catalonia province. Theologian, preacher and sydonal examiner in the Girona diocese.

works

Sermones varios, morales y panegiricos (...) del Reverendo Padre Fray Alexo Bonet, lector de theologia del convento de Nuestro Padre S. Francisco, y Examinador Sinodal del Obispado de Gerona (Girona: Gabriel Brö & Rafael Trellas, 1705). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 37; Josep Maria Marquès i Planagumà, Impresos gironins de la Biblioteca del Seminari diocesà (1502-1936) (Girona: Diputació de Girona, 1987), 21

Alexius Tudertinus (Alessio da Todi, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Umbria. Lector of Arabic in the San Pietro Montorio college in Rome. Known for a catechism for the instruction of Eastern Christians that was issued in Latin and Arabic at the request of Pope Paul V.

works

Doctrina Christiana, seu Catechesismus pro Orientalibus Nationibus (...) Arabice & Latine excusus (...) additis Interpretatione Italica septem Psalmis penitentialibus, cum Sanctorum Litaniis et Marianis (Rome: Propaganda Fidei, 1642/1648).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 38-39; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri: che fiorirono nel Francescano istituto (...), 640.

Alexius Wierzbinski (Aleksy Wierbinski, fl. ca. 1800)

OFMRef. Polish friar in Poznan (Great Polish Saint Anthony province. Chronicler.

works

Kronika Reformatów poznanskich, ed. Jacek Wiesiolowski & Salezy Bogumil (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Miejskie, 2006). Edition of the convent chronicle of the OFMRef of Poznan in Poland, written in 1786 by friar Aleksy Wierzbinski. See review in AFH 100 (2007), 602-603.

Alfonso Borox (c. 1390-1467)

OM. Spanish friar from Borox, near Toledo. Entered the Franciscan order in his home town. Studied at Paris, where he reached the magisterium theologiae. After his return to Spain, he joined the Observants, which had been making headway in Toledo from c. 1420 onwards. In 1444, pope Eugenius IV appointed him general crusade preacher in Castille to call for a crusade against the Turcs. In 1443, Alfonso became the first provincial vicar of the Castilian Observants (elected at the San Antonio de Cabra chapter, Toledo). As the provincial vicar, and as the general commissioner for the order in Spain (elected in that position at the general chapter of Barcelona, 1451), Alfonso was involved with the reform and establishment of several Observant houses (a.o. Nuestra-Señora de Gracia, transferred from Nuestra Señore de Alcor, cf. Wadding, Annales, ad an. 1447, n. xvii), and new foundations such as Alcalá de Henares 1456). Alfonso died at the Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza convent (Ocaña) on 24 April 1467. Author?

literature

Wadding, Annales, ad an. 1447, n. xix; H. Diez, ‘Borox’, DHGE IX, 1271-1272; Nimmo, Reform and Division, check!

Alonso Blasco (Alfonsus Blascus, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from the San Miguel province. Preacher.

works

Sermon que predico en la solenissima fiesta de la exaltacion de la cruz, que celebra esta dichosa villa de Zalamea a pedimiento del liceciado frey don Antonio Barrantes Perero año de 1614 (Toledo, 1615).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 39; Alexander Samuel Wilkinson & Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, Iberian Books Volumes II & III/Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III, 158.

Alfonso de Ilha (Afonso da Ilha/Alfonsus de Isla, fl. late 15th-early 16th cent.)

OMObs/OFM. Portuguese friar from Madeira. Some biographical details seem hard to reconcile with the date of publication of the major workassigned to this friar. See on this the 1994 article by José de Freitas Paiva.

works

Libro llamado Tesoro de Virtudes (Medina del Campo: Pedro de Castro, 1543). There is apparently also an edition from 1574.

literature

N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova I, 31; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 46; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 25; M. Viller, ‘Alphonse de Isla’, DSpir I, 356; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 503; José de Freitas Paiva, 'Fr. Afonso da Ilha, O.F.M.: Partilha de nome ou identidade', Via Spiritus, 1 (1994), 209-212.

Alfonso de Alpram (Alfonso Dalpram/Alprãho, fl. c. 1422)

OM. Spanish friar from the province of St. Jacob (Santiago province).

works

literature

DHGE, III, 698; Albert G. Hauf, ‘El ‘Ars praedicandi’ de Fr. Alfonso d’Alprãho, O.F.M. Aportación al estudio de la teoria de la predicación en la Península Ibérica’, AFH 72 (1979), 263-329.

Alfonso de Casarrubias (Alfonsus de Casarubios/Alonso de Casarubios/Alonso 'Compilator', fl. ca. 1528)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Santiago province. Canonist. Involved with the preparation of the papal bull Ite Vos of 11517, which officially divided the order, and author of the Compendium Privilegiorum Ordinis Fratrum Minorum.

works

Thesoro del Anima (Valladolid: Nicolas Tyerri, 1528).

Compilatio Nova Multorum Privilegiorum Fratribus et Aliis Mendicantibus Concessorum (Barcelona, 1523). Cf. Castro (1996), 61.

Compendium Privilegiorum Fratrum Minorum, necnon aliorum fratrum mendicantium ordine alphabetico congestum (Valladolid: Nicolás Tierri, 1525/Salamanca: Alonso de Porras, 1532/Venice, 1532/Paris, 1590/Venice, 1609). For these and other later editions, see Castro (1996), 61ff., as well as Wilkinson. For a detailed description of the work, see AIA 37 (1934), 569-573 & 42 (1982), 61-65. The 1532 Venice edition is now accessible via Google Books.

Regule Fratrum Minorum. Collectorium Regularum Fratrum et Monialum sub Regimine Prelatorum Ordinis Minorum Degentium (Salamanca: Ildephonsus Porras, 1532). Cf. Castro (1996), 65.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 40; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 24; AIA 29 (1928), 128; AIA 34 (1931), 291-292; AIA 37 (1934), 569-583; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 99 (no. 208); Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 60-66; Alexander S. Wilkinson, Iberian Books/ Libros ibéricos: Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601/Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601, 20.

Alfonso de Castro (Alfonsus a Castro Zamorensis, ca. 1495- 1558)

OFM. Spanish (Castilian) Observant friar from the neighbourhood of Zamora. He probably started his university studies in 1507 at Alcalá. Three years later, in 1510 (1511?), he entered the Franciscan order in the S. Francisco friary of Salamanca, where he fulfilled his noviciate. Thereafter, he continued his studies at Alcalá. After finishing his education (lectorate? studies and canon law? > known that he studied under the canonist Martín de Azpilcueta), he returned to the Salamanca friary, where he became the regent lector of theology at the Franciscan studium, and fulfilled several other functions. In the years that followed, he became acquainted with Emperor Charles V, whom he accompanied to his crowning in Bologna in 1530. Before hand, he had taken part in the Franciscan general chapter at Assisi (1526), and for a while had continued his studies at Alcalá (probably the degree program, between 1528-1532). It has been suggested that he wrote at Charles V's request a now lost treatise defending the marriage of Henry VIII and Catarina of Aragon (the aunt of Charles). After a stint as a preacher in The Netherlands (also as spiritual guide to the Spanish business community in Bruges), and homiletic travels through Germany and France (1532-1535), he received the licence of theology at the university of Salamanca. He was present at the Council of Trente as a theologian in the service of cardinal Pacheco (1545-1547) and the Spanish king (1551-1552, when he was also officially the guardian of the Salamanca friary). Official court preacher of prince Philip II since 1553, whom he accompanied to England in 1554, during the Mary Tudor period. Thereafter he went back to Flanders, where he died at Brussels (4 or 11 February 1558), shortly after his appointment to the episcopal see of Santiago de Compostella.
Alfonso was a prolific author. His works include successful homiletic volumes on the Psalms, the first of which was printed in Salamanca in the late 1530s, as well as a large three-volume defence of Catholic orthodoxy, the individual volumes are known as the Adversus omnes haereses (first published at Paris in 1534), the De iusta haereticorum punitione (first published published at Salamanca in October 1547), and De potestate legis poenalis (first issued in 1550). These works argue for the right of church and state to punish heterodoxy and heresy, and even could call for the death penalty, but at the same time argued that the death penalty should only given when the offense was of a very serious nature and when it was impossible to correct the accused in another way. His works had a considerable influence in legal thought on criminal justice in Early Modern Europe. In matters of Church reform, Castro seems to have been sympathetic to the stance of Cardinal Reginald Pole.

works

De validitate matrimonii Henrici VIII, Angliae Regis, et Catharina conjugis. Lost?

Adversus Omnes Haereses (Paris, 1534 & 1540/Cologne, ca. 1540/Paris, 1545/Lyon, 1555/Paris, 1556/Paris, 1565/Antwerp, 1568/Paris, 1571/Paris, 1578/Madrid, 1773 etc.). Alfonso came out with revised editions in 1545 and 1556. Frequently reprinted, it was one of the classic handbooks of anti-heretical surveys within the Catholic church between the 16^th and the 18^th century. Cf. Castro (1996), 66-74 for more information on early modern editions of this work. The 1555 Lyon edition can be read and downloaded via the digital library of the Munich State Library.

De iusta Haereticorum Punitione (Salamanca: Ioannes Giunta, 1547 & 1557/Lyons, 1556/Paris, 1565, 1571 & 1578/Madrid, 1773). A work that combined theological and canonist perspectives in dealing with the punishment of heretics. Cf. Castro (1996), 76-78 for more information on these and other editions. The first Salamanca edition, as well as several later editions can now be accessed via Google Books.

Quaestio de educatione Indianorum: MS Archivo General de las Indias, Seville Indiferente 858. A transcript of the Latin text can be found in Anuario de estudios americanos 15 (1958),and again, with a Spanish translation in Ignacio Osorio Romero, La enseñanza del latín a los indos (1990). An English translation with introduction can be found in: Martin Austin Nesvig, Forgotten Franciscans: Works froman Inquisitorial Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquistional Deputy, Latin American Originals, 5 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2011).

De Potestatis Legis Poenalis, 2 Vols. (Salamanca, 1550/Lyon, 1556/Louvain: Ex officina Antonii Mariae Bergagne, 1557/Paris, 1565, 1571 & 1578/Madrid, 1773. This work was translated into Catelan as: La fuerzade de la rey, trans. L. Sanchéz Gallego, 3 vols (Murcia, 1931-33). Cf. Castro (1996), 78-80. In any case the 1556 Lyon and the 1557 Louvain edition can now be accessed via Google Books.

Homiliae Viginti Quinque super Psalmum Miserere (Salamanca, 1537, 1547 & 1568/Paris, 1565 & 1578/Madrid, 1773). A collection of 25 homelies on the Miserere psalm. The work was dedicated to King Juan III of Portugal. Cf. Castro (1996), 74-76 for more information on these and other editions. In any case the 1568 edition is now accessible via Google Books.

Homiliae Viginti Quatuor super Psalmum Beati Quorum Remissae Sunt Iniquitates (Salamanca, 1540 & 1568/Paris, 1565 & 1578/Madrid, 1773). 24 homelies. The work was dedicated to the infante Henri of Portugal. The 1540 Salamanca edition is accessible via Google Books.

Copia Lecturae in Essaiam (MS BAV Vat.Lat. 12807. This seems the work of Alonso de Castro

Commentarium in XII Prophetas Minores (1617). Seems to be the work of Cristóbal de Castro SJ.

Liber de impia sortilegarum, maleficarum, & lamiarum haeresi, earumque punitione, included in: Malleus Maleficarum, maleficas et earum haeresim framea contens, ex variis auctoribus compilatus (...) (Lyon: Claude Bourgeat, 1620)

Opera omnia editions: Opera Alfonsi a Castro Zamorensis Ordinis Minorum, Regularis Observantiae, Provintiae Sancti Jacobi. Videlicet Adversus omnes haereses, Libri Quatordecim. De justa punitione haereticorum, Libri tres. De potestate legis poenalis, Libri duo. Super Psalmum Miserere mei Deus Homiliae Vigintiquinque (...) Super Psalmum Beati quorum remissae sunt iniquitatis Vigintiquatuor (...) (Madrid: Blasio Roman, 1773). This work can be accessed via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, via Google Books and Archive.org. For a number of additional Opera Omnia editions containing several or all of his works, see Castro (1996), 80-83. On pp. 83 ff. Castro also lists some smaller edited and unedited works.

literature

Juan a S. Antonio,Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 40-42; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1650); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806) 24; Hurter, Nomenclator IV, 1184; DThC II (1905), 1835-1836; Dominique de Caylus, ‘Alphonse de Castro’, DHGE II, 707-708; Hipólito Sancho, ‘Domingo Soto y Alfonso de Castro’, Ciencia tomista 22 (1920), 142-160; D. Beaufort, ‘Alfonsus a Castro als bron voor Hugo de Groot’s ‘Mare Liberum’’, Coll. Franc. Neerlandica 1 (1927), 205-218; Domingo Savall, ‘Fr. Alfonso de Castro (1495-1558). La orientación voluntarista de su derecho penal’, AIA 38 (1935), 240-255; Santiago Castillo, Alfonso de Castro y el problema de las leyes penales: O la obligatoriedad moral de las leyes humanas (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1941); Teodoro Olarte, Alfonso de Castro (1495-1558): Su vida, su tiempo y sus ideas filosóficas-hurídicas, Licentiate Thesis (Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 1946); Ramón Lourido, ‘El derecho de la guerra en Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 4 (1951), 149-166; Johannes Beumer, ‘Häresie und kirchliche Gliedschaft nach Alfonso de Castro, OFM’, Franz. Stud. 45 (1953), 243-256; Manuel de Castro, ‘Fr, Alfonso de Castro, OFM (1495-1558), consejero de Carlos V y de Felipe II’, Salmanticensis 6 (1958), 281-322; Manuel de Castro, ‘Fr. Alfonso de Castro, OFM (1495-1558). Notas bibliográficas’, Collectanea Franciscana 28 (1958), 59-88; Amado González, ‘Vida y bibliografía de Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 9-106; Saturnino Arias, ‘Herejía y hereje en Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (19958), 109-130; Luis García García, ‘El primado pontificio y la infalibilidad de la iglesia en Fr. Alfonso dde Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 131-165; Felipe García García, ‘Alfonso de Castro frente a los errores protestantes’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 168-219; Raúl Benedeti Teja, ‘Alfonso de Castro y la predicación’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 221-247; Caros Amigo Vallejo, ‘Erasmo en las obras de Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 249-278; Eladio Seara González, ‘El castigo de los herejes según Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 281-306; José Aníbal Arias Barredo, ‘Las doctrinas democráticas en Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 307-350; Claudio Gancho, ‘La biblia en Alfonso de Castro’, Salmanticensis 5 (1958), 323-349; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, ‘Teoría de Alfonso de Castro en torno a la ley penal’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 351-376; Lisardo López Canedo, ‘El derecho internacional en las obras de Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 377-506; Isaac Vázquez, ‘Fr. Alfonso de Castro frente a las desviaciones protestantes sobre la misa’, Verdad y Vida 16 (1958), 5-55; Alejandro Recio, ‘El franciscano Alfonso de Castro, predicador y maestro de predicadores’, Verdad y Vida 16 (1958), 385-424; Feliciano de Ventosa, ‘Alfonso de Castro y las problemas de la ‘nueva cristianidad’, Estudios Franciscanos 60 (1959), 203-246; Isaac Vázquez, ‘Alfonso de Castro, cuatro siglos después’, Verdad y Vida 17 (1959), 359-363; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, Origen español de la ciencia del derecho penal: Alfonso de Castro y su sistema penal (Madrid: Cisneros, 1959); Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, ‘El concepto de ley en Fr, Alfonso de Castro’, Verdad y Vida 17 (1959), 31-74; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, Origen español de la ciencia del derecho penal. Alfonso de Castro y su sistema penal (Madrid, 1959); Johannes Beumer, ‘Der Traditionsbegriff des Trienter Konzilstheologen Alfonso de Casro OFM’, Franz. Stud. 43 (1961), 297-308; G. Rambaldi, ‘Il testo tridentino sulla traditione nella interpretazione del teologo A. de Castro, OFM, e del vescovo C. Musso, OFMConv’, Antonianum 37 (1962), 279-292; Francisco Amigo, ‘Unidad e insilubilidad del matrimonio según Alfonso de Castro’, Verdad y Vida 20 (1962), 5-55; Francisco Amigo, ‘Algunas herejías matrimoniales, según Alfonso de Castro’, Verdad y Vida 21 (1963), 185-206; Enrique García Centeno, ‘Alfonso de Castro y la lectura de la biblia en lengua vulgar’, Studium legionense 5 (1964), 161-195; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 460-461; Sandra Berke Harding, 'Neoscholasticism and the Rule of God's Law: The Thought of the Castilian Theologian Alfonso Castro', Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 15 (1988), 81-98; M. de Castro, ‘Castro, Alfonso’, Diccionario de historia de la iglesia de España, 1 (Madrid, 1971), 381-2; Diaz vol. 2, 255-261; LthK, 2 (1994), 974; Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 66-85; Daniela Müller, ‘Ketzerei und Ketzerbestrafung im Werk des Alfonso de Castro', in: Die Ordnung der Praxis. Neue Studien zur Spanischen Spätscholastik, ed. Frank Grunert und Kurt Seelmann (Tübingen, 2001), 333ff.; Harald Maihold, ‘Systematiker der Häresien – Erinnerung an Alphonso de Castro (1492-1558)', Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kan. Abt. 87:1 (2001), 523–530. Harald Maihold, Strafe für fremde Schuld? Die Systematisierung des Strafbegriffs in der Spanischen Spätscholastik und Naturrechtslehre, Konflikt, Verbrechen und Sanktion in der Gesellschaft Alteuropas, 9 (Cologne: Böhlau, 2005), passim; Manuel Lázaro Pulido, 'La transmisión del pensamiento de Alfonso de Castro', Helmantica 63 (2012), 375-404; Manuel Lázaro Pulido, 'La ley natural en Alfonso de Castro, OFM', in: Right and Nature in the First and Second Scholasticism: Acts of the XVIIth Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale Porto Alegre, Brazil, 15-18 September 2010; Derecho y naturaleza en la primera y segunda escolástica, ed. Alfredo Culleton (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 285-300; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, Alfonso de Castro y su doctrina penal: el origen de la ciencia del derecho penal (Pamplona, 2014).

Alfonso de Espina (Alonso de Spina, † after 1495)

OMObs. Spanish theologian. He was a preacher and Magister Regens of theology at the Franciscan convent of Salamanca. In 1491 he became auxiliary bishop at Oviedo (1495), and titular archbishop of Thermopolis (2 December 1491). Also active as confessor of Juan II of Castilia. He wrote the Fortalitium Fidei Contra Judaeos, Sarracenos et Alios Christianae Fidei Inimicos (1459-62, written in Valladolid), which has survived in some mss and in many editions (First printed in 1471). This apologetic exposition of the Christian faith makes a plea for chasing away the Jews from Spain, much along the lines of the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290. It also propagates a harsh policy against converts in general. The Fortalitium Fidei can be seen as a methodological and ideological program for the emerging Spanish inquisition. [The book is divided in five parts: 1. De armatura omnium fidelium; 2. De bello hereticorum; 3. De bello judeorum; 4. De bello saracenorum; 5. De bello dominorum]. Aside from the Fortalitium Fidei, Alfonso wrote sermons, and pobably a Tractatus de Fortuna Dicatus Ioanni Castellae Regi (dedicated to Don Juan Rey de Castilla).

works

Sermones plures de excellentia nostrae fidei (1459, based on sermons held at Medina del Campo) & Sermones 22 de nomine Iesu (1454): MS Burgo de Osma, BC 26.

Fortalitium Fidei: a.o. Burgo de Osma, Catedral BC 154; etc. For a complete listing of the mss, see Archivio Ibero-Americano, 25 (1926), 360-381.
There are several incunables and sixteenth century imprints of the Fortalitium Fidei [o.a.: Strasbourg: Johannes Mentelin, 1464; Strassbourg, Johannes Mentelin, ca. 1471; Basel, Bernhardus Richel, ca. 1475; Neurenberg, Antonius Koberger, 10 oct., 1485; Neurenberg, 1494; Antonius Koberger, 25 febr., 1494 (and 1498?); Lyon, Etienne Guenard, 1511-1525. See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, II (Stuttgart-New York, 1968²), 110-114.] Several of these editions are now accessible on a number of digital portals. For a partial modern edition with English translation, see: Was jesus of Nazareth the Messiah? Alphonso de Espinar's Argument Against the Jews based on his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah in the `Fortalium fidei (c. 1464). An edition, Translation and Commentary, ed. S.J.Mc. Michael, Diss. (Rome, 1992; reimpr. Atlanta, 1994). This is not a complete edition.

Tractatus de Fortuna Dicatus Ioanni Castellae Regi: MS Escorial. Check!

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1650), 14 [edition 1906, p. 14]; Wadding, Annales Minorum XII (Rome, 1735), 144 & XIV, 523; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 51-52; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (ed. Rome, 1908), 29f; Zawart, 299; AIA 5 (1916), 278; AIA 11 (1919), 75, 328; AIA 25 (1926), 335-337, 347-380; A. López, ‘Descripción de los manoscritos franciscanos existentes en la Biblioteca de Toledo’, Archivo Ibero-Americano, 25 (1926), 360-381; AIA 31 (1929), 68-75; M. Espito,‘Une secte d’hérétiques à Medina del Campo en 1459, d’après le ‘Fortalitium fidei’ d’Alphonse de Spina’, Chtonia 32 (1936), 350-360 (see also Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastique 32 (1936), 350-360); Idem, ‘Notes sur le ‘Fortalitium fidei’ d’Alphonse de Spina’, Chtonia 43 (1948), 514-536; A.A. Sicroff, Les controverses des statuts de pureté de sang en Espagne du XVe au XVIIe (Paris, 1960), 74-75; I. Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles en la edad media’, Repertorio de historia de las ciencias eclesiasticas en españa 1 (siglos iii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1967), 319; AIA 29 (1969), 158; B. Netanyahu, ‘Alonso de Espina. Was he a New Christian?’, Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research 43 (1976), 107-165; A. Meyuhas Ginio, ‘The Conversos and the Magic Arts in Alonso de Espina's ‘Fortalitium Fidei’’, Mediterranean Historical Review 5 (1990), 169-182; Idem, ‘The Fortress of Faith at the End of the West. Alfonso de Espina and his ‘Fortalitium Fidei’, in: Contra Judaeos. Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews, ed. O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsma (1995), pp?; Idem, ‘El concepto de ‘perfidia judaica (...)’, Helmantica 46 (1995), 229-311; Steven J. Mc Michael, ‘The Sources for Alfonso de Espina’s Messianic Argument against the Jews in the ‘Fortalium Fidei’’, in: Iberia and the mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns, ed. J. Simon (Leyden-New York-Cologne, 1994), I, 72-95; Enciclopedia Universal I Ilustrada, XXII (Barcelona, 1924), 214; Encyclopaedia Judaica, II, 605f; Biblioteca Bíblica Ibérica Medieval, ed. K. Reinhardt-H. Santiago-Otero (Madrid, 1986), I, 63f; Fernando Domíngue, ‘Alfonso de Espina’, LthK, 1 (1993), 384; Alisa Meyuhas Ginio, ‘Rêves contre les sarrasins dans la Castille du XVe siècle. Alonso de Espina ‘Fortalitum fidei’’, Revue de l’Histoire des religions 212 (1995), 145-174; A. Meyúhas Ginio, ‘De bello Iudaeorum.’ Fray Alonso de Espina y su ‘Fortalicium fidei’, Fontes Iudaeorum Regni Castellae VIII (Salamanca, 1998); Alisa Meyúhas Ginio, La forteresse de la foi. La vision du monde d’Alonso de Espina, moine espagnol, trans. Zvi Rabi (Paris: Cerf, 1998); Alisa Meyúhas Ginio, ‘The Fortress of Faith. At the End of the West. Alonso de Espina and His ‘Fortalitium Fidei’’, in: Contra Iudaeos. Ancient and medieval polemics between Christians and Jews, ed. O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsa, Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism 10 (Tübingen, 1996), 215-237; M. Monsalvo Antón, ‘Algunas consideraciones sobre el ideario antijudío contenido en el ‘Liber III’ del ‘Fortalitium Fidei’ de Alonso de Espina’, in: Aragón en la Edad Media II, 1061-1088; Ana Echevaria, The Fortress of Faith. The Attitude Towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain (Leiden-Boston-Köln, 1999); Ana Echevarria, The Fortress of Faith. The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth -Century Spain, PhD. Thesis (Leiden, 1999); Steven J. McMichael, ‘Alfonso de Espina on the Mosaic Law’, in: Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Susan E. Myers, The Medieval Franciscans, 2 (Leiden-Boston, 2004), 199-224; Steven J. McMichael, ‘The End of the World. Antichrist, and the final conversion of the Jews in the ‘Fortalitium fidei’ of Friar Alonsus de Espina (d. 1464)’, Medieval Encounters 12 (Leiden, 2006), 224-273; Steven J. McMichael, ‘Friar Alonso de Espina. Prayer and Medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian polemical literature’, in: Franciscans at Prayer, ed. Timothy Johnson (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 271-304; Constanza E. Cavallero, 'La dimensión política de la demonología cristiana en el Fortalitium Fidei de Alonso de Espina (Castilla, siglo XV): 'A facie inimici'', Edad Media. Revista de historia 13 (2012), 209-239; Francisco Javier Rojo Alique, ‘Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile’, in: Franciscans and Preaching. Every Miracle from the Beginning of the World Came about through Words, ed. Timothy Johnson, The Medieval Franciscans, 7 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012), 356-367; Constanza E. Cavallero, ‘La dimensión política de la demonología cristiana en el Fortalitium Fidei de Alonso de Espina (Castilla, siglo XV): ‘A facie inimici”, Edad Media. Revista de historia 13 (2012), 209-239; José María Monsalvo Antón, 'Ideología y anfibología antijudías en la obra Fortalitium Fidei, de Alonso de Espina. Un apunte metodológico', in: El historiador y la sociedad: Homenaje al profesor José María Mínguez, ed. Pablo C. Díaz et al. (Salamanca, 2013), 163-188; Rosa Vidal Doval, Misera Hispania: Jews and Conversos in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei, Medium Aevum Monographs, 31 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2013); Constanza Cavallero, ‘Judíos, conversos y “malos cristianos” en el Fortalitium Dei de Alonso de Espina: la mirada del Cíclope ante una encrucijada de cisiva (Castilla, siglo XV)’, in: Poder y religión en el mundo moderno: La cultura como escenario del conflicto en la Europa de los siglos XV a XVI, ed. Fabián Alejandro Campagne (Buenos Aires, 2014), 117-162; Costanza Cavallero, 'Demonios ibéricos. Los rasgos idiosincráticos de la demonología hispana en el siglo XV', Studia historica. Historia medieval 33 (2015), 289-323.

Alfonso de Santa Anna (d. 1630)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Born at Ponferrada (Astorga diocese). Became a secular priest before he entered the order in the Saint Joseph province. Departed for the Philippines in 1594 (San Gregorio province). Learned Tagalog from the natives and became a missionary. For a while the guardian of the Puebla de Sampalos friary. Died at Manilla in 1630. Wrote catechistic works.

works

Esplicacion de la doctrina christiana en tagalog (Manilla, 1628 & 1637).

Version de la doctrina de cardenal Belarmino al idioma tagalog (Manilla, 1637)

Treatise on the Divine Office?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 39; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 24; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 550; DHGE II (1914), 752-753.

Alfonso de Frias (Alfonsus de Frias, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar, and member of the Castilian province. Know to have preached at the general chapter of Toledo (1606), and this sermon was issued in print in 1608.

works

Concio habita in capitulo generali Ordinis Toleti an. 1608 (Alcalà de Henares, 1608).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 25.

Alfonso de Guadelupe (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Long-term preacher and definitor of the Los Angelos province.

works

Ceremonial Romano (Sevilla: Francisco de Blas, 1713).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 44; Vicente Barrantes, Aparato bibliografico para la historia de Extremadura II, 167.

Alfonso de Pozuelo (fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from the San Gabriel province. Mariologist.

works

Quaestio Theologica: utrum cuncti fideles Christiparae Mariae Ave dicentes, eo ipso illam ab originalis culpae labe immunem protestentur? (Alcalà: Pedro de Alva, 1616).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 50; AIA (1955), 404.

Alfonso de Sanzoles (Alonso Sanzoles/Ildefonso Sanzoles/Francisco Sanzoles, fl. later 16^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar and preacher from the Santiago de Compostella province.

works

Elenchus rerum omnium quae in libris omnibus R.P.F. Ludouici Granatensis (...) continentus (...) (Salamanca: Pedro de Adurça, 1584/Barcelona: Jayme Cendrat, 1588). Accessible via Google Books.

Funerale in exequiis defunctorum. Considerationes ad morum compositionem, Super Epistolas & Evangelia officii defunctorum, cum multis, ac variis observationibus spectantibus ad animarum profectum, aptatisque verbis Evangeliorum, Dominicarum & Festorum (Salamanca: Juan Ferdinand, 1585). Accessible via Madrid, Bibl. Nac. & via Google Books.

Tabula remissionum rerum omnium quae continentur libris R.P.F. Didaci de Stella de Vanitate seculi & meditationibus Amoris Dei (...) (Salamanca: Ildefonso de Terra Nova & Neyla, 1583/Salamanca: Juan Ferdinand, 1587/Alcalà: Juan Gracian, 1597). Accessible via Google Books.

Epitome siue Compendium conceptuum omnium Euangeliorum, quae in Missali Romano continentus (...) (Medina del Campo: Jaime de Canto, 1592). Accessible via Google Books.

Commentaria in Symbolum Apostolorum (Medina del Campo: Jaime de Canto, 1592).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 51, 434 [Franciscus Sanzoles]; Wadding-De Cerreto, Annales Minorum XXIII (ed. 1859), 120; AIA 22 (1924), 272-276; AIA 38 (1935), 367-369; AIA 15 (1955), 443-444; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 178 (no. 783); Maria Emília Balio Lavoura, Tipografia espanhola do século XVI: a colecção da Biblioteca Nacional (Lisbon, 2001), 390-391.

Alfonso de Toledo (Alphonsus Toletanus, fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Preacher.

works

Sermon de la inmaculada concepcion de la Virgen Maria (Sevilla, 1616).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 28.

Alfonso de Torres/Alonso de Torres (Alfonsus a Turribus, fl. 17^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar with a long career in the Granada province. After he retired from his teaching assignments as 'lector jubilado', he produced a history of the Observant province of Granada. Juan de San Antonio distinguishes between two friars with the same name from the same province. One would have been a friar Alonso de Torres who as lector jubilatus held a sermon at the general chapter of Toledo in 1682, whereas the other one, chronologus of his order province, would have issued a novice training treatise, a commentary on the rule of Clare, a work called Scala Coeli and, late in life, the Chronica de la santa Provincia de Granada. Sbaralea also assigns the Chronica de la santa Provincia de Granada to the author of the 1682 sermon. We will have to check the more recent literature to sort this out.

works

Educacion espiritual por el novicio (Madrid, 1603/Madrid: Tomas Giunti, 1623).?

Scala Coeli (Granada, 1625).

Comentarios sobre la Regla de S. Clara (Granada, 1640).

Chronica de la santa Provincia de Granada de la regular observancia de N. S.P. San Francisco (Madrid, 1683). A digital copy of this text can be obtained at Google Books and via http://www.bibliotecavirtualdeandalucia.es/catalogo/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=151027.

Sermo de Sancto Joanne. Printed (Madrid, 1682), check complete title [extended version of the lecture given at Toledo in 1682].

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 52; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 30; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 596; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de Torrès’, DHGE II, 757; AIA16 (1921), 395; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 185 (no. 833).

Alfonso de Vascones (Alonso de Vascones/Alfonso de Vascones, fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Born in Aguilar de Campos. Entered the 'Descalzos' Franciscan province of Granada. Preacher and guardian of the Santa Maria de los Angeles de Malaga friary. Known for his ascetical works.

works

Destierro de ignorancias y aviso de penitentes: primera, segunda, y tercera parte y Pictima del alma, arte de ayudar a bien morir (Madrid: Sebastian de Cormellas al Gall, 1615/Madrid: Sebastian Matevad, 1622/Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1662/Madrid: J.Doblado, 1788). These editions available via the library of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and via Google Books (creative search).

Estimulo del alma dormida: Tercera parte del destierro de ignorancias (Sevilla, 1619/Sevilla: en la imprenta de Matevat, 1622). The 1622 edition is available via Google Books.

Pictima del alma en vida, y en muerte para ayudar a bien morir, y para ayudar a bien morir, y para aprendera bien vivir (Sevilla: Sebastian Matevar, 1622). Available via the library of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and via Google Books.

Antidoto del alma (Madrid, 1624)

Para ayudar a bien morir (Sevilla, 1620/Sevilla, 1626).

Obres completas (Madrid, 1667)

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 127; Sbaralea, Supplementum II (Rome, 1921), 4; N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova (Madrid, 1783) I, 51; AIA 20 (1923), 137; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 188 (no. 856).

Alfonso de Villasancta (fl. late 15^th – early 16^th cent.)

OFMObs & OFMConv. Spanish friar. Joined the Observants, yet transferred to the conventuals in 1509, received into their fold at Vallemoti by the master general Raynaldo Graziani. Studied at Paris. Stayed at Paris until 1518, when he addressed a letter from there to Charles V [when the Grand Couvent was already Observant!]. Also involved with the 1518 Quodlibeta theologica edition of the 13th-century secular master Henry of Ghent. Confessor of the English Queen Catherine of Aragon and in 1526, he became titular bishop of Gabala and adjutor of his Franciscan colleague Henry Standish, bishop of Saint Asaph in England.

works

Henrici Gandavensis Quodlibeta theologica, ed. Alphonsus de Villa Sancta (Paris, 1518).

Guglielmi Rubionis Commentaria in IV Libros Sententiarum, ed. Alphonsus de Villa Sancta (Paris: Jodocus Badius, 1518).

Problema indulgentiarum: quo Lutheri errata dissoluuntur, et theologorum de eisde opinio hactenus apud eruditos uulgata astruitur (London: Pinson, 1523).

De Libero Arbitrio contra Melanchtonem (London: Pinson, 1523).

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum XVI, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 30; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de Villasancta’, DHGE II, 763.

Aloisius Baldi (Aloisio Baldi, fl. 16th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) friar from Palermo. Important theologian and biblical exegete, who commented on most books of the Bible. Probably died around 1576.

works

To be continued

literature

Martino de Torrecilla, Apologema, espeio y eccelencias de la serafica religion de meñores capuccinos (Turin, 1673), 177; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 172-173; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 183; A. Teetaert, ‘Baldi’, DHGE VI, 334-335.

Aloisius de Casanaro (Aloisio da Casanaro/Luigi Taselli/Luigi da Casanaro, d. 1694 or 1700)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Apulia. Active as a preacher and theology professor. Departed to Morea in Greece as a missionary in the mid 1640s. Worked towards unification of the Orthodox and the Catholic churches.

works

De primatu Summi Pontificis adversus Graecos illum impugnantes (Lecce, 1644).

De Ritibus Graecis et Latinis deque eorum mysterio (Lecce, 1644).

Antichità di Leuca nel Capo Salentino (Lecce: Eredi di Pietro Micheli, 1693/1859). The 1693 edition is accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 293, 307; Luigi Giuseppe de Simone, Lecce e i suoi monumenti: descritti ed illustrati, volume primo: La città (Lecce: Gaetano Campagnelle, 1874), 132; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missione Cappuccine III, 146; Italia Francescana 13 (1938), 188-210; Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 44-45.

Aloisius de Crema (Aloisio da Crema, 1763-1816)

OFMCap. Italian lay Capuchin friar in the Roman province, painter. Born in 1763. Sent by the bishop of Crema to Rome to finish his artistic education. There he joined the Capuchins as a lay friar and studied under the painter Pompeio Batoni. He produced a significant number of works for churches and lay people. he died in Rome in 1816.

works

Paintings

literature

Valdemiro, Cappuccini Milanesi II, 663-666; Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 45.

Aloisius de Livorno (Aloisio da Livorno, d. 1816)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar and member of the Tuscany province. Joined the order in 1755. Theological polemicist known for his anti-Jansenist writings. His polemical stance necessitated a temporary 'exile' in the Umbrian province. Back in Tuscany, he wrote in support of marriage and against the revolutionary anti-clerical laws in France. He died on 16 Februart 1816.

literature

Memoriale Capp. Toscani, 313, 473-491, 681; Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 46.

Aloisius de Portogruario (Aloisio da Portogruaro, d. 1794)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Venice province. Renowned preacher.

works

Volumen Orationum Panegyricarum (Venice: Santini, 1805).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 11.

Aloisius Grueber (Aloysius Grueber/Alois Gruber, 1708-1755)

OFMRec. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol province. Preacher. He died on 21 January 1755.

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Freundlicher Schlaff, und schaffender Freund in dem hoch-frey-herrlichen Owischen Ansitz zu Felldorf, das ist: Leich- und Ehren-Rede des weyl. Reichs-Frey-Hoch-Wohl-Gebohrenen Herrn, Josephi Clementis Freyherrn von Ow, (...) vorgetragen in der Birliegischen Pfarr-Kirche im Beyseyn eines hohen Adels, gesamten getreuen Unterthanen, auch sonst vieler Geistlich- und Weltlichen Zuhörern, von P.F. Aloysio Grueber (...)) dermahligen Stiffts-Prediger in Horb, den 17. Dec. als am Fest des h. Lazari Anno 1746 (1746).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 62. [Accessible via https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/2820520/veroffentlichungen-der-tiroler-franziskaner-aus-schwaz and https://docplayer.org/7754630-Die-schriftsteller-der-tiroler-franziskanerprovinz-vom-hl-leopold-gesammelt-von-p-gerold-fussenegger-ofm-1901-1965.html]

Aloisius Maria Paviensis (Aloisio Maria da Pavia, d. 1800)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Milan. Respected preacher. He published under the pseudonym Licino da Guatimira.

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Osservazioni critiche sopra diversi Oratori di una metropoli nell'anno 1786, 2 Vols. (Pavia, 1786-1787). Under the pseudonym Licino da Guatimira.

literature

Valdemiro, Cappuccini Milanesi II, 483f; Lexicon Capuccinum, 46, 532.