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B.

Balduinus Brandeburgensis (Balduinus von Brandenburg, fl. second half thirteenth cent.)

Balduinus Brunswickensis, see: Jordanus de Yano (letter J) and Chronica Anonyma Provinciae Saxoniae (under Anonymous works)

Balduinus Junius/de Jonghe (Junius Balduinus van Dordrecht, ca. 1583-1634)

Baldus de Montenovo (fl. 15th cent.)

Baldus de Stroncone (Baldo da Stroncone/Baldo Novelli, fl. early 17th cent.)

Baldus Novelli, see: Baldo de Stroncone

Balthasar Aniser (1679-1763)

Balthasar Basseliers (Balthasar Basseliers, ca. 1570-1637)

Balthasar Bustamante, see: Balthasar de Bustamente

Balthasar Crispo (Baldassarre Crispo, d. 1602)

Balthasar Cultrana/Cutrana (Balthasar Cultrara/Baldassare Cultrana, d. 1624)

Balthasar de Alarcón (fl. ca. 1575)

Balthasar de Baños

Balthasar de Bustamente (fl. first half 17th cent.)

Balthasar de Canizal (Baltasar de Cañizal, fl. early 17th cent.)

Balthasar de Carrera (Baltasar de la Carrera, fl. 1730?)

Balthasar de Castillo (Baltasar del Castillo, fl. 17th cent.)

Balthasar de Conceptione (Baltasar de la Concepción, fl. 1764)

Balthasar de Draguignan (1607-1678)

Balthasar de Herrera (Baltasar de Herrera, d. 1675 cent.)

Balthasar de Medina (Baltasar de Medina/Baldassare da Medina, d. 1696)

Balthasar de Merica ((Balhasar de Myriaca/Balthasar Moerynus/Balthasar van der Heyden, d. 1573)

Balthasar de Messina (Baldassare da Messina, fl. 1660)

Balthasar de Riez (d. 1678)

Balthasar de Sancto Josepho (Baltasar de San José y Peña, fl. late 17th cent.)

Balthasar de Victoria (Baltasar de Vitoria, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Balthasar de Villafranca (Baltasar Villafranca, fl. 1580)

Balthasar Dracenensis, see: Balthasar de Draguignan

Balthasar Florentinus (Baltasar de Florentia/Baldassare da Firenze, d. 1493)

Balthasar Herrera, see: Balthasar de Herrera

Balthasar Lopez (Baltasar López, fl. 1600)

Balthasar Moerynus, see: Balthasar de Merica

Balthasar Melatius Narensis (1643-1709)

Balthasar Olimpius (Balthasar Olympius/Baldassare Olimpo degli Alessandri di Sassoferrato, fl. early 16th cent.)

Balthasar Pachecus (Baltasar Pacheco, fl. 1605)

Balthasar Paglia de Calatagirone (Baldassar Paglia da Caltagirone, fl. 17th cent.)

Balthasar Regiensis, see: Balthasar de Riez

Balthasar van der Heyden, see: Balthasar de Merica

Baptista Alfani (Battista Alfani da Perugia/Antonia Alfani, d. 1523)

Baptista de Levanto (d. 1469)

Baptista de Montefeltro (Battista da Montefeltro/Girolama/Jeronima da Montefeltro, fl. late 15th cent.)

Baptista de Poppi (fl. 1385)

Baptista de Salis (Baptista Trovamala de Salis, † after 1494)

Baptista de Saxoferrato (Battista da Sassoferrato)

Baptista Donolinus (Battista Donolino, fl. first half 16th cent.)

Baptista Fernandez, see: Joannes Baptista Fernandez (Juan Bautista Fernandez), Letter J

Baptista Trovamala, see: Baptista de Salis

Baptista Monsfeltria (Battista da Montefeltro, d. 1450)

Baptista Varana (Battista Varani/Camilla Varani, fl. late 15th cent.), beatus (1843)

Barbadino (Pseud. for Luiz Antonio Verney, fl. mid 18th cent.)

Barbara Fivoli (Barbera Fivoli, 1717-1764)

Barbara Welden (fl. 15th cent.)

Barbara Wernherin (Barbara Wernerin, fl. 15th cent.)

Barbatus (fifteenth century)

Barnabas Antonius de Pardina (Bernabé Antonio de Pardiñas, fl. first half 18th cent.)

Barnabas de Bailleul (Barnabé d’Armentières, ca. 1616-1677)

Barnabas de Gambellara (Barnabas da Gambellara, 1605-1660)

Barnabas de Caprile (Barnaba da Caprile, d. 1797 [1799?])

Barnabas de Palma (d. 1530)

Barnabas de Terni (Barnabas Interamnensis/Barnaba Manassei da Terni, d. 1477)

Barnabas Kirchhuber (fl. 17th cent.)

Barnabas N., see: Barnabas de Palma

Barnabas Saladin (d. after 1702)

Barnabas Underberger (Barnabas Unterberger, d. 1727)

Baronius, see: Bonaventura Baronius

Bartholinus de Mantova (fl. 1314)

Bartholinus de Perugia (fl. 1339)

Bartholomaeus (fl. 13th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Adalid Hurtado (Bartolomé Adalid Hurtado, fl. 1730)

Bartholomaeus Adriaensz, see: Bartholomaeus de Middelburg

Bartholomaeus Albisius/Bartolomeo Albizi di Vico/da Pisa, See Barthomomaeus de Pisa

Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Bartholomew Glanville, late 12th century, England - ca 1270)

Bartholomaeus Anglicus II f. 1360 [??]

Bartholomaeus Anleo (Bartolomé Anleo), see: Bartholomaeus de Anleo

Bartholomaeus Apona, see: Bartholomaeus de Jano

Bartholomaeus Baphius (Bartolomeo Baffi da Lusignano, d. 1579)

Bartholomaeus Barbieri (Bartolomeo Barbieri, 1, 01, 1615 - 24, 08, 1697)

Bartholomaeus Bardi (Bartolomeo Bardi, d. 1349)

Bartholomaeus Bellati, see: Bartholomaeus de Feltre

Bartholomaeus Bergomensis (Bartolomeo di Bergamo/Bartolomeo Carminati, d. 1684)

Bartholomaeus Borrás (fl. 1413)

Bartholomaeus Brendolinus/Brundolinus/Brandolinus, see; Bartholomaeus de Brendola

Bartholomaeus Burgillos, see: Bartholomaeus de Burquillis

Bartholomaeus Chaimi, see: Bartholomaeus de Chaimis

Bartholomaeus Cambi (Bartholomaeus de Salutio/a Saluthio, d. 1617)

Bartholomaeus Campi, see also: Bartholomaeus de Camp

Bartholomaeus Catanius/Catany (Bartomeu Catany, d. 1462)

Bartholomaeus Cimarellus (Bartolomeo Cimarelli di Ronaldo/Bartolomeo Cimarella, d. ca. 1628?)

Bartholomaeus Colonnesus/Colunensis, see: Bonaventura Colonnesus

Bartholomaeus Comandus (Bartolomeo Comando, fl. late 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Alverna (Bartolomeo della Verna, fl. late 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Amelia (d. 1291)

Bartholomaeus de Anleo (Bartolomé de Anleo, d. 1692)

Bartholomaeus de Apona, see: Bartholomaeus de Yano

Bartholomaeus de Assisi (Bartolomeo d'Assisi, fl. ?)

Bartholomaeus de Astroy (Bartélémy d'Astroy/Bartholomaeus de Astry, fl. 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Barberiis, see: Bartholomaeus Barbieri

Bartholomaeus de Bergamo, see: Bartholomaeus Bergomensis

Bartholomaeus de Bidgostia (Bartlomiej z Bydgoszczy/Bartholomaeus von Bromberg, 1480-1548)

Bartholomaeus de Bohemia (d. 1257)

Bartholomaeus de Bononia (d. after 1294)

Bartholomaeus de Bononia, see: Bartholomaeus de Vecchis

Bartholomaeus de Brendola (Bartholomaeus Brandolini/Bartolomeo da Brendola/Il Brandolino, fl. 16th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Burquillis (Bartolomeo de Burquillos/de Burguillos, 1580-1638 [1634?])

Bartholomaeus de Bydgoszcz (d. 1548)

Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (Bartholomaeus de Chaymis/Bartolomeo Chaimi, d. ca. 1496)

Bartholomaeus de Campo (Bartolomeo del Campo, fl. late 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Campo (Barthélemy Des Champs, 1615-ca. 1690)

Bartholomaeus de Castello (Bartolomeo da Città di Castello/Bartolomeo Cordoni da Città di Castello, 1471-1535), beatus

Bartholomaeus de Castro (Bartolomeo de Castro, fl. 1700)

Bartholomaeus de Chaymis, see: Bartholomaeus de Chaimis

Bartholomaeus de Cherracio (Bartolomeo Charracio, fl. later 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Civitate Rodrigensis (Bartolomeo de Ciudad Rodrigo, d. 1448)

Bartholomaeus de Colle (d. 1484)

Bartholomaeus de Cothurno (Bartolomeo da Cucurno, d. 1386)

Bartholomaeus de Cremona (fl. 1254)

Bartholomaeus de Escanuela, see: Bartholomaeus Garcia de Escanuela

Bartholomaeus de Fabriano (Bartolomeo da Fabriano, d. ca. 1505 )

Bartholomaeus de Feltre (Bartolomeo Bellati/Bartolomeo da Feltre, d. 1479)

Bartholomaeus de Grassis, see: Bartholomaeus Mediolanensis

Bartholomaeus de Jano/Yano (Bartolomeo di Giano/Bartolomeo Apona/de Abano, d. 1483)

Bartolomaeus de la Haye, see: Bartholomaeus Parisiensis

Bartholomaeus de La Verna (d. 1407)

Bartholomaeus de la Xara: Bartholomaeus Xara

Bartholomaeus de Letona (Bartholomaeus de Latona/Bartolomé de Letona, fl. 1650)

Bartholomaeus de Mainardis (fl. 1380)

Bartholomaeus de Malacria (d. 1316)

Bartholomaeus de Meduna, see: Bartholomeo Meduna

Bartholomaeus de Middelburg (1484-1564)

Barthomolaeus de Milano, see: Bartholomaeus Mediolanensis

Bartholomaeus de Molina (Bartolomé de Molina, fl. 1500)

Bartholomaeus de Molina (Bartolomé de Molina, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Nibia, see: Bartholomaeus Nibia

Bartholomaeus de Pergola (fl. 1560)

Bartholomaeus de Oneta, see: Bartholomaeus Mattheolus de Oneta

Bartholomaeus de Ordonnez, see: Bartholomaeus Ordoñez

Bartholomeus de Petroio (1488-after 1539)

Bartholomaeus de Pisa (Bartholomeo Albisi/Bartolomeo Albizzi de Vico, d. 10-12, 1361)

Bartholomaeus de Pisa, see also: Bartholomaeus de Rinonico

Bartholomaeus de Platea (Bartolomeo de la Plaza, d. ca. 1598)

Bartholomaeus de Puliola (Bartolomeo da Pugliola, fl. late 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Repps (fl. early 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Rinonico (Bartholomeo da Pisa, ca. 1338-1401)

Bartholomaeus de Salutio, see: Bartholomaeus Cambi

Bartholomaeus Deschamps, see: Bartholomaeus de Campo

Bartholomaeus de Stalam (Bartholomaeus Minor, f. 13th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Tauris (fl. early 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Tolomaeus (fl. 14th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Tuderco (Bartolomeo da Todi, d. 1391/93)

Bartholomaeus de Urbeveteri (Bartolomeo da Orvieto, fl. ca. 1550)

Bartholomaeus de Ursinis, see: Bartholomaeus Ursinis

Bartholomaeus de Vecchis (Bartolomeo dei Vecchis/Bartolomeo da Bologna, d. 1628)

Bartholomaeus de Villalba (Bartolomé de Villalba, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Villanova (Bartolomé de Villanueva, fl. mid 18th cent.)

Bartholomaeus de Yano (Bartolomé da Giano/Bartolomeo di Apone, fl. 15th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Durandus (Bartélemy Durand, fl. late 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Eyoas (Bartolomé Eoyas, fl. late 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Escarrer (Bartolomé Escarrer, d. 1784)

Bartholomaeus Feltrensis, see: Bartholomaeus de Feltre

Bartholomaeus Fontius (Bartolomeo Fonzio, 1502-1562)

Bartholomaeus Fornesius (Bartolomeo Fornés, 1691-1788)

Bartholomaeus Gaius (Bartolomeo Gay/Gaio, ca. 1340-ca. 1410)

Bartholomaeus Garcia (Bartolomé García, fl. 1670)

Bartholomaeus García (Bartholomé García, d. 1767)

Bartholomaeus Garcia de Escanuela (Bartolomé García de Escañuela, d. 1684)

Bartholomaeus Garci Ordonnez (Bartolomeo Garci Ordoñez, fl. 1600)

Bartholomaeus Golfi, see: Bartholomaeus de Pergola

Bartholomaeus Guerrero (Bartolomé Guerrero, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Guisculus (fl. 13th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Longo (Bartolomeo Longo)

Bartholomaeus Luxemburgensis (fl. mid 18th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Mascara (de Padova/de Sancto Andrea, fl. 1302)

Bartholomaeus Mastrius de Meldola (Bartolomeo Mastrio/Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, 1602-1673)

Bartholomaeus Mattheolus de Oneta (Bartolomeo Mattioli di Oneta, d. 1661)

Bartholomaeus Mediolanensis (Bartolomeo da Milano/Bartholomaeus de Grassis, fl. 1370)

Bartholomaeus Meduna (Bartholomaeus Methuna/Bartolomeo Meduna, fl. second half 16th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Middelburgensis, see: Bartholomaeus de Middelburg

Bartholomaeus Monferinus (Bartolomeo Monferino, fl. 1630)

Bartholomaeus Montalbano (fl. 1629)

Bartholomaeus Montero de Espinosa (Bartolomé Montero de Espinosa, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Nibia (Bartholomaeus Nibbia/Bartolomeo di Nibia, fl. 1495)

Bartholomaeus Nocellus (Bartolomeo Nocelli da Matalone/Mattalona, fl. 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Nunnez (Bartolome Nuñez, d. ca. 1621)

Bartholomaeus Olearius (Bartholomaeus Uliarius/Bartolomeo Oleario, ca. 1320-1396)

Bartholomaeus Ordoñez, see: Bartholomaeus Garci Ordonnez

Bartholomaeus Otranto (fl. 1231)

Bartholomaeus Parisiensis (Barthélemy de la Haye, d. 1660)

Bartholomaeus Parodi Genuensis (Bartolomeo Parodi da Genova/Dionisio Parodi, 1731-1809)

Bartholomaeus Pectoranus (Bartolomeo Pectorano/dei Pettorani, d. 1688)

Bartholomaeus Pelegri (fl. 1333)

Bartholomaeus Preatus (Bartolammeo Preati Vicentino), see: Angelicus de Vicenza (Letter A)

Bartholomaeus Rico (Bartolomé Rico, d. 1642)

Bartholomaeus Rubeus (Bartolomeo Rossi, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Ruys (ca. 1530-1600)

Bartholomaeus Salutio (a Saluthio, 1558-1617), see: Bartholomaeus Cambi

Bartholomaeus Sarmentero (Bartolomeo Sarmentero, fl. mid 18th cent.)

Bartholomaeus Senensis ([Bartolomaeus de Ptolomaeis?]/Bartolomeo da Siena, d. 1396)

Bartholomaeus Senensis (Bartolomeo da Siena, d. 1454/55)

Bartholomaeus Sicardi (14th century)

Bartholomaeus Uliarius, see: Bartolomeo Olearius

Bartholomaeus Ursinus (Bartolomeo dei Ursini/Bartolomeo Orsini, fl. 15th century)

Bartholomaeus Villalba, see: Bartholomaeus de Villalba

Bartholomaeus Xara (Bartolomé Xara, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bartolus Bompedoni (1228-1300), beatus

Bartoluccius Assisiensis, see: Guido Bartoluccius (Letter G)

Basilide d’Ath (Jean de la Place, fl. 1620)

Basilius Brollo, see: Basilius de Gemona

Basilius Brugensis (Basile de Bruges/Gaspar Melinck, fl. 17th cent.)

Basilius de Aire (Basile d’Aire/Étienne Godin, ca. 1591-ca. 1640)

Basilius de Aire (d. 1667)

Basilius de Alcira (Basilio de Alzira, fl. second half 17th cent.)

Basilius de Angri (Basilio d’Angri, d. ca. 1680)

Basilius de Busco/Basilius de Burgo, see: Archangelus de Burgonovo (Arcangelo da Burgonovo/Basilio dal Borgo/Basilio De Busco, Letter A

Basilius de Cambrai (fl. mid 17th cent.)

Basilius de Gemona (Basilio Brollo da Gemona, 1648-1704)

Basilius de Lyon (Basilius Lugdunensis/Basile de Lyon, d. 1628)

Basilius de Nola (Basilius Nolanus/Basilio da Nola/Basilio Lettieri/Giulio Cesare Lettieri, d. 1667)

Basilius de Poligny, see: Basilius Poliniacensis

Basilius de Portella (Basilio da Portella, d. 1634)

Basilius de Roncal, see: Basilius Iturri

Basilius de Salon (Basile de Salon, d. 1625)

Basilius de Sancta Flora (Basilio da Santa Fiora, d. 1734)

Basilius de San-Severino (Basilio di San-Severino, d. 1641)

Basilius de Soissons (Basilius Suessionensis/Basile de Soissons, d. 1698)

Basilius de Surrento (Basilio di Sorento/Basilio Donurso/Basilio Donnorso, d. 1678)

Basilius de Teruel (Basile de Téruel/Basilius a Taruel, d. after 1679)

Basilius de Vico (Basilio di Vico, d. 1641)

Basilius de Zamora (d. 1696)

Basilius Donursus de Surrento (Basilio Donurso da Sorrento), see: Basilius de Surrento

Basilius Ferrari (Basilio Ferrari da Milano, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Basilius Iturri (Basilio Iturri del Roncal, 1674-1758)

Basilius Lugdunensis, see: Basilius de Lyon

Basilius Nerius de Leviliano (Basilio Neri da Leviliano, d. 1631)

Basilius Nolanus, see Basilio de Nola

Basilius Poliniacensis (Basile de Poligny, fl. first half 17th cent)

Basilius Richlewicz Calisiensis (fl. second half 17th cent)

Basilius Salodiensis, see: Basilius de Salon

Basilius Suessionensis, see: Basilius de Soissons

Bassianus Dardadone (Bassianus Dordadone, fl. 15th cent.)

Beatrix de Conceptione (Beatrice de la Concepción/Beatriz de la Concepción, 1594-1646)

Beatrix de Lauga (Beatrice de Lauga, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Beatrix de Silva (Beatrice de Silva Menezes. ca. 1424-1490)

Beatrix Maria de Jesu (Beatriz Maria de Jesus/Beatriz Enciso y Torres, 1632-1702)

Beatus de Valdagno (Pietro Maria Kirker/Beato da Valdagno, 1652-1730)

Beda de Soyen (Beda Von Soyen, 1663-1724)

Benedicta Gambarina (Benedetta Gambarina/Benedetta Gambarini di Venezia, ca. 1590-1658)

Benet de Canfield, see Benedictus de Canfield

Benedictus Aegidius Becerra (Benito Gil Becerra/Bezerra, fl. 18th cent.)

Benedictus Amodeus (Benedetto Amodei da Mazara, 1758-1843)

Benedictus Antonius Ortega (Benito Antonio Ortega, fl. 1750)

Benedictus Bencovic (Benedikt Benkovic, ca. 1460, Zadar - 1522, Judenburg)

Benedictus Bernal (Benito Bernal de Pinós, fl. 1760)

Benedictus Bonelli (Benedetto Bonelli/Benedetto Francesco Bonelli, 1704-1783)

Benedictus Burdigalensis (Benoît de Bordeaux, ?-1694)

Benedictus Catalani (Benedetto Catalani da Roccacontrada, fl. 1505)

Benedictus Celleni/Cellenus, see: Benedictus de Celeno

Benedictus Cinquanta (Benedetto Cinquanta, fl. early 17th cent.)

Benedictus Combasson, see: Bonitius Combasson

Benedictus de Aligniaco (Benedictus de Alignan/Benoît d'Alignan, d. 1268)

Benedictus de Benedictis, see: Benedictus Benkovi

Benedictus de Canfield (Benet of Canfield/William Fitch/Benedictus Filchius, 1562–1610)

Benedictus de Celeno (Benedetto da Celeno/Benedetto Celleni/Benedetto Zeleno, fl. early 17th cent.)

Benedictus de Haarlem (Franciscus van der Plasse, d. 1651)

Benedictus de Liège (Benoît de liège, d. 1660)

Benedictus de Locarno (fl. 16th century?)

Benedictus de Loewenberg, see: Benedictus Leomontanis

Benedictus de Lohr (Benedikt von Lohr, d. 1719)

Benedictus de Lyon, see: Benedictus Lugdunensis

Benedictus de Mazzara, see: Benedictus Mazzara

Benedictus de Milano, see: Benedictus Mediolanensis

Benedictus de Monte Sarculo seu Herculano (Benedetto da Montesarchia, d. 1671)

Benedictus de Noriega (Benedicto de Noroega, 1650-1708)

Benedictus de Passaflumine, see: Benedictus Passafulmine

Benedictus de Sangallo, see: Joannes Benedicti (letter J)

Benedictus de Sancto Benedicto (Benedetto Sanbenedetti), see: Benedictus Mediolanensis

Benedictus de Scandriglia (Benedetto da Scandriglia/Benedetto Palocci da Scandriglia, d. 1659)

Benedictus de Seminaria (Benedictus de Tauriano/Benedetto da Seminari/Benedetto Leoni, 1564-1627)

Benedictus de Solitudine (Benito de la Soledad, fl. 1700)

Benedictus de Torsiano (Benedetto da Torsiano, fl. early 17th cent.)

Benedictus de Toul/de Tulla (Benoît de Toul/Benoît Picart, 1663-1720)

Benedictus de Urbino (Benedetto Passionei da Urbino, 1560-1625), beatus

Benedictus Fidelis de Sancto Philippo (fl. mid 17th cent.)

Benedictus Filchius, see: Benedictus de Canfield

Benedictus Francofontensis, see: Benedictus Gaeta

Benedictus Gaeta (Benedictus Francofontensis/Benedetto Gaeta da Francofonte, ca. 1559-1630)

Benedictus Gualdinus (Benedict Kelsternbasset, 1625-1698)

Benedictus Genuensis (Benedetto de’Barbieri, d. 1795)

Benedictus Gerstner (Benedikt Gerstner, 1743-1797)

Benedictus Laugeois (Benoit/Benoist Laugeois, fl. second half 17th cent.)

Benedictus Leodiensis, see: Benedictus de Liège

Benedictus Leomontanis (Benedictus von Löwenberg, ca. 1450 - 1543)

Benedictus Lugdunensis (Benoît de Lyon, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Benedictus Maria Galli (Benedetto Maria Galli, fl. 18th cent.)

Benedictus Massiliensis, see: Benedictus de Alignan

Benedictus Mazzara (Benedetto Mazzara, d. 1692)

Benedictus Mediolanensis (Benedetto da Milano/Benedetto Sanbenedetti, 1605-1679)

Benedictus Megliavacca (Benedetto Megliavacca, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Benedictus Muellner (Benedictus Müllner, d. ca. 1750)

Benedictus Niger (Benedictis a Sancto Philadelphio/Benedetto Niger/Moro, d. 1589)

Benedictus Paloccius/Pallocius, see: (Benedictus de Scandriglia)

Benedictus Parisiensis (Benoît de Paris/Benoît Laugeois, 1689)

Benedictus Passafulmine (Benedictus de Passaflumine/Benedetto Passafiume, d. 1646)

Benedictus Passionei, see: Benedictus de Urbino

Benedictus Picard, see: Benedictus de Toul

Benedictus Polonus (fl. mid 13th cent.)

Benedictus Prini, see: Joannes Thomas Prini (Letter J)

Benedictus Sanbenedictus, see: Benedictus Mediolanensis

Benedictus Sangallus (as alleged author of La somme des pechez), see: Joannes Benedicti (letter J)

Benedictus Schoffer (Benedictus Scoffer, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Benedictus Sigl (d. 1764)

Benedictus Sinigardi (Benedetto Sinigardi Aretino, 1190-1282), beatus

Benedictus Tilchius de Cansfeldo, see: Benedictus de Canfield

Benedictus Urbinas, see: Benedictus de Urbino

Benedictus Valenza (Benedetto Valenza, fl. 17th cent)

Benedictus Zeleno, see: Benedictus de Celeno

Benignus de Genua/Janua, see: Benignus Genuensis

Benignus de Salviatis, see: Georgius Benignus Salviati (Jurai Dragisic)

Benignus Fremaldus (Bénigne Fremaut, 1654-1723)

Benignus Genuensis (Benignus de Janua/Benigno da Genova, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Benignus Genuensis (Benignus de Janua/Benigno da Genova, fl. second half 18th cent.)

Benignus Lohranus (Benignus von Lohr, d. 1719)

Benignus Maria a. S. Alosio (?)

Benito Bernal de Pinós, see: Benedictus Bernal

Benito Gil Becerra, see: Benedictus Aegidius Becerra

Benignus de Condom (Bénigne de Condom, d. 1697)

Benignus Lohranus (fl. early 18th cent.)

Benjamin Beaupourt (Benjamin Beausport, fl. 16th cent.)

Benjamin de Carcassonne (d. 1708)

Benjamin Elbel (fl. 1730)

Benno de Stans (Benno von Stans/Benno Lussi, 1679-1755)

Benno Mayr (fl. seventeenth century)

Bentivenga de Bentivenghi (Bentivenga da Bentivengis, d. 1289/90)

Benvenutus Catrin (Benvenut Catrin/Cattrin, 1663-17713)

Benvenutus Silvola (Benvenuto Silvola da Milano, 1703-1778)

Berardus Müller

Berardus Recheis (Berard Recheis, 1754-1821)

Berardus Strotius (Berardo Strozzi, fl. 1630)

Berengarius de Bardaxi (Berenguer de Bardaxi, d. 1616)

Berengarius de Malabosco (late 13th-early 14th cent.)

Bernarda Maria (Bernarda Maria de Sevilla, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bernardettus Vercellensis (late 15th cent.)

Bernardinus Amicus (Bernardino Amico, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Andreas (Bernardin d'Andree/Bernardin de Carpentras, d. 1714)

Bernardinus Aquilanus (Bernardino Aquilano/Bernardino da Fossa, 1420-1503), beatus

Bernardinus Astensis, see: Bernardinus de Asti

Bernardinus Barba (Bernardino Barba, fl. 1700)

Bernardinus Barbarianus (Bernardino Barbariano, f. 1529)

Bernardinus Bardutius, see: Bernardinus de Barducis

Bernardinus Biener (Bernardin Bienner, ca. 1630-1721)

Bernardinus Bonavoglia (Bernardino Bonavoglia da Foligno, fl. 1605)

Bernardinus Burdigalensis (Bernardin de Bordeaux), see Bernardus de Bordeaux

Bernardino Burocco, see Guisseppe Bernardino Burocco

Bernardinus Caimi Mediolanensis (Bernardinus de Caimis/Bernardino Caimi da Milano, fl. late 15th century)

Bernardinus Campi, see: Bernardinus de Pontremoli

Bernardinus Catastini (1636-1718)

Bernardinus Chovetus (Bernardin Chovet, fl. 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Ciaffoni (Bernardino Ciaffoni da San Elpidio, fl. second half 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Corvera, see: Bernardinus de Corbera

Bernardinus Cristinus (Bernardino Cristini da Giovellina Corso, fl. 17th cent.)

Bernardinus de Alento (Bernardino d’Alento, 1513-1576)

Bernardinus de Alhama (Bernardino d’Alhalma, d. 1593)

Bernardinus de Andrea, see: Bernardinus Andreas

Bernardinus de Angelis, see: Bernardinus de Los Angeles

Bernardinus de Aretio (Bernardino d’Arezzo 1632-1718)

Bernardinus de Arevalo (Bernardino de Arevalo, 1492-1553)

Bernardinus de Asti (Bernardino d'Asti, 1483-1557)

Bernardinus de Avolio (Bernardino d’Avolio, 1758-1821)

Bernardinus de Balbano (Bernardino da Balvano, d. ca. 1570)

Bernardinus de Barducis (Bernardinus de Cherichinis Bernardinus de Florentia/Bernardino da Firenze/Bernardino dei Barduzzi/Bernardino dei Cherichini/Bernardino di Barduccio di Cherichino, ca. 1440-1508)

Bernardinus de Bordeaux, see: Bernardus de Bordeaux

Bernardinus de Busti (Bernardino de Busti/Bernardino de' Bustis/Bernardino da Busto, 1450-1513)

Bernardinus de Capurso (fl. 1650)

Bernardinus de Carano (Bernardino da Carano, fl. second half 17th cent.)

Bernardinus de Cardenas (Bernardino de Cárdenas y Ponce, 1579-1668)

Bernardinus de Carpentras, see: Bernardinus Andreas (Bernardin Andree/Bernardin de Carpentras, d. 1714)

Bernardinus de Chaimis, see: Bernardinus Caimi Mediolanensis

Bernardinus de Cherichinis, see: Bernardinus de Barducis

Bernardinus de Chiasteggio (Bernardino da Chiasteggio, fl. 1660)

Bernardinus de Chiesa (Bernardino della Chiesa, 1644-1721)

Bernardinus de Cilento (Bernardino da Cilento, d. 1586)

Bernardinus de Colle Petraccio (Bernardinus Cioli de Colpetrazzo/Bernardino Croli da Colpetrazzo, 1514-1594)

Bernardinus de Condom (Bernardin de Condom, d. 1651)

Bernardinus de Corbera (1581-1652)

Bernardinus de Cuneo (Bernardino da Cuneo, d. 1823)

Bernardinus de Estrada, see: Bernardinus Hermosus de Estrada

Bernardinus de Fasano (Bernardino da Fasano, fl. 17th cent.)

Bernardinus de Feltre (Bernardinus Tomitanus/Bernardino da Feltre/Martino Tomitano/Bernardinus Feltrensis, 1439- 1494), beatus

Bernardinus de Flandria (Bernardin de Flandre, d. 1621)

Bernardinus de Florentia, see: Bernardinus de Barducis

Bernardinus de Foligno (Bernardino da Foligno, d. 1515)

Bernardinus de Fondagno (Bernardino di Fondagno/Bernardino da Fundagno, d. 1704)

Bernardinus de Fossa, see: Bernardinus Aquilanus

Bernardinus de Gand/de Ghent, see: Bernardinus Gandensis

Bernardinus de Gorlago (Bernardino da da Gorlago/Bernardino da Bergamo, d. 1630)

Bernardinus de Guardagrilli (Bernardino da Guardagrilli, d. 1627)

Bernardinus de Hungaria (Bernardino di Ungaro, d. 1664)

Bernardinus de Inurrigarro (Bernardino de Inurrigarro, fl. 1660)

Bernardinus de Jesi (Bernardino da Jesi, d. 1726)

Bernardinus de Lavinetha, see: Bernardus de Lavinheta

Bernardinus de Los Angeles (Bernardinus de Angelis/Bernardino de Los Angeles, fl. 1615)

Bernardinus de Lucca (Bernardino da Luccas, fl. mid 18th cent.)

Bernardinus de Madrid (Bernardino de Madrid, fl. late 17th cent.)

Bernardinus de Manlleu (Bernardino de Manlleu/Manlieu, 1585-1645)

Bernardinus de Massa Lubrense (Bernardino da Massa Lubrense)

Bernardinus de Monte Calvo (Bernardinus de Montecalvo/Bernardino da Moncalvo, fl. 1580)

Bernardinus de Monte Ulmo (Bernardinus de Monte Ulmi/Bernardino da Montolmo, 1492-1565)

Bernardinus de Mutina (Bernardino da Modena, fl. second half 18th cent.)

Bernardinus de Nuceria (Bernardino da Nocera, d. 1635)

Bernardinus de Ochino, see: Bernardinus Ochino

Bernardinus de Orciano (d. 1622)

Bernardinus de Palermo (Bernardino di Palermo, fl. Bernardino di Palermo, fl. 1600)

Bernardinus de Paris (Bernardin de Paris, ca. 1605-1685)

Bernardinus de Passeris (Bernardino da Fossecchio, d. 1652)

Bernardinus de Picquigny (Piconio, 1633-1709)

Bernardinus de Poitiers (Bernardin de Poitiers, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bernardinus de Pontremoli (Bernardino Campi/Bernardino da Pontremoli, d. 1716)

Bernardinus de Rechanato (late fifteenth century)

Bernardinus de Reggio (Bernardinus Rheginus/Bernardino da Reggio/`Giorgio', ca. 1476-1535)

Bernardinus de Rupe, see: Bernardinus Rupe

Bernardinus de Sahagún (Bernardinus Sahaguntinus, 1499, Sahagún - 1590, Mexico)

Bernardinus de Saluzzo (1638-1710)

Bernardinus de Sancto Angelo in Vado (Bernardino de Sant’Angelo in Vado/Bernardino Franceschini, d. 1752)

Bernardino de Siena, see: Bernardinus Senensis

Bernardinus de Treviso (fl. late 15th cent.)

Bernardinus de Turamino, see: Bernardinus Turamino

Bernardinus de Valladolid (Bernardinus Vallisoletantus/Bernardino de Valladolid, d. 1652)

Bernardinus Dinius (Bernardino Dinio da Uzzano, fl. ca. 1590)

Bernardinus Florentinus, see: Bernardinus de Barducis

Bernardinus Fulignatensis, see: Bernardinus de Foligno

Bernardinus Gandensis (Bernardus van Gent/Jakob de Caesteker, d. 1732)

Bernardinus Gonzalez I (Bernardino González, fl. 1695)

Bernardinus Gonzalez II (Bernardino González, fl. 1700)

Bernardinus Guardagrilli see: Bernardinus de Guardagrilli

Bernardinus Guslino (Bernardino Guslino, 1534-1580)

Bernardinus Hermosus de Estrada (Bernardino Hermoso de Estrada, fl. 1625)

Bernardinus Hungarus, see: Bernardinus de Hungaria

Bernardinus Inurrigarrus, see: Bernardinus de Inurrigarro

Bernardinus Jiménez (Bernardino Jiménez, fl. second half 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Lackner (Bernardin Lackner, 1578-1627)

Bernardinus Lucensis, see: Bernardinus de Lucca

Bernardinus Leakovic (d. 1815)

Bernardinus Manzoni (Bernardino Manzoni da Cesena, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Mercator (fl. second half 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Monterde, see: Bernardus Monterde

Bernardinus Obicinus (Bernardino Obicino da Orta, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardinus Ochino (Bernardino Ochino, 1487-1564)

Bernardinus Palladius, see: Bernardinus de Asti

Bernardinus Panormitanus, see: Bernardinus de Palermo

Bernardinus Parisiensis, see: Bernardinus de Paris

Bernardinus Perez de Mega (Bernardino Perez de Mega, fl. 1635)

Bernardinus Pianzola (Bernardino Pianzola, fl. second half 18th cent.)

Bernardinus Piconius, see: Bernardinus de Picquigny

Bernardinus Pictaviensis, see: Bernardinus de Poitiers

Bernardinus Rheginus, see: Bernardinus de Reggio

Bernardinus Rochus (Bernardino Rocco da Vizzini, fl. 1650)

Bernardinus Rupe (Bernardinus Ursinus/Bernardino Rupe, ca. 1558-1621)

Bernardinus Sahaguntinus, see: Bernardinus de Sahagún

Bernardinus Senensis (Bernardino da Siena/Bernardino degli Albizzeschi da Siena, 1380-1444)

Bernardinus Siculus (Bernardino Siculo, fl. early 16th cent.)

Bernardinus Silvestris (second half 17th century)

Bernardinus Surius (Bernardinus de Soer, fl. 17th century)

Bernardinus Tomitanus, see: Bernardinus de Feltre

Bernardinus Trevisanus, see: Bernardinus de Treviso

Bernardinus Turaminus ((Bernardino Turamini/Jacopo Turamini, ca. 1580-ca. 1635)

Bernardinus Vallisoletanus, see: Bernardinus de Valladolid

Bernardinus Vetweis (Bernardinus Wettwis/Bernardin Vetweis/Bernhardin Vetweis, d. 1668)

Bernardinus Vucovich (Bernardino Vukovich, fl. first half 18th cent.)

Bernardus Aemilianus (Bernardo d'Emilia, fl. 1670)

Bernardus Auximiensis/Bernardus Auximas, see: Bernardus de Osimo

Bernardus Antonius Gassmann (Polychronius, 1740-1821)

Bernardus Atrebatensis (Bernard d'Arras, d. after ca. 1760?)

Bernardus Auximiensis, see Bernardus de Osimo

Bernardus Bernardi (Bernardo Bernardi, 1687-1758)

Bernardus Baffo, see: Bernardus de Venetia

Bernardus Bononiensis, see: Bernardus de Bononia

Bernardo Caronila, see: Bernardus Italianus

Bernardus Columna (Bernardo Colonna, d. 1328)

Bernardus Dappens (fl. first half 16th cent.)

Bernardus de Arras, see: Bernardus Atrebatensis

Bernardus de Agnati (Bernardo di Agnati, d. 1737)

Bernardus de Aemilia, see: Bernardus Aemilianus

Bernardus de Arezzo (first half 14th century)

Bernardus de Bessa (Bernard de Besse, d. 1300 (1304))

Bernardus de Boil (fl. a. 1500), mentioned by Sbaralea ()(ed. 1806), 136 )and several others probably was not a Franciscan friar but a Benedictine connected with the congregation of Montserrat

Bernardus de Bononia (Floriano Toselli/Bernardo di Bologna/Bernardo da Bologna, 1699-1768)

Bernardus de Bordeaux (Bernardin de Bordeaux/Bernard Fustier, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bernardus de Bourges (fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardus de Cammarata (d. 1711)

Bernardus de Carpo (Bernardo da Carpo/Bernardo da Parma, d. 1425)

Bernardus de Castrogiovanni (Bernardo Maria da Castrogiovanni/Cannura, d. ca. 1730)

Bernardus de Castro Veteri (Bernardi di Castelvetere/Luciano Ferraro, 1708-1756)

Bernardus de Corleone (Filippo Latino, d. 1667)

Bernardus de Crypta Minervae, see: Bernardus de Minervo

Bernardus de Deo (Bernat de Déu, fl. early 14th cent.)

Bernardus de Fresneda (Bernardus Fraxineto/Bernardo de Fresneda, ca. 1500-1577)

Bernardus de Gallo (Bernardo da Gallo/Bernardo Baglion, d. 1717)

Bernardus de Genua, see: Bernardus Genuensis

Bernardus de Grottaminarda (Bernardo da Grottaminarda/Bernardus de Robertis, 1583-1653)

Bernardus de Guasconibus (fl. second half 14th cent.)

Bernardus de Incarnatione (Bernardo de la Encarnación, d. 1719)

Bernardus de Jesu Escamilla (Bernardo de Jesús Escamilla, fl. early 18th cent.)

Bernardus de Jesus Maria (Bernardo de Jesus Maria/Bernardo de Lima/Bernardo de Lima e Mello Bacellar/Bernardo Bacellar de Lima e Mello, 1736-ca. 1784)

Bernardus Delitiosi (Bernard Délicieux/Berardo del Litioso, d. 1320 or shortly thereafter)

Bernardus de Lavinheta (Bernard de Lavinheta, d. ca. 1530)

Bernardus de Lizana (Bernardo de Lizana, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardus de Minervo (Bernardus a Crypta Minervae/Bernardo di Minervo da Lecce, d. 1653)

Bernardus de Monteto (Bernard de Monteto/Montesco, 1343-1359)

Bernardus de Nantes/Nanetensis (Bernard de Nantes, fl. 1705)

Bernardus de Neapoli, see: Bernardus Neapolensis

Bernardus de Osimo (Bernardus Auximiensis/Bernardo da Osimo, ca. 1527-1590)

Bernardus de Pampeluna (Bernardo de Pamplona, d. 1739)

Bernardus de Paris, see: Bernardus Parisiensis

Bernardus de Parma, see: Bernardus de Carpo

Bernardus de Pesaro (Bernardo da Pesaro/Bernardo Emiliani, d. 1706)

Bernardus de Portomauritio (Bernardus Lanterius/Bernardo da Portomaurizio/Bernardo Lanteri, 1567-1614)

Bernardus de Portomauritio (Bernardo da Portomaurizio/Bernardo da Acquarone, 1618-1684)

Bernardus de Quintavalle, see the section on vita & miracula

Bernardus de Salisburgo (Bernhardt von Salzburg/Bernhardt Zehenter, 1640-1704)

Bernardus de Sancto Florentino (Bernard de Saint-Florentin, fl. 18th cent.)

Bernardus de Urbino (Bernardo di Urbino/Catelani, fl. 16th cent.)

Bernardus de Venetia (Bernardo da Venezia/Bernardus Baffo, 1722-1776)

Bernardus de Vergerio (Bernard du Verger, fl. eary 17th cent.)

Bernardus de Valdivia, see: Antonius de Valdivia (Letter A)

Bernardus Doppenn (16th century)

Bernardus Emilianus de Pesaro (Bernardo Emiliani, ca. 1626-1706)

Bernardus Fraxineto/Fresneda, see: Bernardus de Fresneda

Bernardus Fuster (Bernat Fuster, fl. 1300)

Bernardus Ganzedo (Bernardino Ganzedo, fl. 1690)

Bernardus Genuensis (Bernardo di Genova/Strozzi/Il Cappuccino Genovese, d. 1644)

Bernardus Glecki

Bernardus Italianus (Bernardo Italiano/Bernardo Caronila/Bernard de Caracino/Garrovilla, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardus Jordanus (Bernardus Jordani/Bernardo Jordano, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardus Lanterius, see: Bernardus de Porto Mauritio

Bernardus Laugar (Bernard Laugar, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bernardus Lavineta, see: Bernardus de Lavinheta

Bernardus Lavandera (Bernardo Lavandeira, fl. 1770)

Bernardus Le Coq (Bernard Le Coq/Bernard Lecoq , d. 1668)

Bernardus Lizana, see: Bernardus de Lizana

Bernardus Maria de Canicatti (Bernardo-Maria da Canicati, d. 1834)

Bernardus Maria de Castrogiovanni, see: Bernardus de Castrogiovanni

Bernardus Maria de Lantiano (Bernardo-Maria di Lanciano Valera/Bernardo-Maria da Giugliano, 1711-1783)

Bernardus Maria Giacco, see: Bernardus Maria Neapolensis (Bernardo-Maria da Napoli, ‘Giacco’ da Napoli)

Bernardus Maria Neapolensis/Gioffius (Bernardo-Maria da Napoli/‘Cioffi’ da Napoli, d. 1707)

Bernardus Maria Neapolensis (Bernardo-Maria da Napoli, ‘Giacco’ da Napoli, 1672-1744)

Bernardus Monterde (Bernardo Monterde/Bernardino Monterde, fl. early 18th cent.)

Bernardus Mutius (Bernardo Muzio da Bergamo, ca. 1583-1623)

Bernardus Nanetensis, see: Bernardus de Nantes

Bernardus Neapolensis (Bernardo da Napoli/Bernardo Scarpitto/Bernardo da Capece-Minutolo, d. 1753)

Bernardus Oliver (d. 1348)

Bernardus Parisiensis (Bernard de Paris, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bernardus Perez (Bernardo Pérez, fl. early 18th cent.)

Bernardus Reino (Bernardo Reino/Bernardo Reyno, fl. 1670)

Bernardus Ribas (Bernard Ribas, fl. early 18th cent.)

Bernardus Righettus (Bernardo Righetto, fl. mid 16th cent.)

Bernardus Robertus (Bernardo Roberti, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bernardus Sabia (Bernardo Sabia, d. 1623)

Bernardus Salazar (Bernardo Salazar, fl. ca. 1600?)

Bernardus Sannig (fl. second half 17th cent.)

Bernardus Somma (Bernardo Somma, fl. second half 16th cent.)

Bernardus Strotius, OFMCap, see: Bernardus Genuensis (Bernardo di Genova/Strozzi/Il Cappuccino Genovese/ Il Prete Genovese , d. 1644)

Bernardus Scarlatti (Bernardo Scarlatti, d. 1496)

Bernardus Venetus, see: Bernardus de Venetia (Bernardo da Venezia)

Bernat, see: Bernardus

Bertoldus Berteau = Bertin Bertaut: Not a Franciscan friar.

Bertholdus de Wiesbaden (Berthold von Wiesbaden, fl. later fourteenth cent.)

Bertholdus Hipp (fl. 18th cent.)

Bertholdus Kule (late 14th-early 15th century?)

Bertholdus Ratisponensis (Berthold von Regensburg, ca. 1210-1272)

Bertramus de Ahlen (early 14th century)

Bertramus de Dorsten (Bertram von Dorsten, fl. early 15th cent.)

Bertrandus Atgerius (Bertrandus Latgerius/Bertrandus Escharpiti/Bertrand Lagier/Bertrand Lagerie/Bertrand de Figeac, d. 1392)

Bertrandus Bellac (Bertrandus de Bajona/Bertrand de Bayonne/Strabo de Bayona, d. 1256)

Bertrandus de Turre (Bertrand de la Tour, ca. 1265-1332)

Bertrandus Lagerius, see: Bertrandus Atgerius

Bertrandus Rodulphus (Bertrand Rodolphe, d. 1432)

Biagius Conti (Biagio Conti da Canzo, fl. 17th cent.)

Bindus Senensis (Bindo da Siena, fl. 1300)

Blasco Benjumea, see: Blasius de Benjumea

Blasius Antonius Alvarez (Blas Antonio Alvarez, fl. 1710)

Blasius Antonius de Zevallos (Blas Antonio de Zevallos, fl. 1690)

Blasius Buyza, see: Blasius de Buiza

Blasius Caleron (Blas Calderón, fl. 1760)

Blasius Correa (Blas Correa, fl. 1610?)

Blasius de Benjumea (Blas de Benjumea, fl. 1670)

Blasius de Bononia (Blasius de Barbaria/Blasio de Bologna, fl. later 13th-early 14th century)

Blasius de Buiza (Blasio de Buiza/Buyza, fl. early 17th cent.)

Blasius de Burgo (Blasio de Burgo fl. first half 17th cent.)

Blasius de Castro (Blas de Castro, fl. 1651)

Blasius de Foligno (d. after 1385)

Blasius de Manzanares (Blas de Manzanarez, fl. later 18th cent.)

Blasius de Matre Dei (Blas de Madre de Dios, fl. 1610)

Blasius de Novara (d. ca. 1426)

Blasius de Palomino (Blas de Palomino/Blas Palomino, d. 1622)

Blasius de Sancto Gregorio (Blasio de San Gregorio, fl. 16th cent.?)

Blasius de Sancto Raphaele (Blasio de San Rafael, fl. first half 17th cent.?)

Blasius Fimpelius (fl. 1600)

Blasius Franciscus de Salamanca (Blas Francisco de Salamanca, fl. 1705)

Blasius Hidalgus de Morali (Blas Hidalgo de Moreales, d. 1646)

Blasius Laghina (Blas Laghina, fl. 16th cent.)

Blasius Palomino, see: Blasius de Palomino

Blasius Szalkai (fl. ca. 1400)

Boari Gregorius de Marrara (1745-1817), see: Gregorius Boaru (letter G)

Bonafortuna, see: Bonaventura Parisiensis

Bonagratia Bergamensis (Bonagrazia Boncortese/da Bergamo, ca. 1265-1340)

Bonagratia de Bononia, see: Bonagratia de Sancto Johanno de Persiceto

Bonagratia de Sancto Johanno de Persiceto (Bonagrazia da San Giovanni in Persiceto/Bonagratia Fielci, d. 1283)

Bonagratia de Varena (Bonagrazia da Varena, fl. 1610)

Bonagratia Habsensis (Bonagratia von Habsheim, ca. 1604-1672)

Bonagratia Romano (Bonagrazia Romano, fl. 1660)

Bonagratia Stalio (Bonagrazia Stalio de Lezina, fl. 18th cent.)

Bonagratia Vignati (Buonagrazia Vignati, fl. 16th cent.)

Bona Parisiensis (Bonne de Paris/Bonne du Jardin de Paris/Anne du Jardin, 1592-1652)

Bonaventura (Bonaventure, fl. 1440)

Bonaventura Acosta (Buenaventura Acosta, fl. third quarter 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Aesinus (Bonaventura da Jesi, d. ca. 1270)

Bonaventura Alvarez (Buenaventura Alvarez, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Angelus (Buenaventura Angel/Buenaventure Angeleres/Bonaventura Angeli; Bonaventura Angelieri de Marsala, fl. later 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Antonius Bravi (Bonaventura Antonio Bravi di Verona, fl. 18th cent.)

Bonaventura Armengual (Buenaventura Armengual/Bonaventura Armenguel, d. 1645)

Bonaventura Bachmilski (d. 1809)

Bonaventura Barberini (Bonaventura di Ferrara, 1674-1743)

Bonaventura Baronius (Bartholomew Baron, 1610-ca. 1680)

Bonaventura Basseanus/Baslean, see: Bonaventura de la Bassée

Bonaventura Batallea (Bonaventura Bataglia, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Belleni (later 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Bellomontanus, see: Bonaventura de Beaumont

Bonaventura Bellutus (Bonaventura Belluto, 1600-1676)

Bonaventura Beretta (1594-1687)

Bonaventura Bisi (1612-1659)

Bonaventura Blanchus Coccaglius, see: Bonaventura de Cocaleo

Bonaventura Blanchus de Cotiniola (Bonaventura Blancus Cotignolanus/Bonaventura Bianchi da Cotignola, fl. first half 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Bontempi da Iano (Bonaventura Bontempi da Giano, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Bosellus (Bonaventura Boselli da Sestola/Bonaventura Malvasia, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Breugneus (Bonaventure Breugne, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Brixianus, see: Bonaventura de Brescia

Bonaventura Brocharti (Bonaventure Brochard, fl. 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Brundusinus, see: Bonaventura de Brundusio

Bonaventura Brunold, see: Bonaventura d'Imst

Bonaventura Bruxellensis, see: Bonaventura Speeckaert

Bonaventura Buratti (Bonaventura Burato/Bonaventura Buratti da Milano, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Cairo de Apriliano (Bonaventura Cairo da Aprigliano, fl. late 16th-early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Calvi

Bonaventura Camus (Bonaventure Camus, fl. 1650)

Bonaventura Capridonius (Bonaventura Capridonio da Venezia, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Carpentorarensis (Bonaventure de Carpentras, 1586-1612)

Bonaventura Casalensis, see: Bonaventura de Casale

Bonaventura Cavallus (Bonaventura Cavallo di Amantea, ca. 1619-1689)

Bonaventura Certus (Bonaventura Certo, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Cheurolier (Bonaventura Chevrolier/Bonaventura Cheurolier, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Cinelli (Bonaventura Cinelli da Firenze, fl. late 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Claverius (Bonaventura Claverio da Bisseglia, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Columbus (Bonaventura Colombus/Bonaventure Colombe de Nice, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Colonnesus Florentinus (Bonaventura Colonna/Bonaventura Colonnesi/Bartolomeo Colonnesi, d. 1659)

Bonaventura Corculanus, see: Bonaventura Curcureus

Bonaventura Costacciaro (Bonaventura Pio da Costacciaro/Bonaventura Pio Fauni, d. 1562)

Bonaventura Cremonensis (Bonaventura da Cremona, fl. late 15th cent.)

Bonaventura Curcureus (Bonaventura Korculanin/Bonaventura Corculanus de Dalmatia, fl. late 15th - early 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Czarnoluski (fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Anglone, see: Bonaventura Politus

Bonaventura de Aragona, see: Bonaventura de Catanzaro

Bonaventura de Arenys de Mare (Bonaventura d’Arenys de Mar, fl. first half 18th cent.)

Bonaventura de Arezzo (Bonaventura d’Arezzo, 1648-1708)

Bonaventura de Asolo (Bonaventura di Asolo/Bonaventura Vecellio, d. 1810)

Bonaventura de Bagnoreggio (Bonaventura da Bagnoregio/Johannes Fidanza/Giovanni Fidanza, ca. 1217-1274), sanctus

Bonaventura de Barcelona (fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Bassee, see: Bonaventura da la Bassée

Bonaventura de Beaumont (Bonaventure de Beaumont/Bellomontanus, ca. 1640-1711)

Bonaventura de Brescia (Bonaventura Brixiensis/Bonaventura da Brescia, fl. 15th cent.)

Bonaventura de Brundusio (Bonaventura Brundisinus/Bonaventura da Brindisi, d. 1628)

Bonaventura de Burgo (fl. 1600)

Bonaventura de Calatagyrone (Bonaventura Secusi/Bonaventura da Caltagirone, 1558-1618)

Bonaventura de Capodistria, see: Bonaventura Tamar

Bonaventura de Casale (Bonaventura Casalensis/Bonaventura da Casale/Bonaventura Lupano, 1567-1641)

Bonaventura de Castro Alpherio (Castell'Alfero), see: Bonaventura Rapiccia

Bonaventura de Catanzaro (Bonaventura da Catanzaro/Bonaventura Ajerba/Bonaventura Ajerbo d'Aragona/Bonaventura d’Aragona e d’Aierbe/Bonaventura Neapolensis, d. 1605)

Bonaventura de Cedo (18th cent.)

Bonaventura de Chieti, see: Bonaventura de Venere

Bonaventura de Cineribus (fl. 14th cent.)

Bonaventura de Cocaleo (Bonaventura a Coccaleo/Bonaventura da Coccaglio/Bonaventura Bianchi, 1713-1778)

Bonaventura de Corella (Buenaventura de Corella, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Decimo (Bonaventura di Diecimo, fl. 18th cent.)

Bonaventura de Drepano (Bonaventura da Drepano, fl. early 18th cent.)

Bonaventura de Fasano (Bonaventura da Fasano, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Ferrara, see: Bonaventura Barberini

Bonaventura de Genua, see under Bonaventura Genuensis Drepanitanus and under Bonaventura Genovesius Morellus

Bonaventura de Guastalla (Bonaventura de Vastalla/Bonaventura da Guastalla/Vincenzo Raboni da Guastalla, 1712-1792)

Bonaventura de Imola (Bonaventura da Imola/Bonaventura Mongardi, 1725-1802)

Bonaventura de Gabbiano Manente, see Bonaventura Manentus

Bonaventura d’Imst (Bonaventura von Imst/Paul-Joseph Brunold/Bonaventura Brunold, 1739-1807)

Bonaventura de Iseo (Bonaventura da Iseo/da Brescia/da Ivreo, before 1200-ca. 1273)

Bonaventura de Jesi, see: Bonaventura Aesinus

Bonaventura de la Bassée (Bonaventura Basseanus/Bonaventure de la Bassée/Louis de Pippre, 1577-1650)

Bonaventura de Lama (Bonaventura da Lama, 1649-1739)

Bonaventura de Langres (Bonaventura Lingoniensis/Bonaventure de Langres, ca. 1595-ca. 1660)

Bonaventura de Laurenzana (Bonaventura da Laurenzana, f. second half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Leyso (Bonaventura von Leys/Bonaventura Leyss, 1703-1779)

Bonaventura de Lude (Bonaventure de Lude, d. 1645)

Bonavantura de Luxemburg, see: Bonaventura Luxemburgensis

Bonaventura de Magdalono (Bonaventura da Maddaloni, fl. 18th cent.)

Bonaventura de Manresa (1650-1720)

Bonaventura de Meldula (Bonaventura da Mercatello, fl. 16th cent.)

Bonaventura de Mercatello (Bonaventura da Mercatello, fl. 1505)

Bonaventura de Moncada (d. 1627)

Bonaventura de Monte Florido (Bonaventure de Mont-Fleur, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Monteregali (Bonaventura da Montereale, d. 1604)

Bonaventura de Myrica (Bonaventura de Mirica/Bonaventura van Myrike/Bonaventura van der Heyden, fl. 1540)

Bonaventura de Neapoli (Bonaventura di Napoli, fl. 16th cent.)

Bonaventura de Occimiano (Bonaventura da Occimiano, ca. 1586-1675)

Bonaventura de Oldenzaal (Bonaventura van Oldenzaal/Jean Lubberti, ca. 1594-1653)

Bonaventura de Oldenzeel, see: Bonaventura Engelbertz

Bonaventura de Ostende (1709-1771)

Bonaventura de Parma (thirteenth century, d. after 1296)

Bonaventura de Pisa, see: Bonaventura Pisanus

Bonaventura de Potenza (Bonaventura da Potenza, 1651-1711), beatus

Bonaventura de Recanati (Bonaventura de Recineto/Bonaventura da Recanati/Carolo-Tommaso Massari, 1614-1691)

Bonaventura de Reggio (Bonaventura de Rhegio/Bonaventura da Reggio/Bonaventura Schimizzi, ca. 1512-1572)

Bonaventura de Reggio de Calabria (Bonaventura da Reggio Calabria/Bonaventura Campana, d. 1655)

Bonaventura Dernoye (Bonaventura Dernoy, ca. 1583-1653)

Bonaventura de Rutiliano (Bonaventura da Rutigliano, ed. 1749)

Bonaventura de Salinis (Bonaventura de Salinas y Cordoba, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Sancto Elia (Bonaventura Sant'Elia Palermitano/Bonaventura Gervasi, ca. 1660-1715)

Bonaventura de Sancto Matthaeo (Buenaventura de San Mateo, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Sisteron (Bonaventure de Sisteron, fl. 18th cent.)

Bonaventura de Soria, see: Joannes Bonaventura de Soria (letter J)

Bonaventura de Surrento (Bonaventura di Sorrento/Ottaviano Palomba, 1604-1663)

Bonaventura de Trapani (Bonaventura da Trapani, fl. 1710)

Bonaventura de Vastalla, see: Bonaventura de Guastalla

Bonaventura de Venere (Bonaventura di Venere da Chieti, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura de Vera Cruce, see: Bonaventura Veracroce d'Acquaviva

Bonaventura de Vich (fl. 18th cent.)

Bonaventura Engelberti (Bonaventura Engelbertz van Oldenzeel/Bonaventura de Losser, d. ca. 1540)

Bonaventura Farinerius (Bonaventura Farinerio da Castelfranco, fl. mid 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Fauni, see: Bonaventura Costacciaro

Bonaventura Gervasi, see: Bonaventura de Sancto Elia

Bonaventura Genuensis Drepanitanus (Bonaventura da Genova, fl. 1605)

Bonaventura Genuensis Morellus (Bonaventura Genovesi Morello, d. 1610)

Bonaventura Goffa (Bonaventure Goffa, fl. 1670)

Bonaventura Gonzaga (Bonaventura Gonzaga da Reggio,fl. mid 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Hepburn is a Minim and not a Franciscan friar.

Bonaventura Hocquardus (Bonaventure Hocquard, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Hogliar de Curzola (Bonaventura di Curzola d. 1705)

Bonaventura Hossaeus (Bonaventure O'Hosey/Bonaventure Hussy/Bonaventure O hEoghasa/O Eodhasa, d. 1614)

Bonaventura Ibanez (1610-1691)

Bonaventura Jacsenius (fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Korculanin, see; Bonaventura Curcureus

Bonaventura Le Grand (Antoine Le Grand, 1629-1699)

Bonaventura Leonard (Bonaventure Léonard, 1692—ca. 1768)

Bonaventura Lingoniensis, see: Bonaventura de Langres

Bonaventura Lieurin (d. 1629)

Bonaventura Luchi (1700-1785)

Bonaventura Luxemburgensis (Bonaventura de Luxembourg/Henri-Rémi Micherout, 1691-1756)

Bonaventura Machado, see: Simon Machado (letter S).

Bonaventura Maginnis (fl. 1620)

Bonaventura Magister (Buenaventura Maestro, fl. 1740)

Bonaventura Malvasia, see: Bonaventura Bosellus

Bonaventura Makowski (d. 1795)

Bonaventura Manentus (Bonaventura Manenti/Bonaventura da Gabbiano Manente, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Manresa, see: Bonaventura de Manresa

Bonaventura Marcella (d. 1806)

Bonaventura Meldulensis, see: Bonaventura de Meldula

Bonaventura Moncada, see: Bonaventura de Moncada

Bonaventura Moronus (Bonaventura Moroni/Bonaventura Morone da Taranto, d. 1621)

Bonaventura Nepos (Bonaventure Neveu/Nepveu, ca. 1470-1526)

Bonaventura O Connorus Kieriae (Bonaventura O'Connor/Bonaventure of St. Patricj, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura O'Hosey, see: Bonaventura Hossaeus

Bonaventura Olgiati (Bonaventura Olgiati, fl. 1605)

Bonaventura Paci (Bonaventura Paci da Rusciano, fl. later 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Paravicinus (Bonaventura Paravicino, fl. 1625)

Bonaventura Parisiensis (fl. second quarter 13th cent.)

Bonaventura Passerus Nolanis (Bonaventura Passeri da Nola/Buonaventura Passero, fl. 1600)

Bonaventura Pius de Costaciaro, see: Bonaventura Costacciaro

Bonaventura Pisanus (Bonaventura da Pisa, fl. early 18th cent.)

Bonaventura Politius (Bonaventura Politi da Anglone, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Prucher (Bonaventura di Castel Giobo, d. 1774)

Bonaventura Rapiccia (Bonaventura Rapiccia di Castel Alfero, d. ca. 1595)

Bonaventura Renel (Bonaventure Renel, d. 1547)

Bonaventura Reul (fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Rosa Cavensis (Bonaventura Rosa della Cava, fl. 1600)

Bonaventura Rubino (fl. 1655)

Bonaventura Salinas, see: Bonaventura de Salinis

Bonaventura Sarni de Guardia (Bonaventura Sarni della Guardia, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Scherio/Schiero, see: Gregorius Scherius (letter G)

Bonaventura Schimizzi, see: Bonaventura de Reggio

Bonaventura Secusius, see Bonaventura de Calatagyrone

Bonaventura Severiensis Polonus (fl. 1630)

Bonaventura Speeckaert (Bonaventure de Bruxelles/Bonaventura van Brussel/Speeckaert, 1570-1633)

Bonaventura Stabilis (Bonaventura Stabile, 1586-1649)

Bonaventura Staidel (fl. 18th cent.)

Bonaventura Tamar (Bonaventura Thamar/Bonaventura Tamar da Isola/Bonaventura da Capodistria, d. 1634)

Bonaventura Tatti (fl. 1680)

Bonaventura Tellado (Buenaventura Tellado, d. ca. 1750)

Bonaventura Teuli (Bonaventura Theulus/Bonaventura Theuli da Velletri/Teoli, fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura Trapanensis, see: Bonaventura de Trapani

Bonaventura Turracci (Bonaventura Turracci da Ferrara, d. ca. 1640)

Bonaventura Van den Dijcke (fl. 17th cent.)

Bonaventura van der Heyden, see: Bonaventura de Myrica

Bonaventura Veracroce d'Acquaviva (Bonaventura Veracrux/Bonaventura de Veracruce/Bonaventura Veracroce degli Acquavivesi, d. 1652)

Bonaventura Vecellio, see: Bonaventura de Asolo

Bonaventura Vicentinus (Bonaventura de Vincentia/Bonaventura Vicenza, fl. 16th cent.)

Bonaventura Zampizonus (d. 1658)

Bonhomme de Paris (d. after 1770)

Bonifatius Augustini (Bonifacio Agostini, d. 1698)

Bonifatius Bonibellus (Bonifazio Bonibello/Bonifacio Bonibelllo da Sabbio, fl. early 17th cent.)

Bonifatius de Ceva (Boniface de Ceva/Bonifatius Gallus, d. ca. 1515)

Bonifatius de Lurio (Bonifacio da Luri/Giuseppe Bernardi, d. 1814)

Bonifatius de Nicea (Bonifacio da Nizza, d. 1815)

Bonifatius de Ragusa (Bonifacio da Ragusa. fl. second half 16th cent.)

Bonifatius de Sezze (Bonifacio da Sezze, d. 1799)

Bonifatius de Stephanis (Bonifazio Stivanic/Drakoliza/Ragusina, d. 1582)

Bonifatius de Tossignano (Bonifazio da Tossignano, fl. second half 17th cent.)

Bonifatius Faustus (Bonifazio Fausti da Monte dell'Olmo, fl. 1628)

Bonifatius Masius (Bonifatius Maes, 1627-1706)

Bonifatius Pisanus (Bonifatio de Pisa, d. 1340/1341)

Bonifatius Stephanus, see: Bonifatius de Stephanis

Bonitius Combassonius (Bonitus Combassonius/Benedictus Combassem/Combasson/Bonite Combasson/Benoît Combasson, fl. 17th cent)

Bonitius de Augusta Treverorum (Bonitius von Trier, d. 1680)

Bonus Benic (Bono Benic, 1708-1785)

Bonvesin della Riva (fl. second half thirteenth century)

Borrellus de Apt, see: Elzearius Borrel (letter E)

Bothale (fl. late 13th century)

Boudewijn de Jonge, see: Balduinus Junius/de Jonghe

Branca (fl. late 13e eeuw)

Brancatus de Lauria, see: Laurentius Brancati de Lauria (Letter L)

Brechtius/Brechtus/Brechtanus, see: Livinus Brechtius (letter L)

Bricius de Rubromonte (Britius de Rubromonte/Brice de Rubremont, d. 1627?)

Bricius Rennensis (Britius Rhedonensis/Brictius/Brice de Rennes, d. ca. 1670)

Bridia, C. de (fl. 13th cent.)

Bruno Chassaignus (Bruno Chassaing, d. 1669)

Bruno de Patti (Bruno da Patti, d. 1677)

Bruno de Verona (fl. early 17th cent.), see: Theophilus Brunus de Verona (letter T)

Bruno Neostadiensis (Bruno von Wiener Neustadt, fl. 17th cent.)

Bruno Neusser (fl. 17th cent.)

Bruno Pattensis, see: Bruno de Patti

Bruno Ronovil (fl. 17th cent.)

Bruno Schmitz (fl. early 18th cent.)

Burgardus Waldis (Burkard Waldis, fl. first half 16th cent.)

  



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OM. Italian friar.

works

Sermo de Gratia: Naples Naz., VIII.AA.20 f. 26b-28d

 

 

 

 

 

Balduinus Brandeburgensis (Balduin von Brandenburg, fl. late thirteenth cent.)

OM. German friar, who might have studied in Magdeburg (Ertl) and apparently also spent some years at the Franciscan studium of Paris. Author of the Summa Titulorum super Decretalibus Gregorii IX (finished by 1270), which to some extent resembles the work of Heinrich von Merseburg, and was used by the friar that compiled the second supplement to Heinrich’s Summa. Balduinus’ work is substantially longer that the Summa of Heinrich. Moreover it resembles in its reach the more famous Summa aurea of the canonist Heinrich von Segusio (Hostiensis). yet Balduin seems to have elaborated his materials independently. The work was meant to instruct regular and secular clerics alike in the basics of canon law necessary for their pastoral obligations. Kurtscheid (1927), 179: ‘…licet intentio auctoris fuerit utrique clero exhibere practicum commentarium iuris canonici, tamen Summa Balduini inter praestantiores huius generis libros saeculi XIII recensenda est. Per totam Summam praevalet indoles iuridica. Auctor in utroque iure est bene versatus; frequenter fontes iuris allegat, et in subsidium tantum argumentorum ad canonistas et theologos recurrit.’ Although Balduinus’ work was solid and extensive, it soon was overshadowed by the Tabula Utriusque Iuris and the Summa Casuum of Johann von Erfurt. He seems to be the same Balduinus Brandeburgensis who convinced Giordano da Giano to write his Chronica and subsequently acted as the chronicler's scribe/secretary, prior to his studies at Paris.

works

Summa Titulorum super Decretalibus Gregorii IX: Danzig Stadtbibliothek MS 1873 (XVIII.A.f. 51) ff. 1-278 & MS 1874 (XVIII.B. f. 101) ff. 1-204.

literature

Analecta Franciscana 1 (Quaracchi, 1885), 1-19; Chronica Fratris Jordani, ed. H. Boehmer, Collection d’études et de documents, VI (Paris, 1908), lxvii & 1; Bertrandus Kurtscheid, ‘De studio iuris canonici in ordine fratrum minorum saeculo XIII’, Antonianum 2 (1927), 174-182.; CF 5, p. 110 & 112; 7 p. 523; 8, p. 290; 12, p. 185; Thomas Ertl, ‘Kanonistik als angewandte Wissenschaft. Balduin von Brandenburg und der Streit um die Brandenburger Bischofswahl’, in: Handschriften, Historiographie und Recht. Winfried Stelzer zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Gustav Pfeiffer (Vienna-Munich, 2002), 9-37; Thomas Ertl, ‘Balduin von Brandenburg und seine Summe zum Liber Extra. Autor – Genese – Gedanken zur Edition’, in: Quellenvielfalt und editorische Methoden, ed. Matthias Thumser & Janusz Tandecki, Publikationen des Deutsch-Polnischen Gesprächskreises für Quellenedition, 2 (Torun, 2003), 271-306; Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 660-661.

 

 

 

 

Balduinus de Jonghe/Balduinus Junius (Junius Balduinus van Dordrecht/Constantius Peregrinus/Boudewijn de Jonge, ca. 1583-1634)

OFM. Dutch Observant friar from Dordrecht (Holland), son of Lord of Baardwijk . Was sent to Louvain for his education. Entered the Franciscan order there in September 1601. Active in the Southern Low Countries as preacher, guardian and provincial definitor. He died quite suddenly on 12 April 1634. Author, both under his own order name and under the Pseudonym Conatantius Peregrinus.

works

Conciones super Evangelia Dominicalia, a festo Pentecostes usque ad Adventum Domini (Antwerp: Sumptibus Haeredum Martini Nutii, 1610). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, Lyon public library/mediathèque (check Numelyo), and via Google Books.

Conciones super Evangelia Dominicalia ab Adventu Domini usque ad festum Pentecostes (Antwerp: Sumptibus Haeredum Martini Nutii, 1611). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

Roberti Bellarmini Politiani, S.R.E. Cardinalis, Solida fidei Christianae demonstratio, opera V.P.F. Balduini Junii ordinis Minorum, ex ejus operibus controversiarum desumpta (Antwerp: Erven Martin Nutius, 1611). Partially included in Roccaberti's Bibliotheca maxima pontficia V and a French version was issued in the mid-nineteenth century as: Démonstration victorieuse de la foi chrétienne, tirée des Controverses du Cardinal Bellarmin, trans. Ducruet (Paris: Louis Vives, 1854).

Roberti Bellarmini Politiani S.R.E. Cardenalis Fundamentu Christianae Fidei Pars Tertia, Opera V.P.F. Baluini Iunii Ordinis Minorum, ex controversiis desumpta (Antwerp: Sumptibus Haeredum Martini Nutii, 1611). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

Conciones super Evangelia festorum totius anni (Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1613). This edition is available via the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

't Huys der wysheyt, waerin gesproken wordt van de kennis Gods, de H. Schriftuer, de nature Gods, de predestinatie en de H. Dryvuldigheid (Antwerp: Martinus Huyssens, 1613). Accessible via the British Library, the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books.

't Paradijs der H. Wellusten, sprekende van Godt den Schepper, ende zijn creaturen (Antwerp: Martinus Huyssens 1613).

Manuale theologicum, continens praecipue totius theologiae fundamenta, omnibus pastoribus et animarum curam habentibus utilissimum (Mainz: Bernhardt Walther, 1614). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

In Dominicas totius anni conciones III., cum duplici indice (...) (Cologne: sumptibus Bernardi Gualheri, 1616). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Conciones III. super Evangelia festorum totius anni (Cologne: sumptibus Bernardi Gualheri, 1616).

Chronicon morale ab orbe edito ad nostra usque tempora, tam concionatoribus quam historiae studiosis apprime utile, 4 Vols. ((Cologne: Bernardus Gualherus, 1621-1622). The first three volume seem in any case accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

He also published a significant number of works under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus, just as the Jesuit Henry Fitzsimon and others also issued works under that pseudonym, and there is some confusion which work should be ascribed to whom. It seems that Buquoy quadrimestre progressusque quo favente numine ac auspice Ferdinando II. Rom. Imp. Austria est conservata, Bohemia subjugata (1621), which drew out a significant controversy, is not the work of our author. Possibly the work of our Franciscan friar are:

Mons spiritualis confessariorum (Anwerp: Trognesius, 1622).

Theatrum principum sanctorum veteris et novi testamenti Duobus libris distinctum, 2 Vols. (Antwerp: Johannes Meerbeek, 1627). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus. In part or completely accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

De SS. Vincentio, Valentino, Catharina Senensi et Antonino Archiep. Florentino. Centuria I (Brussels: Murbetius/Meerbeeck, 1628).

De beatis Raymundo, Alberto Magno, Margaretha Hungara, Jacobo Alemanno, martyribus Japonensibus, Magdalena de Pazzi (Brussels: J. van Meerbeeck, 1629). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Tuba Concionatorum, sive collationum ignearum Centuria XIX, 19 Vols. (Louvain-Antwerp-Brussels, 1628-1632). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus. Several volumes accessible via the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek in Vienna, Lyon public library/mediathèque (check Numelyo), and via Google Books

De Ven. Sacramento Eucharistia et de sacrificio missae. Centuria I (Louvain, 1630).

De tota Aristotelis logica et physica, de theologia, praeceptis decalogi, et ecclesiae, centuria I (Louvain, 1630).

De S. Angelo custode, Centuria I (Louvain, 1631).

Lilium inter spinas sive de Beatissima Virgine Maria Christi Matre (Antwerp: Joachim Trognesius, 1631). accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbliothek in Munich and via Google Books.

Fasciculus Myrrhae Dilectus, sive Vita Iesu Christi Salvatoris Nostri (Antwerp: Joachim Trognesius, 1631). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus. Accessible via the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Pharetra prima divini amoris, de mundo, caelo, sideribus & elementis (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1631). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Canticum Canticorum Salomonis quod Hebraice Dicitur Sir Hasirim. Ecclesiae Dei, & Animae sanctae applicatum (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1631). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Caput Sponsae, sive speculum prelatorum (Douai: Auroy, 1631). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Hortus conclusus, sive instructio status religiosi (Douai: Auroy, 1631).

Scutum Catholicae Fideli, I. De Vocatione Ministrorum Ecclesiae; II. De Praesentia Christi in Ven. Eucharistia (...) X. De Invocatione Sanctorum (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1632). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Progenies et vita sanctorum tertii ordinis S. Francisci Ludovici IX, Galliae regis et Isabellae Portugalliae reginae (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1632). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Pharetra quadruplex divini amoris (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1632).

Praxis quotidiana de audiento missam et Verbum Dei deque conversione novi Mexico (Antwerp: Officina Trognesisna, 1632). In any case accessible via the digital collections of the British Library and via Google Books.

Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae (...) (Antwerp: Meursius, 1632). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Manus spiritualis confessariorum de confessione sacramentali (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1632). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Threni, sive Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae triplici sensu expositae (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1632). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Schola Divini Amoris (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1633). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

Speculum Animae de cognitione sui (Antwerp: Officina Trognesiana, 1633). Under the pseudonym Constantius Peregrinus.

De sacramentis in genere. De baptismo, et confirmatione. Centuria I (Brussels: Murbetius, 1648).

To be continued...

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 173-175; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 105-106; Vincentius Placcius, Theatrum Anonymorum et Pseudonymorum (...), 492-493; Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek VII, 385; DSpir III, 116-117; Bijdragen voor de geschiedenis van het Bisdom van Haarlem, 89-95.

 

 

 

 

Baldus de Montenovo (fl. 15th cent.)

OMConv. Italian friar from Montenovo (Macerata) and member of the Maches province. Master of theology and preacher. In 1440 he held a Lenten preaching cycle in Bologna in the San Petronio. Later active as provincial minister (1455/1462) en vicar general of the order.

works

Conciones quadragesimales, ac per anni circulum. Lost?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum ad an. 1399, no. 22 & ad an. 1455, no. 51; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 106; Collectanea Franciscana Bibl. 10, n. 2838.

 

 

 

 

Baldus de Stroncone (Baldo da Stroncone/Baldo Novelli, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from the San Francesco (Umbria) province. Theologian, lector, predicator generalis.

works

Glorioso auuento di Christo vero Dio nel sopra celeste seno di Maria Vergine (Venice: Giacomo Sarzina, 1627). Sermons. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

De Adventu Christi.?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 106.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Aniser (1679-1763)

OFMRef. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol Sankt Leopold province.

works

Sermon: Lebendiger und herrlicher Glaub zu St. Peter in dem neu-errichteten prächtigen Kirchenbau, edited in: Festum Cathedrae S. Petri, d. i. St. Peter Stuel-Feuer, als (...) Franz Johann Antoni, Bischoff zu Uthina (...) am 29. Herbstmonat 1727 dedicierte (Rottweil: Kennerknecht, 17301, 206-223 [the sixth sermon in the festivities surrounding the inauguration of the new Sankt Peter Basilica in Schwarzwald, held on 4 October 1727].

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 10. [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]

 

 

 

 

Baltasar Basseliers (Balthasar Basseliers, ca. 1570-1637)

OFM. Belgian friar from Antwerp. Member of the Germania Inferioris province. Guardian of the 's-Hertogenbosch friary (1611-1612), the Roermond friary (ca. 1622) and the Antwerp friary (1623-24). During his time in 's-Hertogenbosch, he shortly joined the Capuchins, but was back as a Franciscan friar within a year. By 1631 he was active in Maastricht. Two-times provincial definitor. He was a well-respected preacher and published shortly before his death at the request of his superiors a number of his sermons.

works

Conciones Morales, omni tempore praedicabiles (...) super Evangelium Joannis de Lazaro quatriduano redivivo. Auctore V.P.F. Balthasare Basseliers Ordinis Minorum Reg. Observantiae Provinciae Germaniae Inferioris Definitore (Antwerp: Willem Lesteens, 1638). Accessible via the Dutch National Library in The Hague (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), and via Google Books

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; De Godsdienstvriend 84 (1860), 17-18; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères mineurs dans les Pays Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 188; Schoutens, Geschiedenis van het voormalig Minderbroedersklooster van Antwerpen, 2nd Ed. (1908), 307-308; Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek VI, 73.

 

 

 

 

Baltasar Crispo (Baldassarre Crispo, d. 1602)

OFMConv. Probably from Naples and in any case active in that region. Professor and later Regent Master of the studium of the Neapolitan Convent of S. Lorenzo Maggiore. Also present as consultant in the final sessions of the Council. In and after 1570, also advisor of the diocesan synod of Naples on behalf of the Archbishop Mario Carrafa. In that quality he examined the second edition of Telesio’s De rerum natura. He died on 20 April 1602. Author?

literature

Nicolò Toppi, Biblioteca napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli e del regno (...) (Naples: Antonio Bulifon, 1678), 36;

With thanks to Prof. Dr. Leen Spruit

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Cultrana/Cutrana (Balthasar Cultrara/Baldassare Cultrana, d. 1624)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Polizzi (Sicily). Theologian and preacher. He died suddenly in Catania in 1624 during a Lenten preaching cycle delivered in the town's cathedral church.

works

Orazione funerale per la morte del re catolico Filippo III recitata nella città di Polizzi a 12 Iuglio 1621 (Palermo: Giambattista Maringo, 1621).

Theologica & Concionatoria. Theological and homiletic works once kept in manuscript format in the Catania friary?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; Giuseppe Maria Mira, Bibliografia siciliana: ovvero Gran dizionario bibliografico delle opere edite e inedite, antiche e moderne di autori siciliani o di argomento siciliano I, 284.

 

 

 

 

Baltasar de Alarcón (fl. ca. 1575)

Franciscan friar, general procurator, preacher and sermon collector in Guatemala.

works

Sermones en lengua Cakchiquel escritos por varios padres de la Orden de San Francisco, y recogidos por el M.R.M. Padre Fr. Baltasar de Alarcon, procurador general de la misma orden de la provincia del Dulce Nombre de Jesús, de Guatemala: MS Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, ? This would be a collection of 23 sermons, written by different authors.

literature

C. Muñoz y Manzano Conde de la Viñaza, Bibliografía española de lenguas indígenas de América (Madrid, 1892), 242; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 5

 

 

 

 

Baltasar de Baños (d. 1654)

Spanish friar from Belmonte. Joined the order in the Carthagena province near the end of the sixteenth century. Came to Guatemala around 1610/14. Active as theology teacher and as a preacher. Hailed by Francisco Vázquez for his homiletic and theological prowess. Baltasar was apparently appointed chronicler for his order province shortly before his death on December 8, 1654.

works

Tratado de Conceptione (apparently unpublished?)

literature

Francisco Vázques, Crónica de la Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, 2nd ed., ed. Lázaro Lamadrid, 4 Vols. (Guatemala, 1937-1944) III, 275; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 16-17.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Draguignan (Joseph Carbonnel, 1607-1678)

OFMCap. French friar. Born at Draguignan. Took the habit on 20 October 1624, taking the name Balthasar. Fulfilled several times the charge of guardian in convents of the Provence province, and wrote a large number of historical works (history of towns and convents in the Provence region), only one of which saw the printing press. He worked together with Balthasar de Riez on a work of Capuchin saints and beati, as well as illustrious tertiaries of the Provence. On top of that, he ordered and inventarised the Capuchin archives of the Provence province, as well as the archives of the individual convents.

works

Recueil Mélangé de plusieurs choses curieuses & dignes de mémoire: MS Salin, Bibliothèque Municipale, II, 53 ff. 64-102v.

Descriptio Omnium Provinciarum, Conventum ac Missionum, Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Marseille: Antoine Castaigne, 1661).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 35; Histoire des hommes illustres de la Provence (Marseille, 1786), 58-60; Henri de Grézes, Archives Capucines, province de Provence, couvent de Tarascon (Lérins, 1891), passim; Paul Calendini, ‘Balthasar de Draguignan’, DHGE VI, 426.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Herrera (Baltasar de Herrera, fl. 17th cent.)

OESA & OFMDisc. Spanish Augustinian and later Discalceate Franciscan friar. As a Franciscan, he became active in the Franciscan Discalceate San Gregorio province in the Philippines. Guardian of the Sanpalo friary. He was appointed bishop of Nueva Caceres in the Philippines, yet he apparently died (on 2 September 1675) before his consecration.

works

Sermon del Sancto Rey D. Fernando, included in: José Sánchez del Castellar, Descripción festiva y verdadera relación de las célebres pompas, y esmerados aciertos, con que la Sagrada Religión de la Compañía de Iesus aplaudío gozosa en estas Philipinas la Canonización de Gran Padre San Francisco de Borja, y Beatificación del Beato Señor Rey Don Fernando, y del Beato Estanislao Koska de la Compañía (Manila, 1674), ff. 51v-58v. Accessible via Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional R-33.201.

Sermones varios, predicados en esta ciudad de Manila (Manila: Imprenta de la Compañía de Jesús, 1675).

Sermones panegíricos traducidos por Fray Baltasar de Herrera en 1675 del español a esta lengua (1675). Same work?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; James Alexander Robertson, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (A.H. Clark Company, 1906), 214; Archibo Ibero-Americano 28 (1968), 195-196; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica XI, 515 (no. 4208); Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 127 (no. 410); Actas del III Congreso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo: siglo XVII, La Rábida, 18-23 de septiembre de 1989 (DEIMOS, 1989), 259-260, 167; Archivo Ibero-Americano (1990), 1087;

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Bustamente (fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Peruvian friar from Lima. Member of the Twelve Apostles (los Doce Apóstoles) province. Provincial definitor. Apparently a renowned preacher.

works

Catálogo de criollos famosos. ?

Concio de Patrocinio de Virgen (Lima, 1644). A sermon previously delivered in the Cathedral of Lima.

Sermón predicado ad Fratres, en el capítulo franciscano provincial de 1650 (Lima, 1650).

Corrección fraternal (1650). Never printed due to the death of the author?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; Antonine Tibesar, Comienzos de los franciscanos en el Perú (CETA, 1991), 59; Revista teológica limense 35-36 (2001), 9.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Canizal (Baltasar de Cañizal, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Translator of the Summa casuum of Emmanuel Rodriguez.

works

Summa casuum conscientiae omnium quae hucusque in lucem exierce copiosissima (...) composita per R.P. Emanuelem Rodríguez Lusitanum, (...) hispano idiomate (...) Translata nunc primum in latinum ex ultimo authoris exemplari opera Balthasaris de Canizal (...) (Douai: B. Bellerus, 1614/Venice: eredi di Giorgio Varisco, 1615/Cologne: Erben Anton Hieratus, 1620/Venice: Varisco, 1622/Venice: Varisco, 1628/etc.). Later editions have a more elaborate title: Summa casuum conscientiæ r.p.f. Emanuelis Rodriquez Lusitani, Ord. Minor. Regularis obseruantiæ prouinciæ S. Iacobi. In duas partes diuisa. Complectens resolutionem penè omnium dubiorum, quæ communiter in sacris confessiones occurrere solent. Ex materno sermone per d. Balthasarem de Canizal Hispanum iampridem in Latinum translata. Hac vltima editione à multis, qui irrepserant, erroribus expurgata, summarijsque omnibus, ac duplici indice à reu. d. Troiano Crispo (...) singulari qua potuit diligentia aucta, et locupletata. Adiecto in fine Tractatus ordinis iudicialis (...). ab eodem auctore composito. Cum nouo indice (...).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Carrera (Baltasar de la Carrera, fl. 1730?)

OFM. Active as a preacher in Mexico.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 246; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 98 (no. 199).

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Castillo (Baltasar del Castillo, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar who later was active in Mexico as member of the Santo Evangelio province. Preacher and minister of Huextla. His works have been described in Vetancurt's Menologio, 144.

works

Moro de ayudar a bien morir a los indos, y las preguntas de la doctrina cristiana en lengua mexicana (Mexico, 1677). Mentioned in Beristain II, 77.

Cartilla mayor en la lengua castellana, latina y mexicana. Nuevamente corregida y enmendada y reformada en esta última impresión (Mexico: Vda de Bernardo Calderón, 1683)

Luz y guia de los ministros evangélicos para navegar por el mar proceloso deste mundo hasta llegar al puerto de la salvación y gozar eternamente de los theosoros de la gloria. Dedícala el P. Balthasar del Castillo predicador y ministro que fue de el convento de San Luis obispo y pueblo de Uexotlán, a sus devotos... (Mexico: Juan Joseph Guillena Carrasco, 1694).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; Diccionario de ciencias éclesiásticas: teología dogmática y moral (...) II, 631; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 445-446.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Conceptione (Baltasar de la Concepción, fl. 1764)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Member of the San Pablo province in Castille.

works

Semita espiritual. Once apparently kept in the Franciscan convent library of Martigny (Switzerland).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 176; AIA 28 (1927), 366

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Medina (Baltasar de Medina, de. 1696)

OFMDisc. Mexican friar from the Discalceate San Diego province. Provincial order historian. Became a theology professor and provincial definitor for the San Gregorio province in the Philippines. Wrote various order-historiographical and religious works.

works

Chronica de la santa Provincia de San Diego de Mexico, de religiosos descalços de N.S.P.S. Francisco en la Nueva-España: Vidas de ilustres, y venerables varones, que la han edificado con excelentes virtudes (Mexico: Juan de Ribera, 1682). This work is accessible via The British Library and also via Google Books (does not always show up, search via title words).

Centuria Scriptorum Strictioris Observantiae Discalceatorum (Mexico, ca. 1690).

Contentio Sacra Provinciae/Constituciones de la santa Provincia de San Diego de Mexico (Mexico, 1698).

Vida, martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japon, San Felipe de Jesus, Patron de Mexico, su Patria (...) (Manila, 1685/Madrid: Herederos de la Viuda de Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1751). The second 1751 edition is accessible via Google Books,

Miraculorum Volumina Duo (?).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 177; AIA 27 (1927), 82-83; AIA 15 (1955), 343-344; J. Goyens, ‘Balthasar de Médina’, DHGE VI, 427; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 146 (no. 562); Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part Two, ed. Howard F. Cline & John B. Glass (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973), 152f.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Merica (Balhasar de Myriaca/Balthasar Moerynus/Balthasar van der Heyden, d. 1573)

OFMRec. Belgian friar. Long-term confessor of the Poor Clares of Louvain. Renowned preacher (called 'predicator angelicus').

works

Collacien op Cantica canticorum, op die passie ons liefs heeren, de Psalmen ende St. Franciscus Many of his sermons (80 or more sermons or Collacien on the Song of Songs, 70 sermons on the Passion, other sermons on the Psalms and on St. Francis) were for a long time present in the Franciscan friary of Louvain and a series of them were later kept at the Recollect house of Saint-Trond (Hier volghen sommighe collacien (1559-1561), consisting of 70 sermons on the Song of Songs and two on Saint Francis). The whereabouts of this collection needs to be checked.

Dit is het tweede boeck en het vervolck van die passie ons liefs heeren (1568): Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, MS 3039.

Dit is een tweeden boeck op Cantica canticorum ende het 71 sermoon op Cantica (1562): Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 490.

Conciones: Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 525.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 177; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107;

Biographie nationale de Belgique XIV (1897), 497.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Messina (Baldassare da Messina, fl. 1660)

OFM. Italian Observant friar. Obtained the status of lector jubilatus after 14 years of theology teaching. Provincial of the Sicily province. He died in the Santa Maria de Gesù friary (Messina) in or before 1695.

works

Martirologio Francescano d'Arturo ridotto in compendio (Venice: Jacopo Hertz, 1668).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 177; Caio Domenico Gallo, Gli annali della città di Messina di Caio Domenico Gallo. Nuova Edizione con correzioni, note ed appendici, ed. Andrea Vayola (Messina: Filomena, 1881) III, 458.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Riez/Regiensis (Caseneuve, d. 1678)

OFMCap. French friar. Born at Riez, near the French Alps. Entered the order in the Saint Louis province. Taught philosophy as well as biblical and doctrinal theology in the order’s schools and took up the charge of provincial minister. Late in life, he started out as an apostolic missionary. He died on 22 October 1678.

works

L’éminent privilège de la très saincte Mère de Dieu, qu’il a préservée du péché originel en son Immaculée Conception, 2 Vols. (Paris: Veuve Thierry, 1663 & Aix: Charles David, 1665). The first volume is accessible via Google Books.

Les justes louanges de la très auguste mère de Dieu, appuyées sur l’authorité des SS. Pères et docteurs de l’Église (Aix, 1675).

L’incomparable piété des très chrestiens roys de France et les admirables prérogatives qu’elle a méritées à leurs Majestez, tant pour leur royaume en général, que pour leurs personnes sacrées en particulier (Paris: Gilles Alliot, 1672). Accessible via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

Suite de l'incomparable piété des tres-chrétiens rois de France de la race de S. Loüis. Livre Second (Aix: Charles David, 1674). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis Sancti Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 35; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 178-179; Eduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 10; A. Teetaert, ‘Balthasar de Riez’, DHGE VI, 428-9; Lexicon Capuccinum, 166.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Sancto Josepho (Baltasar de San José y Peña, fl. late 17th cent.)

Probably a creole friar who took the habit in Guatemala in 1678. By 1690, he resided at the Santiago de Cotzumalguapa friary. In his surviving work from 1714, he mentions that the was a preacher, ex-provincial, advisor of the inquisition and guardian of the San Francisco de Panahachel friary.

works

Delicioso Thabor, Sermon panegyrico en que delineaba las glorias de el Principe de los Apostoles el Señor San Pedro, El dia octavo de la Festividad que le consagra la muy Illustre, y Venerable Congregacion, en la Sancta Iglesia Cathedral de la Nobilissima, y muy Real Ciudad de Santiago de los Cavalleros de Guatemala (…) (Mexico, 1714). Cf. Medina III, 495-496.

literature

J.T. Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 7 Vols. (Santiago de Chile, 1898-1907) III, 495f; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 72.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Victoria (Baltasar de Vitoria, fl. early to mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Salamanca. Member of the Santiago province. Preacher.

works

Theatro de los dioses de la gentilidad, 2 Vols. (Salamanca: Antonia Ramirez & Diego Cussio, 1620-1623/Valencia: Garrizz, 1646/Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1676/Madrid: Juan de Ariztia, 1738). The Salamanca edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid and via Google Books. See for the 1646 edition both Google Books and the Biblioteca de Catalunya, for the 1676 Madrid edition the Biblioteca Complutense, and for the 1738 Madrid edition also https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/22963 [last accessed 27 March 2022]. The later editions have sometimes slightly different titles. See for instance Primera parte del teatro de los dioses de la gentilidad (Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1676)/Primera parte del Theatro de los dioses de la gentilidad (...) Aora nuevamente corregido (Madrid: Juan de Ariztia, 1738); Segunda parte del Teatro de los Dioses de la Gentilidad (Madrid: Juan de S. Vicente, 1657)/Segunda parte del Theatro de los dioses de la gentilidad (...) Aora nuevamente corregido (Madrid: Juan de Ariztia, 1738).

Liber Emblamatum LIX. MS?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 179; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; AIA 28 (1927), 350-363; Raimundo Pérez y Sosa, ‘Un buen libro del siglo XVI. Y su autor también se apellidó Vitoria’, Lectura 159 (Mexico, 11964), 119-122; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 191 (no. 876).

 

 

 

 

Balthasar de Villafranca (Baltasar Villafranca, fl. 1580)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Concepción province. Confessor of the Royal Clarissan monastery of Tordesillas in 1582. Around that time he composed a combined catechism and confession manual in Spanish.

works

Sententia es de muchos (...) per la confessión, las preceptas de la iglesia, las virtudes teologales (...): MS once kept in the Monasterio de Santa Clara de Tordesillas M.num 189. Current whereabouts?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Florentinus (Baltasar de Florentia/Baldassare da Firenze, d. 1493)

OMObs. Italian lay Observant friar, known for his penitential lifestyle and his prophetical spirit. He died in May 1493 while working in a set of glosses on the Apocalypse.

works

Glossulae ad praecipua quaeque et obscuriora Apocalipsis loca. Manuscript?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum ad. ann. 1493, no. 15; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; Collectanea Franciscana Bibl. 9, n. 53.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Lopez (Baltasar López, fl. 1600)

Franciscan missionary in Florida (1599). Sent a letter of complaint to King Philip III concerning the abuses of the givernment of Gonzalo Méndez de Cañizo.

works

A. López, ‘Cuatro cartas sobre las misiones de la Florida’, Archivo Ibero-Americano 1 (1914), 362-364. Cf. also Archivo Ibero-Americano 48 (1988), 177-178.

literature

Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 439.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Olimpius (Balthasar Olympius/Baldassare Olimpo degli Alessandri di Sassoferrato/Caio Baldassar Olimpo Alessandro, fl. early 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the noble Alessandri family. He joined the Conventual Franciscans at an early age. Became a bachelor of theology. For a while lector of Aristotelian philosophy. During this period, he started to write love poems (later included in l'Ardelia), to refresh the mind, encumbered by philosophical issues. Thereafter he became a well-known itinerant preacher He published several sermon collections (Sermoni (1519/1521/1524) and Problemi (1522)) for the use of preachers. These collections circulated widely, not only in conventual, but also in capuchin circles. In addition, and possibly more importantly, he published a series of volumes of religious songs and profane poetry (allate, madrigali, sonetti, strambotti, frottole, etc.), some of which caused scandal.

works

Strambotti d'amore: cioè mattinate e capitoli in laude d'una sua amorosa nominata Olimpia (1518).

Sermoni da morti & da sposi latini, & volgari, & escusatione da mensa. Composti per Baldassarre Olympo minorita da Sassoferrato (...) Con vna confessione da dire in chiesa (Perugia: Cosimo da Verona, 1519/Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, 1525)/Sermoni da morti latini e vulgari: ed excusatione da mensa (...) Con la gionta del medesimo auctore quale in la prima stampa non sonno. Et per lui nouamente emendato e correcto (...) (Girolamo da Cartolari, 1521)/Sermoni da morti: Composti per frate Baldassare Olympo minorista da Sassaferrato (Marchio Sessa & Pietro de Ravani compagni, 1524).

Libro de amore chiamato Ardelia (Perugia: Baldaser di Francescho, 1520)/Libro d'amore chiamato Ardelia, novamente composto per Baldassare Olympo da Sassoferrato, giovine ingenioso (...) (F. Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, 1548). The 1548 edition is accessible via the British Library and via Google Books.

Lamento del s. Giouan Paolo Baglione: & il pianto de Italia: sopra le citta sacchegiate (s.l., s.e., 1520 ).

Libro nouo chiamato Linguaccio composto per Baldassarre olympo deli alexandri da sassoferrato giouene ingenioso: doue sonno. Strambotti contra le lingue. Sonetti de le lingue. Madrigali de le lingue. Immascarate da recitare al carneuale. Prosa. Capitoli de le lingue. Frottole de le lingue. Barzellette de le lingue. Una egloga. Laude d una pastorella (Perugia: Baldassarre Cartholaio, 1521/Vercelli: Maria dè Pelipams, 1530/Milan: Giovanni Angelo, 1526/Venice: P. di Salò e compagni, 1565). See: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Linguaccio

Libro d'amore chiamato Gloria composto per Baldasarre Olympo da Saxoferrato: doue se lauda vna donna dal capo in sino alli piedi. Opera bellissima. Et ricorretta per l autore (Perugia: Baldasarre de Francescho Cartholaio, 1522/Venice: Marchiò Sessa e Piero de Ravani, 1522/Venice: Francesco de Bindoni e Mapheo Pasini, 1524/Venice: Marchiò Sessa e Pietro de la Serena, 1524/Perugia: B Cartolari, 1525/Venice: Alvise de' Torti, 1535/ Venice: Nicolò d'Aristotele detto Zoppino, 1536/Venice: Marchiò Sessa, 1554/Venice 1622).

Libello de prohemij vulgari limatissimi predicabili aqualunque materia: & sonetti spirituali de la sustantia de la predica (Perugia: Baldassarre de Francesco de Cartulari, 1522)/Libretto de Prohemij vulgari limatissimi predicabili a molte materie, et sonetti spirituali della substantia della predica (Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, 1527/Venice: Alvise de' Torti, 1536).

Libro de amore chiamato Olympia. Composto per Baldasar Olympo delli Alexandri, da Saxoferrato, giouene ingenioso. Con la gionta desso autore: & per lui nouamente emendato & correcto. Strambotti de recomandatione. Mattinate de piu preposti. Strambotti de comparatione. Sonetti. Capitoli de piu preposti. Prosa. Lettere damore. Barzelette (Olimpia: Perugia, Bianchini [Bianchino del Leonei], 1520/Perugia: Baldassarre de Francescho de Chartularii, 1522/Venice: F. Bindoni & M. Pasini, 1525/Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, 1532/? Venice: Bernardino Bindoni, 1538?).

Camilla. Opera Nova d'Amore Composta per Balthassare Olympo da Sassoferrato. Novamente corretta nella quale vi sono Matinate, Stramboti, Capitoli, Madrigali, Canzoni (...) (1522/Venice, 1532/Rome: Valerio Doricho e Luigi fratelli, 1542/1545?/Venice: Giovan Padovano, 1544/Venice: Francesco Bindoni e Mapheo Pasmi compagni, 1548)/Camilla. Opera noua d'amore, composta per Baldessare Olimpo da Sassoferato, nellaquale vi sono mattinate, strambotti, capitoli, madrigali, canzoni, epistole, sonetti, frottole, barcellette (Venice: Al segno della Regina, 1581). The 1522 edition seems accessible via Google Books.

Nova Phenice (1524/Venice: Nicolò di Aristotele detto Zopino, 1520 [1530!]/Venice, 1535/Venice: Bernardino Bindoni, 1538/Lucca: Salvatore e Giovanni Domenico Marescandoli, ca. 1750). In fact a reflection on the political situation in Italy interspersed with love lyrics. For a modern edition, see: Nova Phenice, ed. Clito Bruschi (Sassoferrato: Centro Culturale Baldassarre Olimpo, 1996).

Pegasea (...) Opera noua chiamata Pegasea & non più vista cosa molto piaceuole di stanze amorose, composta per lo ingenioso giouanne C. Balthassarre Olympo de li Alessandri da Sassoferrato (Venice: F. Bindoni & M. Pasini, 1524/Venice: Alvise de'Torti, 1535/Venice: Agostino Bindoni, 1557-1558).

Parthenia. Libro nouo di cose spirituali chiamato Parthenia coposto per C. Baldassarre Olympo da Saxoferrato. Stanze deuotissime alla Uergene. Sonetti dei molti subietti (Venice: Benedetto & Augustino de Bindoni, 1525/Venice: Alvise de' Torti, 1535/1539/Venice: Agistino Bindoni, 1549). This is in fact a volume of more religious poetry. The 1539 edition is accessible via the British Library and via Google Books.

Libro d'amore composto per Baldassarre Olimpo da Sassoferrato intitolato noua Phenice (Venice: Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1526)/Nova Phenice. Libro novo damore et non piu visto chiamato Nova Phenice (Venice: Bernardino Bindoni, 1538).

Aurora. Libro Nuovo et non piu visto chiamato aurora (...) (Venice: Alvise de' Torti, 1536/1538/Venice: Bernardino Bindoni, 1539)/Aurora libro primo d'amore, et non piu visto, chiamato Aurora (Venice: Francesco de Tomaso di Salo, e compagni, 1564). The 1539 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Spurious: Potenza d'amore, composta per Baldassar Olimpo da Sasso ferrato in laude della sua cara Emilia. Nella quale vi sono sonetti, strambotti, capitoli, canzoni, e barcellette (Brescia: Policreto Turlino, 1582/1615). This work is probably by Diomede Guidalotti

Oratione di santo Antonino composta per Baldassare Olimpia da Sassoferrato: MS Vatican City, BAV, Capp. V 688, 13. The work was edited as Oratione di santo Antonino composta per Baldassare Olimpia da Sassoferrato (Venice, 1597).

There are also more recent omnibus editions of some of Baldassare Olimpo's works:

Strambotti e Frottola, composti per Baldassarre Olimpo giovene ingenioso da Sassoferrato in laude di una pastorella, ed. Severino Ferrari (Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1879).

Cinque mascherate di Olimpo da Sassoferrato tratte dal "Linguaccio", ed. Severino Ferrari (Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1898).

Madrigali e altre poesie d'amore, ed. Franco Scataglini (Ancona: L'astrogallo, 1974).

I giorni dei petali neri: storie d'amore e d'altri mostri; poesie di Olimpo da Sassoferrato, Giovanni Pontano, Piera Lucarelli, ed. Balilla Beltrame (Fabriano: Edizioni della Lumornia, 1982).

Il liuto e l'anima: percorsi antologici attraverso le opere di Olimpo da Sassoferrato, ed. Clito Bruschi (Sassoferrato, Istituto internazionale di studi piceni, 2009).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 177; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; A proposito di Olimpo da Sassoferrato. Risposta di Severino Ferrari al signor Alessandro Luzio (Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1880); Guido Vitaletti, Baldassarre Olimpo degli Alessandri da Sassoferrato (1480-1540) (Assisi: Tip. Metastasio, 1915); Silvia Venezian, Olimpo da Sassoferrato: poesia popolaresca marchigiana nel sec. XVI (Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1921); R. Avesani, ‘Alessandri, Caio Baldassare Olimpo da Sassoferrato’, DBI II, 162-166; Sandro Baldoncini, Per vaghezza d'alloro: Olimpo da Sassoferrato, Eurialo d'Ascoli e altri studi (Rome: Bulzoni, 1981); Daniele Maira, Typosine, la dixième muse: formes éditoriales des canzonieri français, 1544-1560 (Genève: Droz, 2007), 428-429.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Melatius Narensis (Baldassare Melatio 1643-1709)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Nara (Sicily). He joined the order in 1659. Following his studies, he taught as a master of theology at Messina and at the Collegiium S. Bonaventurae in Rome (regent) and at La Sapienza. lenten preacher in Palermo, Messina, Naples, Florence, Venice, Milan, Bologna, Rome, and elsewhere. Provincial minister of Sicily, general procurator for his order, consultant for the inquisition and synodal examiner. As procurator for the Polish crown involved with the beatification of Cunegunda of Poland. He died in Rome on 7 February 1709.

works

Theologiae dogmaticae tomi VI?

Involved with the publication of Synodus dioecesana Albanense (Rome: Giovanni Giacomo Komarek, 1689).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 177; Petrus Franciscus Agricola, Saeculi xviii. Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica Authorumque Notitiae Biographicae I (Hannover: H.M. Pockwitz, 1781), 8-11; Giuseppe Maria Mira, Bibliografia siciliana II, 66.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Pachecus (Baltasar Pacheco, fl. 1605)

OFM. Spanish friar from Ledesma (Salamanca diocese). Member of the San Miguel province. Guardian of the Caceres friary. Provincial definitor.

works

Meditaciones del amor de Dios (Salamanca, 1682).

Catorze discursos sobre la oracion sacrosancta del Pater noster (Salamanca: Juan y Andres Renaut, 1594/Salamanca: Juan Fernandez, 1596/Salamanca: Andrés Renaut, 1603). Accessible via Google Books and via the university library of Zaragoza

Explicacion del segundo Mandamiento de la Ley de Dios, que es no tomar su santo nombre en vano contra el peligroso abuso de los juramentos temerarios (Salamanca: Juan Fernandez, 1595)/Mandamiento II del Decalogo: en que se trata del legitimo uso, y del peligroso abuso de los Iuramentos; de las Blasphemias, y Votos (...) Añadida en esta segunda impression, con nuevo privilegio, y un sermon extraordinario (Salamanca: Andrés Renaut, 1600). Accessible via the Escorial library, the university library of Sevilla, and the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid.

Sermon que predicó (...) en el insigne Convento de Aracoeli, de la Sta. Ciudad de Roma (...) en la Pascua de Pentecostes (...) de 1600 (Rome: Nicholas Mucio, 1600). Accessible via the British Library.

Dominical de cincuenta y quatro sermones: desde la dominica primera de adviento, hasta la de quinquagesima inclusivamente, con las pascuas, y sus vigilias que ocurren en este tiempo (Salamanca: Andres Renaut, 1605). Accessible via Google Books, the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon, the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, and the University Library of Sevilla

Sermonario del Proprio de los Sanctos, que ocurren por discurso de todo el año, segun el Kalendario Romano (...), 2 Vols. (Salamanca: Artus Taberniel, 1605). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, and the university libraries of Sevilla and Santiago de Compostela.

Compendio de servir al Altar el ministro en la Misa rezada (Madrid: Luis Sánchez, 1611).

Espeio de sacerdotes y de todos los ministros de la hierarchia eclesiastica (...) (Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1611). Accessible via Google Books, via the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid and the University Library of Sevilla.

Exhortatio ad Theologos ad studium Iuris Canonicis, methodus cognoscendi Rubricas (Salamanca: Antonia Ramirez, 1614). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 177-178; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 107; AIA 27 (1927), 83-86; AIA 15 (1955), 387-389; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 159 (no. 653); José Simon Dias, Bibliografia de la Literatura Hispanica XVI (1994), 371-373.

 

 

 

 

Balthasar Paglia de Calatagirone (Balthasar Paglia Siculus/Baldassare Paglia da Caltagirone, 1662-1705)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Caltagirone (Catania). Born on 7 May 1662. Joined the order at a young age and after his studies he was one year regent at Pistoia, followed by positions as lector of philosophy and theology, with a short stint at Rome and a more lengthy stint as Professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Bologna. Later he taught canon law for three years at the Collegio of San Lorenzo di Napoli, where he also taught for a considerable time as lector of ecclesiastical history. He was listed among the members of the Accademia degli Spensierati di Rossano. He is also mentioned as professor of philosophy at the University of Padua and at the University of Naples (1696-). On 22 July 1702 he renounced his position of lector of ecclesiastical history (successor was Tommaso Antonio Lopez). He was appointed theologian of Cardinal Marco-Antonio Barbarigo, bishop of of Montefiascone. In 1704, the Franciscan minister general assigned him the Lenten preaching cycle for 1705 in Alatri. Subsequently general definitor/vice secretary of the order as a whole. Yet in August and September he was ill, and he died after an operation at Florence on 4 November 1705 at the age of 43. There are some discrepancies in the biographical notices provided by various scholars, and his entry needs to be corrected.

works

Paraphrasis epica in Psalmos, et cantica ad laudes, vesperas et completorium (Bologna: Typis Haeredis de Sartis, 1687/Naples: Antonio Gramignani, 1693). The 1687 edition is accessible via Google Books.

In XII Suetonii Caesares Epigrammata (...) (Naples: Antonio Gramignani, 1693). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

Triumphus amoris in Augustissima Divini Verbi Incarnatione (Naples: Novelli de Bonis Typographis, 1696). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books. An Italian version of this work, made by Domenico Andrea de Milo was apparently issued the same year.

Oratio in funere P.M. Bonaventurae Durante Ordinis Minorum Conv. (Naples, 1696)

Virtutis Regia. Oratio habita in regio S. Laurentii Ord. Min. Conv. delubro coram patres theologos almi Collegii neapolitanae universitatis (Naples, 1697).

Relazione del Mongibello, included in: Antonio Bulison, Lettere memorabili, Istoriche Politiche ed Erudite (...), 4 Vols. (Naples, 1697) II, 120ff. A work on the Etna vulcano.

Sul Terremoto di Sicilia, included in: Antonio Bulison, Lettere memorabili, Istoriche Politiche ed Erudite (...), 4 Vols. (Naples, 1697) III.

Icon amoris Christi et Francisci duabus Epigrammatum centuriis expressa (Montefalco: ex typographia Seminarii, 1704).

to be continued...

works

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 79: Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 178; I. Gatti, Il p. Vincenzo Coronelli dei Frati minori conventuali negli anni del generalato (1701-1707) II, 1083-1084; Giacomo Pace Gravina, 'Baldassare Paglia, poeta laureato', in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Catania: atti del convegno di studio Catania 21-22 dicembre 2007), ed. Nicoletta Grisanti, Franciscana, 25 (Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana-Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008) 165-168.

 

 

 

 

Baptista Alfani (Battista Alfani da Perugia/Antonia Alfani, d. 1523)

OSC. Observant Italian Poor Clare. Member of the Monteluce monastery in Perugia. She was repeatedly abbess of her community (1491-1494, 1496-1500, 1503-1506[?]). She was involved with Observant reforms in the Santa Chiara Novella monastery in Arezzo, which she led in 1492. Battista made a vernacular version of the Legenda Sanctae Clarae Virginis. She had with this an Observantist agenda, for which reason she included in her reworking the papal Privilegium Paupertatis granted to Clare of Assisi in San Damiano, Clare’s Testament and her Benediction, as well as parts from Clare’s 1253 Forma vitae. In addition, Battista organised the translation of works by Domenico Cavalca, Gabriele of Perugia and other authors of passion devotion treatises. She also was an initiator of Monteluce's convent chronicle, the so-called Memoriale.

works

La Leggenda della Serafica Vergine Santa Chiara: a.o. MS Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Magliabecchiano XXXVIII 135. This manuscript is described in G. Cozza-Luzzi, ‘Il Codice Magliabecchiano della storia di s. chiara. Lettera a Luigi Fumi’, Bullettino della Società Umbra di Storia Patria 1 (1897), 41-426. The work received a partial edition in the 2000 study by Mario Natali, and edited in full as: Vita et Leggenda della Seraphica vergine sancta Chiara, ed. G. Boccali (S. Maria degli Angeli (Pg): Ed. Porziuncola, 2004). [Cf. Reviews in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 98 (2005), 831-832 & Il Santo 45:3 (2005), 772-775.

literature

Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 23 (1930), 378; Jeryldene M. Wood, 'Breaking the Silence: the Poor Clares and the Visual Arts in Fifteenth-Century Italy', Renaissance Quarterly 48:2 (1995), 262-286; Mario Natali, 'La "Leggenda della Seraphica vergine Sancta Chiara"di suor Battista Alfani', Collectanea Franciscana 70 (2000), 169-184; Lezlie S. Knox, 'What Francis intended: gender and the transmission of knowledge in the Franciscan order', in: Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550, ed. Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), 143-161; Lezlie S. Knox, Creating Clare of Assisi. Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy, The Medieval Franciscans, 5 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008), ad indicem; Marco Guida, 'Il processo di canonizzazione di santa Chiara: considerazioni in merito al volgarizzamento di suor Battista Alfani da Perugia', in: Il richiamo delle origini. Le Clarisse dell'Osservanza e le fonti clariane, ed. Pietro Messa, Angela Emmanuele Scandella & Mario Sensi (S. Maria degli Angeli-Assisi: Porziuncola, 2009), 15-45; Chiara Emmanuela Giusti & Monica Benedetta Umiker, 'Per i codici delle clarisse di Monteluce di Perugia: un manoscritto sconosciuto di sr. Battista Alfani (sec. XV)', Bollettino per l'Umbria 108 (2011), 545-598; Francesca Grauso, 'Battista Alfani (1438 - 1523)', in: Autographa. 2.1: Donne, sante e madonne (da Matilde di Canossa ad Artemisia Gentileschi), ed. Giovanna Murano (Imola, 2013), 76-81.

 

 

 

 

Baptista de Levanto (d. 1469)

OMObs. Italian friar.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana Bibl. 11 n. 2124

 

 

 

 

Baptista de Montefeltro (Battista da Montefeltro/Girolama da Montefeltro/Jeronima da Montefeltro, fl. late 15th cent.)

OSC. Italian Observant Poor Clare. As daughter of Antonio da Montefeltro (Count of Urbino), she obtained a humanist education and married Galeazzo Malatesta (Lord of Pesaro). Pious from an early age, she joined the Clarissan Santa Lucia di Foligno monastery in 1447 after the demise of her husband, adopting the religious name Girolama (in admiration of the Church father Jerome). Yet she died within a year, in 1448. She is known for Latin and Italian prayers and poems (laude, rime), orations, as well as for letters (a.o. to Paola Malatesta of Mantua).

works

Laude, sonnetti e rime: a.o. MSS Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 1739 f. 207; Biblioteca Magliabechiana VII, 3 f. 1009; BAV Vat.Lat. 3212; BAV Chigi L,IV f. 131. Cf. Miscellanea Francescana 2 (1902), 127. See for (partial editions), see: F. Zambrini, Laude ed altre rime spirituali di Madonna Battista Malatesta (Imola, 1847); G. Vanzolini, ‘Tre sonetti di Batista da Montefeltro e due di Malatesta Malatesti Signore di Pesaro suocero di lei’, L’eccitamento 1 (1858), 242-248 [=Giornale Arcadico n.s. 160 (1859), 26-33]; Annibale degli Abbati Olivieri Giordani, Notizie di Battista di Montefeltro moglie di Galeazzo Malatesta signor di Pesaro (Pesaro, 1782); A. Fattori, ‘Rime inedite di Battista da Montefeltro’, Picenum Seraphicum 3 (1917), 337-351. (This edition also gives information on her literary oeuvre in general: letters, laude, sonnets, sermons); A. Fattori & B. Feliciangeli, 'Lettere inedite di Battista da Montefeltro', Rendiconti della R. Accademia dei Lincei ser. 5, 26 (1917), 196-215; Tonia Bernardi Triggiano, Piety among Women of Central Italy (1300-1600): A Critical Edition and Study of Battista da Montefeltro-Malatesta’s Poem in Praise of St. Jerome, PhD Diss. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999) [accessible at https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/304535696/fulltextPDF/1363E3E02BD7BB7521B/48 ]; Jacques Dalarun & Fabio Zinelli, 'Poésie et théologie à Santa Lucia de Foligno sur une laude de Battista de Montefeltro', in: Caterina Vigri. La santa e la città, Atti del Convegno Bologna, 13-15 Novembre 2002, ed. Claudio Leonardi, Caterina Vigri. La Santa e la Città, 5 (Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004), 21-44 (with an edition of the Laude devota delli dolori mentali del Signiore (inc: O mediator verace).

Lettere. See for instance A. Fattori & B. Feliciangeli, 'Lettere inedite di Battista da Montefeltro', Rendiconti della R. Accademia dei Lincei ser. 5, 26 (1917), 196-215, as well as the manuscripts. studies/editions mentioned for her Laude, sonnetti e rime.

Orazione. See: Margaret L. King & Albert Rabil Jr., 'Oration of Battista da Montefeltro Matatesta to the Emperor Sigismund', in: Her Immaculate Hand. Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy (Binghamton, NY, 1983), 35-38.

Testamentum. See: Cesare Cenci, 'Il testamento della B. Cecilia Coppoli da Perugia e di Battista (Girolama) di Montefeltro', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 68 (1975), 219-226.

literature

P. Olivieri, Notizie di Battista di Montefeltro (Pesaro, 1782); A. Fattori, 'Battista da Montefeltro', Picenum Seraphicum 2 (1916), 225-236, 337-346; A. Fantozzi, 'La riforma osservante dei monasteri delle clarisse nell’Italia centrale. Documenti sec. XV-XVI', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 23 (1930), 361-382, 488-550, 865ff.; Cesare Cenci, 'Il testamento della b. Cecilia Coppoli da Perugia e di Battista (Girolama) di Montefeltro', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 69 (1976), 219-231; Jacques Dalarun & Fabio Zinelli, 'Poésie et théologie à Santa Lucia de Foligno sur une laude de Battista de Montefeltro', in: Caterina Vigri. La santa e la città, Atti del Convegno Bologna, 13-15 Novembre 2002, ed. Claudio Leonardi, Caterina Vigri. La Santa e la Città, 5 (Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004), 21-44; F. Regina Psaki, 'Battista da Montefeltro Malatesta', in: Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. Katharina Margit Wilson & Nadia Margolis (Westport, Conn., 2004), 63-64; Jacques Dalarun & Fabio Zinelli, 'Le manuscrit des soeurs de Santa Lucia de Foligno', Studi Medievali 46 (2005), 117-167 [+ tables].

 

 

 

 

Baptista de Poppi (fl. 1385)

OM. Italian friar.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 6, p. 471

 

 

 

 

Baptista de Salis (Baptista Trovamala de Salis, † after 1494)

OMObs. Italian friar. Born in Piemonte and member of the Observantist province of Genua. For some year provincial vicar. In 1483 he completed in Levanto a Summa Casuum conscientiae (Baptistiana), a manual for confessors. Was printed several times. In 1489 he came with a completely revised version, the Rosella Casuum (also known as the Summa Rosella), printed in Venice. These works were reprinted and widely used far into the 16th century.

works

Summa Casuum Conscientiae/Summa Baptistiniana (Novi Ligure: Nicolaus Girardengus, 1484; Nürnberg: Anthonius Koberger, 1488 [also in 1484?]; Venice: Giorgio Arrivabene, 1485/Lyon, 1488/Speyer: Peter Drach, 1488/...) [See also: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke III. 359-363; E. Bellone, Appunti su Battista Trovamala di Sale O.F.M. e la sua `Summa Casuum Studi Francescani 74 (1977) 375-402; L. Babbini, Tre `summa casuum' composte da tre francescani piemontesi della provincia di Genova Studi Francescani 78 (1981) 163-165.

Rosella Casuum/Summa Roselle de Casibus Conscientie [=expanded re-issue of the Summa Casuum Conscientiae] (Pavia: Franciscus Girandengus & Johannes Antonius Birretta, 1489; Venice: Georgius Arrivabene, 1489 & 1495/1498/1499/Strasbourg: Johannes Knoblauch, 1516) The editions of 1495 and 1516 are accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek in Viena, and via Google Books. The 1495 edition was in the 1990s also published as an electronic edition: Graz, Akad. Druck- und Verl. Anstadt, ca. 1996, 2 CDRom. [See also: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke III. 359-366, and E. Bellone, Appunti su Battista Trovamala di Sale O.F.M. e la sua `Summa Casuum Studi Francescani 74 (1977) 375-402; L. Babbini, Tre `summa casuum' composte da tre francescani piemontesi della provincia di Genova Studi Francescani 78 (1981) 163-165. 

literature

Trithemius, De Script. Eccl. (Cologne, 1531), 170; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 180-181; Sbaralea, Suppl. ad Scriptores, II, 113; DHGE, VI, 528; A. Teetaert, in: Dict. de Droit Canonique, 2 (Paris, 1937), 201-3; LThK, I², 1229; LThK, I³, 1394; See also Collectanea Franciscana 1, p. 408; 5, p. 296, 14. Pp. 315, 322,; 32, p. 337; 8, p. 453; 27, p. 219; 40, p. 441; Bibl. 10 n. 35; Bibl. 11, n. 100; J. Dieterle, ZKG, 24-27 (1903-6);E. Bellone, `Appunti su Battista Trovamala di Sale O.F.M. e la sua `Summa Casuum', Studi Francescani, 74 (1977), 375-402; L. Babbini, `Tre `summa casuum' composte da tre francescani piemontesi della provincia di Genova', Studi Francescani, 78 (1981), 159ff.; J.A. Brundage, `The Rise of Professional Canonists and Development of the Ius Commune', Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgschichte, kanonistische Abteilung, 81 (1995), 26-63; G.R. Dolezalek, `Lexiques de droit et autres outils pour le `ius commune'', in: Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquité tardive à la fin du Moyen Age, ed. J. Hamesse (Textes et études du Moyen Age, 4 (Louvain-la-Neuve-Turnhout, 1996), 353-376; Naama Cohen-Hanegbi, Caring for the Living Soul. Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean (Leiden: Brill, 2017), ad indicem.

 

 

 

 

Baptista de Saxoferrato (Battista da Sassoferrato)

Franciscan theologian.

literature

Francesca Coltrinari, ‘Note sulla devozione di un artista del Quattrocento: una lettera di indulgenza del teologo francescano Battista da Sassoferrato all’orafo Giacomo di Marino di Tolentino’, Picenum Seraphicum 24 (2005), 293-309.

 

 

 

 

Baptista Donolinus (Battista Donolino, fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Vicenza. Bachelor of theology and preacher. Edited and helped publish the Lenten sermons of his Dominican colleague Giovanni Aquilani: Sermones Quadragesimales Venerabilis viri fratris Joannis Aquilani, Ordinis predicatorum de observantia (...) (Venice: Jacobus pentius de Leucho, 1522/Venice: Egidio Regazola, 1576). This work is accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek in Vienna.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 108.

 

 

 

 

Baptista Monsfeltria (Battista da Montefeltro, d. 1450)

OSC. Italian Observant Poor Clare.

works

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 108.

 

 

 

 

Baptista Varana (Battista Varani/Camille Varani, 1458-1524) Beata (1843)

OSC. Italian Observant Poor Clare. Daughter of the Prince of Camerino (Giuglio Caesario de Varano). She received a thorough education and entered the Poor Clares at Urbino in 1481. In 1484, she established a convent of Poor Clares at Camerino, where she became abbess. Battista was renowned for her ascetical lifestyle, her exuberant Passion devotion and her devotion towards the Sacred Heart. She also was an acknowledged visionary and mystic. After her death (31 May 1524?), her grave became a cult site. She was officially beatified in 1843 (by Pope Gregory XVI). Battista was a prolific author of spiritual treatises, religious exercices, spiritual letters etc., in which she stressed the importance of a purity of heart, self-mortification, humility, charity and the love of God. She also elaborates on the methods and significance of contemplation in the road towards mystical union. her best-known work is a spiritual treatise entitled Dolori mentali di Gesù nella sua Passione (1488). This work is regarded as one of the master-pieces of Franciscan ascetical writings. She dedicated it to her spiritual counsellor Pietro de Mogliano OFMObs. After the death of the latter, she composed in July 1491 the Del felice transito del beato Pietro da Mogliano, relating Pietro’s last weeks and saintly death.

works

Opera Omnia: A number of her works have been edited in Le opere spirituali della Beata Battista Varani, ed. M. Santoni (Camerino, 1894); Beata Battista Varano, ed. Venanzio della Vergiliana, Biblioteca dei Santi (Milan, 1926). See also: Battista da Varano, Opere Spirituali, ed. G. Boccanera (Iesi, 1958).

Among the individual works, we can single out:

I dolori mentali di Gesù nell sua Passione (Naples, 1490/Milan, 1515/etc.) [This work, written in 1488, deals with Battista’s visions and revelations, through which she had received from Jesus Christ an insight in the sorrows of Christ’s heart. I dolori had a considerable impact on the devoton to the sorrows of the Sacred Heart in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.]

I Ricordi di Gesù [A work in which ‘Christ’ lists all the spiritual gifts granted to Battista from her birth onwards, in which he exhorts her to meditate on the Passion, to prepare for the spiritual tribulations that she will have to endure in the future, and in which he teaches her the ways to arrive at a perfect union with God.]

La condotta della vita spirituale [An autobiography (1491) in which Battista describes for her confessor her spiritual journey between her eighteenth and thirty-third year.]

Le istruzioni al discepolo [A manual written for a disciple, in which Battista teaches what should be done to arrive at a life of evangelical perfection. See for more information also A. Saudreau, La piété à travers les âges (Antwerp-Paris, 1927), 540-543]

Dichiarazione fatta sopra i capitoli della regola delle Sore Povere dell’Ordine di S. Chiara [A spiritual commentary on the Rule of Clare.]

Trattato della purità di cuore [Describes the various stages and degrees through which the soul or the heart arrives at the summit of mystical union.]

Considerazioni divote sopra la Passione di N.S. Gesù Cristo [Sixteen meditations on the physical sufferings of Christ during his Passion. There still is some doubt concerning the authenticity of this work.]

literature

M. Pascucci, Vita della Beata Battista Varani (Macerata, 1680); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 108-109; Vicenzo da Porto S. Giorgio, Vita della Beata Battista Varani (Bologna, 1874); A.M. Marini, Vita della Beata Battista Varani (Camerino, 1882); L. de Clary, L’Auréole Séraphique (Paris, 1892) II, 367-408; D. Puliti, Un’asceta del Rinascimento, La Beata Camilla Battista Varani da Camerino (Florence-Rome, 1915); B. Feliciangeli, ‘Notizie e documenti sulla Vita della B. Camilla Battista Varano da Camerino’, Picenum Seraphicum 15 (1915), 581-621, 721-741; D. Aringoli, La Beata Battista da Varano (Fabriano, 1928); J. Heerinckx, ‘Devotio Sacratissimi Cordis in scriptis B. Baptistae Varani’, Antonianum 10 (1935), >>; DSpir I, 1240-1242; G. Boccanera, ‘L’Osservanza francescana nella vita e nelle opere della B. Camilla Battista da Varano (1458-1524)’, Picenum Seraphicum 12 (1975), 154-158; Paul Lachange, ‘Tout commença par une petite larme…’, in: Claire d’Assise. Féminité et spiritualité, 185-204; Ippolito Brandozzi, Il beato Pietro da Mogliano Minore Osservante, Studi e Testi Francescani, 38 (Rome, 1967). For more up-to-date references, see our Franciscan Women Internet Database (http://franwomen.sbu.edu/franwomen/default.aspx)

 

 

 

 

Barbadino (Pseud. For Luiz Antonio Verney, mid 18th cent.)

To be continued

works

To be continued

literature

DHGE VI, 574.

 

 

 

 

Barbara Fivoli (Barbera Fivoli, 1717-1764)

OFS? Italian lay woman of Florentine descent. Made to write a diary by her confessor, leading to a multi-volume produc of about 4000 pages.

works

Diario. See the studies by Elena Bottoni mentioned under the literature section.

literature

Bottoni, Elena. '‘Noi donne haviamo il capo addobbato per sognare’: scrittura mistica e direzione spirituale nel diario di Barbera Fivoli (1717-1764)', Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà 13 (2000), 275-403; Elena Bottoni, 'Barbara Fivili (1717-1764): una mistica livornese del Settecento candidata alla santità', in: Donne livornsi, ed. Olimpia Vaccari (Livorno: Debatte Editore, 2001), 59-77; Elena Bottoni, ''Oh se avessi per carta la vasta mole del cielo e per inchiostro l'acqua del mare'. Imparare a scrivere per intraprendere un percorso spirituale: i diari di Barbera Fivoli', in: Sul filo della scrittura. Fonti e temi per la storia delle donne a Livorno, ed. Lucia Frattarelli Fischer & Olimpia Vaccari (Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2005), 193-216.

 

 

 

 

Barbara Welden (fl. 15th cent.)

OSC. German Poor Clare. Member of the Alspach monastery and mystical author.

works

Mystical treatise: MS Colmar. Bibliotheque de la Ville. Check!

literature

To be continued...

 

 

 

 

Barbara Wernherin (Barbara Wernerin, fl. 15th cent.)

TOR. German regular tertiary in the Franciscan tertiary convent of Dillingen. Scriptor/comppiler of a Horarium.

works

Horarium: MS Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Check!

literature

To be continued...

 

 

 

 

Barbatus (fifteenth century)

Franciscan author famous for his sermons on Franciscan saints. further info will be sought

 

 

 

 

Barnabas Antonius de Pardina (Bernabé Antonio de Pardiñas, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Santiagués in the Cantabria province.

literature

AIA 32 (1929), 54-58; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 160 (no. 663).

 

 

 

 

Barnabas de Caprile (Barnaba da Caprile, d. 1797 [1799?])

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar. Entered the order in the Venetian province. Famous preacher, whose published sermon collections for a long time were used in Italian theological training seminaries. He died in Mestre.

works

Orazioni Sacre divise in due deche. Opera posthuma, 2 Vols. (Venice: P. Sola, 1799). This work was re-issued in Collezione delle opere de’ piu insigni e recenti predicatori, VI, Nuovo Gabinetto litterario (Naples, 1833).

Prediche Quaresimali. Opera Posthuma (Venice: A Santini, 1800/2nd ed. in 3 Vols. Naples: A. Marotta, 1834). This work was re-issued in Collezione delle opere de’ piu insigni e recenti predicatori, VII, VIII & IX, Nuovo Gabinetto litterario (Naples, 1834).

The Orazioni Sacre divise in due deche and the Prediche Quaresimali were published together in the Quaresimale e panegirici (Livorno, 1837).

literature

Johann Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a. P. Bernardo Bononiensi Editam (Rome, 1852), 15; Necrologio dei Frati Minori Cappuccini della Provincia Veneta (Venice, 1910) I, 26; A. Teetaert, ‘Barnabé de Caprile’, DHGE VI, 851; Lexicon Capuccinum, 172  

 

 

 

 

Barnabas de Bailleul (Barnabé d’Armentières, ca. 1616-1677)

OFMCap. Took the Capuchin habit at Ypres, on 14 November 1638. Took up positions as a guardian at the convents of Bourbourg (1654-1657) and Menin (1657-1660). One year before his death, Barnabé published at Lille (Rijssel) a treatise entitled Nostre Dame de Messines. L’antiquité déclarée de l’image, abbaye, pèlerinage, avec des exercises de dévotion. He died at the Ypres on 7 September 1677.

works

Nostre Dame de Messines. L’antiquité déclarée de l’image, abbaye, pèlerinage, avec des exercises de dévotion (Lille, 1676).

literature

Lambertus van Velp, Necrologium seraphicum (Tilburg, 1897), 39; H. Terrier, Histoire de l’ancienne abbaye de Messines (Ypres, 1912), 247-456; P. Hildebrand, ‘Barnabé d’Armentières’, DHGE VI, 849.

 

 

 

 

Barnabas de Gambellara (1605-1660)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Verona and member of the Venetian province. Entered the order on October 27, 1626. Developed into a staunch defender of the immaculate conception. In 1653, Barnabas became an almoner in the Venetian army, which engaged the Turkish troops. Barnabas was killed during an attack by the Turks on the Island of Crete (Creta) seven years later.

works

Contrarietà favorevoli all’Immacolata Concezione della gran Madre di Dio, 2 Vols. ?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 35; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 181; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 109; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’Ordine dei cappuccini (Milan, 1883) II, 547-552; Eduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 10; A. Teetaert, ‘Barnabé de Gambellara’, DHGE VI, 851; Lexicon Capuccinum, 172-173 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Barnabas de Palma (Barnabas N./Bernabé de Palma, 1469-1532)

OMObs. Spanish friar. Born at Palma del Rio in a family from Sicilian descent. Active as gardener before his entry in the order (1491) in the Observant Los Angeles Province. He stayed a lay brother throughout his life. Spent the first years of his religious life as a hermit in the secluded mountain convents of the Sierra Morena. Became quickly renowned and even infamous for his raptures and his ‘elevations’ during Mass, as well as for his extreme (and ‘miraculous’) examples of charity as doorkeeper of the Belén de Palma convent. After ca. 20 years of experimenting with various modes of prayer and meditation, he found spiritual relief with the so-called ‘via del recogimiento,’ focusing on a purification of the soul and a direct (ecstatic) loving contemplation of the Divine. To underscore his contemplation experiences and provide information to others, Barnabas produced a series of spiritual writings, which testify to his self-made style of contemplation and are relatively free from a wider theological context. His most important work is the Via Spiritus/ Via Espiritus, which saw several complete and abridged editions in the sixteenth century. According to Andrés de Guadalupe, he wrote at least six other works. Maybe (some of) these should be ascribed to Francisco de Borja or to Juan de Cazalla.

works

Via Spiritus, edited in: Bernabé de Palma, Via Spiritus - Bernardino de Laredo, Subida del Monte Sión, ed. Teodoro H. Martín, Clasicos de Espiritualidad (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1998). For an initial introduction to the work (esp. on the various stages of man in his road of contemplation, from the bodily state, via the mixed state of body and spirit, and the spiritual state to the supernatural state), and its relationship with other fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spanish mystic developments, see also the analysis of Saturnino López Santidrián, DSpir XII, 133-139. The following sixteenth-century editions are known: Via Espiritus (Sevilla, 1532/Antwerp, 1533-1534 [sponsored by the Duke of Bejar on request of Pedro Barrientos, the brother of Pedro de Alcantara]/Salamanca, 1541/Valencia, 1546 [abridged]/Barcelona, 1549/Toledo, 1550 [together with the Soliloquio of Ortiz]/Toledo, 1553 [abridgment by Juan de Borja, and published together with the Soliloquio of Ortiz]). See also Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 554-555.)

Centiloquio del Alma; Doctrina Christiana; Grados de la Oración y contemplación; Declaración de los misterios de la Misa; De los cuatro Novissimos y Postrimerias del Hombre; Vida de Christo. These six works (which according to Andrés should be ascribed to Barnabas de Palma) seem to have been published together (maybe reworked?) in the anonymous Libro llamado fuente de vida, hecho por un fraile de la Orden de nuestro seráfico padre San Francisco (Valencia, 1527/Burgos, 1528/Medina del Campo, 1542). On the Vida de Christo see also D. de Courcelles, `L'Espagne de 1450 à 1550', in: Hagiographies. Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines à 1550, ed. G. Philippart , Vol. I (Brepols, 1994), 155-188 (esp. p. 161). De los cuatro Novissimos y Postrimerias del Hombre also appeared in the Segunda Parte de las Obras del (…) Francisco de Borja (Alcalá, 1550).

Epistolae Spirituales ad Devotas Personas.?

De Ascensu Mentis in Deum.? Signalled by Sbaralea.

Vita Beatae Virginis (Valencia, 1527), ed. P. de Castro (Medina del Campo, 1542). Ascription correct?

literature

Wadding, Script., 36; Francisco Gonzaga, De Origine Seraphicae Religionis (Rome, 1587), 936; Andrés de Guadelupe, Historia de la Santa Provincia de Los Angeles (Madrid, 1642/Madrid, 1662), 313-322 [Liber VII, Chapter 22-26]; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 181; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 109 & (ed. 1908) I, 114; DSpir I, 1247; Bernardo Bravo, ‘La ‘Via spiritus’ de Fr. Bernabé de Palma’, Manresa 31 (1959), 35-74, 235-260; ECATT, II, 867; P. Sáinz Rodríguez, Espiritualidad española (Madrid, 1961), 143-186; José M. Madurell y Marimón, ‘La edición de la ‘Via spiritus’ de 1549’, Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia 35 (1962), 283-285; M. Andrés Martin, Los recogidos (Madrid, 1975), 176-192; Saturnino López Santidrián, ‘Palma’, DSpir XII, 132-139; Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales (…)’, Repertorio de historia de las ciencias eclesiásticas en España 3 (Salamanca, 1970), 554-555; Manuel de Castro, Verdad y Vida, 53 (1995), 187-192.

 

 

 

 

Barnabas de Terni (Barnabas Interamnensis/Barnaba Manassei da Terni, d. 1474 (1477?)), beatus

OMObs. Italian friar. Born in Terni in the diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia (Dioecesis Interamnensis-Narniensis-Amerina), as the son of Giovanni Manassei. Studied philosophy and medicine and practiced as a doctor before his entrance into the Observant branch of the Franciscan order in 1430. After he was ordained priest, he began to preach, singling out usury. Together with his fellow Franciscan friar Fortunato Coppoli he founded at Perugia a Monte di Pietà, where Christians could borrow money against low interest. After severe discussions in front of cardinal Berard Beruli with theologians who thought this was against Christian doctrine, Barnaba and Fortunato were able to proceed. Subsequently, Monte di Pietà were established at Assisi, Foligno, Terni, and in other towns. Barnaba was several times guardian of the Porziuncola, and took up the charge of provincial vicar for three successive terms, assisting in this function in the organisation of the general chapter of the Observants at Aquila (1452). Barnaba died, after a short illness in the Carceri hermitage on Monte Subasio, near Assisi, on February 17, 1474 or 1477.

works

De Licita et Justa Montis Pietatis Erectione (1450): MS? Attributed and never found.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 5, p. 701f; 13, p. 187; 31, p. 241; 34, p. 431; 35, p. 220; Collectanea Franciscana Bib. 11, n. 3471 etc.; Bernardino Busti, Defensorium Montis pietatis (Venice, 1497), ca. g3r; Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum, AFH 4 (1911), 323; Wadding, Annales Minorum, ad. an. 1461, n. 17 & and an. 1474, n. 9-13; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 109 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 114; Bernardino de l’Aquila, Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens (Rome, 1902), 43; P. Manassei, 'Barnaba da Terni e i Monti di Pietà', Boll. R. Deput. di Storia Patria dell'Umbria 7 (1902), 467-500; H. Holzapfel, Le origine dei monte di pietà (1462-1515) (Rocca S. Casciano, 1905); Leone Bracaloni, 'Barnaba Manassei da Terni, beato', Enciclopedia Italiana (1930) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/barnaba-manassei-da-terni-beato_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/]; Alberto Ghinato, AFH, 50 (1957), 231-36 & 379-440; Alberto Ghinato, Studi e documenti intorno ai primitivi Monti di pietà, IV (Rome, 1963), 11-16, 19-34, 55; V. Meneghin, I Monti di pietà in Italia dal 1462 al 1562 (Vicenza, 1986), 56, 73; Mario Sensi, 'Marco da Montegallo apostolo dei Monti di pietà', in: Marco da Montegallo (1425-1496), Atti del convegno di studio di Ascoli Piceno, 1996, ed. S. Bracci (Padua, 1999), 238f; Hélène Angiolini, 'Manassei, Barnaba', in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 68 (2007) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/barnaba-manassei_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ] with additional references.

 

 

 

 

Barnabas Kirchhuber (Kirchhueber, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRif. Bavarian friar, order administrator and religious author with some Scotist leanings. Born at Tölz (Upper Bavaria). After he entered the order, he went through the order’s school programme and served two times as a provincial minister for the Bavaria province (1680-1682, 1695-1697). He also served as general visitator of the Bohemian province (1687). He retired to the Munich convent, where he provided spiritual counsel to the Poor Clares of the Am Anger convent and served as the confessor of  urban patriciate families. He died at Munich in 1705.

works

Summum Bonum Materiae Primae Forma Substantialis (Amberg, 1670).

Praerogativae Deiparae Virginis Mariae ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti (...) sub Comitiis Provincialibus FF. Min. S. Francisci Reform. (...) Publicae Disputationi Propositi, Praeside P.F. Barnaba Khirchhueber, (...) Defendente P. Anselmo Furstmair (...) (Ingolstadt: Johann Philipp Zinck, 1674). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Expositio Brevis et Dilucida in Tres Regulas S. Francisci. Isagoge Confessarii Priviligiati (1676).

Leben und Leijden der xix seeligen Martijrer von Gorcum (...) (Ingolstadt: Johann Philipp Zinck, 1676). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Canones Theologici de Lege Pontificia: Potissimum ad Mentem Doctoris subtilis P. Joannis Duns Scoti, sub Comitiis Provincialibus FF. Min. S. Francisci Reform. (...) Publicae Disputationi Propositi, Praeside P.F. Barnaba Khirchhueber, (...) Ingolstadiensi SS. Theologiae Lectore, defendentibus P. Ignatio Burckhard & P. Englhardo Hueber (...) SS. Theologiae Studiosis (...) (Ingolstadt: Johann Ostermayr, 1677). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Quodlibeta theologica de unione hypostatica ad mentem Doctoris Subtilis (...) sub capitulari congregatione FF. Min. S. Francisci Reformat. Provinciae Bavariae, in Conventu Ratisbonensi (...) publica disputationi proposita. Praeside P.F. Barnaba Khirchhueber (...) Defendentibus F. Paschali Stozinger & F. Florido Mosmiller (...) (Ingolstadt: Johann Philipp ZInck, 1678). Accessible via Google Books.

Indulgentia Portiunculana (Munich, 1687).

Magna Indulgentia Portiunculae Ecclesiae Clarissarum S. Jacobi Monachii in Anger Concessa a Bonifacio Papa IX (...) Nunc denuo Vindicata et Elucidata a P.F. Barnaba Kirchhueber (...) (Munich: Johann Nicolaus Hampel, 1687). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Kurzer Begriff des Lebens des hl. Johann von Capistran und Paschalis Baylon (Munich: Johann Herman von Gelder, 1691). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Der Gnaden- und Tugend-reiche Anger. Das ist: die sonderbare grosse Gnaden, tugendsame Leben, und andere denck- und lob-wuerdige Begebenheiten, so in dem uhr-alten und hoch-beruehmten Gottes-Haus, und Jungfraeulichen Closter S. Clarae ordens in Muencgen beij S. Jacob am Anger biß in die 480. jahr verschlossen, und verborgen gelegen (...) (Munich: Maria Magdalena Rauchin, 1701). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Gnaden-Anger: Das ist Kurtzer Inhalt Aller sonderbaren Indulgenz und Ablaß, mit welchen das uhralte und hochberuehmte Gotts-Hauß S. Clarae-ordens beij S. Jacob am Anger in Muenchen begnadet ist (...) (Freising, 1703). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

V. Greiderer, Germania Franciscana (Augsburg, 1777-1781) I, 602, II, 261, 394, 422-424; H.W. Rotermund, Fortsetzung und Ergänzungen zu Jöchers allgemeinen Gelehrtenlexikon (Bremen, 1810-1820) III, 385-386; A.M. Kobolt, Lexikon baierischer Gelehrten und Schriftsteller bis zum Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts (Landshut, 1825), 378; R. Aubert, ‘Kirchhueber (Barnabas)’, DHGE XXIX, 146.

Dr. Roy Tepe has informed us that more information on Barnabas and editions of his work can be found in the Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts. We will check that out as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

Barnabas Saladin (d. after 1702)

OFMRec. French friar. Religious author…. To be continued

works

L'art de vivre en chrétien parfait selon les trois voyes de la perfection chrétienne: purgative, illuminative et unitive (Mairesse, 1701).

literature

DSpir XIV, 232-234.

 

 

 

 

Barnabas Underberger (Barnabas Unterberger, d. 1727)

OFMRef. German friar. Member of the Bavaria province. Theology lector and provincial miniserWrote several works on obtaining the perfect Christian life. For his theological defenses as a student, publicly defending theological positions, see also i>Scutum scoticum Non Offensivum, sed Defensivum Philosophiae geminae moralis et rationalis id est: ethicae ac logicae. Pro publica concertatione litteraria assumpum a. P.F. Florido Mosmüller (...) Scutigero F. Barnaba Underperger ejusdem Ordinis Philosophiae Studioso (Ingolstadt: Thomas Grass, 1684) & Distinctio ex natura rei formalis actualis scotistica Ante annum in controversiam academice vocata hoc anno scotistice vindicata et defensa cum quodlibetis theo-scotologicis. Praeside P.F. Florido Mosmiller (...) Propugnantibus P.F. Barnaba Underperger et F. Epiphanio Krump (...) (Ingolstadt: Thomas Grass, 1689).

works

Controversiae Theo-Scoto-Logicae De Causis Incarnationis Verbi Divini Iuxta Mentem Doctoris Subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti Decisae, Et publicae concertationi litterariae expositae. Praeside P.F. Barnaba Undterberger, Ord. Min. S. Francisci Reform. SS. Theologiae Lectore Ordinario Ingolstadiensi. Defendentibus Fr. Prospero Rieder, Fr. Protasio Wietaller, Ejusdem Ordinis & Studij Generalis Studiosis (Ingolstadt: Thomas Grass, 1696). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Perfectio Vitae Christiano-Religiosae, eiusque Obtinendae Obligatio, Theologice Considerata et Ascetice Explicata. Sive Resolutio, Qua exponitur, qualiter sub gravi peccato homo Christianus & Religiosus, praesertim de Ordine Fratrum Minorum in praesenti hac vita teneatur esse perfectus, qualiterque ad perfectionem tendere debeat (Ingolstadt: Thomas Grass, 1720). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

literature

V. Greiderer, Germania Franciscana II (Vienna, 1781), 262, 424-425; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 771; DSpir V, 1400; DSpir XVI, 36-37.

 

 

 

 

Bartholinus de Mantova (Bartolino da Mantova, fl. 1314)

OM. Italian friar.

literature

CF 35, p. 177f; C. Cenci, Verona minore ai tempi di Dante (Francescani, uomini di cultura, artisti, libri), Estratto da Le Venezie Francescane (Venice, 1966); M. d'Alatri, `Rileggendo gli atti del processo trentino dell'iverno 1332-1333', Coll. Franc., 35 (1965), 1177-189 [against the Dulcians]. Not a real author..

 

 

 

 

Bartholinus de Perugia (fl. 1339)

OM. Italian friar.

literature

CF 33 p. 267-281, 287-301, 305-326; Bib. 11 n. 1290; Majic Timotheus, `Die apostolische Pönitentiarie im 14. Jahrhundert', Röm. Quartalschrift, 50 (1955), 129-177.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus (fl. 13th cent.)>>Bartholomaeus de Viterbo?

OM. Italian friar.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 23 pp. 60f, 65f, 80f, 91, 140, 159-61; Bib 11 n. 110

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Adalid Hurtado (Bartolomé Adalid Hurtado, fl. 1730)

OFM. Spanish friar. Provincial definitor of the Andalusia province.

literature

AIA 24 (1925), 190.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Bartholomaeus Glaunvillus/Bartholomew the Englishman/Glanville, late 12th century, England - fl. ca. 1270) Magister de Proprietatibus

OM. English friar, born in Suffolk in the late 12th century or in any case before 1203. John Leland's connection of Bartholomew with the Glanville family from Suffolk is only corroborated by a late fourteenth-century colophon in Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 67. Studied natural sciences and theology at Oxford under Robert Grosseteste, and possibly earlier at Chartres (cf. MS hartres, Bibliothèque Municipale, 0385 (0390), vol. 16, f. 218v, which has an ex libris: 'Iste liber est fratrum predicatorum Carnotensium, quem habuerunt a fratre Bartholomeo qui fuit Anglicus'). Thereafter studies at the U. of Paris, possibly from 1225 onwards: 1230 bacc. biblicus (he is known to have given cursory lectures on the Bible. Cf. Salimbene, Chronica, ed. Holder-Egger, 94). Not known to have reached the magisterium. For a re-evaluation of his biography, see also Sophie Delmas (2021). In 1231, he came to Magdenburg in the Saxony province (where a Franciscan studium had been created in 1228) as lector, at the request of minister general John Parenti and the Franciscan general chapter of 1230. Aside from biblical studies and the production of sermons, he composed as lector in Magdeburg after ca. 1235 (and probably between 1242 and 1247) his famous De proprietatibus Rerum, a comprehensive treatise on the natural sciences organized as an encyclopedia, surviving in many mss, early printings and several translations (into Spanish, French, Dutch, English etc.). Bartholomew apparently wrote this work for fellow friars and theology students, who needed a wide, encyclopaedic knowledge of many disciplines but did not have access to or time to study the individual disciplines in depth, and could make do with at times superficial treatments of the topics at hand. The work was inspired by the idea (elaborated by Isidore, and the Victorines (and subsequently by Bonaventure)) that the knowledge of the properties of visible things would lead the inquisitive mind towards contemplation of God (Invisibilia enim Dei per ea quae facta sunt intellecta conspiciuntur (Rom. 1:20)) and first and foremost would help students of theology/theologians to better understand the difficulties in the allegorical understanding of Scripture (a clear testimony to Bartholomew’s overall exegetical interests behind his choice of subjects and mode of procedure). Due to its wide scope, the work quickly became a best-seller, with many possible functions in the fields of exegesis, homeletics, education etc. In addition, De Proprietatibus Rerum soon became the basis for a wide range of Latin and vernacular reworkings. Several of these were basic (systhematically or alphabetically organized) reworkings of Bartholomew’s Latin text, sometimes with specific (theological, medical, scientific etc.) interests in mind (cf. Meyer (2000), 149-280). On top of this, De Proprietatibus Rerum soon became the basis for several moralized preaching encyclopedias, either through the inclusion (in the margin or the body of the text) of moralizations of the naturalia presented, or through complete reworkings of those elements of the text that were most suited for preaching purposes. See for instance the Tractatus Septiformis de Moralitatibus of Marcus of Orvieto (see on this in particular the studies of Heinz Meyer (2000), 281-324 and Baudouin van den Abeele). The influence of De Proprietatibus Rerum can also be traced in the Franciscan Tabula Exemplorum (although Meyer (2000), 320-321 is cautious) and (more securely) in the Contes Moralisés of Nicholas Bozon OFM. In 1247, Bartholomaeus Anglicus was elected provincial minister of the Austria province. He fulfilled this office for one or two terms and then moved to the Bohemia province, where he again fulfilled the post of provincial minister. In this quality, he resolved a dispute between Duke Boleslaw and the cathedral chapter of Crakow. In 1256, Bartholomaeus was appointed papal legate north of the Carpathians by Alexander IV, with the added task to engage in crusade preaching in Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, and Austria. Early 1257, he was in Rome, and he received the appointment of bishop of Lukow (North of Cracow), but it is not known whether Bartholomaeus ever made it there. It is quite probable that he stayed in Rome, and did not experience first-hand the Mongol attack on Sandomierz, Lublin, and Crakow and other towns/villages in northern Poland in 1259. The Franciscan provincial chapter of Halberstadt elected him in his absence to the position of provincial minister of Saxony in 1262. To take up this position, Bartholomaeus returned to Magdeburg. He retained the office until his death in 1272. Some copies of letters by and to him from this period (one from 16 October 1262 about the right to hear confession, and a copy of a letter sent to him by Bonaventure in 1266) still survive.

works

De Proprietatibus Rerum [in all at least 240 Latin manuscripts, fragments not included] a.o. Madrid, Nac. 930; 3316; 12739; 12803; Autun, Bibl. Municip. Sém. 36; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum 15; Oxford, Bodl. Bodley 965b & 749; Oxford, Bodl. Ashmole 1512; Oxford, Bodl. e. Mus. 16; London, British Library Add. 8929 ff. 1-267vb; (an. 1443); London, Inst. of Electrical Ingineers Thompson Collection 3 (15th cent.); London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library 114 & 115; Clermont Ferrand Bibl. Muncip. 172 (an. 1321); Reims, Bibl. Municip. 992 (an. 1325); Verona, Bibl. Capit. CCLXXIII (1245) ff. 101r-126v (fragment of book 16); Florence, Laurenz. Calci 41 ff. 1r-198v; Florence, Laur. Plut. 18 Sin 9 & Plut 21 Sin 2; Florence, Laurenz. Conv. Soppr. 462; Basel, UB D III.2; Novarra BC 75 (LVIII); Pisa Cateriniana 30; Pommersvelden Schlossbibl. 239; Prague Metrop. Kap. L.LV.1 & L.LV.2; Narodni Knihova V.A. 16; Reims BM, 992; Rome, BNC Sessor. 24; Washington Library of Congress 129; Madrid BN, 12803; Vat.Reg.Lat. 1951 ff. 1-286va (14th cent.); Brussels, Bibl. Royale, 213 & 9094 [French]; Jena, Univ. Libr. El. F. 80 [French]; Paris, BN. Fr, 216 [French]; Ste. Geneviève 1029 [Provencal]; Wolfenbüttel HAB, 1.5.3.1 Aug. [French]; Frankfurt a. M. Dominikanerkloster 14 (book 14-16) ff. 316va-438va. See also MSS 22 (ff. 437vb-438va) and 96 (ff. 52r-151r) of the same library for excerpts; Kraków, Jagell. 813 ff. 39-79, 85-90 [Fragments of books IV, VIII, IX]; Kraków, Jagell. 836 (ca. 1400) ff. 1-147v, 155-57; Uppsala Univ. Libr. C.594 (14th cent.); Uppsala, Univ. Libr. C. 654 ff. 89-99; Verona, Bibl. Cap. CCLXXIII (245) (early 16th cent.) ff. 101-126v; Lüneburg Ratsbücherei MS Hist. C 2° 45 ff. 1ra-12va (14th-15th ca., excerpts from book XV); Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei MS Hist. 9 & C. 45 (extracts); Paris, BN Lat. 16099 (Sigla P); Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. 2287 (Books 3-19) & 16098; Hereford Cathedral Library O.V. 15 (early 14th cent.) ff. 1-303v; Olomouc, SVK MI 247 (15th cent.) ff. 84-110 (fragments). [For a full list of the manuscripts, see M.C. Seymour et.al., Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his Encyclopaedia (Aldershot, 1992), 257-261, with corrections and additions in Manuscripta 37/1 (1993), 94-5 and by B. van den Abeele, in Scriptorium, 48 (1994), 167-9; Meyer (2000), 41-137 (on pp. 137-148 info. on manuscript origins). For copies documented in English ownership during the MA, see M.C. Seymour, 'Some Medieval English Owners of De Proprietatibus Rerum', Bodl. Library Record, 9 (1973-8), 156-165.
There came out at least twelve printed editions of De Proprietatibus Rerum before the end of the fifteenth century and a considerable number of sixteenth-century imprints. [Cf. Hain, Repertorium Bibliographicum I, no. 2498-2523; Copinger, Supplement I, n. 2498-2523 & II, n. 884. See also the 1998 study of Quarg]: De Proprietatibus Rerum (a.o. Basel, Berthold Ruppel, 1470/Lyon, M. Huss, 1482/Cologne, 1472/Toulouse, 1494 [Spanish translation issued by the Spanish Observant friar Vincentius BurgensisFrankfurt, Richter, 1601 (reprint Frankfurt a.M., Minerva, 1964))[Bartholomaei Anglici de Genuinis Rerum Coelestium Terrestrium et Inferarium Proprietatibus Libri XVIII]; Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Batman vppon Bartholome. His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum (1582/Reprint with introduction and index by Jürgen Scher, Anglistica & Americana 161, Hildesheim-New York, 1976). Quite a few fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions are now accessible via the usual digital portals.
For more recent editions and translations, see: On the Properties of Soul and Body. De proprietatibus rerum Libri III et IV, Edited from Bibliothèque nationale MS Latin 16098, ed. R.J. Long (Toronto, PIMS, 1979); S.M.M. Clinton, The Latin Manuscript Tradition in England of the De Proprietatibus Rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus: An Analysis Based on Book X, PhD Diss (Northwestern Univ., 1982); Bartholomaeus Anglicus de Proprietatibus Rerum. Book XIX. A Critical Edition of the Latin Text in England, ed. J.G. Litaka, PhD Diss. (N. Illinois Univ., 1987); De proprietatibus Rerum. Texte latin et réception vernaculaire – Lateinischer Text und volkssprachige Rezeption, ed. Baudouin Van den Abeele, Heinz Meyer, Michael W. Twomey, Bernd Roling, R. James Long & Iolanda Ventura (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006); Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, I: Prohemium, Libri I-IV, ed. Baudouin van den Abeele, Heinz Meyer, Michael W. Twomey, Bernd Roling & R. James Long, De diversis artibus, 78 (n.s. 41) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007); Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, VI: Liber XVII, ed. Iolanda Ventura, De diversis artibus, 79 (n.s. 42) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). For an edition of the medieval English version by John of Trévise (1398), see: On the Properties of Things: John of Trevisa's Translations of Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De Proprietatibus Rerum: A Critical Edition, ed. M.C. Seymour, 2 Vols. (Oxford, 1975) [See review, AFH, 69 (1976), 285]; M.H. Blechner, An Edition of Book 4 of John Trevisa’s Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De Proprietatibus Rerum, Diss. (Princeton, 1971); M.C. Gaumer, John Trevisa’s Translation of De Proprietatibus Rerum of Bartholomew Anglicus. An Edition of the Plimpton Manuscript, Diss. (Washington, 1971) [for more of these partial editions of Treviso’s edition, see Meyer (2000), Einleitung, note 13]; There exist a number of other editions of old vernacular reworkings. Some of these date from the medieval period. Hence there exists a late fifteenth-century edition (Toulouse: Henricus Moyer, 1494) of the Spanish version by Vincente de Burgos (A Spanish Observant friar, see Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 137 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687). An incunable edition of an anonymous translation into Dutch appeared in 1485. An modern edition of Jean Corbechon’s French translation has been prepared by Baudouin van den Abeele, Bernard Ribémont and Heinz Meyer (see above). a partial Anglo-Norman version has been edited as Barthélemy l’Anglais, ‘Le livre des regions’, ed. Brent A. Pitts, Plain Texts Series, 15 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2006). Cf. review in Speculum 83 (2008), 170-171. For more information on vernacularizations, so-called 'moralisations', and late medieval and modern editions of them, see Meyer (2000), 325-396 and other works in the bibliography below. A modern French translation appeared in 1999: Le livre des propriétés des choses. Une encyclopédie au XIIIe siècle, trans. B. Ribémont (Paris, 1999).

(false ascription?) Allegoriae Veteris et Novi Testamenti: MS Assisi, Bibl. Comun. 148. This is based on information by Stegmüller, II, 1561. This work was apparently printed as Allegoriae Simul et Tropologiae in Utrumque Testamentum (1551/Paris, 1574). According to Sophie Delmas (2021), this is not a work by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, but should be identified with a a part (prologue of part II, Book I) of a popular work by Richard of St Victor that was edited as Liber exceptionum, ed. Jean Châtillon (1958). This edition ignored MS Assisi, Bibl. Comun. 148.

(false ascription?) Chronicon de Sanctis? [REF: Bale' Wadding, 38; Sbar., Suppl., I, 122; DTC, VI/2, 1384] According to Sophie Delmas (2021), this ascription is unfounded.

(false ascription?) Commentaria in Evangelia Marci et Matthei? [REF: Stegmüller, II, 1562-3 & Suppl., 1562-3]

(false ascription?) Postillae Scripturarum? [REF: Stegmüller, II, 1561,1 & Suppl., 1561,1]

Sermones? [REF: Schneyer, I, 435]. There are some indications that they were printed in Strasbourg in 1491 and again in 1495, yet we have not yet been able to trace these imprints, and whether or not they are, in fact, of Barthololaeus Anglicus remains to be seen. According to Sophie Delmas (2021), the ascription of these sermons is due to a confusion with an early edition from 1491 of De proprietatibus rerum by the same printer.

literature

(short selection. For a more extensive overview, see Meyer (2000), Einleitung, passim). Wadding, Script., 115-7; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 182-183; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806) 115-117; AF I (Quaracchi, 1885), 17; P.H. Plassmann, ‘Bartholomaeus Anglicus’, AFH 12 (1919), 58-109; A.E. Schönbach, ‘Des Bartholomaeus Anglicus Beschreibung Deutschlands gegen 1240’, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 27 (1906), 61-90; A. Schneider, ‘Metaphysische Begriffe des Bartholom.A.’, in: Studien zur Geschichte der Philosophie. Festgabe zum 60. Geburtstag Clemens Baeumker gewidmet, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des MA, Suppl. (Münster i. W. 1913); L. Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science (New York, 1923) II, 401-435; W. Lampen, ‘De re liturgica in opere Bartholomei Anglici’, Ephemerides Liturgicae 42 (1928), 269-284; J. Goyens, ‘Barthélemy l’Anglais’, DHGE VI, 975-977; H. Lübbing, ‘Zur Biographie des Bartholomaeus Anglicus’, Franziskanische Studien 12 (1925), 254-257; Schneyer, I, 435; Bloomfield no. 1428; Stegmüller, Bibl. 1564; Michael E. Goodich, ‘Bartholomaeus Anglicus on child-rearing’, History of Childhood Quarterly 3 (1975), 75-84 [English translation of sections of De Proprietatibus Rerum on infants, children, girls, mothers, nurses and fathers. Later reprinted in: Idem, Lives and Miracles of the Saints. Variorum Collected Studies (Ashgate, 2004) II, 75-84]; D.C. Greetman, ‘The Concept of Nature in Bartholomaeus Anglicus (fl. 1230)’, JHI 41 (1980), 663-377; J. Desobry, ‘Le Livre des Propriétés des choses de Barthélemi l’Anglais’, in: Les quatre éléments dans la nature médiévale, Actes du colloque du Centre d'études médiévales de l'Université de Picardie, ed. D. Buschinger & A. Crépin (Göppingen, 1983), 299-308; Michael E. Goodich, ‘Encyclopaedic litterature: child-rearing in the Middle Ages’, History of Education 12 (1983), 1-8 (reprinted in Idem, Lives and Miracles of the Saints, Variorum Collected Studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)); B. Hughes, ‘Franciscans and Mathematics’, AFH 77 (1984), 13-15; LMA, I, 1492-3; M. Salvat, ‘Le Traité des couleurs de Barthélemy l’Anglais’, in: Les couleurs au moyen âge, Sénéfiance, 21 (Aix-en Provence, 1988), 153-172; H. Meyer, ‘Bartholomäus Anglicus, `De Proprietatibus Rerum'. Selbstverständnis und rezeption', ZDADL, 117 (1988), 237-274; Idem, `Die Zielsetzung des Bartholomaus Anglicus in `De Proprietatibus Rerum', in: Geistliche Aspekte mittelalterlicher Naturlehre, Symposion 30. Nov.- 2 Dez. 1990, ed. B. Konrad Vollmann, Schriften des Sonderforschungsbereichs 226, Würzburg/Eichstätt, 15 (Wiesbaden, 1993), 86-98; B. van den Abeele, in: Reinardus, 7 (1994), 224ff.; Le divin, discours enciclopédique. Actes du colloque de Mortagne-au-Perche, 3-5 avril 1993, ed. D. Hüe (Caen, 1994); Michel Salvat, ‘Les incursions de l’histoire chez Barthelemy l’Anglais et ses traducteurs’, in: L’histoire, le savoir, le temps: Discours encyclopédiques (Rennes, 1995); Geneviève Sodigné-Costes, ‘La botanique de Barthélemi l’Anglais mise en français par Jean Corbechon: traduction ou adaptation?’, in: Traduction, transposition, adaptation au Moyen Age: Actes du colloque du Centre d’Etudes Médiévales et Dialectales de Lille, 3, Bien dire et bien aprendre: Revue de Médiévistique, 13 (Lille: Presses de l’Université Charles-de-Gaulle, 1996), 249-261; H. Meyer, `Die illustrierten lateinischen Handschriften im Rahmen der Gesamtüberlieferung der Enzyklopädie des Bartholomäus Anglicus', Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 30 (1996), 368-395; G.Juris Lidaka, `Bartholomaeus Anglicus in the Thirteenth Century', in: Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts, ed. Peter Binkley, Proceedings of the Second COMERS Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996 (Leiden etc., 1997), 393-406; Bernard Ribémont, ‘L’inconnu géographique des encyclopédies médiévales: fermeture et étrangeté’, Cahiers de recherches médiévales (XIIIe-XVe siècles) 3 (1997), 101-111; F. Hernández Martín & M. Eugenia Pinaar García, ‘Acerca de l salud. Orientaciones para una vida saludable en un texto del siglo XIII’, Archivo Dominicano 18 (1997), 305-319 [on a incunabula containing a Castilian translation by Vincent of Burgos of De Proprietatibus Rerum]; Sue Ellen Holbrook, ‘A Medieval Scientific Encyclopedia ‘Renewed by Goodly Printing’: Wynkyn de Worde’s English ‘De proprietatibus Rerum’, Early Science and Medicine 3 (1998), 119-156; Jerry Stannard, ‘Bartholomaeus Anglicus and thirteenth century botanical nomenclature’, in: Idem, Pristina Medicamenta: Ancient and Medieval Medical Botany, ed. Katherine E. Stannard & Richard Kay, Variorum Collected Studies Series 646 (Aldershot, 1999), XVI, 191-194; Baudouin van den Abeele, Heinz Meyer & Bernard Ribémont, ‘En guise d’avant propos. Editer l’encyclopédie de Barthélemy l’Anglais. Vers une édition bilingue du ‘De proprietatibus rerum’’, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales 6 (1999), 7-18; Gilbert Dahan, ‘Encyclopédies et exègèse de la Bible aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles', Cahiers de recherches médiévales 6 (1999) [published online 11 January 2007; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/crm.927]; Heinz Meyer, Die Enzylopädie des Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Untersuchungen zur Überlieferungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte von ‘De Proprietatibus Rerum’, Münstersche Mittelalterschriften, 77 (Munich, 2000) [See also the review in Wissenschaft & Weisheit 65 (2002), 150-154]; Johannes Benedictus Voorbij, ‘Purpose and Audience: Perspectives on the Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias of Alexander Neckam, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Thomas of Cantimpré and Vincent of Beauvais’, in: The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference, ed. Steven Harvey (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000), 31-45; Christel Meier-Staubach, ‘La matérialité et l’immatérialité des couleurs. A propos du traité ‘De coloribus’ d’Avranches 235’, in: Science antique, science médiévale (autour d’Avranches 235). Actes du colloque international (Mont-Saint-Michel, 4-7 septembre 1998, ed. Louis Callabat & Olivier Desbordes (Paderborn-Munich: Olms-Weidmann, 2000), 451-469; Saskia Boogaart, ‘Bartholomaeus Anglicus over kleuren’, Madoc 15:4 (2001), 238-245; Libby Keen, ‘Under the cover of stories: Bartholomew the Englishman and the world of land and sea’, in: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for his 60th Birthday, ed. Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear and Diane Tillotson (Cardiff: Merton Priory Press, 2002), 94-108; Klaus Bitterling, ‘Sprachkontakt und Übersetzungsliteratur in spätenglischer Zeit’, Anglia 120:2 (2002), 200-227; David Moses, ‘John Trevisa’s translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum’, Notes and Queries n.s. 50:1 (2003), 11-13; Sue Ellen Holbrook, ‘Picturing time in Bartholomew’s encyclopaedia on the property of things’, in: Time and Eternity: The Medieval Discourse, ed. Gerhard Jaritz & Gerson Moreno-Raiño, International Medieval Research, 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), 451-575; Baudouin Van den Abeele, ‘Simbolismo sui margini: Le moralizzazioni del De proprietatibus rerum di Bartolomeo Anglico’, in: Simbolismo animale e letteratura, ed. D. Faraci (Rome: Vecchiarelli, 2003), 159–83; M. C. Seymour, ‘Bartholomaeus Anglicus (b. before 1203, d. 1272)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); David Moses, ‘Why is a cow below a lettuce? The anomalous placement of the animal of Bartolomeus Anglicus’ De Proprietatibus Rerum’, Notes and Queries n.s. 51:1 (2004), 17-19; Saskia Bogaart, Geleerde Kennis in de Volkstaal: Van den Proprieteyten der Dingen (Haarlem 1458) in Cultuurhistorisch Perspectief (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2004); Rosa Casapullo, ‘Segmentazione del testo e modalità d’uso delle enciclopedie tra latino e volgare’, in: Le parole della scienza. Scritture tecniche e scientifiche in volgari (secoli XIII-XV). Atti del convegno (Lecce, 16-18 aprile 1999), ed. R. Gualdo (Galatina: Congedo: 2005), 153-185; Rosa Casapullo, ‘Il volgarizzamento mantovano del ‘De proprietatibus rerum’: il londinese Add. 8785 e i suoi descritti quattrocenteschi’, in: Lo scaffale della biblioteca, 123-140; Giuseppa Zita Zanichelli, ‘Tradurre le immagini: le scelte illustrative della traduzione in volgare mantovano di Bartolomeo Anglico’, in: Lo scaffale della biblioteca, 141-157; Marek Tamm, ‘Les signes d'alterité. La représentation de la Baltique orientale dans le ‘De proprietatibus rerum’ de Barhélemy l'Anglais (vers 1245)’, in: Frontiers in the Middle Ages, 147-170; Elizabeth Keen, The Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things (Canberra, 2007); Sue Ellen Holbrook, ‘The properties of things and textual power: Illustrating the French translation of ‘De proprietatibus rerum’ and a Latin precursor’, in: Patrons, Authors and Workshops, 367-403; Nathalie Bouloux, ‘Ressources naturelles et géographie: le cas de Barthélemy l’Anglais’, in: La nature em partage. Connaître et exploiter les ressources naturelles, ed. Philippe Bernardi & Didier Boisseuil [=Médiévales 53 (2007)] (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007), 11-22; Iolanda Ventura, ‘Plant Symbolism in Thirteenth-Century Biblical Exegesis and in Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum’, Schola Salernitana annali 12 (2007), 121–134; Jérémy Loncke, ‘Approche comparative de la diffusion et de la transmission des différents états manuscrits du ‘De proprietatibus rerum’ de Barthélémy l’Anglais’, in: Une lumière venue d’ailleurs. Héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d’Orient et d’Occident au Moyen Âge, éd. Godefroy de Callataÿ et Baudouin Van den Abeele (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 177-198; Harm von Seggern, ‘Gab es ein Hauptstadtbewusstsein im Hochmittelalter?: eine Beobachtung zu ‘metropolis’ bei Bartholomäus Anglicus’, Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 26 (2008),15-35; Saskia Bogaart, ‘De onderste steen boven. Het lapidarium in de Middelnederlandse vertaling van Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ ‘De proprietatibus rerum’, in: Kennis-maken. Een bloemlezing uit de middelnederlandse artesliteratuur, ed. Orlanda S. Lie & Lenny M. Veltman (Hilversum: Verloren, 2008), 27-48; Patrick Gautier Dalché, ‘Représentations géographiques de l’Europe – septentrionale, centrale et orientale – au Moyen Age’, in: Europa im Weltbild des Mittelalters. Kartographische Konzepte, ed. I. Baumgärtner & H. Kugler (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008), also on Bartholomaeus Anglicus; Peter Riethe, ‘Zur Quellengeschichte des ‘Steinkatalogs’ der Hildegard von Bingen: Die Abhängigkeit des IV. Buches der Brüsseler Handschrift von Bartholomaeus Anglicus’, Scriptorium 64 (2010), 95-108; Elmar Eggert, ‘Die Farbwörter in zwei spanischen Übersetzungen der Enzyklopädie DPR des Bartholomaeus Anglicus’, in: Farbe im Mittelalter, ed. Ingrid Bennewitz & Andrea Schindler, 2 Vols. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011) I, 351-366; I francescani e le scienze. Atti del XXXIX Convegno internazionale di studio. Assisi, 6-8 ottobre 2011, Convegni S.I.S.F, XXXIX, n.s. 22 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2012) [cf. review in Il Santo 53:3 (2013), 490-495]; R. Casapullo, 'Sull'edizione di un testo mediolatino a tradizione sovrabbondante: il De proprietatibus rerum di Bartolomeo Anglico', Filologia Italiana 9 (2012), 9-25; Noemi Barrera-Gomez, ‘Bartholomaeus Anglicus como compilador. Fuentes y autoridades en el Líber de Deo del De proprietatibus rerum’, in: La compilación del saber en la Edad Media: actas del coloquio anual de la FIDEM 2012, 20 al 22 de junio de 2012, ed. María José Muñoz Jiménez, Patricia Cañizares Ferriz & Cristina Martin, Textes et études du Moyen-Age, 69 (Porto, 2013), 85-104. Ricardo Isidro Piñero Moral, 'De natura animalium et Bartholomaeus Anglicus', in: De Natura: la naturaleza en la Edad Media; VI Congreso Internacional Iberoamericano de la Sociedad de Filosofia Medieval, ed. José Luís Fuertes Herreros & Angel Poncela González Ribeirão, 2 Vols. (Ribeirão, 2015) II, 669-678; Peter Victor Loewen, 'Harmony, the Fiddler, Preaching and Amazon Nuns: Glosses on De musica in Bartholomew Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum', in: The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-ca.1350), ed. Michael Robson (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 147-174; Corsten Severin, 'Bartholomaeus Anglicus', in: Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens online (2017) [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/lexikon-des-gesamten-buchwesens-online/bartholomaeus-anglicus-COM_020183?s.num=179&s.rows=100&s.start=100 ]; Sophie Delmas, ‘La réception des encyclopédies naturelles dans les sermons au XIIIe siècle: Quelques exemples', Rursus 11 (2017) [DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ rursus.1340]; Michael Twomey, 'Bartholomaeus Anglicus', Oxford bibliographies online (2017) [https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com ]; Isabelle Draelants & Eduard Frunzeanu, ‘Le savoir astronomique et ses sources dans le De mundo et corporibus celestibus de Barthélemy l’Anglais’, Rursus 11 (2017) [http://journals.openedition.org/rursus/1352]; Elisabetta Lonati, 'Bartolomeo Anglico, 'the English Pliny'?', Bulletin du Cange 76 (2018), 223-278; Sophie Delmas, 'Bartholomew the Englishman, 'Master of the Properties of Things': Between Exegesis and Preaching', in: Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought, ed. Lydia Schumacher (De Gruyter, 2021), 243-260 [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110684834-011/html & https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684834-011]

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Anglicus II f. 1360 [??]

OM. English friar from Yorkshire, and allegedly the compiler of a Liber Sermonum (ed. Strasbourg, 1491/95)

works

Liber Sermonum (ed. Strasbourg, 1491/95).

literature

Zawart, 308

 

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Baphius Lucinianensis (Bartolomeo Baffi da Lusignano, d. 1579)

OFMConv & OFMCap. Italian friar from Lusignano (near Siena). First joined the Conventual Franciscans. Studied philosophy, classical literature (including Greek and Hebrew), and theology. Eventually he reached the doctorate in Theology at the University of Bologia (probably in 1561). Already during his formative years he was recognized as a gifted preacher, and several times he functioned as official preacher for his order during general chapter meetings (Assisi (1559), Milan (1562), Florence (1564), and Rome (1568)), and on other important occasions. Also active as a theologian and preacher at the final sessions of the council of Trente. His sermon held at the council on 6 December 1562 was subsequently published in Bressanone. Wrote about the council, church reform and related religious matters, and presented the works of providence in the history of the Roman church and the papacy. In 1569, he was appointed lector of scholastic theology at the Studium of Pavia, where he worked until 1572, and returned for another year of teaching in 1572/73. While teaching there, he experienced a religious crisis of some sort, and eventually obtained permission to join the Capuchins. After his noviciate in the Capuchin order, he functioned as a lector generalis in theology and sacred eloquence (preaching techniques) and engaged in labors of spiritual assistance. He died in Milan in 1579. (some older sources, such as Bernardino da Colpetrazzo's Historia ordinis fratrum minorum cappuccinorum II, 168 , while treating plague victims, but that seems incorrect).

works

Oratio de religone eiusque Praefecto deligendo (Bologna: Alessandro Benati, 1559). Written and preached at the occasion of the Conventual general chapter of Assisi of the same year.

Oratio Bartholomaei Baphii Lucinianensis Conventualis Franciscani, & in Gymnasio Bononiensi Baccalaurei in funere Ioannis Antonii Delphini è Casali Majore Franciscanae familae Vicarii Generalis Apostolici habita Bononiae in aede Divi Francisci (Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, 1561). Accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library and via Google Books (creative search, does not always show up).

Oratio Bartholomaei Baphii Lucinianensis conuentualis Franciscani [de laudibus Mediolanensium] habita ab eodem in communibus comitiis Mediolani in Aede summa. (Bologna: Peregrino Bonardo, 1562). Accessible via Google Books. Written and preached at the occasion of the general chapter of Milan of the same year and dedicated to the Conventual master general. It amounts to a history of Milan from the Insubri to Sforza rule.

Oratio de Lugi Flaminiae oppidi origine, ac nobilitate, deque nobilitatis ejus causa conservatrice (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1564). Apparently held ad the provincial chapter of 1564.

Ad Hernandum medicem Cardinalem Illustrissimum Reverendissimum ac Felicissimum De felicitate Urbis Florentiae oratio (...) Pro gratiarum actione in comitiis generalibus, & provincialibus ab eodem Florentiae habita III. Idus Iunii MDLXV (Bologna: Giovanni Rosso, 1565). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, Ghent University Library, and Google Books (creative search). Preached on 11 June 1565 and dedicated to Cardinal Ferdinando de'Medici. This work exhibits a large knowledge of Italian vernacular literature.

Oratio Bartholomaei Baphii Lucinianensis Ord. Con. Francisci, Habita in Oecumenico Concilio Tridentino ad Reip. Christianae Patres, secunda Dominica adventus Dominini super Evangelium Matth. XI. Cum audissent Joannes in vinculis opera Christi anno MDLXII (Bressanone: apud L. Sabiensem, 1562). Accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library, the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, and via Google Books (creative search, does not always show up). In this, Bartolomeo urges the council fathers to take appropriate measures to combat the ills of their times and to restore pontifical authority.

Oratio ad Populum Romanum in comitiis generalibus habita (Milan, 1567).

Ad M. Antonium Columnam (...) De admirabili Dei O.M. in urbem Romam charitate (...) Bartholomaei Baphii Lucinianensis (...) oratio, ab eodem ad Populum Romanum in comitijs generalibus habita 1568. (Milan: Pacifico da Ponte, 1569). Accessible via the Biblioteca Casanata in Rome and via Google Books. Dedicated to Cardinal M.A. Colonna. It is the written account of a speech held in the context of the general chapter of Rome (1568). Bartolomeo used a large number of Greek and Latin sources, notably Orosius and Eusebius to elaborate on the role of providence in the history of Rome, and to call on heretics and schismatics to return to the Church.

De sacrosanctae theologiae praestantia, deque Dei opt. max. pro eadem propugnatione F. Bartholomaei Baphii Lucinianensis conuentualis franciscani (...) oratio (...) habita octauo idus Nouembris 1569 (Pavia: Girolamo Bartolo, 1579?). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books. Based on his Pavia theology courses.

Orationum variarum volumen (Bressanone/Brixen, 1570).

literature

Wadding, Annales Ordinis Minorum V, 302; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 37; Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 80; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 183; Sbaraglia, Supplementum et castigatio ad Scriptores... (ed. 1806), 112 & (Rome, 1908) I, 117; Bernardino da Colpetrazzo, Historia ordinis fratrum minorum capuccinorum (Assisi, 1940) II, 168; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum Ord. min. capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 36; Boverio, Annales Ordinis minorum capuccinorum (1525-1612) (Lyon, 1632) I, 848; J. Goyens, ‘Baffi’, DHGE VI, 186-187; G. Odoardi, I francescani minori conventuali al concilio di Trento', in: Il concilio di Trento 3:1 (1947), 41; Lexicon Capuccinum, 174-175; Nicola Raponi, 'Baffi, Bartolomeo', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 5 (1963) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bartolomeo-baffi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ], with additional references;

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Barbieri (Bartolomeo Barbieri da Castelvetro/Castrovetro, 1615-1697)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born on the first of January 1615. Entered Capuchin order in the Bologna province in 1631. Later we find him in the Capuchin province of Parma (which was split from the Bologna province by 1679). Active as a preacher, lector and definitor. Was particularly successful as a teacher of theology to young Capuchin friars (for ca. 50 years!). To this purpose he wrote a complete Cursus of philosophy and theology on the basis of the works of Bonaventure. Tried to turn Bonaventure into the teacher of the order, by linking him to Scotus and Thomas of Aquino. Wrote also glossaries on the biblical works of Bonaventure (for preaching purposes), and several minor expository works. Bartolomeo died at Modena, on August 24, 1697.

works

Flores et Fructus Philosophici ex Seraphico Paradiso Excerpti seu Cursus Philosophiae ad Mentem S. Bonaventurae Seraphici Doctoris, 3 Vols. (Lyon: L. Arnaud & P. Borde, 1677/reprint 1787). The 1677 edition is accessible via the Bibliothèque de la ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

Cursus Theologicus ad mentem Serafici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae, 2 Vols. (Lyon: Comba, 1687). In part accessible via the Bibliothèque de la ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

Glossa seu Summa ex Omnibus S. Bonaventurae Expositionibus in S. Scripturam Exacte Collecta et in facilem Usum Studiosis ac concionatoribus Secundum Ordinem Biblicum Concinnata, 4 Vols. (Lyon: J. Pousel, 1681-1685). At least in part accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Tabula Generalis in Opera Omnia D. Bonaventurae, in Qua Alphabetico Ordine Compendiose Proponuntur Omnia Verba, Sententiae et Conclusiones Quae Continentur in Ejusdem Seraphici Doctoris Scriptis et Operibus. Printed? This tabula apparently was used by the Quaracchi editors when collecting and constituting the texts of Bonaventura da Bagnoreggio’s Opera Omnia. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Esercizio della Presenza di dio (Modena: Cassiani, 1673); Esercizio della presenza di Dio (1673), ed. Sabrina Stroppa (Parma: Curia provinciale Cappuccini, 1997).

Teologia mistica del serafico dottore S. Bonaventurae, ovvero Pratica della presenza di Gesù Cristo Dio ed Uomo. This work was apparently never printed.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 36; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 183-184; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 727; Domenico da Montecuccolo, ‘Un insigne teologo cappuccino’, Frate Francesco 6 (1928), 103-104; A. Teetaert, ‘Barberi’, DHGE VI, 639-640; Lexicon Capuccinum, 174; H. Borak, ‘De bonaventurismo Bartholomaei Barbieri’, Laurentianum 4 91963), 252-264; Andreas Speer, ‘Barbieri’, LThK 1 (1993), 1405; Bartolomeo Barbieri da Castelvetro (1615-1697). Un cappuccino alla scuola di san Bonaventura nell’ Emilia del’600, ed. Andrea Maggioli & Pietro Maranesi, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 55 (Rome, 1998) [with ca. 11 essays by various specialists. Review AFH 96 (2003), 266-267]; B. de Armellada, ‘El Sobrenatural. Visíon místico-escoticaa de Bartolomé Barbieri’, Naturaleza y Gracia 45,1 (1998); Eugeniusz Sakowicz, ‘Barbieri Bartolomeo’, in: Powszechna encyklopedia filozofii, 483; Fabio Gambetti, Biografia intellettuale di Bartolomeo Barbieri, cappuccino del ’600 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2002); Andrea Maggioli, ‘P. Bartolomeo Barbieri da Castelvetro’, in: 300 anni tra noi – I Cappuccini di Vignola dal 1698 ad oggi (Vignola, 2006), 27-30; Vincenzo Criscuolo, ‘San Bonaventura all’Indice? La ‘Theologia mistica’ bonaventuriana compilata da Bartolomeo da Castelvetro: ‘dictus liber non imprimatur nec restituatur’, in: Religioni e doctrina. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Bernardino de Armellada in occasione del suo 80o compleanno, ed. Aleksander Horowski, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 89 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2009), 533-584.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Fabriano (Bartolomeo da Fabriano d. ca. 1505)

OMObs. Italian friar. He was already a doctor in Roman and Canon Law and an officiating judge when the impact of Pietro da Modigliano's preaching made him join the Observant branch of the order. Known for his asceticism. He taught theology in the S. Bernardino province and also worked as a preacher. he died in the S. Andrea di Chieti friary around 1505. He supposedly left behind a series of Opuscoli spirituali and a life of the Virgin and Christ, entitled Pentamerone, yet we have not yet been able to trace those works.

works

Opuscoli spirituali. ?

Pentamerone.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 184; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 115; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 263.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Bardi (Bartolomeo Bardi, d. 1349)

OM. Italian friar from Florence. Administrator of Terni and appointed bishop of Spoleto in 1320 by Pope John XXII. Protector of forms of communal eremiticism by tertiary groups in his diocese.

works

Constitutiones synodales. Check!

Privilegio a quattro eremiti di Trevi (1333). Cf. Mario Sensi, Le Osservanze francescana, 140-142, 312-313, 317-319; Mario Sensi, 'Movimenti di osservanza e ricerca della solitudine: focolai eremitichi tra Umbria e marche nel XV secolo', in: Identités franciscaines à l'âge des réformes, ed. Frédéric Meyer & Ludovic Viallet, 2 Vols. (Université Blaise Pascal, 2005) I, 111, note 41.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 112; Miscellanea francescana 3:1 (1888), 153, 157; Raffaele Pazzelli, Lino Temperini, Prime manifestazioni di vita comunitaria maschile e femminile nel movimento francescano della penitenza, 1215-1447 (Commissione storica internazionale T.O.R., 1982), 483-485.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Bergomensis (Bartolomeo di Bergamo/Bartolomeo Carminati, d. 1684)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Entered the order in the Bergamo province. Several times guardian and definitor. Best-known for his anti-calvinist and ant-Lutheran preaching rallies. Wrote at least two (as yet unpublished) works.

works

Opera contro i luterani e calvinisti, nella quale sono condannati i loro errori: ?

La vita del Padre Lorenzo Olmo da Bergamo, acppuccino, ministro, provinciale della Bresciana provincia dei santi Faustino e Giovita, uomo di grandissima perfezione, morto in aprile del 1674 in bergamo: ?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 36; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 184; Valdemiro da Bergamo, I conventi ed i cappuccini bergamaschi (Milan, 1883), 70; A. Teetaert, ‘Barthélemy de Bergame’, DHGE VI, 980. 

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Borrás (fl. 1413)

To be continued

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 6, 441

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Cambi (Bartholomeus de Saluthio/Bartomomeo Cambi da Salutio, 1558-1617), beatus

OFM. Italian (Tuscan) friar. Entered the order in 1575. After his studies he became lector of the arts and theology (at La Verna, S. Romano, Bosco di Mugello, Aracoeli in Rome). After a scandal he left the order for a short time, but by the mid 1590s, he was back in the order in the Siena friary, and from then onward he predominantly became known as an itinerant preacher. The travelled through Italy, preaching penance, and fulminating against the mingling of Christians and Jews and the vanity of women, sometimes arousing suspicion of local authorities for 'Savonarolan' tendencies and threatening prophetical utterances and the emotional disturbances his preaching could cause, yet also becoming so well-loved as a preacher that Cremona offered him honorary citizenship. He also became an influential propagator of the Riformati reform, defending a complete autonomy of this new reform branch in the order in the presence of Pope Clement VIII. His tumultuous preaching eventually caused the order and the papacy to intervene, and the last 15 years of his life he spent more or less forced in the convents of S. Francesco a Ripa and in S. Pietro in Montorio (Rome). It is during this last period, when he was nearly completely blocked from preaching, that date the majority of his spiritual works. His spiritual works are still heavily inspired by Bonaventure and additional Pseudo-Bonaventurean works, David of Augsburg's De Exterioris et Interioris Hominis Compositione, Hugh of Balma's Theologia Mystica, and works of Henry of Herp.

works

Testamento dell'anima a Dio (Siena, 1604)

Luce dell'anima desiderosa per ascendere alla perfettione, 4 Vols. (Rome, 1605) [8 editions between 1605 and 1629, a few others later on, also several translations into French, Latin and Spanish] In any case several volumes of an Italian edition from 1622, a Latin edition from 1606, issued in Cologne, and additional ones from 1613, 1614, 1622 and 1709 are accessible via a number of digital portals, such as Numelyo (Mediathèque de Lyon) and Google Books.

Copia d'una lettera scritta alli signori venetiani, piena di affettuosissima carità (Mantua-Bologna, 1606). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.

Paradiso de'contemplativi (Rome, 1607) [principal spiritual work of the author, heavily dependent on Henry of Herp's work Eden seu paradisus Contemplativorum. Bartholomew's Paradiso received a Latin translation in 1614 (Cologne) and 1623, and a Portugese translation in 1739 (Lisbon)]

Scuola del divino amore, Dove l’Amoroso Maestro Giesù insegna all’Anima, bramosa del suo Santo Amore, quello che deve fare per acquistarlo. Libro Divoto, & utile per tutti i buoni Christiani, & in particolare per quelli. Che vogliano da dovero servire à Dio loro Signore. Composta dal M.R.P.F. Bartolomeo da Saluthio Minore Osserv. Riformati. Aggiontevi le salutationi divotissime a Giesu et alla beatissima Vergine dell'istesso autore, non piu stampate (Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1609). There is also a Latin version of this work: Schola Divini Amoris (...) (Cologne: Johann Crithius, 1610). This version is accessible via Google Books.

Alfabeto del divino amore, composto d'amorosissimi canti spirituali, cantati in eccessi mentali, & amorose elevayioni in Dio (...), ed. F. Giorgio da Fiano, 2nd Ed.? (Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1609). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Inventioni d'amore (Cologne, 1610 [?]/Venice, 1611) [New editions in 1621, 1628 and Rome, 1645]. There are also Latin versions, such as: Minerae Seraphicae, Seu Inventiones Divini Amoris (Cologne: Johann Crithius, 1619). This Latin edition is accessible via Numelyo (Mediathèque of Lyon) and via Google Books (creative search).

Compagnia dell'Amore. Fondata dal Molto R. Padre Fra Bartolomeo da Saluthio (...) (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613). Accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek Vienna and via Google Books.

Vita dell'Anima desiderosa di cavar frutto grande dalla Santissima Passione di Giesu Christo (Rome: Camera Apostolica, 1614). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, Numelyo (Mediathèque de Lyon), and via Google Books.

L'innamoratio di Gesù. Operetta devota et amorosa (Genua, 1611/Rome: Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1614/Venice: Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, 1626) [Six editions between 1611 and 1626, another edition in Venice, 1664] The 1614 Rome edition and the 1626 Venice edition are accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Le sette trombe per isvegliare il peccatore a penitenza (Venice-Bassano: Giovanni Antonio Remondi, 1612/Rome: B. Zanetti, 1614/Venice: Baretio, 1621/etc.) [18 editions between 1612 and 1900, also several French editions, a Latin edition in 1620 (Freiburg in Breisgau), German translation in 1623, English translation in 1628, and at least two Dutch translations, in 1700 and in 1735] In any case the 1612 and 1614 Italian editions and the 1620 Latin edition, as well as the 1623 German edition, the 1700 Dutch translation, and 1623, 1658, 1668, 1688, 1695, 1815 and 1824 French translations are accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Cuore dell'anima amorosa, da portarsi di continuo nel seno in segno dell'amore, che si porta al suo benignissimo Giesù (Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1614). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Convivium spirituale amatoris Jesu: item nonnulla alia ad dignitatem et excellentiam amantissimi huius mysterii pertinentia (...) (Joannes Crithius, 1618/Venice: Imberti, 1626 [?]).

Minerae Seraphicae, Seu Inventiones Diuini Amoris: Opvscvlvm Amabile, Spiritualibus Exercitijs plenum, [et] ad purissimum Iesv crucifixi amorem acquirendum, vtilissimum (...) (Cologne: Crithius, 1619). This is the Latin version of the Inventioni d'amore. See there.

Lo scrupuloso (Rome, 1620)

Porta della salute (Turin, 1621/Cologne, 1627 [?]). This is a confession manual for the lay believer. A Latin translation was issued in 1627 and after: Porta salutis poenitenti animae (Munich: Typis Haeredum Ioannis Herlsoy & Cornelii Leifferii, 1627/Cologne: Sumptibus Petri Henningii, 1628/Cologne: Sumptibus Sebastiani Ketteler, 1710). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, The Czech National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Lettere spirituali del P.F. Bartolomeo da Saluthio,de 'Min. Osser. Riformati (...) divise in quattro libri. Scritte à Città, & à persone di diversi stati e conditioni, per loro instruttione spirituale (...), ed. Giorgio da Fiano (Rome: Francesco Cavalli, 1629). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, and via Google Books.

Alfabeto del divino amore, composto d'amorosissimi canti spirituali, cantati in eccessi mentali, & amorose elevationi in Dio, Dal R.P.F. Bartolomeo da Saluthio de’Minori Osservanti Riformati (..) Raccolto, et nuovamente dato in luce da F. Giorgio da Fiano, dell’istesso Ordine (…) (Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1609/1622); Praticello del divino amore (Venice, 1611/1621); Musa spirituale (Venice, 1611); Conforto del peccatore (Pavia, 1620/Venice, 1621/Rome, 1628); Vita dell'anima (Rome, 1614) [and 5 subsequent editions until 1673]

Dichiarazione sopra il Pater Noster, ed. Celso Cipriano, in: Frate Francesco 65/2 (1999), 5-8. A Spanish translation by Francisco Salvador Martinez de Cordoba was apparently issued in Madrid in 1696.

A complete edition of his works was published as: Opere spirituali del R. P. F. Bartolomeo da Saluthio, Min. Osser. Riformato. Divise in due parti. Utilissime, e di notabile profitto per la salute delle anime (...)(Venice, 1639). A partial modern edition of his works appeared as Il sacro cignno, prose e poesie del Ven. Bartolomeo da Salutio. Scelta e prefazione del P. Fr. Sarri (Florence, 1924). [For the works that are in need of new edition, see F. Sarri, Il venerabile Bartolomeo Cambi da Salutio (Florence, 1925), xlix-liv]

literature

Wadding, Script., 39; Joh. a S. Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana, I, 184, 191-192; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119-120 & (ed. 1908) I, 125f; F. Sarri, Il venerabile Bartolomeo Cambi da Salutìo (1557-1617): Oratore - Mistico - Poeta (Florence: R. Bemporad & Figlio, 1925); A. van den Wyngaert, `Barthélemy de Salutio', DHGE (1925) VI, 1025f; A. Silvestri, 'Le prediche del P. B. C. da Salutio, O.F.M. Rif., in Mantova nel 1602', Miscellanea Francescana 48 (1948), 368-384; J. Heerinckx, 'Barthélemy Cambi de Salutio', Dict.Spir. I (1953), 1264-1266; Adriano Prosperi, 'Cambi, Bartolomeo', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XVII (1974) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bartolomeo-cambi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ]

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Catanius (Bartholomaeus Catany/Bartomeu Catany, d. 1462)

OMObs. Majorcan friar. Founded the convent of Jesús extramuros near the town of Palma (1441), as well as the convents of Sóller (1458), and Mahón (1459). Custos of the Mallorca Observants (1459). See on this also the Monumenta Seraphica Ordinis Minorum Observantium Sti Francisci Majoricarum Provinciae Praesertim ab anno 1540 usque ad annum 1750 (MS Madrid, Bib. Nac. 18339 pp. 78-92). Active preacher. Many of his sermons survived.

works

Homiliae et sermones multiplices pro universis anni diebus in quibus praedicari solet: MS Biblioteca Provincial de Palma de Mallorca ?

Lecciones feriales XI de viciis> MS Biblioteca Provincial de Palma de Mallorca ?

Sermones de S. Francisco, see S. d'Algaida, `Tres sermons de Bartomeu Catany fra-menor de Mallorca (s. XV)', Estudis Franciscans, 43 (1931), 407-421.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca universa franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 185; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 113; J.M. Bover, Biblioteca de escritos baleares (Palma, 1868) I, 178-179; Collectanea Franciscana 4 (1934), 291; I. Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles en la edad media’, Repertorio de historia de las ciencias eclesiasticas en españa 1 (siglos iii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1967), 295; >>Courcelles, 164; Oriol Catalán, 'La imagen de los judíos en los sermones de Bartomeu Catany O.F.M. (ca. 1380-1462)', Hispania Sacra 69:140 (2017), 505-520.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Cimarellus (Bartolomeo Cimarelli di Ronaldo/Bartolomeo Cimarella, d. 1628?)

OFM. Italian friar from the Marca province. Taught philosophy and theology. Assisted Wadding in the production of the Annales Ordinis Minorum, by collecting information in Italian archives and libraries. He issued with Dionisio Pulinari and others additions to the chronicles of Marco of Lisbon, issued Annotationes and Commentarii to the commentary on the four books of the Sentences of Scotus, issued a vita on Amadeo of Portugal, and also produced apologetic sermons in defense of the Franciscan Observance and the color and the shape of the Franciscan habit.

works

As editor: Joannes de Rada, Controuersiarum Theologicarum inter S. Thomam, et Scotum Super Quartum Sententiarum Librum (...) Quarta Pars (Venice: Giovanni Guerili, 1617).

Vita del beato frate Amadeo di Portogallo, fondatore della Congregatione de gli Amadei dell'Ordine del serafico padre San Francesco (Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1619).

Delle Croniche dell'Ordine de' Frati Minori instituito dal P.S. Francesco Parte Quarta. Non più data in luce, & divisa in Dieci Libri. Ove si leggono le vite, le penitenze, l'estasi, le visioni, le revelationi, la Gratie, li miracoli, le morti, & gli avuenimenti esemplarissimi (...) Raccolte con ogni diligente fedeltà dal R.P.F. Bartolomeo Cimarelli (...), 3 Vols. (Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1621). This is presented as an extension of the three-volume chronicle of Marco of Lisbon. Bartolomeo wanted to issue 5 volumes, yet only three were finished before his death. Later in the seventeenth century, partly based on dossiers prepared by Bartolomeo Cimarelli, Leonardo da Napoli issued Croniche degli ordini instituiti dal p.s. Francesco. (...) Composta dal r.p. fra Marco da Lisbona in lingua portughese (...) Ed hora solamente vscita (...) migliorata, e corretta, per diligenza, e somma vigilanza del P. Leonardo da Napoli (...) 4.3, Parte quarta. Tomo terzo. Che contiene le vite, morti, miracoli, ed altri fatti egregij di molti eccellenti religiosi, e religiose, che illustri, ed in vita ed in morte, nel Serafico Ordine santamente splendettero. Raccolto principalmente dal M.R.P. Bartolomeo Cimarelli, e d'altri autori approbati, e veridichi (Naples: Nouello de Bonis, 1680).

Annotationes in 4 libros Sententiarum Scoti. ?

Commentarii prolixi in 1. & 4. Librum Sententiarum Scoti. ?

Apologia adversus detractores Ordinis S. Francisci de Observantia. ?

Sermones de habitis S. Francisci forma. ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca universa franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 185; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 114; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 608.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Comandus (Bartolomeo Comando, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar.

works

Vita F. Laurentij Brancati Ex Ordine Minorum Conventualium Tit. SS. Duodecim Apostolorum S.R.E. Presbyteri Cardinalis Bibliothecarij (...) (Rome: Typis Haeredum Corbelletti, 1698).

literature

To be continued

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Alverna (Bartolomeo della Verna, fl. late 14th cent.)

OM. Italian Franciscan missionary from Tuscany. Vicar of the Bosnian vicariate. Was given the charge (at the general chapter of Aquilea, 1376) to rework the statutes for the Holy Land province. His regulations were ratified at the general chapter of 1414.

works

Tractatus Quomodo Debemus Nos Ponere ad Recipiendum Corpus Christi: MS Vatican City (Rome), BAV, Vat.Lat. 5087.

Statutae.?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 111; Bullarium Franciscanum VII, no. 405; B. Sderci, ‘Fra Bartolomeo della Verna e le Missioni Balkaniche’, La Verna 11 (1913), 173-188; J. Goyens, ‘Barthélemy de l’Alverne’, DHGE VI, 974.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Amelia (Bartolomeo da Amelia, d. 1291)

OM. Italian friar. Inquisitor in 1260 in the San Francesco province (residing in Foligno), and subsequently inquisitor in the Roman province between 1264 and 1272, and in Orvieto, where he helped destroy a supposedly heretical group in collaboration with the inquisitor Benvenuto di Orvieto. After an embassadorial journey on behalf of John XXI, to resolve a conflict with Charles I of Anjou, he was appointed Bishop of Grosseto on 9 April 1278 by Pope Nicholas III, in confrontation with the cathedral chapter of Grosseto, who supported another candidate. Part of a group of friars (including Bartolomeo da Siena, Filippo da Perugia and Angelo da Orvieto) involved with a papal envoy to Constantinople to negociate a Church union with Emperor Michael VIII Paleologos. Under Pope Nicholas IV, Bartolomeo became vicario urbis (27 June 1288), and pontifical vicar in the Romagna in 1289. Subsequently papal legate to solve issues over ecclesiastical privileges at the court of Edward I of England, and as such also participated in the Council of London. He died before March 31, 1291.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum IV (ed. Quaracchi, 1931), 141; V (ed. Quaracchi, 1931), 32, 50, 211, 258, 293, 498; Collectanea Franciscana 7, p. 525; 23, p. 51, 65f, 80-3, 160; 32, p. 348; Mariano d'Alatri, L'inquisizione francescana nell'Italia centrale nel sec. XIII (Rom, 1954), 64-78, 144; Vittorio De Donato, 'Bartolomeo da Amelia', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani VI (1964) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bartolomeo-da-amelia_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ] Antonino Franchi, I vespri siciliani e le relazioni tra Roma e Bisanzio: studio critico sulle fonti (Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, 1984), 31

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Anleo (Bartolomé de Anleo, d. 1692)

Friar from Guatemala. Took the habit there in 1648. Held a number of offices in the order: novice master, choir master, preacher, lector/professor of indigenous languages, guardian, custos etc. He died at Sanayac.

works

Arte de la lengua Quiché o utlateca, compuesto por N.M.R.P. Fr. Bartolomé Anleo, religioso menor de N.S.P. S. Francisco, ed. (with an Essay on the quichés) by E.G. Squier (London, 1865). See on the manuscript dissemination of this work the remarks of Adams and of Castro y Castro. It would be good to know whether there is a connection with the sixteenth-century Quiché grammar and catechism, composed by the Dominican friar Fray Marcos Martínez in Totonicapan.

Sermones para toda la Cuaresma

Comentario sobre la Pasión y Muerte del Redentor, en lengua kiché

De la gravedad del pecado, en lengua de los indios de Guatenmala

literature

Francisco Vázquez, Crónica de la Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, 2nd Ed., Bibliotea “Goathemala”, 14-17, 4 Vols (Guatemala, 1937-1944) III, 317; J.M. Beristain y Souza, Biblioteca Hispano Americana Septentrional, 5 Vols (Mexico, 1816-1821/Amecameca, 1883/Mexico, 1947), I, 146; Eleanor B. Adams, A Bio-bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America (Washingthon D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 9-10 & note 7; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 461

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Assisi (Bartolomeo d'Assisi, fl. ?)

OM. Italian friar.

works

Casus (?): Naples Naz., XII.F.23, ff. 130-1.

literature

Cenci, Napoli, II, 900.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Astroy (Bartélémy d'Astroy/Bartholomaeus de Astry, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRec. Belgian friar from Ciney. Member of the Liège friary. Lector and missionary (active in and around Maastricht (and also Utrecht?)). Provincial of the Flemish Recollect province (situated in Liège, 1673-1676 and Namur, 1676-1680) and late in life commissarius generalis for the Dutch and Flemish Recollect order provinces (Provinciae Germano-Belgicae ). He died in Liège in 6 December 1681.

works

Raisons très-fortes, très-claires et très-pressantes, fondées sur la pure parole de Dieu, tirées des actions incomparables de l’illustrissime Christofle de Cheffontaines, archevêque de Césarée, etc., contre les sacramentaires, capables de convaincre messieurs les prétendus réformez, très-mal informez (Liège: J. Tournay, 1646). This work was quickly translated into Dutch: Redenen zeer crachtich, claer, ende zeer-dwingende, ghegront op het suyver ende lauter woordts Godts, ghetrocken uut de wonderbaere Wercken, ofte Schriften vanden Alder-doorluchtichsten ende Eerweerdichsten Heere H. Christoffel van Chef-Fontaine, Arts-Bisschop van Cesareen, Generael der gheheele Orden van Sinte François, teghen de Sacramentarissen. Bequaeme om'toverwinnen dusdanighe Ketters, gheneaemt de Ghepretendeerde Ghereformeerde, maer nochtans zeer qualick gheinformeert (...), trans. [from the French] Laurentius de Schepper [Guardian of the OFMRec of Audenaerde](Ghent: Servaes Manlius, 1648). This Dutch translation is accessible via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books.

Bréviaire des Prélats et supérieurs ou Traité des six aisles des Séraphins, par le docteur séraphique saint Bonaventure, traduit et dédié à Jésus-Christ et à tous les prélats pour étrenne de l’an 1648 (Liège: J. Tournay, 1648).

Traité des louanges et invocation de la très-sacrée Vierge Marie, ou marques très-certaines pour discerner la vraye Église catholique de la fausse prétendue reformée, par cette invocation (Liège: J. Tournay, 1649). This was quickly translated into Dutch as: Tractaet vanden loff ende aenroepinghe vande alderheylichste Maghet Maria (...) (Ghent: Baudewyn Manilius, 1649).

Response apologétique de Fr. Barthélemy d'Astroy recollets, pour un sien livre, intitulé, Traité des Lovanges & Innocation de la B.V.Marie, contre la pretendue défense du Jean Nicolai (...) (Liège: J. Tournai, 1650).

Remontrance charitable au sieur Bresmal et à tous les prétendus religionnaires de notre temps (Liège: J. Tournay, 1653).

Directorium ad juvandos consolandosque infirmos, et potissimum moribundos. Venerandis patribus provinciae Flandriae FF. Min. Recoll. huis charitatis officio addictis (...) Cui accedit aliud opusculum continens selecta loca & suspiria S. Scripturae quae tum ipsis aginizantibus & quibuscumque infirmis, tum iis, qui agonizantibus & aegrotantibus assistunt, utiliter servient (Liège: H. Tournai, 1654 [1655?]/Antwerp: Vidua Petri Jacobs, 1725). The 1725 edition is accessible via the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague and via Google Books.

Antidote catholique présenté à Messieurs du Duché de Lymbourg et des autres pays d’Outre-Meuse, par F. Barth. d’Astroy, récollet, contre le venin des hérésies et mensonges, preschés par le sieur Henry Chrouet, prétendu ministre d’One et depuis publiés par Ézéchiel Boucher (Liège: H. Tournay, 1655). A refutation of a sermon by Henri Chrouet, preached at Olne on 26 September 1655 and later issued in Maastricht.

As ghostwriter: Épître de M. le baron de Genay à noble et ill. messire Jean de Peterdorff, son très-honoré seigneur et père, par laquelle il lui fait une humble et véritable remontrance des puissants motifs qui l’ont conduit à quitter la prétendue religion réformée pour se rendre à la catholique, apostolique et romaine (Liège: H. Tournay, 1656).

Les Rapproches du ministre d’One (Henri Chrouet) aux véritables sentiments de l’Église romaine (Liège: H. Tournay, 1656). A reaction to Chrouet's response to Bartholomaeus' Antidote catholique.

Together with Mathias Hauzeur: Apologia pro figura SS. Trinitatis in tribus hostiis consecratis proposita minime improbanda, sed potius aliis omnibus prœferenda ex sacris conciliis, and included in: Piroulle, Tri-Hymnium de sacro sancta Trinitate (Liège, 1659).

La Conférence de Mariebourg par écrits réciproques entre un prestre de l’Église catholique, apostolique et romaine et un prétendu réformé ou de la prétendue religion réformée (Liège: Veuve Bronckart, 1661). Published anonymously.

Le Marteau rompu et mis en pièces, ou réfutation de tout ce que le sieur Hamer-Stede a depuis peu forgé sur son enclume et débité en la ville de Maestrecht et ailleurs sous le titre de Capucin Défroqué (Liège: Veuve . Bronckart, 1662). This work apparently went through three different editions in 1662-1663, and is directed against Hamer-Stede, Le Capucin défroqué ou décapuciné, playing with the name of the latter (Hamer-Stede) to shape the title of his attack (Le Marteau rompu).

Lettre de Fr. Barth, d’Astroy, recollet de Liège, au sieur Jean de Hamer-Stede, ministre de la religion prétendue réformée (Liège: Veuve B. Bronckart, 1662). This drew out a response by Hamerstede.

La Dispute de Maestricht par lettres réciproques entre Fr. Barth. d’Astroy, récollet de Liège, et le sieur Jean de Hamer-Stede, ministre de la prétendue réformée. Traduite du latin en françois par un ecclésiastique de la ville de Liége [I.e. Barth. de Astroy himself] (Liège: Veuve B. Bronckart, 1662). A follow-up on Le Marteau rompu.

Catechisme, ou Abregé et sommaire de la theologie reduite au symbole des Apostres (...) (Liège: Veuve de Bauduin Bronckard, 1663/Liège: Veuve B. Bronckart, 1668). Accessible via the University Library of Tilburg University and via Google Books.

Armamentarium Augustinianum adversus Haereses, quadruplici methodo apparatum et instructum in subsidium tyronum Militantis Ecclesiae (Liège: Viduae Bronckart, 1664). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliotheek Munich and via Google Books.

Abregé de la vie merveilleuse de la venerable servante de Dieu Jeane de Valois, Reine de France, Fondatrice et soeur professé de l'Ordre de l'Annonciade (Bourges, 1666/Liège: Pierre Danthez, 1666?). The Liege edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliotheek Munich, the University Library of Ghent, and via Google Books.

Traité du bien de la patience chrétienne, en forme de dialogue entre Jésus-Christ, miroir de souffrance et l’âme affligée, Quatrième édition, revue et augmentée, 3 Vols. (Liège, Veuve J. Bronckart, 1670). This suggests the existence of three earlier editions that we still need to trace.

As translator: Alphabet du divin amour pour élever l’esprit à Dieu. Traduit en langue vulgaire et augmenté (Liège: P. Danthez, 1673). A reworking/translation of Johannes Nider OP, ractatus de elevatione mentis in Deum, sive Alphabetum divini amoris.

Paraclesis infirmorum seu methodus consolandi, juvandique infirmos, et potissime moribundos Editio secunda (Liège: P. Danthez, 1674).

As elaborator?: La prétendue religion réformée démasquée, ses déformités, ses faussetés et ses impiétés dévoilées et les vérités catholiques prouvées et avérées, avec quelques annotations ou remarques sur chaque chapitre (Liège: H. Hoyoux, 1676). Might have been a reworking of a work earlier issued by Binard, and Arnould de Linot (guardian of the Recollect friary of Durbuy).

Enchiridion, sive, Manuale selectiorum precationum, orationum, meditationum, et adspirationum: ex varijs pijssimorum authorum devotis opusculis, decerptarum ac collectarum (Liège: Henri Hoyoux, 1678).

Chronique et origine de l'ordre de l'immaculée conception de la bienheureuse Vierge Marie, ed. M. Carnier, Instrumenta Franciscana, 43 (Utrecht: Instituut voor Franciscaanse Geschiedenis, 1998).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 183; Jaarboek van Limburgs Geschied- en Oudheidkundliche Genootschap 77-82 (1941), 92; Biographie nationale de Belgique I, 515-516 [https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Biographie_nationale_de_Belgique/Tome_1/ASTROY,_Barth%C3%A9lemy_D%E2%80%99]

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Bohemia (d. 1257)

OM. Bohemian friar, probably born in or near Prague. Very active in the Polish mission and involved with crusade preaching against the pagans. No extant works.

literature

D. Cambiaso, ‘Barthélemy’, DHGE VI, 1011-1013. 

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Bidgostia (Bartlomiej z Bydgoszczy/Bartholomaeus von Bromberg, 1480-1548)

OFM. Polish friar from Bydgoszczy. He joined the Franciscans (Bernardines) in 1500 and studied in Cracow. Active as librarian, guardian and lector. Lexicographer. See for more information https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%C5%82omiej_z_Bydgoszczy

works

Konstytucje, przywileje i inne pisma dotyczace zakonu sw. Franciszka (1502).

Expositio regulae fratrum minorum (1510).

Exhortationes (...) i reguly franciszkanow (1520).

Vocabularius ex Calepino, breuiloquo et mamotrecto recollectus (...) (1532): MS Poznan, Archiwum Archidiecezjalnym.

literature

Irena Kwilecka & Hanna Popowska-Taborska, Bartlomiej z Bydgoszczy, leksykograf polski pierwszej polowy XVI w, Prace slawistyczne, 1 (Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1977); Szmanda Edward, Nowe badania nad Bartlomiejem z Bydgoszczy (Bydgoszcz, 1986); Alicja Szulc, 'Bartlomiej z Bydgoszczy i jego slady', in: Bernardyni Bydgoscy, 1480-1829, ed. Aleksander Krysztof Sitnik (Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: Calvarianum, 2018). See also https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%C5%82omiej_z_Bydgoszczy.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Bononia (Bartolomeo di Bologna, † after 1294)

OM. Italian Franciscan theologian. Studied at the arts faculty of Bologna University before his entrance in the Franciscan order. Ca. 1256-9, he is to be found at the papal court of Alexander IV (Anagni). There are some indications that he was active as inquisitor in the neighbourhood of Anagni and later in the Roman province of the order (but there might be a confusion with Bartholomew of Amelia, another Franciscan friar known to be active as inquisitor in that same province). Studied at Paris for a degree in the later 1260s. We have a Sentences commentary from this period, and some of his sermons can be dated as being held during the academic year 1267-8. He probably must be identified with the Bartholomew who between 1275-76 (or maybe between 1275-1277) appeared as regent master of theology in Paris, as precursor of Matthew of Aquasparta, and followed the teachings of Bonaventure and Pecham over and against Thomas Aquinas in his disputed quaestions. In 1278, Pope Nicholas III asked him to lead a committee for the unification of the Greek and Latin churches. It is not known whether Bartholomew became involved with this issue. He was, in any case, present at the general chapter at Assisi as master of theology (1279), and became involved in settling the correctorium issue, as well as in drafting up the bull Exiit qui Seminat of Nicholas III (together with John pecham and Walther of Bruges). Active in Bologna between 1282 and 1285, where he, probably as regent lector, produced a series of sermons de sanctis and de tempore and several quaestiones on the glorified Virgin Mary. In 1285 he was elected provincial minister of the province of Bologna, a position he held until 1289. Bartholomew was still in Bologna in July 1294.

works

Sermones: MS Troyes, Mediathèque, 951; 1298; 1868 (nine sermons held in Paris> or more: for other manuscripts see Schneyer). For some editions see: Sermo in Nativitate Domini, ed. I. Squadrani, Antonianum 7 (1932), 488-494; Sermo de Maria, in: A. Fries, `Eine Marienpredigt des Bartholomäus von Bologna', Franziskanische Studien 35 (1953), 385-400.

In I-IV Sent.: MS Paris, BN Lat. 16407 [autograph, a bacc. Text, as basis for possible future reworking. See Doucet, 137.]

Quaestiones Disputatae de Primo Principio et Creatione [12]:

Quaestiones Disputatae de Anima [5]: MS Florence, Laurenziana, Plut. XVII, sin.cod. 8

Quaestiones Disputatae de Corporali Assumptione Virginis [2]: Florence, Laurenziana, Plut. XVII, sin.cod. 8. For editions, see: Gualteri Cancellarii et Bartholomaei de Bononia OFM Quaestiones Ineditae de Assumptione Beatae Virginis Mariae, ed. A. Deneffe & H. Weisweiler, Opuscula et textus Historiam Ecclesie. Series Scholastica 9 (Münster, 1922/1952), 23-88; Questione II sull’Assunzione, ed. L. Gambero, in: Testi mariani del secondo millennio. Autori medievali dell’Occidente (secoli XIII-XV), IV (Rome, 1996), 371-378; Francesca Galli, 'The visio facialis according to Euclidean geometry', in: The Face in Medieval Culture. East and West (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021). [this article apparently also includes a partial edition of and a commentary on Bartolomeo da Bologna's third disputed question on Mary’s Assumption]

Quaestiones Disputatae de Glorificatione M.M. Virginis. See: C. Piana, `Le questione inedite `De Glorificatione B. M. Virginis' di Bartolomeo da Bologna O.F.M. e le concezioni del Paradiso Dantesco', L'Archiginnassio, 33 (1938), 247-262.

Attributed: Expositio salutationis angelicae, ed. I.F. Rossi, 'S. Thomae Aquinatis Expositio salutationis angelicae. Introductio et textus', Divus Thomas 34 (1931), 445-479.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Fide [5]: MS. Florence, Laurenziana, Plut. XVII, sin.cod. 8. They have been edited as Die Quaestiones disputatae de fide des Bartholomaus von Bologna,, ed. M. Mückshoff, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, 24/4 (Münster, 1940), 3-104.

Tractatus de Luce [used to be ascribed to Pecham]. A first edition appeared as: Tractatus de luce fr. Bartholomaei de Bononia, ed. I. Squadrani, Antonianum, 7 (1932), 139-238, 337-376, 465-494. A new edition with introduction has appeared as: Francesca Galli, Il «De Luce» di Bartolomeo da Bologna. Studio e edizione, Micrologus Library, 104 (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021) [For a review, see Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 114:3-4 (2021), 658-661. It is a spiritual work, exploiting 'scientific' knowledge ad usum theologiae around the saying of Christ `I am the light of this world', John 8, 12. The work makes use of the Oxford physical theories of light and attaches moral considerations to them. It amounts to a concept of affective spirituality aiming at transforming the soul by means of the incarnated word]

literature

AF, II, 94 & AF, IX, 58, 96, 104, 107-8, 120, 146-7, 148, 169-171, 185-6, 271-273, 311-2, 670; AFH, 10 (1917), 340; Dict. Spir., I, 1263-4; LThK, II², 10-11; Salimbene, Chronica, MGH, Scriptores XXXII, 593, 650; Serie cronologico-biografica dei ministri e vicari provinciali della minoritica provincia di Bologna, ed. G. Picconi da Cantalupo (Parma, 1908), 58-60; Les registres de Nicolas III (1277-1280), ed. J. Gay & S. Vitte (Paris, 1938), V, 394; Schneyer, I, 386-389; Diz.Biogr. degli Ital., VI, 686-690; Dict. de Spir, I, 263-264; E. Longpré, `Bartolomeo da Bologna, un maestro francescano del sec. XIII', Studi Francescani, n.s. 9 (1923), 365-384 & 4 (1932), 365-384; I. Squadrani, `Tractatus de Luce fr. Bartholomaei de Bononia', Antonianum 7 (1932), 139-238, 338-376, 465-487, 488-494; Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris zu XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1934), II, 108-109 [no. 319]; Doucet, Suppl., 137; Glorieux, `D'Alexandre de Halès à Pierre Auriol. La suite des maître franciscains de Paris au XIIIe siècle', AFH, 26 (1933), 264f, 270, 274; V. Doucet, `Notulae bibliographicae de Quibusdam Operibus fr. J. Pecham', Antonianum, 8 (1933), 323-326; G. Piana, `Le questioni inedite `De Glorificatione B.M.Virginis di Bartolomeo da Bologna', L`Archiginnasio, 33 (1938), 247-262; Idem, Studi Francescani, 13 (1941), 3ff; Idem, in: Bibliotheca Mariana Medii Aevi, IV (Sibenice-Rome, 9422), xix-xxii, 134ff; Idem, AFH, 46 (1953), 385-400; M. d'Alatri, L'Inquisizione francescana nell'Italia centrale nel secolo XIII (Rome, 1954), 143f; Albert Fries, `Eine Marienpredigt des Barthomomaus von Bologna O.F.M.', Franziskanische Studien, 35 (1953), 385-400; P. Glorieux, `Sermons universitaires (…)', RThAM, 16 (1949), 40-71; A. Fries, `Eine Marienpredigt des Bartholomäus von Bologna OFM', Franziskanische Studien 35 (1953), 385-400; P. Glorieux, `Nouvelle candidature pour le commentaire sur les Sentences de Paris Nat. Lat. 16407', Recherches de Théologie Anciènne et Médiévale, 22 (1955), 312-322; T. Käppeli, `Eine Prothemata-Sammlung aus Pariser Predigten des 13. Jahrhunderts in Cod. Ottob. Lat. 505', in: Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, Studi e Testi, 122 (Vatican City, 1946), Vol. 2, 417ff; Idem, `Praedicator Monoculus. Sermons Parisiens de la fin du xiiie siècle', AFP, 27 (1957), 137; C. Piana, Chartularium, AF, 11 (1970), 4-6, no. 5; N. Manukyan, ‘The Role of Bartolomeo of Bologna's Sermonary in Medieval Armenian Literature', Museon 115 (1992), 321-325; Jòsef Lizun, La dottrina della luce in Bartolomeo da Bologna, O.Min (Rome, 1993); F.-X. Putallaz, Figures franciscaines. De Bonaventure à duns Scot, Initiations au Moyen Age (Paris, 1997), 155; L. Sileo & F. Zanatta, `I maestri di teologia della seconda metà del Duecento', in: Storia della teologia nel Medioevo, III: la teologia delle scuole, ed. G. d'Onofrio (Casale Monferrato, 1996), 26-27, 136; Józef Lizun,  ‘Bartlomiej z Bolonii’, in: Powszechna encyklopedia filozofii, 491-493..>> Check the CF Bib numbers!; Józef Lizun, ‘Bartlomieja z Bolonii (zm. Po 1294 r.) koncepcja iluminacji’, W Nurcie Franciskanskim 14 (2005), 205-221; C. Giunti and V. Mauro, 'Bartholomaeus de Bononia OFM', in: C.A.L.M.A., ed. M. Lapidge and C. Leonardi, I, Firenze, 2003), 696-697; Jósef Lizun, ‘ Poglady Bartlomieja z Bolonii jako przyklad ‘metafizyki swiatla’’, in: Filozofia franciszkanów, ed. Stanislaw Celestyn Napiorkówski & Edward Iwo Zielinski, 3 Vols., Biblioteka Instytutu Franciszkanskiego, 18 (Niepokalanów, 2005) I, 283-309; Francesca Galli, 'Glints and colours of human inwardness: Bartholomaeus de Bononia’s De luce and contemporary preaching', in: Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art, ed. C.N. Duckworth & A.E. Sassin (London- New York: Ashgate-Routledge, 2017), 132-144; Francesca Galli, 'The perspectiva ad usum praedicatorum in late 13th-century Florence. Some observations based on an examination of codex Plut.17 sin.8 from the Laurentian Library', Micrologus 29 (2021), 181-202 [an analysis of codex Plut.17 sin.8 from the Laurentian Library (ex Santa Croce), with special attention to the works of John Peckham, Bartholomew of Bologna, and Servasanctus of Faenza (Notabilia de virtutibus et vitiis?) transmitted by this miscellany collection].

 

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Brendola (Bartholomaeus Brandilini/Bartolomeo da Brendola/Il Brandolino/Brendulino, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian (Venetian) friar and member of the Vicenza province (San Antonio province?). Known for his rule commentary, for which he combined papal statements, and the commentaries/statements on the rule by Bonaventure [Pecham], the four masters, and others. A first edition appeared in 1533. The 1594 edition is a re-issue, made possible thanks to the initiative of the provicial minister Francesco d’Arezzo.

works

Expositione dela regula di frati Menori (Venice, 1533). This edition apparently can be accessed via the Biblioteca Casanata and the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina in Rome, and also via Google Books.

Esposizione della regola dei frati Minori di s. Francesco (Florence: Michelagnolo Sermartelli, 1594/Florence: Michelagnolo Sermartelli, 1595). The 1594 edition can be accessed via the Biblioteca Casanata and via Google Books. (look for the title, not the name of the author).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 184, III, 12; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 113.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Burquillis (Bartolomeo de Burquillos/de Burguillos, d. 1638 [1634?])

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Entered the order in the St. Gabriel province. Was sent to Mexico, where he worked in the San Diego province as an inquisitorial preacher and as the confessor of the marquis of Geloès. At the request of Philip III, Bartolomeo departed for Japan, where he worked with Diego de Santa Catarina. Eventually, Bartolomeo was elected provincial minister of the Mexican San Diego province, during which period he became involved with a conflict between the viceroy and the local archbishop (acting on behalf of the Viceroy). Author.

works

Constitutiones Provinciales una cum Privilegiis SS. Pontificum (Mexico: viuda Francisco Rofriguez, 1696).

De Emptione et Venditione Argenti et Catenarum Auri.

De Contractibus Variis Indiarum Tractatus Duo.

Quaestiones Regulares.

De Justitia Indorum Liber I.

Apologeticum pro Authoritate Pro-regum.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 184; AIA 6 (1916), 4-31; J. Goyens, ‘Barthélemy de Burquillos’, DHGE VI 988-989.  

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Bydgoszcz d. 1548

OFM. Polish friar. Lexicographer.

works

Slownik Bartlomieja z Bydgoszczy. Wersja polsko-lacinska, Czesc II: H-M. – Czesc III: N-Plec, ed. E. Kedelska, I. Kwilecka, A. Luczak (Warchaw, 2003-2005). A Glossary on the works of Bartholomaeus.

literature

Studia Filologii Polskieji Slowianskiej, 25 (1989), 31-45 & 30 (1993), 59-67

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Campo (Bartolomeo del Campo, fl. late 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Master of theology active in Padua before 1397.

works

Quaestio disputata secundum Magistrum Bartholomaeum de Campo in Padua: MS Padua, Conv. S. Francisci?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 113.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Castello (Bartolomeo da Città di Castello/Bartolomeo Cordoni da Città di Castello, 1471-1535) beatus

OMObs/OFM & OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Città di Castello as member of the noble Cordoni family. Studies in Florence under Poliziano, and thereafter (492) a member of the ‘magistratura dei Sedici’ in his town of birth. After the death of his wife Margherita di Guido de' Baldovini, with whom he had two daughters, he entered the Franciscan convent S. Maria degli Angeli (1504). Previously, from 1502 onwards, he was already involved in the Fraternita dei disciplinati di S. Sebastiano. After his religious formation, he became active as missionary in Marocco and Algeria. Between 1526 and 1530, he was back in Italy, trying to seek martyrdom by taking care of plague victims in Gubbio (1526) and Temi (1527-30). He left the Observants for the new Capuchin branch (one of the first disciples of Matteo da Bascio). Took part in the expedition of Charles V against North-African pirates, and died on the African coast (9 August, 1535). Venerated as confessor in Italy and in the order, who regards him as a beatus. Although Bartolomeo had been exposed to humanist literary and philosophical studies, partly under the apprenticeship of Angelo Poliziano, in Florence, he became in the wake of his religious conversion very negative about all ‘mangiarie, cianciarie, berlengarie [=tables of games], truffarie, storie e novelle’ [cf. De Unione Anime cum supereminenti lumine (Perugia, 1538), f. 88v] as well as about the popular ficinian form of platonism and the related pia philosophia of Pica della Mirandola. Before Bartolomeo departed for Africa, he composed for the friars of the Monteripido friary (near Perugia) his spiritual treatise Dyalogo dell’unione spirituale de Dio con l’anima/De Unione Animae cum Supereminenti Lumine (partly in Latin, partly in Italian). It appeared in print after his death, in an edition made by his disciple Hilarius Pichi (Pico) in 1538. Another edition (1539) with an epilogue by Girolamo da Molfetta, an Observant friar who first became Capuccin and later (1542) transferred to Calvinism, aroused the suspicion of the ecclesiastical authorities. The book was placed on Roman Catholic Index on March 8, 1584, yet seems to have escaped the list of prohibited books issues by Clement VIII in 1596. The second edition of Bartolomeo’s work is included in a list of suspected or forbidden books from 1603 (made by the Magister Sacri Palatii). The same condemnation of this second edition is found in the Elenchus Librorum Omnium tum in Tridentino Clementinoque indice, tum in aliis omnibus sacrae Indicis Congregationis particularibus decretis hactenus prohibitorum from 1632 (the work of Maddaleno Capiferreus OP). Eventually, this second edition was placed on the official index of forbidden books issued by order of pope Alexander VII in 1664. Thereafter, this condemnation was repeated in every issue of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum until the last one, issued by Pius XI in 1929.

works

Dyalogo dell’unione spirituale de Dio con l’anima/De Unione Animae cum Supereminenti Lumine. For editions, see: Unione Animae cum Supereminenti Lumine, ed. Hilarius Pichi (Perugia: Girolamo Cartolaro, 1538); Unione Animae cum Supereminenti Lumine, ed. Hieronymus de Molfetta (Milan: Francesco e Innocentio da Cicognara, 1539). Accessible via Google Books [It amounts to a predominantly Italian (!) dialogue between Divine Love, the soul (as spouse), and human reason. The work apparently is heavily indebted to the writings of Ubertino da Casale and Jacopone da Todi. The first seven chapters in particular provide a lengthy exposition on the character of Divine Love and its workings in man. The second part of the work deals with the roads towards union with the Divine (the roads of humility, faith, the Eucharist (and frequent communion), renunciation of self-love, and the help of infused grace). The third and last part of the work describes the workings of love in the soul that already has reached union with the Divine, which can be compared with the status of the blessed Heaven. There are some remarable parallels with the Mirror of Simple Souls of Marguarita Porete! See on this work in particular: Stanislao da Campagnola, ‘Bartolomeo Cordoni da Città di Castello e le due primi edizioni del suo ‘Dialogo’’, Boll. deput. Storia patria Umbria 80 (1983 [published 1985]), 89-152.]

literature

Giacomo Oddi, La Franceschina (Florence, 1932), V, Append. 456-473; Wadding, Annales Minorum, XVI Quaracchi, 1933³), ad annum 1535, p. 464; Wadding, Scriptores, 37; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 185; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1908) I, 118; N. Santinelli, Il beato Bartolomeo Cordoni e le fonti della sua mistica (Città di Castello, 1930); A. Teetaert, ‘Barthélemy de Castello’, DHGE VI, 992-993; DSpir I, 1266-1267; Paola Zambelli, ‘Bartolomeo di Castello’, DBI 6 (1964), 707a-708b [nog checken]; P. Simoncelli, ‘Il ‘Dialogo dell’unione spirituale di Dio con l’anima’ tra alumbradismo spagnolo e prequietismo italiano’, Annuario dell’Istituto storico italiano per l’età moderna e contemporanea 29-30 (1977-1978), 600ff.; M. Camaioni, ‘Libero spirito e genesi cappuccina. Nuove ipotesi e studi sul «Dyalogo della unione spirituale di Dio con l’anima» di Bartolomeo Cordoni e sul misterioso trattato dell’ «Amore evangelico»’, Archivio Italiano per la storia della pietà 25 (2012), 303-372.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Castro (Bartolomeo de Castro, fl. 1700)

OFM. Spanish friar. Long-term lector and royal preacher at the court of Carlos II. Also consultant for the inquisition and provincial minister of the Granada orovince

works

Oracion funebre en la muerte del Rey D. Carlos II (Granada, 1700). Is this ascription correct?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 185; Francisco José García Pérez, 'Los predicadores reales de Carlos II', Archivo Ibero-Americano 75:281 (2015), 673-711.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Barba (Bernardino Barba, fl. 1700)

OFM. Spanish friar from Bordalva (Aragon). Member of the Observant Aragon province, general preacher and novice master in the Zaragoza friary.

works

Documentos principales de la Disciplina Religiosa (Zaragoza: Manuel Roman, 1708). The work was re-issued as: Reglas principales de la Disciplina Monastica y Politica Religiosa (Zaragoza: Pedro Carreras, 1728).

Exposicion de la Regla Seráfica, y Constituciones de los Papas Nicolás III y Clemente V (Zaragoza: Manuel Roman, 1708).

Memorias religiosas. Edition ?

Libros de Sermones, 4 Vols. Edition?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 206; Félix de Latassa, Bibliotecas antigua y nueva de escritores aragoneses, 177.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Barbarianus (Bernardino Barbariano, f. 1529)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Vicenza. Member of the Sant'Antonio province.

works

Epitomata super quaestiones Petri Tartareti in libros physicorum: MS Rome, Biblioteca Angelica 752 (xvi).

literature

Ch. Lohr, ‘Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors A-B’, Renaissance Quarterly 21 (1974), 228-289 (260).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Biener (Bernardin Bienner, ca. 1630-1721)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Member of the Tirol Saint Leopold province.

works

Mysteriosische und schöne Erklärung deß H. Englischen Grueß, auß unterschidlichen heiligen Vättern und Lehrern der H. Christlichen Catholischen Kichen zusammengezogen (Insbruck: Wagner, 1660).

Dignitas sacerdotum ? Maybe this is Speculum Sacerdotum, In quo Sacerdotii dignitas et obligatio e Sacra Scriptura, ac SS. Patrum doctrina compendio proponitur (Vienna: Heyinger, 1703).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 17. [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]

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Bonavoglia (Bernardino Bonavoglia da Foligno, fl. 1605)

OFM. Italian friar from Foligno. Lector generalis of theology and renowned preacher. He apparently died on 5 Augist 1609.

works

Quintuplices sacrae quadragesimales inventiones (...) quibus non solùm quintuplex qualibet die varias componendi conciones modus ostenditur, verùm etiam quintuplex sub gravi, et eleganti inventione concio in praxi proponitur (Rome: Eredi Aloisio Zannetti, 1606). Hence in this collection the focus seems to be on the rhetorical aspects of preaching. Accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books.

Sylva Inventionum Sacrarum quadragesimalium Evangeliorum, quibus non solum quintuplex qualibet die varias componendi conciones modus ostenditur, verùm etiam quintuplex sub gravi et eleganti inventione, concio in praxi proponitur (Cologne: Joannes Crithius, 1607). Hence again in this collection the focus seems to be on the rhetorical aspects of preaching, and this whole collection looks like a reworked re-issue of the Quintuplices sacrae quadragesimales inventiones. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek in Vienna, and via Google Books.

Sermones de tempore. Announced in the Quintuplices sacrae quadragesimales inventiones (see the remarks of Sbaralea), but possibly never published, due to the author's demise.

Sermones de sanctis. Announced in the Quintuplices sacrae quadragesimales inventiones (see the remarks of Sbaralea), but possibly never published, due to the author's demise.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 206-207; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 127.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (Bartholomaeus de Chaymis/Bartolomeo Caimi, † ca. 1496, Milan)

OMObs. Italian friar from Milan. Preacher and confessor, as well as commissioner of the Observant Milan vicariate. Author of the popular Interrogatorium sive Confessionale (1474), organized according to the schemata of Antoninus of Florence and inspired by the Summa of Angelus Carleti de Chivasso OFM. The work gives exact definitions of sins. It was recommended to the clergy on the synods of Basel (1503) and Augsburg (1548).

works

Interrogatorium seu Confessionale: MSS a.o. Washington D.C., Holy Name College, no. 26; Vatican City, Vat. Palat. Lat. 713. The work has been published as Interrogatorium seu Confessionale (Milan: Christophorus Valdarser, 1474/Milan: Dominicus de Vespolate & Jacobus de Marliano, 1478/ca. 1480/1482/Venice, 1480/1486/after 1500/Basel, ca. 1475/Strasbourg, 1476-8/Nuremberg, 1477/1480/1482/Mainz, 1478/s.l. 1482, together with the Manuale Sacerdotum by Herman de Schilditz/Heidelberg, ca. 1488/ca. 1490/Augsburg, 1491). There are several later, 16th-century editions as well, including editions under the title Speculum confessorum noviter correctum perutile monibus confessoribus.

Libellus de missae defectibus. A manuscript of this work was once apparently present in the library of the archbishop of Tarragona Antonio Agustín Albanell.

literature:

Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum, (ed. Quaracchi, 1911), 129; AFH 7 (1914), 110; Wadding, Annales Minorum XV (ed. Quaracchi, 1933), 144; Waddding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 37; Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 185; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 114; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 119; DDCan II, 207-211; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke VI, 411-418, 830-846; DHGE XI, 226; Emanuelle Boaga, `Bartholomaeus de Chaimis', LThK, 2 (1994), 41.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Cherracio (Bartolomeo Charracio, fl. later 14th cent.)

Master of theology. Papally appointed visitator and reformer of the Franciscan convent of Avignon (see bulls of Gregory IX, 26 March 1374). Thereafter, the pope sent him to Constantinople, to argue the case for religious unification with the Byzantine Emperor and the orthodox clergy, and to organise European support for the Byzantines against the advancing Turcs. During his stay at Constantinople, Bartolomeo also campained for the improvement of the Latin Christians in Byzantine society. After his return from Constantinople, Bartolomeo once again was sent on an ambassadorial journey, this time to Queen Giovanna of Sicily, to ask for her military support against the Turcs. No extant works.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum, ad an. 1374, n.1-5 & ad an. 1375, n. 1-2; Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della terra santa V, 200-202; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Eubel, VI, 530-531, 536-537, 538; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Barthélemy Charracio’, DHGE VI, 994.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Civitate Rodrigensis (Bartolomeo de Ciudad Rodrigo, d. 1448)

Bachelor of theology. Appointed bishop of Marocco after the death of Pero de San Cipriano. He probably was the bishop who accorded an indulgence of 40 days to the confraternity of Santo Domingo de Silos. Author?

works

To be continued

literature

A. Lopez, Memoria historica de los obispos de Marruecos desde el siglo XIII (Madrid, 1920), 80-81; C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica (Munich, 1914) II, 186; A. Lambert, ‘Barthélemy de Ciudad Rodrigo’, DHGE VI, 1015.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Cothurno (Bartolomeo da Cucurno, d. 1386)

OM. Italian friar. Member of the Genoa province. Made Cardinal of Genoa and cardinal preacher of St. Lawrence at Damaso (21 December 1381). Initially a staunch supporter of pope Urban VI, he became dissatisfied with the pope’s extravagance and church policies. Together with other cardinals involved with a conspiracy to subdue the pope, he was emprisoned by Urban VI at Nocera (11 January 1385). The pope had them tortured. When Urban VI had to leave Nocera, due the pressure from the armies of the king of Naples, he took the insubordinate cardinals with him to Genoa, where he had them executed. Seemingly no extant works, although older catalogues mention a Summa Theologiae, as series of Sermons (Postillae sermonum sacrorum), and Commentaria in Cantica Canticorum.

works

Summa Theologiae. ?

Postillae sermonum sacrorum. ?

Commentaria in Cantica Canticorum. ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 185; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 114-115; C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica, 2nd Ed. (1913) I, 24, 43, 282; S. Baluze, Vitae Paparum Avenionensium, ed. G. Mollat (Paris, 1928) II, 472-473, 804, 806 & IV, 299-301; F. Baix, ‘Barthélemy de Cucurno’, DHGE VI, 1000-1001.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Colle (Bartolomeo da Colle, 1421-1484)

OMObs. Italian friar. Born at Colle di Val d’Elsa. Joined the Observant branch of the order while studying at the arts faculty of Perugia in 1440, influenced by the preaching of Giovanni da Capistrano. Studied at the Observant study house at the Monteripido convent (Perugia). In 1446, at the general chapter held at Rome under Givanni da Capistrano, Bartolomeo was elected guardian of the Aracoeli convent; a position he was to keep for three terms. Apostlic nuntius in 1455, in which function, Bartolomeo preached the crusade against the Turcs. Provincial vicar of the Candia vicariate and that of the Holy Land in 1458. In reality only administrator of the Candia Vicariate. Further crusade preaching rallies as apostolic preacher, full quadragesimal cycles and sermon rallies against usury and in support of the Monti di Pieta between 1459 and 1475. Elected guardian of the S. Lucchese convent near Poggibonsi in april of 1475. During these last years at S. Lucchese, Bartolomeo mad a full copy of Dante’s Comedia, adding comments and creating a more lengthy Latin commentary on the Paradiso part. Most of his sermons are lost. For an in-depth study of his life and works, the manuscripts etc., see now the 2017 study of Marco Arosio mentioned in the bibliography.

works

Tractatus de Fide sive Explicatio Symboli Niceni/Credo (1461): MSS Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 7618 ff. 1r-359v (in this autograph manuscript, the text is followed by a thematical index on ff. 360r-366r, an index of citations on ff. 366r-368v and a set of incipits of pericopes taken from the works of Dante and Virgil on ff. 369r); Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.F.I ff. 17ra-44vb; Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale XII.F.40 ff. 139va-147va; Rome, BAV Urb. Lat. 626 ff. 1r [14r]-348v [361v] (in this manuscript following the treatise De Veritate et Firmitate Christiane Fidei of Bernardino da Siena on ff. 1-13 (Barolomeo’s Tractatus starts afresh with folio nr. 1). Some small transcripts of the Tractatus de Fide are provided in Arosio, Bartolomeo da Colle di Val d'Elsa, 269-284. [It amounts to a long learned catechistic manual/theology manual, containing a series of thematic explanations in sermon format for religious instruction of friars and educated lay people by preachers and confessors, dealing at length with God and His attributes, predestination, the condemnation of the damnec, the sins by which good men can be tempted, the spread of evil in the world, Divine mercy and justice, creation (describing heaven, earth, the visible reality and the realm of the angels), the fall of Lucifer, temptations, and the place of free will in the rational soul.]

Tractatus de Confessione: MSS Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, Lat. 2713 ff. 17r-29v (autograph); Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 1637 ff. 50r-68v [later 15th-century copy]. Some small transcripts of the Tractatus de Confessione are provided in Arosio, Bartolomeo da Colle di Val d'Elsa, 269-284.

Flores S. Hieronymi: MSS Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Conv. Soppr. J.I.40; Metz, Bibl. Municip. 1267 (an. 1470), ff. 2r-213v; Oxford, Bodleian Canon. Lat. Script. Eccles. 161.

Flores S. Augustini: MS Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 7643 (autograph manuscript).

Commento alla Divina Commedia: MS Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 7566-7568 (autograph manuscript). For editions see: E. Mattone-Vezzi, Fra Bartolomeo da Colle commentatore della Divina Comedia. Notizie storiche col testo dantesco e commento (Siena, 1922). Some small transcripts of the Commento alla Divina Commedia are provided in Arosio, Bartolomeo da Colle di Val d'Elsa, 269-284. [Cf also the editions of the Dante commentaries of Giovanni da Serravalle]

Flores S. Cipriano & Gregorii Magni: MS Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 4086 (autograph manuscript)

Sermones (only two of his sermons, held at Santa Croce in Florence in April 1474, and respectively dealing with the resurrection and with the Gospel of John, have survived in the form of schematic Italian reportations): MS Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 1186 C f. 111rv [f. 42rv modern foliation].

Epistolae (some letters on financial matters in refined rhetorical style to Lorenzo de’Medici, written as guardian between May 1475 and April 1478): MSS Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Mediceo avanti il Principato, XXXII, 207 (XXXII, 212); XXXII, 559 (XXXII, 567); XXII, 408 (XXII, 416). They have been edited as: Lettere a Lorenzo de'Medici, edited in: Marco Arosio, Bartolomeo da Colle di Val d'Elsa Predicatore dell Osservanza francescana. Uno studio storico-filosofico, ed. Andrea Nannini (Canterano: Gioacchino Onorati Editore, 2017), 255-257.

Latin Verses. See: AFH, 10 (1917), 252.

There are other manuscripts that are an indication of Bartolomeo's transcription and compilation activities. See especially MS Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense 8. This autograph manuscript contains Bartolomeo’s transcription of the Epistola Contra Iudeos (ff. 13r-30r), the Epistola ad Damasum of Pseudo Eusebius of Cremona (ff. 39r-78r), the Epistola ad Cyrillum of Pseudo Augustine (ff. 78v-85v), the Epistola ad beatum Augustinum de Mirabilibus Beati Jeronimi Doctoris Eximinii of Pseudo Cyrillus (ff. 86r-118v), the Epistola ad Marcellam de Urbe Recedendum of Jerome (f. 119r), the Legenda Minor of Bonaventure (ff. 134r-160r), an the Epistola ad Eremitas of Pseudo Augustine (ff. 161r-162v). Bartolomeo also transcribed the Legenda di Lucchese da Poggibonsi: MS Siena, Biblioteca Civica K.VII.37.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 185; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 114; Cenci, Napoli, I, 529/30 & II, 909.>> Check de CF Bibl. numbers!; Marco Arosio, ‘Bartolomeo da Colle (1421-1484), predicatore dell’Osservanza francescana e dantista minore’, in AA.VV., Gli Ordini mendicanti in Val d’Elsa, Atti del convegno di studio Gli Ordini mendicanti in Val d’Elsa organizzato dalla Società Storica della Valdelsa. Colle Val d’Elsa, Teatro dei Varii; Poggibonsi, Convento di San Lucchese; San Gimignano, Biblioteca Comunale, 6-8 giugno 1996, Biblioteca della ‘Miscellanea Storica della Valdelsa’ 15 (Castelfiorentino, 1999 (2000)), 73-189; Arianna Terzi, ‘Lippi Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo da Colle)’, DBI 65, 186-189; Marco Arosio, Bartolomeo da Colle di Val d'Elsa Predicatore dell Osservanza francescana. Uno studio storico-filosofico, ed. Andrea Nannini, Flumen Sapientiae, 5 (Canterano: Gioacchino Onorati Editore, 2017).

With thanks to Marco Arosio

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Cremona (fl. 1254)

OM. Italian Franciscan missionary and papal ambassador. First sent out (together with friar Thomas and John of Parma) to emperor John III. Later, he was the companion of William of Rubruck on a papal ambassadorial and missionary journey to the Great Khan of the Mongols in 1254. Due to a decline in his health, Bartolomeo was not able to return back to Europe and spent the rest of his life in China. He figures (not always in a very flattering way) in the travel account of William of Rubruck.

literature

Marcelino da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane I, 457; Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica delle Terra santa I, 103, 229, II, 388-389; Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen (Munster, 1929), 79; Van den Wyngaert, Sinica franciscana (Quaracchi, 1929) I, 247, 309-310; CF 7 p. 525, bib. 8, n. 1929, bib 11, n. 3811, 3852; DBI VI, 711-712; Soldi Fiorino, Undicesima ora. La missione di Bartolomeo da Cremona al Gran Khan di Karakorum nel 1254 (Cremona, 1954); Soldi Fiorino, ‘Fra Bartolomeo da Cremona, precursore di Marco Polo’, Frate Francesco, n.s. 2 (1955), 27-30.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de la Verna (d. 1407)

OM. Italian friar.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 16-17, pp. 305, 310

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Feltre (Bartolomeo Bellati/Bartolomeo da Feltre, d. 1479)

OMConv. Italian Conventual friar from the noble Feltre family. Born at the beginning of the fifteenth century. After entering the order, he studied theology at the studium generale of Bologna, and he taught at this same studium as lector of theology ca. 1475 (and he was regent master of this studium in the final years of his life). Strong defender of Scotist positions, and active preacher. Also papal legate in Venice for Sixtus IV between 1471 and 1478. Defended in a public debate (Ferrara, 1477) the immaculate conception of Mary against the Dominican theologian Vincent Bandelli. His defense was printed in V. Bandello, Tractatus de singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptionis salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi (Bologna, 1481), 100-109. Present at the general chapter of Perugia in 1478. Bartolomeo also was involved with a revised re-issue of the famous Summa Astesana (Venice, 1478 /Lyon, 1519), and he published John Duns Scotus’ Liber Primus Lecturae Parisiensis sive Reportatorum Scoti (Bologna, 1478) and an introductory work to Scotus’ commentary on the second book of the Sententiae, namely the Opusculum in secundum librum Sententiarum Scoti or the Ianua Scoti. He died in 1479 in Rome (San Bartolomeo dell'Isola), where he was involved with the preparations/administrative aspects of the Franciscan general chapter. He was buried in the Franciscan SS. Apostoli church. CF 5, p. 701f; 26, p. 290; 34, p. 418; Bib. 8 n. 742

works

Ianua Scoti: MS Uppsala UB C. 632 (an. 1470) ff. 10-73v. [Compendium de VI tract.: finis deest]

Opusculum in Secundum Librum Sententiarum Scoti (Venice: Joh. Coloniensis, 1481/ Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, 1497/Venice: Bernadinus Vercellensis, 1503). [REF: DBI, VII, 614-6; ECATT., II, 1184; DHGE, VII, 827; Sbar., Suppl. I, 118] Cf. also C. Piana, `Gli inizi e lo sviluppo dello scotismo a Bologna e nella regione romagnolo-flaminia', AFH, 40 (1947). This is a fruit of Bartolomeo's teaching at Bologna. The work was issued posthumously.

De Immaculata Conceptionis V. Mariae VIII Rationes, edited in: Vincenzo Bandello, Tractatus de singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptionis salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi (Bologna, 1481) Pars II, 187-206. Accessible via Google Books and the digital collections of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon. Hence this work was included in a publication of his disputation opponent [REF: DBI, VII, 614-6; ECATT., II, 1184; DHGE, VII, 827; Sbar., Suppl. I, 118]

As editor of Scotus' Opus Parisiense, at the request of Franciscan order leadership, and which is based on materials/notes collected by Scotus' disciples in Paris: In I-II Sent. Scoti: Liber Primus Lecturae Parisiensis, Sive Reportatorum Scoti (Bologna: Joannis de Annunciata Augustani, 1478). Bartolomeo Bellati was supposed to publish also the second and third book of this, but death intervened. He did write a introductory Opusculum in secundum librum Sententiarum Scoti, mentioned furter above, which apparently was issued after Bellati's death.

As editor, he also published in collaboration of the baccalaureus Gomez de Lisbon a new edition of Astesano of Asti, replete with an Epistola dedicatoria: Summa de casibus conscientiae (Venice, 1471/1478/1480/1482/1519, 1728).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 184; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 118; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 248; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Leipzig, 1928) III, no. 3238; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bellati’, DHGE VII, 827.; DBI, VII, 614-6 [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bartolomeo-bellati_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]; ECATT., 1184; C. Piana, `Gli inizi e lo sviluppo dello scotismo (…)', AFH, 40 (1947), 55, 65f.; Idem, AFH, 47 (1954), 453; Repertorium edierter Texte des Mittelalters aus dem Bereich der Philosophie und angrenzender Gebiete, ed. Andrés Quero Sánchez, Brigitte Berges, Lu Jiang, & Rolf Schönberger, 2nd Ed. (Akademieverlag, 2012), 719.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Campo (Barthélemy Des Champs, 1615-ca. 1690)

OFMRec. Belgian friar from Liège. He visited Rome two times and eventually went to Galicia in Spain to obtain permission from the order’s Minister General to visit the HL, embarking on his journey in 1666 from Barcelona.

works

Voyage de la Terre Sainte et du Levant (Liege: Pierre Danthez, 1678). Accessible via the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books. The work is rather detailed and includes information about the customs and livestyle of the Arabs, the Turks and other people living in Palestine.

literature

Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche Edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d’Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 152.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Villalba (Bartolomé de Villalba, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Castille province. Son of the military captain Andrés de Segura Villalba and doña Ana de Olivares. He entered the order in the Castille province, reaching the status of Lector jubilatus in 1649. Guardian of the San Antonio de Mondéjar friary (Guadalajara) in 1651. General procurator for his order in Rome (around 1657) and guardian of the San Franciscan friary of Madrid in 1661. Famous preacher.

works

Oración evangélica panegyrica a la más pura criatura, Inmaculada Virgen Madre de Dios María Nuestra Señora. En acción e gracias que la más noble y leal ciudad de Valencia hizo a la Santísima Imagen de los Desamparados por la restauración de Tortosa, a cuya protección reconoce el triunfo de sus Armas. Predicola el M.R. P. Fr. Bartolomé de Villalva, hijo de la Santa Provincia de Castilla de la regular Observancia de N.P.S. Francisco, lector jubilado y Guardián del convento de San Antonio de la villa de Mondéxar. En la Santa iglesia del Asseo en presencia del Excelentísimo S. D. Fr, Pedro de Urbina, Virrey y arzobispo Illustríssimo de Valencia. Domingo Tercerod e Adviento (Valencia: Silvestre Esparsa, 1651).

Oración evangélica en la celebridad que el convento de N. P. S. Francisco desta corte en acción de gracias por el nacimiento de el Príncipe N. S. dedicaron a San Diego sus cofrades después de averle llevado a su casa de Alcalá. Dixola el M.R.P. Fr. Bartolomé de Villalva de la Regular Observancia de las Frailes Menores, lector jubilado, Padre y Procurador General, Habitual de la Orden en la Curia romana y actual Guardián del mismo convento. Dedicada a María de Austria (Madrid: Mateo Fernández, 1661).

Sangre triunfal de la Iglesia, en las vidas, que sus gloriosos martyres por el nombre, y fe de Iesu Christo Redemptor nuestro heroicamente dieron, por el M.R.P. Fr. Bartolomé de Villalba, natural de la ciudad de Gibraltar, lector jubilado, primer padre y de•nidor perpetuo de la santa provincia de Castilla de la Regular Observancia de nuestro Padre San Francisco y ex Procurador General de toda la orden en la Curia Romana, 2 Vols. (Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1672). Accessible via Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 3-55.719.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 487-488; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 190 (no. 870); José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica XII, 268; Francisco Javier Quintana Álvarez, 'Breves notas biográficas de franciscanos gibraltareños (ss. XVI-XVIII) (Brief biographical notes on Gibraltarians Franciscans)', in: Actas del Congreso Intenacional y XIX Curso de Verano de la AHEF, Priego de Córdoba-Baeza, 24 a 26 de julio de 2013: Aportaciones al Diccionario biográfico franciscano de España, Portugal, Iberoámerica y Filipinas, ed. Manuel Peláez del Rosal (Priego de Córdoba, 2014), 222-224.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Villanova (Bartolomé de Villanueva, fl. mid 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish preacher and provincial of the Santa Cruz province, Caracas.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 488-489; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 191 (no. 871).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Yano (Bartolomé da Giano/Bartolomeo di Apone, fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar from Giano (Umbria). He was first a Conventual friar and reached the status of Master of Theology. Later, possibly under the influence of Bernardino da Siena he joined the regular Observance and became a renowned preacher, especially in the Foligno region (mentioned in Foligno archival documents from 1426). In 1435, he went at the request of Eugenio IV with five other friars to Constantinopel (including Alberto di Sarteano), in preparation of the unification attempt at the council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1441). He was back in Constantinople in the early 1440s, where he helped construct a Franciscan friary, and in 1444 he became with papal support and that of the Franciscan minister general vicar for the Middle Eastern Franciscan province. He apparently came back to Italy with a substantial number of Greek texts and probably spent the last years of his life in the S. Francesco del Monte friary in Perugia, and he supposedly was appointed provincial vicar of the Observant San Francisco province in the year of his death, which occurred on 12 August 1483.

works

Epistola de crudelitate Turcorum: Biblioteca Veneta di Michele di Murano, MS 1130. It was written on 12 December 1438, directed to Alberto di Sarteano and describing the situation of Christians under Ottoman rule. The letter was edited in Migne, Patrologia Graeca CLVIII, 1055-1068) and in De Gubernatis, Orbis seraphicus, Historia de tribus ordinibus II (Quaracchi, 1886), 837-841.

Epistola de positione Christianorum sub Turcae tribute viventium. Yet another letter on the bad position of Christians under Ottoman occupation, dated 3 February 1442 and addressed at the prior of Saint John in Jerusalem: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 1278, ff. 130-133, and has apparently been edited in Anchiennes chroniques del Wavrin, Anchiennes croniques d'Engleterre II (Paris, 1859), i-ii. This letter is also ascribed to Bartolomeo da Genova (see also there). The ascription to Bartolomé da Giano is probably more correct.

Conciones. Attributed, not yet found.

Interrogatorium conscientiae, also known as Interrogatorium confitentium, Interrogatorium confessorum, and Interrogatorium pro confessoribus. Attributed, not yet found.

literature

Bernardino dell'Aquila, Chronica fratrum minorum observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens, (Roma, 1902), 17f; Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum FF. Minorum,in: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 3 (1910), 710, 713. 714-715; 4 (1911), 128; Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum (ed. 1906), 37, 39-40; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 194; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (ed. 1908), 117, 126; M. Faloci Pulignani, Le arti e le lettere alla corte dei Trinci (Foligno, 1888), 139; Idem, 'Per la storia di S. Giacomo della Marca', Miscellanea Francescana 4 (Foligno 1889), 76; A. Teetaert, Dictionnaire du Droit Canonique II, 212-213; Antonio Alecci, 'Bartolomeo da Giano', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 6 (1964) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bartolomeo-da-giano_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Durandus (Bartélemy Durand, fl. late seventeenth cent.)

OFM. French Observant friar from the Saint-Louis province. Long-term lector and Scotist apologist. He died in 1720 due to a pestilence.

works

Clypeus Scotisticae Theologiae Contra Novos Eius Impugnatores, 5 Vols. (Marseille, 1685; 1700; Venice, 1709; 1746). Accessible via https://babel.hathitrust.org and with some creative searching also via Google Books (in any case some volumes of the 1685 and thethe 1709 Venice edition, which do not always pop up).

Dissertationes ecclesiasticae pro foro tam sacramentali, quam contentioso, seu Opus morale ad normam universi juris Canonici exactum (Avignon: François Sebastian Offray, 1703). Accessible via the Italian national library in Rome and via Google Books.

Fides vindicata quatuor libris comprehensa. In quibus Historice, Chronologice, ac Critice Referuntur, Selectissimisque Sacrae Scripturae, Sanctorum Patrum, & Conciliorum Oraculis Refutantur Haereses quae a reparatione mundi ad nostra usque tempora insurrexerunt adversus propemodum omnia Dogmata, quae Christus ascensurus in Coelum reliquit Ecclesiae suae (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1726). Accessible via Google Books.

Juan de San Antonio also ascribes to him a Rationale divinorum officiorum, yet that is the work of Bishop Guillaume Durand.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 185-186.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Garcia (Bartolomé García, fl. 1670)

OFM. Spanish friar. Preacher in the Aragon province.

works

Fiestas en Zaragoza de las canonizaciones de S. Pedro Alcantara y Sta. Maria Magdalena Pazzi (Zaragoza: Juan de Ibar, 1670).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 186-187; AIA 22 (1962), 281-282; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) X, no. 4101; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 119 (no. 341).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus García (Bartholomé García, d. 1767)

OFM. Spanish friar and missionary originating from Valencia (Spain). Travelled to New Spain, where he became a member of the Holy Cross Mission station and college at Querétaro, Mexico around 1743. He remained there for a number of years. Yet in 1750, he was active in the Candelaria mission (Texas), and a year later he worked in San Antonio de Valero (Texas). Five years later, in 1756, he was working in the San Francisco de la Espada mission. There he died on 9 July 1767. In 1760 he published his Manual para administrar los santos sacramentos. At that very moment in time, he might have returned for several years to Querétaro, for he took part in the guardian election there of 29 January 1763, and was for a while counsellor of the elected official. Shortly before his death, he probably had returned to San Francisco de la Espada.

works

Manual para administrar los santos sacramentos de penitencia, eucharistía, extrema-unción y matrimonio; dar gracias a Dios después de comulgar y ayudar a bien morir a los indios de las naciones pajalates, orejones, pacaos, tilijayas, alasapas, pausanes, y otras muchas diferentes que se hallan en las Missiones del Rio de San Antonio y Rio Grande pertenecientes a el Colegio de la Santissima Cruz de la Ciudad de Querétaro, como son: los pacuaches, mescales, pampopas, tácames, chayopines, venados, pamaques, y toda la juventud de pihuiques por el P. Fr. Bartholomé García, predicator apostólico y actual missionero de la Mission de N.S.P.S. Francisco de dicho Colegio, y Rio de San Antonio, en la Provincia de Texas. Impresso con las licencias necessarias en le imprenta de los herederos de Doña María de Rivera en la calle de San Barnardo y esquina de la Plaza de el Volador (1760). Cf. J.T. Medina, La imprenta en México (Sevilla, 1893) V, no. 4621. It is a bilingual work, with Spanish in one column and a local language in the other column, with explanatory Latin expressions in the margin. The text of this work was reproduced in Nicolás León, Bibliografía Mexicana (Mexico, 1926), Volume V.

literature

J.T. Medina, La imprenta en México (Sevilla, 1893) V, no. 4621; L. Gómez Canedo, ‘García’. DHGE XIX, 1170-1171.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Eyoas (Bartolomé Eoyas, fl. late seventeenth cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Theologian, provincial minister of the Aragon province and consultant for the inquisition.

works

Coelestis et mundialis machina regni Aragonensis?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 186.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Escarrer (Bartolomé Escarrer, d. 1784)

OFM. Majorcan Observant friar from Porreras. Lector of theology in the San Francisco de Asis friary of Palma, custos and provincial definitor. he also was a respected Lenten preacher. He allegedly wrote in or before 1767 a Poema dramático de San Buenaventura y Santo Tomas de Aquino, which in the nineteenth century was kept in the archive of the Los Angeles confraternity of Palma.

literature

Biblioteca de Autores Baleares, ed. Joaquin María Bover (Palma: P.J. Gelabert, 1868) I, 258 (no. 372).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Fontius (Bartolomeo Fonzio, 1502-1562)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar and later ‘Lutheran‘ heteric. Born in Venice in 1502, he entered the Conventual Franciscans at an early age. Received a thorough theological and also humanist education in the order and became a respected lector and preacher. As early as 1528, he preached doctrines that were considered Lutheran. Three years later in 1531, the authorities ordered him to be arrested. With the help of several high placed Venetians, he was able to escape and to find refuge in Germany. He lived and worked in several German cities, such as Augsburg, Ulm, Nuremberg, Basel, Konstanz and Strasbourg. In this period, he became better acquainted with Lutheran positions, and he translated into Italian Luther’s appeal to the Princes of the German nation, which found significant circulation in the Venetian regions in and afetr 1534. In Strasbourg Bartolomeo also became acquainted with Bucer and with Zwinglian doctrines. He still considered himself to be a Catholic, however, and in 1533, he returned to Venice, hoping to help bring about a reconciliation between the parties. Bartolomeo was no longer living in a Franciscan community (he might already have been disavowed by 1531), but in a house of his own, where he began to hold religious gatherings in 1537. Following accusations of Lutheranism, Bartolomeo moved to Rome, where he was arrested at the instigation of the Pope Paul III, who ordered an inquisitorial investigation, but this did not lead to a conviction. In this context, Bartolomeo redacted a first version of his Fidei et doctrinae ratio, consisting of 175 thesis. He was released and lived and worked for a while in Aquila (1537-1541). He worked in the Farfa monastery on his catechism, and later worked in Modena (1544, where he took part in the discussions of the Accademia modenese, which had been founded by the medic and humanist Giovanni Grillenzoni, pupil of Pietro Pomponazzi), the Marches, again in Rome (1546-1547) and Padua (1548). By 1551 he was a school master in Cittadella, a position he more or less kept for seven years, also teaching Scripture. Gradually, the accusations of heresy became stronger. He fled and for a short while and led an ambulatory life. Yet he returned to Cittadella and, on May 27, 1558, he was arrested in or near his school, transferred to Venice, and handed over to the inquisition. The inquisition found 44 heretical passages in his writings, and he was interrogated repeatedly. He remained in prison for four years. Notwithstanding attempts by a faction of the venetian Senate to have him released, Bartolomeo was condemned to death on June 26, 1562. In this context, Bartolomeo created the second version of his Fidei et doctrinae ratio. The condemnation ordered him to be strangled in his celle and thereafter to be burned in public. To avoid public protests, the authorities of Venice decided to drown him at night with a heavy stone around his neck in the lagoon.

works

Italian translation of Luther's appeal to the German princes (1520): Appello alla nobiltà cristiana di nazione tedesca (1534), which circulated widely in Venice and its neighbourhood.

Instruttione fanciulesca cerca le cose della religione nomata altrimenti con vocabulo greco Cathechismo (1546-47). This is a catechism. It has been edited in Olivieri (1967), 362-368.

Epistola Camilli Cautii ad Bernardinum Scardeonium detta anche Apologia (1557). See for the edition Olivieri (1966-67), 499-535.

Fidei et doctrinae Bartolomei Fontii ratio. 284 Latin theses, written during his final weeks in prison in Venice, before his execution, was based on an earlier defense against inquisitorial accusations against him from 1540, and dealt in an Augustinian fashion with predestination, justification, the nature of the sacraments as signifyers of grace, and a plea for a universal restoration of Christianity along more ecumenical lines, expressing the hope that the Council of Trent would move in that direction instead of fostering division and a punitive atmosphere. The text has been edited in Olivieri (1967), 368-452.

literature

Achille Olivieri, ‘Una polemica ereticale nella Padova del Cinquecento: l‘"Epistola Camilli Cautii ad Bernardinum Scardonium" di Bartolomeo Fonzio‘, Atti dell‘Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti 225 (1966-67), 489-535 (with on pp. 499-535 the edition of the letter); Achille Olivieri, ‘Il "Cathechismo" e la "Fidei et doctrinae … ratio" di Bartolomeo Fonzio, eretico veneziano del Cinquecento‘, Studi veneziani 9 (1967), 339-452 (edition of the Catechism on pp. 362-368 and of the Fidei et doctrinae Bartolomei Fontii ratio on pp. 368-452); Achille Olivieri, ‘"Ortodossia" ed "eresia" in Bartolomeo Fonzio‘, Bollettino della Società di studi valdesi 128 (1970), 39-55Gigliola Fragnito, ‘Fonzio, Bartolomeo‘, DBI 48 (1997); Jurij Bardini, ‘Quella maledetta nidiata. Frati minori conventuali perseguiti per eresia agli inizi del Cinquecento‘, Il Santo 47 (2007), 451-480; Daniele Santarelli, ‘Bartolomeo Fonzio‘, in: Ereticopedia, www.ereticopedia.org/bartolomeo-fonzio [consulted on June 1st, 2014]; ‘Fonzio, Bartolomeo (1502-1562)‘, in: Dizionario del pensiero cristiano alternativo, http://www.eresie.it/it/Fonzio.htm [consulted on June 1st, 2014]

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Fornesius (Bartolomeo Fornés, 1691-1788)

OFM. Majorcan Observant friar from Palma de Mallorca. Joined the Franciscans at the age of 18 in the San Francisco de Asis friary of Palma. Went through the order's school and college programs and studied theology at Mainz and Salamanca. Taught theology at the latter and obtained a reputation as theologian and apostolic preacher. Known specialist in the work of Ramon Llull. Died in the San Francisco de Asis friary of Palma on November 18, 1788 at the age of 97.

works

Liber apologeticus artis magnae B. Raymondi Lullii doctoris illuminati (...) (Salamanca: Nicolaus Josephus Villargordo, 1746). A second, much enlarged revised two-volume edition was prepared but apparently never saw the printing press.

Sermon de iluminado y mártir de Jesucristo el B. Raymundo Lulio, predicado el dia 25 de enero de 1774 (...) (Palma: Sarrá, s.a.). This sermon apparently led to trouble and Fornés was temporarily transferred to another friary.

Libro de oro en que se dan armas defensivas para todo cuanto se objete al culto inmemorial, doctrina y martirio del illuminado Dr. y martir el B. Raymundo Lulio, en ocasion de haber salido en 1761 un libelo infamatorio contra el Santo MS?

Respuesta al libelo infamatorio de la Santidad, martirio, doctrina y culto del inclito martir de Cristo y Dr. iluminado el B. Raymundo Lulio (...) MS?

literature

Biblioteca de Autores Baleares, ed. Joaquin María Bover (Palma: P.J. Gelabert, 1868) I, 309f (no. 474).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Gaius (Bartolomaeo Gay/Gaio, ca. 1340-ca. 1410)

OM. Italian friar from Perugia, preacher and bishop of Limassol (Cyprus). Lector of philosophy and theology in the Franciscan studia network, as well as a renowned preacher active throughout the Italian peninsula in the 1360s and 1370s. In a papal document from 30 July 1379, he appears as a legate/negociator for pope Urban VI in a diplomatic mission to Perugia. In October 1384, the Franciscan bishop of Sarsina (Romagna), Marco da Montefalco, asks him to govern his diocese in his absence as general vicar. On 15 October 1390, pope Boniface IX appoints Bartolomeo to the see of Limassol on Cyprus (BF VII, no. 37). As bishop of Limassol, he can be traced in Perugia in August 1399, and in October 1400, when Boniface IX authorizes him to excommunicate people who had illegally appropriated possessions pertaining to the Benedictine San Pietro monastery at Perugia. Bartolomeo’s successor as bishop of Limassol was appointed on 30 may 1411, hence Bartolomeo is likely to have died some time beforehand. Bartolomeo apparently left behind a large number of sermons for Advent, Lent and the feasts of Saints, as well as philosophical and theological works, the whereabouts of which have not yet been traced.

works

Sermones Quadragesimales. ?

Sermones de Adventu. ?

To be continued...

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 186; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (ed. Rome, 1908), 120; Eubel, Hierachia I, 368; Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente francescano, ed. Golubovich (Quaracchi, 1927) V, 278-280; Mostra documentaria e iconografica dell’abbazia benedettina di S. Pietro in Perugia, Catalogo (Perugia, 1966), 20-21 (no. 56); Claude Schmitt, ‘Gai ou Gay’, DHGE XIX, 664; Lemesos: A History of Limassol in Cyprus from Antiquity to the Ottoman Conquest, ed. Angel Nicolaou Konnari & Chris Schabel (Newcastle upon Tine: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 307, 359.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Garcia de Escanuela (Bartolomé García de Escañuela, d. 1684)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Granada province. Long-term lector and royal preacher, Bishop of Puerto Rico and Durango (Mexico)

works

Virtudes de un arbol acreditado por su fruto: sermon que en las memorias anuales que a las venerables cenizas de su difunto padre, el benemerito señor Gaspar de Medina consagró su hijo N. Rmo. Padre Fr. Alonso Salizanas (Salamanca: Joseph Gomez de los Cubos, 1666).

Trono de Glorias, adornado de sabios, pagegyrico laudatorio de las heroycas virtudes, y victorias del rey D. Fernando el Santo, Tercero de Castilla, y Leon: en la nueva y primera fiesta de la ampliacion de su culto (...) (Madrid: Joseph Fernández Buendia, 1671). Accessible via Google Books.

He also published additional funerary sermons for Andrea de Guadelupe (Madrid, tipografia real, 1668), King Philip IV of Spain (Madrid: tipografia real, 1665), and friar Cristoforo Delgadillo (Madrid: Joseph Fernandes de Buenda, 1671), yet we have not yet been able to trace the bibliographical details of thise works.

Some also ascribe to him Ideae sacrae evangelicae ea litera decantata, ab Ecclesia Romana: et annotationes curiosae concionatoris (Valencia: de Vega, 1683), yet that seems to be the work of the Franciscan Cristóbal Mercader (Christobaldus Mercader, see letter C).

For visitation documents, letters and other materials relating to his episcopal activities, see the literature below.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 186; AIA 25 (1926), 209-210; AIA 5 (1945), 221; AIA 15 (1955), 257; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) X, nos. 4314-4321, 6150; A guide to the Archivo Franciscano of the National Library of Mexico I, 107-108 & passim; Cristina Campo Lacasa, Historia de la Iglesia en Puerto Rico, 1511-1802, 84-86; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 119-120 (no. 349); La evangelización del Oriente de Venezuela: los anexos del obispado de Puerto Rico (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, 1996), 195ff; Jim Norris, After "the Year Eighty": The Demise of Franciscan Power in Spanish New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2000), 71; Visiones de la monarquía hispánica, ed. Víctor Mínguez (Castelló de la Plana: Publicaciones de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007), 34-37, 165

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Garci Ordonnez (Bartolomeo Garci Ordoñez, fl. 1600)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Castille province.

works

Arte político de desempeño breve y perpétuo de príncipes y potestades, sin extorsion, y daño de algono. Fuente de oro y plata, y verdadere alchimia de reyes (Valladolid, 1602/Valladolid: Luis Sanchez, 1607). In any case the 1602 edition is accessible via the British Library and Google Books (yet it does not always appear immediately when searching with title words or author name. Look for instance with 'perpétuo de príncipes y potestades').

La Eulalida del P.F. Barth. Ordoñez de la Orden de sant Francisco. Contiene la vida y martyrio de S. Eulalia, de Barcelona, primera Virgen y Martyr de Espana (...) en varia rima (...) (Tarragona: Felipe Romero, 1590). Accessible via the Biblioteca de Cataluña and via Google Books (creative search, does not always pop up).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 190; Bibliotheca hispana nova sive hispanorum scriptorum (...) I, 200; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 115.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Guerrero (Bartolomé Guerrero, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from the San Miguel province. Lector jubilado.

works

Expositio in controversiam de immaculatae Virginis Mariae conceptione, breviter, & copiose ambiens omnia quae sancti patres, & alii doctores usque adhuc scripsere (Madrid: Diego Flamenco, 1620). The work would also have been included in one of the volume's of Pedro de Alva y Astorga's Bibliotheca virginalis.

Sermon de las llagas de nuestro padre san Francisco en el real convento de la insigne villa de Caceras (Sevilla: Francisco de Lyra, 1631).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 187; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 117; Nicolas Aniceto Alcolea, Seminario de nobles Taller de venerables y doctos, el Colegio Mayor de S. Pedro, y S. Pablo, fundado en la universidad de Alcala de Henares (...) (Madrid: Manuel Martin, 1777), 235; Iberian Books Volumes II & III/Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III, 1380.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Guisculus (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Joachimist and copist/miniaturist. Check the chronicle of Salimbene!

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 11, p. 319; 35, p. 436; Fabio Troncarelli, ‘‘Ke la malonta ve don Dé’. Herneis le Romanceur, Bartolomeo Guiscolo e lo scandalo dell’‘Evangelium aeternum’’, Quaderni Medievali 51 (2001), 6-34; David Burr, Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Francis (Pennsylvania Park, Penn State UP, 2001), 39, 40

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Luxemburgensis (fl. mid 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Missionary in Louisiana (America) in 1751. Author?

literature

P. Hildebrand, ‘Barthélemy de Luxembourg’, DHGE VI, 1013.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Jano (Bartholomaeus de Yano/Bartolomeo da Giano/Bartolomeo de Abano/Bartolomeo Apona, d. 1483), beatus

OM. Italian friar from Giano (Yano) in the Spoleto diocese. Entered the Conventual branch and went through the order’s degree programme, to become master of theology. Went over to the Observants, following the example of Bernardin of Siena. Preached social peace in Foligno (ca. 1435) and many other Italian towns. Also preached in Greece and the Near East, where he became a propagandist for church unification under the aegis of Rome. Active as the papal ambassador in Constantinople (together with Albert of Sarteano, John of Capistran and some other friars) to establish a union with the Greek church. Present at the eucumenical meetings held to this purpose at Constantinople-Venice, 1437-38 and Ferrara-Florence, 1438-41. Between 1441-45 active in Constantinople, where he constructed a Franciscan convent and became general vicar for the Eastern province of the Observant order. Probably spent his last years in Perugia (S. Francesco del Monte).

works

Epistola de Crudelitate Turcorum: MS Venice, S. Michele di Murano 1130. Edited in: Migne, PG, CLVIII, 1055-68; Orbis Seraphicus, Historia de Tribus Ordinibus, ed. De Gubernatis (Quaracchi, 1886), 837-841.

Epistolae, surviving in French on the sufferings of Christians under Ottoman rule, directed at the prior of the S. John convent at Jerusalem: Paris, BN, Manuscr. Franç. 1278, edited in: Anchiennes chroniques del Wavrin, ed. E. Dupont, Anciennes chroniques d'Engleterre, II (Paris, 1859/1931), 196. [this edition reference does not seem to be correct. Check]

Sermones: mentioned by Mariano of Florence, Sbaralea, and others.

Summa Casuum Conscientiae (Seu Interrogatorium pro Confessione) [?], mentioned by Mariano of Florence and Sbaralea. Might be (as Teetaert assumes) the work of Bartholomew of Milan.

literature

Bernardino dell'Aquila, Chronica fratrum minorum observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens (Rome, 1902), 17ff; Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum FF. Minorum , in AFH, 3 (1910), 710-715 & 4 (1911), 128; Marco of Lissabon, Delle croniche de' frati minori del serafico p.s. Francesco, traduz. Ital. (Venice, 1612), III, 30; Fabricius, I, 182; Wadding, Annales, XIV, 405 etc. [ad an. 1426, n. 12; ad an. 1441, n. 34; ad an. 1444, n. 47); Wadding, Scriptores, 37, 39-49; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 112, 121 & (ed. 1908) I, 112, 117, 121, 126; Zawart, 325; J. Goyens, ‘Berthélemy de Giano’, DHGE VI, 1005; >CF 5, p. 701f; 8, p. 453; Bib. 6, n. 330; LMA, I, 1495; DBI, VI, 723-724; G. Hofmann, in: Orient. Christiana Period., 5 (1939), 155f; A. du Monstier, Martyr. Franciscanum (Vicenza, 1939); Idem, Martirologo francescano (Vatican City, 1946), 243; A. Ghinato, `Apostolato religioso e sociale in S. Giacomo della Marca a Terni', AFH, 49 (1956), 121; Teetaert, Dict. du droit canon., II, 212-213.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Letona (Bartholomaeus de Latona/Bartolomé de Letona, fl. 1650)

OFM. Member of the Cantabria province. Missionary in the Santo Evangelio province in Mexico.

works

Sermon de N.M.S. Clara virgen y matriarca insigne de inumerables virgenes esposas de Dios (Mexico: Francisco Robledo, 1645).

Sermón de N.P.S. Francisco, predicado el domingo infraoctavo de su festividad, año 1645, en su convento de México, en la fiesta solemne que le hizo el illustrissimo Tribunal del Consulado y Uniuersidad de Mercaderes de la Nueua España (Mexico: Viuda de Bernardo Calderõ, 1645).

Perfecta religiosa: contiene tres libros. Libro I. de la vida de la Madre de Geronima de la Asunçion de la Orden de N.M.S. Clara (...) Libro II. de la oracion, y exercicios (...) Libro III. de la regla, y constituciones (...) (Viuda de Juan de Borja, 1662). Accessible via the Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/perfecta-religiosa/html/ ]

Relación auténtica sumaria de la vida virtudes y maravillas del V.P. Fr. Sebastián Aparicio (...) (Mexico: Beatriz de Silva, 1947).

Juan de San Antonio mentions other works that we have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 187; AIA 28 (1927), 41-43; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 138 (no. 494).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Mainardis (Bartolomeo Mainardi, fl. 1380)

OM. Italian friar.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana Bib. 11 n. 3461; Damasus Trapp, 'The Portiuncula Discussion of Cremona (ca. 1380): New Light on 14th Century Disputations', Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 22 (Janvier-Juin 1955), 79-94.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Malacria (d. 1316)

OM. Italian friar from Pisa, where he entered the order. Provincial of Tuscany. Bishop of Ampurias between 1301 and 1316. No works extant.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum VI (Rome, 1733), 4 & IX (Rome, 1734), 191; C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica (1898) I, 86; L. Jadin, ‘Barthélemy de Malagrue, Malacria ou Malaga’, DHGE VI, 974-975

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Middelburgo (Bartholomaeus Adriaensz van Middelburg, 1484-1564)

OFM. Dutch friar from Middelburg (Zeeland, the Low Countries). Worked as a trader until the age of thirty. Then entered the arts faculty at the university of Louvain. Became master of arts. Took the Franciscan habit at Amsterdam in 1516, and returned to Louvain to study theology. Was ordained priest in 1517. In 1532, he is found preaching in Brussels. In 1540, he was in Utrecht, and in 1551 he was preaching in Amsterdam, He was sent back to that town in 1556 by his provincial Matthias Weynssen, to preach against the Anabaptists. In 1564, he still preached during Lent at Utrecht, yet he died on 11 April of that year. His reputation as an anti-heretical preacher was very great. All his sermons (Sermones de Adventu, Sermones Quadragesimales, Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis) were gathered after his death into seven foliants. Their fate is unknown.

works

Sermoen (Dutch): Brussels, Archives des Hospices Civils H. 1570 f. 6 (‘Hier volghen sommige pointkens ghenomen ut een sermoon dwelck den eerweerdighen heer Bruer Bartholomeus, toen tertyd minnebruer in Zeelandt die hier voormaels gardiaen van Bruessel hier in ons godshuys van der Cameren preekte den xi dach van september XVclxj’)

Epistola: MS Brussels, Royal Library 2647 ff. 174-178.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 188-189; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118; S. Breitfeld, ‘P. Bartholomaeus van Middelburg’, Archief van het Bisdom van Utrecht, 28 (1902), 301-315; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères mineurs (Antwerp, 1885), 40-41;  W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 97-98; J. Goyens, ‘Barthélemy de Middelbourg’, DHGE VI, 1016; Nieuw Nederlandsche Biographie III, 859; Archief van het Aartsbisdom Utrecht 28 (1902), 301-315; OGE 5 (1931), 471-485

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Molina (Bartolomé de Molina, fl. 1500)

OMObs. Spanish Franciscan friar and bachelor of theology. Musicologist.

works

Arte de canto llano lux videntis dicha (Valladolid: Diego de Gumiel, 1503)/Valladolid: Diego de Gumiel 1506/1509).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 189; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118; Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, ed. José Simón Díaz XV (Madrid: Editorial CSIC, 1992) XV, 110 (nos. 839 & 840); Alexander S. Wilkinson, Iberian Books: Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601/Libros ibéricos: Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010), 514.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Molina (Bartolomé de Molina, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar and member of the Discalceate San José province. Provincial definitor.

works

Breve tratado de las Virtudes de don Iuan García Alvarez de Toledo, Monroy, y Ayala, Quinto Conde de Oropesa, y Deleytosa (Madrid: Viuda de Cosme Delgado, 1621).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 189; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118; AIA 22 (1962), 312-313; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 149 (no. 580).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Pergola (Bartolomeo Golfi/Bartolomeo della Pergola, fl. 1530-1563)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Entered the order at a young age and received a thorough theological education. Active as preacher, order administrator (elected provincial of the Marca province in 1536) and inquisitor (1535, also in the March of Ancona). Around 1540, he was in Southern Italy, where he became acquainted with Valdensian factions, where he preached during Lent 1540, and entered in discussions with Valdensian spokesmen, such as Andrea Ghetti da Volterra. Later in the same year, he was made leading lector/rector of the Franciscan conventual studium of Ferrara, and he obtained the title of master of theology at Bologna in 1543. He was also made general procurator for his order at the beginning of that year just befor starting a rather infamous Lenten preaching cycle in 1543 and ahain1544 at Modena (at the request of Cardinal Morone). During this preaching assignment he came to the attention of the inquisition for his Nicodemite tendencies. He was forced to retract a number of positions on June 15 & 15, 1544, and was forbidden to preach. Bertolomeo retired to the Pergola friary. In time, Bartolomeo tried to convince the ecclesiastical authorities that he was fully orthodox. But a request to be re-instated as a preacher led to a renewed arrest and he found himself in the inquisitorial prison in Ripetta and later in Pergola between 1556 and 1562. He was finally released in January 1562 and allowed to participate in the Council of Trent in 1562-63. There he would have held a sermon/lecture on 19 July 1562, which later that year was published with other council sermons in Brescia, and again in 1567 in Louvain. This needs further corroboration.

works

Ritrattazione di fra Bartolomeo della Pergola (Modena, 15-16 June 1544), in: Il Processo Inquisitoriale del Cardinal Giovanni Morone, III: La sentenza e appendici, ed. M. Firpo & D. Marcatto, 2nd Ed. (Rome: Libreria editrice vaticana, 2015) III, 236-279.

Sermones. ? Check Paolo Cherubelli, Il contributo degli ordini religiosi al Concilio di Trento (Vallecchi, 1946).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 117 (Bartolomeo Golfi); C. Corvisieri, ‘Compendio dei processi del Sant& Uffizio di Roma da Paolo III a Paolo IV‘,Arch. d. Soc. romana di storia Patria 3 (1880), 271f, 275, 290, 454f, 459; G. Buschbell, Reformation und Inquisition in Italien um die Mitte des XVI. Jahrhunderts (Paderborn, 1910), 208f, 315ff; Luigi Carcereri, Riforma e Inquisizione nel Ducato d‘Urbino verso la metà nel sec. XVI (Verona, 1911), 13-20; Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor, Storia dei papi dalla fine del Medio Evo. Compilata col sussidio dell'Archivio segreto pontificio di molti altri archivi, trans. Pio Cenci, 16 Vols. (Rome: Desclée, 1912-1934) VI, 654-658; Matteo Al Kalak, ‘Della Pergola, Bartolomeo‘, DSI III, 1193; Antonio Rotondò, ‘Bartolomeo della Pergola’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani VI (1964); Cesare Bianco, ‘Bartolomeo della Pergola e la sua predicazione eterodossa a Modena nel 1544‘, Bollettino della Società di Studi Valdesi 151 (1982), 3-49; Massimo Firpo & Dario Marcatto, Il processo inquisitoriale del cardinal Giovanni Morone. Nuova edizione critica, 2 Vols. (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2011) II, 318-321; Daniele Santarelli, ‘Bartolomeo Golfi della Pergola‘, Ereticopedia (2013), in: http://www.ereticopedia.org/bartolomeo-della-pergola [consulted on June 1st, 2014]; Giorgio Caravale, Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy: Words on Trial (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016), 42-43, 45, 49, 94.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomeus de Petroio (Brandano, 1488-after 1539)

OFM. Italian friar.

literature

Diz. Biogr. Ital., VI, 752.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Mascara (de Padova/de Sancto Andrea, fl. 1302)

OM. Italian friar. Inquisitor.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 5, p. 191f, 611-20; 13, p. 344; 22, p. 232; 30, p. 413, 483; 34, p. 173, 183

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Mastrius de Meldola (Bartolomeo Mastrio/Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, 1602-1673)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Meldola (near Ravenna.) Influentual Philosopher and theologian, also known as the “Prince of Scotists”, published several Scotist compilations that saw a substantial number of editions. He Was born on 17 or 18 December 1602 and took the Franciscan Conventual habit at the age of 15 at Cesena. he made his solemn profession in 1619 and studied philosophy and theology at Bologna, and subsequently at Naples. After a first stint as lector in Parma and Bologna (1623-1625), he did his graduate studies of theology at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in Rome, where he became acquainted wit Bonaventura Belluto, who would become a life-long friend and collaborator. Mastri reached the doctorate and was ordained priest in 1628. Mastri and Belluto started in the creation of an encompassing Cursus ad mentem Scoti, which they worked in during stints at teaching together at Cesena (1628-1631) and Padua (1638-1641). Thereafter Belluto was sent back to Catania while Mastri went to Ravenna (1641), as theologian for Cardinal Luigi Capone. During these years, Mastri continued writing his handbooks and at the same tiem began to enter in controversies with the Conventual Mattias Ferchius from Criatia and the Irish Observant John Punch, an acquaintance of Luke Wadding and also the author of a rivalling Integer philosophiae cursus ad mentem Scoti. Between 1647 and 1650, Mastri was provincial minister of the Bologna province. The remainder of his years, with some intermittent stints as assistant for high order officials, such as minister general Giacomo Fabretti, he spent first and foremost in Meldola, where he died at the beginning of 1673.

works

Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti Cursus Integer (Venice, 1678/1688/Venice 1708/etc). The first complete multi-volume edition was issued posthumously, yet during Mastri's life appeared a number of individual volumes: Summulae/Logica Parva/Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti Cursus Integer Tomus Primus: continens disputationes in Aristotelis Logicam (Venice, 1630/.../Venice: Niccolo Pezzana, 1688); (...) Tomus Secundus, continens Disputationes ad mentem Scoti (...) in Aristotelis libros physicorum (Rome: Ludivico Grignani 1637/Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1644 [corrected edition]/Venice: Niccolo Pezzana, 1678/.../Venice: Nicolo Pezzana, 1708/...); (...) Summula & Commentarii in Logicam (Venice, 1639/...); In De coelo et De metheoris (Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1640/...); In De generatione et corruptione (Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1640/.../Venice: Niccolo Pezzana, 1678); In libros de Anima (Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1643/...). All these works were in fact co-productions of Mastri and Belluto. Subsequently Mastri also issued volumes of his own, starting with Cursus philosophicus Tomus Quintus [Quartus]: Continens Disputationes Ad mentem Scoti in duodecim Aristotelis Stagiritae Libros Metaphysicorum, 2 vols. (Venice: Niccolo Pezzana, 1646–1647/Venice, Niccolo Pezzana, 1678/Venice: Niccolo Pezzana, 1727). Different editions of these works (some of which combine these volumes in different configurations and numberings) can now be found on a number of digital portals.

Scotus et Scotistae Bellutus et Mastrius Expurgati a Probrosis Querelis Ferchialis (Ferrara: Francesco Succi, 1650).

Disputationes Theologicae in Primum [Secundum, Tertium, Quartum] Librum Sententiarum, quibus ab adversantibus tùm veterum, tùm recentiorum jaculis Scoti theologia vindicatur, 4 Vols (Venice: J. Hertz-Francesco Storto-Valvesense, 1655-1664/Venice, 1675/Venice: Typografia Balleoniana, 1698/Venice: Typografia Balleoniana, 1731/etc.). The individual volumes are now all accessible via the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, via Google Books and other digital portals.

Theologia Moralis ad mentem DD. Seraphici et Subtilis concinnata et in disputationes vigintiocto distributa (Venice: Johann Jacob Hertz, 1671/1683/Venice: Joannes Iacobus Hertz, 1700/Venice: Joannes Iacobus Hertz, 1709 [5th Ed.]/ Venice: Antonio Mora, 1723 [6th Ed.]/Venice, 1731/Venice: Typographia Balleoniana, 1758). In any case the fourth edition from 1700, the fifth edition from 1709, the sixth edition from 1723 and the 1758 edition are accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon and via Google Books. Abbeviations of this work also exist. See for instance Compendium totius Theologiae moralis ad Rev. Patris Magistri Fr. Bartholomaei Mastrii de Meldula (...) per Mag. Fr. Jacobum Garzi de Ravenna (...) (Brun: Georg Lehmann, 1706).

More information to follow

See also Marco Forlivesi's research on the various editions of his works

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 188; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118; B. de Armellada, El problema del sobrenatural en la Escuela Escotista del siglo XVII, in De doctrina… cit., IV, pp. 727-820; O. Becker, Die Gnadenlehre des Duns Scotus nach den Theologischen Disputationen des Bartholomaeus Mastrius, Druck und Verlag Fritz Nohr und Söhne K.-G., Oberlahnstein 1949; Fr. Bottin, L’opera logica di Giacomo Zabarella e gli scotisti padovani del XVII secolo, in Regnum... cit., II, pp. 283-288; B. A. Brown, The numerical distinction of sins according to the franciscan school of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, (Studies in sacred theology, Second series, 10), The Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C., 1948; E. Caruso, Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza e la rinascita del nominalismo nella Scolastica del Seicento, (Pubblicazioni del "Centro di studi del pensiero filosofico del cinquecento e del seicento in relazione ai problemi della scienza" del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Serie I, 15), La nuova Italia editrice, Firenze 1979; L. Conti, L’"univocatio" della concezione aristotelica dell’essere in Bartolomeo Mastri, in Regnum… cit., II, pp. 331-335; J. Coombs, The possibility of created entities in seventeenth-century scotism, in "The philosophical quarterly", 43 (1993), pp. 447-457; Fr. Costa, Bonaventura Belluto e le scienze fisico-astronomiche nel "De coelo et metheoris", in Storia e cultura… cit., pp. 313-323; Fr. Costa, Il p. Bonaventura Belluto, OFMConv (1603-1676), in "Miscellanea francescana", 73 (1973), pp. 81-136.387-437; 76 (1976), pp. 125-208; Fr. Costa, Motivi filosofici nel dissenso tra lo scotista B. Belluto e Scoto in merito alla "somma" grazia di Cristo, in Regnum… cit., II, pp. 113-133; De doctrina Ioannis Duns Scoti. Acta congressus scotistici internationalis Oxonii et Edimburgi 11-17 septembris 1966 celebrati, a cura della Commissione scotistica, IV Scotismus decursu saeculorum, (Studia scholastico-scotistica, 4), Commissione scotistica, Romae 1968; P. Di Vona, I concetti trascendenti in Sebastiàn Izquierdo e nella scolastica del Seicento, (Libertà della mente, 3), Loffredo editore, Napoli 1994; P. Di Vona, Studi sulla scolastica della controriforma. L’esistenza e la sua distinzione metafisica dall’essenza, (Pubblicazioni della facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell’Università di Milano, 48; Sezione a cura dell’Istituto di storia della filosofia, 14), La nuova Italia editrice, Firenze 1968; P. Di Vona, Studi sull’ontologia di Spinoza, II "Res" ed "ens" – La necessità – Le divisioni dell’essere, La nuova Italia editrice, Firenze 1969; M. Forlivesi, Bartolomeo Mastri OFMConv (1602-1673) e il suo tempo, pro manuscripto, Bologna 1997 (copia depositata presso la Biblioteca del Convento di S. Francesco di Bologna; in attesa di pubblicazione); M. Forlivesi, L’ontologia di Bartolomeo Mastri nelle "Disputationes in XII libros methaphysicorum", diss. dott. Università cattolica di Milano 1999; B. Jansen, Zur Philosophie der Skotisten des 17 Jahrunderts, in "Franziskanische Studien", 23 (1936), pp. 28-58.150-175; S. E. Klöckner, Die Lehre vom ewigen Gesetz bei Bartholomäus Mastrius von Meldola. Die Prinzipien der lex aeterna, (Franziskanische Forschungen, 18), Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, Werl/Westfalia 1964; S. Knuuttila, Duns Scotus and the foundations of logical modalities, in John… cit., pp. 127-143; Th. Kobusch, Das Seiende als transzendentaler oder supertranzendentaler Begriff. Deutungen der Univozität des Begriff bei Scotus und den Scotisten, in John… cit., pp. 345-366; Ch. H. Lohr, Metaphysics, in The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy, a cura di Ch. B. Schmitt, Q. Skinner, E. Kessler, J. Kraie, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988, pp. 537-638; H. de Lubac, Augustinisme et théologie moderne, (Théologie, 63), Aubier, Paris 1965; C. Natali, La metafisica e i limiti della teologia naturale in Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673), in Regnum… cit., II, pp. 321-29; F. Ossanna, Bartolomeo Mastrio OFMConv. (1602-1673) teologo dell’Incarnazione, diss. Pontificia facoltà teologica "S. Bonaventura", Roma 1950; G. Panteghini, La teologia speculativa al Santo dal Concilio di Trento al secolo XX, in Storia e cultura… cit., pp. 415-483; Ang. Poppi, La tradizione biblica al Santo, in Storia e cultura… cit., pp. 369-413; Ant. Poppi, Il contributo dei formalisti padovani al problema delle distinzioni, in Problemi… cit., pp. 601-790;Ant. Poppi, La natura della logica negli scotisti padovani del Seicento, in Storia e cultura… cit., pp. 539-546; Ant. Poppi, L’articolazione delle scienze nei commenti aristotelici degli scotisti padovani del Seicento, in Idem, La filosofia nello studio francescano del Santo a Padova, (Centro studi antoniani, 12), Centro studi antoniani, Padova 1989, pp. 169-178; Problemi e figure della scuola scotista del Santo, (Pubblicazioni della Provincia patavina dei frati Minori conventuali, 5), Edizioni Messaggero - Basilica del Santo, Padova 1966; Regnum hominis et regnum Dei. Acta quarti congressus scotistici internationalis. Patavii, 24-29 septembris 1976, a cura di C. Bérubé, I Sectio generalis, (Studia scholastico-scotistica, 6) e II Sectio specialis. La tradizione scotista veneto-padovana, (Studia scholastico-scotistica, 7), Societas internationalis scotistica, Romae 1978; V. Rodriguez, ‘El ser que es objeto de la metafisica segun la interpretacion tomista clasica’, Estudios filosóficos 14 (1965), pp. 283-312, 461-492; A. L. Santoro, Saggio sulla filosofia di Bartolomeo Mastrio, Diss. Università cattolica di Milano, anno acc. 1943/44; P. Scapin ‘La metafisica scotista a Padova dal XV al XVII secolo’, in: Storia e cultura… cit., pp. 485-538; P. Scapin, ‘Necessità e contingenza in Mastri-Belluti’, in: Problemi… cit., pp. 791-822; St. Sousedík, ‘Der Streit um den wahren Sinn der scotischen Possibilienlehre’, in: John… cit., pp. 191-204; Cr. Squarise, Il concetto di coscienza nella teologia morale di Bartolomeo Mastri, in Storia e cultura… cit., pp. 325-336;L. Thorndike, A history of magic and experimental science, VII-VIII The seventeenth century, VII, Columbia University press, New York 1958; Jacob Schmutz, ‘Mastri da Meldola Bartolomeo’, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XVII, 905-909; Bernardino de Armellada‚ ‘El sobrenatural. Visión místico-escotista de Bartolomé Barbieri’, Naturalezza y Gracia  45 (1998), 333-358; Faustino Ossanna, ‘Le conseguenze dell’unione ipostatica secondo Bartolomeo Mastri OFMConv.’, Miscellanea Franciscana 100 (2000), 532-582; Faustino Ossanna, ‘L’incarnazione del Verbo nel pensiero di Bartolomeo Mastri OFMConv.’, Misc. Franc. 100 (2000), 93-136; Tobias Hoffmann, Creatura intellecta. Die Ideen und Possibilien bei Duns Scotus mit Ausblick auf Franz von Mayronis, Poncius und Mastrius, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters. Neue Folge, 60 (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2000) [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 386f]; Faustino Ossana, ‘I motivi dell’unione ipostatica in Bartolomeo Mastri OFMConv (1602-1673), Miscellanea Francescana 1011 (2001), 196-224; Marco Forlivesi, ‘Scotistarum princeps’. Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673) e il suo tempo, Fonti e studi francescani, 11, Studi 1 (Padua, 2002) [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 738ff.; AFH 98 (2005), 840-841]; Miscellanea Francescana 103 (2003), 814-818]; Marco Forlivesi, Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola (1602-1673) ‘riformatore’ dell’Accademia degli Imperfetti (Meldola: Accademia degli Imperfetti di Meldola, 2002) [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 743f]; Tullio Faustino Ossanna, Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673) OFMConv. Teologo dell’Incarnazione, I Maestri francescani, 12 (Rome, 2002) [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 741ff]; Marco Forlivesi, ‘La distinction entre concept formel et concept objectif: Suárez, Pasqualigo, Mastri’, Études Philosophiques 1 (2002), 3-30; Paul-Richard Blum, ‘La métaphysique comme théologie naturelle: Bartolomeo Mastri’, Études Philosophiques 57 (2002), 31-47; Francesco Costa, ‘‘Maculista’ Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola (d. 1673), OFMConv. ‘Principe degli scotisti’?’, Miscellanea Francescana 102 (2002), 72-83; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Gracia santificante y aceptación divina según Bartolomé Mastri, ofmconv’, Collectanea Franciscana 75 (2005), 251-271; Rem in seipsa cernere. Saggi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673). Atti del Convegno di studi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri da Mendola (1602-1673), ed. Marco Forlivesi, Subsidia Mediaevalia Patavina, 8 (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2006) [An important volume with a large number of interesting essays]; Norman Wells, ‘Masrius on ‘Esse cognitum’’, in: ‘Laudemus viros gloriosos'. Essays in Honor of Armand Maurer, CS, ed. R. E. Houser (Notre Dame IN: U. of Notre Dame Press, 2007), 327-361; Daniel D. Novotny, ‘Forty-Two years after Suárez: Mastri and Belluto’s development of he ‘classical’ theory of ‘entia rationis”, Quaestio 8 (2008 [2009]), 473-498; Paolo Falzone, ‘Mastri, Bartolomeo’, DBI 72 (2009), 38-41; Daniel Heider, 'The Role of Trinitarian Theology in Universals: Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola (1602-1673) and Bonaventura Belluto (1600-1676)', in: Herausforderung durch Religion? Begegnungen der Philosophie mit Religionen in Mittelalter und Renaissance, ed. Gerhard Krieger (Würsburg: Verlag Königshausen und Neumann, 2011), 268-284 [251-267?]; Daniel Heider, ‘Bartholomew Mastrius (1602-1673) and John Punch (1599 or 1603-1661 on the Common Nature and Universal Unity, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 (2011), 145-166; Paul Richard Blum, Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012), 227ff; Daniel Heider, ‘Filip Fabri O.F.M. Conv. (1564–1630) o spolecné prirozenosti ve Philosophia naturalis (1602) a kritická odpoved Bartolomeje Mastria O.F.M. Conv. (1602–1673)’, in: Frantiskánsky kontext teologickeho a filosofickeho mysleni, P. Hlavácek et al., Europaeana Pragensia, 5; Historia Franciscana, 4 (Prague: FF UK & Filosofia), 2012, 114-129; Daniel Heider, Universals in Second Scholasticism: A comparative study with focus on the theories of Francisco Suárez S.J. (1548-1617), João Poinsot O.P (1589-1644) and Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola O.F.M.Conv. (1602-1673)/Bonaventra Belluto O.F.M.Conv. (1600-1676) (Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014), esp. 316ff; Claus A. Andersen, ‘Intuitive and abstractive cognition, “praecisiones obiectivae“, and the Formal Distinction in Mastri and Belluto and later scotist authors’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 108:1-2 (2015), 183-247; Marco Forlivesi, ‘The "ratio studiorum" of the Conventual Franciscans in the Baroque Age and the Cultural-Political Background to the Scotist Philosophy "cursus" of Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto’, Noctua 2 (2015), 253-384; Claus A. Andersen, Metaphysik im Barockscotismus: Untersuchungen zum Metaphysikwerk des Bartholomaeus Mastrius. Mit Dokumentation der Metaphysik in der scotistischen Tradition ca. 1620-1750 (Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016).

With many thanks to dr. Marco Forlivesi of Milan, Italy.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Mattheolus de Oneta (Bartolomeo Mattioli di Oneta, d. 1661)

OFM. Italian friar from the Lucca region. Member of the Tuscany province. Lector, preacher and astrologer. He died on 27 August 1661.

works

Le stelle influenti intorno a più notabili euenti delle cose del mondo (...) Discorso Giudiciale del P. Bartolomeo Mattioli (...) (Lucca: Francesco Marescandoli, 1661). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 188; G.P. Arrighi, 'P. Bartolomeo Mattioli da Oneta', La Provincia di Lucca 5:3 (Luglio-Settembre 1965), 39-42.

 

 

 

 

(Bartolomeo da Milano/Bartholomaeus de Grassis, fl. 1370)

OM. Italian friar. Magister of theology in Bologna in 1371. According to Sbaralea the author of a Summa de Casibus.

works

Summula Fratris Bartholomaei Mediolanensis de Testamentis Faciendis: MS Paris BN Nouv. Aqc. Lat. 1905 ff. 145v [See: Pergamo AFH 27 (1934) 14; H. Omont, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale pendant les années 1905-1906, Bibiothèque de l'École des Chartes 68 (1907) 30.]

Interrogatorium seu Confessionale/Summa de Casibus secundum fr. Bartholomaeum: MS Assisi Com. 645 ff. 130r-159v. [Inc.: Et primo. de peccatis que ad episcopum debet mitti.; Expl.: Explicit summa de casibus secundum Fratrem Bartholomaeum Mediolanensem de ord. fr. Minorum. See: Sbaralea Supplementum I, 124; B. Pergamo, AFH 27 (1934) 14; Bibliotheca Manuscripta ad Sacrum Conventum Assisiensem, cur. Cesare Cenci (Assisi 1981) I, 280, 376, II, 510.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118 & (ed. 1908) I, 124; B. Pergamo, I francescani alla facoltà teologia di Bologna. AFH 27 (1934) 14; C. Piana, Chartularium Studii Bononiensis S. Francisci (saec. XIII-XVI), Analecta Franciscana, XI (Quaracchi, 1970), 88*,93*, 124*-126*, 36s.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Meduna (Bartholomaeus Methuna/Bartolomeo Meduna, fl. second half 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italan friar from Motta da Livenza in the Trevigiano region. As a friar he seems to have been active in Padua and Venice. He probably died in or after 1605. He is known for his Lo scolare, a life of the Virgin Mary and an account of the battle of Lepanto.

works

Dialogo sopra la miracolosa vittoria ottenuta dall'Armata della Santissima Lega Christiana, contra la Turchesca. Del reverendo padre Bartolomeo Meduna dalla motta del Friuli. Nelquale si dimostra essa vittoria esser venuta dalla sola mano di Dio. Et si discorre a pieno l'ordine del conflitto (Venice, 1572).

Vita Della Gloriosa Vergine Maria Madre Di Dio, Regina De I Cieli, Con l'Humanità del Redentor del Mondo Giesu Christo Nostro Signore (Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1574). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Viena and via Google Books.

Lo scolare del R.P.M. Bartolomeo Meduna Conventuale di S. Francesco Nel quale si forma a pieno un perfetto scolare opera divisa in tre libri (Venice: Pietro Fachinetti, 1588). Aimed to transform young adolescents into perfect scholars with all the necessary qualities. His main focus is on students in the liberal arts. The work is in any case accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III of Rome and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 188; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118; F. Pignatti, 'Meduna, Bartolomeo', in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, ; Jonathan Davies, 'The Ideal Student: Manuals of Student Behaviour in Early Modern Italy', in: Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University, ed. Richard Kirwan (Routledge, 2016).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Monferinus (Bartolomeo Monferino, fl. 1630)

TOR. Italian regular Observant tertiary from Cremona. Appointed theologian in the Collegio of Padua in 1632. Well-respected preacher, and order administrator. Apparently well-versed in music. Also for three years theologian among the Cistercians of the Chiaravalle monastery near Milan.

works

Prediche Quaresimali: Manuscripts? His death would have prevented their publication.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 638; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 118-119.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Montalbano (fl. 1629)

OFMConv. Composer and musician.

works

Sinfonie, Motetti e messa, edited as: Sbartolomeo Montalbano OFMConv, Sinfonie, Motetti e messa (1629), ed. G. Collisani & Daniele Ficola, Musiche Rinascimentali Siciliane XIV (Florence, 1994).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Montero de Espinosa (Bartolomé Montero de Espinosa, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Primary lector in the San Antonio Abad friary. Censor for the inquisition and custos of the Andalusia province.

works

Sermon predicado en el sagrario, de la iglesia mayor de Granada, en la solemne fiesta, que se celebro del Santissimo Christo Ecce Homo: en ocasion que se le renovo una lampara de plata para el dia de esta festividad (...) (Granada: Impr. Real, por Francisco Sanchez, 1659).

To him is sometimes also ascribed an Apologoa por el derecho de dar el Abito à los Seculares del Sagrada Orden Tercero Franciscano (1659), yet he is only the censor for that volume, not the author. The author of that work is Juan de Solís Truxillo.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 189-190; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica XV, 273.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Nibia (Bartholomaeus Nibbia/Bartolomeo di Nibia, fl. 1495)

OMObs. Italian Observant friar from Novara (family member of the 16th-century Capuchin Girolamo Nibia/Hieronymus de Novara). Preacher. Known for his anti-judaic diatribes during his preaching in Cortona in 1495 in the context of the erection of a Monte de Pietà. His sermons in this regard have been commented upon in the account book of the local flagellant confraternity of Saint Antonio and Saint Onofrio.

works

Sermoni: ?

Carmine. At least one of these is included in Collettanee greche, latine e vulgari nella morte de l'ardente Seraphino Aquilano in uno corpo redutte, ed. Giovanni Filoteo Achillini (Bologna: Caligula Bazalesi, 1504).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119; Daniel Bornstein, 'Law, Religion, and Economics: Jewish Moneylenders in Christian Cortona', in: A Renaissance of Conflicts: Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain, ed. John A. Marino & Thomas Kuehn (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), 252.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Nocellus (Bartolomeo Nocelli da Matalone/Bartolomeo da Mattalona, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the Naples province, active in the Benevento friary. Preacher and author of works of religious instruction.

works

De celebratione Missarum. ?

De Sepulturis & Funeris. ?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia, e memorie letterarie di scrittori francescani conuentuali, 100-101; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Nunnez (Bartolome Nuñez, d. ca. 1621)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from the Granada province. He would have issued a work on adjurations, once kept in the archives of the San Antonio de Ubeda friary.

works

Liber de adjurationibus: MS. Archivo S. Antonio de Ubeda ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 190; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119; Crónica de la provincia franciscana de Granada, ed. R. Mota Murillo & J. Meseguer Fernández, Reprint, Crónicas franciscanas de España, 7 (Cisneros, 1984), 162.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Olearius (Bartholomaeus Uliarius/Bartolomeo Oleario, ca. 1320-1396)

OM. Italian Conventual friar. He fulfilled his degree studies at the Franciscan studium and the university of Padua. Known for his preaching tours in Italy in the March of Treviso, Lombardy, Tuscany and the March of Ancona to combat religious issued revolving around the Great Schism. he was subsequently appointed bishop of Ancona in 1381 and thereafter made bishop of Florence in 1385. On 19 December 1389 he was made Cardinal by Pope Boniface IX, and in this position became the first commandatory Abbot of the Abbey of S. Cristoforo di Castel di Durante. The pope also sent him as papal legate to the Kingdom of Naples to help negociate the conflicts between Louis II of Anjou and Ladislas I of Poland.

works

Quodlibeta Theologica: MS?

Commentaria in quatuor Evangelia: MS?

Sermones de Tempora, et de Sanctis: MS?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 193-194; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 120.
See also: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Oleario

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Otranto (fl. 1231)

OM. Italian friar. Author?

literature

Collectanea Franciscana Bib 10 n. 402, 1996, 3249-51; Bib 11, n. 3811

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Parisiensis (Barthélemy de la Haye, ca. 1590-1660)

OFMCap. French friar from the Parisian province. Theologian, exegete and preacher. Prolific author. Died at Paris at the age of 70.

works

Opus Perfectum Concionatorum, in quo plurima ad conciones et pro concionatoribus proficua recensentur (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1648).

Milleloquium Bibliothecae SS. Patrum (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1650).

Milleloquium SS. Ecclesiae Doctorum Gregorii Papae et Hieronymi, 2 Vols.: MSS?

Panthologia Quadragesimalis seu Conciones pro Tempore Quadragesimae, 2 Vols.: MSS?

Corona Ecclesiastica seu Conciones de SS. Eucharistiae Sacramento: ?

Commentaria in Cantica Canticorum: ?

Expositiones in Evangelia: ?

Expositiones in Epistolas B. Petri Apostoli: ?

Summa Bibliorum Alphonsi Tostati Redevivi: ?

Triumphus Trium Crucifixorum jesu, Mariae et Francisci: ?

literature

L. Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 38; Bernardus a Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum O.M.S. Francisci Capucc. (Venice, 1747), 36-37; Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 187; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 117-118 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 123; A. Teetaert, ‘Barthélemy de Paris’, DHGE VI, 1018; Lexicon Capuccinum, 175.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Parodi Genuensis (Bartolomeo Parodi da Genova/Dionisio Parodi, 1731-1809)

OFMRef. Italian friar

literature

Gian Luigi Bruzzone, ‘Fra’ Bartolomeo Parodi da Genova dei Minori Osservanti Riformati, al secoli: Dionisio Parodi (1731-1809)’, Nobiltà. Rivista di araldica, genealogia, Ordini cavallereschi 10 (2002), 621-624.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Pectoranus (Bartolomeo Pectorano/dei Pettorani, d. 1688)

OFM. Italian friar from Naples. Examiner and corrector of missionary works for de Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei. Apostolic missionary for Pope Urban VIII in Jerusalem and the Orient. Baptized the son of the rule of Etiopia and brought him to Rome (spurious?). Professor of Arabic and curator of Arabic texts at Rome from 1637 onward. Made Bishop of Calahorra and later Archbishop of Granada?.

works

Propugnaculum Seraphicum pro plumbi laminarum Sancti Granatæ Montis doctrina , ex mandalo S. Inquisitionis Romanae fabricatum. His work on the so-called Lead (or Sacromonte) Books, texts discovered in Granada in 1595, allegedly written at the time of Nero and containing an Arabic Gospel. Brought to Rome, the study of these texts seemed to open ways to reconcile Christianity and Islam. Yet by the early 1680s, papal officials declared them to be forgeries. Bartolomeo, at first defended their authenticity and made several transcriptions, to change his opinion later on. See for instance British Library, Harley 3507. See also Salamanca, Biblioteca Universitaria, ? For more adequate information check the as yet unpublished research by P.S. van Koningsveld and G. Wiegers, in the Research Project "The Sacromonte Parchment and Lead Books. Critical Edition of the Arabic Texts and Analysis of the Religious Ideas". Bartolomeo produced several other translated and annotated Arabic texts, yet on these we do not have yet much information.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 190; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119; Dizionario universale delle scienze ecclesiastiche (...), 356; C. Alonso, Los apócrifos del Sacromonte (Granada) (Valladolid: Estudio Agustiniano, 1979), passim; M. Barrios Aguilera & M. García-Arenal, Los plomos del Sacromonte. Invención y tesoro (Valencia: Universitat de València, 2006), passim; Robert Jones, Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 288.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Pelegri (fl. 1333)

OM. Italian friar.

literature

Collectanea Franciscana 2, p. 403

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Pisa (Bartolomeo Albisi/Bartolomeo Albizzi de Vico/Bartolomeo da Pisa, d. 1361)

OM. Italian friar from the noble Albizzi family from Vicopisano near Pisa. His father was embassador for Pisa at the court of King Robert of Anjou (Naples). Bartolomeo was active as preacher and guardian in Pisa between 1341-61. As guardian, he commissioned Taddeo Gaddi to create the frescoes of the Franciscan church in Pisa. Wrote a biography and a miracle collection of the beatified Gerard of Valencia (d. 1342 in Palermo), which he finished by 1347, and which the more famous Bartholomaeus de Rinonico incorporated in his De Conformitate. Died in Pisa on 10 December 1361 (1360?). Bartolomeo Albizzi’s grave became a cult site. To him are sometimes ascribed other writings as well, including a number of sermon collections, one of which was eve printed under his name in the sixteenth century, yet these all seem to be the works of the other Bartolomeo da Pisa, namely Bartolomeo da Rinonico.

works

In I-IV Sent.??

Legenda S. Gerardi de Valencia (Cagnoli): MS BAV Vat.Lat. 7660 (an. 1347?). See Etzkorn, 223-224. The work was edited as: Legenda Sancti Gerardi de Valencia (Cagnoli) in: Bartholomaeus de Renoncio, De Conformitate, in: Analecta Franciscana 4 (Quaracchi 1906), 297-301; La leggenda del B. Gerardo Cagnoli O. Min. (1267-1342) di Frà Bartolomeo Albizi, O. Min. (d. 1351), ed. F. Rotolo, Miscellanea Francescana 57 (1957) 368-446.

Tractatus de Miraculis S. Gerardi de Valencia (Cagnoli), edited as: Il tratato dei miracoli del B. Gerardo Cagnoli, O. Min. (1267-1342) di Frà Bartolomeo Albizi, O. Min. (d. 1351), cur. F. Rotolo, Misc. Franc. 66 (1966) 128-192.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores 36-37; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 109 (mixing him up with Bartolomeo de Rinoncio); Fabricius, I, 176; Anscar Zawart, The History of Franciscan Preaching and of Franciscan Preachers (1209-1927), A Bio-bibliographical Study, Franciscan Studies 7 (New York 1928) 287; Legenda Sancti Gerardi de Valencia (Cagnoli): Analecta Franciscana, 4, 297-301; Bibl.Sanct., 2, 727f.; ‘La leggenda del B. Gerardo Cagnoli O. Min. (1267-1342) di Frà Bartolomeo Albizi, O. Min. (d. 1351)’, ed. F. Rotolo, Miscellanea Franciscana 57 (1957), 368-446; ‘Il tratato dei miracoli del B. Gerardo Cagnoli, O. Min. (1267-1342) di Frà Bartolomeo Albizi, O. Min. (d. 1351)’, ed. F. Rotolo, Miscellanea Franciscana 66 (1966), 128-192; Giulietta Giangrasso, ‘L’Opera agiografica di fra Bartolomeo Albizi: tipologia dei miracoli e struttura narrativa’, Hagiographica 4 (1997), 221-252; Mariella Nannipieri, ‘Pisa nell’opera agiografica di Fra Bartolomeo Albizi’, Schede Medievale 32-33 (1997), 83-90; Bruno W. Häuptli, ‘Bartholomaeus von Pisa (Albizi de Vico)’, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 26 (2006) 123-124.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Platea (Bartolomeo de la Plaza, d. ca. 1598)

OFM. Spanish friar. Made bishop of Cuba in 1597, as the successor of Antonio Diaz (who was transferred to Nicaragua). Not sure whether Bartolomeo was able to take up his position. No extant works.

literature

L. Jadin, ‘Barthélemy de la Plaza’, DHGE VI, 1000.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Repps (early fourteenth cent.)

OM. English friar. Active at Norwich in the 1330s.

works

Determinatio Bartholomaei de Reps aupud Norvicum de Ord. Minorum, ex Reportatione: MS Vat.Chigi B.V. 66 pt. 3 (Norwich 1337-9) ff. 126r-v

literature

Tractatus Fratris Thomae Vulgo Dicti de Eccleston, De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam, ed. A.G. Little, collection d'Études et de documents, VII (Paris, 1909), 73f; V. Doucet, `Le Studium franciscain de Norwich en 1337 d'après le ms. Chigi B.V. 66 de la Bibliothèque vaticane', AFH, 46 (1953), 87-98 (p. 95-6); J.R.H. Moorman, The Grey Friars in Cambridge, 1225-1538 (Cambridge, 1952), x, 145, 204.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Rico (Bartolomé Rico, d. 1642)

OFM. Spanish Observant lay brother in the province of Aragon, porter of the San Francisco friary in Zaragosa. Mathematician. Not known as to whether his works actually did survive.

works

Logistica et Arithmetica Practica, Ars Numerica, una cum Lectionibus Regularum Simplicium et Compositarum (1627): MS Zaragoza, Biblioteca Franciscana, N. num. 223 & Q. num. 200 ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 191; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119 & (ed. 1908) I, 125; B. Hughes, `Franciscans and Mathematics', AFH 77 (1984), 15.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Rubeus (Bartolomeo Rossi da Piraino, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Sicily. Member of the Messina province. Theologian and concionator generalis.

works

Orazioni divozioni e preghiere in scampo e difesa delli tuoni, e saette che soglion cadere dal cielo nelle tempeste (Messina: Pietro Brea, 1630).

Sacro monte de'contemplativi (Naples, 1629).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 191; Alessio Narbone, Bibliografia sicola sistematica, o Apparato metodico alla storia letteraria della Sicilia III, 352; Giuseppe Maria Mira, Bibliografia siciliana II, 303.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Ruys (ca. 1530-1600)

OFM. Mexican friar. Born at Cabra (Mexico). Joined the Franciscans in the Holy Gospel province. Joined the Franciscan missionaries to the Philippines in 1578, and from there also embarked on missionary activities in Asia and Japan. Died at Manilla. Well-known for his linguistic prowess (well-versed in Bicol, Tagale, Mandarin, Japanese, and Cambodian languages). Author?

works

to be continued

literature

Gomez Plato, Catalogo biografico de los religiosos franciscanos (Manilla, 1880), 22-23; L. Pérez, ‘Origen de las misiones franciscanas en el Extremo Oriente’, AIA 3 (1915), 24-31, 390, 6 (1916), 225, 257-258, 10 (1918), 27, 18 (1922), 305-307; Marcellina da Civezza, Storia delle missioni francescane VII, ii, 922-994-995; O. Maas, Die Wiedereröffnung der Franziskanermissionen in China (Munster, 1926), 37; Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen, 111, 157; L. Pérez, ‘Memoriales y otros documentos del P. Francisco de Montilla’, AFH 13 (1920), 186; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Barthélemy Ruys’, DHGE VI, 1022-1023.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Rinonico (Bartoleomo da Pisa/Bartolomeo de Rinonichi, before 1338-1401)

OM. Italian friar. Born at Rinonico near the Arno river, and in the region of Pisa. Entered the order before 1352 in Pisa. Studied in the order’s school network, and reached the degree of Baccalaureus Theologiae by 1373, and functioned as lector in various studia generalia (a.o. Padua and Florence). At the general chapter of Toulouse (1373), he was designated to go to Cambridge, to go up for his master degree. Yet the military campaigns of the 100 years war made this impossible. Studied for some time at the Bologna studium and received by papal bull of 27 April 1375 the master title. Does not seemed to have been regent master at a theology faculty itself thereafter. Active as lector at Pisa and Florence. Present at the general chapter of Assissi, 1399, where he presented on 2 August for official approval his magnum opus, De Conformitate Vitae Beati Francisci ad Vitam Domini Iesu (composed between ca 1385 and 1390). This work had an astounding succes in the order during the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, not in the least because it contained many materials from important sources of Franciscan hagiography, history and spirituality (including full blown catalogues of Franciscan saints, masters of theology and minister generals). Work was one of the major sources of inspiration for the Franceschina of Jac. Oddi of Perugia. De Conformitate became the object of humanist and reformation ridicule. Famous in this regard is the Alcoranus Franciscanorum of Erasmus Alberus (1542), which was translated in several languages (German, French, Dutch). See for instance the German Der Barfüsser Mönche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran (Wittenberg, 1542). Aside from the De Conformitate, Bartolomeo is known for several other works, such as a treatise De Vita et Laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis Libri Sex and a double series of Lenten sermon cycles. Concerning these sermon collections, Roberto Rusconi (1986), 159 tells us (with reference to studies of Carlo Delcorno) that: ‘…Bartolomeo sembra avere costituito anche un rilevante anello di giunzione tra la predicazione minoritica della prima metà del secolo XIV e la predicazione di Bernardino da Siena agli inizi del secolo XV, sul piano sia della struttura dei sermoni latini sia degli orientamenti di fondo della pastorale. Infatti, nel Quadragesimale de contemptu mundi sive de triplici mundo sensibili scilicet microcosmo et archetypo, che prende le mosse da un corso di predicazione tenuto a Pisa nel 1397, si introducono distinzioni nel racconto biblico, da cui è tolto il thema del sermone, con una tecnica riscontrabile nell’Ars faciendi sermones di Géraud du Pescher da un lato e nei sermoni bernardiniani dall’altro. Inoltro, nei Sermones lucidissimi et insignes dubiorum et casuum conscientialium conptemptivi et elucidativi super evangeliis quadragesimalibus, redatti per una quaresima predicata a Firenze nel 1390, vi è una connessione tra casus penitenziali e predicazione che certo rimanda alla ‘scolastica penitenziale’ el Duecento e del Trecento, ma in una certa misura pare anticipare la predicazione catechetica e morale dell’Osservanza minoritica quattrocentesca.’ Besides, Bartolomeo is known for other saints catalogues, a Sentences commentary etc. Not all of these works seem to have survived, others are just parts of his De Conformitate.

works

In I-IV Sent. Manuscripts ?

De Conformitate Vitae B. Francisci ad Vitam Domini Ihesu: MSS a.o. Vat. Chigi C.VIII.219 (15th cent.) ff. 1ra-437rb; Vat.Lat. 7600 (15th cent.), ff. 2ra-437rb; Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS Campori y. B. 6. 24; Terni BC 231 (15th cent.) ff, 12rb-12v (fragment); etc. endless list, Also many mss with parts/extracts, with saints lives etc. [a.o. De Laudibus Sanctorum; De Laudibus S. Pauli Apostoli; De Vita et Laudibus S. Benedicti]. The work also received a number of editions. A modern, more or less critical edition was issued as Liber de Conformitate Vitae Beati Francisci ad Vitam Domini Nostri Jesu Christi. in: Analecta Franciscana 4-5 (Quaracchi, 1906-1912); Previous editions came out in Milan: Gothard van der Bruggen, 1510 (as an initiative of the Observant general vicar Francesco Zeno) & Milan: Giovanni Zanotti Castiglione, 1513 (a slightly corrected version on the initiative of the Conventual friar and cardinal Vigier and brought to completion by Giovanni Mapello), accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books; Bologna: Alessandro Benazzi, 1590 (a revised version produced by the Conventual friars Jeremias Buchius (former provincial minister of Tuscany) and Lucius Anguissola). Now there is also an English translation: The Conformity of the Life of Blessed Francis to the Life of the Lord Jesus, trans. Christopher Stace, 3 Vols. (New York: New City Press, 2020). [The work itself was composed between ca. 1385 and 1390. It is divided in three large books and makes use of almost all major biographical and hagiographical sources on Francis and his early companions, as well as of most larger medieval Franciscan order chronicles and legislative texts. Bartolomeo does not hesitate using spiritual sources (a.o. Olivi, Angelo Clareno, Ubertino da Casale). The work not only tries to deliver an exhaustive biography of Francis (proving the conformitas between the life of Francis an the life of Christ), but also includes a full-blown rule commentary, exhaustive listings of Franciscan philosophers, theologians, exegetes, and saints, Franciscan provinces, custodies and convents. In fact, it amounts to an encyclopaedia of and for late medieval Franciscanism. It was ridiculed and attacked by the Protestant author Erasmus Alvarus (Alcoranus Franciscanorum (1542), which in turn led to a defense of the De Conformitate by the Observant friar Henricus Sedulius (Hendrik de Vroom), entitled Apologeticus adversus Alcoranum Franciscanorum pro Libro Conformitatum Libri Tres, Antwerp: Plantijn, 1607). See on all this the Quaracchi edition, as well as: Carolly Erickson, ‘Bartholomew of Pisa, Francis exalted: De conformitate’, Mediaeval Studies. 34 (1972) 253-274; Mariano d’Alatri, ‘L’immagine di San Francesco nel ‘De Conformitate’’, in: Francesco d’Assisi nella storia: secoli XIII-XV, I (Roma, 1983), 227-237; K. Reblin, Freund und Feind. Franziskus in der protestantischen Theologiegeschichte (Göttingen, 1988)]

Sermones Quadragesimales de Casibus Conscientiae: MSS Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl. Extravagantes 68 ff. 1r-89v (an. 1468); Olomouc, SVK MI 155 (15th cent.) ff. 271-328v (with an index on ff. 327v-328v). The work was also edited (two times) as: Sermones lucidissimi et insignes Dubiorum et Casuum Conscientialium Contemptivi et Elucidativi super Evangeliis Quadragesimalibus reverendi patris fratris Bartholomei Albitii de Pisis ordinis Minorum: hactenus nusquam impressi diligenter reuisi (...) correcti per certum fratrem in alma Parisien. vniuersitate famosum religiosum ordinis eiusdem (…) (Lyon: Opera et industria Romani morini, 1519). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and via Google Books (creative search!). [Sermon cycle for the period of Lent, held at Florence in 1390, containing 88 sermons. In the 1519 edition, the work is erroneously ascribed to Bartolomeo Albizzi, instead of Bartolomeo da Rinonico] REF: ; Diz. Biogr. Ital., VI, 758; Dict. Spir., I, 1268-1269; LThK, 2 (1994³), 44.

Sermones Quadragesimales de Contemptu Mundi (1397). Edited as: Quadragesimale Magistri Bartholomaei de Pisis Ordinis Minorum de Contemptu Mundi, sive de triplici Mundo , ed. Johannes Maria Mapellus (Milano: Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 1498). [58 sermons for the Lenten period, first held at Pisa, in 1397]

De Vita et Laudibus beatae Mariae Virginis Libri Sex. Edited as: Bartholomaei de Pisis Ex Ordine Minorum Conventualium famosissimi Doctoris, De Vita et Laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis Libri Sex. Ab hinc plus quam ducentis annis compositu, sed numquam antea in luce, nisi nunc editi (...) (Venice: Pietro Dusinello, 1596). Accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books. [Work composed in 1382. It is a large ‘biography’ of the virgin, interspersed with theological discussions in which the author tries to create parallels between the life of the virgin and that of Christ. Bartolomaeo defends the immaculate conception, and Mary is depicted as a tree bearing the fruits of many virtues.]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 190-191 (mingling Bernardino Albizzi and Bernardino da Rinonico); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 109-111 (mingling Bernardino Albizzi and Bernardino da Rinonico); Miscellanea Francescana 8 (1901), 137-148; Miscellanea Francescana 10 (1906), 126-127 & 4 (1913), 66-68; Analecta Franciscana V (1912), Praefatio, xi-cxxiii; W. Seton, 'Two manuscripts of Barth. of Pisa', AFH 16 (1923), 191-199; B. Bughetti, ‘Una nuova compilazione di testi intorno alla vita di s. Francesco’, AFH 20 (1927), 525-527, 534, 562; J. Goyens, ‘Barthélemy de Rinoncio’, DHGE VI, 1022; DSpir I, 1268-1269; Raoul Manselli, ‘Bartolomeo da Pisa (da Rinonico, de Rinonichi)’, Diz. Biogr. Ital. VI, 756-758; Marienlexikon I, 383; Carolly Erickson, ‘Bartholomew of Pisa, Francis exalted: De conformitate’, Mediaeval Studies 34 (1972) 253-274; Etzkorn, IVF, 214-5 (info on mss in the Vatican library); Diz.Enc.Med. I, 205; Roberto Rusconi, ‘La predicazione minoritica in Europa nei secoli XIII-XV’, in: Francesco, il Francescanesimo e la cultura della nuova Europa (Florence, 1986), 141-165 (159); Bruno W. Häuptli, ‘Bartholomaeus de Rinonico’, Bio-Bibliogr. Kirchenlexikon 26 (2006), 125-127 (see: www.bbkl.de); Alessandro Mastromatteo, Similem illum fecit in gloria sanctorum. Il profilo cristiforme di Francesco d’Assisi nel De Conformitate di Bartolomeo da Pisa (Rome: Antonianum, 2012) [Review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 107:1-2 (2014), 198-201]; A. Mastromatteo, ‘La predicazione di Francesco d’Assisi nel «De conformitate» di Bartolomeo da Pisa’, Italia Francescana 88:2-3 (2013), 377-387; William J. Short, 'A Neglected Classic of Franciscan Spirituality: The Book of Conformities of Bartholomew of Pisa', Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology 2:2 (2016), 75-98 [also accessible via the web]; Alessandro Mastromatteo, 'Il De conformitate vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Domini Iesu di Bartolomeo da Pisa. Ridefinizione della propria identità', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 437-450; William J. Short, 'Early Franciscan Sources and Joachite Prophetic Sources in the Book of Conformities', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 251-271; Steven J. McMichael, 'The Theme of Resurrection in On the Conformities of the Life of Blessed Francis with the Life of the Lord Jesus, in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 272-289; William J. Short, ‘The Book of Conformities: Its Printers, Illustrators and Protestant Critics’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:3-4 (Jul.-Dec. 2018), 411-438; Edoardo Rossetti, 'Arbor conformitatum. Tra 'antico' e 'moderno' nelle due edizioni delle conformità di Francesco a Cristo di Bartolomeo da Pisa (1510, 1513)', Rassegna di Studi e di Notizie 40 (2018-2019), 351-366; Marianne Ritsema van Eck, 'Geneaology as a Heuristic Device for Franciscan Order History in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Texts and Trees', Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 135-170 (143ff); William J. Short, 'The Explicatio regulae fratrum minorum in the Book of Conformities by Bartholomew of Pisa: Sources and Dissemination', 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), 201-222; Steven J. McMichael, 'Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Lisbon/Padua as Model Preachers in the Conformities of Bartholomew of Pisa (d. 1401)', 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), 223-246; William J. Short, 'Alexander of Hales in the Book of Conformities of Bartholomew of Pisa', in: 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), 323-338; Sophie Delmas, 'Bartholomew the Englishman, ‘Master of the Properties of Things’: Between Exegesis and Preaching', 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), 243-260.
With thanks to Dr. Bruno W. Häuptli.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Tauris (Bartholomaeus N., fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. Custos of the Taurus custody (Armenia). In this charge he finished on May 29 1321 an account of the martyrdom at Tana (Salsetta) of four Franciscan missionaries who were on their way to China (including Tommaso da Tolentino).

works

Relatio passionis quartuor Martyrum Ordinis Minorum, edited in: G. Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra santa (Florence, 1913), II, 110-112.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119 & 721; G. Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra santa (Florence, 1913) II, 65, 135, 141 & III, 213-214; M. Bihl & >> Moule, ‘De duabus epistolis fratrum minorum Tartariae aquilonaris, an. 1323’, AFH 16 (1923), 96-103.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Tolomaeus (fl. 14th cent.)

OM.

literature

Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum, XI Vols (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-2007) XI/3-4, 205.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Urbeveteri (Bartolomeo da Orvieto, fl. ca. 1550)

OFM. Italian (Neapolitan) friar Active as a infirmarer/pharmacist in the Aracoeli friary in Rome, alongside of Angelo Paglia. Pharmacological specialist.

works

In Antidotarium Joannis filii Mesue censura, cum declaratione simplicium medicinarum, & solutione multorum dubiorum, ac difficilium terminorum. Adjecto facillimo atque copioso indice, necnon et receptario castigatissimo cum suo repertorio. Opus sane quibuscumque tam medicinae studiosis, quam aromatariis, utile et necessarium. (Venice: Tolomeo Gianicolo, 1543/Lyon: Jean & François Frellon, 1546/Lyon: Jean Frellon, 1550). A co-production with his fellow Franciscan friar Angelo Paglia. For the 13 university libraries that have a copy see http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/scripts/iccu_ext.dll?fn=10&i=4481 and it would seem that since May 2020 both of these edition of the work are also accessible via Google Books, via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and several other portals.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 120.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Tuderco (Bartolomeo da Todi, d. 1391/93)

OM. Italian friar. Master of theology and bishop of Cajozzo (1378). No extant works

literature

C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica (1913) I, 155; A. Versteylen, ‘Barthélemy de Todi’, DHGE VI, 991-992. 

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Vecchis (Bartolomeo da Bologna/dei Vecchi/, d. 1628)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Entered the order in the Bologna province. Convent preacher, lector of theology and definitor. For many years, he also worked as a novice master, and in this capacity he wrote a number of works on the rule of Francis and on the way to live a Franciscan life.

works

Disputatio in Caput Sextum Regulae Seraphici Patris Francisci: MS ?

Expositio Regulae Fratrum Minorum: MS ?

Dubia Moralia super Regulam Fratrum Minorum, 3 Vols.: MS ?

Della perfezione cristiana: MS ?

Compilazioni di scelte memorie circa la provincia dei cappuccini di Bologna: MS ? This was envisaged as a complementary volume to the history of the Capuchin Bologna province compiled by Andrea di Castel Bolognese.

Praxis Observanda in Admittendis ad Religionis Statum Novitiis (Forlì: Saporetti, 1627).

literature

L. Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906) 39; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 193; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 120 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 126; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 37; Silvestro da Milano, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, Appendix ad Tomum Tertium, Pars 2 (Milan, 1737), 497-498; A. Teetaert, ‘Barthélemy de Bologne’, DHGE VI, 982; Lexicon Capuccinum, 174.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Puliola (Bartolomeo da Pugliola, fl. late 14th cent.)

OM. Italian Franciscan friar from Bologna. Was sent out by his Bolognese convent to study theology at the studium in Florence. (1378). Vicar/guardian of his Bolognese convent in 1397. Compiled/reworked in the vernacular part of the so-called Cronica Rampona, which itself depends on a non-surviving Latin chronicle of Jacopo Bianchetti. The reworking of Bartholomew itself formed the basis for the manuscripts of the Cronica Rampona versions now present in the university libraries of Bologna, the Estense library of Modena and the Riccardiana of Florence. The Estense manuscript was used by Muratori together with an Estense manuscript of another, related chronicle (now known as the Varignana) for a conflated edition of a Chronicon Breve Bononiense. Muratori writes: 'Historia Miscella Bononiensis ab anno MCIV usque ad annum MCCCXCIV auctore praesertim Fratre Bartholomaeo della Pugliola Ordinis Minorum; accedit ejusdem continuatio usque ad annum MCCCCLXXI ab aliis auctoribus synchronis facta. Omnia nunc primum in lucem prodeunt e codicibus MStis Bibliothecae Estensis.' A. Sorbelli re-edited this Chronicon Breve Bononiense, splitting up the texts of the Rampona and Varignana versions (in this edition respectively version A and B of the Corpus Chronic. Bononiensium).

works

Cronica Rampona, included in: Chronicon Breve Bononiense ab anno 1109 usque ad annum 1394, ed. L. Muratori, in: Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, XVIII, 237-792; Corpus Chronicorum Bononiensium, ed. A. Sorbelli, in: Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, XVIII, Riedizione. (1905-1940).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119 & (ed. 1908) I, 125; A. Sorbelli, La cronache bolognesi del secolo XIV (Bologna, 1900); L. Signinolfi, `Notizi su Giacomo Bianchetti cronista bolognese', Atti e Mem. Magna, s. 4, 12 (1921), 183f; G. Orlandelli, La supplica a Taddeo Pepoli (Bologna, 1962), 3-29; Diz. Biogr. Ital., VI, 760-761.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Longo (Bartolomeo Longo)

Mariologist.

literature

Testi mariani del Secondo Millennio, Vol. 6: Autori moderni dell’Occidente (secc. XVIII-XIX), ed. S. De Fiores & L. Gambero (Rome: Cità Nuova, 2005). Deals with Franciscus Anthonius Fasani, Bartholomaeus Longo, Johannes M. Vianney et al.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Sarmentero (Bartolomeo Sarmentero, fl. mid eighteenth cent.)

OFM. Spanish Scotist. Published with Francisco de la Lanza a Scotist multi-volume Cursus Theologiae. Later Bishop of Vich between 1752-1775.

works

Cursus theologiae scholasticae in via... Joannis Duns Scoti : de cursus per quatuor ejusdem sententiarum libros (Valladolid, 1750).

literature

AIA 2 (1942), 455-462; AIA 39 (1979), 391; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 178 (no. 784).

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Senensis ([Bartolomaeus de Ptolomaeis?]/Bartolomeo da Siena, d. 1396)

OM. Italian friar. Appointed bishop of Castellaneta (Calabria) on November 16, 1386. Governed his diocese until his death in 1396. The Sermones Festivi attributed to a friar with the same name are probably the work of the younger lector and provincial minister Bartolomeo da Siena (d. 1454/5). If he is the same as Bartolomeo dei Ptolomei da Siena, he might have written (or rewritten) a Vita B.Lucchesi Tertii Ordinis (1370) mentioned by Bartolomeo da Colle (himself the attested copyist of a Legenda di Lucchese da Poggibonsi), yet see on this also the cautionary remarks by Sbaralea.

works

Vita B.Lucchesi Tertii Ordinis (1370): ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 119; C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica (1913) I, 172; A. Versteylen, ‘Barthélemy de Sienne’, DHGE VI, 992. 

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Senensis (Bartolomeo da Siena, d. 1454/55)

OM. Italian friar. Lector of theology in Bologna in 1412. Professor of theology in the gen. Stud. of Pisa in 1418. Inquisitor in Siena and provincial minister of Romania in 1421. Visitator and comm. gen. of Toscane in 1454

works

Sermones Festivi: MS Serrasanquirico 24 (233) (dated 1448)

literature

B. Pergamo, AFH 27 (1934), 32-33.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Sicardi (14th century)

OM. French (Occitan) friar. Disciple of Peter John Olivi. Definitor of the province of Provence in 1310. Wrote several biblical commentaries. A commentary on Daniel is still extant (MS Vat.Lat 11433 (XIV), ff.2r-99v; Florence, Laurenziana, VIII dext. 9 (written before 1406?); Munich Clm. 3813, ff. 143-295 (15th cent.)

works

Comm. in IV Sent. (extracts): MS Pesaro Bibl. Oliveriana cod. 1444, ff. 163ra-va. This extracts were edited by Sylvain Piron, 'Barthélemy Sicard, «Extraits du commentaire des Sentences»', Oliviana 5 (2016). Online since 10 March 2017, connection on 31 December 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/oliviana/895

Postilla super Danielem: MSS BAV Vat.Lat 11433 (XIV), ff.2r-99v; Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, VIII.dext. 9 (ante 1406); München Clm. 3813, ff. 143-295 (XV° s.); Olomouc, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, cod. 291, fol. 88ra-127vb (slightly abbreviated, followed by some extracts taken from Olivi. Mentioned in Stegmüller VI, 478, no. 10036 (ascribed by him to an anonymus friar. For info on this manuscript, I would like to thank Sylvain Piron). See further Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi II. 30-31, no. 971 [sub Albertino], 171.; Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae Codices Manu Scripti Recensiti (…) Codices Vaticani Latini Codices 11414-11709, cur. José Ruysschaert, Vaticano, 1959, 25.] INC: Incipit postilla super Danielem B[artholomaei] Si[cardi](…) Suscitavit Deus Spiritum Sanctum pueri iunionis cui nomen Daniel…; EXPL: Explicit postilla super Daniel. Christo grates infinitas Virgini et Francisco.

literature

Wadding, Annales ad. An. 1310, no. 3; B. Hauréau, Histoire Littéraire de la France, 28 (1881), 469-470; Sylvain Piron, ‘La critique de l'Eglise chez les Spirituels languedociens’, L'anticléricalisme en France méridionale, milieu XIIe- début XIVe siècle, Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 38 (Toulouse: Privat, 2003), 77-109. [Presents the Lectura super Danielem of Bartholomaeus Sicardus.]

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus de Stalam (Bartholomaeus Minor, fl. 13th cent.)

Friar from Stalam in Norfolk. Eighteenth Franciscan master at Cambridge. Little and Pelster identify him with the Bartol Minor who responded to Thomas of Bungay at the versperies of Robert of Worsted or Henry of Apeltre (Thomas Bungay’s immediate successors as masters of the Franciscan studium generale).

works

Quaestio: MS Assisi 158 quaestio 37.

literature

A.G. Little & F. Pelster, Oxford Theology and Theologians ca.a.d. 1282-1302 (Oxford, 1934), 73.

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Ursinus (Bartolomeo dei Ursini/Bartolomeo Orsini, fl.15th century)

OM. Italian friar and Preacher

works

Quadragesimale quod Dicitur Gratia Dei (Napoli: Sisto Riessinger, 1473). Acollection of 80 sermons, compiled in 1473 A digital copy is available via the Biblioteca Nacional Digital of Portugal (https://purl.pt/32052). There are also copies available in a large number of other libraries, sometimes also digitally accessible. See for instance Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Staatsbibliothek of Bamberg, the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, the Biblioteca Nazionale in Milan and Naples, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome.

To him are also ascribed Sermones de Tempore and Sermones de Sanctis, yet these were apparently never edited.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 120; Catalogo degli incunaboli della Biblioteca comunale di Assisi, ed. Giuseppe Zaccaria, Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, XXXVIII (Firenze, 1961), Inconabolo no. 81

 

 

 

 

Bartholomaeus Xara (Bartolomé Xara, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Andalusia. Theologian and lector.

works

Exposicion breve de los casos reservados (Sevilla: Juan Gomez de Blas, 1643).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 194; Archivo Ibero-Americano (1917), 175

 

 

 

 

Bartolus Bompedoni (1228-1300), beatus

Italian tertiary and priest from San Geminiano. Spent the last 20 years of his life in the leprosy of San Geminiano. He died in his home town on 12 December, 1300. Venerated as an example of patientia and as a patron against infectuous dieases. His cult confirmed in 1480 and 1910. Author?

works

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vitae:

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literature:

Bibl.Sanct.,2, 845-848; Johannes Schlageter, `Bartolus Bompedoni', LThK, 2 (1994), 4

 

 

 

 

Basilide d’Ath (Jean de la Place, fl. 1620)

OFMCap. Belgian friar. Entered the order in 1606. In 1622, he published anonymously the Histoire de la vie, mort et miracles de sainte Aldegonde .

works

Histoire de la vie, mort et miracles de sainte Aldegonde (Douai, 1622/Arras, 1622/Arras, 1623)

literature

MS Brussels, Royal Library 17599 t. I, p. 130; Annuarium prov. SS. Trinitatis hollando-belgicae FF.MM. CC. 2 (Brussels, 1871), 120; Biographie nationale de Belgique V, 323-324; U. Chevalier, Bio-bibliographie I (Paris, 1903-1904), 126; DHGE VI, 1176.

 

 

 

 

Basilius Brugensis (Basile de Bruges/Gaspar Melinck, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Belgian friar.

literature

DHGE VI, 1110-1111.

 

 

 

 

Basilius d’Aire (Basile d’Aire/Étienne Godin, ca. 1591-ca. 1640)

OFMCap. Born at Aire-sur-la-Lys. Took his profession at Douai on 21 September 1614. After his formation period, he became acquainted with Hyacinth of Casale, becoming one of his undercover collaborators. In 1612, both clerics are found in Rome. Soon thereafter, Basile is involved with the Italian translation of Flemish Capuchin Constitutions, in order to have them approved by the leadership of the order and the papacy.

works

to be continued

literature

Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni dei cappuccini (Rome, 1872) II, 292, 595, 600, 628; Apollinaire de Valence, Histoire des Capucins de Flandre (Paris, 1878) I, 233; Bulletin de l’institut historique belge de Rome 3 (Rome, 1924) 108; P. Hildebrand, ‘Basile d’Aire’, Collectanea Franciscana 1 (1931), 81-83.

 

 

 

 

Basilius d’Aire (d. 1667)

OFMCap. Bohemian friar. Took the habit at Brünn on September 20, 1616, receiving his formation possibly together with friar Valerianus Magnus. After a theological training, Basilius laboured as order theologian, preacher and anti-Protestant controversialist. He became a member of the consistorial council of the Cardinal of Harrach, and functioned for a while as apostolic visitator of the Order of St. Paul.

works

to be continued

literature

Bullarium Capucinorum, ed. Michael Tugiensis (Rome, 1748) V, 265-266; Pellegrino da Forlì, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini 3 (Milan, 1884), 112-114; P. Hildebrand, ‘Basile d’Aire’, Collectanea Franciscana 1 (Assisi, 1931), 81-83; P. Hildebrand, ‘Basile d’Aire II’, DHGE VI, 1102.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Alcira (Basilio de Alzira, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar from Alzira (Valencia diocese). Lector of the liberal arts and theology, Two times provincial definitor, consultant for the inquisition and general visitator of the Castille province.

works

Oración Panegirica, en Hazimiento de gracias, por las vitorias conseguidas de las Cesareas Armas, y de la Christianidad, contra el Poder Otomano (Valencia: Vicente Cabrera, 1686).

literature

Juan de San Antonio,Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 195; José Rodríguez, Biblioteca Valentina (Valencia: Thomas Lucas, 1747), 78.

 

 

 

 

Basilius d’Angri (Basilio d’Angri, d. ca. 1680)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Capuchin province of Naples. Composed several treatises on issues pertaining to canon law, all of which have survived in an autograph manuscript now kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples.

works

Lux Veritatis, continens dubia quaedam preambula ad quodnam forum se extendat juridictio praelati regularis factionarii per factiones electi, et modos quibus a religione in partes divisa factiones eradicari possint: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII C 112,ff.??

De quodam regulari clerico, dispensatione subreptitia, apud saeculum commorante, an sit apostata?: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII C 112, ff.??

Discorso informativo e defensivo insieme sopra dell’incolpato innocenza di frat. Andrea da Castellovetere, laico cappuccino della provincia di Reggio: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII C 112, ff.??

An injuriatus possit sibi injuriantem accusare: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII C 112, ff.??

literature

Apollinaris de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 157-158, 174.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Cambrai (fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar. Missionary, sent to Congo on June 8, 1651. Author?

literature

G.-A. Cavazzi & F. Alamandini, Istoria descrizione de’tre Regni Congo, Matamba et Angola (Milan, 1690), 434.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Gemona (Basilio Brollo da Gemona/Ye Tsung-Hien, 1648-1704)

OFM (OFMRif?). Italian friar. Born at Gemona (Venice), on 25 March 1648. Entered the Franciscan order at the Bassano convent (St. Anthony province, 10 June 1666). After his entrance into the order, he received a sacerdotal and theological training and taught for some time at Treviso and Padua. After further training as a missionary, he was sent to China (1680) for the Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei, via Siam. Arrived at Siam in 1682 and active there for some time until he departed for Kanton in 1684. Worked in that region as a missionary for more than twelve years before he received the appointment (by pope Innocent XII) to the position of apostolic vicar of Xen-si and Xan-si (Shaanxi, 1696). Was involved in several disputes with the Jesuits over the rites used in Chinese churches. Basilio was an accomplished linguist and wrote several linguistic and catechetical works for Chinese Christians. He died at Singanfou on July 16, 1704.

works

Directorium Confessariorum (in Chinese): ?

Methodus Confessionis Instituendae, non solum Confessariis ad Linguam Erudiendam utilis, sed et Necessaria, edited in: Arte de la lengua mandarina de Varo (Kanton, 1703).

Exhortación para hazar un acto de contrición, edited in: Arte de la lengua mandarina de Varo (Kanton, 1703).

Catéchisme de la doctrine chrétienne: ?

Explication succincte des mystères de la foi à l’usage de ceux qui veulent être baptisés: ?

Tsang Youen Tche Tchi: ? A proof of God’s existence written in Chinese.

Kien Ciu Sung Sei Kuei i: ? A Chinese treatise on confirmation procedures.

Several grammatical and lexographical works on the Chinese language: ?

Dictionnarium Sinico-Latinum/Dictionnaire chinois-français et latin publié d’après l’ordre de Sa majesté l’empereur et roi Napoléon le Grand, ed. Guignes (Paris, 1813). Guignes published the work under his own name. This was soon discovered and caused some turmoil among Sinologists. One of these came out with a supplement to Guignes’edition: Hán tsú sy y pou ou supplément au Dictionnaire chinois-latin du P. Basile de Glemona, publié d’après l’ordre de roi de Prusse Fréderic-Guillaume III (Paris, 1819). Further editions of Basilio’s dictionary appeared in 1853 and 1877 (see the account of A. Van den Wyngaert). The Chinese Latin autograph manuscript of Basilio’s dictionary can be found in MS Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana Rinuccini 369.

Vocabularium Latinum Ordine Alphabetico Dispositum, Quo Quilibet Faciliter Scire et Invenire Possit Significationem Cuiuslibet Litterae Sinensis: MS Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense A.G.III.1

Novelle, edited in Antonio da Venezia, Giardino serafico (Venice, 1710) I, 101-154.

Epistolae/Lettere. A variety of his letters from China, addressed to his order superiors, his family and fellos sinologists can be found in the Giardino Serafico (Venice, 1710) I, 101-154. Even more can be found in the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei (Rome), the Biblioteca Fabroniana of Pistoia and the British Library. A number of them have been edited in Georgius Mensaert, Sinica Franciscana VI, 2 (Rome, 1961).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 195 (Basilius a Clemona); Memorie del Rmo P. Fr. Basilio da Gemona di S. Francesco, missionario e vicario apostolico della provincia di Ken-si nell’imperio della Cina, raccolta dall ab. Giovan-Pietro Stua (Udine, 1775); Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia Sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 208-209; Analecta Franciscana I (Quaracchi, 1887), 312-327, 336, 338, 350, 352, 364; V. Baldissera, Padre B. Basilio da Gemona (Udine, 1891); Marcellino da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni franciscane (Florence, 1895) VIII-XI, 501ff.; L. Tinti, Vita e missioni nell’Indo-Cina del P. Basilio Brollo da Gemona dei frati minori vic. apostolico del Xensi (1648-1704) (Udine, 1904); Bibliotheca Sinica (Paris, 1906-1907), 1589 & Supplementum (Paris 1922-1924), 3906-3907; Bibliotheca Missionum (Aix-la-Chapelle, 1929) V, 874-876 & passim; J. Goyens, ‘Basile de Gemona’, DHGE VI, 1135; F. Spimpolo, Storia dei frati minori della provincia di S. Francesco (Venice, 1933) I, 311-321; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Brollo’, DHGE X, 834-835; E. Patriarca, Il Padre Brollo Basilio da Gemona (S. Daniele del Friuli, 1945); E.A. Fox, Father Brollo Basilio (New York, 1946); C. Rachelli, in: Le Venezie Francescane, 15 (1948), 3-23; BiblMiss, 12, 450ff,; LThK, 2 (1994), 701; Missionary Approaches and Linguistics in Mainland China and Taiwan, ed. Ku Wei-ying (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2001), passim; Simonetta Polmonari, ‘Padre Basilio Brollo da Gemona [ep., ref. D. 1704] in dialogo con la cultura cinese. L’evangelizzatore e il sinologo (Parte I)’, Frate Francesco 75 (2009), 437-482; Simonetta Polmonari, Padre Basilio Brollo da Gemona in dialogo con la cultura cinese, Biblioteca di Studi Ecumenici, 8 (Vicenza: Edizioni LIEF, 2009). [cf. review in CF 80 (2010), 723-725].

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Lyon (Basilius Lugdunensis/Basile de Lyon, ca. 1552-1628)

OFMCap. French friar. Active in the Lyon region as a preacher during the late sixteent and early seventeenth centuries. Published a number of meditative, catechistic and ascetical works, which condense his homiletic programme. Basile died at Grenoble at the age of 76.

works

L’ordre du jour du véritabe chrétien (Lyon: Louis Muguet, 1617). This work went through more than ten editions, many of which without acknowledging the name of the author. Basile translated the work into Latin, and published this as the Diarium Veri Christiani (Lyon, 1617).

La pratique du véritable chrétien et serviteur de Dieu, donnant des conseils précieux pour mener une véritable vie chrétienne (Lyon, 1620).

Prières et humble recours à Dieu et aux saints pendant le temps de la peste (Lyon, 1620).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 196; Silvestro da Milano, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum. Appendix ad Tomum tertium (Milan, 1737), 483-484; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 37; Wadding, Scriptores (3rd. ed., Rome, 1905), 40; Sbaralea, Supplementum (2nd ed., Rome, 1908), 126; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Lyon’, DHGE VI, 1143.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Nola (Basilius Nolanus/Basilio da Nola/Basilio Lettieri/Giulio Cesare Lettieri, d. 1667)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Giulio Cesare Lettieri entered the order in the Naples province at an early age, making his profession at the age of seventeen (September 4, 1622), and taking the name Basilio. After studies in philosophy, canon and civil law, theology and medicine, Basilio became guardian, custos general and definitor (1667) for his province. He also taught for many years in the schools of his order. In between, he embarked on several large preaching tours throughout the Italian peninsula. Many of his sermons still survive, as do a number of his philosophical and theological works. Basilio died at the age of 63, on 28 March, 1667.

works

Prediche quaresimali: ?

Panegirici e sacre orazione: ?

Sacra Theologia Scolastica/Cursus theologicus, 4 Vols: ?

Corso della filosofia, 3 Vols.: ?

Opera ad Rethoricam Spectantia: ? Maybe to be identified with his Regole di predicare date da Fra Basilio a Nola, included in his Sermoni per tutti i giorni dell’anno.

Sermoni per tutti i giorni dell’anno, 3 Vols.: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VIII AA 56 (this manuscript contains the sermons of the third volume, and are presented in the manuscript with the following title: Prediche dalla Pentecoste inclusive, sin’all’avvento exclusive, col Mariale e le Prediche de’Signori politiche, della santissima Trinità. This series of sermons itself is divided into three parts, the last of which contains the Regole di predicare date da Fra Basilio a Nola a’ suoi studenti cappuccini della provincia di Napoli (1656).)

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 37-38; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 196; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 121; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 127; Apollinaris de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 28, 47-48, 174-176; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Nola’, DHGE VI, 1149-1150.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Portella (Basilio da Portella, d. 1634)

OFMCap. Missionary

Renato Raffaele Lupi, ‘Un missionario dimenticato: P. Basilio da Portella’, Voce Francescana 25:1 (2005), 19-23.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Salon (Basilius Salodiensis/Basile de Salon, d. 1625)

OFMCap. French friar from the Toulouse province. Famous preacher in the Marseille region, where he toured around, preaching in towns and villages, exhorting his audience to make public repentance for their sins, and engaging in discussions with Protestants. In the early 1610s, he was elected guardian of Pont-Saint-Esprit. The 1615 chapter of Aix appointed him guardian of Cavaillon. He died during a trip (administrative or homiletic?) to Italy. Unknown whether his sermons and controversies with Protestants do survive.

works

De controversiis cum hereticis. Never printed?

literature

Bernardino da Bologna, Scriptores OFMCap, 39; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (ed. Paris, 1908), 127; Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, Appendix; Henry de Grèzes, Archives capucines, province de Provence (Bar-le-Duc, 1892), 35-36 (couvent de Tarascon), 259 (couvent de Cavaillon); Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle Missione II, 378f; P. Calendini, ‘Basile de Salon’, DHGE VI, 1155-1156; Lexicon Capuccinum, 176.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Sancta Flora (Basilio da Santa Fiora, d. 1734)

OFMCap. Italian (Tuscan) friar from the Sarmatini family. Apparently wrote religious poetry and songs.

works

Sonetti: ?

Canzoni & Madrigali religiosi: ?

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 768.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de San-Severino (Basilio di San-Severino, d. 1641)

OFMCap. Member of the Salerno province. Professor of theology and preacher. Produced two series of Conciones de Tempore and a Breviarium Theologicum. Neither of these works saw the printing press. Died at Bologna, in 1641, during a stint as the provincial minister for the Bologna province.

works

Conciones de Tempore: ?

Breviarium Theologicum: ?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 38; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 127; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de San-Severino’, DHGE VI, 1156.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Soissons (Basile de Soissons/Dubois, d. 1698)

OFMCap. French friar. Entered the order in the Parisian province in the Capuchin convent of Faubourg Saint-Jacques (Paris) on April 20, 1635. Member of the apostolic mission council for England, established at Paris under the protection of Henriette-Marie, the sister of Louis XIII. Worked as a missionary in England and later, back in France, he devoted much of his time to the writing of anti-Protestant treatises, defending elements of Catholic doctrine and tradition. In addition, he published a few works of asceticism and moral theology.

works

Defense invincible de la vérité orthodoxe de la présence réelle de Jésus-Christ en l’Eucharistie, où elle est prouvée par près de trois cents arguments, dont toutes les majeures sont prises dans l’Écriture (Paris, 1676/Paris: Nicolas Padeloup, 1677 [2nd Revised edition]/Paris: Charles Osmont, 1680 [Septième édition revuë & augmentée]/etc.). This work saw eight editions until 1682. At least the 1677 edition, the 1680 Osmont edition and the 12th Parisian edition from 1685 are accessible via Google Books.

Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie et du saint sacrifice de la messe, tous deux clairement expliqués, 2 Vols. (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1682). A revised and enlarged version of the previous work. It also saw a range of editions. The first volume of the 1682 edition is accessible via Google Books.

La vraye religion clairement démonstrée et la fausseté des nouvelles sectes entièrement détruite avec la condemnation des novateurs par leu propre bouche, dans tous les points controversez entre eux et les catholiques romains (Paris, 1676)/La Religion clairement demontrée et la fausseté des nouvelles sectes entierement détruite (...), douzième edition (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1685). This work went through at least twelve editions and sometimes is also included in later editions of the Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie. In those instances La vraye religion is presented as the complementary second part to the Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie. the 12th Parisian edition from 1685 is accessible via Google Books.

La condemnation de tous les protestants de l’Europe. This work is included in some editions of La vraye religion, replete with its own preface and independent page numbering.

Fondement inébranlable de la doctrine chrétienne où les principaux points de la foy sont clairement expliquez et prouvez par la parole de Dieu ecrite (Paris, 1680/1683/Paris: Nicolas Padeloup, 1684). It saw its 13th edition in 1693. Some bibliographers, such as Bernardo di Bologna treat the four parts of the work as independent treatises on the Credo (first part), the sacraments (second part), the commandments (third part) and prayer (fourth part) respectively. That also has to do with te fact that some editions present these parts in individual volumes. The first edition from 1680 as well as the third edition from 1684, and parts of the 13th, multi-volume edition are at least in part accessible vie the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

Abrégé très clair de la doctrine chrétienne, avec les preuves de l’Écriture sainte, utile et nécessaire à tous ceux qui désirent être instruits parfaitement des mystères de notre religion (Paris, 1678/Paris: Charles Fosset, 1679/Paris: Nicolas Padeloup, 1685 [douzième édition, Revueë, corrigée & augmentée]/Paris: Denys Thierry, 1692 [20th ed.]). This is a condensation of the Fondement inébranlable and went itself through at least 20/21 editions until 1693. In any case the 1679, the 12th edition from 1685 and the 20th edition from 1692 are accessible via Google Books.

La véritable décision de toutes les controverses par la résolution d’une seule question: Quel doit être le juge des controverses (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1685). Accessible via Google Books

Les rapports admirables de l’institution de la sainte Eucharistie avec les six jours de la création du monde (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1686). Accessible via Googls Books.

Reflexions morales sur ce passage de l’Écriture sainte: Utinam saperent et intelligerent et novissima providerent (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1686). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

La science de bien mourir (Paris, 1686/Paris: Denys Thierry, 1688/Paris: Denys Thierry, 1695 [6th ed.]). The 1688 edition and the 1695 edition are accessible via Google Books.

La conduite du chrétien pour aller au ciel, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1686/Paris, 1689).

Explications morales et édifiantes de divers textes sacrez, tant de l'ancien que du nouveau Testament. Tres-utiles aux Predicateurs, et à tous ceux qui desirent faire leur salut (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1689/...1696/etc). In any case the 1689 edition is acceptable via Google Books.

Traité de l’existence de Dieu, où il est prouvé qu’il y a un Dieu ou qu’il n’y a rien du tout. This is a condensation of the teachings found in the first part of the Fondement inébranlable de la doctrine chrétienne and can sometimes be found independently. As yet not much information concernin its printed editions is available.

Explication du saint sacrifice de la messe. This appeared as an independent attachment to the 1682 augmented edition of the Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 38; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 196-197; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 192; A. Rébelliau, Bossuet historien du protestantisme (Paris, 1909), 63; H. Hurter, Nomenclator literarius, 3rd. ed. (Innsbruck, 1910) IV, 435-436; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Soissons’, DHGE VI, 1157-1158; Lexicon Capuccinum, 175.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Surrento (Basilio di Sorento/Basilio Donurso/Basilio Donnorso, d. 1678)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Naples region. Probably born in or around 1609. A descendant of the neapolitan Donnerso family, he entered the Capuchin order at Naples at the age of 18, taking his vows of profession on April 23, 1626. Went through the order’s school programme and himself became a teacher of theology and philosophy within the Capuchin school network. Subsequently, he also took on the charges of guardian, definitor and provincial of the Naples province (1672-1674). He died at the Cava convent, in May 1678, at the age of 69.

works

Cursus integer philosophicus, 2 Vols (manuscript)

Cursus integer theologicus, 3 Vols (manuscript.

The whereabouts of these manuscripts, mentioned in the works of Bernardo di Bologna and Apollinaris de Valencia, are as yet unknown.

literature

Nicolò Toppi, Biblioteca napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli, e del Regno (...) (Naples: Antonio Bulison, 1678), 41; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 195-196; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 37; Apollinaris de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 48; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Sorrente’, DHGE VI, 1158.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Teruel (Basile de Téruel/Basilius a Taruel, d. after 1679)

OFMCap. Spanish friar from the Valencian province, where he acted as a definitor and as provincial minister. In between his administrative assignments, he was active as a preacher and wrote a number of works of moral theology and historical/apologetical in which he defended and explained the Franciscan heritage.

works

Vida segunda de Alexio, Capuchino (Valencia: Jerónimo Vilagrasa, 1657).

Collectanea Sacra (Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Cartera, 1658). [Sermon outlines]

Sumario de las indulgencias concedidas al orden del Padre S. Francisco, printed with the 1658 Madrid edition of the rule of Francis used by the Spanish Capuchins.

La vida del Padre Arángel Scoti, capuchino (Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Cartera, 1659).

Discurso historial, en que se prueba que el Padre S. Francisco no fue religioso, ni professo la regla del sagrado doctor S. Agustin, aquellos dos años que hizo vida heremetica, antes de fundar su religion de frayles menores (Naples: Domenico Macerrino, 1660/Madrid, 1660).

Libro para ayudar a bien morir (Valencia, 1669).

Tratado de la tercera orden: ?

Suma o Compendio sobre la regla de los frayles menores, recopilada de la exposicion, que sobre ella hizo el R. P. Fr. Pedro Navarro por el m.r.p. fr. Basilio de Teruel (Valencia: Vicente Cabrera, 1679).

Notas que se deven guardar en leer el martirologio, segun su rubrica 4: ?

literature

F. Rattariazi, Apologema, espeio y excelencias de la serafica religion de menores capuchinos (Turin, 1673), 227-228; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 197; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 38; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Téruel’, DHGE VI, 1159-1160; Lexicon Capuccinum, 177.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Vico (Basilio di Vico, d. 1641)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Sanseverino. Member of the Lucania province. Professor of theology and renowned preacher, active throughout Italy. Later elected provincial minister of the Bologna province. Died in office in 1641.

works

Prediche, 2 Vols.

Breviario teologico

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 197; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 121; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 647.

 

 

 

 

Basilius de Zamora (Basilio de Zamora, d. 1696)

OFMCap. Spanish (Castilian) friar. Took up several educational and administrative positions: lector, guardian, custos, definitor and provincial, as well as visitator of other Capuchin provinces in Spain. King Philip IV made him a court preacher, and had him appointed counsellor and judge of the inquisition tribunal. Basilius also obtained a position the University of Salamanca, and acted as the confessor of the Duke of Medina Celi. Basilius died at Naples during a trip with the latter to Italy on August 9, 1696. He wrote a variety of works, all of which seem to be connected with his work at Salamanca, and all of them have escaped the printing press.

works

Geografica descripción del mundo, en que se trata del mundo, cielos y elementos in genere y in specie, se explica sucintamente la esphera; despues se trata de los tres continentes (antiguo, novo e incognito) en que se divide la tierra del Africa, Asia, Europa y America, de los Chersonesos, siete maravillas del mundo, del paraiso terrenal, y del fluxo y refluxo del oceano, de los ritos y costumbres de todas las naciones del Orbe, de las particularidades y cosas raras que se han hallado en el mundo, de las singularidades de todos los elementos con otras muchas cosas: MS?

Breve epilogo de theologia moral: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.C.77, ff. ? [a manuscript once present in the Capuchin Santo Eusebio novello friary; in all a work of 676 pages]

Paracer del R.P. Basilio da Zamora: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.C.77, ff. ?

Censura y paracer. A cerca de los proposiciones que salieron en Francia unas de la Sorbona año de 1663, y odras de la Assemblea de los obispos año de 1682: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.C.77, ff.? [a manuscript once present in the Capuchin Santo Eusebio novello friary]

Manual de advertencias y devotas aspiraciones mui provechosas para el articulo de la morte, recopilados de muchas auctores que de esta materia an escrito: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 1-69.

Christiano recuerdo para moverse el alma a contricion de sus culpas: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 70-81.

Sermon en que se trata del antechristo: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 83-89.

Sermon del dia del juicio en la 1a dominica de Adviento: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 90-96.

Sermon de la quarta dominica de Adviento: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 96-101.

Miercoles de Ceniça: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 103-110.

Primer Viernes de Quaresma: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 f. 201. [only the exordium]

Audistis quia dictum est antiquis: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71, appendix

literature

F. Rattariazi, Apologema, espeio y excelencias de la serafica religion de menores capuchinos (Turin, 1673), 209-210; Bernardinus de Bononia, Bibliotheca scriptorum OFMCap, 38; Bullarium OFMCap V, 365; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 197; Apollinaris a Valentia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 48-50: A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Zamora’, DHGE VI, 1163-1164; Lexicon Capuccinum, 177.

 

 

 

 

Basilius Ferrari (Basilio Ferrari da Milano, d. 1656)

OFMConv. Italian friar (not to be confused with the Barnabite Basilio Ferrari who died in 1544). Learned theologian and versatile preacher in different languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Latin). Preached regularly at the urban court of the Duke of Milan, as well as at general and provincial chapter meetings. Several times guardian of the Milan friary, and general visitator of the Genoa province. In his old age, he was nearly bed-ridden by gout. He would have died on 13 January 1656.

works

Discorsi in lode di S. Antonio di Padoa Printed?

Discorsi dell'aspettatione del Parto di Maria Vergine Nostra Signora Printed?

Poesia, 2 Vols. MS?

Sermoni quaresimali MS?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 101-104; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122.

 

 

 

 

Basilius Iturri (Basilio Iturri del Roncal, 1674-1758)

OFM. Spanish friar from Tauste (Zaragoza region). Preacher (predicator generalis) in the Aragon province, as well as provinial definitor.

works

Explicacion de la doctrina christiana, ilustrada con sermones, y varias platicas, de las que tambien se forma una quaresma continua y un adviento: concluye con una Selva de mil trescientas y quarenta ideas morales y panegiricas (...) (Zaragoza: Herederos de Diego de Larumbe, 1722). Accessible in digital format via the National Library of Spain in Madrid (bdh-rd.bne.es/) and via the Biblioteca Digital Hispanica.

Clarin evangelico dirigido a los curas de almas (...): esta obra esta distribuida en dos tomos, en ellos ay dos platicas para cada una de las Dominicas de todo el año ... ay apuntadas dos quaresmas continuas (...), 2 Vols. (Pamplona: Alfonso Burguete, 1730/ Barcelona: Thomas Piferrer, 1763[1774?] ). Accessible (at least in part) in digital format via the National Library of Spain in Madrid (bdh-rd.bne.es/). Also accessible via Google Books.

Oración Panegyrica de nuestro padre San Bernardo (Pamplona, 1726).

Norte cristiano que aparta al pecador de los escollos del vicio y lo conduce seguro al puerto del cielo (Pamplona, 1627).

Historia de Nuestra Señora de Sancho Abarca: especialisima advogada de los Reynos de Aragón y Navarra (Pamplona, 1729/Pamplona: Pamplona : por Joseph Longàs, 1779). The 1779 edition is accessible in digital format via the National Library of Spain in Madrid (bdh-rd.bne.es/) and via the Biblioteca Digital Hispanica.

Sermones breves de las dominicas de todo el año (Pamplona, 1730).

Eco Harmonioso del Clarín Evangelico: con duplicados sermones, ó pláticas de assumptos panegyricos, mysticos, y morales, para las fiestas solemnes de Christo Señor nuestro, de Maria Santisima, y Santos, cuyos dias son festivos: distribuyese esta obra en dos tomos y abraza los doce meses del año / sacala a luz el R. P. Fr. Basilio Iturri de Roncal, predicador General ... del Orden de N. P. San Francisco, 2 Vols. (Madrid: Imprenta de la Causa de la Venerable Madre Maria de Jesus de Agreda, 1736-1739). Accessible (at least in part) in digital format via the National Library of Spain in Madrid (bdh-rd.bne.es/)

Pláticas doctrinales y Sermones panegíricos (Zaragoza, 1745).

Sermones panegyricos y catholicos, en los quales se explica la doctrina christiana conforme al Decreto de N. SS. Padre Benedicto XIII (...) (Zaragoza: por Joseph Fort, 1746). Accessible in digital format via the National Library of Spain in Madrid (bdh-rd.bne.es/) and via the Biblioteca Digital Hispanica.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 196; AIA 15 (1955), 321-322; AIA 22 (1962), 373; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 131 (no. 440).

 

 

 

 

Basilius Nerius de Leviliano (Basilio Neri da Leviliano, d. 1631)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Tuscany. Theologian and philosopher. Long-term theology lector in a number of friaries (such as Aquila, Lucca, Florence, Vienna). He would have died on 3 August 1631.

works

Commentaria in quatuor libros Sententiarum 4 Vols.: MS Pietrasanta, Convento di San Francesco ?

Commentaria in libros Physicorum Aristotelis, 6 Vols. [2 Vols.?]: MS Pietrasanta, Convento di San Francesco ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 196; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 616.

 

 

 

 

Basilius Poliniacensis (Basile de Poligny, fl. first half 17th cent)

TOR. French strictly Observant Tertiary from Poligny (Jura). Interested in the metaphysical aspects of the philosophical system of Ramon Llull. He would have died at or around 28 May 1645.

works

Commentaria in Artem atque in Metaphysicam de ente universalissimo secundum Raymundum Lullum (Paris, 1645). Unclear as to whether this work was indeed printed (and in that year).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1806), 37; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 121; Stanislau Duràn Ramón d' Alós-Moner, Bibliografia de les impressions lul.lianes, 187.

 

 

 

 

Basilius Richlewicz Calisiensis (Bazyli Rychlewicz, Bazyli, ca. 1640-1710)

OFMConv. Polish friar, member of the Cracow friary. Studied in Italy (Rimini, Ferrara, Venice). He became regent lector of the Cracow studium and subsequently provincial minister of the Polish province (1676-1679), and therafter lector of moral philosophy, again in Cracow. Very active preacher, also at Cracow cathedral.

works

Philadelphia Siue Erectio Confraternitatis Quatuor Ordinum Mendicantium, In Concilio Basiliensi instituta: Et per (...) earundem Religionum Generales, confirmata, Ab (...) Patribus Prouincialibus Prouinciæ Poloniæ suscepta : Legibusq[ue] approbatis & auctis Tam Anno 1653. quam in Anno 1693. per (...) Patres Conuentuum Superiores congregatos firmata ac roborata (Cracow: In Officina Nicolai Alexandri Schedel, 1693).

Kazania poczawszy od Adwentu asz do Wielkieynocy inclusive, na niedziele, swieta Zbawiciela y iego Matki, Maryi Panny (Cracow: Mikolaia Alexandra Schedla, 1698).

Quadragesimale, apparently printed in Cracow.

Panoplia seu Armatura septemgemina sacramentalis perfecta. Theologo-Speculativo-Practica, Cannonica, Ethico Politico-Sacra: Contra inevitabiles, in periculo, vel articulo Libitinæ, ictus, jacula, impetus, in arenam atque lucem Exposita (...) in trinas Partes Divisa , 2 Vols. (Craco: Nic. Alex. Schedel, 1705).

Pars Tertia De Sacramento Ordinis Ac Bello Publico & Privato Seu Duello, De Sacramento Matrimonij & Testamento Legato &ca. De Sepultura Christi Fidelium, ac servorum Dei defunctorum (Cracow: Typis Nicolai Alexandri Schedel, 1706).

Crisis apologetica historica et moralis, de morte et fama posthuma Ioannis Dunsii Scoti (...) ex Italico, Latio idiomate translata, et (...) aucta (Cracow, 1706).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 577-578.

 

 

 

 

Bassianus Dardadone (Bassianus Dordadone, fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar and hagiographer.

works

Vita b. Jacobi de Oldo, presbyteri tertii ordinis s. Francisci: Acta Sanctorum XVIII, April. II (Antwerp, 1675), 601-608. A shortened version can be found in Wadding, Annales Minorum ad an. 1404, no. 7.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 195; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 121; August Potthast, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters, 2nd Ed. II, 1383.

 

 

 

 

Bonitius de Augusta Treverorum (Bonitius von Trier/Hoffmann?, d. 1680)

OFMCap. German lay friar and architect in the Rhine region, known for his designs for the renovation of German palaces/castles.

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum, 132, 248.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Tossignano (Bonifazio da Tossignano, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Relazione del viaggio per Francia, Fiandra e Germania fatto con il confratello Agostino da Lugo nel 1665, ed. Mario Giberti & Andrea Nanetti (Mandragora Editrice, 2019).

literature

Vincenzo Criscuolo, 'Bonifacio da Tossignano e Agostino da Lugo: due viaggiatori cappuccini nell’Europa di meta Seicento', Collectanea Franciscana 89:1-2 (2019), 309-320.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius Faustus (Bonifazio Fausti da Monte dell'Olmo, d. 1628)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Admitted in the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1596 and receiving his theology degree in 1599. Appointed Magister studium in Padua, but immediately transferred to Naples to become Baccalaureus Conventus. Became very active as a preacher in Taranto (1600), Palermo (1601 & 1602), Genoa (1603), Piacenza (1604), Milan (1605), and elsewhere. Made regent of the Studium of Milan in 1602, and subsequently regent of the Bologna studium (around 1608). Ongoing preaching assignments, including various complete Lenten cycles in Bologna, Rome, Naples, Venice, Genoa, Messina, Milan, and elsewhere. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to the royal court of France by Pope Paul V. He apparently died exhausted during Holy week 1628 due a final Lenten preaching assignment in Assisi. Several of his sermons, including eulogic sermons on Carlo Borromeo, Ignatius of Loyola, Luigi Gonzaga, etc., apparently reached the printing press.

works

Orazione in lode di S. Carlo Borromeo. Edited as: Oratione in lode del beato Carlo Borromeo cardinale di s. Chiesa romana del titolo di santa Prassede. Composta e recitata alli 4. nouemb. del 1604. nel duomo di Milano. Dal M.R. Padre Fr. Bonifatio Fausti dell'Olmo dell'ordine di Min. Con. Dottor Theologo, Predicatore, e Regente dello studio di S. Francesco di Milano (Milan: Tini & Lomazzo, 1605). Accessible via Google Books. In one form or another this text was apparently also included in: Orationi in lode di S. Carlo Borromeo arciuescouo di Milano. Recitate da diuersi eccellenti oratori nel Duomo di Milano, in occasione della festa di detto santo, cominciando dalla sua morte insino all'anno presente. Raccolte insieme à commune vtilità per opera di Gio. Battista Bidelli (Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1622). Also accessible via Google Books.

Relazione delle Feste fatte da'PP. della Compagnia di Gesù, e del Collegio de'Nobili nella Città di Bologna, con la Predica, che fece il Molto Rev. Padre Maestro Bonifazio Fausto da Monte dell'Olmo Min. Conv. Teologo, e Reggente di S. Francesco, Predicator famosissimo (...) (Bologna: Bartolomeo Cochi, 1611).

In lode del B. Luigi Gonzaga

In lode del Santo Chiodo di Milano

In lode della Sacra Sindone di Torino

Concio in lode del Santo Ignazio di Loyola (1611).

Sermoni quadragesimali (held in the San Petronio of Bologna in 1611). Never published due the author's death.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 133-141; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 242; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 182-183; Biblioteca volante di Gio: Cinelli Calvoli. Continuata dal Dottor Dionigi Andrea Sancassani, 2nd Ed. II (Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1735), 293; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 182-183.

 

 

 

 

Bonitius Combassonius (Bonitus Combassonius/Benedictus Combassem/Combasson/Bonite Combasson/Benoît Combasson, fl. 17th cent)17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Savoy. Master of theology and order historian. For his writings he posed as an OFMConv.

works

Vera et dilucida explicatio praesentis status totius Seraphicae Religionis a Sancta Magno Francisco Patriarcha Inclyto, Numine Divino Inspirante Fundatae (Freiburg: Matthias Hadel, 1628/Lyon, 1629/1630/Augsburg: Andreas Aspegerus, 1630/Cologne: Konstanz Munich, 1640)/1641/Vienna, 1710/etc.). At least the 1630 and 1641 editions are accessible via Google Books (let they do not always appear with a title search). The work was also edited (in part?) as: Vera e Dilucida Explicatio Praesentis Status Totius Seraphicae Fratrum Minorum Religionis, ed. in: I Frati Cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze (Rome-Perugia, 1988), I, 1240ff.

The work was translated into French as: Exposition véritable de l'état présent de tout l'Ordre séraphique des Frères, trans. Alphonse Rethelois, OSB (Nancy, 1648/Rouen: Jean Tieucelin, 1662 [6th Ed.]). The sixth edition is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon (check Numelyo) and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 141-142; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 198-199; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122, 183.

 

 

 

 

Beatrix de Conceptione (Beatrice de la Concepción/Beatriz de la Concepción, 1594-1646)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare. Born in the ducal house of Terranova. Joined the order in the Discalceat Clarissan house of Salamanca. Mystic and spiritual author…

Daughter of the Dukes of Terranova. Took her profession in the Descalzas monastery of Salamanca.

works

De las locuciones de Dios. Included in Libro de la Fundación del monasterio (Salamanca, 1696). Textual fragments of her works can also be found in Escritos Clarisas Españolas. Antología, ed. Maria Victoria Triviño, OSC, Biblioteca de autores cristianos 523 (Madrid, 1992), 164-172.

De las pasiones de amor. Included in Libro de la Fundación del monasterio (Salamanca, 1696). Textual fragments of her works can also be found in Escritos Clarisas Españolas. Antología, ed. Maria Victoria Triviño, OSC, Biblioteca de autores cristianos 523 (Madrid, 1992), 164-172.

De la fe viva. Included in Libro de la Fundación del monasterio (Salamanca, 1696). Textual fragments of her works can also be found in Escritos Clarisas Españolas. Antología, ed. Maria Victoria Triviño, OSC, Biblioteca de autores cristianos 523 (Madrid, 1992), 164-172.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 121; DSpir I, 1310.

 

 

 

 

Beatrix de Lauga (Beatrice de Lauga, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare from Medina del Campo (Castile).

works

To be continued... Works included in Juan de San Antonio, Chronica Prov. S. Pauli I & II. Check!

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 121-122.

 

 

 

 

Beatrice de Silva Menezes (Beatriz de Silva/Beatriz de Silva de Tirso de Molina, ca. 1424-1490)

OCist & OIC. Spanish nun and founder of the Conceptionists (Ordo Inmaculatae Conceptionis). Daughter of the nobles Ruy Gómez de Silva and Isabella Pérez de Menezes. Her older brother Amadeo would become friar minor in Italy, and gave rise to the Franciscan reform movement of the Amadeiti. After a short career as lady in waiting of Infanta Isabella who married King Juan II of Castile, Beatriz was forced to leave court as her beauty and popularity made the Queen suspicious and jealous. She first entered a female Cistercian monastery in Toledo, where she stayed for ca. 30 years. Then he was inspired to found a religious house devoted to the conception of Mary, for which she obtained the support of Isabella of Castile (Isabella La Cattolica, the daughter of the Isabella who had forced Beatriz to flee). The queen gave Beatriz the Galiana palace in Toledo, where she began with twelve female companions, and for which she received a papal bull of recognition from Innocent VIII (30 April, 1489). The Conceptionist nuns were allowed to have a white habit, bound by a Franciscan-like cord, and a blue mantle. The community initially had links to the Cistercians, but soon came under Franciscan influence, and just before Beatriz' death on September 1, 1490, Pope Alexander VI authorised the community to pass from the Cistercian order to that of the Poor Clares, and to establish additional communities devoted to the pure or immaculate conception. Eventually, these communities obtained a rule of their own, compiled by the Franciscan friar Francisco Quiñones. This meant the emergence of a new order of Franciscanas Concepcionistas, separate from the Poor Clares, but pertaining to the Franciscan order family. Official papal approval by Pope Julius II followed in September 1511. Francisco Quiñones eventually added to his rule a series of Ordinationes, detailing the contemplative religious life of the Conceptionist nuns. The order soon spread to other Spanish towns, and gained footholds in the Southern Low Countries, Italy, and the New World. Beatriz was venerated in these houses and within the wider Franciscan order family. Her cult was officially confirmed by pope Pius XI (July 1926) and she was canonised by Paul VI on 3 October 1976.

writings

To be continued... See L. Iriarte, 'Beatrice de Silva Menezes (1424-1490)', Mistici Francescani. Secolo XV, 837-844.

vitae

Agustín de Herrera, SJ, Vida de la venerable virgen doña Beatriz de Silva, autora y fundadora de la sagrada religión de monjas de la Purísima Concepción de N. Sra. la Virgen Maria. Origen de esta religión, sus constituciones, reglas y ceremonias (Osuna, 1647); Canonizationis beatae Beatricis de Silva, fundatricis Monialium Franciscalium a Santissima Conceptione (d. 1492) Positio super vita et virtutibus ex officio concinnata (Rome, 1970).

literature

Mariano Martínez, Regla de la orden de la Purísima e Inmaculada Concepción (Medina del Campo: F. Román, 1910); Antolín Abad, 'Beatriz de Silva', in: Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España IV, 2478ff; J. Messeguer Fernández, 'Primeras constituciones de las franciscanas concepcionistas', Archivo Ibero-Americano 25 (1965), 361-389; I. Omaechevarría, 'Fr. Francisco de Quiñones, autor de la relación más antigua de la Concepción franciscana de Toledo', Archivo Ibero-Americano 33 (1973), 61-75; I. Omaechevarría, Las monjas concepcionistas. Notas históricas sobre la orden de La Concepción fundada por Beatriz de Silva (Burgos, 1973); F. Casolini, La santa dal viso velato. Beatrice de Silva y Menezes (Rome, 1976); E. Gutiérrez, Beatriz de Silva. Origen de la Orden de la purísima concepción (Burgos, 1990); L. Iriarte, 'Beatrice de Silva Menezes (1424-1490)', Mistici Francescani. Secolo XV (Milan, 1999), 837-844; María del Mar Graña Cid, 'Vías de divinización femenina. El proyecto inmaculista de Beatriz de Silva', XX Siglos 45 (2000), 54-59; Eric W. Steinhauer, 'Die liturgische Verehrhung der heiligen Beatrix da Silva Meneses, Stifterin der Konzeptionistinnen', in: Europa und die Welt in der Geschichte. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Dieter Berg, ed. Raphaela Averkorn, Raimund Haas & Bernd Schmies (Bochum: Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 2004), 239-254; María del Mar Graña Cid, Beatriz de Silva (ca. 1426-ca. 1491), Biblioteca de Mujeres, 63 (Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 2004); Alarcos Díaz & R. Sánchez, 'Santa Beatriz de Silva y la 'primigenia inspiración de la orden de la Inmaculada Concepción', in: La Inmaculada Concepción en España: Religiosidad, Historia y Arte (San Lorenzo de el Escorial, Madrid: Real Colegio Univ. Escorial-María Cristina, 2005), 669-690; Antonio Jesús Jiménez Sánchez, 'Beatriz de Silva y la Inmaculada Concepción. Orígenes de una orden', in: La Inmaculada Concepción en España: Religiosidad, Historia y Arte (San Lorenzo de el Escorial, Madrid: Real Colegio Univ. Escorial-María Cristina, 2005), 691-709; Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, >Religious Women in Golden Age Spain. The Permeable Cloister, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), ad indicem; Francisco Florit Durán, '"Ad devotionem excitandam"": Doña Beatriz de Silva de Tirso de Molina', Estudios románicos 16/17 (2007/08), 441-450; José Félix Duque Fernández Da Silva, Dona Beatriz da Silva. Vida e Obra de uma Mulher forte (Maia: Labyrinthus/José Rui Teixeira, 2008); Inmaculada López de Lama, Santa Beatriz de Silva: la bella prisionera (Sevilla: Librería Rayo de la Tormenta, 2009); Laura Canabal Rodríguez, 'Dos reinados y dos cortes. Una dama portuguesa en la corte castellana: Doña Beatriz de Silva y Meneses (1447-1491)', in: Reinas e infantas en los reinos medievales ibéricos: contribuciones para su estudio: actas del congreso internacional, Santiago de Compostela, 21-23 de mayo de 2014, ed. Silvia Cernadas Martínez & Miguel García-Fernández (Santiago de Compostela, 2018), 389-414; Margarida Garcez Ventura, 'Breves notas sobre Dona Beatriz da Silva e Isabel, a Católica: Duas mulheres em projectos de santidade e de reforma da igreja ha Hispânia quatrocentista (1424-1492)', Brathair 19:2 (2019), 132-152; Michele Lodone, 'La santa, la regina e l'Immacolata. Beatriz de Silva e le origini dell'Ordine concezionista', in: Sante vive in Europa (secoli XV-XVI) - Santas vivas en Europa (siglos XV-XVI), ed. Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli (Rome, 2020), 69-86.

 

 

 

 

Beatrix Maria de Jesu (Beatriz Maria de Jesus/Beatriz Enciso y Torres, 1632-1702)

TOR & OSCDisc. Spanish sister from Granada (daughter of Lorenzo de Enciso and Bárbara de Torres). Her parents were pious nobles, and when the family moved to the Jean region, Beatriz was housed with the female Dominicans of Granada. After the family's return, Beatriz moved back home but kept up with a strict religious lifestyle, choosing as her personal confessor Jerónimo de Ayllón OFMDisc, who in 1662, clothed her in the Franciscan tertiary habit. Around that time, she began to experience bodily pains and visions during Passion Week and at other ecclesiastical highdays, which she, her father and her confessor began to record. In 1663, she obtained stigmata and allegedly stopped eating completely. She soon became the object of an inquisitorial inquiry by the Archbishop of Granada and Jerónimo de Prado. The latter asked her to write an account of her experiences. Subsequently, between the 1670s and 1690. she also wrote additional accounts of her visions and religious experiences at the request of the Dominican Luis de Cozar. To keep her under proper surveillance and also allow her to fulfil her religious wishes, she ended up by May 1665 in the Observant Poor Clare monastery of El Ángel Custodio in Granada, where she continued to experience visions and bodily pains connected to the Passion. She also took up several offices in the monastery and was elected abbess in 1699. She died in February 1702. The Archbishop ordered an official inquest into her life and virtues.

works

Relación de su vida. This conglomerate of notes on her experiences and visions was used by Fray Tomás de Montalvo to write his Vida prodigiosa de la extática virgen y venerable Madre Sor Beatriz María de Jesús, que fue del Angel Custodio de la ciudad de Granada, de religiosas Franciscas Desalzas de la más estrecha observancia de la primera Regla de Santa Clara. Crónica del mismo convento y memoria de otras religiosas insignes en virtud (Granada: Francisco Domínguez, 1719).

vitae

Tomás de Montalvo, Vida prodigiosa de la extática virgen y venerable Madre Sor Beatriz María de Jesús, que fue del Angel Custodio de la ciudad de Granada, de religiosas Franciscas Desalzas de la más estrecha observancia de la primera Regla de Santa Clara. Crónica del mismo convento y memoria de otras religiosas insignes en virtud (Granada: Francisco Domínguez, 1719).

literature

Isabelle Poutrin, Le voile et la plume. Autobiographie et sainteté féminine dans l’Espagne moderne, Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez (Madrid-Ciudad Universitaria: Casa de Velázquez, 1995), ad indicem.

 

 

 

 

Beatus de Valdagno (Pietro Maria Kirker/Beato da Valdagno, 1652-1730)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Valdagno, Muzzolone or thereabouts in the Vicentine region. Born on 11 July 1652, and baptised as Pietro Maria Kirker. He took the habit in the Bassano friary in 1669. Lector of theology, provincial definitor and custos. He also lectured on Sacred Scripture in the Cathedral seminary of Ceneda (Vittorio Veneto) and in the Venetian 'Accademia di sacra Scrittura a S. Gio. Crisostomo'. He died at the age of 78 on January 2, 1730. He left behind several works, one of which reached the printing press.

works

Epilogo delle vite, e miracoli de'Santi Giovanni da Capistrano, e Pasquale Baylon Frati Minori di S. Francesco con l'aggiunta di una veridica notizia dello stato dell'osservanza, e riforma della religione Francescana (Vicenza: Giovanni Berno, 1691).

Letioni scritturali sopra i Capitoli 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 dell'Esodo, lete l'anno 1684 in Venetia nell'Accademia di sacra Scrittura a S. Gio. Grisostomo da Fr. Beato di Muzzolone M.R. già pubblico Lettore in detta Accademia: MS. Once in the library of the OFMRef friary of Valdano. Check!

Arbore, o sia Prospetto delineato a penna con gran maestria et accuratezza di tutta la Religione Francescana dal suo principio MCCXXIII, fin all'anno MDCXLVII, nel quale si veggono espressamente tutte le divisioni dell'Ordine et i rami nei quali fu propagato, le fondationi di tempo in tempo di tutti i Conventi, i Pontefici, i Cardinali, i Patriarchi, gli Arcivescovi tutti, i Nuncii, i Legati e Vicarii Apostolici, i Santi, i Beati, i Superiori tutti generali dell'Ordine, gli Huomini più celebri in Letteratura, i Re, le Regine et altre principesche persone che si dedicarono al Francescano Instituto, colla serie cronologica di tutti i Papi, e colle annotationi di anno in anno delle cose più rimarcabili e singolari che sono accadute nell'Ordine Serafico: MS. Check!

Annali della Provincia di S. Antonio, 5 Vols.: MS. Once in the library of the OFMRef friary of Vicenza. Check!

Due trattati sopra le Terziarie Francescane: MS. Check!

Il Parroco sincerato della verità. Operetta divisa in due parti, esposta da un cuore ingenuo, e dedicata al Signore, giusto scrutatore del fine di tal fatica: MS. Check!

Opuscula diversa ad philosophiam, theologiam et Sacram Scripturam Spectantia, in undecim libros divisa: MS. Once in the library of the OFMRef friary of Venice. Lost?

Apologia P. Petri Joannis Olivi, Ordinis Minorum: MS. Check!

Logicae et Philosophicae naturalis elementa: MS. Lost?

Titius defensus, seu dissertatio de quadam difficili quaestione ad theologicam moralem pertinente: MS. Lost?

Notabilia circa praecedentiam Fr. Min. Regul. Observ. in concursu cum aliis Regularibus, tam in processionibus, quam in aliis actibus publicis: MS. Once in Feltre, Convento S. Spirito. Check!

literature

Gaetano Girolamo Maccà, Storia del territorio vicentino, Tom. 13: che contiene la storia del vicariato di Valdagno, e delle ville al medesimo soggette (1815), 171-172; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 768; Antonio Maria da Vicenza, Scriptores Ord. minor. script. observ. reformatorum provinciæ s. Antonii Venetiarum (1877), 86-88.

 

 

 

 

Beda de Soyen (Beda Von Soyen, 1663-1724)

OFMCap. Bavarian friar. Entered the order on October 9, 1685. Active as a novice master, guardian and definitor. Wrote a ceremoniale for his Bavarian province.

works

Ceremoniale Fratrum Minorm Capuccinorum Provinciae Bavaricae (Munich, 1720).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (venice, 1747), 39; A. Eberl, Geschichte der bayrischen Kapuziner-Ordensprovinz (1593-1902) (Freiburg in Breisgau, 1902), 281, 293.

 

 

 

 

Benedicta Gambarina (Benedetta Gambarina/Benedetta Gambarini da Venezia, ca. 1590-1658)

OSCCap. Italian Capuchin nun from Tarvisio (Friuli Venezia Giulia region). She took the habit in Ferrara, in the presence of he bishop of Ferrara Giovanni Fontana on 2 April 1610. Poetess. She died at the age of 68 on 26 May 1658.

works

Canoni varie, some are included in: Vita della Madre Suor Benedetta Gambarini Monaca delle Cappuccine di Ferrara (Ferrara: Bernardino Pomatelli, 1687).

Rime pie, included in: Rime scelte dei Poeti Ferraresi antichi e moderni, ed. G. Baruffaldi (Ferrara: Eredi di Bernardino Pomatelli, 1713), 335.

Rime, included in Componimenti poetici delle piu' illustri rimatrici d'ogni secolo, parte seconda, che contiene le rimatrici dell'anno 1574 fino al presente, ed. Luisa Bergalli (Venice: Antonio Mora, 1726).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122; Pietro Leopoldo Ferri, Biblioteca femminile italiana (Crescini: Padua, 1842), 181.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Aegidius Becerra (Benito Gil Becerra, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar, homiletic and spiritual author.

works

Quaresma y sagrados vespertinos: guarnecida con todos los sermones (Joseph Giralt, 1733). Accessible via Google Books.

Paraiso de oraciones sagradas, en cuyo campo se hallan los frutos abundantes de el arbor de la vida Jesus, de la excelsa palma de Maria, la mas fazonada mies, de las mysticas plantas, en que gloriosos santos aplaude festiva la Iglesia, las vistosas flores de sus heroycas virtudes (...), 2nd Ed. (Barcelona: Joseph Giralt, 1739). Accessible via Google Books.

Asserta theo-subtilia vel Theologica systhemata (...), 2 Vols. (Barcelona: Joseph Giralt & Fernand de Ros, 1737-1745).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 198; AIA 15 (1955), 238-239; DSpir VI, 366-367; AIA 26 (1966), 82-87; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 121 (no. 359).

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Amodeus (Benedetto Amodei da Mazara, 1758-1844)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Alcamo. Provincial minister in 1812, and struggled to maintain the territorial integrity of his order province in the face of challenging political developments. He refused the position of minister general and a position as bishop of Mazara. General definitor in 1828. Renowned preacher He died at Mazara on 4 February 1844 at the age of 85.

works

Orazioni panegiriche recitate dal Rev.mo P. Maestro Benedetto Amodei Esprovinciale de'Padri Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco (Trapani: Mannone e Solina, 1828). This includes a Orazione sull'Immacolato Concepimento di Maria Vergine held in the Conventual Franciscan church of Mazara in 1827.

literature

Marianna Di Giorgi, 'Due orazioni panegiriche sull'Immacilata di Padre Benedetto Amodei da Mazara', in: La Sicilia e l'Immacolata non solo 150 anni: atti del convegno di studio, Palermo, 1-4 dicembre 2004, ed. Diego Ciccarelli & Marisa Dora Valenza (Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana-Officina di Studi Medievali, 2006), 189ff.; Giuseppe Allegro, ‘P. Benedetto Amodei (1758-1843)’, in: >Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Trapani. Atti del Convegno di Studio Trapani-Alcamo 19-21 novembre 2009, ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani – Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo, 2011).

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Antonius Ortega (Benito Antonio Ortega, fl. 1750)

OFM. Acting provincial of the Cartagena province by 1750.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 100-102; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 156 (no. 637).

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Catalani (Benedetto Catalani da Roccacontrada, fl. 1505)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Picena province. Master of theology and inquisitor in Dalmatia. In 1508 he was appointed Lenten preacher in the Franciscan Conventual convent church in Venice. In 1509 he was appointed guardian in Osimo.

works

Ars compendioda divina per Fratrem Benedictum Rocchensem compilata: MS ? This work was once apparently kept in the Conventual Franciscan Convent library of Roccacontrada.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Cinquanta (Benedetto Cinquanta, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Milan. Member of the Santa Maria della Pace friary in Milan, preacher, theologian and provincial minister (elected May 1617). Later already a year later elected definitor for the Cismontan provinces at the general chapter of Salamanca, which implied a sojourn in Spain. Author of religious drama and related pieces. He had sufficient renown as a dramatist to be member of the Accademia dei Pacifici.

works

La Maddalena convertita (Milan: Giovanni Giacomo Como, 1616). Religious drama. Present in Milan, Biblioteca dell'Università Cattolica.

La resurettione di Cristo (Milan: Comi, 1617). Religious drama. Present in Bergamo, Biblioteca civica.

Il ricco epulone. Rappresantazione spirituale (Milan: Malatesta, 1623). Religious drama. Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan and in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples. Also accessible via Google Books.

Il Verno. Pastorale (Milan: Malatesta, 1623). Religious drama. Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan.

Specchio dei prelati (Milan: Malatesta, 1628). This is a work of prose, which nowadays seems to be lost.

La natiuita del Sig.re rapresentazione spirituale in uersi sciolti (...) (Milan: Carlo Lantoni, 1628). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books. The work is also present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan.

La Peste di Milano del 1630 (Milan, 1632). Religious drama with a strong role for women. For a modern edition see: La peste di Milano del 1630, ed. Federico Doglio, in: Il teatro tragico italiano : storia e testi del teatro tragico in Italia, ed. Federico Doglio (Parma: Guanda, 1960), 529-691.

Sermoni del SS. Sacramento per le quarant'ore (Milan: Ghisolfi, 1632). Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan.

Gli idilli della Passione di nostro Signore (Milan: Malatesta, 1633). Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan.

Il figliol prodigo (Milan: Malatesta, 1633). Religious drama. Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan.

Il Fariseo e il Pubblicano (Milan: Marcelli, 1634). Religious drama.

S. Agnesa (Milan, 1634). Religious drama. Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122; Angelo Maria Pizzagalli, 'Fra Benedetto Cinquanta e il Manzoni', Convivium (March-April 1937), 158-170; Magda Vigilante, 'Cinquanta, Benedetto ', DBI XXV (1981) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/benedetto-cinquanta_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]; Glenn Piere, 'Una tragedia barocca nei 'Promessi Sposi'', Lettere Italiane (July-Sept. 1983), 297-311; Glenn Palen Pierce, The Caratterista and Comic Reform from Maggi to Goldoni (Naples: Società editrice napoletana, 1986); Anna Maria Cascetta, 'La 'spiritual tragedia' e l''azione devota'. Gli ambienti e le forme',in: La scena della gloria. Drammaturgia e spettacolo a Milano in età spagnola, ed. Annamaria Cascetta & Roberta Carpani (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 1995), 115-128; Stefano Tommasini, 'Un orage organique. 'Topoi' della peste e teatro della crudeltà', Scena 1:1-2 (1998), 11-55 ; Carlo Annoni, 'Contributo alla drammaturgia barocca: Tra 'Buontà angeliche' e 'operazioni diaboliche': La peste del MDCXXX di Benedetto Cinquanta', in: Idem, Capitoli sul Novecento: Seconda Serie (Milan: I.S.U. Università Cattolica-Largo Gemelli, 2000) Appendix, 247-275; Enrica Zanin, 'La peste in scena: rappresentazioni tragiche della peste in Europa (1560-1670)', in: Rappresentare la storia. Letteratura e attualità nella Francia e nell'Europa del XVI secolo, ed. Mariangela Miotti (Perugia: Aguaplano, 2017), 275-288.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Aligniaco (Benedictus de Alignan/Benoît d'Alignan, † 11, 07, 1268)

OM. French friar of noble descent, who entered the order after he had been a Benedictine for many years (Abbot of the benedictine house of Grasse in 1224, Bishop of Marseille in 1229?). Travelled with the army of Thibauld IV of Champagne to the Holy Land in 1239, and later as a pilgrim in 1260. Propagated the re-inforcement of the Templar fortifications of Safad (1241). Resigned his positions (including the episcopal see) and entered the Franciscan order in 1267, not long before his death on 11-09, 1268 [6 July?]. Protector of the `friars of the holy virgin', an order which was already abolished at the council of Lyon in 1274. His major work is known as Tractatus fidei contra diversos errores super titulum De summa Trinitate et fide catholica in Decretalibus cum registris.

works

Tractatus Fidei contra Diversos Errores [Tractatus fidei contra diversos errores super titulum De summa Trinitate et fide catholica in Decretalibus cum registris ], ca. 1260] 18 manuscripts in all, among which Paris BN Fonds Latin 4224 ff. 389v-392ra [accessible via Gallica!: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10038493x.image (last accessed 29 March 2022)]; Rome, Bibl. Alessandria Universitaria. 141 ff. 306va-307vb; Eichstätt, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. St. 221 (14° s.) ff. 5ra-290vb; Chartres, Bibliothèque Municipale 341 ff. 1v-21v; British Library, Arundel 458 ff. 109-230 (15th cent.); Cracow, Jagiellonian University Library, Cod. 1233 CC VI 4 & Cod. 1234 CC VI 5. [https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/641905 ] See for a complete survey: Grabmann, Der Franziskanerbisschof 51-53; Jensen, War against the Muslims 189, n. 15., and the 2019 study of J. Arnold. The work received a partial edition by Kurt Villads Jensen, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 89 (1996) 181-195. A full edition by Alfredo Cocci is in progress.

Compendium [abbeviation of the former work by the author himself.]: MS Paris BN Lat. 4224 ff. 425-436 [See: Golubovich, Biblioteca I, 245]

Epistolae. See in general: Histoire littéraire de la France XIX, 87-91; P.-A. Armargier, 'Benoît d'Alignan, évêque de Marseille (1229-1268). Le contexte et l'esprit d'une théologie', Le Moyen Age. Revue d'histoire et de philologie 72 (1966) 443-462.]

1. Epistola ad Innocentium Papam IV [1249], edited by Luc d'Achery, Spicilegium Veterum Aliquot Scriptorum qui in Galiae Bibliothecis Latuerant, XIII Vol. (Paris, 1655-1677) [which volume? Check!].

2. Epistolae Variae, edited by Baluze, Miscellanea II². 242, and also some dedicatory letters in Histoire littéraire de la France XIX, 89-90; Golubovich, Bibliotheca I, 236-253; Gallia Christiana Novissima (Paris, 1715), I, nos. 246, 247, 253, 254 & 266.

Expositiones [on the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria]: MS: Paris, BN, Lat. 4224 ff. 436-467. [See: Golubovich, Bibliotheca I. 244-245]

Sententia Lata in Synodo super Decimas [24 october, 1263], edited in Baluze, Miscellanea II², 244 & Gallia Christiana Novissima (Paris, 1715) I, 651s. & VI, 947. [See: Golubovich, Bibliotheca I, 244-245]

(?) De Constructione Castri Saphet [incertain attribution], edited in Golubovich, Bibliotheca I, 246-53; R.B.C. Huygens, 'Un nouveau texte du traité `De constructione castri Saphet'' Studi Medievali 3. ser. 6:1 (1965), 355-387; Itinera Hierosolymitana Crucesignatorum (Saec. XII-XIII), ed. S. de Sandalo, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Collectio Major, 24 (Jerusalem, 1984) IV, 11-13.

literature:

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 200-201 (Benedictus Massiliensis); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122; M. Grabmann, `der Franziskanerbishof B. de Alignano († 1268) und seine Summa...', in: Festschrift P. Michael Bihl OFM, ed. I.-M. Freudenreich (Colmar, 1941), 50-64; P.-A. Amargier, ‘Benoît d’Alignan (…)’, Le Moyen Age 72 (1966), 443-462; K. Villads Jensen, ‘War against the Muslims according to B. of A.’, AFH 89 (1996), 181-195 [contains a partial edition of the Summa de Trinitate]; Alfredo Cocci, `Notizie su Benoît d'Alignan (d. 1268) ed il suo Tractatus Fidei contro Diversos Errores' in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo (Rome, 1997), 317-331 (info on editions and studies); John H. Arnold, 'Tractatus fidei contra diversos errores', in: Christian-Muslim Relations 600-1500, ed. David Thomas [Consulted online on 26 September 2020 First published online: 2010 ]; J. Arnold, 'Benedict of Alignan’s Tractatus fidei contra diversos errores: A neglected anti-heresy treatise', Journal of Medieval History 45:1 (2019), 20-54 [https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2018.1553204 ].

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Bencovic (Benedikt Benkovic/Benko Benkovic/Begna Bencovich, ca. 1460-1522)

OFM. Croatian friar from Zadar. Studied in Zadar and Rome. Taught in Rome and acquired a reputation of learning and expertise in scotism. Provincial of the Dalmatian Saint Jerome province and general definitor in 1520. Mediated in the year of his death (1522) in the conflict between the Observantists and the Riformati in Breslau. He died in Judenburg. Wrote a course book on Scotean logic, the Scoticae Subtilitatis Epidiction, and works on the Virgin Mary.

works

Navigium Beatae Mariae Virginis (Lyon: Johannes Trechsel, 1498).

Scoticae Subtilitatis Epidicton (Pavia: Giacomo Pocatela, 1520). Same work as the one mentioned below?

As editor, completing the editorial work of Maurice O'Fihely (Mauritius Hibernicus. d. 1513): Enucleatam Mauritij hybernici super scoticis vniuersalibus enodationem vtilissimum speculatiue grammatices tractatulum scoto (et merito) attributum; Ioannis anglici super eisdem vniuersalibus clarissimam dilucidatonem; Antonij sirecti et Trombete Formalitates; necnon Stephani burlifer in eiusdem Scoti formalitates epithomata; hoc in enchiridiolo prefato duce Benedicto facilius omnium vbique studium summa diligentia conclaudi (Pavia: Giacomo Pocatela da Borgofranco, 1520).

Stella Clericorum (Lyon, 1538).

literature:

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122; F. Doelle, Die Observanzbewegung der Sächsischen OFM-Provinz (Munich, 1918); Marija Brida, Benedikt Benkovic (Zagreb: Institut Drustvenih Nauka, 1967); 'Benkovic, Benedikt', in: Hrvatska enciklopedija, mrezno izdanje (Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2020) [ http://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=6941 ].

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Bernal (Benito Bernal de Pinós, fl. ca. 1760)

OFM. Preacher in the Aragon province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 240.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Bonelli (Benedetto Bonelli/Benedetto Francesco Bonelli, 1704-1783)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Born at Cavalesio (Tirol), on 26 December 1704. Joined the order in 1721 asa a member of the Trento Riformati province. Became lector of philosophy and theology and thereafter general definitor and visitator of the Milan province . Later in his career, he became diocesan visitator of Trent/Trento and a long-term resident of the San Bernardino di Trento friary. He died on 28 October 1773. Aside from writing several works of his own, he was asked by the Franciscan order leadership to publish an opera omnia edition of the works of Bonaventura da Bagnoreggio. He came to an inventarisation, which he published as the Prodromus ad Opera Omnia Sancti Bonaventurae, and a supplementary edition of Bonaventura's works in an additional three volumes. He was esteemed by the Italian historian/philologist Antonio Muratori, and was apparently also a conservative expert on issues of possession and exorcism, taking a stance against the Del Congresso notturno delle Lammie of his epistolary acquaintance and former friend Girolamo Tartarotti. For more information on his life and works, see especially the entry on Bonelli in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/benedetto-bonelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ (last accessed 15 October 2021)]

works

Letters to Girolamo Tartarotti and others: Bibioteca Comunale di Rovereto, MS 6.13.

Epitome qua Theoria Praxisque Exhibetur Sanioris Morum Doctrina (Trent, 1737).

Dissertatiuncula de gestis Sancti Vigilii Tridentini episcopi et martiris, quam vetusta Tridentinae ecclesiae acta memorant: MS Insbruck, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Dip. 1230/1. On the deeds of Saint Vigilius of Trent and the use of Saint Vigilius in a victorious Roman battle against the Goths. This work, which also contains a series of historical reflections on the early history of the Brixen/Bressanone diocese, and accepts Tartarotti's chronology of the early ecclesiastical history of the Trento region, was presented at Bonelli's entry into the Accademia Taxiana.

Dissertatio prima historica de Iudaicis in Christianos persecutionibus, in: Innocentis martyris Beati Simone Tridentini pueri in Christi odium ac formam a truculentissimus Iudaeis diro suplicio interempti acta illustrata ac vindicata adversus priscos nuperosque Iudaeorum patronos: MS Trent, Franziskanerkloster, 237, ff. 1-99. The latter is Bonelli's Latin preparatory text for the Italian Dissertazione apologetica mentioned below.

Dissertazione apologetica sul martirio del beato Simone a Trento nell’anno 1475 dagli Ebrei ucciso (Trent: Parone, 1747). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books. Bonelli supported the anti-Jewish accusations of ritual murder against C. Wagenseil, Benachrichtigungen wegen einiger die gemeine Iüdischeit betreffenden wichtigen Sachen (Leipzig, 1705) & J. Basnage, Histoire de la religion des Juifs depuis Jésus-Christ jusqu'à present (Paris, 1710). Bonelli's Latin preparatory text for the Italian Dissertazione apologetica has also survived: Innocentis martyris Beati Simone Tridentini pueri in Christi odium ac formam a truculentissimus Iudaeis diro suplicio interempti acta illustrata ac vindicata adversus priscos nuperosque Iudaeorum patronos: MS Trent, Franziskanerkloster, 237.

De sanctitate vitae et miraculorum servi Dei Petri Regalati (Venice, 1748).

Brevis narratio martyrii Beati Laurentii pueri a Iudaeis Bassanensibus in odium Christi interfecti: MS Trent, Franziskanerkloster, 236, ff. 1-28.

Epistola in qua animadversiones in historiam theologicam earumque defensio ad crisim theologicam exiguntur (Lucca: Filippo Maria Benedini, 1751). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale di Cremona and via Google Books.

Vindiciae Romani Martyrologii XIII. Augusti Sancti Cassiani Foro-Corneliensis Martyris, V. Februarii Sanctorum Brixinensium Episcoporum Ingenuini et Albuini memoriam recolentis (Verona, 1751). This work, issued anonymously initiated a breach between Bonelli and Tartarotti (until then his friend and partisan in matters of early church history), which gradually touched a wider range of church-historical and demonological issues.

Animavversioni critiche sopra il notturno congresso delle lammie (...) e il Compendio Storico della Stregheria (Venice: Simone Occhi, 1751). A criticism of the positions of Tartarotti (Notturno Congresso delle Lammie), who disproved the witches sabbath but admitted the existence of magic. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Raziocinio critico teologico su l'Apologia del congresso notturno (...) (Venice, 1754).

Dissertazione intorno alla santità e martirio del beato Adelpreto (Trent, 1755). Again directed against Tartarotti.

Condemnatio Theologiae Moralis a P. Busenbaum et Lacroix Editae Anno 1757 (Trent, 1758/Venice, 1760).

Breves Notitiae ad Bonam Directionem Animae et Salutarem Instructionem Studiorum Morali Doctrinae Addictorum (Trent, 1758/Naples, 1762).

Dissertatio Adversus Sententiam de Sufficientia Servilis Attritionis (Venice, 1759).

Notizie istorico-critiche intorno al B. M. Adelpreto Vescovo, e comprotettore della chiesa di Trento, 2 Vols. (Trent: Gianbattista Monauni, 1760-1761). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Monumenta ecclesiae Tridentinae, 4 Vols. (Trent, 1760-1765). Also in part against the insights of Tartarotti.

Notizie istorico-critiche della chiesa di Trento (Trent: Gianbattista Monauni, 1762). In fact a third accompanying volume to his Notizie istorico-critiche intorno al B. M. Adelpreto Vescovo. A work with a substantial documentation and with a defense of the origin of the diocese in the deeds of Saint Hermagoras, a pupil of the Evangelist Mark, it was in part also directed against Tartarotti's De origine ecclesiae Tridentinae, which had argued for a much later, 4th-century erection of the Trent diocese.

Prodromus ad Opera Omnia Sancti Bonaventurae (Bassano: Remondini, 1767). Accessible via a number of digital portals.

Sancti Bonaventura (…) Operum Omnium Supplementum, 3 Vols. (Trent: Gianbattista Monauni, 1772-1774). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

To be continued. In all he would have issued no less than 27 works. In addition, there has been made mention of some 76 unpublished texts. See De Tipaldo (1840); Tonneatti (1861); Pignatelli (1969).

literature

Giovanni Crisostomo Tovazzi, Elenco delle epoche della vita e degli scritti del Padre Benedetto Bonelli da Cavallese, Francescano Riformato, ed. Fortunato Mandelli, in: Nuova raccolta di opuscoli scientifici e filologici, Vol. XLI (Venice, 1785), 1-52; Emilio De Tipaldo, Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze, lettere ed arti del secolo XVIII, e de' contemporanei VII (1840), 152-158 [with much additional information on edited and non-edited works]; Hurter, Nomenclator (ed. Innsbruck, 1911), 117-118; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 193-197; N. Tonneatti, Cenni intorno alla vita e scritti del P. B. Bonelli (Trento, 1861); Contributi alla storia dei Frati Minori della provincia di Trento (Trento, 1926), 67-93, 135-143, 153-162, 182-184; G. Pignatelli, 'Bonelli, Benedetto', Dizionario biografico degli Italiani XI (Rome, 1969), 747-750 [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/benedetto-bonelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ (last accessed 15 October 2021)]; Guido Dall'Olio, 'L'immagine dell'inquisizione Romana nel 'Congresso notturno delle Lammie'', Atti della Accademia Roveritana degli Agiati ser. VII, 6A (246) (1996), 289-317 (esp. 295f.); Tyrolis Latina. Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur in Tirol, II: Von der Gründung der Universität Innsbruck bis Heute (Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau, 2012), 771-774 & passim.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Burdigalensis(Benoît de Bordeaux, ?-1694)

OFMCap. French friar from Aquitaine. Preacher and promotor of passion devotion exercises. He is also described by as a friar who early in his career was asked to provide a geographical description of all Capuchin provinces and houses (same friar?).

works

Descriptio chronographia omnium provinciarum et conventum religionis capuccinorum, servata etiam climatus constitutione secundum veram illorum distantiam (Rome, 1646).

Les Sentiments affectifs sur la Passion de Jésus-Christ pour tous les jours du mois (...) (1690).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 198; Dionysio da Genova & Bernardi di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum retexta et extensa (Venice: Coletti, 1747), 44; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 127; Apollinaire de Valence, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum Capuccinorum provinciarum Occitaniae et Aquitaniae (Rome-Nîmes: Praefectus Archivi Generalis Capuccinorum, 1894), 44, 114.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Canfield (Benet of Canfield/Benedict the Englishman/William Fitch/Filch/Benedictus Filchius, 1561-1610)

OFMCap. English friar. Born at Little Canfield (Essex) as William Fitch, in a Puritan family. Studied law in London. In 1585 he converted to Catolicism. He left England for France and in 1587 entered the Capuchin order in Paris (St. Honoré friary), taking the name of Benedict. Studied theology, also in Italy (Venetian region), and embarked on a career in the French Capuchin provinces as a preacher, novice master, guardian (a.o. of the Saint-Honoré convent) and definitor. Involved with the reform of the Benedictines of Montmartre, and spiritual counselor of high placed court officials and nobles, as well as of Blessed Mary of the Incarnation and Marie de Beauviulliers (who reformed the monastery of Montmartre), which also caused his involvement in several controversies. In 1599, he traveled back to England, in an attempt to convert people from his native land to Catholicism. He was apprehended shortly after his arrival. After two years in prison, he was sent back to France, thanks to the mediation of Henri IV. Back in France, Benedict again took up several charges in the order (guardian, novice master and definitor), to die on 21 November 1610 in the Saint-Honoré friary. Benedict of Canfield is especially renowned for his The Rule of Perfection, a Christocentric work of spiritual edification reaching back to Bonaventurean notions, the first versions of which has been circulating in manuscript format from the time Benedict came back from Italy to France (early 1590s). Following a serious reworking (at the request of order superiors, who found fault with the theoretical and hermetic qualities of the first versions, see the study of Orcibal), the book became a tremendous success and went through more than fifty editions in various languages. In 1689, the book was placed on the Index, but it remained one of the classics of Catholic spirituality of the sixteenth/seventeenth centuries.

works

Le chevalier chrestien (Paris: Charles Castelain, 1600-1609), written during his imprisonment in England. the first authorized edition appeared in Paris in 1609 or 1610, and it was printed frequently thereafter. It is a doctrinal and ascetical guide for secular Christians. The work also appeared in English (The Christian Knight) as early as 1619).

Le Soliloque pieux (Paris: Charles Chastelain, 1608). This amounts to a spiritual autobiography.

l'Exercise de la volonté de Dieu (Paris: Charles Chastelain, 1608). A precursor to the more famous Règle de perfection.

Reigle de perfection/Règle de perfection contenant un bref et lucide abrégé de toute la vie spirituelle réduite à ce seul point de la volonté de Dieu, divisé en trois parties (Paris, 1609/Paris: Charles Chastelain, 1610). Many editons followed (o.a. 1622, 1625, 1628, 1633, 1648, 1650, 1653, 1666, 1682, 1690...). It would seem that the 1609 edition is accessible via digital collections of Ghent University and Gallica [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3220769.image ], whereas the 1610 edition and others are available on a variety of other digital portal as well. A Latin version of this large work apparently appeared before 1610 (at the request of the Capuchin general Geronimo da Castroferretto), and was reissued in 1630, whereas an English version might have circulated as early as 1608 and maybe earlier. A (first?) Dutch translation appeared in 1621 and was re-issued with corrections in 1623 in Antwerp as Den reghel der volmaectheyt, Inhoudende een kort begrijp van het geheel gheestelijck leven (...) ghemaect in 't Engels ende François door den eerw. P. Benedictus van Engelant, uyt Canfeld in Essexia, Predicant Capucin (...). The work was reprinted several times in different languages between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, although it was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1689 because of its alleged quietist tendencies. A critical edition appeared as La Règle de perfection/The Rule of Perfection, ed. J. Orcibal, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes. Section des sciences religieuses, LXXXIII (París: P.U.F., 1982). See also: Benet of Canfield, The rule of perfection, ed. D.M. Rogers (1970); K. Emery, Renaissance dialectic and Renaissance piety: Benet of Canfield's Rule of perfection (1987), which included a modern English translation of the Rule of perfection. As said before, several old editions and early translations can be accessed via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent and via Gallica and Google Books.

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).

Old catalogues by Sbaralea and others mention several other spiritual texts, and spiritual letters but that needs checking.

vitae

Sieur de Nantilly, Véritable et miraculeuse conversion du R.P. Benoist de Canfeld (Paris, 1622).

J. Brousse, La vie du Reverend Père Ange de Joyeuse, Prédicateur Capucin … ensemble Les vies des RR. PP. P. Benoist et P. Archange Escossois du même ordre (1621). Translated as: J. Brousse, The life of the Reverend Fa. Angel of Joyeuse with Lives of Father Benet Englishman, and Father Archangel Scotsman, trans. R. Rockwood (1623). A modern edition appeard as: J. Brousse, The lives of Ange de Joyeuse and Benet Canfield, ed. A. Birrell, trans. R. Rockwood (1959).

literature

Zacharia Boverio, Annales (Lyon, 1639) II, 843-862; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 39-40; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 199; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. ed. Rome, 1908) I, 128-129; DThCat II, 718-719; Ubald d’Alençon & Marie Benoît du Bourg d’Iré, ‘Le P. Benoît de Canfield’, Études franciscaines 42 (1930), 688-707; P. Hildebrand, ‘Benoit de Canfeld’, DHGE VIII, 196-198; DSpir I, 1446-1452; Lexicon Capuccinum, 192-193; Cassian of Stanley [=C.J. Reel], ‘Benet Canfield (William Fitch) Capuchin: the man and his writings’, BLitt Diss. (University of Oxford, 1948); Optat de Veghel, Benoît de Canfield (1562-1610). Sa vie, sa doctrine et son influence (Rome, 1949); L. Sheppard, ‘Benet of Canfield and his Rule of perfection’, Downside Review 69 (1951), 323-332; Paul Renaudin, Benoît de Canfeld: un maître de la mystique française (Spes, 1956); F.X. Martin, 'A Thwarted Project: The Capuchin Mission to England and Scotland in the Seventeenth Century, 1608-1660', in: Miscellanea Melchior de Pobladura, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 24, 2 Vols. (Rome: Ist. Stor. dei Cappuccini, 1964) II, 211-241; J. Orcibal, 'La 'Regle de Perfection' de Benoit de Canfield a-t-elle été interpolée?, Divinitas 11 (1967), 845-874; E. Gullick, ‘The life of Father Benet of Canfield’, Collectanea Franciscana 42 (1972), 39-67; J. Orcibal, Benoît de Canfield Le règle de perfection (1982); Kent Emery Jr. & Kent Emory Jr., ‘Another Book, Another Manner: Benet of Canfield's Le Chevalier Chrestien’, Mystics Quarterly 16:2 (June 1990), 83-92; Daniel Vidal, Critique de la raison mystique: Benoît de Canfield : possession et dépossession au XVIIe siècle (Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Millon, 1990); K. Emery junior, Monastic, scholastic and mystical theologies from the later Middle Ages (Notre Dame, 1996), passim; Sabrina Stroppia, ‘Riletture secentesche di Canfeld (etc.)…’, Arch. Ital. Storia Pietà 9 (1996), 177-279; Camille Bérubé, ‘L’amour de Dieu chez Benoît de Canfield’, in: Idem, L’amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfield et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997), 109-143; Jean Orcibal, ‘La divinisation selon Benoît de Canfield (1562-1610)’, in: Idem, Etudes d’histoire et de littérature religieuses (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), ed. Jacques Le Brun & Jean Lesaulnier (Paris, 1997), 409-418; Stephen Innes, ‘Fitch, William [Benet of Canfield] (1562–1610)’, in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4550) [with much additional info on Canfield’s biography, and a listing of manuscripts]; La mistica parola per parola, ed. Luigi Borriello, Maria R. Del Genio & Tomás Spidlík (Milan: Ancora, 2007), 71f.; Erika Juríková & Ladislav Tkacik, 'Benedikt z Canfieldu a jeho 'Regula perfectionis', Kultúrne dejiny 9: 2 (2018), 238-260.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Celeno (Benedictus Celenus/Benedetto da Celeno/Benedetto Celleni/Benedetto Zeleno, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Umbria. Not much is known about his life and works.

works

Le Grandezze et magnificenze della casa di S. Maria degl' angeli d'Assisi. Raccolte da diversi Authori, dal R.P.F. Benedetto da Celleno de Minori Osservanti, & disposte in regionamento predicabile (Perugia: Aniballe Alvigi, 1611). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 104 (who erroneously makes him a Conventual); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 198; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Haarlem (Franciscus van der Plasse, d. 1651)

OFMCap. Dutch or Belgian friar. Entered the order at Brussels in 1609. He was guardian of the Hasselt friary before he became a missionary in the Protestant part of The Netherlands (the Dutch Republic). Was active as a missionary priest in Nijmegen for two years, as well as in Eemnes in 1629. That same year, he became involved in local political struggles and had to leave. He was forbidden to return to active missionary duty by the apostolic apostolic vicar for the Dutch mission (Philippus Rovenius). Thereafter, Benedictus became guardian at Furness and Dunkirck. He died in Mechelen (Malines) on 27 June 1651. Author?

literature

Archief van het Aartsbisdom Utrecht 27 (1901), 335, 341, 1 (1906), 333, 336, 350; J.D.M. Cornelissen, Romeinsche Bronnen voor den Kerkelijken Toestand der Nederlanden onder Apostolisch Vicarissen 1592-1727, deel I, Rijks Gesch. Publ. no. 77 (Den Haag, 1932) I, 370-372, 403, 414, 416, 419-423, 428, 534-536; P. Hildebrand, ‘Benoit de Harlem’, DHGE VIII, 211. With thanks to Dr. Jan Out for the information concerning Benedictus' activities in Eemnes.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Liège (Benedictus Leodiensis/Benoît de Liège, d. 1660)

OFMCap. Belgian friar. Three times provincial of the Rhine province (1632-1635, 1649-1652, 1655-1658). Also provincial definitor (elected at the Cologne chapter in 1646). Confessor of Maria de Medici, Queen of France. Latin poet (several of his poems apparently survive). During a stay at Rome, in 1633, pope Urban VIII asked him to function as an ambassador for missions to the King of France and the Archbishops of Mainz, Cologne, Trier and Worms. Later, in 1649, he acted in Rome as the negotiator for the interests of the prince-elect of Mainz. In 1660, when visiting the Swiss Capuchin provice as general commissarius, he died at Luzern.

works

Poemata varia diversi generis in laudem aliquorum virorum illustrium (Cologne: Arnaldus Kempens, 1646).

literature

Bullarium Capuccinorum, ed. Michael Tugiensis (Rome, 1746) IV, 113-117, 331; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 200; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 123; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1908) I, 129; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni (Rome, 1872) II, 520, 654-655, 657; Messager des Sciences Historiques ou Archives des Arts et de la Bibliographie de Belgique (1893), 65; Analecta Capuccinorum 16 (1900), 187-188 & 17 (1901), 611-62, 151, 154; P. Hildebrand, ‘Benot de Liège’, DHGE VIII, 218; Lexicon Capuccinum, 194.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Locarno (16th century?)

OFM. Italian friar. Magister theologiae, lector in Bologna

literature

Piana, Chartularium, 61

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Lohr (Benedikt von Lohr, d. 1719)

OFMCap. Friar from the Rhine province; guardian of the convent of Mainz, lector and provincial definitor. He died in Mainz on April 10, 1719. Author of theological and order-historal and order-institutional works. Should he be identified with Benignus Lohranus (Benignus von Lohr)? See there for more information.

works

Breviarium Chronologicum de Institutione, Destitutione et Restitutione Ordinis Fratrum Minorum: MS ?

Legalia et Judicalia Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Statui Accommodata ex Recentissimis et Probatissimis Auctoribus: MS ?

Regularia Fratres Minores Concernantia ex Actis, Statutis, Decretis, Ordinationibus, Declarationibus Capitulorum Generalium ex Archivo Nostro Romano Aliisque Manuscriptis et Probatis Regulae Expositoribus Collecta: MS ?

Forma Regendi Fratres Minores Capuccinos ex Actis, Statutis, Decretis, Declarationibus et Ordinationibus Capitulorum Generalium a Principio Ejusdem Ordinis Usque ad Annum 1702: MS ?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 42; A. Zawart, ‘The history of franciscan preaching and of franciscan preachers (1209-1927), The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 9 (1927), 541; A. Teetaert, ‘Bénigne de Lohr’, DHGE VII, 1325-1326; Lexicon Capuccinum, 196.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Monte Sarculo seu Herculano (Benedetto da Montesarchia/Francisco Antonio Puchetta, d. 1671)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Naples province. Took his profession on 18 October 1621. Guardian of several convents. Renowned preacher. Was chosen provincial yet podagra complaints forced him to to abdicate. He died after considerable suffering in the Sant'Eusebio friary on 25 December 1671 at the age of 71. Biographer.

works

L’angelo della pace (Naples: Giacinto Passaro, 1666). It is a biography of the Capuchin friar Ange de Joyeuse.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 201; Apollinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 50-51; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Montesarchia’, DHGE VIII, 243-244.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Noriega (Benedicto de Noriega, 1650-1708)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Santiago province. Taught theology at Salamanca and obtained the status of lector jubilatus in 1689. Later bishop of Acerra (Naples region, Italy, 1700). Pro-Bourbon author.

works

Injustitia belli Austriaci contra catholicum Hispaniarum regem Philippum V (Naples: Michele Aloisio Mutio, 1705). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 201; Catálogo de la biblioteca romana del Cardenal Luis Belluga (...), ed. Juan Bautista Vilar, Francisco Víctor Sánchez Gil and María José Vilar (Murcia: Universidad de Murcia-Fundación Séneca, 2009), 247.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Scandriglia (Benedictus Pallocius/Benedetto da Scandriglia/Benedetto Palocci da Scandriglia, d. 1659)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Roman province. Lector, as well as guardian and definitor. Author of historical and ascetical works.

works

Meditationi sopra la vita di N. Sig. Giesu Cristo, passione, morte, resurrettione et ascensione al cielo e venuta dello Spirito santo (Viterbo-Rome: Angelo Bernabò, 1651). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (creative search).

Frutti serafici, ovvero laconismo delle vite dell’huomini piu illustri in santita e dottrina de’frati minori cappuccini dall’anno 1525 fin all’anno 1612 (Rome: Angelo Bernabò, 1656). It is an abbreviation/reworking of the annals written by Zacharia Boverio.

Apparizioni della Vergine santissima all’huomini illustri in santita della religione cappuccina (Rome, 1656).

Catalogo dell’huomini illustri in dottrina della religione de frati minori cappuccini (Rome, 1656).

Casi piu memorabili occorsi nella religione de’frati minori cappuccini (Rome, 1656).

Ordinazioni degli antichi Padri nella religione de’ frati minori, particolarmente del Dottore serafico S. Bonaventura circa la composizione dell’uomo esteriore (Viterbo, 1659).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 202 (Benedictus a Scaptinea); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 124 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 129; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Scandriglia’, DHGE VIII, 260; DThCat XI, 1834; Italia Francescana 14 (1939), 215; Lexicon Capuccinum, 194.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Seminaria (Benedictus de Tauriano/Benedetto da Seminari/Benedetto Leoni, 1564-1627)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Seminara (Reggio Calabria) as a member of the noble Leoni family (baptismal name Marco-Antonio). At the age of 18, he went to Naples, to study law. There he came under the influence of the Capuchins. He was received into the order by the provincial minister Basilio da Napoli. After his novitiate at Caserta (completed in March 1586), and after leaving all his worldly possessions to the establishment of a mons pietatis in his home region, he received a homiletic and theological training. Very successful preacher (earned the nickname apostle of Calabria). Around 1600, the minister general (Girolamo da Sorbo) asked him to work against Calvinist tendencies in Southern France. Yet he had only travelled as far as Brescia (where he apparently was to learn the French language), when this mission was aborted, due to plague epidemics in France. After his return to Calabria, he taught philosophy and theology and fulfilled several administrative functions (guardian, definitor, and provincial). He died at the age of 63 in his home town Seminara on 14 march 1627, during a Lent preaching tour.

works

Dottrina Christiana/Catechismus in Commodum Parochorum pro Erudiendo Populo. A work divided into seven parts/treatises.

Prediche quaresimali

Sermoni ed altre opere del genere predicabile

These works apparently used to be present in the Capuchin della Concezione convent at Napoli (see Teetaert).

literature

G.-C. Scarfo, Elogio del P. Benedetto Leoni de Seminara (Naples, 1714); Bernardo da Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40-41; R. da Cesinale, Storia delle Missioni,II (Paris-Rome, 1873), 130; Apollinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome-Naples, 1886), 51-52; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 13-16; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Seminara’, DHGE VIII, 261; LexCap, 194-195; DThC XIV, 1796; R. Liberti, ‘Il singolare caso di un religioso seminarese in nuove documentazioni. Il servo di Dio Benedetto Leone al secolo Marcantonio (1564-1627)‘, Incontri meridionali (1991), 253-260; DHGE XXXI, 741-742.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Sancto Florentino (Bernard de Saint-Florentin/Bernard Goudon, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar. Member of the Parisian province. Moralising exegete/religious author, well-versed in oriental languages and customs.

works

Les Psaumes expliqués dans le sens prophétique et rapportés à Jésus-Christ, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1766). This work was issued anonymously.

literature

Hurter, Nomenclator V, 100; Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 3rd Ed. (Paris, 1890?) III, 1103; Franciscan Studies 5 (1926), 35; Dictionnaire de la Bible III, 276; Lexicon Capuccinum, 214.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Solitudine (Benito de la Soledad/Solidad, fl. 1700)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Member of the San Pablo province (? check assertion of Juan de San Antonio). Apostolic preacher.

works

Memorial historial y política cristiana que descubre las ideas y máximas del christianissimo Luis XIV. Para librar a España de los infortunios, que esperimenta, por medio de su legítimo Rey Don Carlos III. Assstido del Señor Emperador, para la Paz de Europa, y útil de la Religión. Puesto a las plantas de la Sacra Cesarea y Real Magestad del Señor Emperador Leopoldo I (Vienna: Juan van Chelen, 1703). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear).

Manifiesto que explica el derecho de la magestad cesárea del señor Emperador a la Monarchia de España y evacuativo de la indevida pretensión del Duque de Anjou, que violentamente la ocupa contra el derecho de las gentes, natural, positivo divino, canónico y civil (...) (Viena: Juan Van Ghelen, 1703). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear).

Juan de San Antonio mentions also an unpublished work entitled La Sciencia media, and a series of additions to Memorial historial y política cristiana, yet we have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la Literatura Hispánica VI, nos. 3975-3977; Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII I, 598-599.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Urbino (Benedetto Passionei da Urbino, 1560-1625) beatus

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Marches of Ancona. After studies of law at Padua, leading to the doctorat in civil and canon law, he entered the Capuchin order in May 1584 at Fano. After his noviciate and theological and pastoral studies, he was appointed preacher by the Capuchin minister general Girolamo da Polizzi (1592). Became a renowned preacher and receive the consignment to preach against Protestantism in Bohemia. He departed on this mission after Easter 1600.. After two years, he is back in Italy (1602), probably travelling and working together with Lorenzo da Brindisi. Benedetto died at the Urbino friary [or in the Fossombrone friary?] on 29 or 30 April 1625. He was officially beatified by Pius IX on February 10, 1867. Several of Benedetto’s works apparently still survive in manuscript format.

works

Tractatus de Paupertate Fratrum Minorum Secundum mentem Beati Patris Nostri Francisci: MS Fossombrone, Biblioteca Civica Benedetto Passionei ?

Lettere consolitaria alla cognata Eleonora afflitta per la sua sterilità: MS Fossombrone, Biblioteca Civica Benedetto Passionei ?

Inni, sonetti e lettere varie: MS Fossombrone, Biblioteca Civica Benedetto Passionei ?

De Libero Arbitrio S. Augustini, traduzzione italiana con lettera di accompagno: MS Fossombrone, Biblioteca Civica Benedetto Passionei ?

All these texts apparently can be found in: Fossombrone, Biblioteca Civica Benedetto Passionei.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41-42; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 203; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 124; Lorenzo da Brindisi (Laurentius de Brundusio), De Rebus Austriae et Bohemiae Commentariolum, edited in: Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 25 (1909), 79-86, 136-141, 187-190; Eugenio da Potenza, Vita del beato Benedetto da Urbino (Castelplanio, 1920); Giusepe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini della Marche (Jesi, 1928), 15; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit d’Urbino’, DHGE VIII, 269-270; LexCap>>> ; Giovanni Leonardi, ‘Bienheureux Benoît d’Urbino, champion du renoncement et du service’, in: Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 139-153; Benedetto Passionei da Urbino (1560-1625), ed. G. Avarucci, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 95 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2012). Review in CF 82 (2012), 431-436.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Venetia (Bernardo da Venezia/Bernardo Baffo, 1722-1776)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Born on 22 April 1722 as scion of the Baffo family. Well-versed in Latin, Greek, philosophy and theology. In the order he was active as lector of moral theology, and as a preacher, a product of which is his Decadi di Orazione Panegiriche. He became further known for his philosophical-religious aforisms and ruminations against libertinism, deism etc., gathered in Gazzetta Ragionata Della Nuova Abdera. He died at San Carlo in Padua on 16 January 1776.

works

(as translator) Storia de' Sacramenti di C.M. Charlon (1758).

Tre Decadi di Orazione Panegiriche (Trevigi, 1768).

Aforismi del divino Platone adattati da filosofo cristiano ad arrestare il morbo Epicureo (Venice, 1770); Aforismi del divino Platone adattati da filosofo cristiano ad arrestare il morbo Epicureo. Opera che si pubblica per cura della pia associazione, 2 Vols. (Venice: Gattei, 1829 [2nd Ed.]). This second edition is widely available on various digital portals.

Gazzetta Ragionata Della Nuova ABDERA, 3 Vols. (Padua, 1773-1774); Gazzetta Ragionata Della Nuova ABDERA che si pubblica per cura della pia associazione, 4 Vols. [or more?] (Venice: Gattei, 1829 [2nd Ed.]). This second edition is widely available on various digital portals.

literature

Antonio Lombardi, Storia della letteratura italiana nel secolo XVIII (Modena: Tipografia Camerale, 1830), 34; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 836; Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), 151-152.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Vergerio (Bernard Du Verger, fl. eary 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar from Aquitaine. Religious controversialist.

works

Véritable narré de ce qui s'est passé en une Conférence faicte en la maison noble de Romette entre Guillaume Rivet (...) et un Recollé, appelé le P. Du Verger (...) contenant le veritable récit de tout ce qui se passe en ladicte conference (...), attesté par trois gentilhommes qui furent presens, et par la damoiselle de Romette. Avec une lettre de la mesme damoiselle au P. du Verger, contenant quelques motifs de sa conversion (Saintes: N. Crespon, 1611). This work is present in Avignon, Musée Calvet and in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Poitiers.

literature

Louis Ellies Dupin, Table universelle des auteurs ecclesiastiques. Disposez par ordre chronologique (...), II: Contenant les auteurs du dix-septième siècle (Paris: André Pralard, 1704), 1866; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 220; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; Louis Desgraves, 'Aspect des controverses entre catholiques et protestants dans le Sud-Ouest, entre 1580 et 1630', Annales du Midi 76-77 (1964), 153-187 (181-182); Louis Desgraves, Répertoire des ouvrages de controverse entre Catholiques et Protestants en France I, 161 (1611), no. 1322 & 1323.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Gerstner (Benedikt Gerstner, 1743-1797)

OFMRec. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol province.

works

Adsertiones ex tractatu de divina gratia publicae concertationi expositae Oeniponti in conventu ad s. crucem praeside P.F. Simone Widmann, Franciscano, ss. theol. Lectore, propugnantibus PP.FF. Benedicto Gerstner et Constantio Gartner, eiusdem Instituti et disciplinae alumnis, anno MDCCLXVIII, mense aprili, die XIV (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1768).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 48. [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]

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Laugeois (Benoit/Benoist Laugeois, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar and member of the Parisian province. Preacher and apostolic missionary. He probably died around 1690.

works

Explication litterale et françoise de toute la Bible selon la methode que N.S. Seigneur Jesus-Christ a enseigné à ses Apôtres, en S. Luc, Chap. 24. Vers 44. Qui est la science universelle de toute l'Ecriture Sainte, fondée sur l'union de la Doctrine de l'Ancien Testament avec celle di nouveau (...), 2 Vols. [?] (Paris, 1675/Paris: Charles Coignard, 1682). At least in part accessible via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

This work was re-issued with changes as Scientia Universalis Scripturae Sacrae, seu Explicatio litteralis Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, secundum methodum Jesu Christi, Lucae, C XXIV, vers 44, et omnium sanctorum Patrum doctrina (...), 3 Vols. (Paris, 1685).

L'esprit de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament?

De la politique chrétienne contre Machiavel (Paris, 1682)?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 200; Jean-Baptiste Glaire, Dictionnaire universel des sciences ecclésiastiques II (1868), 1229.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Leomontanis (Benedictus von Löwenberg, ca. 1450 - 1543)

OFM. German Franciscan from the Saxony province, who became supportive of the Lutheran cause, following in this the lead of his provincial minister Petrus Fontinus??

works

to be continued...

literature

Franciscan Studies, 19 (1923), 279-307; Wilhelm Forster, `Benedikt v. Löwenberg', LThK, 2 (1994), 203.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Lugdunensis (Benoît de Lyon, fl. first half 17th cent.)

TOR. French tertiary.

works

Réflexions sur la règle du Tiers-Ordre de St.François (Lyon, 1646). The work is apparently present in the Mediathèque of Lyon.

He supposedly also wrote additional works on the tertiary rule issued by Leo X with additional constitutions, a Caeremoniale and a Rituale, as well as a volume entitled L'académie de la perfection, yet we have not yet been able to trace these works.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 200; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 123;

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Maria Galli (Benedetto Maria Galli, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Florence. Member of the Tuscany province. Reached the status of lector jubilatus in theology; preacher and general procurator for his order at the papal curia. He also preached at the papal court of Benedict XIV.

works

Prediche quaresimali consagrate alla santità di nostro signore Benedetto XIV (...), 2 Vols. (Ottavio Puccinelli, 1745).

Prediche del Sagro Avvento e discorsi della novena del Santo Natale di Nostro Signore. Coll'Aggiunta di alcune brevi Orazione Latine dette in Capella Pontificia al Collegio Apostolico presente Bendetto XIV (...) Opera composta (...) da f. Benedetto Maria Galli di Firenze (...) (Florence: l'Erede Paperini, 1755). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 797.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Mazzara (Benedetto Mazzara, d. 1692)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Salmona. Member of the San Bernardino province. Author of the Leggenda francescano, overo Istorie de Santi, Beati, Venerabili, ed altri Uomini illustri, che fiorirono nelli tre Ordini istituiti dal serafico padre San Francesco. Raccolto, e disposto secondo i giorni de Mesi in quatro Tomo.

works

Leggendario francescano nel quale secondo l'ordine dé mesi si rapportano le vite, e morti dé santi, beati, ed altri huomini venerabili, & illustri, quali per le loro rare virtù (...) raccolte, e compilate da f. Benedetto Mazara (...) parte seconda diuisa in due volumi, 2 Vols. (Venice: Bartolomeo Tramintino, 1676/Venice: Bartolomeo Tramontino, 1680). Accessible via Google Books; Leggendario francescano in cui conforme i giorni de'mesi si rapportano le vite, e morti de' santi, beati, & altri huomini venerabili, & illustri. Quali (...) si sono segnalati in santità ne' tre ordini istituiti dal serafico padre San Francesco raccolte, & compilate da frà Benedetto Mazzara minore riformato (Venice: Andrea Poletti, 1689); Leggendario francescano, overo Istorie de Santi, Beati, Venerabili, ed altri Uomini illustri, che fiorirono nelli tre Ordini istituiti dal serafico padre San Francesco. Raccolto, e disposto secondo i giorni de Mesi in quatro Tomi. E in questa terza impressione più corretto, e per l’aggiunta di nuove Vite redotto in Dodici Tomi, ed. Antonio di Venezia, OFMRif, 2 Vols. (Venice: Domenico Lovisa, 1721-1722). This third edition is also accessible via Google Books. A twelfth-volume revision was issued in the 1720s by Pietr'Antonio di Venezia (Petrus Antonius de Venetia/Ribettus). See there.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 201; Giuseppe Pio Capogrosso, ‘Il “Leggendario Francescano” e le biografie di tre frati Francescani manduriani di Santa Vita’ [http://www.manduriaoggi.it/notizia.asp?idnews=30248 ]

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Mediolanensis (Benedetto da Milano/Benedetto Sanbenedetti, 1605-1679)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Milan province. For a long time, he kept a low profile in the order. Yet in 1643 his former lector Simplizio Visconti, at that time general procurator and commissioner for the Capuchins at Rome, made him his personal secretary. After Simplizio had become minister general, he made Benedetto his counsellor and charged him with visiting Capuchin provinces and provincial chapter meetings. The next Capuchin minister general, Marco-Antonio da Carpenedolo, made him a general commissioner and visitator of the Milan province. In 1666, Benedetto left his charges, retreating to the Milan Conception convent. He died there on 30 november 1679. Over the years, Benedetto unfolded historiographical and hagiographical activities. In addition, he edited and published a cycle of quaresimal sermons by Emanuele Orchi da Como: Quaresimale (Milan-Venice, 1650).

works

Annali de' Frati Minori Cappuccini, Composti dal M.R.P. Zaccaria Boverio da Saluzzo, e tradotti in Volgare dal Padre F. Benedetto Sanbenedett da Milanp Predicatore Cappuccino, 4 Vols. (Turin-Venice: Giovanni Domenico Tarino-Giunti, 1641-1645). An Italian translation and correction of the latin annals produced in 2 Vols. by Zacharia Boverio. The first and second volumes of this Italian translation are accessible via the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Nymelio), the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (title search).

He apparently also is responsible for the Italian translation of the 3rd volume of the Latin annales of the Capuchin order, originally issued by Marcellino da Pisa (Annalium seu sacrarum historiarum ordinis Minorum S. Francisci, qui Capucini nuncupantur (...) usque ad annum 1634, tomus tertius (sumpt. C. Landry, 1632)). This Italian translation appeared asAnnali de' Cappuccini, continuando quelli del Boverio, incominciandoli dal 1612, e terminandoli al 1638 (Lyon, 1676).

Vita del venerabile servo di Dio Fra Bernardo da Corleone siciliano religioso laico dell’ordine dei cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1680/Genoa-Milan, 1683/Palermo, 1690/Palermo, 1700/Palermo, 1725 & 1737). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and via Google Books (creative search, title does not always show up). There also exists a Spanish translation (Madrid: Gregorio Rodriguez, 1683 & 1686)

Vita e gesti di Maria Longa fondatrice dell’hospitale degli incurabili e delle cappuccine di S. Maria in Gerusalemme di Napoli (Naples, 1683/Naples, 1736/ Naples, 1834). This is an Italian translation of the Vita Beatae Mariae Longae written by Boverio.

As an editor, he also helped to bring to the printing press the Prediche quaresimali del Padre F. Emanuele Orchi da Como Predicatore Capuccino (Venice: Giunti & Baba, 1650). See under Emmanuele Orchi (letter E).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 40; Filippo Picinelli, Ateneo dei letterati milanesi, 82-83; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 201; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 124; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 130; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali Cappuccini (Milan, 1884) III, 284; V. Bonari, I cappuccini della provincia Milanese, I: Biografia dei piu distinti nei secoli XVI e XVII (Cremona, 1898), 106-109; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Milan’, DHGE VIII, 223-224; Lexicon Capuccinum, 194

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Megliavacca (Benedetto Megliavacca, fl. frist half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Chiarella, near Milan. Lector general and provincial secretary. Renowned preacher. He gave an festive sermon on San Giovanni Buono in the Duomo of Milan on 10 February 1647 in honor of Archbishop San Giovanni il Buono, which might have been printed later that same year under the vernacular title Il Girasole.

works

Il Girasole (Milan, 1647).

literature

Filippo Picinelli, Ateneo dei letterati milanesi (Milan, 1670), 82; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 123-124.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Muellner (Benedictus Müllner, d. ca. 1750)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Lector of theology and canon law.

works

Controversia theologica de potestate summmi pontificis unà cum Parergis assertionum è prima secunda secundæ part. Summæ Subtilis. Praeside Benedicto Müllner, propugnata a Candido Mayr & Domitiano Harter (1738). Accessible via the Library of the University of California at Berkeley.

Controversia theologica de sufficientia attritionis cum sacramento poenitentiæ ad justificationem impii una cum parergis assertionum è tertia parte Summaæ Subtilis, Publice In Ecclesia FF. Minorum Reformatorum Graecii Anno Domini MDCCXLI (...) propugnata a R.F.Severino Kraz, Praeside P. Benedicto Müllner, SS. Theologiae Lectore Actuali (Augsburg: Johann Michael Labhart, 1741). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Controversia canonistica ex titulo XXV libri III Decretal. de dominio beneficiariorum in bona beneficialia superflua (...) publicè (...) propugnata a VV. PP. Cæsario Menner & Humili Ermlich anno Domini MDCCXLVI præside P.F. Benedicto Müllner (...) (Vienna: Petrus Conrad Monath, 1750). Accessible via the Austrian National Library in Vienna and via Google Books.

Controversia canonistica e titulo XXVI. Lib. III. Decretal. de testamentis beneficiariorum ex bonis superfluis ecclesiasticis ad causas profanas et pias, una cum parergis assertionum ex lib. II. Decretal. Gregorii P. M. Defend. Franciscus Sebald et Fridericus Fridl, In Ecclesia PP. Franciscanorum Viennae ad S. Hieronymum, Anno 1746. Mense Augusti. Praeside P.F. Benedicto Müllner (...) (Joseph Hueth, 1746). Accessible via the Austrian National Library in Vienna and via Google Books.

Controversia theologica de triplici lege ecclesiastica, amortizationis et emaculationis una cum parergis assertionum e prima secundae part: summae subtilis (...) Praeside Benedicto Müllner (...) (Augsburg: Johann Michael Labhart, 1763).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 786.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Niger (Benedictis a Sancto Philadelphio/Benedetto Niger/Moro, d. 1589)

OFMRif. Italian friar.

literature

G. Fiume, ‘Antonio Etiope e Benedetto il Moro: il Santo scavuzzo e il Nigro eremita’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura a Noto. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, ed. Diego Ciccareli & Simona Sarzana, Francisana, 12 (Palermo: Biblioteca francescana, Officina di studi medievali, 2005), 67-100; Maria Vittoria Strazzeri, ‘I giudei di San Fratello’, in: Ubi neque aerugo neque tinea demolitur, 647-689.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Parisiensis (Benoît de Paris/Benoît Laugeois, d. 1689)

OFMCap. French friar from the Parisian province. Major exegete

works

Spiritus veteris ac Novi Testamenti ?

De Politica Christiana Contra Machiavellum ?

L’exposition littérale de toute la Bible (Paris, 1675).

Scientia Universalis Scripturae Sacrae seu Explicatio Litteralis Veteris ac Novi Testamenti Secundum Methodum Jesu Christi, Lucae, ca. xxiv, v. 44 et Omnium SS. Patrum Doctrinam, 3 Vols. (Paris, 1685).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40; DHGE VIII, 248; DThCat XI, 1834; B. Cuneo, ‘Biblical scholars in the Franciscan order’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1925), 108; Italia Francescana 14 (1939), 215; Lexicon Capuccinum, 194.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Torsiano (Benedetto da Torsiano, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Perugia region.

works

La Gemma del Paradiso (Todi: Aloysio, 1624).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 202; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus de Toul (Benoît de Toul/Benoît Picart/Benoît Picard, 1663-1720)

OFMCap. French friar. Member of the old Lorraine province. Lector and guardian (of the Saint-Mansuy-les-Toul convent, 1705-1710/11), as well as general commissioner for the Capuchin convents of France and Lorraine (1712-1713). Provincial definitor thereafter. Died suddenly in January 1720. Active and productive historian, working on the history of the orde, on heraldic issues, regional history, concentrating especially on the diocese of Toul (on request of the bishop of Toul, Henri de Thiard de Bissy, who wanted to prove that the Saint-Dié chapter and the abbeys of the Vosges were not independent but dependent upon episcopal authority) and the Lorraine and Bar regions.

works

a. materials pertaining to the history of the Franciscan order:

Apologie de l’histoire de l’indulgence de Portioncule (Toul, 1714).

Réponse aux Lettres critiques sur l’apologie de l’histoire de l’indulgence de Portioncule (Toul, 1716). A reaction to criticisms raised by J.-J. Petitdier against Benoît’s Apologie.

Illustratio Sigilli et Contrasigilli Conradi, Cognomine Probi, Ordinis Sancti Francisci, Sacri Romani Imperii Principis et Episcopi Civitatis Leucorum>>>. A.o. dealing with the cap of the original franciscan habit.

Dissertatio Apologetica seu Vindiciae Conradi Minoritae et Episcopi Tullensis ab Injuriis Male in Eum Impactis, contra Eventinum et Centuriatores Magdeburgenses: ?

Synopsis Historica Primae, Apud Leucos Eorumque Confines, Ordinis Sancti Francisci Institutionis ac Illius Progressus: ?

b. materials pertaining to the history of Toul, Lorraine and Bar

La vie de saint Gérard, évêque de Toul, avec des notes pour servir à l’histoire du pays (Toul, 1700). This is partly a translation/reworking of the Latin biography on this saint made by Widric, abbot of Saint-Épure.

Dissertation critique pour prouver que la ville de Toul était la capitale et le siège épiscopal des Leuquois, que Grand n’a pas été la capitale des Leuquois ni le siège épiscopal de saint Eucaire et que ce saint n’a pas été évêque des Leuquois. Contre le ‘Système chronologique des évêques de Toul’ et contre la préface mise en tête de ce livre (Toul, 1702). Directed against the Système chronologique written by Fr. de Riguet (and published by the Premonstratensian Louis Hugo at Nancy in 1701).

Défense de l’antiquité de la ville de Toul, contre la préface d’un livre qui a pour titre ‘Système chronologique et historique des évêques de Toul' (Paris, 1702).

Lettre écrite à Monsieur **** sur l’Histoire de saint Sigebert III, roi d’Austrasie (Toul, 1702). Ripping apart Vincent de Nancy’s Histoire fidèle de Saint Sigebert, XIIe roy d’Austrasie et IIIe du nom (Nancy, 1702), a work that had the support of Louis Hugo.

Lettre à Monsieur l’abbé XXX, sur l’‘Histoire de saint Sigebert, XIIe roi d’Austrasie’; Réplique à la réponse aux deux lettres écrites sur l’ ‘Histoire de saint Sigebert, IIIe du nom; Réponse aux observations sur la réplique de l’auteur anonime à la réponse aux deux lettres critiques contre l’ ‘Histoire de saint Sigebert, IIIe du nom, XIIe roi d’Austrasie’ (Toul, 1704). Cf. MS nancy, Bibliothèque municipale 468.

L’origine de la très illustre maison de Lorraine avec un abrégé de l’histoire de ses princes (Toul, 1704).

Histoire ecclésiastique et politique de la ville et du diocèse de Toul (Toul, 1707).

Pouillé ecclésiastique et civil du diocèse de Toul, 2 Vols. (Toul, 1711). As it did not suit the taste and policies of the living Duke of Lorraine, the latter obtained a royal decree forbidding the sale of the work in the Duchies of Lorraine and Bar. Already before that, the Duke of Lorraine had commissioned Louis Hugo to write a more favorable history of the Dukes of Lorraine, to counter the picture rising up from earlier works by Benoît.

Supplément à l’histoire de la maison de Lorraine et remarques sur le traité historique et critique de l’origine de la généalogie de la maison de Lorraine (Berlin, 1711). Disqualifying Hugo’s Traité historique et critique de l’origine de la généalogie de la maison de Lorraine.

Réplique aux deux lettres qui servent d’apologie du traité historique sur l’origine de la maison de Lorraine, avec la suite des remarques critiques sur le même traité (Toul, 1713). Yet another episode in the conflict between our Franciscan and Louis Hugo. In the end, the Duke of Lorraine dismissed Hugo as the official historian for his Duchy.

Histoire ecclesiastique de la ville et du diocese de Metz: MS once in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Metz, lost during the Second World War?

Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de la ville et du diocèse de Metz (1716): MS once in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Metz, lost during the Second World War?

Histoire du diocèse de Verdun (incomplete): MS ?

Recueil des hommes illustres du diocèse de Toul (incomplete): MS ?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 202-203; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 197; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 735; Auguste Digot, 'Eloge historique du P. Benoit Picart', Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences (...) de Nancy (1844), 116-208; E. Martin, ‘Le P. Benoît de Toul’, Études franciscaines 41 (1929), 270-293, 392-415; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Toul’, DHGE VIII, 265-269; Lexicon Capuccinum, 195; Clément Schmitt, 'Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Metz', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 67 (1974), 483.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Fidelis de Sancto Philippo (Benedetto Fedele, fl. mid 17th cent.)

TOR. Italian Observant regular tertiary from the Sicily province. Doctor of theology and general commissarius.

works

Theoremata moralia decerpta ex Psalmo XXII, de augustissimo Eucharistiae Sacramento (Naples: viuda Lazaro Scotigio, 1638/1644/1648). Accessible via tha Mediathèque of Lyon (Numelyo) and Google Books. This work was later re-issued as: Paradisus Eucharisticus. Hoc est Theoremata moralia ex Psalmo XXII. De augustissimo Sanctissimae Eucaristiae Sacramento Depromta, ed. Jacobus Emans OCarm (Cologne: Joannes Buseaeus, 1659). Accessible via Google Books. Check also the the Mediathèque of Lyon (Numelyo).

Sacri panegirici de santi, de quali santa Chiesa con solennità maggore celebra per tutto l'anno la Festa (Venice: Giunti, 1640/Venice: Heredi di Tomaso Giunti, 1648). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books. Check also the Mediathèque of Lyon (Numelyo).

Quaresimale overo Considerationi sopra i Vangeli della Quaresima appartenenti al predicatore, 2 Vols. (Palermo: Decio Cyrillo, 1633 [only the first volume?] /Venice: Giacomo Sarzina, 1641/Venice: Ognibene Classeri, 1648). In any case the first volume of the 1641 and 1648 editions is accessible via Google Books. Check also the Mediathèque de Lyon (Numelyo).

Paradisus Sanctorum hoc est, sermones sacri panegyrici in festa sanctorum (...) (Venice: Giunti, 1640/Cologne: Joannes Busaeus, 1658/Cologna: Hermann Demen, 1682). The 1558 and 1682 editions are accessible via the Mediathèque of Lyon (Numelyo) and via Google Books.

Paradisus Conionatorum ex amoenissimis lectissimis que totius S. Scripturae textibus, ceu plantis confitus ac constanti, solida solertique Sanctorum Veterum Patrum, modernorumque praecipuorum Doctorum manu, doctoque calamo excultus, elaboratus et in duas partes divisus, 2 Vols. (Cologna: Joannes Busaeus, 1659 [2nd ed.]/). In any case the first volume of the second edition is accessible via Google Books.

Paradisus Voluptatis Verbi Incarnati. Hoc est Sermones in Evangelia Dominicalia et Festorum D.N. Jesu Christi, quae in Ecclesia leguntur à Dominica I. Adventus usque ad Quadragesimam, trans. Jacob Emans OCarm (Venice: Giunti, 1646/Cologne: Hermannus Demen, 1682 [2nd ed., in six independent volumes?]). In any case the first volume of the 1682 edition is accessible via Google Books. Check also the Mediathèque of Lyon (Numelyo).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 199; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 122-123.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Gaeta (Benedictus Francofontensis/Benedetto Gaeta da Francofonte, ca. 1559-1630)

OFMRef. Italian friar of the Riformati Sicilian province. Born at Francofonte (Syracuse Diocese). Was already a secular priest when he decided to join the Riformati at the San Francesco friary of Agrigento. Took his profession on 27 November 1589. Novice master for ca. 38 years, as well as confessor of the Poor Clares of the royal Poor Clare monastery at Naples for more than three years. He died in Messina or Palermo on 15 March 1630. Productive spiritual author, yet none of his works seem to have been edited.

works

I dodici gradi dell'umiltà ?

Lettera dell'uomo esule à cristo il re ed risposto di Cristo all'uomo esule: ?

Della perfezione cristiana: ?

Le tre Vie: purgativa, illuminativa, unitiva: ?

vitae

Pietro Tognoletto, Paradiso serafico: vita di fra' Serafino di Luca e dei frati Benedetto Gaeta e Giuseppe Scarlati da Francofonte (Palermo: nella Stamparia di Tomaso Romolo, 1687.). The work was re-issued with an introduction as: Paradiso serafico: vita di fra' Serafino di Luca e dei frati Benedetto Gaeta e Giuseppe Scarlati da Francofonte, ed. Antonino Terzo (Francofonte: Centro studi M. Gaudioso, 1995).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 199-200; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 123; DSpir VI, 30; to be continued...

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Gualdinus (Benedict Kelsternbasset, 1625-1698)

OFMCap. Of English descent, he entered the order in the Normandy province. After a career in various French provinces, he died at Alençon on 28 May 1698. Author of a four-volume mystical work in French (with a Latin title?), divided over 8 main themes. Unknown if this was ever printed.

works

Homo Sensatus, Secundum Illa Verba: ‘Homo Sensatus Credit Legi Dei et Lex Illi Fidelis’: ?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 200; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1884) III, 562-564; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit Gualdinus’, DHGE VIII, 210-211;

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Genuensis (Benedetto de’Barbieri, d. 1795)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Genoa province. Author.

works

Raccolta di alcune orazioni panegiriche (Genoa, 1787).

Triennium Philosophicum, 2 Vols.: MS Voltri, Biblioteca dei Cappuccini (unnumbered manuscript? Apparently only containing the first volume).

Orazioni panegiriche (Genoa, s.a.). This work can also be found in the 1787 editon of the Raccolta.

literature

Johannes Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 15; F. Molfino, Cappuccini liguri (Genoa, 1909), 32; Francesco Zaverio, I cappuccini Genovesi, I: Note biografiche (Genoa, 11912), 24; A. Teetaert, ‘Bénigne de Gênes’, DHGE VII, 1325.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Passafulmine (Benedictus de Passaflumine/Benedetto Passafiume, d. 1646)

OFM. Italian friar from Sicily. Theology lector, provincial preacher and censor for the Inquisition.

works

Vita Francisci Gonzaga (Palermo, 1636). Ascription correct?

De origine Ecclesiae Cephaleditanae, ejusque Urbis & Dioecesis brevis descriptio (Venice: Bertani, 1645).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 201; Methode pour etudier l'histoire, avec un catalogue des principaux historiens (...), Nouvelle Edition, III (Paris, 1735), 293; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 124.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Polonus (mid 13th cent.)

OM. Polish friar. Travel companion of Giovanni di Pian Carpine (Johannes de Plano Carpini) on the journey to Mongolia in 1245. Like Giovanni, Benedict produced an itinerary/history of his adventures. This work itself seemingly has not survived. An anonymous scribe from near Cologne reworked Bendicts’ account into a concise Relatio (1247).

works

Relatio Mongolorum/De Itinere Fratrum Minorum ad Tartaros, edited as: Relation des mongols ou tartares par Jean du Plan de Carpin. Première édition complète publiée d'Après les manuscrits de Leyde, de Paris, et de Londres, cur. M. d'Avezac (Paris, 1838), Appendix: De Itinere Fratrum Minorum ad Tartaros quae frater Benedictus Polonus viva voce retulit; Sinica Franciscana, cur, A. van den Wyngaert, I. (Florence/Quarracchi, 1929), 131-143.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 201; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 124; Pullé, Historia Mongolorum (Florence, 1913), 121-124; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Benoit de Pologne’, DHGE VIII, 250; B.Roest, Reading the Book of History. Intellecual contexts and educational functions of franciscan historiography (1226-ca. 1350) (Groningen, 1996), 114-115, 121; C. Fossati, ‘I Mongoli, Giovanni di Pian del Carpine e Benedetto Polonno’, Itineraria 8 (2009); Adriano Duque, ‘The Text as Map: Benedict the Pole’s Account of the Carpine Mission to Mongolia (1246-1247), in: Travels and Travelogues in the Middle Ages, ed. Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine, AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, 28 (AMS Press, 2009), 233-248; Franciszek M. Rosinski, ‘Franciszkanska legacja papieska z udzialem Polaka u Wielkiego Chana’, in: Observare Evangelium. Wroclawska Ksiega Jubileuszu 800-lecia Zakonu Braci Mniejszych, ed. Franciszek M. Rosinski (Wroclaw: Franciszkanskie Wydawnictwo sw. Antoniego, 2009), 385-407. [on Benedict of Poland and his legate journey to the Mongol Khan]; Anna Czarnowus, 'The Mongols, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe: The Mirabilia Tradition in Benedict of Poland's Historia Tartarorum and John of Plano Carpini's Historia Mongalorum', Literature Compass 11 (2014), 484-495.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Sinigardi (Benedetto di Arezzo/Sinigardi di Arezzo, 1190 - 1282), beatus

OM. Italian friar. Member of the noble Sinigardi famiy (son of Tómas and Elisabetta Sinigardi). He heared a sermon by Francis of Assisi in the Piazza Grande of Arezzo in 1211 and joined the new order almost immediately thereafter. In 1217, he became provincial minister of the Marches province. Shortly afterwards, he went with a group of friars as a missionary to Romania, Greece, and Turkey. By 1221, he arrived in the Holy Land, where he stayed for sixteen years, and where he became the first Franciscan provincial. He returned to Italy afterwards and lived the last years of his life in/near Arezzo in the Poggio del Sole friary. He died there in 1282. His body was buried in the San Francesco basilica of Arezzo. To him is assigned the invention of the Angelus prayer, although there are older monastic customs for evening (Compline) recitations connected with this. The first documented use of the Angelus prayer itself seems to go back to Sinigardi, and several Italian Franciscan friaries started using it from the early 1260s onwards. Moreover, in 1269, Bonaventure promoted the saying of three Hail Marys at the ringing of the Compline bell in 1269.

literature

Domenico Cresi, Il beato Benedetto Sinigardi d'Arezzo e l'origine dell'Angelus Domini (Florence: Convento di San Francesco, 1958; Jeryldine M. Wood, ‘Piero’s Legend of the True Cross and the friars of San Francesco [Sansepolcro]’, in: The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca, 51-65, 205-214; H. Schauerle, 'Angelus Domini', Lexikon der Marienkunde (Regensburg, 1967), 217–221; See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus#History

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Valenza (Benedetto Valenza, 1708-1790)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Wood sculptor.

works

Religious wood sculptures. See the literature below.

literature

Pietro Roccaforte, Benedetto Valenza scultore trapanese 1708-1790 (Palermo, 1978; Maurizio Vitella, ‘Benedetto Valenza e il Crocifisso della chiesa dei cappuccini di Erice’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Trapani. Atti del Convegno di Studio Trapani-Alcamo 19-21 novembre 2009, ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani – Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo, 2011).

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Schoffer (Benedictus Scoffer, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. German friar from th Cologne province.

works

He would have made a German translation of Bernardinus Vetweis' Compendium Controversiarum, which as issued as: Glaubens-Stern (Cologne: Haeredes Joannis Crithii, 1642).

literature

Fortunatus Hueber, Dreyfache Cronickh Von Dem dreyfachen Orden deß H. Ordens Stiffters Francisci, 764; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 202.

 

 

 

 

Benedictus Sigl (d. 1764)

OFMConv. Novice master in Luzern. Author of confession manuals, novice training treatises and related works, as well as polemical historical works.

works

Neu-vermehrter Geistlicher Weegweiser, Welcher In aller Kürze, aufrichtig, klar, und ausfürlich zeiget, wie man sich bey dem Aufsstegen, Morgenmeynyng, Heil. Mesz, Particular-Examen, Gebett, Beicht und Heil. Communion, Betrachten (…) (Luzern, Benedict Hautt, 1755). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

DSpir XIV, 827.

 

 

 

 

Benignus Fremaldus (Bénigne Fremaut, 1654-1723)

OFMRec. Belgian friar, spiritual reformer, hagiographer and historian. Entered the religious life as a Franciscan novice at Ypres (Ieper) in 1670 in Flanders. In 11680, the general of the order Joseph Ximenes Samaniego asked for several friars from Flanders to introduce Recollect reforms in Naples. Benignus was enthrusted with the coordination of this endeavour, which apparently did not succeed. After his fellow flemish friars had returned to Belgium, Benignus stayed for two years in Italy, working with the successor of Wadding, father Harold, and doing research in a number of Italian friaries. After his return to Belgium, Benignus began to write a number of works based on his research. His main publication is De geestelijke palmboom, 12 Vols. (Bruges (?), 1693-1720). Benignus also fulfilled several administrative and spiritual charges. He was, for instance, vicar at Eeklo and Diksmuiden (Dixmude), spiritual director and confessor (a.o. for the Urbanist Poor Clares of Ghent and tertiary sisters) etc.

works

Den geestelicken palm-boom in elke maent nieuwe vruchten gevende, oft Generale legende vande levens der heyligen […] uyt de dry-vuldige orden vanden H. en Seraphinschen Vader Franciscus, bestaende in twaelf boecken, ed. Petrus Bouttats (Bruges: Jan Danckaert, 1693/Ghent: Franciscus en Dominicus vander Ween, 1720). The 1720 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books. This work was re-edited between 1859-1871 by Ladislaus van den Berk and also appeared in a number of Italian and French adaptations. See for instance Paul Guérin, Le palmier séraphique (Malvoisin-Bar-le-Duc, 1872); Léon de Clary, L’auréole séraphique, 4 Vols. (1883-1884), itself translated into Italian as the L’aureola serafica, and first of all Mazzara’s Leggendario franciscano (1721).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 203; DHGE XVIII, 1240f

 

 

 

 

Benignus Genuensis (Benigno da Genova, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Fulfilled his noviciate and made his solemn profession in the Nicosía friary (Sicily Province). Made a quick career in the order. He was elected as the first OFMRef minister general of the Franciscan order at the general chapter of Salamanca (1618), a position he kept for seven years. During his tenure, he stimulated reforms in various Franciscan provinces (Venice, Germany) and issued new Statuta Generalia that had reformative measures on many issues (noviciate, prayer, silence, discipline, use of money, etc.). Later he also fulfilled several stints as general commissary for the Cismontan provinces. He died in the Roman S. Isidoro monastery in April 1651.

works

Statuta Generalia Barcininensia Regularis Observantiae (...) pro eius Cismontana familia novissime in Comitiis Generalibus intermediis Segoviae habitis anno Domini 1621 sub R.P.F. Benigno à Genua totius Ordinis Generali Ministro, accuratius revisa & faciliori methodo disposita (...) (Madrid: Tomas Giunta, 1621). Accessible via Google Books.

Epistulae circulares, ed. in Dominicus de Gubernatis, Orbis Seraphicus I, 252 [letter on order reform] & Antonio Daza, Libro de la purissima concepción de la madre de Dios (Madrid: Luis Sánchez, 1621), 61 (letter on defending the mystery of the immaculate conception).

Liber apologeticus pro Religione Regularis Observantiae Minorum nonnulis Reformatis (...) (Roncilione: Francesco Mercurio, 1624). Check!

Epistola ad Philippum III Hispaniarum Regem pro Immaculata Virginis Conceptione.?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 203-204; Tognoletto, Paradiso serafico I, 566-568; Bernardo da Decimio [Bonaventura da Diecimo], Secoli serafici ovvero compendio cronologico della storia francescana dall'anno mclxxxii in cui nacque il serafico patriarca S. Francesco d'Assisi (...) fino al capitolo generale dell'anno mdcclvi (...), 2nd ed. (Florence: Pietro Gaetano Viviani, 1757), 195-196; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125.

 

 

 

 

Benignus Genuensis (Benigno da Genova, d. 1795)

OFMCap. Italian friar and provincial minister. He died in January 1795.

works

Raccolta di alcune orazioni panegiriche del padre Benigno da Genova provinciale cappuccino dedicata all'ecc.mo signor Francesco Dongo (Felice Repetto in Canneto, 1785).

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), 15.

 

 

 

 

Benignus Lohranus (Benignus von Lohr, d. 1719)

OFMCap. German friar from the Rhine province. Lector, guardian, custos and provincial definitor. Respected preacher. Also active as religious controversialist against certain Lutheran spokesmen.

works

Christliche Trauer- und Klag-Predig Uber den unzeitigen Todtfall Weyland Des (...) Herrn Lotharii Friderici, Des Heil. Stuels zu Mäyntz Ertz-Bischoffen (...): Welcher Am H. Pfingst-Montag den 3. Junii dieses lauffenden 1675. Jahrs, in Seiner Churfürstlichen Haupt- und Residentz-Stadt Mäyntz, in St. Martins-Burg daselbst (...) in dem Herrn entschlaffen (Mainz: Küchler, 1675).

Analysis Psalmi CXVIII. Das ist Der Geist eines vollkommenen Gottes Menschens : Gesogen und gezogen aus dem hundert und achtzehenden Psalmen Davids, Oder vielmehr Außgefertigte Predigen sambt einem weitläuffigem und sehr nützlichem Indice Concionatorio, auch doppeltem Indice Rerum Notabilium, und verlangten Marginalien, nebenst einem Communi Sanctorum, auch einer Kirchweyh sambt etlichen Trost-reichen Leich-Predigen ; Welche Lehr deß Geistes (...) Verfasset in hundert Discursen, In zwey Theil abgetheilet, Und allen Verkündern des Worts Gottes zum Nutzen in den Druck herauß gegeben (Franckfurt am Mayn: Bencard, 1684).

Kurtze wider Abfertigung, dessen was Johann Christoph Holtzhausen, Evangelischer Prediger zu Franckfurth am Maeijn verfertigen, unde deme von P. Dionysio Luxemb. Capucino in Truck außgegangenen Buechmein, genannt Praedicanten-Geschwaetz, gantz unbefugt widerbellen wollen. Wie auch gründtlige Ableinung dessen was gegen oberwöhntes Büchlein ein Liechtschewender Praedicant oder vielmehr ein Zotten und Possen-Reiter (...) (Heidelberg: Johannes Caspar Bencardt, 1687). Accessible via the digital portal of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek [http://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_%2BZ224636206 ] and via the Europeana.eu portal.

Apotheosis eucharistica, das ist Lobsprechung des hochwürdigsten Sacraments (...): this is the third part of the Concionator Tripartitus.

Auxesis evangelica: this is the first part of the Concionator Tripartitus

Apotheosis sanctorum this is the second part of the Concionator Tripartitus

Concionator tripartitus oder Neues, in drey Theil abgefasstes Predig-Buch: dessen erster Theil, Auxesis Evangelica in sich begreiffet geist- und lehrreiche Predigen über alle sonntägliche Evangelia. Der andere Theil, Apotheosis Sanctorum Sitten und Sinnreiche Discursen von den lieben Heiligen Gottes. Der dritte Theil, Apotheosis Eucharistialis lieb- und trostreiche Sermonen von dem hochwürdigen Sacrament dess Heiligsten Fronleichnams Christi: sambt zwölff aussgezogenen Predigen für die zwölff monatliche Bettstunden der Ertz-Bruderschafft dess allerheiligsten Sacraments (...) (Dillingen: Johann Caspar Bencard, 1693).

Unglückliger Thier-Kampff Des starckmühtigen Löwens Und des Willmühtigen Widders Das ist Uber den unzeitigen Todt- Fall, Weiland des Herrns Hugonis Emerici Frey- und Edlen Herrens von Eltz, des Hohen Thumh-Stiffts Trier Capitularens (... )Auff hiesiger Thumb-Cantzel (...) Geführte Trauer und Klag-Rede (Trier: Reulandt, 1698).

Traurender Adler Wegen der Durch den gefrässigen Raub- und Todten-Vogel Entzuckten Weissen Henne Das ist Vber den unverhofften Todt-Fall Weiland ... Herrens Alexandri Henn des (...) Gottes-Hauß S. Maximini ausser Trier, Benedictiner Ordens Abtens (...) Betrübter Nachruff : Geschehen In einer Leicht- und Lob-Predig (...) (Trier: Reulandt, 1698).

See also under Benedictus von Lohr, for there are listed order-related texts that also might have to be ascribed to Benignus Lohranus.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 204; Petrus Franciscus Agricola, Sæculi xviii. Bibliotheca ecclesiastica authorumque notitiae biographicae III (Hannover: H.M. Pockwitz, 1781),

 

 

 

 

Benignus Maria a. S. Alosio (?)

OFM. Italian friar. Theologian.

works

Theologiae Scholastico-Dogmaticae Praelectiones: Naples, Naz. VII.B.66 (sec. XVIII).

 

 

 

 

Benignus de Condom (Bénigne de Condom, d. 1697)

OFMCap. French friar from the Aquitanian province. Historian. His works, the Annales du couvent d’Auch, and the Registre des miracles de Notre-Dame de Médoux, seemingly are lost.

literature

Apollinaro di Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Occitaniae et Aquitaniae (Nemours, 1894), 44; Eduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 10; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capuchins de la province de Toulouse (1582-1928) (Toulouse, 1928), 7; A. Teetaert, ‘Bénigne de Condom’, DHGE VII, 1321-1322.

 

 

 

 

Benignus Lohranus (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Member of the Rhein province.

works

Theologia Mystica, Das ist: Geistliche und Geheime Kunst, GOTT Vollkomentlich zu lieben, und sich mit ihme gäntzlich zu vereinigen. Erstlich in Lateinischer Sprach zusammen getrafen von R.P. Bonifacio Maes, Fratr. Minor. Recollect. (...) Anjetzo aber ins Hoch-Teutsche übersetzt von R.P.F. Benigno Lohrano Capucino Rheinischer Provintz (Mainz, 1715).

literature

to be continued

 

 

 

 

Benjamin Beaupourt (Benjamin Beausport, fl. 1550)

OFM. French Observant friar active in the Paris region. Guardian of the Malesherbes friary.

works

L'harmonie et accord evangelique (Paris, 1552/Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1560).

Monotessaron des Evangiles, qui est un Recueil comprenant tout ce qui a été traité par les quatre Evangélistes, touchant la vie de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ (Paris: Veuve de Maurice de la Porte, 1552). Accessible via the special book collection of the Université de Liège.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 203; François Grude de La Croix Du Maine et de Du Verdier, Les bibliothèques françoises I (1732), 69; Johann Heinrich Zedler, Grosses vollständiges Universal Lexikon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste III (1733), 847; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125; Droz, Bibles françaises, 218-220.

 

 

 

 

Benjamin de Carcassonne (d. 1708)

OFMCap. Provincial of the Toulouse province. Historian.

works

Histoire de l’église de Notre-Dame de Saint Sauveur, en laquelle fut fondé et establi le couvent des Pères capucins, l’an 1592. Mémoire historique de la fondation du couvent de Carcassonne depuis l’an 1592 jusqu’en l’an 1689, ed. D. Mahul, in: Cartulaire et archives des communes de l’ancien diocèse et de l’arrondissement de Carcassonne, Vols. V-VI (Paris, 1871).

literature

Apollinaro de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Occitaniae et Aquitaniae (Nemours, 1894), 44-45; Eduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis fratrum minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 10; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capuchins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1928), 8; A. Teetaert, ‘Benjamin de Carcassonne’, DHGE VII, 1343.

 

 

 

 

Benjamin Elbel (fl. 1730)

OFMRec. Belgian friar active in the Strasbourg or Germania Superioris province. Lector of theology (reached the status of lector jubilatus).

works

Theologia Moralis Sacramentalis Tripartita per modum conferentiarum casibus practicis applicata, & illustrata ad usum tum curatorum, tum praesertim pro cura animarum examinandorum, 3 Vols. (Augsburg-Grazm 1728/Augsburg-Graz: Veith, 1730-1731/1732/1744/1755 [fifth edition]). The first volume deals with the sacraments in general, with baptism, extreme unction, the Eucharist etc.; The second volume focuses on the sacrament of penance; Volume three deals with spouses and marriage, and with adultery and abortion. In later editions the third volume in particular seems to have received significant updates (with sections on swearing, vows, the obligations of and towards children and servants, etc.) The first and third volume of various editions are accessible via Google Books.

A supplement to the Theologia Moralis Sacramentalis Tripartita was issued later in the 18th century by the Recollect fiar Sebaldus Minderer. See there.

Conferentiae Theologico Morales, seu casus conscientiae de restitutione tum in genere tum etiam in specie (...) (Augsburg: Erben Matthias Wolff, 1730/Augsburg; Erben Matthias Wolff, 1731 [2nd Ed.]). This second edition is accessible via Google Books.

Theologia moralis decalogalis et sacramentalis per modum conferentiarum casibus practicis illustrata et applicata (...), 3 Vols. (Augsburg: Erben Matthias Wolff, 1738/.../Augsburg: Erben Matthias Wolff, 1745 [4th Ed.]/Augsburg: Joannes Baptista Recurtus, 1747/ Augsburg: Joannes Baptista Recurtus, 1759). Various volumes from different editions are accessible via Google Books, via the Bibliothèque de la ville de Lyon and elsewhere.

The works of Elbel remained in use for a considerable time, and in the 1890s appeared a revised Theologia Moralis per Modum Conferentiarum by Irinaeus Bierbaum, based on the works of Elbel.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 203 (Benjamin Eliel).

 

 

 

 

Benno de Stans (Benno von Stans/Benno Lussi/Lussy Benno de Stans, 1679-1755)

OFMCap. Swiss friar. Made a career as a lector, guardian, definitor, custos and provincial. Known for his commentary on the Third order rule and for his hagiographical biography of the Unterwalden hermit Nikolaus von Flue.

works

Wunder- und Tugendt-Stern, der in dem schweizerischen Alp-Gebürg entstanden, von sonderen göttlichen Gnadenstrahlen erleuchtet, mit Glantz sonderer Heiligkeit geschinen, dass ist Übernatürliches Leben, heiligster Wandel und grosse Wunder-Werck des Villseeligen Bruder Clausen von Unterwalden (Lucerna, 1732) 

Regelbüchlein des dritten Ordens (Stans, 1730 & 1734).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 42; L. Signer, ‘Pflege des Schrifttums in der Schweizer Provinz’, in: Die schweizerische Kapuzinerprovinz (Einsiedeln, 1928), 345-347; Christian Schweizer, ‘Lussy Benno de Stans, cap. (1679-1755)’, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz 8 (2009), 109f.

 

 

 

 

Benno Mayr (fl. seventeenth century)

OFM. German friar and Scotist theologian

works

Quaestiones Selectae ex Libro I Sententiarum de Scientia Dei ad Mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Ingolstadt, 1680).

 

 

 

 

Bentivenga de Bentivengi (Bentivenga da Bentivengis, d. 1289/90)

OM. Italian friar. Born in Aquasparta. Became in 1276 bishop of Todi and in 1278 cardinal-archbishop of Albano and papal penitentiary. He was a prolific preacher and was involved with the redaction of the papal decree Exiit qui seminat of Nicholas III. He might have died in the Todi friary, and he left his books and other matters in his testament to that friary. No works by his hand seem to have survived, although he is mentioned as the author of a sermon collection and a Veritatis Theologicae Volumen.

literature

Salimbene, Cronica, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII, 498; Wadding, Scriptores, 53 [check!]; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 204; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 125 (ed. 1806, p. 125, 131); Der Registerband des Cardinal-Grosspänitentiars Bentivenga (Mainz, 1890); AF II, 91-92 105-106; AF III, 300-309-420; Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, 9, 54; Zawart, 286; AFH, 2 (1909), 461 & 6 (1913), 10; A. Teetaert, ‘Bentivenga de Bentivengis’, DHGE VIII, 281; Schneyer, I, 39.

 

 

 

 

Benvenutus Catrin (Benvenut Catrin/Cattrin, 1663-17713)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Member of the Tirol Saint Leopold province. Philosophy and theology lector.

works

Quaestiones philosophicae selectiores ad mentem Doctoris Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti propositae et publicae concertationi subiectae in (...) monasterio Staingadensi, praeside P. F. Benvenuto Catrin (...), propugnantibus (...) FF. Theobaldo Vischler, Servatio Megerle, Gilberto Dreer, Henrico Gerber, Canonicis Regul. (...) Ordinis Praemonstratensis S. Norberti professis in Staingaden, candidatis philosophiae Scotisticae, anno MDCXCV mensis januarii (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1695).

De scientia Dei (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1695). Does this exist?

Subtilitas Doctoris Subtilis, Joannis Duns Scoti circa distinctionis divinarum perfectionum et relationum ac scientiam Dei, (...) praeside P. F. Benevenuto Catrin ss. theologiae lectore, propugnantibus PP. FF. Joanne Chrysostomo Friz et Augustino Drasl, ss. theologiae candidatis, mense majo XXXVI. (...) anno MDCIIC (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1698).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 20. [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]

 

 

 

 

Benvenutus Silvola (Benvenuto Silvola da Milano/Francesco Benvenuto Silvola, 1703-1778)

OFMRif. Italian friar. Chose Benvenuto as his order name. Member of the Milan province. Guardian of the Santa Maria al Giardino della Scala friary. Chronicler and copiist/book collector. His works and book collection is now present in the so-called Fondo Benvenuto in the Biblioteca Braidense in Milan.

works

Della Minoritica Riforma, Cronica Prima: MS MS Milan, Biblioteca nazionale Braidense, Manoscritti, AF._XII. 9. [Part of the so-called Fondo Benvenuto in the Biblioteca Braidense, a number of 29 printed and manuscript works linked to the activities of Benvenuto da Milano in the Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus and the Santa Maria del Giardino friaries. See also Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Museo d’Arte Antica del Castello Sforzesco. Scultura lapidea, ed. Maria Teresa Fiorio, III (Milan, 2014).

Della Minoritica Riforma di Milano, Cronica Seconda, composta dal Padre Frate Girolamo Francesco da Merate, e fatta trascivere dal Padre Frate Benvenuto da Milano entrambi Alunni della medesima : MS Milan, Biblioteca nazionale Braidense, Manoscritti, AF._XII.10 [Part of the so-called Fondo Benvenuto in the Biblioteca Braidense, a number of 29 printed and manuscript works linked to the activities of Benvenuto da Milano in the Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus friary and the Santa Maria del Giardino friary. In this case we are talking about a manuscript copy once made in the Convento di S. Maria del Giardino, and going back to a work assembled in the Convent di Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus. For a full description, see https://manus.iccu.sbn.it//opac_SchedaScheda.php?ID=14966]

literature

Anacleto Mosconi, `I cronisti delle provincie Osservante e Riformata di Milano: P. Bernardino Burocco da Monza (d. 1746) e P. Benvenuto Silvola da Milano (d. 1778)', AFH, 71 (1978), 130-149. (esp. 127-49); Anacleto Mosconi, ‘Un curioso cronista milanese del Settecento. Il francescano Benvenuto Silvola’, Civiltà Ambrosiana 15 (1998), 444-447.

 

 

 

 

Berard Müller (fl. 18th century)

OFM. German friar. Historian of the Upper Germany province.

works

Chronica de Ortu et Progressu Almae Provinciae Argentinensis quae per Superiorem Germaniam Sacra est B. Elisabeth FF. Minorum Conventualium in Duas Partas Divisas et Scripta (1703), ed. M. Sehi, in: Alemania Franciscana Antiqua XII (1964).

 

 

 

 

Berardus Recheis (Berard Recheis/Berard Reeheis, 1754-1821)

OFMRef. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol Sankt Leopold province.

works

De natura et nobilissimo naturae opere seu homine positiones philosophicae, quas ex praelectionibus Erasmi Jeger, propugnabunt Justinus Rottmayr, Berardus Reeheisn & Venerandus Hensl (1777).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 143 [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]

 

 

 

 

Berardus Strotius (Berardo Strozzi, fl. 1630)

OFM. Italian Observantfriar. Predicatore Generale and musical composer.

works

Per compagnie musica concertata a 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. in honore della Beatissima Vergine, solita cantarsi nelle Compagnie di notte, insieme con le sue lettanie, alcuni motetti, una laude, & sijmfonie per stromenti. Opera comoda & novamente composta, dal Reverendo P.F. Berardo Strozzi Predicatore Generale de minori Osserv. (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni, 1630). Accessible via Oxford, Christ Church (Microfilm Copies of Mus. 179-182, Reel 7 [World Microfilms, PO Box 35488, St John's Wood, LONDON, NW8 6WD. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7586 4499, Fax: +44 (0)20 7722 1068, E-mail: microworld@ndirect.co.uk.])

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125.

 

 

 

 

Berengarius de Bardaxi (Berenguer de Bardaxi, d. 1616)

OFM. Spanish Oservant friar from Saragossa. Taught theology at the Sta Maria and San Francisco convents in his home town, before he became provincial of Aragon. King Philip III commended him for the episcopal see of Huesca, a position he obtained in 13 April 1608. Obtained great wealth for his diocese, combing this with great personal austerity. Organised a synod in 1611 and performed as the orator at the provincial council of Saragossa in 1614. He died on December 20, 1615.

works

Proprium Sanctorum Diocesis Oscensis, Apostolicae Sedis Auctoritate (…) (Saragossa, 1610?). Later editions followed.

Diferentes oraciones sagrades (Huesca, 1608).

Sermones (Huesca, 1614).

literature 

F. de Latassa, Biblioteca nueva de los escritos aragoneses (Pamplona, 1789) II, 200-202; J. Coignet, ‘Bardaxi’, DHGE VI, 762. 

 

 

 

 

Berengarius de Malabosco (late thirteenth-early fourteenth cent.)

OM. French friar. Custos of the Franciscan custody of Toulouse, canonist

works

Summa super Titulo de Actionibus (?): Seo de Urgel, Biblioteca Capitular 2042 ff. 125ra-135va (ca. 1300)

literature

AFH, 17 (1924), 335. check!

 

 

 

 

Bernarda Maria (Bernarda Maria de Sevilla, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare who lived in the Santa Clara monastery of Seville. She is known for a poetic lamentation to commemorate the death of Juan Pérez de Montalbán.

works

Lamenti. Included in Lágrimas panegíricas a la tenprana muerte del gran poeta y teólogo insigne doctor Juan Pérez de Montalbán (Madrid: Inprenta del Reino, 1639).

literature

Manuel Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritoras españolas desde el año 1401 al 1833 (Madrid, 1903) II, 38.

 

 

 

 

Bernardettus Vercellensis (Bernadetto da Vercelli, late 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar.

works

Sermo de Bonaventura: MS Napoli, Biblioteca Naz. VIII.AA.30, ff. 112a-114c (dopo 1450) [Inc.: Volavit ad me unus de seraphim. Scribuntur hec verba Isaye 4c. Iesus Nazarenus crucifixus rex Iudeorum fratres carissimi…; Expl.: In hac vita gratiam et fidem. Amen.]

literature

Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. C. Cenci (Napoli 1971), II, 774

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Amicus (Bernardino Amico, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant Franciscan friar from Gallipoli, known for his works on the Holy Land, where he was guardian at the Holy Sepulchre near Jerusalem, in Bethlehem and Cairo in the 1590s, and which contains building plans and building details concerning a significant number of buildings found in the Holy Land, based on measurements done by Amico during his sojourn in Palestine between 1593 and 1596.

works

Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa (Rome: : Ex Typographia Linguarum Externarum, 1609)/Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa: Disegnate in Ierusalemme secondo le regole della prospetiua & uera misura della lor grandezza (Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620). The 1620 Florence edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/amico1620/0097]. See now also: Bernardino Amico, Plans of the Sacred Edifices of the Holy Land, ed. & trans. Theophilus Bellorini and Eugene Hoade, SBF Collectio Major, 10 (Jerusalem: Franciscan Press, 1953). Highly and very carefully illustrated work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 204; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125; Zur Shalev, Sacred Words and Worlds: Geography, Religion, and Scholarship, 1550-1700 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 121-139; Marianne Petra Ritsema van Eck, Custodians of Sacred Space: Constructing the Franciscan Holy Land through texts and sacri monti (ca. 1480-1650), PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2017), passim; Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza Francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d'Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 29, 106 & passim.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Andreas (Bernardin d'Andree/Bernardin de Carpentras, d. 1714)

OFMCap. French friar from the Vaucluse area and member of the Provence province. Active as Philosophy and theology lector in Carpentras. Also provincial definitor. He died in Orange in 1714.

works

Antiqua Priscorum Hominum Philosophia, Evidentibus Demonstrationibus cum vera Scientiae Methodo restituta, Pars Prima Logica (Lyon: Jean Baptiste & Nicolas De Ville, 1694). Accessible via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

Antiqua Priscorum Hominum Philosophia, Evidentibus Demonstrationibus cum vera Scientiae Methodo restituta, Pars Secunda Physicae. De Mundo, et Caelo, de Elementis et Mistis (Lyon: Jean Baptiste & Nicolas De Ville, 1694). Accessible via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon (numelyo) and via Google Books.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 204; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 729; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1885) IV, 371-373; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Carpentras’, DHGE VIII, 786-787; LexCap201.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Catastini (Bernardino Catastini, 1636-1718)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Arezzo. General definitor and order general, known for his visitation journeys in the 1690s.

literature

Angelus Maria van Anghiari, P. Bernardino Catastini d'Arezzo patrizio aretino, grande di Spagna, generale dei FF. MM. Cappuccini (...) morto in concetto di santo (1636-1718): saggio biografico, tratto da documenti originali inediti (Florence: Convento dei Cappuccini, 1935); Samuele Duranti, Un uomo di Dio: P. Bernardino Catastini dArezzo, Ministro generale dei Frati minori cappuccini (1636-1718): profilo-viaggi (Florence: Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1986); Giacomo Carlini, Bernardino Catastini (1636-1718). Un frate aretino tra papi, re e principi d'Europa (Florence, 1998). Cf. short review in AFH 96 (2003), 272.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Chovetus (Bernardin Chovet, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. French friar. Member of the Saint Bonaventure province. Master of theology and dedicated Scotist.

works

Philosophia Mariana Scoti, tomus primus continens Logicam (Valence: Pierre Verdier, 1667).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 104.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Cristinus (Bernardino Cristini da Giovellina Corso, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Corsican friar, active in Italy. Philosopher with Llullist tendencies. Professor of medicine and medical practitioner. Known for his actions during the Plague of Rome in 1655-1656.

works

Arcana Lazari Riverii: nusquam in lucem ed. Cum institutionibus medicis, & regulis, consultationibus, & observationibus P.F. Christini a Iuvellina (Venice, 1676).

Patris fratris Bernardini Christini a Iuuellina Cyrnei Ordinis minorum obser. Sancti Francisci (...) De lue, seu, Morbo venereo; De febre pestilentiali; De regulis astrologicis ad medicinam spectantibus; Arcana Lazari Riuerij (Venice: Bartolomeo Tramontino, 1676).

Patris fratris Bernardini Christini a Iuuellina Cyrnei Ordinis Minorum obser. Sancti Francisci et priuilegio senatus Veneti ciuis (...) obseruationum medicarum curationum insignium centuriae quinque (Venice: Bartolomeo Tramontino, 1676).

Pratica medicinale, & osseruationi del molto reuerendo padre F. Bernardino Christini da Giovellina Corso, dell'Ordine de' Minori Osservanti di S. Francesco. Professore di Medicina. Cittadino Veneto facto per meriti. Tradotta di latino, in italiano, e data in luce da Giuseppe Testori de Capitani. Diuisa in tre libri. Il Primo, Contiene breve Instituto, Trattato di Polso, e d'Orine, Natura de Medicamenti semplici & composti. Teorica, & Pratica in tute le specie de mali del Corpo humane, con 700 Osservationi. Il Secondo, hà in se 24 Capitoli de mali de Donne, con 400 Osservationi. Il Tertio, insegna la Teorica, & Pratica di tutte le Febri, con 400 Osservazioni (...) (Venice: Angelo Bodio, 1680). Accessible via Google Books.

Pratica medicinale, & osseruationi del molto reuerendo padre F. Bernardino Christini, da Giovellina Corso, Ord., de Min. Osserv. di S. Francesco - Professore di medicina. Cittadino Veneto facto per meriti. Tradotta di latino, in italiano, e data in luce da Giuseppe Testori de Capitani. Diuisa in tre libri. Libro secondo: De mali particolari delle donne, con 400 osser. (Venice: Angelo Bodio, 1681). This edition of the second book is available via Archive.org

literature

Angelo D’ambrosio, 'Dieta e salute nella tradizione francescana. I rimedi terapeutici di fra Bernardino Cristini (sec. XVII)', Miscellanea Francescana 116:3-4 (2016), 422-431.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Alento (Bernardino d’Alento/Cilento, 1513-1576)

OFMCap. Italian (Neapolitan) friar. Guardian, definitor and several times provincial of the Naples province. He died at Naples in or around 1576. Wrote several works, all of which seem to have remained unedited. Is he to be identified with Bernardino de Cilento, author of Enchiridion della perfezione religiosa?

works

Ascetiche operette

Opere attenenti alle virtu dello stato de’ religioso

Vari sermoni/Panegirici

Quaresimale

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1639) II, 238; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129; Apolinaro di Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 52-53; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Alento’, DHGE VIII, 782; DBI check;

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Alhama (Bernardino d’Alhalma, d. 1593)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Travelled to Italy after his training in the liberal arts and the studia humanitatis. In Italy, he joined the Capuchins (Roman province). In 1578, Bernardino and several other friars were sent to Barcelona, to build up the Catelan Capuchin province (the first Capuchin province in Spain). Bernardino is known to have fulfilled the charges of novice master, guardian and provincial vicar (1582-1584, 1590-1592). He was fundamental in training the first generation of Spanish Capuchins. He also impressed his contemporaries with his service to the sufferers of the plague in Barcelona, in 1589. In 1592, Bernardino returned to Rome, to help prepare, as a general custos, the Capuchin general chapter. He fell ill and died on January 14, 1593. Works?

literature

Michel de Valladolid, Cronica de los Capuchinos de Cataluña, MS Barcelona, Biblioteca Universitaria 16.1.2 (16.1.4.); Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1639) II, 516; Biographia hispano-capuchina (Barcelona, 1891), 61-67; Martin de Barcelona, ‘Bernardin d’Alhama’, DHGE VIII, 782.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus d’Arezzo (Bernardino d’Arezzo/Bernardino di Arezzo, Bruni, 1632-1718)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Terra del Sole (Forli). Born on 8 January 1632 (?). Entered the Capuchins in the Tuscan province, in Cortona (26 May 1652). For some time lector and novice master/magister iuvenum. Provincial minister in 1671, 1678 and 1684. General definitor in 1685 and minister general in 1691. Was able to expand the order into Poland. Travelled around in the Capuchin order provinces. An account of his visitations was made by his secretary Filippo Bernardi da Firenze (Relazione del viaggio fatto dal P. Bernardino d’Arezzo e suoi compagni in occasione di visitare la religione dei cappuccini divisa in quatro parti: Spagna, Francia, Fiandra e Germania, Italia. This work apparently is to be found in the provincial archives of the Florentine Capuchins). Bernardino handed over his charge in 1687, after which pope Clement XI made him a consultant for the Congregatio Ritae and for the committee in charge of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Bernardino eventually retired in the Arezzo convent, where he died on 11 March 1718. He left at least one work behind.

works

Il systema o consistente governo delle repubbliche christiane (Lucca: Jacinto Paci, 1672). Based on a discourse held in the Sala della Republica of Lucca.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 42-43; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 731; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1884), 441-446; Sisto da Pisa, Storia dei cappuccuni toscani (Florence, 1906-1909) I, 452, 504, 508, 527, 552, 564, 575, 584, 617, 619, 625, II, 12, 44, 53, 67, 72, 85, 90, 103, 127, 144, 198, 215, 222, 287, 299, 301, 329-331, 349; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Arezzo’, DHGE VIII, 783; Lexicon Capuccinum 240; DBI check

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Carano (Bernardino da Carano, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Naples province. Occasional poet.

works

Sonetti: Several eulogic sonnets in praise of the author, at the beginning of works such as Giuseppe Campanile, Notizie di Nobiltà (Naples, 1672); Giuseppe Battista, La poetica (Venice, 1673).

literature

Apollinaris de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 52.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Cardenas (Bernardino de Cárdenas y Ponce, 1579-1668)

OFM. Peruvian/Bolivian friar. Born at Paz (Chuqi Yapu (Chuquiago)), near Arequipa. Studies in Cuzco. Took the Franciscan habit in Lima. Lector of philosophy and theology. Subsequently provincial definitor, and visitator of the Franciscan Los Charcas province. From 1620 onwards, he embarked on a missionary career, showing a keen interest in the needs of the indigenous populations. Active in Peru, the Chaco area, Tucuman and Paraguay. The Spanish king appointed him bishop of of Paraguay, an appointment that only reached him in 1641. Due to troubles with the Jesuits (whom he ordered to depart) and European settlers, Bernardino was forced to vacate his diocese. He received another episcopal charge, that of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Colombia) in 1668, where he died shortly thereafter.

works

Provisión sobre no vender vino ni chicha a los indios: MS Madrid, Nac., 3042 [Castro, Madrid, 179]. It was edited in: Collección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento (...) de América y Oceanía, I Serie, VII (Madrid, 1867), 496-574.

Memorial y relación verdadera para el rey nostro señor y su real consejo de Indias de cosas de reyno de Perú: MS Madrid, Nac., 3198 [Castro, Madrid, no. 90]. It was later issued as: Memorial y relación verdadera para el rey nostro señor y su real consejo de Indias de cosas de reyno de Perú (Madrid: Por Francisco Martínez, 1634).

Dictamen de Fr. Bernardin de Cardenas sobre que no se venda chicha ne vino á los Indios (1 October October 1639), edited in: Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento (...) de América y Oceanía, I Serie, VIII (Madrid, 1867), 496-514.

Testimonio laudatorio dell’Illmo Cárdenas en favor de los misioneros, edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 708.

Grandes alabanzes que á las doctrines da el Illmo. Sr. Cárdenas, obispo de Paraguay en carta a P. José Cataldino, edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 709.

Juicio muy favorable del Illmo. Sr. Cárdenas, depues de visitar la recucción de los jesuitas llamada San Ignacio del Paraguay, edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 710.

Carta del Illmo. Sr. Cárdenas, obispo de Paraguay, en abono de las doctrinas y de todos los ministerios de los jesuitas en su obispado (May 6, 1644), edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 711-713 & also edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 87-88.

Carta de fray Bernardino de Cárdenas, dirigida a los PP. Adriano Silverio y Lúis y al superior de las misiones del Paraguay, edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 80.

Defensa que hace el Sr. Obispo Fr. Bernardino de Cárdemas al gobernador D. Jacinto de Laris, edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 168-169, 171.

Carta del obispo del Paraguay D. Fray Bernardino de Cárdenas al Virrei Conde de Salvatierra, edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 269-272.

Libellus seu sermo theologicus ad Alexandrum VII pro celebratione trium Missarum in die Commemorationis omnium fidelium defunctorum (1655). Cf. Juan de San Antonio & Sbaralea. Needs checking.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209; Collección general de documentos tocantes a la persecucion que los regulares de la Compañia suscitaron y seguiron tenazmente por medio de sus jueces conservadores, y ganando algunos ministros seculares desde 1644 hasta 1660, contra el Illmo. y redmo. Sr. Fr. D. Bernardino de Cardenas, 4 Vols. (Madrid, 1768-1770); Juan de San Diego y Villaron, Discorso de la vida meritos y trabajos del Illmo. Sr. Obispo del Paraguay y verdaderas desnudas con las quales si prueva quan inocentemente ha padecido en defensa de la dignidad episcopal desde el año 1644 en lo que hecharon de su dioecesis hasta el de 1657 en que se halla fuera de ella (s.l. & s.a (Madrid, ca, 1700); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 128; Pedro Gual, Cuestion canonica entre el Ilmo senor obispo del Paraguay y los RR.PP. jesuitas (Lima, 1879); M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane VII, 2nd part, 138-153; M. da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana, 81-82, n. 118, 541, 657; Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen, 317-318, 330-331; AIA, 33 (1930), 332; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin de Cardenas’, DHGE VIII, 801-802; Fidel de Lejarza, ‘Las borracheras y el problema de las conversiones en India’, AIA, 1 (1941), 131-42, 229-50; LthK, 2 (1994), 943; Carlos García-Romeral Pérez, Bio-bibliografía de Viajeros Españoles (siglos XVI-XVII) (Madrid: Ollero & Ramos, 1998), 55-56 (no. 144); Wolfgang Priewasser, El Il.mo Don fray Bernardino de Cárdenas (Asunción, Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artyes – Academia Paraguaya de la Historia, 2000).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Capurso (fl. 1650)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Bari province. Elected provincial minister in 1650. Known for several letters and for a work on the spiritual affiliation of the various orders of Friars Minor, replete with lists of provincials and definitors.

works

Epistolae/lettere: to be found in the Archives of the Capuchins at Rome

La figliuolanza spirituale della religione minoritica di san Francesco d’Assisi (Naples, 1644).

literature

Salvatore di Valenzano, I cappuccini nelle Puglie (Bari, 1926), 297-298; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Capurso’, DHGE VIII, 786; LexCap>>>; DBI>>>

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Chiasteggio (Bernardino da Chiasteggio, fl. 1660)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Lector generalis of theology, apostolic preacher in Ticino and 'custode provinciale' in the Riformati San Diego province.

works

Vita del beato Bernardino da Feltri, predicator apostolico della regolar Osservanza di S. Francesco (...) (Pavia: Carlo Porro, 1551/Pavia: Giovanni Andrea Magri, 1664). The 1664 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazional Centrale in Florence, the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek in Vienna, and via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear immediately).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Chiesa (Bernardino della Chiesa, 1644-1721)

OFM. Italian friar. Born on 8 May 1644 at Venice. Took the habit at Assisi in 1663. For some time guardian at Orvieto (1674-1680). Thereafter he departed for China to work as a missionary. Long and eventful missionary career. He died in Linqing. Author?

literature

M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane VII, 3rd part, 61 ff; Acta Ordinis Minorum (Rome, 1921), 132-138 & Acta Ordinis Minorum (Rome, 1925), 283-285; Heeren, ‘Bishop della Chiesa and the story of his lost grave’, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (The North China Branch) (1923), 182-199; Idem, ‘Some new light on the life and times of Bishop della Chiesa’, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (The North China Branch) (1925), 87-109; L. Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen (Munster, 1929), 129-134; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin della Chiesa’, DHGE VIII, 787-788; A. van den Wyngaert, AFH 31 (1938), 17-47; 35 (1942), 3-34; 38 (1945), 82-108; Antonianum, 22 (1947), 65-91.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Aquilanus (Bernardino Aquilano/Bernardino di Fossa/Bernardino Amici/Giovanni Amici, 1420-1503), beatus

OMObs. Italian friar from Fossa, and baptized as Giovanni Amici (not to be confused with the 17th-century author of texts on the Holy Land). Studied law at Perugia. One day, he had a conversion experience after hearing a sermon by Giacomo della Marca on the life of Bernardino da Siena. Joined the Observants in 1445 and made his solemn profession on 13 March 1446 in the Stroncone friary, adopting the religious name Bernardino. Renowned preacher in the Umbria region, and also known for his historical and hagiographical work. He was several times elected provincial vicar of the Observants in the Abbruzzo vicariate (in any case active in this function between 1454-1460 and between 1472-1475). In between he was also provincial vicar of the recently created Bosnia and Dalmatia vicariate (between 1464 and 1467). During his stints as vicar in the Abbruzzo vicariate he issued new provincial constitutions. In 1468, he was elected general procurator of the Observants near the Holy See in Rome. He received the position of apostolic preacher, and was two times elected bishop or l'Aquila (in 1472 and again in 1491), but each time he declined out or humility. In 1475, he retired to the San Giuliano dell'Aquila friary, although he remained somewhat active as a preacher and wrote there several historical texts. As late as January 1495, he convinced the armies of Charles VIII at Cittaducale not to enter and occupy the Aquilano region. He died in the L'Aquila friary at the age of 83, leaving behind more than 300 sermons, as well as several chronicles, quaestiones, and hagiographical works. In his Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, written ca. 1480, he sketches the origin and development of the Observant movement, tracing it back to the activities of Angelo Clareno and Paoluccio Trinci. After his death, his body became the object of a religious cult, and received at least one translatio. It now resides in the Franciscan friary of Sant'Angelo at Ocre. He was officially beatified and his cult ab immemorabili was confirmed in 1825 by Pope Leo XII.

works

Centurio, seu sermones centum in diversas materias (finished in San Niccolo, near Sulmona): Venice, Marciana Z.L. LXXXIX Bess (autograph) ff. I-IX & 1-350 [Proemium, Inc: Centurio autem et qui cum eo erant custodientes Jesum viso terraemotu et his, quae fiebant, timmuerunt valde dicentes: vere filius Dei erat iste [Math. 28, 54] (…) Centurio a centenerio dicitur, et quia hoc volumen centenarios sermonum continet, merito centurio vocari potest et, ut vocetur, decerno.' ] Three sermons of the Centurio collection [see MS ff. 46, 102, 103] were edited as: Tractatus de Nubere Volentium Doctrina in: Tractatus Universi Juris Illustrium in utraque tum Pontificii, tum Caesarei Juris Facultate Jureconsultorum de Matrimonio et Dote, IX, ed. Antonius Amucius (Venice, 1584), ff. 113r-v.

Sermones Diversi: MS. L'Aquila Archivio di Stato 11 (Autograph). [f. Vv:`Perlegi ego Antonius u.j.d. minimus de Fossa hujus beati patris Bernardini de Fossa itidem ex fratre pronepos opus hoc et pluries suspiravi et nonnullas lacrimas effudi, cum tot bona et sancta dicta hic considerarem annotata, quae jam conscripta et exemplata perfecta erant et ordinatissime in alio libro, dicto nempe Quodlibetum vel Centurio (…).' The manuscript contains 154 sermons/sermon outlines with praedicable materials `de Virgine gloriosa secundum dicta Dantis; de verbo Dei; de impedimentis omnium bonorum; de jejunio; de ludo; de peccato in communi; de honore parentum; de pace; de passione Domini; de resurrectione Domini; de quocumque sancto; de abdicatione saeculi; de obedientia; de oratione etc. The first sermon of this collection was edited twice: Un sermone del B. Bernardino Amici da fossa sulla Vergine Gloriosa, ed. Leosini (Aquila, 1865) & Beati Bernardini de Fossa super Laude ad Beatam Virginem in 33. Cantico Paradisi Dantis Alighieri (Florence, 1896). Several other sermons on the Virgin have been edited as well: Sermones beatae Virginis Mariae, partial edition by D. Bellardini (De sermonibus beatae Virginis Mariae di Bernardino da Fossa. Trascrizione dei Sermoni 18, 22, 23), in: Beati aquilani dell'osservanza: Bernardino da Fossa, Vincenzo Dell'Aquila, Timoteo da Monticchio, ed. A. Cacciotti and M. Melli (Padova, 2007), 177-200.

Peregrinus, sive de Christe sub Peregrini specie discipulis in Emmaus proficiscentibus apparente, ed. Antonius Amicius (Venice, 1573). Treatise of sermons, consisting of 25 short sermons (sermones diaetae), dealing with different topics (starting with peregrinus and ending with ingratitudino). Work written by Bernardinus in 1498. On f. 1 of the edition, we find: `Cum diu desideraverim habere tractatulum unum de sermonibus brevibus et compendiosis, qui esset meus familiaris et socius, cogitavi imponere nomen peregrinus.']

Vita del venerabile p. fr. Filippo dell'Aquila (Rome, 1572); Vita del venerabile p. fr. Filippo dell'Aquila scritta nell'anno 1456 dal beato Bernardino da Fossa, ed. Ugo da Pescocostanzo (Rome, 1870).

De Quolibet Statu Fidelium: Venice, Marciana Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 1-216 [Deals with the life of the believer in his different states: The first part is called de statu fidelium laborioso. This part consists of the work consists of 52 sermones de tempore (a dominica septuagesimae usque ad feriam tertiam resurrectionis [Quadragesimale] (ff. 1-103). The second part, de statu fidelium periculoso, deals with the moment of death. This part consists of 40 Sermones de mortuis (ff. 104-126). It ends with the statement: `Cum plerique fratres minores me saepius incitaverint, ut pro praedicatione ad funera sermones aliquos ordinarem, eo maxime, quia in nostra civitate Aquilae saepissime ad ea praedicare contingit, eorum inclinatus sum precibus rem ipsam aggredi.' [This part was printed in 1572 as the Funerale, see there] The third part, de statu fidelium glorioso (ff. 128-216) contains 53 sermones de sanctis. The last one deals with St. Bernardino of Siena.

Funerale B. Bernardini Aquilanae Fossae centum ab hinc annis compositum (Venice, 1572). [=second part of De Quolibet Statu Fidelium]

Questiones Duae: MS Venice, Marciana Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 229-231 [ff. 229-230: Quomodo liceat procuratori fratrum minorum recipere pecunias quae offeruntur in sepultura, ubi corpus S. bernardini requiescit, et in utilitate fratrum vel aliorum expendere? Inc.: Casus talis est. Corpus S. bernardinis ordinis minorum requiescit in sepultura per crates ferreas undique clausa (…) Expl. Praedicta scripsi ad hoc, ut conscientiae nostrae in bona pace remaneant & ff. 230-231: Utrum fratres eremitani S. Augustini sint fratribus minoribus praeferendi vel e contra? Inc: Primo videtur, quod nomen debet esse conveniens rei (…) Expl.: Haec scripsi , quia quandoque reperi me in talis contentionibus, plerique vero in hoc puncto claudicant.]

Tractatus Praedicabilis Intitulatus de Floribus: MS Venice, Marciana Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 218-223 [three sermons, two about good works and the third on the love for one's enemies]

De Conventu S. Angeli de Ocra: MS Venice, Marc. Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 233-236. [Short work, written in the Italian vernacular, about the way in which the convent s. Angelus de Ocra became Observant in 1481.]

Chronica Fratrum Minorum de Observantia [written ca. 1480]: o.a. MS. Naples, Naz. VIII.C.12. The work was edited as: Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens, Fragmenta Franciscana (Rome, 1902).

Provinciae B. Bernardini Coenobia/De Coenobiis et viris piis Provinciae S. Bernardini brevis historia. Printed as an appendix of the Funerale B. Bernardini Aquilanae Fossae centum ab hinc annis compositum, ed. Antonius Amicius (Venice, 1572 & 1612); Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens, Fragmenta Franciscana (Rome, 1902), 115-126. On 15 friaries that joined the Observants/were created as Observant friaries in the Abbruzzi and on friars involved with this until 1496. See also: In que modo lo loco de Sancto Angelo de Ocra è venuto alle mani de' Frati Minori chiamata de Observantia, ed. P. G. Costa (Aquila, 1912).

Admonitioni del beato Bernardino Aquilano da Fossa nell'anno 1491 composte, ed. Antonio D'Amici (Venice: Jacomo di Vidali et compagni, 1572) [A short cathechism, written in the Italian vernacular, concerning the articles of faith the Pater Noster, divine and ecclesiastical precepts and confession.]

Sermones Amici Dicti (Basel, 1495 & 1501/Lyon, 1503). It needs to be checked which sermons from which collections are present in this imprint.

Modus Vivendi cum Conventualibus: MSS Naples, Naz. XII.G.5 ff. 280-2; I.H.43 ff. 292-3.

Vita B. Bernardini Senensis. Probably spurious. The work was edited as: Vita S. Bernardini Senensis, ed. Carolus de Darleriis in: Carolum de Darleriis Breviario Romano (Cremona, 1499).

literature

Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum, AFH 4 (1911), 334; Wadding, Scriptores, 40-1; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 204-205; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 126 & (ed. 1908) I, 131f.; Ugo da Pescocostanza, Vita del beato Bernardino da Fossa (Naples, 1872); Coletti, Monografia del B. Bernardino da Fossa (Torino, 1909); Zawart, 317-8; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin de Fossa’, DHGE VIII, 792; DBI, II, 778-780; ECATT II, 1404f; DictSpir, I, 1514; A. de Amicis, L'Araldo dell'amore. Bernardino da Fossa (Benevagienna, 1951); S. da Campagnola, Le origini francescane come problema storiografico (Perugia, 1974), 89ff; LMA, I, 973; LThK, II³, 278; G.G. Merlo, `Dal deserto alla folla: persistenti tensioni del francescanesimo', in: Predicazione francescana e società veneta nel Quattrocento: committenza, ascolto, ricezione, Atti del II Convegno internazionale di studi francescani, Padova, 26-27-28 Marzo 1987 (Padua, 1995²), 55-69; Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Bernardino da Fossa (1421-1503)’, in: Mistici francescani. Secolo XV, 845-848; Santa Casciani, ‘La ‘Passione’ del beato Bernardino da Fossa e il ‘topos’ del Christus patiens’, Bollettino Dep. Abruz. Storia Patria ser. 3 87 (1997), 95-137; Raffaele Aurini, 'Bernardino da Fossa', in: Dizionario Bibliografico della Gente d'Abruzzo (Colledara: Andromeda Editrice, 2002); Beati aquilani dell'osservanza: Bernardino da Fossa, Vincenzo Dell'Aquila, Timoteo da Monticchio, ed. A. Cacciotti and M. Melli (Padova, 2007) [includes for instance: L. Pellegrini, ‘Preparando una edizione. Un primo saggio di lettura della Chronica di Bernardino da Fossa’, 59-82; R. Corona, ‘La Madonna nei Sermoni del beato Bernardino da Fossa’, 83-122; D. Bellardini (ed.), De sermonibus beatae Virginis Mariae di Bernardino da Fossa. Trascrizione dei Sermoni 18, 22, 23’, 177-200]; Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli, 'La Cronaca di Bernardino Aquilano. Dai piccoli santi dell'Umbria alla Grande Osservanza', in: Amicitiae Sensibus. Studi in onore di Don Mario Sensi, ed. Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli & Fortunato Frezza (Foligno: Accademia Fulginia, 2011), 1-34. See also the upcoming study by Letizia Pellegrini.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Arevalo (Bernardino de Arevalo, 1492-1553)

OFM and OFMRec. Spanish friar. Born in Valladolid. Took profession among the Franciscan friars of the Villacrecian reform in the Abrojo custody, Concepción province. Later, he could be found among the strict Recollect reform. Provincial minister of the Concepción province and superior of the Franciscan missions to Spanish America (West India). Supported Sepulveda against de Las Casas. Renowned preacher. He died in Augist 1553, and left behind a sermon collection, as well as several other works.

works

Decisiones/Comiénzanse ciertas decisiones con sus probaciones acerca del estado y manera de vivir de los frailes Menores, compuestas por estilo de conclusiones por el muy reverendo y aprobado padre fray Bernardino de Arévalo, de esta provincia de la Concepción de nuestra Señora, y morador de la casa del Abrojo; y puestas por estilo de cuestiones por el padre fray Alonso de Covarrubias y romanzadas por el sobredicho padre que compuso el ‘Manual’ [namely the Manual per declarar la Regle en solos los preceptos obligatorios/Compendium de observantia Regulae Minorum, written around 1550 by García del Castillo, provincial minister of the Concepción province 1548-1551 and editor of several of Bernardino de Arévalo’s works. This Manual can be found in MS Burdeos, Biblioteca prov. 797 ff. 111r-433r, and some fragments have been edited in Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Conciencia eclesial e interpretación de la Regla Franciscana. Textos originales del siglo XVI. Introducción y edición’, Antonianum 57 (1982), 347-605: 593-604]; MS Burdeos, Biblioteca Prov. 797 ff. 436r-517r. Some fragments edited in Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Conciencia eclesial e interpretación de la Regla Franciscana. Textos originales del siglo XVI. Introducción y edición’, Antonianum 57 (1982), 347-605: 573-578. [a series of clarifications concerning the Franciscan made by Bernardino on the general chapter of Burgos (1523) on behalf of the Recollects of the Immaculada Concepción province]

Tratado muy provechoso/Síguese un tratado muy provechoso de muchos avisos que tocan a nuestra Regla y estado, el cual compuso el muy Dro. Padre fray Bernardino de Arévalo, de la Orden de nuestro seráfico padre san Francisco: MS Sevilla, Archivo del convento de San Buenaventura, sign. 122 2a pieza (Preámbulo ff. 1-3r; De la obediencia ff. 3r-6r; De la pobreza ff. 6r-24r; De la conversación externa ff. 24r-26r; De las monjas ff. 26r-28v; De andar a pie ff. 28v-31r; De spirituali observantia ff. 31r-33v; De la pobreza ff. 33v-36v). Some fragments edited in Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Conciencia eclesial e interpretación de la Regla Franciscana. Textos originales del siglo XVI. Introducción y edición’, Antonianum 57 (1982), 347-605: 585-592.

Tractatus de correctione fraterna, opus sane non vulgaris eruditionis, ex sacrorum Doctorum sententiis collectum, & omnibus Christi fidelibus per utile ac necessarium (Medina del Campo [Methymnae Campi]: Francisco de Campo 1557/ 1571). Accessible via the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid and via Google Books (the 1557 edition: creative search! Does not always show up).

De Perfecto Statu Paupertatis Religiosae Fratrum Mininorum et de expositione regulae ejusdem Ordinis (Sevilla, 1575).

De Libertate Indorum (1536) ? This would be a work in the context of the discussions about the rights and obligations of the American indigenous population, written when he was superior of the Franciscan missions to Spanish America.

Decisiones Dubiorum 18 circa Statum Fr. Minorum, included in: Blasio de San Rafael, Expositio Regulae (Sevilla, 1636), 338ff. check!

Sermones pios: Abrojo, Franciscan Convent library ?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum IX (ad ann. 1415, n. xxxix) & XVI (ad ann, 1528, n. vi); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 205-206; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 132 [ed. 1806, 126]; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin d’Arevallo’, DHGE VIII, 782; DSpir I, 1514-15; AIA 29 (1928), 243-244; AIA ns 33 (1973), 40-41; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 88 (no. 122).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Avolio (Bernardino d’Avolio, 1758-1821)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Entered the order in December 1774 (in the Foggia). Studied at Naples, and thereafter fulfilled positions in the Naples province as a vicar, guardian, lector, novice master, definitor and provincial (1816-1819). On December 8, 1819, he was appointed bishop of Trivento. He died on 18 July 1821. No works extant?

literature

B. Latiano, Memorie storiche dei conventi e dei cappuccini della monastica provincia di S. Angelo (Benevento, 1906), 347-350; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Avolio’, DHGE VIII, 806.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Asti (Bernadinus Astensis/Bernardinus Palladius/ Bernardino Palli/ Bernardinus Pallido/Bernardino d'Asti, 1483-1557)

OMObs (1500) & OFM, later OFMCap (1533). Italian friar. Born near Asti (RInco d'Asti) as the son of Count Bonifacio Palli in the castle of Rinco. Very devoted to humanist studies in his youth. Was sent to Rome for further studies at the age of fifteen. There he opted for a religious life and joined the Observants in 1499. He studied theology, and became well-known as an expositor of Scotist philosophy. Provincial minister, and later procurator of the order. End 1533, he switched to the Cappucin branch. There he became an important organiser or the young OFMCap branch as general vicar/minister general (1535-38, 1546-52) and as general procurator (1538-1546, 1552-1554). Responsible for a series of new constitutions. (1536). Also present at the Council of Trent in July 1546. Tried to establish a studium generale in Milan for the OFMCap, yet this initative did not succeed, due to the oppositon of fellow Capuchins, who feared the loss of Capuchin simplicity. The last years of his life, he taught theology at Rome (1555-1557). He died in ROme on 12 June 1557.

works

Orazione devote: MS Assisi, Biblioteca Storico-Francescana della Chiesa Nuova, cod. 64. It was in the sixteenth century printed as: Orazioni devote (Milan, 1535). Based on the Assisi Chiesa Nuova manuscript Orazione devote, it was edited in C. Cargnoni, 'Figura eminens Bernardini de Asti, praecipui reformationis capuccinae promotoris', Analecta OFMCap 94 (1978), 380-383, in Idem, 'Fonti, tendenze e sviluppi della letteratura spirituale cappuccina primitiva', Collectanea Franciscana 48 (1978), 311-398 and in I frati cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, parte terza: Santitá e apostolato, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991), 40-43, etc. See also https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/reform-resources-16th-century/writers/ascetically-and-mystical-spiritual-writings-1535-1628/#post-253-_Toc529367920 [last accessed 30 March 2022] According to early Capuchin historiographical tradition, these were àlcune divote orationi per instruttione de’ frati, le quali egli usva e nelle quali si contengono alcuni essercitij i quali orando mentalmente egli era usato a fare…’, MOHC VI, 22. C. Cargnoni, 41 (Introduzione): ‘Il tema fondamentale di queste preghiere è infatti l’amore colto nella sua dimensione trinitaria, cristologica, mariana ed ecclesiale. In esso si risolve il significato profondo di ‘devozione’. Goal of this cultivation of spiritual love is a programme of interior reform and apostolic ‘elan’. Hence this differs from the mystical love of late medieval mystics, which is a programme towards mystical union for the elect,. C. Cargnoni, 42 (Introduzione): ‘Bernardino d’Asti manifesta in queste ‘orazioni devote’ sopratutto una vita ed esperienza di preghiera, ma non è difficile ravvisare, al di là delle diverse espressioni affettive, una vera dottrina, una ‘teoria’ di vita spirituale centrata ‘nel foco del divino amore’, nell’‘eccellentissimo sacramento’ dell’Eucaristia, e alimentata da un profondo sentimento di umiltà e di compunzione, dalla contemplazione dei misteri di Cristo e dei benefici di Dio e dalla devozione alla Vergine, agli angeli e ai santi, aperta ad una dimensione cattolica e apostolica, sempre in lotta contro ‘ogni vizioso amore di me medesimo, del mondo e della carne e de tutte le sue delettazioni e vanità’, in continuo esercizio delle virtù e della preghiera di lode nelle sue diverse sfumature.’

Litterae P. Bernardini Astensis Generalis Ordinis Nostri ad Fratres Provinciae Sancti Angeli, in: Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, XXIV, 1 (1908), 20-21.

Epistola de Peculiaribus Fratris Minoris Capuccini Virtutibus Caritate Scilicet et Paupertate (6 June, 1548), edited in: Litterae Circulares Superiorum Generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (1548-1803), ed. Melchior a Pobladura, Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum VIII (Rome, 1960), 3-10. [General letter in Italian to friars of the Capuchin order, sent from the Capuchin convent at Castrogiovanni (Sicily), in which Bernardino discusses charity and poverty as the most beautiful adornments of the Capuchin religious life.]

Lettere de electione e de la reprensione, edited in: I frati cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, parte terza: Santitá e apostolato, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991), 44-45. Two ‘lettere circolare’ concerning the election of Capuchin superiors and their correction. These letters are found in the Biblioteca Provinciale de l’Aquila, Cod. 203, a manuscript that also contains Capuchin rule commentaries, general chapter ordinations, obedience formularies and related materials useful for provincial superiors. See also https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/reform-resources-16th-century/writers/ascetically-and-mystical-spiritual-writings-1535-1628/#post-253-_Toc529367921 [last accessed 20 March 2022]

Judicium de Minoritani Pallii Usu (Rome, 1550)

For more information, see also the literature below

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 41; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 212; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 132; Bernardo di Bologna, Historia Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Cappucinorum I (1525-1593), ed. C. di Melchiorre da Pobladura, in: Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, III (Assisi, 1940), 180-194; Ilarino da Milano, 'I frati minori cappuccini e il concilio di Trento', Italia Francescana 19 (1944), 56-57; Matteo da Salò, Historia Capuccina, ed. C. di Melchiorre da Pobladura (Rome. 1950), VI, 6-32; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Min. S. Francisci Capuccininorum (Venice, 1747), 45-46; Z. Boverio, Annalium seu Sacrarum Historiarum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci qui Capuccini Nuncupantur (…) I (Lyon, 1632), 202-220, 235-237, 272, 379-380, 426-428, 510-526; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Asti’, DHGE VIII, 783-785; Diz. Biogr. Ital., 15, 197-198; Paolino da Casacalenda, ‘I Cappuccini nel Concilio di Trento’, Collectanea Franciscana 3 (1933), 396-409, 571-583; Ilarino da Milano, ‘I Frati Min. Cappuccini e il Concilio di Trento’, L’Italia francescana 19 (1944), 50-78; Melchiorre da Pobladura, Historia Generalis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (…) I (Rome, 1947), 41-48, 51-52, 214-222; Mariano d'Alatri, ‘Bernardino de Asti, padre della riforma Cappuccina’, Italia Francescana 32 (1957), 371-379; Costanzo Cargnoni, Figura eminens Bernardi de Asti (Rome: Curia Generalis O.F.M.cap., 1978); L. Iriarte, Der Franziskusorden (Altötting, 1984), 157ff; LThK, II³, 277; Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 350-352 [On his mariological texts]; ...to be continued. See also https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/studies/a-retrospective-on-the-capuchin-reform/bernardine-of-asti/ and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_d%27Asti

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Balbano (Bernardino da Balvano/Bernardino Ferraris, d. ca. 1569)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Balvano (Potenza/Lucania). Active as (anti-heretical) preacher, especially in Apulia, Sicily and Calabria (against Valdensians and related 'evangelical' groups). During one of his anti-heretical campaigns, he suffered physical assault (1553, Lecce). Prolific author in Latin and Italian, esp. of mystical and devotional works. In 1543, he was elected provincial minister of the St. Jerome province. Guardian of the Potenza convent in 1554. Allegedly he was chosen provincial minister of the new Basilicata province in 1560 (until 1562 and again elected in 1568). Died in the odour of sanctity. Author of homiletic and devotional/instructional texts [in older catalogues his death is situated in 1558].

works

Meditationes de Vita Christi et Eius Matris Virginis Mariae, 2 Vols. Edition ?

Il mistero della flagellazione di N.S. Gesù Cristo ridotto in forma di meditazione per tutti i giorni della settimana (Venice, 1537, 1559 & 1589) [French version published in Paris: Robert le Fizelier, 1601/ Douai, 1605/Rouen, 1618; German version published in Trèves, 1618; Latin version Mysterium Flagellationis D.N.J.C. Pro Singulis Diebus Hebdomadae published in Cologna, 1625]

De Novem Effusionibus Sanguinis D.N.J.C. (Venice, 1559/Paris, 1601)

De Septem Regulis Bene Vivendi/Le sette regole di ben vivere, found as an attachment in several old editions of the Specchio d’Orazione. Amounts to a short guidebook for devout Christian life.

Tractatus de Gloria Paradisi/Trattato sulla Gloria del Paradiso edition ?

Tractatus de Praedestinatione et Libero Hominis Arbitrio (Venice, 1593).

Operetta nuova, nella quale si contengono otto prediche dela predestinatione et una della conceptione della Vergine (Messina, 1561). [same work as the previous one?]

Specchio d'Orazione, nel quale con brevità si contengono la necessità, e i frutti di quella/Specchio di oratione nel quale con brevità si contiene d’essa sacrosanta oratione la necessità e utilità con l’ordine e regole si ha d’essercitare e gli suoi frutti, utile e necessario a tutti i fideli cristiani (Messina: per Pietro Spira, 1553 & 1573/Rome, 1556 & 1566/Parma, 1556 & 1566/Venice, 1564, 1566 & 1593/Carmagnola, 1581/Bologna, 1605). A corrected partial reprint of the 1553 Medina edition can be found in: I Frati Cappuccini. Documenti e testimoninze del primo secolo, III/1: Santità e apostolato, ed. C. Cargnoni (Rome, 1991), 555-636. See also https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/reform-resources-16th-century/writers/ascetically-and-mystical-spiritual-writings-1535-1628/#post-253-_Toc529367942 [last accessed 30 March, 2022]. There also exists a Spanish translation, that came out in Zaragosa, 1604, a French translation in Paris, 1601, and a Latin translation, made by a Cartusian from Brescia (Monachii, 1627). Bernardino unfolded his treatise on prayer in the course of a quaresimal preaching tour at Messina in 1553. On request of his audience, it soon was printed by the local printing press of Pietro Spira, after which several other Italian editions followed, making it one of the more succesful works of spiritual edification from the mid sixteenth century. It stands in the venerable late medieval tradition of Speculum literature. The work is meant to function as a mirror reflecting the light of prayer, as it shines in the word of God (the Bible). In its 33 short chapters the work unites and elucidates in an accessible fashion all biblical materials of interest for all those (lay and clerics alike) who want to engage in serious (mental or interior) prayer that moves from devout reading of the biblical text to meditation and to prayer in the strict sense of the word, opening the mind to a true contemplation of the biblical truths and the mysteries of Christ. Therewith the devout Christian has at his/hers disposal a complete and precise grasp of the activity of prayer, its various modes, preparations and conditions, as well as its necessity and usefulness according to the commands and the rules provided by the biblical text. Hence the introductory letter of Bernardino addressed at Vincenzo Gaza, inserted in I Frati Cappuccini. Documenti e testimoninze del primo secolo, III/1: Santità e apostolato, ed. C. Cargnoni (Rome, 1991), 103-104 states: ‘Sancta ex pagina quidquid fere quod orantis est sparsim insertum in unum redegi, veluti in speculum, in quo quidem qui prius tenebrarum caligine abtecti fuerunt, luce clarius speculari possint, quid sit oratio ipsa, quot eius species preparationesque ipsius et conditiones, quamve necessaria et utilis. Orandi etiam videtur et modus. Eodem insuper et ad Deum et ad sanctos qualiter orationes offerant, lucidissime cernitur. Unde et poterint oratores et imitari quod cupiant et fugere quod oportet.’ Clear that for Bernardino the Bible is the ultimate prayerbook and that the fundamental object of prayer are the mysteries of Christ suffering, Christ victorious and Christ divine.]

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 41; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 206; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 126-127 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 132; Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum s.P. Francisci Capucinorum, III (Rome, 1745), 48ff.; Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum/Annalium seu Sacrarum Historiarum Ordinis Minorum s. Francisci qui Capuccini Nuncupantur, I (Lyon, 1632), 553f.; Frutti Serafici, Overo Laconismo delle Vite dell'Huomini più Illustri in Sanctità e Dottrina de' Frati Minori Capuccini (Rome, 1656), 59f.; Dionigi da Genova, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum (Genua, 1691), 56f, 239; Bernardo da Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 43ff., 185; Francesco da Vicenza, Appendice a gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Umbertide, 1916), 5-9; Stanislaus Grünewald, Franziskanische Mystik (1932), 127; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Balbano’, DHGE VIII, 785-786; Lexicon Capuccinorum (Rome, 1951), col. 201; Diz. Biogr. Ital., XV, 198-200; Dict.Spir, I, 1515; Ottaviano Schmucki, ‘Lo ‘Specchio di oratione’ del P. Bernardino da Balvano, OFMCap.’, Italia Francescana 65 (1990), 5-32; Bert Roest, 'The Discipline of the Heart: Pedagogies of Prayer in Franciscan Works of Religious Instruction', in: Franciscans at Prayer, ed. Timothy Johnson (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007), 446; Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 359-366.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Barducis/de Cherichinis (Bernardinus de Cherichinis/Bernardinus de Florentia/Bernardino da Firenze/Bernardino dei Barduzzi/Bernardino dei Cherichini/Bernardino di Barduccio di Cherichino, ca. 1440-1508)

OMConv. Italian friar from the noble Barduzzi-Cherichini/Barducci Chierichini family in Florence. After he joined the order, he went through the theology degree program and was made Magister theologiae in Siena in 1471. Regent lector of the St. Croce convent in Florence in 1473, member of the Collegio Florentino Theologorum and first Franciscan theologian at the University of Pisa (1472-1479). Regent lector of the Pisa studium in 1488. Inquisitor in Florence in 1492. Renowned preacher. Gave the opening and closing sermon at the Franciscan general chapter of Florence in 1467 (check). In 1489, as a closing statement of his preaching cycle in Verona, he pronounced a humanist eulogy of the city of Verona, which subsequently was sent as a letter to the citizen Giovanni Nesi on 15 May 1489. Bernardino Barduzi/

works

Dialogus de Laudibus Castitatis et Virginitatis, ad Franciscum cardinalem S. Petri ad Vincula, qui fuit postea sub nomine Sixti III pontifex maximus (1471) [Inc: 'Cum saepe mecum ageres, Reverendissime Domine, ut quasdam veluti litterarum primitias et quaedam'; Expl.: 'et de his inter cenandum etiam, si placuerit, nobiscum colloquemur]: MS. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut XXV Sin. Cod. VII [Bibliothecae Sanctae Crucis Plut XXIV num. 683]

Oratio habita Urbini in capitulo generali in laudem illustrissimi ducis Urbinatis (...) die 14 maij , MCCCCLXXV [Inc: 'Cum saepe ac multum , reuerendissime']: Rome, BAV, Codices Urbinates latini, ?. Check!

Commentary on the Epistolae of Basil. Check!

Epistola ad Johannem Nesium de laudibus Veronae: MS?. The text was first printed as Epistola de laudibus Veronae (Verona: Paulus Fridenperger, 1489). This incunable is for instance accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via the University Library of Ghent [https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/ebk01:12250000001037576]. It was re-issued as a facsimile edition with an English translation as A Letter in Praise of Verona, trans. Betty Radice (Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 130; Georg Wolfgang Panzer, Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD. Post Maittairri Denisii aliorumque doctissimorum virorum curas in ordinem redacti emendati et aucti IV (Nuremberg: Johann Eberhard Zeh, 1796), 456; Franciscan Studies, 23 (1963), 143ff.; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 72 (1979), 576.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Busto (Bernardino de Busti/Bernardino de' Bustis/Bernardino da Busto, 1450-1513)

OMObs. Italian friar. Born in Milan (member of the important de Busti family). Entered the order in 1475, after receiving a profound education. Trained in homiletic techniques by Michele da Carcano. Important preacher, ascetical and homiletical author. Wrote an influential Mariale (63 sermons) with specific Franciscan mariologist positions. Defender of the so-called Montes Pietatis. Promoted the tertiary order and the veneration of St. Joseph. He died on 8 May 1513 in Mallegnano.

works

Sermo: Ansbach, Staatliche Bibl. Lat. 9 (ca. 1504) ff. 123-126v.

Mariale: a.o MSS Oldenburg, Landesbibliothek Cim I 25 (ini. 16c.) ff. 2-69v; Olomouc SVK MI 406/a (15th cent.) ff. 218v-223; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Lat. 14053 (15th cent.) ff. 69ra-73va [many more mss] The work was edited as: Mariale de Singulis Festivitatibus B.V.M/Mariale, seu sermones de Beatissima Virgine Maria (...) (Milano: U. Scinzenzeler, 1492 [only the first part of the work]/Nuremberg, 1493/Milan: Leonard Pachel, 1493; Strasbourg: Martin Flach, 1496 & 1498/Lyon, 1502 & 1515/Hagenau: Henricus Gran, 1506, 1513 & 1519/.../Brescia: Pietro Maria Marchetto, 1588/... Final edition: Cologne: Antonius Hierat, 1607). See also: Bernardino de Busti e il Mariala (Busto, 1982) and Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, V. no. 5802-5813. It consists of 63 sermons, amounting to a mariological treatise]

Rosarium Sermonum Praedicabilium/Rosarium sermonum per quadragesimam, ac in omnibus diebus tam dominicis quam festis per annum: a.o. MS Osnabrück, Gymnasium Carolinum, 22 (fine 15c.). The work was edited as: Rosarium Sermonum Praedicabilium (...) (Strasbourg, 1496/Venice: G. Arrivabene, 1498; Haguenau, 1500/Lyon, 1502/1507/Nuremberg: Roberger, 1503/Lyon: Jean Clein, 1506 & 1513/Hagenau, 1518/.../Lyon: Anton Ry, 1525/.../Brescia: Marchetus, 1588/.../Cologne, 1607/.../1625). See: Catalogo degli incunaboli della biblioteca comunale di Assisi, cur. G. Zaccaria, Biblioteca di bibliografia Italia, XXXVIII (Florence, 1961), no. 119-122. [80 sermons for the quaresimal period and other days of the liturgical year, presented in a handy compilatory format (also indicated in the title: a real florilegium!), and furnished with three indices: one referring to the rubrics, one alphabetical index, and a table following the liturgical year. It has been remarked that Bernardino’s sermons develop their theme with recourse to rationes, auctoritates and exempla (in agreement with the exhortations found in the later medieval Artes praedicandi), and that the auctoritates in particular were favoured: not only patristic authors, medieval theologians, canonist materials, and medieval non-religous literature (Walter of Châtillon and Matthew of Vendôme) but also a wide range of literary and philosophical authoritates from (pagan) Antiquity, predominantly gathered via the Speculum Doctrinale of Vincent of Beauvais, and other popular compilations. One of the sermons, namely sermo 27: De imitatione Christi per assumptionem status tertii ordinis has also been published in Antonius de Sillis, Studia, originem, provectum atque complementum Tertii Ordinis de Poenitentia S. Francisci concernentia (Naples, 1621/reprint Rome, 1997), 68-85.]

Thesauro Spirituale. Corona della beatissima Vergine Maria (Milan: Giovanni Antonio de Honate, 1488 & 1489/Milan: Leonardo Pachel, 1490 [29 May]/Milan: Ulderico Scinzenzeler, 1492 [2nd ed., 16 March]/Milan: Antonio Zarotto, 1492 [2nd ed. 1 June]/Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 1493 [2nd ed. with additional materials, 3 Dec.]/Lyon: Nicolaus Wolf, 1500 [1501? 3rd ed. without the Corona]/Milan: Rocco da Valle e fratelli, 1517/.../ Brescia 1588 & Cologne 1588) [in last mentioned edition published as Opera Omnia Bernardini de Bustis] The Thesauro consists of liturgical treatises on the Virgin and Christ, consisting of four liturgical works and in addition a series of 63 sermons or chapters, which als are sometimes found separately under the name Corona. The four liturgical treatises are: 1. Officium et Missa Gloriosissimi Nominis Iesu Officium et Missa Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis [received papal approbation by Sixtus IV, 4 October 1480, and is also known in older manuscript copies, such as MS Olomouc SVK MI 406/a (15th cent.) ff. 146-158]; 2. Officium et Missa de Gaudiis Beatae Mariae Virginis; 3. Officium et Missa Sanctae Crucis et Passionis Domini; 4. Officium de Planctu Beatae Mariae Virginis. See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, V. no. 5802-5813.

Officium et Missa Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis as found in MS Olomouc SVK MI 406/a (15th cent.) ff. 146-158 and included in Thesauro Spirituale, has also been included in old editions of the Mariale de Singulis Festivitatibus B.V.M (but non in the 1607 edition). There apparently is also an independent imprint of the same or a comparable work: Officium et missa immaculatae conceptionis beatae Virginis Mariae Sixte IV (pape, 1414-1484): Breve 'Dilecte fili libenter ad ea concedenda' (4 III 1480) (Milan: Udlericus Scinzenzeler, 1492). See also: G. Galli, Due ignote edizioni quattrocentine della `Corona della beatissima Vergine Maria' di fra' B. de Busti. in: Misc. Bibliografica in Mem. Don T. Accurti. cur. L. Donati (Rome, 1947), 103-124.

Officium Sanctae Crucis et Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi (Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 19 March 1492). Inc.: 'Devota meditatio passionis domini nostri iesu Christi...'. Accessible via the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris. Also included in the Thesauro Spirituale?

Officium gloriosissimi nominis Jesu Christi (Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 20 March 1492). Inc.: 'Incipit devotissimum officium gloriosissimi nominis domini nostri...' Accessible via the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris. Also included in the Thesauro Spirituale?

Elucidarium de Immaculata Conceptione (Milan Uldericus Scinzeneler, 1492).

Defensorium Montis Pietatis Contra Figmenta Omnia Aemulae Falsitatis (Milano: Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 1497/Venice: Petrus de Quarengis, 1498/Milan, 1503/.../Lyon, 1518) Several subsequent editions. Apparently also included at the end of the 1518 Hagenau edition and the 1588 Brescia edition of the Rosarium. [See: Catalogo degli incunaboli della biblioteca comunale di Assisi. cur. G. Zaccaria, Biblioteca di bibliografia Italia, XXXVIII, Firenze 1961, no. 117; Anna A. Villa, Bernardino de Busti e la polemica antiebreica. in: Il franciscanesimo in Lombardia (Milano, 1983), 49-52.]. Tractatus II, Pars V of the Defensorium has been edited with an Italian translation in Saverio Amadori, Nelle bisacce di Bernadino da Feltre. Gli scritti giuridici in difesa dei Monti di Pietà (Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 2007), 134-169.

Tractatus de Imitatione Christi per assumptionem status Tertii Ord. de Poenitentua. This treatise on the excellence of the Third Order, is in fact a version of the 27th sermon (De imitatione Christi per assumptionem status tertii ordinis) of the Rosarium, and again included in: Antonio Silli, Studia Originem Provectumque, atque Complementum Tertii Ord. de Poenitentia S. Francisci Concernentia (Naples, 1621), Liber Secundus [same volume as the Liber Primus yet with new page numbers], 68-85. This work by Silli is accessible via Google Books.

Consilium de Retrovendendo et de Pacto Retrovendendi. [mentioned in several old catalogues, such as Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 133.] This has been identified as (part of the) Defensorium Montis Pietatis (Sbaralea), but also been linked to the first part, serm. xxvi of the Rosarium (cf. Giammaria Mazzuchelli). This needs further checking.

literature

E. Sedulio, Historia Seraphica, Antwerpen 1613, 115; Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, 396f; Wadding, Scriptores, 38ff, 55; Wadding, Annales Minorum, XIII³.508; XIV³.107, 293; XV³.261s; Gubernatis, Orbis Seraphicus (Rome-Lyon, 1682-1685) III, 77; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 207-209; Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè notizie storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani, Volume II, Parte IV (Brescia: Giambattista Bossini, 1763), 2464-2465; Sbaraglia, Supplementum(ed. 1806), 127-128 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 133-134; Anscar Zawart, The History of Franciscan Preaching and of Franciscan Preachers (1209-1927), A Bio-bibliographical Study [= Franciscan Studies, 7] (New York, 1928), 318; P.M Sevesi, S. Maria della Misericordia in Melegnano, Melegnano 1932, 57-66; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, no. 5803-5806; F. Cucchi, La meditazione universale della Sanctissima Vergine negli scritti di Bernardino de Busti (Milan 1945); J. Goyens, ‘Bernardin de’Busti’, DHGE VIII, 786; Dict.Spir, I, 1515 & V, 1346; ECatt.II.1405s; LThK II², 251 & LThK II³. 278; LMA I.1972; Bibliotheca Sanctorum III.616-618; A. Emmen, Einführung in die Mariologie der Oxforder Franziskanerschule. Franz. Stud. 39 (1957) 116s, 120, 146, 196s, 202s; K. Balic, Die Corredemptrixfrage innerhalb der Franzisk. Theologie. Franz. Stud. 39 (1957) 219, 238-44, 255, 262, 265; M, Mückshoff, Die mariologische Prädestination im Denken der franzisk. Theologie. Franz. Stud. 39 (1957) 449s; M. Petrocchi, La devozione all Vergine negli scritti di pietà del cinquecento italiano. in: Problemi di vita relig. in Italia nel Cinquecento (Padua, 1960), 281s; DBI XV.593-595; R. Rusconi, ‘La predicazione francescana sulla penitenza alla fine del Quattrocento nel `Rosarium Sermonum' di Bernardino Busti’, Studia Patavina 22 (1975), 68-95; Bernardino de Busti e il Mariala (Busto, 1982); Anna A. Villa, `Bernardino de Busti e la polemica antiebreica', in: Il franciscanesimo in Lombardia (Milan, 1983), 49-52; H.-M. Kirn, ‘Antijudaismus und spätmittelalerliche Bussfrömmigkeit: die Predigten des Franziskaners Bernhardin von Busti’, Zeitschrift für Kirchengschichte 108 (1997), 147-175; María Elisa Lage Cotos, ‘‘Auctoritates’ clásicas para la salvación humana: el ‘Rosarium sermonum’ de Bernardino de Bustis’, Euphrosyne 27 (1999), 165-177; Costanzo Cargnoni, ‘Frati minori osservanti e letteratura spirituale nel ’400 e primo `500. Fra pietà e devozione’, in: Il beato Antonio da Stroncone. III Atti delle giornate di studio. Stroncone, 4 maggio 1996 e 29 novembre 1997, ed. Mario Sensi (Perugia, Ed. Porziuncola 1999); Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Bernardino de Bustis’, in: Mistici francescani. Secolo XV, 849-852; Roberto Ferrari, L’azione dei Minori Osservanti nei Monti di Pietà. Il “Defensorium” di Bernardino de Bustis, Diss. (Roma, Alfonsiana, 2000/1); María Elisa Lage Cotos, Poesía y predicación, latín y vulgar en el ‘Rosarium sermonum’ de Bernardino de Bustis’, in: Poesía latina medieval, 369-384 [cf. Medioevo Latino 27 (2006), 100 (no. 692]; Fabrizio Conti, Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers: Pastoral Approach and Intellectual Debate in Renaissance Milan, Europa Sacra, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) [with special attention to Bernardino Caimi, Angelo da Chivasso, Michele Carcano, and Bernardino Busti. Cf. the review of James Mixson in Speculum 93:4 (October 2018), 1178-1180]; Fabrizio Conti, ‘Grids for Confessing Sins: Notes on Instruments for Pastoral Care in Late Medieval Milan’, in: Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420–1620: Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement, ed. Bert Roest & Johanneke Uphoff (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016), 201-213; Fabrizio Conti, ‘Composing Sermons in the Age of Humanism. Considerations on Penitence and the Memento Mori according to Bernardino Busti of Milan’, in: Franciscan Observance between Italy and Central Europe. Proceedings of the International Conference, 4-6 December 2014/L’Osservanza francescana fra Italia ed Europa Centrale. Atti del Convegno internazionale, 4-6 dicembre 2014, ed. György Galamb, Theme issue of Chronica. Annual of the Institute of History, University of Szeged 15 (2017), 201-214; Roberto Ferrari, 'Bernardino de Busti e il Defensorium montis pietatis', in: Politiche di misericordia tra teoria e prassi. Confraternite, ospedali e Monti di Pietà (XIII-XVI secolo), ed. Pietro Delcorno (Bologna: Il Munino, 2018), 243-258.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Caimi de Milano (Bernardinus de Caimis/Bernardinus de Caymis/Bernardinus de Chaimis/Bernardino Caimi da Milano, fl. 1470, beatus)

OMObs. Italian friar. Brother of friar Bartolomeo Caimi. Active in Milan in 1474. Guardian of the Lodi convent in 1475 and custos of the Holy Land in 1478. Later he apparently is guardian of the Milan S. Angelo convent (ca. 1479-81). In 1483 he was appointed crusade preacher against the Turcs by Angelo Carletti da Chivasso, with the authorisation of pope Sixtus IV. Later that year, the same pope appointed him to the position of papal nuntius in Spain (Castille), and in 1483-4 he is found as the provincial vicar of the Observants in Milan, and as commissioner in Calabria to solve poblems resulting from the ambitions of Francesco da Filocastri, the viar of the Calabrian province. Once more custos of the Holy Land in 1487-9. Chosen as definitor general of the Observants at the general chapter of 1490, and provincial vicar of the Observants of Milan between 1490-3. Established the convent S. Maria delle Grazie (Sacro Monte di Varallo), where he erected a reproduction of the Holy Land Passion sanctuary, to commemorate the passion of Christ (cf. the study of Galloni mentioned below). Again definitor general in 1495 and guardian of S. Angelo in Milan in 1497. Again provincial vicar in 1498-1499. In his sermons, he is heavily dependent upon Bernardino da Siena (See for his reception of the Franciscan tradition the article of Piana).

works

Sermones de Tempore [109 sermons for the sundays and principal feast days of the liturgical year]: MS Como, Biblioteca Comunale cod. I.3.17, prima parte del manoscritto ff. 1r-266a (missing ff. 231-240) [Inc: Voca operarios et redde illis mercedem; expl.: Deum videre et Deum habere in eternum [et]ultra. Quod nobis concedat ipse benedictus [Deus] qui vivit. See for an in-depth description C. Piana, 1971, 307-310, 312ff. Interesting in particular are some of his sermons for Passion Sunday (Sermo de Morte (f. 71d) and Sermo de octo remediis contra mortem (ff. 77a)), a sermon held on Palm Sunday (Sermo de pace et remissione iniuriarum, f. 96d), and a Sermo de preparatione ad suscipiendum comunionem sacratissimam (f. 113c) meant for the feria quinta]

Quadragesimale de articulis fidei [79 sermons, produced ca. 1488]: MS Como, Bibl. Comunale I.3.17. seconda parte del manoscritto ff. 1r-224d [inc.: Incipit XL.le de articulis fidei et primo de fide…; expl.: Et per exemplum quod habes in vita S. Francisci […] de latrone illo. Finis. Frater Bernardinus de Mediolano de Caymis. See: Piana, 1971, 307, 309, 310ff. These 79 sermons together can be divided in i.) twelve catechistic sermons on Christian faith, and ii.) a series of sermons explaining the Credo according to its twelve articles, interspersed with sermons with more moral instruction. The sermons were clearly written by Bernardino to help him with his preaching activities, and draw on a wealth of sources. Strong influence of Bernardino da Siena’s Sermones de Christianae Religione (cf. Piana, 1971, 316ff. ]

Responsio Facta per fr. Bernardinum de Caymis: MS Milano, Archivio dell'E.C.A., cartella di Giovanni Rottole [See: C. Piana, 307; G. Barbieri, Origini del capitalismo Lombardo. Studi e documenti sull'economia Milanese del periodo ducale (Milano, 1961), 184 & tav. 44 [photographical reproduction of the Responsio]

literature

Petrus Rodulphius Tossianensis, Historiarum Seraphicae Religionis Libri Tres (Venezia, 1586), 311; Wadding, Scriptores, 42a; Ioannes a S. Antonio, BUF, I, 209; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 128; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (Roma, 1908), 134; E. Motta, Il B. Bernardino Caimi predicatore. Documenti e lettere inedite (Milano, 1891)[parecche lettere Italiane]; E. Motta, Il beato Bernardino Caimi, fondatore del santuario di Varallo (Milan, 1891); P. Galloni, Sacro Monte di Varallo. Origine e svolgimento delle opere d’arte (Varallo, 1914); P.M. Sevesi, `Il B. Bernardino Caimi da Milano predicatore della Crociata', AFH, 19 (1926), 300; A. Salsa, Biografia del B. Bernardino Caimi (Varallo Sesia, 1928); J. Goyens, ‘Bernardin de Chaimis’, DHGE VIII, 787; P.M. Sevesi, ‘Il B. Michele Carcano e il Consorzio della Carità di Milano’, AFH 46 (1953), 270; C. Piana, ‘Il Beato Bernardino Caimi da Milano. Un epigono della predicazione Bernardiniana nell'ultimo Quattrocento’, AFH 64 (1971), 303-336; P.G. Longo, ‘Alle origini del Sacro Monte di Varallo: la proposta religiosa di Bernardino Caimi’, Novarien 14 (1984), 19-98; P.G. Longo, ‘Fonti documentarie sui francescani a Varallo Sesia tra XV e XVI secolo’, Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia. Quaderno di Studio 5 (1987), 29-108 (contains several letters exchanged between Ludovico il Moro and Bernardino Caimi); Luisa Gatti-Perer, ‘Gli studi sulle origini del Sacro Monte di Varallo e sulla personalità di Bernardino Caimi’, in: Arte, religione, comunità nell’Italia rinascimentale e barocca. Atti del Convegno di studi in occasione del V centenario di fondazione del santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli di Saronno (1498-1998) (Saronno, 9 maggio 1998), ed. Lucia Saccardo & Danilo Zardin (Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2000), 95-119; Pier Giorgio Longo, ‘Bernardino Caimi, francescano osservante: tra ‘eremitorio’ e città’, Novarien 29 (2000), 9-26; R. Panzanelli, “Hic Hierusalem videat…’ Ipotesi per il progetto di Bernardino Caimi al Sacro Monte di Varallo’, Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 39 (2003), 409-440 (Villata (2004) states that this article exaggerates in judging Caimi’s artistic elements to be irrelevant); Edoardo Villata, ‘Gaudenzio Ferrari. Gli anni dell’apprendistato’, in: Un avvio di percorso, ed. E. Villata, Simone Baiocco, Gaudenzio Ferrari & Gerolamo Giovenone (Turin et al.: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2004), 11-143 (with a vast bibliography on Benardino Caimi’s involvement with the Sacro Monte di Varallo and his relationship with Ludovico il Moro); Gaudenzio Ferrari, La Crocifissione del Sacro Monte di Varallo, ed. Elena De Filippis (Torino: U. Allemandi, 2006) (with essays on the Franciscan involvement with the Sacro Monte di Varallo); Fabrizio Conti, Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers: Pastoral Approach and Intellectual Debate in Renaissance Milan, Europa Sacra, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) [with special attention to Bernardino Caimi, Angelo da Chivasso, Michele Carcano, and Bernardino Busti. Cf. the review of James Mixson in Speculum 93:4 (October 2018), 1178-1180]; Marianne Petra Ritsema van Eck, Custodians of Sacred Space: Constructing the Franciscan Holy Land through texts and sacri monti (ca. 1480-1650), PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2017), passim.

With thanks to Pietro Delcorno for his bibliographical support.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Ciaffoni (Bernardino Ciaffoni da San Elpidio, d. 1684)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Theologian.

works

Apologia in favore de'santi Padri, contro quei, che nelle materie morali fanno de'medisimi poca stima. Opera postuma del P. Maestro Bernardino Ciaffoni da S. Elpidio, Minor Conventuale (...), (1685?/Bassano: Giovanni Antonio Remondini, 1696/Avignon: Pietro Offray, 1698/Venice, 1761). The 1696, 1698 and 1761 versions are accessible via Google Books and the 1762 edition is also accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence. The work urges the reader to follow the moral-theological counsels of the Fathers, against all kind of 'modern' ideas.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Cilento (Bernardino dal Cilento, ca. 1523-1586)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Naples province. Preacher and provincial minister. He died in Naples (San Eframo (Eufebio)) in 1586 at the age of 63. Should he be identified with Bernardino d’Alento? (see there as well.)

works

Enchiridion della perfezione religiosa, nel quale si tratta le virtu necessarie per i religiosi. Was this work ever printed?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129; Istoria degli scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli III,iii (sec. XVI), 211-212; Breve notamento de tutti li frati cappuccini quali sono passati da questa vita presente in questa Provincia di Napoli: 1563-1653, ed. Girolamo da Sorbo et al. (Athena, 1995), 56.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Colle Petraccio (Bernardinus Cioli de Colpetrazzo/Bernardino Croli da Colpetrazzo, 1514 - 1594)

OFM (1532), OFMCap (1534). Italian friar Born on 25 November 1514. Entered the Observants in the Umbrian province. After he made his profession, he soon switched to the Capuchins. Several times guardian and novice master. Provincial minister between 1558-1561. Promoted the establishment of a ‘Monte frumentario’ (1570-5) in Colpetrazzo, to help poor citizens. Preacher, as well as historian of the order, after he wrote the Vita di alcuni santi frati cappuccini (1580). His main work is the Semplice et divota historia dell'origine della Congregazione de'Frati Cappuccini (1525-1593), a rather objective form of contemporary historiography, which he wrote on request of cardinal protector Giulio Antonio Sartori after 1578. There are several versions/reworkings of this work, in several manuscript copies (see DBI, IX, 204). In 1585, the general vicar Girolamo di Mercato Saraceno asked Bernardino and Mario da Mercato Saraceno to revise their various historical works for publication. After the death of Mario, the general chapter and Girolamo’s successor (Apollonio da Brescia) were less impressed with Bernardino’s work (not eulogical enough towards the order). They wanted him to stop and to have everything reworked by Matteo Bellintani di Salo (who around 1787 was asked to write a completely new work). Yet on request of Federico Cesi, the duke of Aquasparta, Bernardino nevertheless finished his chronicle in 1594, and dedicated it to Federico Cesi. It was edited and published in 1939-41. Bernardino died in Aquasparta in 1594.

works

Semplice e divota historia dell'origine della Congregazione de'Frati Cappuccini (1525-1593), ed. Melchior de Pobladura, in: Historia Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Cappuccinorum (1525-1593), ed. Melchior de Pobladura, 3 Vols., Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 2-4 (Assisi-Rome, 1939/1941).

Vita di alcuni santi frati cappuccini, see: Liber memorialis Ordinis Frarum Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum quarto jam pleno saeculo ab Ordine condito (1528-1928), Analecta Ordinis XLIV Supplementum (Rome, 1928), 131-173. It was the vicar general Girolamo di Montefiori, who asked Bernardino in 1575 to compile edificatory lives of important Capuchins. This resulted in a Raccolta, which eventually was amplified and complete by Girolamo himself (adding 24 biographical lemmata after 1581).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 134; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della provincia serafica (Foligno, 1922), 27-36; Francesco da Vicenza, `Il P. Bernardino da Colpetrazzo e i Monti Frumentari', L'Italia Francescana, II,2 (1927), 131-137; Fredegando d’Anversa, ‘La vita dei primi frati minori cappuccini secondo la cronica di Bernardino da Colpetrazzo’, in: Liber Memorialis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1928), 131-136; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Colpetrazzo’, DHGE VIII, 788-789; Melchior de Pobladura, ‘Disquisitio critica de vita et scriptis P. Bernardini a Colpetrazzo’, Collectanea Franciscana 9, 1 (1939), 34-72 [See also his prolegomena in the edition of the Semplice e divota historia]; Lexicon Capuccinum, 202; L. Perni, ‘Bernardino da Colpetrazzo’, Diz. Biogr. Ital., IX, 203-4; M. D’Alatri, ‘La riforma cappuccina vista da due cronisti del Cinquecento’, Collectanea Franciscana 48 (1978), 399-411; C. Cargnoni, ‘Sviluppo della riforma cappuccina nella storiografia dei primi cronisti’, L’Italia francescana 54 (1979), 389-408; LThK, II³, 278.; L'historia cappuccina vissuta e raccontata nel Cinquecento: Bernardino da Colpetrazzo (1594), Raniero da Sansepolcro (1589), Atti del convegno tenuto a Todi 13.-15. Maggio 1994, ed. C. Amadei (Todi, 1995); S. Vacca, ‘Le ‘Vitae Fratrum’ di Bernardino da Colpetrazzo (1514-1594). Storia, struttura ed intenzionalità di una raccolta agiografica’, Laurentianum 37 (1996), 3-120; Christopher John Popravak, Desire extinguished, desire enflamed. Ascetical construction of a capuchin subjectivity (1552-1628), Phil. Diss. (Michigan, 1998).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Condom (Bernardin de Condom, d. 1651)

OFMCap. Member of the Aquitaine province. Was asked by his provincial (Simon de Mont-de-Marsan) in 1645 to write the Annales or Memorabilia of the Capuchin Aquitaine province. The result was quite a solid work of chronography, which later found some continuations of lesser caliber.

works

Annales/Memorabilia

literature

Apolinaro de Valencia, Histoire des capucins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1897) II, 321; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capucins de la province de Toulouse (1582-1928) (Toulouse, 1928), 8; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Condom’, DHGE VIII, 789.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Corbera (Bernardino de Corvera, 1581-1652)

OFMRec. Spanish friar. Born in Marón and friar of the Andalusian province. Guardian of the Mt. Calvary convent near Osuna. Died in Sevilla. Spiritual author and popular confessor. Died on 16 November 1652.

works

Espejo de perfectiòn para Religiosas y ejercicios de virtudes, para todas almas devotas, que siguen el camino de la perfeccion. Dedicada a la soberana Reyna de los Angeles (...) (Sevilla: Nicolas Rodriguez, 1647).

literature

Pedro de Valbuena, Vida del venerable Padre Fr. Bernardino Corvera, Predicador: e hijo de la Santa Recoleccion de la prouincia de Andaluzia. Dedicala al Excelmo. Señor Don Manvel Ponce de Leon, Lancastre, y Cardenas (1687); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129; AIA, 5 (1916), 44-45; AIA 21 (1924), 330-331; Dict.Spir, I, 1515-1516; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IX, no. 923; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 105 (no. 248).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Cuneo (Bernardino da Cuneo/Caligaris, d. 1823)

OFMCap. Friar from the Piemont area. Taught philosophy and theology in the order. Also active as a preacher. Author.

works

Istruzioni oratorie ovvero conferenze intorno all’arte rettorica (Florence, 1808).

Riflessioni cristiane intorno alla divina Provvidenza (Cuneo, 1805 & 1815).

Orazioni sacre del P. Bernardino da Cuneo cappuccino già lettore in filosofia e teologia. Dirizzate a'Giovani del Clero Secolare e Regolare, per agevolarci il lavoro di somiglianti componimenti giusta le regole dell'arte oratoria distribuite in quattro decadi, 2 Vols. (Cuneo: Pietro Rossi, , 1817) [includes at the end the Ottavario di discorsi per i morti, sermoni di professione religiosa e di altre occorrenze] The first volume is accessible via Google Books

Prediche quaresimali con parecchi esordi suppletivi ad altre solennità dell’anno, 2 Vols. (Cuneo, 1817).

Dissertatio Historico-Scholastico-Dogmatica, in Qua Libertas Humanae Mentis a Triplici Errore, Triplici Propositione Vindicatur, Adduntur Quaestiones Adiaphorae de Regimine Ecclesiae, de Intentione Ministri Sacramentorum Aliaque (Cuneo, 1821).

literature 

Johann von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 15-16; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Cuneo’, DHGE VIII, 789-790; Lexicon Capuccinum, 202.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Fasano (Bernardino da Fasano, fl. 1650)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the San Niccolò province (Bari region). Lector of theology and provincial minister

works

Memorabilia Minoritica Provinciae S. Nicolae Ordin. Minor. Regul. Observ. ab anno 1222 usque ad annum 1655 (Bari: Zanneto & Valerio, 1656). The work received a modern edition as well: Memorabilia minoritica, ed. Luigi De Santis, Historia franciscana sallentina, 3 (Bari: Edizioni del Grifo, 2009).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 233; Rosario Jurlaro, ‘Bernardino da Fasano cappuccino e gli ‘Schiavi di Maria’ in Puglia nel XVII secolo’, Miscellanea Francescana Salent. 22 (2006), 71-82.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Feltre (Bernardinus Tomitanus/Bernardino da Feltre/Martino Tomitano/Bernardinus Feltrensis, 1439- 1494), beatus (feast 28 September)

OMObs. Italian friar. Born in Feltre. In 1456, at the age of 17, when student of law at the university of Padua, he was converted to the religious life, after hearning a sermon by Giovanni della Marca. Entered the Observants in the Venetian province, taking on the name Bernardino. Ordained priest in 1463. At first foremost active as a convent lector. On 19 May 1469, he received the nomination to preach (during the Chapter of Verona). To overcome his reluctance to preach publicly, he immediately was asked to preach publicly on the Feast day of Bernardino da Siena. After this, Bernardino da Feltre developed into a renowned Lent preacher and popular missionary, working in nearly all the important urban centres of Italy. Received the title of ‘apostolic preacher’ in 1481. Preached against usury and involved in the foundation of Montes Pietatis. Through his sermons (‘sermoni mescidati’) and exhortations, he became an important promotor of Eucharist devotions, the devotion towards the holy name of Jesus, the immaculate conception of Mary, and the cult of St. Joseph. Like his fellow Franciscan Observant colleagues, but more harsh than some of them, strong emphasis on social themes (celibacy, matrimony (fighting the ‘mortal sin’ of extra-marital fornication), family life (hierarchical relation man-woman-children), behaviour and obligations of women as maidens, wives, mothers and widows (stong misogynist streaks), the moral and religious education of children inside and outside the family, damnation of games, plays and other forms of entertainment, the responsibility of urban authorities for social and religious ‘peace and justice’ [cf. Semo de Re Publica per feria sexta post Pascha in Pavia, Sermoni II, 147-163]). Also expressed a vehement hatred towards the Jews and repeatedly roused his public to take action against them (to such an extent that local authorities saw themselves forced to appeal to Bernardino's superiors, in order to keep him in check. Cf. Vian (1970), 196f). Bernardino da Feltre died in Pavia, on 28 September 1494. His local cult in the dioceses of Feltre and Pavia and in the Franciscan order was approved by Innocent X (1654). Officially beatifed by Benedict XIII (1728). Although Bernardino’s preaching was renowned (and depicted in various cities (Cf. Vian (1970), 201)), most of his sermons for a long time seemed lost. In 1937, Carlo Varischi da Milano unearthed two full sermon cycles (with additional sermons): a Quadragesimale based on Bernardino’s preaching in Pavia (1493) and an Advent cycle based on Bernardino’s preaching in Brescia (1493). The scriptor of these manuscripts, which formed the basis of the editions mentioned below, was friar minor Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia. The scholarly of work of Meneghin (1964 & 1966) has established that Bernardino Bulgarino cannot in all instances be seen as the direct witness of the sermons he copied down, but probably also worked on the basis of older manuscript copies that represented reportations of the actual sermons. These reportations might have been the work of the Franciscan preacher and copyist Giacomo da Grumello.

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Sermones Quadragesimales quos predicavit in Civitatem Papie anno Domini MCCCCLXXXXIII [78 sermons], edited in: Sermoni del beato Bernardino Tomitano da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante. Il Quaresimale di Pavia del 1493, cur. Carlo Varischi da Milano, I (Milano, 1940) [27 sermons, from Domenica in Quinquagesima to Sabbato post tertiam dominicam Quadragesime] & Sermoni del beato Bernardinus Tomatino da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. Carlo Varischi (Milan, 1964), Vol. I & II, 7-460 [Based on the manuscript produced by Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia from earlier reportationes (maybe by Giacomo da Grumello). See for manuscript variants and their edition also V. Meneghin, `Due sermoni inediti del B. Bernardino da Feltre', Studi Francescani, 61 (1964), 212-261. Cf. V. Meneghin, `I Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; P. de Alcántara Martinez, `Dos sermones inéditos sobre S. José del beato Bernardino de Feltre', AFH, 71 (1978), 65-111 (Studio ed edizione dei Sermones de S. Joseph, trovati nella bibioteca Naz di Napoli, V.H. 125 ff. 14r-21v); F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Riv. Storia Chiesa Italia, 24 (1970), 193-203. It is clear that many of Bernardino’s sermons deal with issues of confession and preparation towards it.]

Sermoni varii [8 sermons], edited as: Sermoni del beato bernardinus Tomatino da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. C. Varischi (Milan, 1964), Vol.II, 461-537 [See: F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Riv. Storia Chiesa Italia, 24 (1970), 193-203.]

Notae variae, edited in: Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. C. Varischi (Milan, 1964), Vol.II, 539-548.

Sermones de Adventu [33 sermons, Brescia, 1493], edited as: Sermoni del beato bernardinus Tomatino da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. C. Varischi (Milan, 1964), Volume III. [See: F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Riv. Storia Chiesa Italia, 24 (1970), 193-203.

Sermo ‘Fulcite me Floribus’, edited as: Cinque prediche a monache di due celebri Francescani del sec. XV (Prato,. 1881)

Sermo de sacratissima Virgine Dei Genetrice Maria: MS Pavia, Bib. Univ., 2094 f. 235r [Prologus] [See: V. Doucet, ‘De operibus manuscriptis fr. Petri Joan. Olivi in Bibliotheca Universitatis Patavinae Asservatis’, AFH, 28 (1935), 181.]

Eulogical sermon on Bernardino da Siena, edited in Carlo da Milano, ‘Panegirico inedito in onore di S. Bernardino tenuto a Firenze il 21 maggio 1493 dal B. Bernardino da Feltre’, Bulletino di studi bernardiniani 3 (1937), 99-118.

Sermones de seraphico P.N. Francisco [2 sermons]: MS: Pavia, Bib. Univ., 2094 ff, 342r-3r & 343v-4v [See: V. Doucet, ‘De operibus manuscriptis fr. Petri Joan. Olivi in Bibliotheca Universitatis Patavinae Asservatis’, AFH, 28 (1935), 181.

Sermo de Ascensione Domini & Quod Christus non Potest Entrare Civitatem Mantuam [Sermones an. 1493]: MS Padua UB, Cod, 2027 ff. 36v-38v & 433r-445v, and edited in: V. Meneghin, `Due sermoni inediti del B. Bernardino da Feltre', Studi Franc., 61 (1964), 212-261.

Sermo de Religione: MS Naples Naz., V.H.125 ff. 64r-67v

De Expugnatione Paradisi (Venice: Bartolomeo Imperatore, 1554)

(?) Predica alle persone che desiderano imparara la via del Paradiso: MS Roma Biblioteca Vallicelliana E.I.3, 4 & edited as: Predica devotissima del B. Bernardino Tomatino da Feltre, à tutte le persone che desiderano d'imparara la via d'andar al Paradiso (Venezia: stampata per le mani de le Conuertite, 1557). This edition is accessible via Google Books.

Sermo ad religiosas [volgare]: MS: Bologna, Archivio arcivescovile>> [See: C. Piana, `Un sermone sconosciuto del B. Bernardino da Feltre, tenuto a religiose' Studi francescani, 12/37 (1940), 53-71.

Confessione generale del beato Bernardino da Feltre molto utílissima (a.o. Milan, 1510/Venice, 1520) [Widely distributed confession manual for use by penitents. The first lines of the proemium give the aim of the work: ‘Considerando molte volte quanto la humana fragilitate sia facile al peccare & quanti errori per ignorantia commettono: deliberai ordinare questa breve & utile forma di confessione: accio che lo indotto peccatore legendola cognosca & so aricordi piu aptamente li suoi peccati & possa redurseli a memoria: & de quelli dolendose possa meglio a Dio satisfar: confessarsi ordinamente & con divotione secondo che in questo libreto scripto trovarai.’ Also edited as Tractatus de Modo Confitendi (Brescia: Ludovico Britannico, 1542)/Tractatus de Modo Confitendi (Pavia, 1603). Work also gives interesting list of possible sins in different ‘states’ of life: religious people, teachers, judges, lawyers, notaries, doctors, merchants etc.>> coheres with the new ‘ad status’ approach of the Observant preachers and educators, who wanted to arrive at an encompassing moral guide for all people in all walks of life in the community. This is also visible in sermons of Bernardino da Siena, in the Rosarium Sermonum of the Observant friar Bernardino Busti da Milano, and in the treatises of Cherubino da Spoleto]

(?) Discorsi della Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo: MS Padova, Biblioteca del Museo Civico G.M. 448. Edited in: Vittorino da Feltre ed. A. dal Zotto (Feltre, 1898).

Check: V. Meneghin, Un ritratto sconosciuto del beato Bernardino da Feltre, Estratto dell'Archivio storico di belluno, Feltre e Cadoro, 211-212, (1975) (Belluno, 1975)

Cinque Prediche a Monache in Lingua Volgare Di Due Celebri Francescani Del Secolo XV [Bernardino Da Feltre and Michele Carcano da Milano], Tratte Da Un Codice Della Nazionale Di Firenze, ed. Marcellino Da Civezza (Prato, 1881).

Orazione panegirica del B. Bernardino da Feltre detta in Pavia e consecrata alla Reala Altezza di Vittorio Amadeo maria Duca di Savoia (Pavia: 1742). Accessible via Google Books.

Letters
1. 5 letters to the ruling council of Reggio, 1487-1492. Edited in: G. Saccani,`La predicazione del B. Bernardino da Feltre in Reggio Emilia', AFH, 19 (1926), 226-246. [ed. 230-246.]
2. 3 autograph letters, edited in: Miscellanea Francescana (1910), 96

? De perfectione Christiana (Venice, 1533)

vitae

Bernardino Goslino, Vita beati Bernardini (1523), ed. A. Ghinato, Le Venezie francescane 25 (1958), 1-43; 27 (1960), 1-24; 28 (1961), 1-24. [This vita makes use of the (now lost?) diary of Francesco Canali, for a long time Bernardino da Feltre’s socius.]; Bernardino Guslino, La vita del beato Bernardino da Feltre, ed. Ippolita Checcoli (Bologna: Editrice Compositori-Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, 2008); Vita del Beato Bernardino da Feltre detto il Piccolino, scritta da Bartolomeo Simoni da Marostica, ed. Francesco Ferrari (Archivio Storico Francescano Veneto, 2000); B. Simoni da Marostica, Vita del beato Bernardino da Feltre detto il Piccolino, ed. F. Ferraro (Venice: Archivio Storico Francescano Veneto, 2002). For these and other vitae, see also: Wadding, Annales Ordinis Minorum XI (Quaracchi, 1931), 509-511, XIII (Quaracchi, 1932), 507-508, 538-539, XIV (Quaracchi, 1933), passim; XV (Quaracchi, 1933), passim; AASS Sept. VII (Antwerp, 1760), 874-983.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 171-173; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 134 & (ed. 1908) I, 140; DS I, 1516; LMA, I, 1972-3; LThK, II², 251 & LThK, II³, 278; DHGE, VIII, 790-791; Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia, IV (Rome, 1965), no. 6693; Atti di beatificazione e canonizazione del beato Bernardino da Feltre (Rome, 1696); Andrea Merli, Vita del beato Bernadino da Feltre (Pavia: Fusi, 1818); Vecellio, Lettere di uomini celebri al beato Bernardino Tomitano da Feltre (Feltre, 1894); Pietro Moiraghi, Vita del B. Bernardino Tomitano da Feltre, propagatore dei Monti di pietà (Pavia: Fusi, 1894); P.L. da Besse, Le bienheureux Bernardinus de Feltre et son oeuvre, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1902)/Il beato Bernardino da Feltre e la sua opera (1905); Corna, ‘I francescani e l’origine del monte di pietà di Piacenza’, AFH 2 (1909), 32-46, 216-231; Saccani, ‘La predicazione del beato Bernardino da Feltre in Reggio Emilia’, AFH 19 (1926), 226-246; Fausta Casolini, Bernardino da Feltre-il martello degli usurai, Vita e Pensiero (Milan, 1939); Alfonso M. Berengo, La predica su `l'umiltà' del b. Bernardino da Feltre (Verona, 1942); G. Ballardini, `I banchieri ebrei e le origini del monte di Pietà a Faenza', Studi Romagnoli, 5 (1954), 445-451; A. Ghinato, `Ebrei e predicatori francescani in Verona nel secolo XV', AFH, 50 (1957), 236-244; G. Barbieri, Il beato Bernardino da Feltre nella storia sociale del Rinascimento (Milan, 1962); G. Biasuz, `Precisazioni sulla data di composizione della vita del b. Bernardino scritto da b. Guslino', Archivio storico di Belluno, Feltre e Cadore, 36/172 (1965), 33-55; F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; L. Sbriziolo, ‘Una precisazione cronologica per il biografo principe di Bernardino da Feltre’, Ateneo veneto n.s. 4 (1966), 151-158; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; V. Meneghin, Documenti vari intorno al beato B. da Feltre (Rome, 1966); Vittorino Meneghin, Iconografia del B. Bernardino Tomitano da Feltre (Venice, 1967); N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia 24 (1970), 193-203; V. Meneghin, Bernardino da Feltre e i Monti di Pietà (Vicenza, 1974); Idem, Un ritratto sconosciuto del beato Bernardino da Feltre, Estratto dell'Archivio storico di belluno, Feltre e Cadoro, 211-212, (1975) (Belluno, 1975); M. Giuseppina Muzzarelli, `Appunti per un' analisi della struttura del `Sermones' di Bernardino da Feltre', Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia 32 (1978), 153-180; R. Segre, `Bernardino da feltre, i monti di Pietà e i banchi ebraici', Rivista Storica Italiana 90 (1978), 818-833; V. Meneghin, AFH, 73 (1980), 688-703; M. Monaco, ‘Aspetti di vita privata e pubblica nelle città italiane centro-settentrionale durante il XV secolo nelle prediche del beato Bernardino da Feltre francescano dell’Osservanza’, in: L’uomo e la storia. Studi storici in onore di Massimo Petrocchi (Rome, 1983) I, 77-196; G. Barbieri, `La funzione storica dei Monti di Pietà nei sermoni del beato Bernardino da Feltre', Economia e storia, 2a ser., 5 (Milan, 1984), 261-271; Michele Monaco, `I confessionali del beato Bernardino da Feltre: una rapida indagine storiografica e religiosa tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento', in: Cultura e società nell'Itali medievale. Studi per Paolo Brezzi, Studi storici, 184-192 (Rome, 1988), II, 519-533; P.L. Spaggiari, Bernardino da Feltre e le origini della Banca del Monte di Parma (Parma, 1993); V. Meneghin, Il convento di S. Spirito di Feltre e la sua biblioteca (Vicenza, 1993); Giampaolo Paludet, Bernardino da Feltre, piccolo e poverello. Nel quinto centenario del beato transito 1494-1994, Libreria Internazionale Edizioni Francescane (Venice, 1993); Luciano Orabona, Medioevo cristiano e pensiero economico (Aversa, 1993); A. Luise, Alza la voce come una bella tromba. Aspetti dell predicazione del beato Bernardino da Feltre (Belluno, 1994); Edoardo Marcellino Ripamonti, Bernardino da Feltre `Piccolino e poverello' (Feltre 1439-Pavia, 1494), Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana (Milan, 1994); Bernardino da Feltre a Pavia. La predicazione e la fondazione del Monte di Pietà, ed. R. Crotti Pasi. Atti della giornata di studio, Palazzo centrale dell'Università, Aula Foscoliana, Pavia, 30 ottobre 1993 (Como, 1994); Maria G. Muzzarelli, Penitenze nel Medioevo. Uomini e modelli a confronto (Bologna, 1994); Nazzareno Fabbretti, `Un piccolo frate flagello degli usurai', Vita Pastorale, 83/2 (1995), 131-133; L. Doglioni, `B. Tomatino de Feltre e il suo tempo', Riv. Stor. Chiesa Ital., 49 (1995), 596-599; G.P. Pacini, `Predicazione di minori osservanti a Vicenza: fondazioni, confraternite, devozioni', in: Predicazione francescana e società veneta nel Quattrocento: committenza, ascolto, ricezione, Atti del II Convegno internazionale di studi francescani, Padova, 26-27-28 marzo 1987 (Padua, 1995), 235-245; D. Gobi, `Presenze minoritiche nel Quattrocento trentino', in: Predicazione francescana e società veneta nel Quattrocento, 221-233; D. Gallo, `Predicatori francescani nella cattedrale di Padova durante il Quattrocento', in: Predicazione francescana e società veneta nel Quattrocento, 145-183; D. Rigaux, ‘Bernardino da Feltre’, Diz.Enc.Med. I, 231; Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Bernardino da Feltre (1439-1494)’, Mistici francescani. Secolo XV, 841-844; Luiz Pérez Simón, ‘Beato Bernardino de Feltre. Presbítero franciscano (1439-1494)’, in: Nuevo Año cristiano (Madrid: EDIBESA, 2001-2002) IX, 556-558 (28 Sept.); Francesco Santucci, ‘Una lauda dedicata al ‘Beato Bernardino da Feltro”, in: Monti di Pietà e Monti Frumentari tra Umbria e Marche (Foligno: Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno S.p.A., 2006); Saverio Amadori, Nelle bisacce di Bernardino da Feltre. Gli scritti giuridici in difesa dei Monti di Pietà (Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 2007); M. Melchiorre, A un cenno del suo dito: Fra Bernardino da Feltre (1439-1494) e gli ebrei (Milan: Unicopli, 2012); Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, ‘The Years of the ‘Compossibile’’, Franciscan Studies 71 (2013), 53-70; Ippolita Checcoli, ‘The Vitae of Leading Italian Preachers of the Franciscan Observance: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Hagiographical Constructions’, Franciscan Studies 71 (2013), 281-296; M. Muzzarelli, ‘Monti di pietà e Banchi ebraici nella predicazione osservante: il caso di Bernardino da Feltre’, Studi Francescani 110:3-4 (2013), 327-343; Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, 'The Effects of Bernardino da Feltre's Preaching on the Jews', in: The Jewish-Christian encounter in medieval preaching, ed. Jonathan Adams & Jussi Hanska (New York, NY-London, 2015), 170-194; Pietro Delcorno, In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), PhD Thesis Radboud University (Nijmegen: Bookbuilders, 2015), 286-292 & passim [see also the Brill version: In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), Commentaria, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2018).]; Matteo Melchiorre, ‘La propaganda antiebraica dell'osservanza nei centri minori. Frate Bernardino da Feltre nel distretto padovano (1491-1494)’, in: Camposampiero. La parabola del Francescanesimo osservante (secoli XV - XVI). Atti della giornata di studio, 23 maggio 2015, ed. Luciano Bertazzo & Elda Martellozzo Forin (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2016). See also Il Santo 56 (2016), 43-63; Letizia Pellegrini, 'L'osservanza come Scuola di Spiritualità. Da Paoluccio Trinci a Bernardino da Feltre', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, ed. Marco Bartoli, Wieslaw Block & Alessandro Mastromatteo, Alessandro (Bologna, 2017), 463-474; Michael Cusato, 'Bernardino da Feltre's Vision of Social and Economic Justice', The Catholic Historical Review 103 (2017), 224-245 [downplaying his anti-judaic sentiment?]; Giacomo Mariani, 'Per un contributo alla tradizione manoscritta dei sermoni di Bernardino da Feltre. II riscoperto testimone parziale di una predica su Sal 109, 4', in: La lira di Davide: esegesi e riscritture dei Salmi dall'Antichità al Medioevo, ed. Daniele Tripaldi (Canterano, 2018), 391-410; Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, 'I predicatori (in particolare Bernardino da Feltre) e la folla', in: "Sapiens, ut loquatur, multa prius considerat": studi di storia medievale offerti a Lorenzo Paolini, ed. Caterina Bruschi & Riccardo Parmeggiani (Spoleto, 2019), 191-212; Paolo Evangelisti, ‘Messi in forma di parole. Moneta, denari e mercato nei sermoni di Bernardino da Feltre (1493-1494)’, Archivio Storico Cenedese 5 (2019), 3-58.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Flandria (Bernardin de Flandre, d. 1621)

OFMCap. French friar. First a member of the Roman province. In 1584, he was sent to the new Toulouse province, and had an important role in etablishing the Capuchin network there, helping to found convents, and active as a definitor and a guardian for various different houses. In or after 1612, he was asked to start the Chronique de la province de Toulouse. This work, which found a continuation by Onophre de Bonnes (d. 1659) apparently has been lost around 1800, but before was an important source for other seventeenth century Capuchin chronicles.

literature

Apollinaire de Valence, Histoire des capuchins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1897) I, 33, 41, 48, 50, 57, 171, II, 212-214, III, 152, 155; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capucins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1928), 8; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Flandre’, DHGE VIII, 791.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Foligno d. 1515

OMObs. Italian friar.

works

Sermonarium ?

literature

Zawart, 318-9.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Fondagno (Bernardino di Fondagno/Bernardino da Fundagno, d. 1704)

OFMCap. Italian (Tuscan) friar. Thomist theologian and order historian. Was already ordained priest and ca. 30 years old when he joined the order. Taught philosophy and theology in various Capuchin houses, and also fulfilled stints as guardian, to die at Lucca, on 11 October 1704. Wrote historical, and theological (mariological) works.

works

Vita di Giovanni-Francesco Torre di Lucca: MS Florence, Archivo dei Cappuccini ?

Cronaca: MS Milan, Archivo di Stato Fondo religione, conventi cappuccini, atti storico religiosi, busta 22. [check!]. Bernardino took on this work during a stint as the provincial archivist and secretary.

Il tesoro di gratia di Maria vergine acquistato da lei con atti meritorii, si dimostra esser trascendente ogni peso, numero, misura e stima di qualunque creato naturale intendimento (Lucca, 1694). An appendix to this work is the Galeria spirituale di Maria Madre vergine. The Tesoro is a peculiar mix of theological and analoguous mathematical reasoning.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 444; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 733; Sisto da Pisa Storia dei cappuccini toscani (Florence, 1909) II, 239-241; Édouard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 11; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Fondagno’, DHGE VIII, 791.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Gorlago (Bernardino da da Gorlago/Bernardino da Bergamo, d. 1630)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Mariologist.

works

Mariological poems. See: Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 481-486.

literature

Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 481-486.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Guardagrilli (Bernardino da Guardagrilli, d. 1627)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Abruzzo region. Member of the San Bernardino province. He died in the Adria friary in 1627. It seems to be the same friar as Joannes Bernardinus Guardagrilli (see also under letter J).

works

Compendio di Casi di coscienza per Parochi, e Confessori? Is this the same work as La Prattica sacramentale (Naples: Secondino Roncaglioli, 1626) mentioned under Joannes Bernardinus Guardagrilli?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 105; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano Istituto (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 613.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Hungaria (Bernardino di Ungaro/Ungheria, d. 1664)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Roman province. Active as an apostolic missionary, first in Hungary and later in the Loango kingdom (Africa). Died there on June 18, 1664. A history of his work in the shape of an itinery and missionary letters survive.

works

Ausszug eines Missive oder Sendschreiben dess P. Bernardini von Ungaro Capucciner Ordens Missionarii in Bekehrung des Konigs von Loango und seiner Aethiopischen unglaubigen Mohren an die Capucciner zu Lyon in Frankreich, auss der Frantsosischen in die Teutsche Sprache Uebersetzt, edited in: Die Missionen des Franziskanerordens (Aschaffenburg, 1667), 93-98.

Historia Peregrinationis et Missionis P. Bernardini Hungari, addita relatione de moribus incolarum regni Loangi. edition Latin text?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 45; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni dei cappuccini III, 628f; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Hongrie’, DHGE VIII, 793; LexCap, 203.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Inurrigarro (Bernardino de Inurrigarro, fl. 1660)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Cantabria province. Lector jubilatus and provincial definitor.

works

Três tratados apologéticos: Two once were kept in the Observant Franciscan convent library in Madrid, litt. X. num. 156. Current whereabouts? The third one, on the bull of Pope Alexander VII about the mystery of the immaculate conception and addressed at King Philip IV of Spain was apparently published in 1663. Yet we have not yet been able to trace that work.

To him is also assigned a miscellaneous and apologetic work on the Cantabria region, and its importance during antiquity, which apparently was once present in the Observant Franciscan convent library in Toledo.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210; AIA 27 (1927), 50; AIA 15 (1955), 319-320; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 130 (no. 436).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Los Angeles (Bernardinus de Angelis/Bernardino de los Ángeles, fl. 1615)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar and preacher. Propagator of the immaculate conception.

works

Tratado y sermones de la inmaculada concepción de María Santísima Señora Nuestra, 2 Vols. (Sevilla: 1616-1617).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 204; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 125-126; Alejandro Recio, 'La inmaculada en la predicación franciscano-española', Archivo Ibero-Americano 15:57-58 (1955), 105ff, 222; José Simón Díaz, El libro español antiguo: análisis de su estructura (Kassel: Reichenberger, 1983), 155ff.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Lucca (Bernardino da Luccas, fl. mid 18th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar and apostolic prefect for the mission in Tripoli.

works

Libro Vecchio: An account of the Franciscan presence in Tripoli during the first half of the 18th century. See the studies of Berna and Boni mentioned below.

literature

C. Bergna, La missione francescana in Libia (Tripoli, 1924); S. Bono, Storiografia e fonti occidentali sulla Libia (1510-1911) (Rome, 1982), 16.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Jesi (Bernardino da Jesi, d. 1726)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Marches. Entered the order on January 11, 1660. Active as provincial secretary/archivist and eulogic church historian.

works

Annali della provincia della Marca del sagro giardino religiosamente fiorito di virtu religiose raccolte e descritte, incominciando dall’anno di Cristo 1710 fino al 1715: MS Ascoli Piceno, Biblioteca Comunale, ? check

Serie cronologia di molte tra le altre azione fatte dagli imperatori e re di Francia, massime di quelli della reale stirpe dei Borboni con l’aggiunta dei soccorsi dei medesimi dati alla santa Chiesa, dei pontifici rifugiati in Francia e dei privilegi che godono i re di Francia: MS Jesi, Biblioteca Comunale, ? check

I gigli triomfanti nelli croci segnati di Gerosolima, ovvero le sacre historie delle crociate e lega delle milizie cristiane delli croci segnati per la liberazione del Santo Sepolcro: MS Jesi, Biblioteca Comunale, ? check

literature

Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 17; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Jési’, DHGE VIII, 793; LexCap,

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Laredo (Bernardino de Laredo, 1482, Sevilla - 1540, Sevilla)

OM & OFM. Spanish friar from the Los Angeles province. Born at Sevilla in 1482 in a family of (low) noble descent. Studied (from ca. 1495) Latin, the liberal arts, medicine and theology. Entered the order in 1510 in the Los Ángeles province as lay conversus. Spent large part of his religious life in the convent of San Franciso del Monte (Villaverde, ca. 30 km to the north of Sevilla). Functioned as medical consultant for the Franciscan convents in the province and cared for the sick in Andalusia. In the course of these activities, he composed two works of medicine (Metaphora Medicinae & Modus Faciendi Cum Ordine Medicandi, partly in Latin, partly in Castilian) that had considerable success. Due to his medical reputation, he also was called to the Portuguese royal court, where he treated in particular queen Catherina (sister of king/emperor Charles V, and wife of Juan III of Portugal). Aside from his medical works, Bernardino also composed several more spiritual works, notably the Subida del Monte Sion (two editions: 1535, and completely revised in 1538, with reprints in 1542 and after), and the Josephina. It seems that these spiritual works (both the Josephina and the second edition of the Subida del Monte Sion) had considerable impact on the spirituality of Theresa of Avila and John of the cross. Bernardino died in Villaverde del Río in 1540, and his grave became a cult sit.

works

Metaphora Medicinae et Chirurgie (Sevilla: Juan Varel, 1522/Sevilla: Juan Varel, 1536 [Revised version]). Both editions accessible via the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid and via Google Books, although the version of the 1522 presented there misses the first two folios and the title page.

Sobre el Mesue et Nicolao. Modus Faciendi cum ordine Medicandi. A medicos et Botaricos muy comun y necessario (Sevilla, 1527/Sevilla: Juan Cromberger, 1534/ 1542/Alcalá, 1627). Several editions are accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrids, and via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear).

Josephina. Was published as an appendix to most sixteenth-century editions of the Subida. For a French translation of the work, see Josephina, trans. Michelangelo de Narbonne (Toulouse, 1925) [The work presents Joseph as the greatest saint after Mary and a most powerful intercessor. It reacts against the dominant idea that Saint Joseph was an old man. The work is much influenced by ideas derived from Gerson and Pelbartus de Temesvar OFM (d. 1504)]

Subida del Monte Sión (two main redactions: Sevilla, 1535 [first version, based on a manuscript more or less finished in 1529]; Sevilla, 1538 [second revised version]/Medina del Campo, 1542/Valencia: F. Mey, 1590/Alcalá de Henares: Juan Gracian, 1617). Modern re-issue of the second version in: Misticos Franciscanos Tomo II, Biblioteca Autores Cristianos 44 (Madrid, 1948), 15-443 [does not contain the Josephina], in: Via Spiritus, edited in: Bernabé de Palma, Via Spiritus - Bernardino de Laredo, Subida del Monte Sión, ed. Teodoro H. Martín, Clasicos de Espiritualidad (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1998), and in Bernardino de Laredo, Subida del Monte Sión, ed. Alegría Alonso González, Mercedes García Trascasas & Bertha Gutiérrez Rodilla, Colección Espirituales Españoles. Serie Mayor, 3 - Textos, 51 (Madrid, Fundación Universitaria Española - Salamanca, Universidad Pontificia, 2000). Beyond these modern renderings of the revised second version, it is now also possible to find several 16th, 17th- and 19th-century imprints of that via Google Books, the Cervantes portal and other digital outlets. The second revised version of the Subida, was apparently first issued in 1542 and presents more a mysticism of love (downplaying the intellectual faculties) than the first version, which was heavily endebted to Richard of St Victor. The second version shows more terminological innovation, especially in the final third part of the work, with the help of concepts from the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition, from Hugh of Balma, Hendrik Herp, and Francisco de Osuna) consists of three books, each of which elaborates an aspect of the exhortation of Christ: ‘Qui vult venire post me, abneget semetipsum, tollat crucem suam et sequatur me.’ [cf. Matthew 16, 24] Each book is divided in three weeks, with series of appropriate meditations. Book one focuses on self-knowledge. Book two centres on the humanity of Christ (and especially the mysteries of the Nativity, the Passion, and Christ’s glorification). Book three deals with the perfect kind of contemplation leading to unification with God. One could argue that Bernardino therewith follows the Bonaventurean division of mystical ascent (cf. De Triplica Via) into the purgative, illuminative, and unifying way, and comes close to the mysticism put forward by Francisco de Osuna. Some scholars (notably Ros (1936-1937) & Ros (1948)) see in this kind of mysticism a typical Spanish Franciscan school of mystical thought (with as main protagonists Bernardino Laredo, Francisco de Osuna, Pedro de Alcantara, and Francisco Ortiz). It would seem that only the third book of the second version has received an English translation: Bernardino de Laredo, The ascent of Mount Sion: being the third book of the treatise of that name, trans. E. Allison Peers (London: Faber & Faber, 1952).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210-211; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129; B. Foronda, ‘Fray Bernardino de Laredo: su vida, sus escritos y su doctrina teológica ascético mística’, AIA 33 (1930), 213-250, 497-526; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin de Laredo’, DHGE VIII, 794-795; F. de Ros, Le Père François d’Osuna (Paris, 1936-1937); Fidele de Ros, ‘Harpius et Laredo’, Revue d’Ascétique et de Mystique 20 (1939), 265-285; Fidel de Ros, Un inspirateur de S. Thérèse, le frère Bernardin de Laredo (Paris, 1948); Caballero Villadea, Fr. Bernardino de Laredo. Su vida, su época, sus obras (Madrid, 1948); R. Hoornaert, ‘Bernardin de Laredo et la Subida del Monte Sion’, Les Lettres Romanes 6 (1952), 233-239; R. Ricard & F. de Ros, ‘‘La Fonte’ de saint Jean de la Croix et un chapitre de Laredo’, Bulletin hispanique 58 (1956), 265-274; Santiago Alcaida, ‘La espiritualidad franciscana en fray Bernardino de Laredo’, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Historia de la Farmacia 7:25-26 (Madrid, 1956), 32*, 33*-40*; Sebastián Folch Jou, ‘Fr. Bernardino de Laredo a través de sus obras científicas’, Boletín de la sociedad española de historia de la farmacia 7 (1956), 21-31; I. Behn, Spanische Mystik. Darstellung und Deutung (Düsseldorf, 1957), 125-160; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 508-509; Cristóbal Cuevas Garcia, La prosa métrica, Teoria, Fray Bernardino de Laredo (Granada, 1972); Diego Gracia y Guillén, ‘La fisiología escolástica de Fr. Bernardino de Laredo’, Cuadernos de historia de la medicina española 12 (1973), 125-192; T.M. Hernández, Enrique Herp (Harpius) en las letras españolas (Avila, 1973), 65-81 & passim; DSpir IX, 277-281; LThK, II³, 278-9; José Damián Badia Pérez, Jesucristo en la vida y obra de Bernardino de Laredo, Diss. (Pamplona, 1998); Francisco de Asís Chavero Blanco, ‘Fray Bernardino de Laredo y su Subida al Monte Sión. Una visión cristiana del hombre’, in: El Franciscanismo en Andalucía. Conferencias del IV Curso de Verano. San Francisco en la cultura Andaluza e Hispano Americana. Priego de Córdoba, 30 de Julio a 8 de agosto de 1998, ed. M. Peláez del Rosal (Córdoba, Caja Sur. Obra Social y Cultural, 2000), 585-618; Enrique Llamas, ‘El siglo XVII, Siglo de Oro de la Corredención Mariana’, Salmanticensis 52 (2005), 213-253; Enrique Llamas, ‘El dolor salvífico de María. La ‘compassio Mariae’ en mariólogos españoles de los siglos XVI-XVII’, Estudios Marianos 72 (2006), 145-173; La mistica parola per parola, ed. Luigi Borriello, Maria R. Del Genio & Tomás Spidlík (Milan: Ancora, 2007), 74f.; Jessica A. Boon, ‘Medical bodies, mystical bodies: Medieval physiological theory in the recollection mysticism of Bernardino de Laredo’, Viator 39:2 (2009), 245-268; Jessica A. Boon, The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Madrid (Bernardino de Madrid, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar from Castille. For some time active as missionary in Panama (in and after 1681). Later preacher at the Spanish Royal court. Also active as a guardian, definitor and provincial (1691-1695) of the Castilian order province. Three of his funerary sermons held at the funeral of Charles II of Spain apparently were printed at Madrid in 1700. He died in 1715.

works

Oracion funebre en las reales exequias que a nuestro difunto catolico monarca D. Carlos II que esta en gloria consagro la siempre leal imperial coronada Villa de Madrid en el Convento de Santo Domingo el Real el dia 17 de Diziembre de 1700 (Madrid, 1700).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 45; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle Missione III, 715; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Madrid’, DHGE VIII, 795-796; LexCap

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Manlleu (Bernardino de Manlleu/Manlieu, 1585-1645)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catelan) friar. Entered the order at Barcelona (Sarrià convent), on 25 September 1605. Novice master, guardian, definitor and custodian within this recently erected Capuchin province. Involved as a negociator between the council of Barcelona and the Spanish king Filip IV (and his main representant, the Duke of Olivares) during the Catelan revolt of 1640-1642. A part of Bernardino’s diplomatic correspondence has been published. A number of his letters survived in manuscript format as well.

works

Cartas diplomaticas, in: Josep Coroleu i Inglada, Claris y son temps (Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1880) & in: Miguel de Parets, Memorial histórico español (Madrid, 1888) Vols. XX-XXI.

Cartas: MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Esp. Port. ? Cf. Les manuscrits espagnols et portugais à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris (Paris, 1892), 108.

literature

Miguel de Valladolid, Chronica de los capuchinos de Cataluña, MS Barcelona, Biblioteca universitaria cod. 16.1.4 ff.>>; Les manuscrits espagnols et portugais a la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris (Paris, 1892), 108; F. de Sagarra y Siscar, Sant Vicens de Sarrià (Barcelona, 1921), 191-192; Martin de Barcelona, ‘Bernardin de Manlleu’, DHGE VIII, 795-796; Lexicon Capuccinum, 203.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Massa Lubrense (Bernardino da Massa Lubrense, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian lay friar from the Naples province. Architect, sculptor, painter and illustrator.

works

Religious sculptures and illustrative programs in Capuchin and other churches in the Naples region (Sorento, Nola, Nocera, Piedimonte, Caserta, Montesarchio etc.).

literature

Apollinaris de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 55; Riccardo Filangieri, Storia di Massa Lubrense (Naples: Pierro, 1910), 487.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Monte Calvo (Bernardinus de Montecalvi/Bernardino da Moncalvo, fl. 1580)

OFM. Italian friar from the Genoa province. Would have written a biblical concordance and dedicated it to Pope Gregory XIII.

works

Concordantiae Bibliorum sacrorum ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129-130.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Monte Ulmo (Bernardinus de Monte Ulmi/Bernardino Ducaina da Montolmo/Pausula, 1492-1565)

OFMConv & OFMCap. Italian friar. Renowned Scotist theologian as a conventual friar (nicknamed oculus Scoti and Scoti anima). Experienced a spiritual crisis when reading the Liber de Conformitate during a sojourn at Pisa. After a spiritual retreat among reformist Conventuals in the hermitage S. Angelo in Vado, Bernardino entered the Capuchin order in 1534/5. Took part in the Capuchin general chapter of 1536, where he was elected general definitor. He was re-confirmed in this position in 1536, 1546, 1549, 1552, 1555. He also was active as a novice master and teacher of new Capuchin friars (a.o. the teacher of Mario da Mercato Saraceno and Bernardino da Colpetrazzo), and in 1540 he was appointed provincial vicar of the new Naples province. Both in his administrative charges and in other contexts, Bernardino lived and propagated an ascetical life of prayer with anti-intellectual overtones, in total contrast with his life as a Conventual friar. He died at Macerata, around 1565. As a Capuchin, Bernardino produced a concise Meditazione della Passione, meditating in 50 little ‘contemplazioni’ on episodes from the Passion, calling up the reader to combine each meditation with a small but intensive affective prayer. In this way, Bernardino provides an itinerary towards a conformity with the crucified Christ, starting in the introduction with the interior and exterior conditions conducive to meditating the Passion. Cargnoni, I fratri cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991) III, 531 suggests that the spirituality of the work is related to that found in Corona del Nome di Iesú of Molfetta, the meditations on the mysteries of Christ found in Bernardino da Balvano, Paolo Manassei and the Corone spirituali of Mattia Bellintani da Salò.

works

Commentaria super IV Libros Sententiarum Juxta Mentem Scoti. This would have survived in manuscript format. He also would have produced some theological treatises, but those cannot be traced. Cf. Lexicon Capuccinum, 204.

Meditazione della Passione del nostro Signor Iesu Cristo, edited in: I fratri cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991) III, 532-540. See for a translation also https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/reform-resources-16th-century/writers/meditation-on-the-passion-of-our-lord-jesus-christ/ [last accessed 31 March 2022].

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 211; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 130; Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1632) I, 625-635; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 5 (1889), 57, 73-77; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 43 (1927), 282-286; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 15-16; Hilarin von Luzern, ‘Die Studien im I. Jahrhundert des Kapuzinerordens’, Liber Memorialis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1928), 93; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Montolmo’, DHGE VIII, 796; LexCap. 204; C. Cargnoni, Bernardino da Montolmo’, DBI, IX (Rome, 1966), 208-9; C. Cargnoni, ‘Fonti, tendenze e sviluppi della letteratura spirituale cappuccina primitiva’, Collectanea Franciscana 48 (1978), 311-398 (esp. 325f);

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Mutina (Bernardino da Modena, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Lombardy province. Lector, two times provincial minister and two times general definitor. Renowned preacher.

works

Dodici Colloqui proposti da considerarsi nella Novena e festa della Santissima Trinità (Modena: Typis Societatis, 1774).

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), 16.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Nuceria (Bernardino da Nocera, d. 1635)

OFMCap. Italian (Umbrian) friar. Active as a lector of philosophy and theology, preacher, and administrator (guardian, definitor). He died at the Bevagna convent, in July 1635.

works

Commentaria in Logicam Aristotelis, ex Toleto Praecipue necnon ex Aliis Auctoribus Collecta

Commentaria in Summulis

Commentaria in Aristotelis Philosophiam

Commentaria in Libros de Anima

Explanatio in D. Bonaventuram Doctorem Seraphicum super I-IV Sententiarum Librum

Tractatus Theologicus de Passione Christi et de Beata Virgine

Epistola de Immaculata B.V. Mariae Conceptione: MS BAV Barber. Lat. 1043 ff. 218-231. This letter, dated 26 May 1619, is adressed at Giovanni Rosa Davila, the prior of the regular canons at the monastery of San Giovani da Cavero.

Discorsi XL per le quarant’ore/Pro Oratione Quadraginta Horarum Fr. Bernardini de Nuceria: MS Assisi Archivo Provinziale dei Cappuccini, ?

Angeleida, ovvero combattimento angelico, principiato in celo e proseguito in terra, dove, si spiegano con metodo oratorio tutte le materie che da sacri teologi e autori si disputano degli angeli, provati con esempi, scritture e sentenze de’Patri, 5 Vols. ?

literature

É. d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 11; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della provincia serafica (Foligno, 1922), 96-99; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Nocera’, DHGE VIII, 796-797; LexCap.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Orciano (d. 1622)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Marches. Entered the order at Camerino on May 20, 1588. He was engaged in several hagiographical and historical efforts. He died at Lorette in December 1622.

works

Vita e gesta dei frati morti in concetto di santità e delle cose piu rimarchevoli succeduta in provincia delle Marche dopo la morte del Padre Girolamo da Montefiore ultimo scrittore.

Alcuni documenti relativi alla storia dell’ordine dei cappuccini, cioè lettere dirette al Padre Girolamo da Salo.

Vita e gesta di S. Serafino da Montegranaro, laico cappuccino.

Bernardino da Orciano, Chroniche. Edited in: “Biografie” di cappuccini delle Marche nel primo secolo della Riforma, ed. Renato Raffaele Lupi, Miscellanea di Testi Cappuccini, 4 (Rome, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2004).

literature

Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 16; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Orciano’, DHGE VIII, 797.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Palermo (Bernardinus Panormitanus/Bernardino di Palermo, fl. 1600)

OFM. Italian friar from the Sicily province.

works

Arbor beatorum ex minoribus observantiae qui ex Siciliae regno originem duxerunt (Palermo-Venice, 1600).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 212; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 130; Giuseppe M. Mira, Bibliografia Siciliana I, 98.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Paris (Bernardin de Paris, ca. 1605-1685)

OFMCap. French friar from the Parisian province.. Entered the order in 1622 at Paris. Theologian. After his profession and his priest training, he was for a while involved in visiting prisoners. He also became active as a novice master during a large part of his religious life in several convents of his province, as well as a spiritual guide of several female religious communities. In 1640, he became guardian of the Étampes convent, a function that he kept for ca. 30 years. He died in 1685 at Sr. Jacques de Paris. In the course of his life, he fought Jansenist tendencies.

works

La Communion de Jésus-Christ au Cénacle, prenant son propre Corps avec ses Apostres, pour servir de modelle à la Communion des fidèles (Paris: Thierry, 1658)

Le céleste amour de Marie (Paris: Thierry, 1659)

Les entretiens intérieurs du Fils du Dieu au sein de sa Mère ??

Le Pur esprit du Christianisme renouvelé en saint François d'Assise/L'esprit de S. François formé sur celuy de Jésus-Christ où ses Enfants sont instruicts des voyes qu'ils doivent tenir pour concevoir le premier esprit de leur saint Père (…) (Paris: Thierry, 1660 & 1662) New edition in two volumes by Apollinaire de Valence, in 1888. In any case the 1662 parisian edition is accessible via Google Books.

Le journée intérieure du religieux (Paris: Thierry, 1661); Le religieux intérieur, divisé en trois parties (…) (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1663). The 1663 edition is accessible via Google Books.

L'esprit de la mendicité évangélique, ou les entretiens célestes et familiers des Enfans de saint François, avec une conduite pour la confession et la communion (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1662).

L'Intérieur de Jésus-Christ en l'Eucharistie (…) 52 méditations (Paris: Thierry, 1671)

La communion de la Mère de Dieu Marie Vierge recevant le corps de son Fils en l'eucharistie, dédiée à la Reyne de France (Paris: Thierry, 1672) [Accessible via Google Books]; La Communion de Marie, ed. Théodose de Massat, Voix Franciscaines (Toulouse, 1914).

Le parfait novice instruit des voyes qu’il doit tenir pour arriver à la perfection de son estat (Paris: veuve de Denys Thierry, 1668). Accessible via Google Books.

La sainteté de Dieu exprimée en Jésus-Christ, pour servir d’exemplaire à la sainteté de tous les états que les fidèles peuvent porter dans le Christ (Paris, 1674).

De Sanctitate Sacerdotum (Paris: Thierry, 1675)

De Vita Interiori Filiorum s. François (Paris: Thierry, 1677).

Le religieux ou le chrétien en solitude (Paris, 1677).

Instructiones pro Missionariis (Paris: Thierry, 1677).

Regulae Interiores (Paris: Thierry, 1677).

La Religieuse dans son cloistre. Ou il est traité de l’antiquité de la Closture, de sa dignité & sainteté, quel en est l’esprit, avec lequel elle doit estre gardée pour la rendre douce, sainte & meritoire, & y commencer d’y vivre de la vie des Anges comme dans les Cieux (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1678). Accessible via Google Books.

Vita Poenitens D.N.J.C. (Paris: Thierry, 1679).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 212-213; Édouard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 12; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘La spiritualité franciscaine’, Études franciscaines 39 (1927), 468-469; Imerio da Castellanza, 'P. Bernardino da Parigi apostolo, scrittore', Italia Francescana 7 (1932), 315-334; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Paris’, DHGE VIII, 797-798; DictSpir, I, 1516-1517; C. Bérubé, L'amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfiel et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997); Camille Bérubé, ‘The early ‘Spirit of Saint Francis’ by Bernardine of Paris’, Greyfriars Review 18 (2004), 241-292.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Passeris (Bernardino da Fossecchio, d. 1652)

OFM. Italian Observant friar and member of the Tuscany province. Long-time lector. Author of monarchist political works.

works

De catholici subditi debito erga Principem, seu de jure Principis in sibi subditos: MS ? Allegedly composed in reaction to the death of the English king Charles I in 1649.

Stabilità della Monarchia Spagnuola fondata sopra quattro basi, religione, pietà giustizia, e prudenza: MS ?

Avvisi compresi in una centuria: MS ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 130.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Picquigny (Bernardin de Picquigny/Piconio, 1633-1709)

OFMCap. French friar from the Parisian province. Fulfilled several functions in the order (lector, guardian, provincial definitor). Spent the last years of his life in the city of Paris. Wrote several exegetical, spiritual and ascetical works which had quite a printing history.

works

Epistolarum Pauli Triplex Expositio (Paris, 1703). This is Bernardin’s main work. It was reprinted several times. Bernardin also compiled an abbreviated French version: Explication des épîtres de saint Paul, 3 Vols (Paris, 1707). This abbreviation again appeared more than once. And both versions can now be accessed via Gallica & Google Books. [Hildebrand remarks that his fellow friar Georges Godier d’Amiens had published a comparable work between 1659 and 1664]

Triplex Expositio in Sacrosancta D.N.J.C. Evangelia (Paris, 1726). He wrote this work on request of the pope. It was published posthumously.

various additional spiritual and ascetical works

Opera Omnia, ed. Vivès, 5 Vols. (Paris, 1870-1872). This contains the Epistolarum Pauli Triplex Expositio, the Triplex Expositio in Sacrosancta D.N.J.C. Evangelia, and several ascetical texts, but not the French Explication des épîtres de saint Paul.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; Estudios Franciscanos 14 (1915), 185, 333; 15 (1915), 193, 285; 16 (1916), 19, 280; Italia Francescana 17 (1942), 136-140; 18 (1943), 41-48; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bernardin de Picquigny’, DHGE VIII, 798; DSpir I, 1517-1518; Analecta OFMCap 40 (1924), 17-23.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Poitiers (Bernardin de Poitiers, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Tours province. Preacher and apostolic missionary. Engaged in anti-Protestant polemics.

works

Thèses royales adressées aux messieurs de la religion prétendue réformée. Qui leur monstrent clairement par leurs propres Principes, que sans blesser les Loix de leur Salut & de leur Conscience, ils peuvent se reduire à la Religion du Roy qui est l'Eglise Romaine (Poitiers, 1658/Poitiers: Jean Fleuriau, 1660 [5th ed.]/Poitiers: Jean Fleuriau, 1662 [6th ed.]/Poitiers: Jean Fleuriau, 1682 [7th ed.]). Several of these editions are accessible via the Bibliothèque de la ville de Lyon, via Google Books, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and other digital portals.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Poitiers’, DHGE VIII, 798; LexCap.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Pontremoli (Bernardino Campi/Bernardino da Pontremoli, d. 1716)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Genoa province. Historian.

works

Successi memorabili della Lunigiana: MS Genoa, Biblioteca Comunale 31-2-43, cod. 228. It amounts to a history of the Lunigiana region (between Liguria and Tuscany), replete with lists of important religious people originating from there.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46-47; Fr. Molfino, Cappuccini liguri (Genoa, 1909), 2; I cappuccini genovesi (genoa, 1912) I, 24-25; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Pontremoli’, DHGE VIII, 798; LexCap

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Rechanato (late fifteenth century)

To be continued

works

Aflaatbrief voor de leden van de broederschap van de heilige Franciscus en Anthonius van Padua verbonden aan de Franciscaanse kerk te Parijs ten gunste van het college voor ordestudenten (Gouda, ca. 1490 [single printed leaf])

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Reggio (Bernardinus Rheginus/Bernardino da Reggio/`Giorgio', ca. 1476-1535)

OMObs/OFM & OFMCap. Italian friar from Calabria. Entered the Observant branch of the order together with Luigi Comi da Reggio, who was to become a close friend and companion. After studies at the order studium of Brescia under Francesco Lycheto, an exponent of late medieval Scotism (and later minister general), Bernardino was sent to Paris, to continue his studies. Became doctor of theology and returned to Italy to teach, earning the nickname ‘Giorgio’, an allusion to Francesco Giorgio Zorsi, a learned Franciscan friar renowned for his learning. Together with Luigi and other friars, Bernardino began to push for a more austere lifestyle, in accordance with the Rule of Francis. Due to opposition from his Observant order superiors, Bernardino, Luigi and ca. 30 other Calabrian friars eventually opted for the Capuchins (1532). The Capuchin vicar general Luigi da Fossombrone made first Luigi and after him Bernardino provincial vicar of the Capuchin Calabrian province. Bernardino died on 21 December 1536.

works

Commentaria in Librum Primum Scripti Oxoniensis Joannis Duns Scoti, 3 Vols. Never edited?

Adnotationes in Sacram Divinam Scripturam.

Conceptus Quadragesimalis.

Chronicon Rhegii.

Vita S. Eliae Abbatis Bozzettae (a translation from Greek into Latin).

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1632) I, 132-135, 178-179, 183-184, 226-232; L. Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906) 43; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 136; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 47; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 17-19; Dominique de Caylus, ‘ce que les capucins doivent au bienh. Matthieu de Basci et au P. Ludovic de Fossombrone’, Études franciscaines 38 (1926), 600-608; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘De capitulo generali O.M.Cap. 1535 celebrato et anno subsequente renovato nova et vetera’, Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 43 (1927), 286, n. 1; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Reggio’, DHGE VIII, 799; DBI XV, 213-215.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Sahagún (Bernardinus Sahaguntinus/Bernardino de Sahagún, 1499, Sahagún - 1590, Mexico)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar. Born in Sahagun (Leon). Studied at Salamanca University (1512-1514) and entered the Franciscan order in the local San Francisco Convent (Santiago province). Travelled to Nueva España in 1529, in a group of 30 friars led by Antonio de Ciudad Rodrigo. Became teacher at the Santa Cruz collegium in Tlatelolco (near Mexico), founded for the sons of Aztek nobles (1536). Became one of the first experts in old Mexican languages (esp. Nahuatl) and history. Died on 23 October 1590 in Mexico. His main work is the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, an encyclopaedia of indigenous cultures and their history. His allegedly objective stance as a historian/encyclopedist and ethnographer/linguist caused problems with his own order, as well as with Spanish conquistadores and the King of Spain. His Historia was confiscated in 1577. With the Psalmodia Cristiana (Mexico, 1583) as the major exception, most of his works - several of which apparently still are available in manuscript format, whereas others were lost over the centuries - have been published for the first time in the nineteenth century and after.

works

Evangelium, Epistolarium et Lectionarium Aztecum, sive Mexicanum, ex Antiquo Codice Mexiacno nuper Reperto Desumptum, cum Interpretatione Adnotationibus Glossario, ed. Bernardinus Bionelli (Milan: Jos. Bernardini Qm. Johannis, 1858). This work contains on pp. 429-553 also a Glossarium azteco-latinum.

Vida de San Bernardino de Sena (A Nahuatl translation of the Vita Bernardini Senensis, written by Marcus of Lisbon). This translation received its first edition by L. Oliger, in: Bulletino di Studi Bernardiniani 2 (1936), 207-212.

Psalmodia Christiana y Sermonario de los Sanctos del Año, en Lengua Mexican (…) Ordenada en Cantares o Psalmos para que canten los Indios en los Areitos que hacen en las Iglesias (Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1583). The work received an English translation as: Bernardino de Sahagún's Psalmodia Christiana (Christian Psalmody), trans. Arthur J.O. Anderson (University of Utah Press, 1993).

Catecismo de la Doctrina Cristiana, en Lengua Mejicana (Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1583)?

Bernardino de Sahagún, Coloquios y doctrina cristiana con que los doce frailes de san Francisco enviados por el papa Adriana VI y por el emperador Carlos V convirtieron a los indios de la Nueva España, en lengua mexicana y española, ed. & trans. Miguel León Portilla (Mexico: UNAM, Fundación de Investigaciónes Sociales, 1986).

Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Carlos Bustamente, 4 Vols. (Mexico, 1829/1830); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, Mexican Antiquities, 7 Vols. (London, 1841-1848); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Ireneo Paz, 4 Vols. [=reproduction with annotation of the 1829/1830 edition] (Mexico, 1890-1895); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Ángel María Garibay, Biblioteca Porrúa, 10, 4 Vols. (Mexico: Porrúa, 1956); Códice florentino de laHistoria general de las cosas de Nueva España’, ed. Giunti Barbèra, 3 Vols. (Florence, 1979); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, 6 Vols. (Mexico, 1981); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Wigberto Jimenez Moreno, 2 Vols. (Mexico, 1938/Madrid, 1988); Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, ed. Carlos Maria de Bustamante, Cambridge Library Collection – History, 3 Vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002); General History of the Things of New Spain: The Florentine Codex, transl. Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles E. Dribble, 14 Vols. (Santa Fe, 1950/University of Utah Press, 1975-2012); Cinzia Lodi, L’aparato illustrativo del Codice Fiorentino della ‘Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España de fra Bernardino de Sahagún, Diss University of Florence (Florence, 1995); Conquest of New Spain: 1585 Revision, ed. S.L. Cline (University of Utah Press, 1989). The Historia general is in fact an encyclopedia, following the example of the natural history writings of Pliny and the De Proprietatibus Rerum of Bartholomeus Anglicus.

On the famous Florentine codex see also: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/new-spain/viceroyalty-new-spain/a/bernardino-de-sahagn-and-collaborators-florentine-codex

Breve Compendio de los Ritos Idolátricos de Nueva España, ed. L. Oliger, in: Antonianum, 17 (1942), 3-38, 133-174; Ritos y Costumbres Aztecas (Madrid, 1944); Sterbende Götter und Christliche Heilsbotschaft, ed. W. Lehmann (1949).

Cantares Mejicanos y Otros Opúscolos. Facsimile edition in: Cantares en idioma mexicano. Reproducción facsímile del manoscrito original existente en la Biblioteca Nacional, que se imprime por acuerdo del M. González Cosío, Secretario de Fomento, en el taller de fotolipia del mismo Ministerio bajo la dirección de A. Peñafiel (Mexico, 1904-1906).

Libro de la Venida de los Primeros Padres, y las Pláticas que tuvieron con los Sacerdotes de los Indios, en Español y Mejicano, ed. José M. Pou y Martí, Miscellanea Francesco Ehrle (Rome, 1924) III, 281-333. Re-edited separately as El Libro Perdido de las Pláticas o Coloquios de los Doce Primeros Misioneros de México (Mexico, 1944/Rome, 1962); Coloquios y Doctrina Cristiana, facsimile edition, introd. & annotation Miguel León-Portilla (Rome, 1924/Mexico, 1986); Christian Duverger, La conversion des indiens de Nouvelle-Espagne avec le texte des Colloques des Douze de Bernardino de Sahagún (1564) (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1987) [also issued as: La conversión de los indios de la Nueva España con el texto de los Coloquios de los Doce de Bernardino de Saragún, Colección 500 años, 18 (Quito: Ediciones ABYA-YALA, 1990), and as La conversión de los Indios de Nueva España con el texto de los ‘Coloquios de los Doce’ de Bernardino de Sahagún (1564) (Mexico, 1993).]

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, adiciones, apéndices a la postilla y ejercicio de lo cotidiano, ed. A.J.O. Anderson, Colección Facsímiles de lingüística y filología nahuas, 6 (México, 1993).

Primeros Memoriales. Paleography of Nahuatl Text and English Translation, trans. Thelma D. Sullivan et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

Calendario Majicano, Latino y Castellano (1583-1584): no edition available

Vocabulario Trilingüe Castellano, Latino y Mejicano: no edition available

Doctrina Cristiana, en Mejicano: no edition available

Arte adivinatoria (1585): no edition available

Sermones Dominicales y de Santos, en Lengua Mejicana: no edition available

Sermones de Adviento, Navididad, Cuaresma y Resurrección: no edition available

Manual del Cristiano: no edition available

Libro de Oro y Tesoro Índico: no edition available

Leche Espiritual: no edition available

Espiritual Manjar Sólido: no edition available

Vida de Jesucristo en Verso Mejicano: no edition available

Calepino o Diccionario Mejicano: no edition available

Regla de los Casados: no edition available

Declaración del Símbolo por Manera de Diálogo: no edition available

Tratado de las Virtudes Teologales, en Mejicano: no edition available

Lumbre Espiritual: no edition available

Los Mandamientos de los Casados:; no edition available

Impedimentos del Matrimonio: no edition available

Doctrina Cristiana: no edition available?

Declaración Parafrástica y Símbolo ‘Quicumque Vult’: no edition available

Arte de la Lengua Mejicana: no edition available

Fruta Espiritual: no edition available

Regla de los Casados: no edition available

Pláticas para Después del Bautismo de los Niños: MS Viñaza, 256. no edition available

Bordón Espiritual: no edition available

Escalera Espiritual: no edition available

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 137; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Unversa Franciscana I, 214; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 131; J. Garcia Icazbalceta, Bibliografia mexicana del siglo XVI (Mexico, 1886), 247-322; J. Bauman, ‘Bernardino de Sahagun (d. 1590) en zijn wetenschappelijke missie-arbeid onder de Azteken’, Collectanea Franciscana Neerlandica 1 (1927), 241-266 [check: 3 (1929)?]; José M. Pou y Martí, ‘El libro perdido de las pláticas y coloquios de los doce primeros misioneros en Méjico’, in: Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle (Rome, 1924) III, 281-333; J. Goyens, ‘Bernardin de Sahagun’, DHGE VIII, 799-800; Livario Oliger, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún e una vita di s. Bernardino in lingue nathuatl’, Bolletino di studi Bernardiniani 2 (1936), 3-8; Wigberto Jiménez Moreno, Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún y su obra (Mexico: Porrúa e Hijos, 1938); Livario Oliger, ‘Breve compendio de los ritos idolátricos de Nueva España, auctore Bernardino de Sahagún, OFM, Pio V dicatum’, Antonianum 17 (1942), 3-38, 133-174; Conde de Castillo-Fiel, ‘La civilización azteca, según el franciscano Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún’, Verdad y Vida 2 (1944), 758-779 & 3 (1945), 596-619; Leonardo Gutiérrez-Colomer, Contribución al estudio fármaco-botánico de la flora de México que describe Sahagún en el siglo XVI (Madrid, 1948); Sterbende Gotter und christliche Heilsbotschaft: Wechselreden indianischer Vornehmer und spanischer Glaubensapostel in Mexiko 1524, ed. G. Kutscher, Spanischer und mexikanischer Text mit deutscher Übersetzung von Walter Lehmann, Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen, III (Stuttgart, 1949); Luis Nicolau d’Olwer, Historiadores de América. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. Comisión de Historia, 40, Historiadores de América, IX (Mexico: D.F. Editorial Cultura, 1952) [An in-depth analysis of the works and activities of Bernardino de Sahagun, now freely accessible as pdf via Google Books]; Angel Maria Garibay K., Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún. Relación de los textos que no aprovechó en su obra. Su método de investigación, Aportaciones a la investigación folklórica de Méjico (Mexico: Sociedad Folklórica de Méjico, 1953); Luis M. Diéguez, ‘Nuevos estudios sobre Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún’, Liceo franciscano 8 (1955), 99-107; Miguel León-Portilla, ‘Los huaxtecos, según los informantes de Sahagún’, Estudios de cultura nahuatl 5 (Mexico, 1965), 15-29; M. León-Portilla, Significado de la obra de Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, alumno de Salamanca, ‘Padre de la antropología en el Nuevo Mundo’ (Salamanca: U of Salamanca Press, 1966); Francisco Jordá Cerdá, ‘Homenaje a Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún’, Zephyrus 17 (Salamanca, 1966), 131-133; Luis Rubluo, Sahagún y los refranes de los antiguos mejicanos (S.L.: Dirección general de Prensa, Memorias y Publicaciones de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, 1966); Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois, Vida e Obra de Fray B. de Sahagún (Léon, 1973); Leandro Tormo, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún’, Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España, 4 Vols. (Madrid, 1972-1975) IV, 2135; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 175-175 (no. 761); J. García Icazbalceta, Bibliografía Mexicana del siglo XVI (Mexico, 1981³), 322-387; H. Wissmann, Sind doch die Götter auch gestorben (Göttingen, 1981); Florencio Vicente Castro and José-Luis Rodríguez Molinero, Bernardino de Sahagún, primer antropólogo en Nueva España (siglo XVI) (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad, 1986); Pilar Hernandez Aparicio, ‘Gramaticas, Vocabularios y Doctrinas Franciscanas en las Bibliothecas de Madrid', Actas del II Congresso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVI) (Madrid: DEIMOS, 1988), 582; Manuel de Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas americanas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del siglo XVI’, in: Actas del II Congreso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVI) (Madrid; DEIMOS, 1988), 505-509; José Sanchez Herrero, ‘Alfabetización y catequesis franciscana en America durante el siglo XVI’, in: Actas del II Congreso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVI) (Madrid: DEIMOS, 1988), 613f; A.H. de Léon-Portilla (ed.), Bernardino de Sahagún (Mexico, 1990); LThK, 3rd ed. II, 279; Christian Duverger, La conversión de los Indios de Nueva España con el texto de los ‘Coloquios de los Doce’ de Bernardino de Sahagún (1564) (Mexico, 1993); R.M. Berrio, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún y la antropología cultural de los siglos XIX-XX’, in: Los castellanos y leoneses I (1996), 335-340; J. Llorente Resines, ‘Sobre el catecismo pictográfico atribuido a Bernardino de Sahagún’, Estudios de historia social y económica de América 12 (1995), 325-330. [Appeared in more detail in Estud. August. 31 (1996), 245-298, 449-548]; Luis Reyes Garcia, Documentos Nahuas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (Mexico: Archivo General de la Nación-Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1996) [also dealing with Sahagun’s Exercicio Quotidiano]; V.C. Renstrom, ‘Censoring Encyclopedic Knowledge: The case of Sahagun and Sixteenth Century Spanish America’, in: Pre-Modern Encyclopedic Texts, ed. Peter Brinkley (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 1997), 315-325; Fabio Trancarelli, ‘Da Sahagún alla Nuova Spagna. La coesistenza di culture nel Vecchio e nel Nuovo Mondo’, Flor. 12 (1998), 119-137; Miguel Leon-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagún: pionero de la antropologia, Cultura Náhuatl, Monografias 24 (México, 1999); Ramón Pereira Somoza, Valoración de la cultura y la religión nahuas en relación con la Evangelización en la ‘Historia general de la Nueva España’ de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Thesis ad Doctoratum in Sacra Theologia totaliter edita (Rome, 2001); David Carrasco, City of sacrifice. The Aztec Empire and the role of violence in civilization (Boston, 1999); Walden Browne, Sahagún and the transition to modernity (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000); Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, text, and image in the work of Sahagún, ed. Eliose Quiñones Keber (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002) [cf. Americas 60 (2004), 467-469]; Miguel León-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagún: First Anthropologist, trans. Mauricio J. Mixco, Academy of American Franciscan history, 11 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002) [cf. Americas 60 (2003), 144-145]; Javier Péres Gil, Juan José Sánchez Badiola & José R. Sola Alonso, ‘El convento de San Francisco de Sahagún y su iglesia de la Peregrina’, Archivo Ibero-Americano 62 (2002), 643-711; Sahagún at 500: Essays on the Quincentenary of the Birth of Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, ed. John Frederick Schwaller, Publications of the Academy of American Franciscan History. Franciscan Publications in Nathuatl, Series 3 (Berkeley CA, 2003); Márcia Helena Alvim, ‘Um franciscano no Novo Mundo: frei Bernardino de Sahagún’, Estudos Ibero-Americanos 31 (2005), 51-60; Luis Martínez Ferrer, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún y la cultura azteca. Reflexiones en torno al ‘Prólogo’ de la ‘Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España’, o ‘Código Florentino”, Annales Theologici 20 (2006), 357-368; Miguel-Anxo Pena González, ‘Evangelismo franciscano: Una apuesta por el hombre’, Ciencia Tomistica 133 (2006), 267-293; Gilbert Joubertjean, ‘Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590): Une vie au service du dialogue interculturel’, in: Le dialogue des Écritures, ed. Isabelle Chareire & Christian Salenson, L’Autre et les autres, 8 (Brussels: Lessius, 2007), 45-59; Felix Hinz, ‘Sahagún, Bernardino de, OFM’, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisch Kirchenlexikon XXIX (2008), 1217-1225; Malgorzata Kolankowska, ‘Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (…)’, in: Observare Evangelium. Wroclawska Ksiega Jubileuszu 800-lecia Zakonu Braci Mniejszych (Wroclaw: Franciszkanskie Wydawnictwo sw Antoniego, 2009), 345-353; Uta Berger, ‘Mission und Sprache – Bernardino de Sahagun als Autor’, Wissenschaft & Weisheit 74 (2011), 55-104 [with more in-depth information about Sahagun's written production in the Aztek vernacular and samples of his translations]; Gerhard Wolf & Joseph Connors, Colors Between Two Worlds: The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún, Villa i Tatti: The Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance Studies, 28 (Florence: Kunsthistorisches Institut-Max-Planck-Institut, 2011) [a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Florentine codex]; Miguel Leon-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist, trans. Mauricio J. Mixco (Norma, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) [a translation of Leon-Portilla's Bernardino de Sahagún: pionero de la antropología from 1999]; Laura Kilián, ‘A Missionary Manual: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún's Florentine Codex in Relationship to European Bestiaries’, in: The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Gordan Newhauser, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 29 (Turnhout, 2013), 41-68; Ascensión Hernández de León-Portilla, “Analogía y antropología: la arquitectura de la Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España”, in: El universo de Sahagún. Pasado y presente. Coloquio 2005, ed. José Rubén Romero & Pilar Máynez (México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2007), 57-87; Salvador Reyes Equiguas, 'Paleografía y traducción de los párrafos primero y segundo del capítulo sexto del libro XI del Códice florentino', Etudios de cultura Náhuatl 56 (2018), 187-196.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Saluzzo (Bernardino di Saluzzo, 1638-1710)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Minister general of the Capuchin order (1709-1710). Author?

literature

Pellegrino da Forlì, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1885) IV, 209-213; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Saluzzo’, DHGE VIII, 801.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Sancto Angelo in Vado (Bernardino de Sant’Angelo in Vado/Bernardino Franceschini, d. 1752)

OFMCap. Italian Friar from the Marches. Active as a lector, guardian, definitor and provincial minister (1706-1709). Afterwards he became a consultant for the Capuchin minister general Michelangelo da Ragusa. Elected general definitor and procurator at the 1719 chapter. On 21 September 1721, pope Innocent XIII suggested that he became the new vicar/minister general of the Capuchin order, to succeed Giovanni Antonio di Firenze. Bernardino died at Ancona, in 1752. He wrote/translated a preaching handbook and a number of theological and exegetical works, most of which apparently have not yet been edited.

works

Metodo facile à giovanni predicatori per comporre Panegirici in lode de'Santi. Opera tradotta dal Francese (Venice: Giuseppe Corona, 1743). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitttorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books.It amounts to a real preaching manuel, with much attention for divison, the 'esordio', the right tone or 'affection' etc., and providing several examples.

La vera grandezza d'animo con un trattato del vero e falso onore: MS?

Lezioni teologiche, e spirituali sopra le grandezze di Dio: MS?

Caratteri cavati dalla Scrittura Santa e applicati al costume del secolo presente: MS?

Parafrasi sopra il Salmo 118, o vero riflessioni di un'anima, che si solleva in Dio: MS?

Avvisi importanti ai Padri, e alle Madri: MS?

Pratiche per ben prepararsi alle morte con passi della Sacra Scrittura per disporre i moribondi: MS?

Il Predicatore ai Chiostro, ovvero Discorsi Claustrali: MS?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 47-48; Biblioteca picena o sia notizie istoriche delle opere e degli scrittori piceni, Tomo Secondo, Lett. B. (Osimo: Domenicantonio Quercetti, 1791), 218; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 769; É. d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 12; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Iesi, 1928), 18-10; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Sant’Angelo in Vado’, DHGE VIII, 801; Lex.Cap.,>>>

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Treviso (Bernardinus Trevisanus/Bernardino da Treviso, fl. late 15th cent.)

OM. Italian Conventual friar. Member of the San Antonio province. Master of theology at Ferrara and active at Bologna. Inquisitor at Padua. Active philosophical author.

works

De legitima dispensatione Fratrum Minorum adversus Fr. Ioannem Perrinum Minoritam Reformat. Coletanae. This is the same work as Questio theologalis De paupertate Fratrum Minorum et dispensatione eius legitima.

Comm. in Librum Meteorum Aristotelis (...) ad Ludovicum Mediolani Ducem (between 1491-1499): MS Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria Lat. 1664. [Opus Bernardini Trivisani moralis, et naturalis Phy. Coenobitae Minorum divinae sapientiae doctoris in quatuor libros metheorologicos Aristotelis ad illusstriss. Mediolani Ducem Lodovicum M. Sf. Anglum PP. Angleriaeque Comitem ac Januae Ducem...]

De Iudicali Astronomia, an sit vera scientia (...) ad Ludovicum Mediolani Ducem (...): MS?

Questio theologalis De paupertate Fratrum Minorum et dispensatione eius legitima contra virulentem Joannem Perini Doctorem parisiensem (...) (Paris: Jean Petit, 1515). Work by the same author? This is accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek Vienna and via Google Books.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 134-135; C. Piana, ‘Lo studio di S. Francesco a Ferrara’, AFH 61 (1968), 145-146.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus de Valladolid (Bernardino de Valladolid, ca. 1617-1652)

OFM. Spanish friar from Toledo. Entered the order in the Castille province. He traveled to Yucatan in 1634 (mission led by Diego Pérez de Mérida). Renowned for his knowledge of and love for the Maya language. Preacher and secretary for his order province (San José de Yucatán province). He died at the age of 32 as the result of an accident on October 10, 1652.

works

Conclusiones Teológicas/Conclusiones de todas las materias de los sacramentos, en latín y en yucateco. Apparently an instrument to help preachers with the presentation of theological materials in their sermons to the natives. See on this the remarks in Diego López de Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatán, 3rd. Ed., 2 Vols. (Mérida, 1867-1868) II, 476. Not known whether the Conclusiones Teológicas were published.

Vocabulario en lengua Maya. See: A.M. Tozzer, A Maya Grammar with Bibliography and Appraisement of the Works Noted, Papers of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 9 (Cambridge, Mass., 1921), 172, 273.

Dioscórides en lengua yucateca, con adiciones. A Mayan translation (with commentary and comparisons with plants in the Americas) of parts of the massive Materia Medica by the first-century Greek physician Dioscorides, based on a Spanish translation from the second half of the 16th cent. See: Diego López de Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatán, 3rd. Ed., 2 Vols. (Mérida, 1867-1868) II, 625.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 215; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 81-82; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 443-444.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Dinius (Bernardino Dinio da Uzzano, fl. ca. 1590)

OFM. Italian friar and member of the Tuscany province. Lector jubilatus.

works

Commentarii in Dialecticam, physicam, libros de anima, et de angelis: MS ?

Storia dei principi e duchi della familia Cybo, 6 Vols. (ca. 1592): MSS? Apparently a six-volume account of the house of Cybo, once in the possession of the Cybo family and the secular priest Antonio Pagni of Uzzano.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 209-210; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Gandensis (Bernardinus van Gent/Jakob de Caesteker, d. 1732)

OFMCap. Belgian (Flemish) friar. Joined the order in 1678. Lector and guardian. During a stint as a lector of theology (1695-1699), he wrote a Dutch exposition of the Franciscan rule (Uytlegginghe op den reghel der Minder-Broeders). This work was very well-received within the Capuchin order, receiving French and German translations. Another of his works - a short instruction for the papal syndic - also survives.

works

Uytlegginghe op den reghel der Minder-Broeders (Ghent, 1705). Dutch exposition of the rule of Francis, which was translated into German in 1720 (Ausslegung uber die Regel der Minderbrüder, trans. Humilis von Kleve, OFMCap. (Collen: Ben Caspar Drimborn, 1720)), and in French in 1725.

Korte onderrichtinghe voor den Pauselycken Syndicus (Ghent, 1718).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 779; Biographie nationale de Belgique IV, 861; Lambert van Velp, Necrologium (Tilburg, 1897), 72; Franciscaansch Leven XVII (Breda, 1934), 26-31; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bernardin de Gand’, DHGE VIII, 792; Sylvio Hermann De Francheschi, ‘Morales franciscaines du jeûne et de l’abstinence au temps des Lumières. Ascétisme alimentaire et discipline régulière au XVIIIe siècle’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 193-218.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Gonzalez I (Bernardino González, fl. 1695)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Lector jubilatus and spiritual director of the discalceate nunnery in Monforte de Lemos.

works

Sermon que predico el reverendissimo padre Fr. Bernardino Gonzalez, lector jvbilado y vicario del religiosissimo convento de franciscas descalzas de la villa de Monforte de Lemos, a veinte de Abril de mil seiscientos y noventa y qvatro (...) las honras de Joseph de Caravantes (...) (Madrid: Melchio Alvarez, 1694).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Gonzalez II (Bernardino González, fl. 1700)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar and member of the Concepción province. Arabist. Lector and active as apostolic preacher. He continued the work of his fellow friar José de León (himself a lecturer in Arabic), traveling to the Holy Land to complete a dictionary and grammar. The dictionary (Intérprete arábico, which had remained in manuscript format) was more or less lost Miguel Asín Palacios by accident came across a copy in 1900 a second hand bookshop in Zaragoza containing additions until 1727 made by Franciscan friars active in Damascus. Likewise , the grammar (Epítome) was more or less lost after the destruction of the Spanish Franciscan college of Damascus and the massacre of its inhabitants by the Druses in 1860. One copy, still with traces of the fire, eventually ended up in an Amsterdam Bookstore. Other copies of these texts have been identified as well and stood at the basis of the 2005 edition of both texts mentioned below.

works

Intérprete Arábico - Epítome de la Gramática Arábica, ed. Ramón Lourido Díaz, 2 Vols. (Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia y Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, 2005). The 1901 study of Palacios also includes a first modern edition of the Intérprete Arábico, based on the manuscript copy discovered in 1900.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 210; M.A. Palacios, 'El 'Intérprete arábico' de Fray Bernardino González', Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 38:1 (1901), 267-279; Atanasio López, ‘P. Fr. Bernardino González, insigne arabista’, El Eco Franciscano 34 (1917), 286-288; AIA 29 (1928), 361; James I. Monroe, Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship: Sixteenth Century to the Present, Medieval Iberian Peninsula texts and studies, 3 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 1970), 26-28; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 122 (no. 367); Ladislav Drozdik, 'Fr. Bernardino González and the Spanish Lexicographical Tradition', Asian and African Studies 15:1 (2006), 103-107.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Guslino (Bernardino Guslino, 1534-1580)

OFM. Italian friar. Biographer of Bernardinus de Feltre. He would have composed this work around 1575.

works

La vita del beato Bernardino da Feltre, ed. Ippolita Checcoli (Bologna: Editrice Compositori-Fondazione del Mojte di Bologna e Ravenna, 2008). See also the detailed review of the work by Pietro Delcorno in Rivista di Teologia Dell’Evangelizzazione 28 (2010), 484-488.

literature

G. Biasuz, `Precizazione sulla data di composizione della vita del beato Bernardino, scritta dal Bernardino Guslino', Arch. Stor. Belluno, feltre e Cadore, 36 (1965), 33-55; Lia Sbriziolo, `Una precisazione cronologia per il biografo principe di Bernardino da Feltre', Ateneo Veneto, n.s. 4 (1966), 151-158. See also the entry on Bernardinus de Feltre.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Hermosus de Estrada (Bernardino Hermoso de Estrada, ca. 1595 - ca. 1660?)

OFM. Spanish friar from Segovia. Member of the Concepción province and residing in the Ávila friary in 1628, when he joined a group of 17 Franciscan friars and 4 servants traveling to the Río Verde Custody in New Spain (Mexico). There he had a missionary career and became provincial of the San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacán province [check].

works

to be continued

literature

Mathias C. Kiemen, 'A Document concerning the Franciscan Custody of Rio Verde', The Americas 11:3 (1955), 295-328; Archivo Ibero-Americano (1990), 572; Antonio Moreno Hurtado, Estudios sobre el Franciscanismo (1205/2019), 239-240.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Jiménez (Bernardino Jiménez, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Preacher of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 130-131; AIA 20 (1980), 132; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 131 (no. 446).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Lackner (Bernardin Lackner, 1578-1627)

OFMRef. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol Sankt Leopold province. For a while active in Freiburg im Breisgau.

works

Zur Geschiche der Minderbrüder im Gebiete des Oberrheins (1616), ed. Max Straganz, in: Freiburger Diöcesan-Archiv Neue Folge 1 (1900), 319-395 [it amounts to an inventory of the Franciscan friary of Freiburg im Breisgau]

Bapstliche Bulla uber die grosse Idulgenz und Ablaß auch von Aufrichtung unnd Anstellung der Ertzbruderschaft mit den Strickgürteln deß H. Vatters Francisci, allen Liebhabern und Einverleibten dieser Bruderschafft zu Nutz gericht, dazu seind auch von newem kommen die siben Tagzeiten sambt angehenckter Cron Sant Francisci welche auch zuvor niemalen in Truck außgangen (Freiburg i.Br.: Mayer, 1618). Issued anonymously.

Neues Bruederschafft Libell für unser Lieben Frauen Schmerzen Bruederschafft zu Schwaz im Ynthal in der Franziscaner Kirchen, in 2 Thail abgethailt, von dem wirdigen geistlichen andechtigen Minister und P.P. Franciscani Tyrolischer Provintz von neuem in offendlichen Truck ausgefertigt (Innsbruck: Paur, 1623/1624). Issued anonymously. It might be based on an earlier comparable work by Tobias Hendschel.

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 98 [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]

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Leakovic (Tomo Leakovic, d. 1815)

OFM. Croation Observant friar from Bosjnaci. Worked as a professed Franciscan friar after his ordination in Sarengrad as preacher/confessor. Later lector in the provincial school network. Three years active in Palestine. He returned to Croatio, to Šarengreb, where died in 1815.

works

Govorenja sveta za soe neditje zodišnje (Efseg, 1795). Spiritual lectures/conferences for all the Sundays of the liturgical year.

Nauk ad poglavitih stvarik Krstjansko-Katolianskih (Ofen, 1798). A treatise on the principal Christian truths/doctrines.

Govorenjo za swetane dueve božje B.D. Marie i swetih a nikima priložitima parad položnoga obiaja (Efseg, 1802). A celebratory treatise on the feasts of Mary and the saints.

Kratak odgovor sorhu razdiljenia iztone i zapadne crkve i t.d. (Efseg, s.d.). A short work on the schism between the eastern and western churches.

literature

Pavel Josef Šafarik, Geschichte der südslawischen Literatur, 2 Vols. (Prague: F. Temsky, 1864-1865) II, 85, 226, 237-238; DHGE 30 (2010),1300.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Obicinus (Bernardino Obicino da Orta, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Novara diocese and member of the Riformati Brescia province. Custos in 1588 and 1599.

works

Trattato sopra i quattro novissimi, dell'assunzione e della natività della B. Vergine (Bergamo, 1601/Milan, 1610). Same work as Regno Christiano? See further down.

Specchio della confessione (Bergamo, 1604).

Regno Christiano. Nel quale si contengono molti Trattati de Novissimi, de Precetti, de Sacramenti, & delle Virtù, & altri soggetti più generali per utilità, e salute del Christiano (...) (Brescia: Giovanni Battista & Antonio Bozzola, 1610). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele III in Rome and via Google Books.

Edificazione espirituale (Milan, 1611).

Discorsi, overo Sermoni sopra gli Evangelii di tutte le Domeniche dell'Anno, Ferie di Quaresima, & Feste principali (...), 2 Vols. (Milan; L'erede di Pacifico Pontio & Giovanni Battista Piccaglia, 1612/Brescia: Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1612). Accessible via Google Books.

Omelie sopra tutti gli evangelii della quaresima (Brescia: Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1616).

Evangelio di Giesu Christo Dichiarato Catholicamente con Dottrina della Sacra Scrittura, de Santi Padri, della Theologia Scolastica, e Filosofia morale. Divisio in doi parti. Sopra gl'evangeli della Quaeresima d'applicarsi per tutte le Domeniche dell'Anno, e Feste de Santi (Brescia: Giovanni Battista & Antonio Bozzola, 1616). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Brevi sermoni per ogni giorno della quaresima (Brescia, 1618).

Devozioni serafici tirati del tesoro del ordine di San Francesco (Brescia, 1619).

Il Tempio sacro di Dio nel quale si celebrano le feste della beatissima Vergine Maria, de'santi angeli, apostoli, martiri, confessori, vrgini, & altre solennità con devoti e morali sermoni, trattati & homelie che servono anco per le Domeniche dell'anno, & Ferie della Quaresima (Venice: Giacomo Sarzina, 1621). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Il Paradiso della Gloria dei Santi, nel quale si contengono Sermoni, & Trattati sopra i Vangeli per tutte le Feste dell'Anno, & di Communi, secondo il rito del Messale Romano (...) (Venice: Santo Grillo e Fratelli, 1621/Brescia, 1626).The 1621 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Oracoli celesti, ovvero lezioni morali sopra sette salmi

Dictionarium Divini eloquii ex sententiis SS.PP.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 211-212; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 130; Louis Ellies Du Pin, Table universelle des auteurs ecclésiastiques II, 1871-1872; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 561.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Mercator (fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMRec. German friar, member of the Boppard friary (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany).

works

Nucleus Catecheticus, continens brevi compendio doctrinam fidei ac morum, e diversis authoribus erutus: Sacrae Scripturae locis, SS. Patrum Authoritatibus, nec non selectioribus Historiis illustratus, omnibus animarum curatoribus, concionatoribus, et catechistis perutilis, ac rudiori plebi accommodatissimus (Cologne: Sumptibus Wilhelmi Friessem, 1663/1974/Cologne: Sumptibus Wilhelmi Friessem, 1678/Cologne: Sumptibus Joannis Wilhelmi Friessem, 1682/Cologne: Sumptibus Joannis Wilhelmi Friessem, 1687/Cologne: In Officina Friessemiana, 1714 [ninth edition]). Various editions accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books. There is also an early 18th-century Polish edition (also accessible via Google Books.)

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 211.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Manzoni (Bernardino Manzoni da Cesena, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Studied theology at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in Rome from 1628 onwards. Later regent of the Cesena studium, as well as guardian of the Cesena friary. Subsequently guardian of the Imola friary until 1636. Inquisitor in Pisa and in Siena in the 1640s. He died in Cesena in 1647?

works

Caesena Sacra. Hoc est Chronologiae pars prima, in qua Ecclesiae Caesenatis Antistites ex vetustatis tenebris excerpti memorantur; civesque; Caesenates Sanctimonia, Dignitate, Virtutibus Praeclari alphabetico ordine ab oblivione vindicantur. A F. Bernardino Manzonio de Caesena, Ord. Min. Con. S. Francisci Artium & Sac. Theologiae Doctire, In Civitate, & Dominio Pisano Inquisitore Apostolico (Cesena: Amator Maffa, 1643). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books (use first two title words only).

Caesenae chronologia in duas partes divisa, in quarum prima Ecclesiae antistites, secunda civitatis domini ab origine ad haec usque tempora brevi historico recensentur ordine, civesque Caesenates vitae sanctimonia dignitate doctrinis, & virtutibus generis nobilitate militari arte successuum faelicitate illustres serie alphabeti servata enumerantur (Cesena: Amator Massa & Lorenzo de Landis, 1643).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 108; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Ochino (1487-1564)

OFMObs, OFMCap, and Protestant. Italian friar. Born in Siena, entered the Observant branch of the Franciscan order in 1504 (Capriola convent), and studied Latin, Hebrew, theology and Medicine. For his medical studies, he probably temporarily left the order (before 1510). After re-entering the order, he made career in the Observant branch as provincial of Siena (1523), commissioner at Venice (1531), and Vicar general of the Cismontan provinces (1533). In 1534, he enters the Capuchin fold, where he becomes General Definitor in 1535 and General Vicar in 1538. By that time, he had become one of the most renowned preachers of his time, famous for his Lenten sermon tours in Rome (1534-5), Naples (1536), Perugia, Florence, and Venice (1538), Siena (1539), Modena, Lucca and Perugia (1540), and Naples (1541). Became very active in the production of legislative texts for the new Capuchin order (cf. his role in the wording of the constitutions of 1536 and his refusal to accept in the Capuchin world the existing culture of learning and the dominance of secular philosophy). After his re-election as General Vicar of the Capuchins around 1541, he continues to preach (Bologna and Venice, 1542, and special courses on the Pauline Epistles at Verona), but his increasingly reformist viewpoints draw the attention of Theatines and Dominicans, who accuse him of heresy. When the inquisition and pope Paul III invites him to Rome, Bernardinus eventually decides not to go (partly on the advice of his friend Pietro Martiro Vermigli) but, with the help of the Duchess of Camerino and the Duchess of Ferrara, he flees to Zürich, and from there to Geneva (1542). In Geneva, Bernardinus established a protestant Italian church, and receives from Calvin the authorisation to preach [This deed greatly discredited the Capuchin Order, which almost was disbanded by Pope Paul III, were it not for the defense put forward by Cardinal Severino]. In 1543, Bernardinus writes from Geneva a letter to Siena to justify his movements and decisions, the so-called Epistolla alli molti signori di Balia della Città di Sienna. This is followed by a series of other letters and apologies. In 1544, Bernardinus marries in Geneva an Italian woman from Lucca (with whom he has four sons and two daughters). In 1545, Bernardinus and his family travel via Basel and Strasbourg to Augsburg. When Charles V (after his victory over the Smalkald coalition) tries to obtain his extradition, Bernardinus and his family travel to England with their friend Pietro Martiro (invited by Cramner), where he again preaches to Protestant Italian exiles. In 1553, after Queen Mary has ascended the English throne, Bernardinus goes back via Strasbourg and Basel to Geneva (1553). There he disapproves of the Calvin’s persecution of Michel Servet and gets into trouble about his theological writings, which seem to undercut hard-line Calvinist conceptions of grace and predestination. He leaves Geneva, travelling via Chiavenna back to Basel. There he is invited by Italian Protestants to come to Zürich (1554/1555), where he is active until 1563 (in the circle of Pietro Martiro Vermigli, Sozzini, Francesco Betti, Lismanini, and Isabella Manriquez). In that year, he is accused of doctrinal errors against the Protestant faith and has to leave town, and - when Basel and Mulhouse do not want to take him in - travels to Neurenberg and from there to Cracow in Poland. In Cracow, where he receives protection from prince Radziwill, he gains authorisation to preach, but yet again arouses opposition towards his viewpoints, and falls victim to an edict of the papal nuntius, ordering all dissident foreigners to leave. This forces Bernardinus to go to Austerlitz (Slavkov), where he dies at the age of 76 of the plague in December 1564, in the house of the Venetian Anabaptist Niccolò Paruta. Three of his sons had succumbed to the same disease earlier on at Pinczow, whereas his wife had died as a result of an accident in 1563.

[see also http://www.ereticopedia.org/bernardino-ochino and http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bernardino-ochino_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/]

works

I. from his catholic period

Dialogo in che modo la persona debbia reggere bene se stessa (Naples, 1536); Dialoghi quattro del R. Fr. Bernardino da Siena detto il Scapuzzino, ove si contengono del Ladrone in croce qual salvossi, del pentirsi presto, del peregrinaggio per andare al Paradiso, della divina professione con un spirituale testamento (Venice: Niccolò Aristotile detto Il Zoppino, 1540). These two works were combined in the Dialoghi Sette del reverendo Padre frate Bernardino Occhino Senese Generale de’ frati Capuzzini, dove si contiene: Nel primo dell’Innamorarsi di Dio, nel secondo il modo di diventar felice, nel terzo di conoscer se stesso, nel quarto del latrone buono, nel quinto del pelegrinaggio per andar al paradiso, nel sesto de la disputa di Christo con l’anima, nel settimo et ultimo della divina professione con un spirituale testamento (Venice: Niccolò Aristotile detto Il Zoppino, 1540 & 1542). The 1542 edition was reprinted by K. Benrath in the fifth volume of the series Biblioteca della Riforma Itliana (Rome-Florence, 1884). A new and critical edition appeared as: Bernardino Ochino, I ‘Dialogi sette’ e altri scritti del tempo della fuga, ed. Ugo Rozzo (Turin, 1985). The work has also been included (a corrected version of the 1542 edition) in I fratri cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991) III, testo VI (pp. 445-529)& sez. II, doc. 2. An English translation is accessible via https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/reform-resources-16th-century/writers/seven-dialogues/ [last accessed 7 April 2022]. See also: R. Belladonna, ‘Bernardino Ochino’s Fourth Dialogue (‘Dialogo del Ladrone in Croce’) and Ubertino da Casale’s ‘Arbor vitae’: adaptation and ambiguity’, Bibliothèque de Human. Renaiss. 47 (1985), 125-165; R. Belladonna, ‘Motivi umanistici e ascetismo medievale nel Dialogo quarto di Bernardino Ochino’, in: Validità perenne dell’umanesimo. Atti dei Convegni internazionali del Centro di studi umanistici ‘Angelo Poliziano’, ed. G. Tarugi (Florence, 1986), 21-33; B. Nicolini, ‘D’una sconosciuta edizione di un dialogo dell’Ochino’, in: Idem, Ideali e passioni nell’Italia religiosa del Cinquecento (Bologna, 1962), 143-146. [These dialogues to a large extent reflect conversations held with the Duchess of Camerino (Catarina Cybo) in March 1538, and spiritual encounters Vittoria Colonna, Valdéz, Carnesecchi, Pietro Martyro Vermigli, Giberti, and other ‘spiritual friends. The first Dialogue sets the tone, indicating that the growth of divine love in the soul should be cultivated by contemplating the created world as a ladder towards the Divine, by a proper ‘lectio divina’ (devotional and hagiographical texts, and particularly works that help to contemplate Christ’s virtues and perfections, and especially Christ Passion, the contemplation of which is the golden road towards a proper love of God). The other dialogues develop the theme of the love of God in the soul, leading to penitence, proper happiness, self-control and self-knowledge, and a way of life as devout servant of God in conformity with the evangelical councils of obedience, poverty and chastity: ‘In prima prometto vivere sempre in povertà, cioè senza amore a cose create, e con vero lume di saper sempre ch’io non ho, non posso, non volgio, non so e non ho alcuna cosa. Prometto ancora a Dio somma obedienza di sempre essequire con tutte le mie forze tutte le divine inspirazioni, e mai non repugnare, e cosí allora per sempre mi determino fare. Prometto ancora a Dio somma castità d’essere sempre col core e con la mente immaculata e netta di sorte tale che non voglio mai pensare, desiderare, consentire, né volere cosa che dispiacia a Dio, imo ancora non macular la mente con pensare a creatura alcuna, overo amarla, ma sempre tutta stare unita e raccolta in Dio; e cosí prometto servir al mio Signor, sempre immacolata e pura, imo tirare al suo servizio, quanto mi sarà possibile, tutte le damigelle de la casa mia, cioè tutte le potenzie de l’anima.’ I fratri cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991) III, 528.]

Prediche Nove Predicate (…) nella inclita Città di Vinegia del M.D.XXXIX (Venice: Niccolò Aristotile de Ferrara, 1541/Venice: Bindoni & Pasini, 1541/Venice: Bernardino de Viano de Lexona Vercellense, 1541) [Contains 8 sermons held at Venice (1539), and one sermon held at Perugia (1539). The edition by Bernardino de Viano also contains 5 Sermons held at Lucca (1538)]

See also: Patterns of Perfection. Seven Sermons preached in Patria by Bernardino Ochino, ed by P. McNair (Cambridge: Anastasia Press, 1999).

II. from his protestant period

Epistola alli molti signori di Balia della Città di Sienna (Geneva, 1543).

Epistola magistri Hieronimi Lucensis ad Bernardinum Ochino cum Responsione Eiusdem Bernardini (Geneva, 1543).

Responsio Bernardini Ochino ad Marcum Brixiensem Abbatem Ordinis S. Benedicti (Geneva, 1543).

Bernardini Ochino Responsio ad Mutium Justinopolitanum qua Rationem Reddit Sui Discessu ab Italia (Geneva, 1543).

Prediche di Bernardino Ochino da Siena novellamente ristampate et con grande diligenza rivedute, 5 Vols. (Geneva & Basel, 1542-1562). [Volume one contains 50 sermons; Volume two contains 65 sermons; Volume three 79 sermons (della Fede, Speranza et Carità); Volume four 51 sermons (dell’anima et di diversi diverse cose utili et necessarie); Volume five 50 sermons (that were never published before)]

XX Predige (Geneva, 1545)

Espositione de Bernardino Ochino di Siena sopra la Epistola di S. Paolo alli Romani (Geneva, 1545) [later translations followed in Latin and German, which were printed at Augsburg]

Expositione sopra la Epistola di S. Paolo alli Galati (Geneva, 1546) [also a German translation]

Riposta alla false calumni di Fra Ambrosio Caterino (Augsburg, 1546).

A Tragoedie or Dialogue of the Injust Usurped Primacie of the Bishop of Rome and of All the Just Abolishing of the Same, made by Bernard Ochino an Italian and translated out of Latine into Englische by M. John Ponet (London, 1549)

Apologi nelli quali si scuoprono li abusi, schiocheze, superstitioni, errori, idolatrie e impietà della sinagoga del papa e specialmente de suoi preti, monaci e frati (Geneva, 1554) [A lenghty anti-catholic diatribe and apology, which also received a much-revised German edition in five volumes under the title: Des hochgelehrten und Gottsäligen mans Bernhard Ochino von Senis fünff Bücher siner Apologen (…) durch Christoff Wirsung verdeutscht (Augsburg, 1559)]. It would seem that some of these were also included in Bernardino Ochino, Apologi, ed. Franco Pierno, (Manziana: Vecchiarelli, 2013) [check].

Dialogo del Purgatorio (Zürich, 1556) [with Latin and German translation by the Son of Zwingli. A French translation appeared in 1562]

Syncerae et Verae Doctrinae de Caena Domini Expositio & Defensio contra libros tres Joachimi Westphali Hamburgensis Ecclesiae Praedicatoris (Zürich, 1556) [Defense of Zwinglian ideas against Calvin]

Disputa di M. Bernardino Ochino intorno alla presenza del corpo di Gesu Christo nel sacramento della cena (Basel, 1561).

Prediche di M. Bernardino Ochino Senese, nomate Laberinti del libero o vero servo arbitrio, prescienza, predestinazione et libertà divina, ed. Marco Bracali (Florence: Olschki, 2004)

Tractatio de Conciliatione Controversiae inter Reformatas Ecclesias (Basel, 1561).

Il catechismo o vera institutione christiana di M. Bernardino Ochino da Siena, in forma di Dialogo , Interlocutori, il Ministro, et Illuminato (Basel, 1561/1562).

Bernardini Ochini Senensis Dialogi XXX, in duos libros divisi, quorum primus est de Messia, continetque dialogos XVIII. Secundus est, cum rebus variis, tum potissimum de Trinitate (Basel, 1563) [Translated from Italian into Latin by S. Castellione. This work caused much hostility in the Zurich reformed camp. They saw in one of the dialogues a defense of polygamy. This resulted into a fierce polemics, ending with Bernardino’s expulsion]

For more information on Bernardino’s works, see: K. Benrath, Bernardino Ochino von Siena. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Reformation, 2nd Edition (Brunswick, 1892), 314-323; K. Benrath, ‘Lettere sconosciute di Bernardino Ochino’, Rivista cristiana (1900),>>; P. Piccolomini, ‘Due lettere inedite di Bernardino Ochino’, Archivio della R. società romana di storia patria 28 (1905), 201-207; B. Nicolini, Il pensiero di Bernardino Ochino (Naples, 1939), 95-110; B. Nicolini, ‘Bernardino Ochino, frate dell’Osservanza di S. Francesco’, Atti dell’Accademia Pontaniana 2 (1949), 87-100; B. Nicolini, ‘Bernardino Ochino. Saggio biografico’, Biblion. Rivista di filologia, storia e bibliografia 1 (1959), 5-25; Ph. Mc. Nair & J. Tedeschi, ‘New Light on Ochino’, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 35 (1973), 289-301; Ugo Rozzo, ‘Nuovi contributi su Bernardino Ochino’, Bullettino della Società di studi Valdesi 146 (1979), 51-83.

literature

Aside from the literature mentione above, see: P. Hildebrand, ‘L’Ordre de S. François dans les oeuvres d’Ochino’, Neerlandica Franciscana 2 (1919), 209-224; Lexicon Capuccinorum (Rome, 1951), 1234-1236; Catholicisme Hier Aujourd’hui Demain IX, 1485-1487; DThCat XI, 916-928; D. Bertrand-Barraud, Les idées philosophiques de Bernardin Ochin, de Sienne (Paris, 1924); D. Cantimoro, Il pensiero religioso e filosofico di Bernardino Tommasini detto Ochino, da Siena, e le sue relazioni col pensiero del Rinascimento (Pisa, 1927); F. Callaey, ‘Bernardin Ochino, fautore della pseudo-Riforma’, Italia francescana 6 (1931), 158-183; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bernardin de Sienne’, DHGE VIII, 804-806; P. Simoncelli, `Ochino, Bernardino, Italian theologian and reformer', The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation III, 166-167; Emidio Campi, ``Non vi si pensa quanta sangue costa'. Michelangelo, Vittorio Colonna e Bernardino Ochino', in: Dall'Academia neoplatonica fiorentina alla Riforma, 67-135; Roland Bainton, Bernardino Ochino esule e riformatore senese del Cinquecento (1487-1563) (Florence, 1940); G. Fragnito, ‘Gli ‘spirituali’ e la fuga di Bernardino Ochino’, Rivista della Storia Italiana 84 (1972), 777-811; C. Cargnoni, ‘Ochino (Bernardin; Tomasini da Siena)’, DSpir XI (Paris, 1982), 575-591; Rita Belladonna, 'Bernardino Ochino's Fourth Dialogue (Dialogo del Ladrone in croce) and Ubertino Da Casale's Arbor vitae: adaptation and ambiguity', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 47 (1985), 125-145; Govannangiola Tarugi, 'Motivi umanistici e ascetismo medioevale nel dialogo quarto di Bernardino Ochino', in: Validità perenne dell'Umanesimo, ed. Giovannangiola Tarugi (Florence, 1986), 21-33; Emidio Campi, ‘Bernardino Ochino’s Christology and ‘‘Mariology’’ in his writings of the Italian Period (1538-1542)’, in: Protestant History and identity in sixteenth-century Europe, Volume I: The Medieval Inheritance, St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Aldershot-Brookfield Vt: Avebury, 1996), 108-122; Giuseppe Alberigo, ‘Ochino, Bernardino’, LThK, 3rd ed. VII, 1047f; S. Cavallotto, ‘Ochino Bernardino’, Lexicon. Dizionario dei Teologi, 942-943; Miguel Gotor, ‘Tradizione inquisitoriale e memoria eterodossa: un cartello di sfida di Bernardino al cardinale Carafa (1543-1628)’, Arch. Ital. Storia Pietà 12 (2000), 89-142; Marco Bracali, 'Aspetti "radicali" del dibattito eucaristico nel '500: Castellione e Ochino', Rivista di storia della filosofia 55 (2000), 565-586; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘L’Ordre de S. François dans les oeuvres d’Ochin’, in: Idem, Miscellanea IV, 1753-1768; Miguel Gotor, “Un paradosso ombreggiato da oscuro enigma’: il mito delle origini e Bernardino Ochino nella storiografia cappuccina tra Cinque e Seicento’, in: Nunc alia tempora, alia mores, 211-232; M. Firpo, ‘«Boni christiani merito vocantur haeretici». Bernardino Ochino e la tolleranza’, in: Idem, «Disputar di cose pertinente alla fede». Studi sulla vita religiosa del Cinquecento italiano (Milan: Unicopli, 2003), 247-320; L. Baschera, ‘Predestinazione, libertà e reprobatio in Bernardino Ochino e Pietro Martire Vermigli’, Bollettino della Società di Studi Valdesi 197 (2005), 3-22; Franco Pierno, 'Un capitolo minore della narrativa cinquecentesca: gli Apologi di Bernardino Ochino (Ginevra, 1554). Appunti in vista di un'edizione', Cahiers d'études italiennes 6 (2007), 193-207; Michele Camaioni, ‘Note su due episodi del periodo italiano di Bernardino Ochino’, Bullettino Senese di Storia Patria 116 (2009), 120-148; Michele Camaioni, ‘Riforma cappuccina e riforma urbana. Esiti politici della predicazione italiana di Bernardino Ochino’, Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia (2013), 55-98; Dainora Pociute, 'Kulvietis, Ochino, and the First Evangelical Confession of Faith in Lithuania', in: Renaissance studies in honor of Joseph Connors, 2 Vols. (Florence, 2013) II, 282-291; Michele Camaioni, “Non c’è un’altra religione che quella di Cristo. Bernardino Ochino e il francescanesimo radicale di fronte alla Riforma: una ricerca in corso',Studi Francescani 112:3-4 (2015), 441-510; M. Camaioni, ‘L’eredità di Bernardino Ochino. Predicazione eterodossa ed eresia tra i cappuccini dopo il 1542’, in: Ripensare la riforma protestante. Nuove prospettive degli studi italiani, ed. L. Felici (Turin: Claudiana, 2015), 73-94; Costanzo Cargnoni, 'Tormento e inquietudine spirituale nella vita di Bernadino Ochino', Helvetia Franciscana 44 (2015), 37-75; Michele Camaioni, ‘Capuchin Reform, Religious Dissent and Political Issues in Bernardino Ochino’s Preaching in and towards Italy (1535–1545)’, in: Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420–1620: Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement, ed. Bert Roest & Johanneke Uphoff (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016), 214-234; Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 353-358; Michele Camaioni, Il Vangelo e l'Anticristo: Bernardino Ochino tra francescanesimo ed eresia (1487-1547) (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018) [a.o. reviews in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 112 (2019), 698-702; Franciscan Studies 78 (2020), 289-293]; Michele Camaioni, 'Bernardino Ochino and the German Reformation: The Augsburg Sermons and Flugschriften of an Italian Heretic (1543-1560)', in: Fruits of Migration. Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620, ed. Cornel Zwierlein & Vincenzo Lavenia, Intersections, 57 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 126-146.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Perez de Mega (Bernardino Perez de Mega, fl. 1635)

OFM. Spanish friar from the San Juan Bautista province. Later active in Genoa (Italy) as Franciscan comissary for the Holy Land.

works

Exercitia conformitatis et unionis cum Deo, mediantibus Maria et Josepho. Additio etiam facillimo modo meditandi inter externas occupationes (Genoa: Pietro Galenzani, 1638).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 130; Biografía eclesiastica completa XVII, 1008.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Pianzola (Bernardino Pianzola, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFMConv. Master of theology, provincial minister and apostolic prefect of the oriental missions. Published on a variety of topics, including language studies and refutations of other religions.

works

Breve compendium Doctrinæ Christianae (1777).

Manualis Bibliotheca Historico-Ethico-Polemica, Adversus omnes Infidelium Sectas, In Duos Tomos Distributa, In qua praemissis Vita Mahumeti, Synopsi Alcorani & Epitome Historiae Mahumetanorum, Per Dialogos Christianum inter & Turcam (...) omnes alii infideles refutantur (...), 2 Vols. (Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1779). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books.

Raccolta di meditazioni e massime eterne scelte da varj autori ad uso de' religiosi, specialmente de' Francescani, distribuite in due tomi per ciascun giorno di tutto l'anno con l'aggiunta di alcune novene (...) Dedicate al serafico p. s. Francesco dal m.r.p. maestro Bernardino Pianzola, 2 Vols. (Venie: Lorenzo Baseggio, 1780). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Dizionario grammatiche, e dialoghi per apprendere le Lingue Italiana, Latina, Greca-volgare, e Turca, 2 Vols. (Padua: Conzatti, 1781). At least volume one is accessible via Google Books.

Breve grammatica e dialoghi, e dizionario per imparare le lingue Italiana, Latina, Greca-volgare, e Turca (1781).

Dizionario, grammatiche, e dialoghi per apprendere le lingue italiana, greca-volgare, e turca, e varie scienze, 3 Vols. (Padua: Gianantonio Conzatti, 1789 [2nd Ed.]). The first and third volumes are in any case accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books. A third edition under a slightly different title came out in Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1801. Several volumes of that edition are accessible via a number of digital portals.

Dizionario greco-volgare, e italiano esteso in carattere franco dal P.M. Bernardino Pianzola, 2 Vols. (Padua: Giovanni Antonio Conzatti, 1789 [2nd Ed.]). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Vita in compendio del padre s. Francesco. Check.

Vita miracoli e privilegi di S. Antonio di Padova (1792/1817/1827/1837).

Lessico greco-volgare, e italiano (1801).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 845.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Rochus (Bernardino Rocco da Vizzini, fl. 1650)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Sicily. Master of theology. Sbaralea links his name to the MS Bidenense that lists Franciscan convents on Sicily that later was used by Filippo Cagliola (Philippus Cagliola) to construct his Almae Siciliensis Provinciae Ordinis Minorum Conventualium S. Francisci manifestationes novissima sex explorationibus complexae. It is unclear as to whether that is correct. Check on this the 1984 re-issue of this work by Filippo Rotolo.

works

Vita e miracoli del glorioso S . Antonio da Padova (Palermo, 1654). Is this the same work that was issued as: Vita et miracoli di S. Antonio da Padova Descritta brevemente da un Religioso Devoto di esso Santo (Padua: per il Sardi, 1655), and that is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Google Books?

Meditazioni. Check!

Arte della devozione per la passione domenica e la regina degli tutti angeli/Arte per esser divoto della Passione di Cristo e della Vergine: MS Palermo, Biblioteca dei Gesuiti?.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 131; Bibliografia Siciliana II, 292.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Rupe (Bernardinus Ursinus/Bernardino Rupe, ca. 1558-1621)

OFMCap. Italian friar. From the noble Orsini family. Joined the order afer an initial military career in the Picena province. He would have died at Macerata in 1621 at the age of 63.

works

De patrocinio beatissimae Virginis, additis variis precautionibus devotissimis erga Deiparam affectu repletis (Macerata, 1621/Venice, ?). This work would have been published anonymously.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 213; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 131; Biografía eclesiástica completa XXIV, 415-416.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Senensis (Bernardino degli Albizzeschi da Siena, 1380-1444), Sanctus

OFMConv & OFMObs. Italian friar. Famous Observant preacher. Born in Massa Marittima (Tuscany) in the noble Albizzeschi family. Orphaned at a young age, he was raies by his uncles. Entered the Franciscan order in September 1402, at the age of 22 after studies in canon law. Entered the Observant movement (in the Colombaio ‘romitorio’ near Siena) before he became priest in 1404, and became one of the leading figures in the expansion of the Observance in Italy. Renowned for his preaching tours (therewith presenting a strong example of Observant itinerant preaching), his expositions of moral theology, and his activities as educator of a whole generation of famous Observant Franciscan preachers. Was accused of heresy in 1423 but acquitted in 1427. Several attempts later on to persecute him/slander him for his special veneration of the name of Jesus (esp. his use of a wooden table with the monogram YHS, which he held out to the public at the end of his public sermons, so that they could kiss it). Between 1438 and 1442 vicar of the Italian Observants. His sermons and theological expositions were widely dissiminated and received many editions in subsequent centuries. Also known for compiling excerpts from medieval Apocalypse commentaries. (Autograph: ms Napels, Naz. VI A. 19). The Apocalypse commentary that survives under his name and survives in several old editions, should be ascribed to another, late thirteenth century friar (see: Anonymus, Pseudo Bernardinus). In his preaching technique, Bernardino evolved significantly, both in the increasing frequency of sermons for the complete Advent period, and in his free choise of biblical themes, rather independent from the liturgical readings of the day, so to obtain themes commensurate with his moral-catechistic programme (see on this the studies of Delcorno). He also refined and simplified the structure of his sermon, making them easy to remember (following in the footsteps of the advice given in the Ars Faciendi Sermones of Géraud du Pescher, and resembling the memory advice given in the Regulae Memoriae Artificialis of the conventual friar Ludovico da Pirano). Bernardino was canonized in 1450. Here, I will first present the Opera Omnia and Omnibus/Anthology editions, followed by a detailed presentation of the Latin sermons as they are edited in the Quaracchi edition. Thereafter, I will present other Latin sermons (authentic and possible spurious ones), followed by editions of the various vernacular collections. Currently, a decent introduction into the extant works of Bernardino is given in Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons, 40ff. For more complete older and newer introductions to editions and scholarship see: V. Facchinetti, `Bollettino bibliografico', Aevum, 4 (1930); B. Stasiewski, Der hl. Bernhardin von Siena. Untersuchungen über die Quellen seiner Biographen(Münster i.W., 1931) [Also: as Franz. Stud., 13 (1950) [=Supplement 13]]; Bollettino di Studi Bernardiani (Siena, 1935-1950); Alberto Ghinato, Saggio di bibliografia bernardinia (Rome, 1966); F.E. Frascadore, `Bibliografia bernardiniana dell'ultimo ventennio', Antonianum, 55 (1980); Enciclopedia Bernardiniana I, ed. E. d'Angelo (L'Aquila, 1980); Collectanea Francescana, Bibliographia [every issue substantial entries on Bernardino]; The Bernardino bibliography compiled by Letizia Pellegrini for the Oxford bibliographies series: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0196.xml#firstMatch [last accessed on 29 September 2019]. Check also the upcoming Companion to Bernardino of Siena (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021).

works

Opera omnia editions. For the incunable editions, see: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke III (Leipzig, 1928), 644-654. Among the other (older) Opera Omnia editions, we can point at: S. Bernardini Senensis, Opera Quae Extant Omnia, tam Hucusque Impressa, quam Recens Inventa, in Quatuor Tomos distincta a F. Petro Rodulphio Episcopo Senogalliae Restituta et Apostillys Illustrata, 2 Vols. (Venice, 1591); S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Opera et Labore (…) Ioannis de La Haye, 4 Vols. (Paris, 1635/Venice: Poletti, 1745); S. Bernardini Senensis (…) Opera Omnia (…) Editio Novissima (…), 5 Vols. (Lyon, 1650); S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia Editio Novissima Lugdunensi postrema Emendatior et Nitidior, 4 Vols. (Venice, 1745). The latest Opera Omnia edition, which contains most (but not all!) of Bernardine's Latin works, is: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965). [See also: Dionysius Pacetti, De Sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, Commissio Operibus S. Bernardini Senensis Edendis Praeposita, I (Ad Claras Aquas/Quaracchi, 1947). This contains a ratio edendi and a full description of manuscripts used]

Anthologies/Omnibus editions: Prose di fede e di vita nel primo tempo dell’Umanesimo, ed. M. Bontempelli (Florence, 1913); Le più belle pagine di Bernardino da Siena, ed. P. Misciattelli (Milan, 1924); Le prediche volgari-Campo di Siena 1427, D. Pacetti (Siena, 1935); Le prediche volgari inedite. Firenze 1424-25; Siena 1425, ed. D. Pacetti (Siena, 1935); Ecco il segno. Antologia dalle prediche in italiano di S. Bernardino, ed. G.V. Sabatelli (Siena, 1974); Novellette, esempi morali e apologhi di S. Bernardino da Siena, ed. Zambrini, Scelta di curiosità letterarie inedite o rare disp. XCVII (Bologna, 1868); Le streghe di Roma, storiella di San Bernardino da Siena non mai fin qui stampata (Imola, 1876/Naples, 1955); La fonte della vita, ed. G.V. Sabatelli (Florence, 1964) and Bernardino da Siena, Favole. Lettura in linguaggio corrente delle prediche a sfondo pedagogico-didattico tenute a Siena nell’estate del 1427. In appendice le favole nella versione volgare originale, ed. Cinzia Bei (Massarosa (Luca), 1999). See on these vernacular sermons also C. Delcorno, ‘Nota sulla tradizione manoscritta delle prediche volgari in San Bernardino da Siena’, AFH 73 (1980), 90-123; Bernardino da Siena, 1380-1444. Novelette, anddoti, discorsi volgari, ed. Giona Tuccini, Nugae, 156 (Genua: Il Melangolo, 2009); San Bernardino: antologia delle Prediche Volgari. Economia civile e cura pastorale nei sermoni di san Bernardino da Siena, ed. Flavio Felice & Mattia Fochesato (Siena: Cantagalli, 2010). [review in Miscellanea Francescana 111:1-2 (2011), 281f].

Quadragesimale de Christiana Religione [67 sermons, composed between 1430-1436] Found in several old Opera Omnia editions, as well as separately (a.o. Basel, 1490 & Lyon, 1498). A critical edition can be found in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume I and II. The sermons for the period between the Feria sexta in Parasceve and Sabbato sancto (Volume II, 187-308) form together the Tractatus de Passione Domini nostri Iesu Christi. The sermons for the period between Dominica Resurrectionis and Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis (Volume II, 309-472) form together the Tractatus de Gloria Paradisi. We have not checked all the available manuscripts, but the work is in any case present in MSS Trento Fondaz. Bibl. S. Bernardino 303 ff. 1ra-327rb (an. 1439); Sydney, Univ. Library Nicholson 20 ff. 1-258rb (16th cent.); Colmar, Bibl. Publ. 209.
1. Proemium. [Dominica in Quinquagesima. De Mane] I, 3-4.
2. De christianae Fidei Firmitate. [Sermo I-Dominica in Quinquagesima. De Mane] I, 5-19.
3. De Fidei Necessitate, Aequitate et Dignitate. [Sermo II-Dominica in Quinquagesima. Infra Diem] I, 20-28. . [See also Appendix, 535-541]
4. Quod Fides est una et determinate, ad quam de Necessitate quilibet obligatur. [Sermo III-Feria secnda post Dominicam in Quinquagesima] I, 29-37. [See also Appendix, 535-541]
5. De Fidei Nobilitate. [Sermo IV-Feria tertia post Dominicam in Quinquagesima] I, 39-47.
6. De sacro Ieiunio. [Sermo V-In Die Cinerum] I, 48-61.
7. De dominica Oratione. [Sermo VI-Feria quinta post Cinerum] I, 62-75. [This sermon was translated into German in the Saxonia province by the late fifteenth century. A slightly shortened version of this has survived in a manuscript from 1517. See Ruh, Franziskanisches Schrifttum II, 261-282.
8. De Eleemosyna [Sermo VII-Feria sexta post Cinerum] I, 76-85.
9. Quare Adversa dantur Iustis multis Rationibus demonstrantur. [Sermo VIII-Sabbato post Cinerum] I, 86-94.
10. De Honore et Cultu Dei seu sanctissimae Trinitatis. [Sermo IX-Dominica prima in Quadragesima. De Mane] I, 95-104.
11. De Idolatriae Cultu. [Sermo X-Dominica prima in Quadragesimaa.Infra Diem] I, 105-118.
12. De ultimo Iudicio. [Sermo XI-Feria secunda post Dominicam I in Quadragesima] I, 119-131.
13. De vera Contritione. [Sermo XII-Feria tertia post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 132-140.
14. De duodecim Periculis quae insperato superveniunt Peccatoribus in ultimo Fine. [Sermo XIII-Feria quarta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 141-154.
15. De duodecim Doloribus quos patitur Peccator in Hora Mortis. [Sermo XIV-Feria quinta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 155-166.
16. De vera Confessione. [Sermo XV-Feria sexta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 167-180.
17. De sacra Religione. [sermo XVI-Sabbato post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 181-203.
18, De Coniugii Honestate. [Sermo XVII-Dominica secunda in Quaadragesima. De Mane] I, 204-216.
19. De Pudicitia Coniugali. [Sermo XVIII-Dominica secunda in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] I, 217-226.
20. De duodecim Poenitentiae Impedimentis. [Sermo XIX-Feria secunda post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 227-237.
21. Quanta Veneratione honorari debent ecclesiastici Gradus et Sacra. [Sermo XX-Feria tertia post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 238-255.
22. De Consuetudine Mala et Remediis contra eam. [Sermo XXI-Feria quarta post Dominicam II in Quadragesima] I, 256-271.
23. Quare prospera Peccatoribus a Domino tribuuntur. [Sermo XXII-Feria quinta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 272-281.
24. De pestifera Detractione. [Sermo XXIII-Feria sexta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 282-293.
25. de Filio prodigo, ubi moraliter Evangelium declaratur. [Sermo XXIV-Sabbato post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 294-307.
26. Contra Guelfos et Ghibellinos et quascumue alias Divisiones et Partes. [Sermo XXV-Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. De Mane] I, 308-321. [See also Appendix, 541-543]
27. Contra Insignia distinguentia inter Partes. [Sermo XXVI-Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] I, 321-332.
28. In qua ponitur duodecim Occasiones seu Impedimenta quare Homo non credit. [Sermo XXVII-Feria secunda post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 333-343.
29. Quod quilibet tenetur indulgere seu dimittere Inimicis. [Sermo XXVIII-Feria tertia post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 344-354.
30. De honore Parentum. [Sermo XXIX-Feria quarta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 355-366. [See also Appendix, 544]
31. De Timore Dei. [Sermo XXX-Feria quinta post Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 367-376.
32. De Mendacio exsecrando. [Sermo XXXI-Feria sexta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 377-388. [See also Appendix, 544-545]
33. De Duplicitate. [Sermo XXXII-Sabbato post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 389-399.
34. De Restitutione Alienorum. [Sermo XXXIII-Dominica quarta in Quadragesima. De Mane] I, 400-412.
35. Quis etiam restituere obligatur. [Sermo XXXIV-Dominica quarta in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] I, 413-426.
36. Quis etiam restituere obligatur; ubi declarantur quinque Quaternarii Hominum qui Usuris dant Causam efficacem. [Sermo XXXV-Feria secunda post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 427-447.
37. Quid et quantum Homo restituere teneatur. [Sermo XXXVI-Feria tertia post in IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 448-464.
38. De Restitutione temporalium Rerum. [Sermo XXXVII-Feria quarta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 465-485.
39. Quando Homo restituere obligatur. [Sermo XXXVIII-Feria quinta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 486-499.
40. Cui Homo restituere obligatur. [Sermo XXXIX-Feria sexta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 500-515.
41. Quo Loco et quomodo et quare Aliena restituenda sunt. [Sermo XL-Sabbato post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] I, 516-534.
42. De horrendo Peccato Blasphemiae et de Impietatibus eius. [Sermo XLI-Dominica quinta, scilicet de Passione, in Quadragesima. De Mane] II, 5-19.
43. Contra Alearum Ludos. [Sermo XLII-Dominica Suppradicta. Infra Diem] II, 20-34.
44. De mandato divinae Dilectionis. [Sermo XLIII-Feria secunda post Dominicam de Passione] II, 35-44. [See also Appendix, 475-476]
45. Contra mundanas Vanitates et Pompas. [Sermo XLIV-Feria tertia post Dominicam de Passione] II, 45-58.
46. De Iuramento et Periurio. [Sermo XLV-Feria quarta post Dominicam de Passione] II, 59-72.
47. De Multitudine malorum quae ex Vanitatibusvsubsequuntur. [Sermo XLVI-Feria quinta post Dominicam de Passione] II, 73-85.
48. Contra se fardentes et capillos adulterinos portantes atque contra Feminas caudates. [Sermo XLVII-Feria sexta post Dominicam de Passione] II, 86-99.
49. De Domina honesta. [Sermo XLVIII-Sabbato post Domenicam de Passione] II, 100-109.
50. De Titulo triumphali et Magnificatione Nominis gloriosi Regis Iesu. [Sermo XLIX-Dominica Olivarum. In Mane] II, 110-124.
51. De Contemptu Mundi. [Sermo L-Dominica Olivarum. Infra Diem] II, 125-138.
52. De Animae Dignitate et de altissimis Beneficiis a Deo sibi collatis. [Sermo LI-Feria secunda post Dominicam Olivarum] II, 139-153.
53. De Salutatione angelica. [Sermo LII-Feria tertia post Dominicam Olivarum] II, 154-162.
54. De iis qui male se habent circa Dominicum Sacramentum. [Sermo LIII-Feria quarta post Dominicam Olivarum] II, 163-171.
55. De duodecim Fructibus Ligni Vitae, id est sanctissimi Sacramenti. [Sermo LIV-Feria quinta in Cena Domini] II, 172-187.
56. Circa Sacramentum Dominicae Passionis (…) De duodecim Contemplationibus Dolorum (…) de septem Verbis Christi in Cruce (…) de rationibus quare Christus voluit in Cruce mori. [Sermo LV-Feria sexta in Parasceve] II, 187-293. [See also Appendix, 476-483]
57. Quomodo quilibet praeparare se debet ad suscipiendum sanctissimum Sacramentum. [Sermo LVI-Sabbato sancto] II, 294-308.
58. De Resurrectione Capitis nostri Christi. [Sermo LVII-Dominica Resurrectionis] II, 309-328.
59. De humanae Naturae necessaria Resurrectione et Perpetuitate futura. [Sermo LVIII-Dominica Resurrectionis. Infra Diem] II, 329-339.
60. De universali Regno et Dominio Iesu Christi. [Sermo LIX-Feria secunda post resurrectionem] II, 340-353.
61. De Gloria Spirituum Beatorum in Regno Dei. [Sermo LX-Feria tertia post resurrectionem] II, 354-370.
62. De superadmirabili Gratia et Gloria Matris Dei. [Sermo LXI-Feria quarta post Resurrectionem] II, 371-397. [See also Appendix, 483-484]
63. De substantiali seu essentiali Gloria Animarum sanctarum. [Sermo LXII-Feria quinta post Resurrectionem] II, 398-406.
64. De Gloria consubstantiali Corporum beatorum. [Sermo LXIII-Feria sexta post Resurrectionem] II, 407-427.
65. De accidentali Gloria quae est in Beatis. [Sermo LXIV-Sabbato post Resurrectionem] II, 428-440.
66. Quae erunt Excercitia Beatorum. [Sermo LXV-Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. In Mane] II, 441-451.
67. De Pugna et Saccomanno Paradisi sive caelestis Ierusalem. [Sermo LXVI-Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. Infra Diem] II, 452-471.
68. Conclusio totius Operis. II, 472.

Quadragesimale de Evangelio Aeterno [65 sermons, composed between 1430-1444]. This collection can be found in several old Opera Omnia editions, as well as separately (a.o. Spyer, 1484; Basel, 1490). A critical edition can be found in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965),Volume III-V. The sermons for the period between Sabbato post III Dominicam in Quadragesima and Feria quarta post Dominicam de Passione (Volume IV, 117-416) are also known separately as the Tractatus de Contractibus et Usuris. The large Sermo de sacratissima Passione et Mysteriis Crucis, meant for the Feria sexta in Parasceve (Volume V, 68-170), can also be found as a separate treatise.
1. Prologus de Evangelio Aeterno. III, 3-19. [See also Appendix, 463-465.]
2. De Origine Caritatis seu divini Amoris. [Sermo I-Dominica in quinquagesima. In Mane] III, 20-29.
3. Declaratio Epistolae Pauli de laudibus Caritatis. [Sermo II-Dominica in Quinquagesima. Infra Diem] III, 30-45.
4. De Excellentia divini Amoris. [Sermo III-Feria secunda post Dominicam in Quinquagesima] III, 46-59.
5. De Affectionibus triplicis inflammati Amoris, scilicet Deit, sui et proximi, de quibus verum Carnisprivium celebratur. [Sermo IV-Feria tertia post Dominicam in Quinquagesima] III, 60-86.
6. De Mercantia divini Amoris. [Sermo V-Feria quarta in Die cinerum] III, 87-99.
7. De Fide viva et mortua. [Sermo VI-Feria quinta post Cineram] III, 100-119.
8. De proximorum Dilectione. [Sermo VII-Feria sexta post Cinerum] III, 120-133.
9. De divina Protectione, et quomodo a Deo per Angelos Iustorum Civitas et Anima ab Adversitatibuss custoditur. [Sermo VIII-Sabbato post Cinerum] III, 134-145.
10. De magna Efficacia et Fructibus Verbi Dei. [Sermo IX-Dominica prima in Quadragesima. In mane] III, 147-158. [see also Appendix, 464-465]
11. De Observantia Sabbati et Celebratione Festorum. [Sermo X-Dominica prima in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] III, 159-196.
12. De Iudicio generali [Sermo XI-Feria secunda post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 197-229. [See also Appendix, 465-468]
13. De Aeternitate Infernalium Tormentorum. [Sermo XII-Feria tertia post Dominicam I in Quadragesima] III, 230-242.
14. De Fidei Improbabilitate. Contra Praesumptuosos et Curiosos quaerentes Signa, Miracula et Portenta vel naturales rationes de Fide. [Sermo XIII-Feria quarta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 243-254.
15. De Iudicio temerario, praesumptuoso et falso. [Sermo XIV-Feria quinta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 255-66.
16. De horrendo Peccato contra Naturam. [Sermo XV-Feria sexta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 267-284.
17. De Regimine Principum et quorumque Regentium. [Sermo XVI-Sabbato post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 285-304.
18. De Honore Parentum. [Sermo XVII-Dominica secunda in Quadragesima. In Mane] III, 306-318.
19. De duodecim Sceleribus propter quae Deus Patrias et Regna saepe iudicat et flagellat. [Sermo XVIII-Dominica secunda in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] III, 319-329.
20. De Signis per quae cognosci potest quando Deu Iudicia sunt propinqua. [Sermo XIX-Feria secunda post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 330-339.
21. De multiplici Causa quare Populi de proximo Futura super eos Iudicia non cognoscunt nec verentur. [Sermo XX-Feria tertia post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 340-351.
22. De multiplici Hominum Ignorantia. [Sermo XXI-Feria quarta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 352-365. [See also Appendix, 468-469]
23. De Suppliciis infernalibus omnium Damnatorum et maxim quorumcumque Scelatorum. [Sermo XXII-Feria quinta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 366-379.
24. Apertis Rationibus demonstratur quod extra unicam et catholicam Fidem nemo salvari potest; et quare tanta erit Multitudo Damnatorum et tanta Paucitas Salvandorum. [Sermo XXIII-Feria sexta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 380-391.
25. De sacra Religione, et quod melius est Bonum facere ex Voto quam ex libera Voluntate. [Sermo XXIV-Sabbato post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 392-435.
26. Contra Partialitates Cordis, Oris et Operis; et maxime contra Guelphos et Ghibellinos. [Sermo XXV-Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. In Mane] III, 437-449.
27. Prophetia beato Ioanni Evangelistae revelata de eisdem Partialitatibus Cordis, Oris et Operis. [Sermo XXVI-Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] III, 450-460.
28. De sacra Confessione et Fructibus eius. [Sermo XXVII-Feria secunda post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 5-34.
29. De Correctione fraterna. [Sermo XXVIII-Feria tertia post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 35-55. [See also Appendix, 609-610]
30. De odibili et exsecranda Detractione. [Sermo XXIX-Feria quarta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 56-79.
31. De Detractione et de Remediis contra eam. [Sermo XXX-Feria quinta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 80-96.
32. De Conversione Samaritanae. Expositio Evangelii secundum mysticum Intellectum. [Sermo XXXI-Feria sexta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 97-116.
33. De Origine Dominiorum et Rerum Translatione. [Sermo XXXII-Sabbato post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 117-139.
34. De Mercationibus et Artificibus in generali et de Conditionibus licitis et illicitis earundem. [Sermo XXXIII-Dominica quarta in Quadragesima. In Mane] IV, 140-163. [Cf. Appendix, 610-617]
35. De Temporis Ventitione, et quando hoc liceat vel non liceat. [Sermo XXXIV-Dominica quarta in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] IV, 164-188.
36. Quo Pretio aestimari debeant Res venales, et de Cupla vendentium Res maculatas. [Sermo XXXV-Feria secunda post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 189-203.
37. De Voragine Usurarum. Ubi declaratur quid sit Usura, in quibus committi potest, et quas Excusationes assumunt qui defendunt Usuram. [Sermo XXXVI-Feria tertia post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 204-222.
38. De Mutuo, et quomodo et quando quilibet teneatur Mutuum dare gratis. [Sermo XXXVII-Feria quarta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 223-240.
39. Quod Lege Naturae, Scripturae et sanctae Ecclesie prohibetur Usura. [Sermo XXXVIII-Feria quinta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 241-264.
40. De Contractibus Usurariis et de Securitatibus Mercantiarum ac de Varietate multiplici Cambiorum. [Sermo XXXIX-Feria sexta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV. 265-294.
41. De variis Soccidis Animalium. [Sermo XL-Sabbato post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 295-306.
42. De impraestitis Venetorum et de Monte Florentinorum ac de Ianuensium Locis, quae idem in Substantia sunt. [Sermo XLI-Dominica V in Quadragesima, id est Dominica de Passione. In mane] IV, 307-346.
43. De Interesse. Et in quibus Casibus et quare liceat accipere ultra Sortem. [Sermo XLII-Dominica de Passione. Infra Diem] IV, 347-369.
44. Quantum Usura adversetur Deo et Usurarium Idolatrare facit. Et quam gravi Blasphemia Dei ac Fidei suae sit Usurariis faenerandi Libertatem praestare. [Sermo XLIII-Feria secunda post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 370-387.
45. Quantum et quot impiis Modis Usura Proximo sit nociva. [Sermo XLIV-Feria tertia post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 388-400.
46. Quot Pravitatibus depravetur Homo per Pravitatem Usurae. [Sermo XLV-Feria quarta post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 401-416.
47. De ardentissimo Amore sanctissimae Magdalenae. [XLVI-Feria quinta post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 417-441.
48. Descriptio Similitudinis Vanitatis mundanae quae in vanis Mulieribus regnat. [XLVII-Feria sexta post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 442-463.
49. De laudibus Virginitatis. Et de duodecim mysticis Domicellis Virginis Matris Dei. [Sermo XLVIII-Sabbato post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 464-484.
50. De glorioso Nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi. [Sermo XLIX-Dominica Olivarum. In Mane] IV, 487-515.
51. De Pace et Concordia Inimicorum ac de Remissione Iniuriarum. [Sermo L-Dominica Olivarum. Infra Diem] IV, 516-536.
52. De admirandi Gratiis beatae Virginis. [Sermo LI-Feria secunda post Dominicam Olivarum] IV, 537-561.
53. De Conscientia Bona et Mala. [Sermo LII-Feria tertia post Dominicam Olivarum] IV, 562-584. [See also Appendix, 617-623]
54. De triplici Statu Conscientiae malae, et de Illuminatione et Reformatione eiusdem. [Sermo LIII-Feria quarta post Dominicam Olivarum] IV, 585-608.
55. De Corpore Christi et de Mirabilibus quae contingunt circa hoc Sacramentum. [Sermo LIV-Feria quinta in Cena Domini. In Mane] V, 5-42.
56. De triplici varia Sumptione quae tam Mali quam Boni assumunt Corpus Christi. [Sermo LV-In Cena Domini. Infra Diem] V, 43-67.
57. De sacratissima Passione et Mysteriis Crucis. [Sermo LVI-Feria sexta in Parasceve] V, 68-170.
58. Iterum de sanctissimo Sacramento. Et quomodo pro Die Paschatis quilibet se praeparare debet ad sacram Communionem [Sermo LVII-Sabbato Sancto] V, 171-190.
59. De Homine novo et Peregrino cui beatus Franciscus vel alius Sanctus potest appropriari. [Sermo LVIII-Feria secunda post Resurrectionem] V, 191-205.
60. De Stigmatibus sacris gloriosi Francisci. [Sermo LIX-Feria tertia post Resurrectionem] V, 206-230.
61. De Sitibus et Desideriis Animarum tam Bonis quam Malis, et de Matrimonio et Fornicatione spirituali. [Sermo LX-Feria quarta post Dominicam Resurrectionis] V, 231-245. [See also Appendix, 347-352]
62. De duodecim Gradibus divini Amoris, qui possunt gloriosae Magdalenae vel aliqui Sancto appropiari. [Sermo LXI-Feria quinta post Resurrectionem] V, 246-264.
63. De duodecim Bonis seu Gratiis ad quae valent Opera bona extra Caritatem facta. [Sermo LXII-Feria sexta post Dominicam Resurrectionis] V, 265-279. [See also Appendix, 352-355]
64. Quod Purgatorium sit multipliciter stabilitur. [sermo LXIII-Sabbato in Albis] V, 280-296.
65. De Purgatorii Statu, hoc est de Purgandorum Poenalitate, Iudunditate atque Necessitate. [Sermo LXIV-Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. In Mane] V, 297-318.
66. De Gloria eorum qui in Caritate fideliter et triumphaliter perseverant usque in Finem. [Sermo LXV-Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. Infra Diem] V, 319-344. [See also Appendix, 355-357]

Tractatus de Vita Christiana [three sermons/ discourses, composed before 1430]. Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.
1. De christiana Modestia, quae triplex est. VI, 5-19.
2. De christiana Iustitia. VI, 20-44.
3. De Pietate christiana. VI, 45-64.
[see also Appendix, VI, 481-534.]

Tractatus de B. Virgine [11 sermons, composed between 1430 and 1440] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.
1. De glorioso Nomine Mariae, scilicet quod dicitur `Stella Maris'. VI, 65-76.
2. De glorioso Nomine Mariae, et quod interpretatur `amarum Mare'. VI, 77-87.
3. Iterum de glorioso Nomine Mariae, et quomodo Maria `Domina' interpretatur. VI, 88-98.
4. De Admirandis Gratiis B. Virginis. [Sermo in Festivitatibus beatae Virginis] [edited in Vol. IV, 537-584.]
5. De Consensu Virginali. [Sermo in sacratissimo Die Dominicae Annuntiationis in Mane] VI, 100-110.
6. Iterum de Virginali Consensu. [sermo in Annuntiatione gloriosae Virginis - infra Diem] VI, 111-121.
7. De Salutatione angelica. [edited in Vol. II, 153-162.]
8. De superadmirabili Gratia et Gloria Matris Dei. [edited in Vol. II, 371-397.]
9. De septem Verbis Virginis gloriosae in uibus septem Gradus seu Processus Amoris insinuantur. [Sermo in Visitatione beatae Mariae] VI, 123-144.
10. Sermo in Die Purificationis beatae Mariae Virginis. VI, 145-161.
11. In Assumptione gloriosae Virginis Mariae. VI, 161-181.

Tractatus de Spiritu Sancto et de Inspirationibus [six sermons, composed between 1422 and 1444] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.
1. De Donis Spiritus Sancti, et quomodo communicantur Divino Amori. [Sermo in Die Pentecostes] VI, 183-222.
2. Tractatus de Inspirationibus. Et Primo de Inspirationum varietate. [Feria II post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 223-242.
3. De Inspirationum Discretione. [Feria III post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 243-290.
4. De multiplici Lumine quo cognosci possit quae sunt Inspirationes implendae et quare merentur et quid merentur. [Feria IV post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 291-311.
5. De duodecim Fructibus Spiritus Christi et Ligni Vitae. [Feria V post Pentecosten et pro Dominica XIV post Pentecosten-De Epistola] VI, 312-319.
6. De Manifestatione Spiritus Sancti per duodecim Signa. [Feria sexta et Dominica X post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 320-331.

Tractatus de Octo Beatitudinibus Evangelicis [nine sermons, composed between 1441- and 1443] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.
1. De Excellentia et Dignitate Beatitudinum Evangelicarum et de Sufficienti Numero et Ordine Praedictarum. VI, 333-347.
2. Primo Beatitudo est Paupertas Spiritus quae Beatitudinem parit. VI, 348-364.
3. Secunda Beatitudo est Mititas. VI, 365-375.
4. Tertia Beatitudo est Luctus cui promittitur Consolatio vera. VI, 376-393.
5. Quarta Beatitudo est Esuries iustitiae seu Famelica Iustitia. VI, 394-413.
6. Quinta Beatitudo est Affectus Misericordiae. VI, 414-429.
7. Sexta Beatitudo est Munditia Cordis. VI, 430-445.
8. Septima Beatitudo est Pax. VI, 446-459.
9. Octava Beatitudo est Patientia. VI, 460-479.

Sermones de Tempore [18 sermons, composed between 1440 and 1444] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VII.
1. De variis Iudiciis et Tormentis inflictis Peccatoribus in Adventu iusti Iudicis Iesu Christi. [Domenica II de Adventu] VII, 7-15.
2. De sancto Ioseph Sponso beatae Virginis. [In vigilia nativitatis Domini] VII, 16-30.
3. De triplici Christi Nativitate [In nativitate Domini] VII, 31-49.
4. Sermo in Epiphania Domini. VII, 50-64.
5. De Sacrificio Abrahae. [Dominica in Quinquagesima] VII, 65-78.
6. De sacratissima Oratione et de Circumstantiis eius. [In die rogationum seu in majoribus litaniis aut pro quocumque alio tempore] VII, 79-93.
7. Sermo in Assensione Domini Nostri Iesu Christi. VII, 94-118.
8. De ascensione Sanctissima Iesu Christi. [Infra Diem] VII, 119-135.
9. De duodecim Fructibus Eleemosynae sanctae. [Dominica prima post Pentcostem] VII, 136-152.
10. Quantae Efficaciae sit in bonum atque in malum Societas bona vel mala. [Domenica III post Pentecosten] VII, 153-173.
11. De Multiloquio atque de Remediis eius necnon et de multiplici Remedio contra omnia Vitia Linguae. [Dominica V post Pentecosten] VII, 174-175.
12. De multiplicibus Rationibus quare a Deo Prospera Mundi dantur Iustis.[Dominica VIII post Pentecosten] VII, 192-201.
13. Contra Confidentium sui ipsius; et de Humiliatione Superborum et Exaltatione Humilium in Evangelio Pharisaei et Publicani. [Dominica X post Pentecosten] VII, 202-212.
14. Quanta fecerit Dominus Animae Rationali. [Dominica XI vel XXII Dominica post Pentecosten] VII, 213-227.
15. De divina Dilectione, et quare et uomodo diligendus est Deus. [Dominica XII vel XVII post Pentecosten] VII, 228-242.
16. De Calamitatibus et Miseriis Humanae Vitae et Maxime Senectutis. [Dominica XVI post Pentecosten] VII, 243-262.
17. De triplici Statu Animae, scilicet Offensionis, Illuminationis et Conversionis (De Peccatoris Conversione) [Dominica XX post Pentecosten] VII, 263-291.
18. De multiplici Veritate. [Dominica XII post Pentecosten] VII, 292-305.

Sermones de Diversis [11 sermons from different periods] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VII.
1. De triplici Statu Animae Iustae. VII, 309-334.
2. De Amore inter Deum et Animam. VII, 335-354.
3. De summa Perfectione evangelicae Obedientiae atque de Obedientia cuiuscumque Religionis. VII, 355-381.
4. Disputatio de Obientia et maxime de illa quae evangelica nominatur; quae per Dialogum fit. VII, 382-407.
5. De Rectoribus et Praelatis. VII, 408-420.
6. De Taciturnitate Bona et Mala. VII, 421-429.
7. De multiplici Mendacio. VII, 430-450.
8. De desiderabili Veritate. VII, 451-471.
9. De Amore proprio seu privato; et quomodo tam in Angelis quam in Hominibus Radix est omnium Malorum. VII, 472-491.
10. De Mundi Amore et malis Conditionibus eius. VII, 492-504.
11. De Exercitu Spirituum malignorum. VII, 505-525.

Sermo in Nativitate Domini. Edited in S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), VII, 529-537.

Sermones Imperfecti [25 sermons] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VIII.
1. De Vocatione ad Bonum operandum. [In Septuagesima et pro Dominica infra Octavam Corporis Christi et pro Dominica XIX post Pentecosten] VIII, 3-7.
2. De Conversione Seniorum. [Pro Septuagesima et pro Dominica XIX post Pentecosten] VIII, 7-11.
3. De Verbo Dei et de Conditionibus Auditorum. [In Sexagesima] VIII, 11-23.
4. De Spe. VIII, 23-25.
5. De Gradibus Amoris. VIII, 25-27.
6. De Dilectione. VIII, 27-32.
7. De Caritate Ordinata. VIII. 32-38.
8. De Dilectione. VIII, 38-40.
9. De Stimulis Amoris. VIII, 40-42.
10. De Conservatione et vera Custodia Civitatum. VIII, 42-50.
11. De Confessione. VIII, 50-53.
12. Ad Scholares. VIII, 53-57.
13. De Matrimonio Regulato, Inordinato et Separato. VIII, 57-67.
14. De Eleemosyna Descriptione, Distinctione et Obligatione. VIII, 67-76.
15. Quis potest facere Eleemosynam, quibus et de quibus. VIII, 76-84.
16. De Eleemosynae Inductione, Ordinatione et Remuneratione. VIII, 84-89.
17. De Negligentia. VIII, 89-96.
18. De Sollicitudine. VIII, 96-101.
19. Pro uno Martyre. VIII, 101.
20. De Circumstantiis. VIII, 102.
21. De triplici Statu Ecclesiae. VIII, 102.
22. De Quatuor Daemonibus Satanae Collateralibus. VIII,112-115.
23. De Confessione Peccatorum. VIII, 115-138.
24. Sermo quare Adversa dantus Malis. VIII, 138-146.
25. Sermo quare Tribulationes dantur Iustis. VIII, 146-158.
26. Quare dantur hic Adversa Iustis. VIII, 158-160.

Itinerarium Anni [a kind of index with themes for 221 predicable sermons during the ecclesiastical year] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VIII, 163-306.

Epistolae [21 letters] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VIII,
1. Summo Pontifici Martino V. [ante 28-01, 1428] VIII, 311.
2. Francisco Marci, dicto Pecorario, de Senis. [22-02, 1429] VIII, 311.
3. Catharinae de Columna, Comitissae Montisferetri [12-09, 1433] VIII, 312.
4. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [14-01, 1434] VIII, 313.
5. Fratribus de Observantia totius Italiae. [5-08, 1438] VIII, 314.
6. Officialibus Fabricae S. Petronii Bononiae. [25-11, 1438] VIII, 315.
7. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [21-01, 1439] VIII, 316. See also Paolo Vian, ‘Di un testimone vaticano della lettera di S. Bernardino ai magistrati senesi del 21 gennaio 1439’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Cacciotti & Pacifico Sella, Medioevo, 5 (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002), 377-400.
8. Rectoribus Podiibonitii. [13-07, 1440] VIII, 316.
9. Declaratio S. Bernardini de Senis circa aliqua dubia super Regulam Fratrum Minorum (…) Fratribus de Observantia totius Italiae [31-07, 1440] VIII, 317.
10. Magistro Iacobo Biade, Ord. Min. [27-09, 1440] VIII, 321.
11.Sorori Nicolinae Abbatissae. [10-11, 1440] VIII, 321.
12. Fratri Baptistae de Bononia. [5-01, 1441] VIII, 323.
13. Fratri Baptistae de Bononia [13-02, 1441] VIII, 325.
14. Fratri Ioanni de Capistrano. [14-02, 1441] VIII, 326.
15. Cuidam Fratri Innominato. [1-05, 1441] VIII, 327.
16. Fratri Ioanni de Capistrano. [18-05, 1441] VIII, 328.
17. Antianis Civitatis Bononiae. [20-06, 1442] VIII, 329.
18. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [13-12, 1442] VIII, 329.
19. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [12-02, 1443] VIII, 330.
20. Petro Thomasio de Venetiis. [14-04, 1443] VIII, 331.
21. Summo Pontifici Eugenio IV. [ca. 15-08, 1439] VIII, 332.

Postillae in Epistolas et Evangelia Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume IX.
1. Dominica I de Adventu. IX, 3-9.
2. Dominica II de Adventu. IX, 9-20.
3. Dominica III de Adventu. IX, 20-28.
4. Feria IV Quatuor temporum de Adventu. IX, 28-39.
5. Dominica IV de Adventu.IX, 39-45.
6. In Nativitate Domini. IX, 45-55.
7. In Sancti Stephani. IX, 55-56.
8. In Innocentibus. IX, 56-60.
9. Dominica infra Octavam Nativitatis. IX, 60-69.
10. In Octava Nativitatis. IX, 69-71.
11. In Vigilia Epiphaniae. IX, 71.
12. In Epiphania. IX, 71-78.
13. Dominica infra Octavam Epiphaniae. IX, 78-95.
14. Dominica II post Epiphaniam. IX, 95-105.
15. Dominica III post Epiphaniam.IX, 105-109.
16. Dominica IV Post Epiphaniam.IX, 109-113.
17. Dominica V post Epiphaniam. IX, 113-120.
18. Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. IX, 120-126.
19. Dominica II post Pascha. IX, 126-127.
20. Dominica III post Pascha. IX, 127-131.
21. Dominica IV post Pascha. IX, 131-137.
22. Dominica V post Pascha. IX, 137-140.
23. In Litaniis. IX, 140-145.
24. In Die Ascensionis. IX, 145-155.
25. Dominica infra Octavam Ascensionis. IX, 155-157.
26. In Vigilia Pentecostes. IX, 157-160.
27. In Die pentecostes. IX, 160-171.
28. Feria II post Pentecosten..IX, 171-174.
29. Feria III post Pentcosten. IX, 174-175.
30. Feria V post Pentecosten. IX, 175-176.
31. Dominica I post Pentecosten. IX, 176-179.
32. Dominica II post Pentecosten. IX, 179-183.
33. Dominica III post Pentecosten. IX, 183-191.
34. Dominica IV post Pentecosten. IX, 191-199.
35. Dominica V post Pentecosten. IX, 199-201.
36. Dominica VI post Pentecosten. IX, 201-204.
37. Dominica VII post Pentecosten. IX, 204-210.
38. Dominica VIII post Pentecosten. IX, 210-215.
39. Dominica IX post Pentecosten. IX, 215-220.
40. Dominica X post Pentecosten. IX, 220-228.
41. Dominica XI post Pentecosten. IX, 228-229.
42. Dominica XII post Pentecosten. IX, 229-240.
43. Dominica XIII post Pentcosten. IX, 240-244.
44. Dominica XIV post Pentecosten. IX, 244-251.
45. Dominica XV post Pentecosten. IX, 251-253.
46. Dominica XVI post Pentcosten. IX, 253-259.
47. Sabbato post XVII Dom. post Pentcosten. IX, 259-261.
48. Dominica XIX post Pentecosten. IX, 261-265.
49. Dominica XX post Pentecosten. IX, 265-269.
50. Dominica XXII post Pentecosten. IX, 269-274.
51. Dominica XXIII post Pentecosten. IX, 274-279.
52. Dominica XXIV post Pentecosten. IX, 279-292.
53. In Conversione Sancti Pauli. IX, 292-300.
54. In Purificatione Beatae Mariae. IX, 300-305.
55. In Annuntiatione. IX, 305-323.
56. In Nativitate Sancti Ioannis Baptistae. IX, 323-326.
57. In Assumptione Beatae Mariae.IX, 326-331.
58. In Festo Evangelistarum. IX, 331-332.
59. In Nativitate Plurimorum martyrum. IX, 332-338.
60. In Dedicatione Ecclesiae. IX, 338-340.
61. Canticum `Magnificat' IX, 340-344.

Selecta ex Autographa Budapestinensi Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume IX.
1. Partialitatum Triplex Culpa Cordis, Oris et Operis. IX, 347.
2. Peccatorum Septem vel Novem gradus. IX, 352.
3. De Morte et Sepultura Animae Peccatricis. IX, 357.
4. Contra Raptores et Officiales et Domini iniusti. IX, 360.
5. Contra Partialitates. IX, 362.
6. De Fide.; Contra Arlias. IX, 368.
7. Amoris Dei, Sui et Proximi 21 Affectus; Item pro Communicantibus. IX, 370.
8. De natura Amoris. IX, 371.
9. De triplici Statu naturae. IX, 373.
10. De Honore Parentum. IX, 374.
11. Yhesus Nomen multipliciter commendatur. IX, 380.
12. Contra Arlias. IX, 384.
13. De Çelotipia Coniugum. IX, 389.
14. de Stipendiariis. IX, 390.
15. De Puellis Gubernandis. IX, 391.
16. De Saccomanno Vite eterne. IX, 392.
17. Dominica II de Adventu. IX, 397.
18. Contra Vanitates Capitis. IX, 399.
19. De Missa quomodo debet audiri. IX, 402.
20. In Festo Omnium Sanctorum. IX, 404.
21. Pro Scholaribus septem discipline. Pro Auditoribus Verbi Dei. IX, 406.
22. Tractatus de Septem tentationibus. IX, 409-419.
23. Quod Denarii assimilantur Muscis. IX, 420.
24. De Domino Tiroço Capitaneo Philocaptorum. IX, 421.
25. De Matrimonio et Uxore Capienda. IX, 425.
26. De Mysteriis Nominis Yhesu. IX, 426.
27. Contro Soddomiam. IX, 427.

Confessio et Pulchritudo [a Summa Confessionis, not included in the Opera Omnia of Quaracchi, because it was at that time not reckoned to be a genuine work of Bernardinus] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 151-176; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 566-587; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 457-474; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III-421-437.

Defensio Sui Ipsius Facta Coram Martino V. [not included in the Opera Omnia of Quaracchi, because it was at that time not reckoned to be a genuine work of Bernardinus] Edited in: E. Bulletti, in: `Vita Inedita di S. Bernardino col testo dell'Autodifesa dall'Accusa di Eresia per la Causa del Nome di Gesù', Boll. di Studi Bernardiniani, 3 (1937), 179-186.

Tractatus de Preceptis Regulae Fratrum [not included in the Opera Omnia of Quaracchi, because it was at that time not reckoned to be a genuine work of Bernardinus] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 591-595; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 478-481; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 440-443.

Litterae: C. Piana, ‘Lettera inedita di S. Bernardino da Siena ed altra corispondenza per la storia del pulpito di S. Petronio a Bologna nel ‘400’, AFH 47 (1954), 54-87.

(spurious ?) Tractatus de Speculo Peccatorum sue De Contemptu Mundi [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 95.] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) III, 543-548; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 587-591; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 474-477; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 437-440.

(spurios ?) Tractatus de Mortuis seu Sermo de Morte. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 97] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) III, 503-506; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 509-511; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 410-412; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 377-379.

(spurious ?) Sermo de Poenis Damnatorum. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 97] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 108-119; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 517-526; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 416-423; Opera Omnia (Venice, 17452), III, 383-390.

(spurious ?) De Luxuria [two treatises/sermons, see: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 98]
1. Sermo de Luxuria. Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 131-135; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 491-493; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 394-396; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 363-365.
2. Iterum de Luxuria. Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 126-131; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 493-498; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 369-400; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 365-368.

(spurious ?) De Satisfactione pro Peccato. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 98] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 135-142; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 503-509; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 405-410; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 373-377.

(spurious ?) De Iudicio Extremo. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 99] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 142-149; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 512-517; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 412-416; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 379-383.

(spurious ?) Tractatus de Religione et Utilitatibus eius. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 99] Not edited?? MS Vat.Lat. 1237 f. 174c-181d.

(spurious ?) Oratio S. Bernardini de Nomine Iesu. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed. D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 101] Not edited? MSS: Vat. Regin. Lat. 156 ff. 12-13; Zürich CLVI ff. 195-197; Vat. Lat. 10099 ff. 73-75; Düsseldorf Stadtsbibl. f. 24v; Brussels, 775 f. 13; London, Brisish Museum Harl. 2445 ff. 20-22.

Trattato della confessione `Renovamini'; La divota confessione volgare [=`Specchio di confessione']; Trattato dell'amore di Dio, ed. D. Pacetti, in: S. Bernardino da Siena, Opere volgari (Florence, 1938), 47-316.

Il nome di Gesù. Predica volgare inedita, ed. E. Bulletti, in: Bullettino di Studi Bernardiniani, 3-4 (1938), 189-226.

S. Bernardino da Siena, Le prediche volgari: Quaresimale Fiorentino del 1424, ed. Ciro Cannarozzi, 2 Vols. (Pistoia: Pacinotti, 1934). For a different reportatio of these sermons, see the decription of Carlo Delcorno, in ‘Note sulla tradizione manoscritta delle prediche volgari di San Bernardino da Siena’, AFH 73 (1980), 90-123; Alda R. Bart, ‘Frammenti dei quaresimali fiorentini di S. Bernardino da Siena’, Studi Francescani 78 (1981), 251-305. Some sermons of this reportatio have been published by Carlo Delcorno in Bullettino abruzzese di storia patria 70 (1980).

S. Bernardino da Siena, Le prediche volgari, Vol. 3: Quaresimale Fiorentino del 1425, ed. Ciro Cannarozzi (Florence: Libreria Editrice, 1940).

S. Bernardino da Siena, Le Prediche Volgari: Predicazione del 1425 in Siena, ed. Ciro Cannarozzi, 2 Vols. (Florence: Rinaldi, 1958).

Prediche della settimana santa, Firenze 1425, ed. M. Bartoli (Milan, 1995/Torino: Edizione Paoline, 1996)

Le prediche volgari di Assisi (July-September 1425). On these seemingly as yet unedited 37 vernacular sermons held in Assisi (July-September 1425), See D. Pacetti, `La predicazione di S. Bernardino a Perugia e ad Assisi nel 1425', Collectanea Franciscana 9 (1939), 494-520 & Collectanea Franciscana 10 (1940), 5-28, 161-188. See also Cantini, `Una ignorata redazione…', Bullettino di studi bernardiniani 2 (1936), 284-300 & Bullettino di studi bernardiniani 3 (1937), 290-295.

Le prediche volgari di Perugia (September-November 1425). A collection of 36 sermons that as yet do not seem to have been edited. For a description of the manuscripts containing them, see: D. Pacetti, ‘La predicazione di S. Bernardino da Siena a Perugia e ad Assisi nel 1425’, Collectanea Franciscana 9 (1939) & 10 (1940).

Le prediche volgari di San Bernardino dette nella Piazza del Campo l'anno MCCCCXXVII, ed. Luciano Bianchi, 3 Vols. (Siena, 1880-1888) [These are the careful reportationes written by Benedict Bartholomaei (Benedetto Bartolomei)]; A corrected reprint of this edition was issued as: S. Bernardino da Siena, Le prediche volgari, ed. Piero Bargellini (Milan, 1936). These 1880-88 and 1936 Banchi editions are now replaced by the excellent 1989 edition of Carlo Delcorno: Bernardino da Siena: Prediche volgari sul campo di Siena, 1427, ed. Carlo Delcorno: 2 Vols. (Milan, 1989).

Quaresimale Padovano (1443). Not edited? For a description of the manuscripts containing them, see: D. Pacetti, ‘Nuove codice di prediche inedite di S. Bernardino da Siena’, Bullettino di studi bernardiniani 1 (1935).

Abbozzi (inediti) di sermoni, ricostruiti sul ms. VII G., 29 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. S.F. Di Zenzo & I. Siggillino (Naples, 1986).

Tractatus de Restitutionibus: a.o. MSS Washington D.C., Holy Name College, no. 5 & no. 16.; London, Sir John Soane Museum 10 (15th cent.) ff. 138-185v [this MS also contains works of John Capistrano, John of Prato etc.]

De Simonia: MS London, Sir John Soane Museum 10 (15th cent.), ff. 118-134v

De Vita Christiana: MSS Oxford, Bodl. Canon Misc. 312, ff. 44-77 (an. 1437); Terni BC 179 (15th cent. Ff. 13-34v.

Speculum Amatorum Mundi: MS Würzburg, Univ. Bibl. Benedikt. Provenienz M.CH.O. 25 ff. 2r-40r (15th cent.)

Sermones: Olomouc SVK MI 155 (15th cent.) ff. 333v-338, 445-584v, 634-635; Terni BC 179 (15th cent.) ff. 58-63.

(Pseudo?) Speculum Peccatorum: MSS Augsburg, Univ. Bibl. Cod. II.1.2° 12 (later 15th cent.) ff. 38ra-43r [also ascribed to Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl]; Wolfenbüttel, Herzog Augustbibl. Extravagantes 207, 2 ff. 34v-41v (15th cent.). This work was translated into Low German as Eyn spegel aller lefhebbere der sundigen werlde (Magdeburg: Simon Koch, 1493). Cf. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7518/ Cf. also Kurt Ruh, 'Bernhardin von Siena', Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon 1 (1978), 789-793 (791f.), referring to the Lower German MS Berlin, Dombibliothek cod 81, ff. 96r-98v (olim Magdeburg).

vitae

Saint's lives on Bernardino da Siena:
Barnabas da Siena, Vita et Obitu atque Officio B. Bernardini, Paris, BN, Lat. 3341 ff. 235-293v (an. 1506); AASS 20 Maii, IV (Venice, 1740), 739-746.
Quemdam Fratrem. Vie de S. Bernardin de Sienne. Texte inédit du XVe siècle, ed. F. Delorme (Rome, 1906); Quemdam Fratrem, ed F. van Ortroy, Analecta Bollandiana, 25 (1906), 304-338.
Sante Boncor, Vita di San Bernardino da Siena, ed. S. Gaddoni (Arezzo, 1912).
Vespasiano da Bisticci, Sancto Bernardino da Massa di Maremma, in: Le Vite di uomini illustri, ed. A. Grecco (Florence, 1970); Vespasiano da Bisticci, Sancto Bernardino da Massa di Maremma, ed. L. Bianchi, in: Le prediche volgari di San Bernardino dette nella Piazza del Campo l'anno MCCCCXXVII, ed. L. Bianchi, I. (Siena, 1880), XIX-XXVIII.
L. Benvoglienti, Vita Sancti Bernardini, ed. F. van Ortroy, Analecta Bollandiana, 21 (1902), 53-80.
Baudouin de Gaiffier, ‘La Vie de S. Bernardin du manuscrit de Rouge-Cloître’, Analecta Bollandiana 71 (1953), 282-322.
See also B. de Gaiffier, `Le mémoire d'André Biglia sur la prédication de Saint Bernardin de Sienne', Analecta Bollandiana, 53 (1935), 308-358. [About Andrea Biglia, De Institutis, Discipulis et Doctrina Fratris Bernardini Ordinis Minorum]; Letizia Pellegrini, ‘Miracoli di Bernardini da Siena. A margine del processo di canonizzazione: racconti e scritture’, in: Microcosmi medievali. Atti del convegno svoltosi in occasione della quindecima edizione del ‘Premio internazionale Ascoli Piceno’. Ascoli Piceno, 15-16 febbraio 2002, ed. Enrico Menestò (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2002), 115-183; Il processo di canonizzazione di Bernardino da Siena (1445-1550), ed. e introd. di Letizia Pellegrini (Quaracchi-Grottaferrata, 2009) [cf. review in Frate Francesco. Rivista di cultura francescana n.s., 77 (2011), 435-445]; Daniele Solvi, ‘Modelli minoritici della agiografia bernardiniana’, Franciscana 13 (2011), 255-289 [Another version accessible via Academia.edu]. See in general for most materials now also: Le vite quatrocentesche di S. Bernardino da Siena, ed. Daniele Solvi, 3 Vols. (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014-2018). [see for instance review in Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 287ff.; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 112 (2019), 399-402; Collectanea Franciscana 90 (2020), 218-220; Il Santo 59 (2019), 588-590.

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Bernardino da Siena, 2 (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014) [Reviews in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 766-767, Studi Francescani 112:3-4 (2015), 578ff, and in Medieval Sermon Studies 59 (2015), 88-90 (review by Pietro Delcorno)]; Letizia Pellegrini, ‘Le bio-agiografie di Bernardino da Siena e l'agiografia degli Ordini Mendicanti nel '400 a partire da un volume recente’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 108:3-4 (2015), 583-608; Anna Zajchowska & Marcin Starzynski, ‘Le culte de saint Bernardin de Sienne en Pologne médiévale dans l’optique du Liber miraculorum sancti Bernardini de Conrad de Freystadt’, Études Franciscaines n.s. 7:1 (2014), 69-111; Paolo Evangelisti, 'Dunque non sognate, fate fatti non solo parole: Bernardino de Siena e a proposta franciscana de uma religião civil', Varia Historia 55:31 (January-April 2015), 81-126; Gian Pietro Zabeo, ‘Le parole dell’economia nei testi divulgativi di san Bernardino da Siena’, Il Santo 55:1-2 (2015), 189-226; Pietro Delcorno, In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), PhD Thesis Radboud University (Nijmegen: Bookbuilders, 2015),233-268 & passim [see also the Brill version: In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), Commentaria, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2018).]; Sophie Delmas & Francesco Siri, 'L'autographe retrouvé de Bernardin de Sienne. L'itinerarium anni et son histoire', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 109:3-4 (2016), 431-506 [deals with a collection of sermons, sermon outlines and other notitions by Bernardino in a small manuscript that the friar probably kept with him duriung his preaching voyages]; Sophie Delmas, 'François d'Assise vu par Bernardin de Sienne. Un témoignage inédit de l'autographe de l'Itinerarium anni", Etudes Franciscaines n.s. 9 (2016), 257-270; Daniele Solvi, ‘Bernardino da Siena: tra predicazione e fondazioni osservanti, in: Camposampiero. La parabola del Francescanesimo osservante (secoli XV - XVI). Atti della giornata di studio, 23 maggio 2015, ed. Luciano Bertazzo & Elda Martellozzo Forin (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2016). See also Il Santo 56 (2016), 29-42; Pietro Delcorno, ‘O felix adulescentia Bernardini! O ardentissima caritas cordis eius! San Bernardino da Siena come modello per i laici’, in: Models of Virtues: The roles of virtues in sermons and hagiography for new saints' cult (13th to 15th century): international meeting, Porto, 22-23 March 2013, ed. Eleonora Lombarda (Padua, 2016), 225-246; Daniele Solvi, 'Bernardino da Siena. Dagli eremi alle piazze cittadine', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 451-462; Filippo Sedda, 'Olivian Echoes in the Economic Treatises of Bernardine of Siena and John of Capistrano', Franciscan Studies 75 (2017), 385-405; Giulia Foladore, 'De ieiunio nella reportatio del quaresimale di Bernardino da Siena (Padova, 1443)', in: I sermoni quaresimali: Digiuno del corpo, banchetto dell'anima/Lenten Sermons: Fast of the Body, Banquet of the Soul, ed. Pietro Delcorno, Eleonora Lombardo & Lorenzo Tromboni, (= Memorie Domenicane n.s. 48 (2017) (Florence: Nerbini, 2017), 181-208; Daniele Solvi, Il canone agiografico di san Bernardino (post 1460), Quaderni di «Hagiographica» 14; Le vite quattrocentesche di s. Bernardino da Siena, 3 (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018). Review in Archivum Fratrum Historicum 112:1-2 (2019), 399-402; Steven J. McMichael, 'The Celestial Jerusalem, the Glorified Body, and Saint Francis: Abodes of the New World of Paradise in the Sermons of Bernardino da Siena', in: Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far, ed. Timothy J. Johnson, Katherine Wrisley Shelby & John D Young, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture (Routledge, 2018); Maria Concetta Nicolai, Un santo per ogni campanile. Il culto dei Santi Patroni in Abruzo, V: I taumaturchi, due predicatori dell'osservanza, tre santi della controriforma (Rome: Menabò, 2018). [Also on Anthony of Padua, Bernardino of Siena and Giovanni of Capestrano]; Gottfried Egger, Bernardin von Siena (1380-1444), Verkünder des Namens Jesu (Sankt Otilien: EOS Verlag, 2018). Cf review in Helvetia Franciscana 47 (2018), 200-202; Juri Leoni, 'Tre componimenti inediti in onore di San Bernardino da Siena', Hagiographica 25 (2018), 175-220; Luca D'Onghia, 'Costruire la santità. Primi appunti sulla produzione poetica in onore di Bernardino da Siena (sec. XV-XVI)', Anali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 10:1 (2018), 9-36; Daniele Solvi, Il canone agiografico di san Bernardino (post 1460), Quaderni di Hagiographica, 14. Le vite quattrocentesche di S. Bernardino da Siena, 3 (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018). Cf. reviews in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 112 (2019), 399-402; Collectanea Franciscana 90 (2020), 218-220; Il Santo 59 (2019), 588-590; Pietro Delcorno, 'La carità come virtù politica: Bernardino da Siena, l'ospedale e la peste', in: Politiche di misericordia tra teoria e prassi. Confraternite, ospedali e Monti di Pietà (XIII-XVI secolo), ed. Pietro Delcorno (Bologna: Il Munino, 2018), 195-228; Letizia Pellegrini, 'Testifying to Miracles: A Report on the Canonization Proces of Bernardin of Siena', in: Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes. Structures, Functions, and Methodologies, ed. Christian Krötzl & Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, International Medieval Research, 23 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 105-130; Daniele Solvi, Il mondo nuovo. L'agiografia dei Minori Osservanti (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2019). [An important collection of fundamental essays, focusing on 15th-century Franciscan Observant hagiography, with a special focus on Bernardino da Siena and the hagiographical writings of Giovanni da Capestrano]; Valentina Berardini, '«Est enim eloquentia valde necessaria praedicationi»: Bernardino da Siena e la sermonicatio', Cahiers d’études italiennes 29 (2019) [https://journals.openedition.org/cei/5785 , last accessed 25 November 2019]; Anna Toporova, 'Le sermon médiéval et ses codes de communication, Le cas de Bernardin de Sienne', in: Le Texte médiéval dans le processus de communication, ed. Ludmilla Evdokimova & Alain Marchandisse, Rencontres, 416 - Civilisation médiévale, 36 (Paris, 2019), 171-181; Serge Stolf, 'Images matérielles et images immatérielles dans les sermons de saint Bernardin de Sienne', Cahiers d’études italiennes 29 (2019), 1-13; Steven J. McMichael, 'The Virgin Mary Is Taken to the Throne of God: The Assumption of Mary in the Sermons of Bernardino da Siena', in: Medieval Franciscan approaches to the Virgin Mary: Mater Misericordiae Sanctissima et Dolorosa, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Katherine Wrisley Shelby (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), 366-391; Luca Ughetti, 'La reportatio come fonte economica. Proposte di lettura dell' economia francescana attraverso le prediche di Bernardino da Siena', Studi medievali 61 (2020), 667-688; Laura Ackerman Smoller, 'From "Real Life" to Saint's Life. Biography and Hagiography in the Vitae of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer', in: Hagiography and the history of Latin Christendom, 500-1500, ed. Samantha Kahn, (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020), 33-51; Santa Casciani, 'Bernardino of Siena in the History and Culture of the City of L'Aquila', in: A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena, ed. Santa Casciani & Heather Richardson Hayton, Brill's companions to European history, 23 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021), 154-172.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Siculus (Bernardino Siculo, fl. early 16th cent.)

OM. Italian friar (from Troina?), active in Sicily (see the remarks of the 2006 study by Ciccarelli).

works

Poemetto su S. Gennaro Episcopo di Benevento: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, Branc. V A 12 (ca. 1506/7). It has been studied and edited in: Gennaro Luongo, ‘Il poemetto di Bernardino Siculo su S. Gennaro’, in: ‘Munera parva.’ Studi in onore di Boris Ulianich I-II, ed. Gennaro Luongo, Fridericiana Varia, Miscellanea 5 (Naples, 1999) II, 9-32, 435-458. It amounts to a versified hagiography, describing the life and miracles of San Gennaro.

?Prediche quaresimali.

?Sermoni vari.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 214; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 134; Diego Ciccarelli, 'Premessa', in: Incunaboli e cinquecentine della Biblioteca comunale di Troina, ed. Pietro Scardilli et al. (Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana-Officina di Studi Medievali, 2006), 10-11.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Silvestris (second half 17th century)

OFMConv. Missionary

literature

L. Pásztor, `L'attività missionaria del P. Bernardino Silvestri Min. Conv. e la sua relazione sulla Moldavia (1688-1697)', AFH, 42 (1949).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Surius (Bernardinus de Soer, fl. 17th century)

OFMRec. Dutch Franciscan active in the Southern Low Countries. Author of a pilgrimage guide to the Holy Land, based on his travels and activities as a friar and commissary of the Holy Land custody between 1644-1647. The first version of his Den Godtvrughtighen Pelgrim came out in 1650. Several later editions followed. This popular work also included includes a section on birds, animals, trees, fruits and stones of the Levant, inspired by the Augustinian and Bonaventurean concept that man was created to come to know God, and eventually returns to Him, and in nature can find traces of divinity.

works

Bernardinus Surius, Den Godtvruchtighen Pelgrim ofte Ierusalemsche reyse, in dry boecken bedeylt (...) (Brussels: Ian Mommaert, 1650); Den Godtvrughtighen Pelgrim, 4th ed. (Brussels: Ian Mommaert, 1665/Ghent: C.J. Fernand, 1789 [2 Vols.]). Several editions are accessible via Google Books and/or via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent. The work organizes its materials as a travel story (first book the pilgrim on his way to the HL, second book the pilgrim in the HL with the sanctuaries and cereminies, third book the return journey and what one encounters on the way back).

Le pieux pélerin ou voyage de Jerusalem divisé en trois livres contenant la description topographique de plusieurs royaumes, pays, villes, nations étrangères, notamment des quatorze Religions Orientales, leur moeures et humeurs tant en matière de Religion que de civile conversation (Brussels: Foppens, 1664). This is a French translation of Den Godtvruchtighen Pelgrim ofte Ierusalemsche reyse.

To him is also ascribed a life of Mary Magdalen, yet that work we have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 214; A. Houbaert O.F.M, ‘Surius (de Soer), Bernardinus, minderbroeder en schrijver’, in: Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, deel V (Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 1972), 873-876; Marianne Petra Ritsema van Eck, Custodians of Sacred Space: Constructing the Franciscan Holy Land through texts and sacri monti (ca. 1480-1650), PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2017), passim; Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche Edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d’Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 138.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Turaminus (Bernardino Turamini/Jacopo Turamini, ca. 1580- ca. 1635)

OFM. Italian friar, preacher and author of religious drama. At first he published his works under his birth name (Jacopo Turamini), but later he began to publish under his order name Bernardino. His brother Alexander was professor of Civil Law at Naples and Ferrara.

works

Il Giudizio finale. In ottava rima (Milan: Pacifico Ponzio, 1599). Still under his secular name.

Canzone al sacratissimo monte dell'Auernia del padre Fra Bernardino Turamini minore osseruante (Florence: Volcmar Timan tedesco, 1607).

Versi sul sangue di Cristo, see: 'Fra Turamini autore di versi sul sangue di Cristo conservato in Mantova', Miscellanea Francescana 4:1 (1889), 105-106.

La Cicilia. Sacra Rappresentatione del P.F. Bernardino Turamini Minore Osservante (Viterbo: Girolamo Discepolo, 1613). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, via Archive.org and via Google Books.

Sacra Metamorfosi dal profano al divino amore in Maria Madalena (Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1616).

Caterina trionfante nella dottrina, nella verginità, & nel martirio. Di F. Bernardino Turamini minore osseruante. Dedicata all'illustriss. (...) cardinale Orsino (Viterbo, 1617). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

L'Infecondità feconda di Sant'Anna, Madre della Madre di Dio. Sacro-Scenica (Rome: Guglielmo Facciotti, 1628). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

L'Agnese vincitrice dell'età, di natura, e de'tiranni. Tragisacroscenica del P. Fr. Bernardino Turamini minore Osseruante. Dedicata alla serenissima sig. D. Caterina Medici duchessa di Mantoua & gouernatrice di Siena (Viterbo: per il Discepolo, 1629).

Barbara sacra alle api potentissime Barbarine consacrata (Viterbo: Bernardino Diotallevi, 1632). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Agata Costante. Dedicata all' Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Sig. Cardinale Barbarini del Titolo di S. Agata (...) (Viterbo: Bernardino Diotallevi, 1632).Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 215; Leone Allacci, Drammaturgia, accresciuta e continuata fino all'anno mdcclv (Venice: Giambattista Pasquali, 1755), 447; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 135; Gaetano Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani (1848), 179; Francesco Samarini, 'Martiri e buffoni: La Cicilia (1613) di Bernardino Turamini', Studi Secenteschi 60 (2019).

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Vetweis (Bernardinus Wettwis/Bernardin Vetweis/Bernhardin Vetweis, d. 1668)

OFMRec. German friar from Vettweiß (near Düren). Member of the Cologne province. Lector of theology, several times guardian, and also several times provincial minister, as well as apostolic visitator of the Sankt Andreas province.

works

A German biography/saints-life of Giacomo della Marca, issued in Cologne, 1625?

Descriptio trium florum ex Tertio Ordine S.P. Francisci: Sanctae Elizabethae Portugalliae reginae, dictae pacificae, à S.D.N. Vrbano VIII. anno iubilaei 1625. canonizatae: B. Conradi nobilis viri, ac B. Margaretae de Cortona, quorum illius ab eodem S.D. nostro, huius à Gregorio XV. anno 1623. festum per totum Ordinem S. Francisci celebrandi data est facultas, praemittitur: huic breuis informatio circa institutionem, regulam aliosque sanctos ac beatos eiusdem Ordinis (Cologne: Seruatius Erffens, 1627).

Compendium controversiarum fidei huius temporis: ad seductarum animarum reductionem nec non Parochorum & Concionatorum commodum perutile (Cologne: Ex officina Haeredum Ioannis Crithii, 1640/Cologne: Ex officina Haeredum Ioannis Crithii, 1641). Accessible via the Mediathèque of Lyon (check also Numelyo) and via Google Books.

Glaubens-Stern, Oder Anzeigung der Warheit deß Römischen Catholischen Glaubens Darinn alle förnembste streittige Articuln zwischen der Römischer Catholischer Kirchen und dieser Zeit Uncatholischen auß Gottes Wort und uralten HH. Vättern der ersten Kirchen kürtzlich, klärlich und gründlich erörtert werden (Cologne: Crithius, 1642). Present in the digital collections of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

Porta coeli, seu Meditationes septimanales, de vita ac passione D. N. Jesu Christi: nec non exercitia septem principalium per singulos septimanae dies distributarum virtutum, per quae anima ad Deum accedere, eique jugiter adhaerere potest (Cologne: Crithius, 1648). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna, and via Google Books. A German translation was issued ad: Himmels-Pfort, Das ist: Wochentliche Betrachtungen von dem Leben vnd bitteren Leyden vnsers Herzen Jesu Christi (1649).

Vera Et sincera Informatio circa Originem et Statum Trium Ordinum Fratrum Minorum S.P. Francisci (Cologne: Vidua Hartgeri Woringen, 1653). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Spiegel der wahren Kirchen Christi und der falschen Kirchen : worinnen klärlich erwiesen wird, dass die Römische, Catholische Kirche die wahre und einige Kirch Christi sey (...) (Mainz, 1668).

Speculum verae Ecclesiae Christi ac falsarum Ecclesiarum: in quo Ecclesiam Catholicam Romanam esse veram et unicam Christi Ecclesiam; alios vero qualescunqve coetus, etiam Christi nomen confitentium a Romana separatorum, falsas Ecclesias & praetensas esse religiones ex S. scriptura & Patribus quatuor priorum post natum Christum sæculorum (...) solidè demonstratur, & clarè exhibetur. Opus hoc divisum in XXI. libros, et non solum theologis, pastoribus ac concionatoribus; sed etiam omnibus cujuscunque status Christianis salutis suae amantibus esse utilissimum, quilibet lector facilè depraehendet. Cum quintuplici indice (...) (Cologne: Johann Bussaeus, 1664 [2 editions the same year?]). At least one 1664 edition is accessible via Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Mediathèque of Lyon (check also Numelyo), the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 215; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 135; Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XII, 1309f.

 

 

 

 

Bernardinus Vucovich (Bernardino Vukovich, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFM. Croatian (Dalmatian) Observant friar. Member of the Dalmatia province. Lector of philosophy and theology. Also active as a conversionary preacher in sermons to Jews. As a provincial, he took part in the general chapter of Madrid (1736), and was elected general definitor. He died of a stroke.

works

Dieci discorsi fatti per la conversione degli Israeliti. Lost due to a convent fire in Spalato/Split?

literature

Donato Fabianich, Memorie storico-letterarie di alcuni conventi della Dalmazia (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1845), 54; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 779.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Aemilianus (Bernardo d'Emilia fl. 1670)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Pisa. Member of the Capucin Picena province. Renowned preacher.

works

Sermone in laude di San Geminiano vescovo e protettore di Modena (Modena: Stampator Ducale, 1671).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 215.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Antonius Gassmann (Polychronius, 1740-1821)

OFM. German friar from Mainz. Professor of theology, teacher, and religious controversialist. For his works, see Felder.

literature

Hurter, Nomenclator V, 921-922; F.S. Felder, Gelehrten- und Schriftstellerlexikon der deutschen katholischen Geistlichkeit (Landshut, 1822) III, 161; DHGE XIX, 1392.

 

 

 

Bernardus Bernardi (Bernardo Bernardi, 1687-1758)

OFMConv. Born at Bologna on January 29, 1687. He entered the Conventual branch of the order on 21 September 1701. Finished his degree studies of theology with the magisterium. For a number of years, he was general vicar of the Florentine inquisition. Thereafter provincial definitor for his Franciscan Bologna province. For some time, he acted as inquisitor at Belluno, until he was apointed general of the Conventuals by Pope Benedict XIV. On 28 November 1746, he was made bishop of Acquapendente, a post he kept for twelve years, publishing episcopal instructions fo his clerics and his flock in 1746 and 1750. He died on 31 August 1758. He wrote various religious works

works

To be continued.

literature

G. Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d’Italia (Brescia, 1760) II, 2nd Part, 963; G. Fantuzzi, Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi (Bologna, 1782) II, 92-93; G. Cappelletti, Le Chiese d’Italia (Venice, 1846) V, 576; G. Abate, ‘Series episcoporum conventualium’, Miscellanea Francescana 31 (1931), 168; J. Jadin, ‘Bernardi’, DHGE VIII, 778; DBI

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Agnati (Bernardo di Agnati, d. 1737)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Tartari family. Entered the order in the Milan province. Fulfilled several administrative functions in the order (provincial secretary and guardian more than once). He died on 4 February 1737 in the Pescarenico convent. Order historian.

works

Cronichetta della fondazione del convento de’cappuccini di Lecco: MS Pescarenico, Parish Archive ?. Bernardo traced the history of the convent from its beginnings until 1734. A fellow Capuchin, Cristoforo di Barsio continuated it until 1790. The work apparently survives in several manuscript copies other than that found in Pescarenico. It received an abridged edition as: Cronichetta della fondazione del convento de’cappuccini di Lecco, ed. Balbiani (Milan, 1874). See on this the remarks of Teetaert.

literature

V. Bonari, I cappuccini della provincia milanese, II: Biografie dei piu distinti (Cremona, 1898), 409-411; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard d’Agnate’, DHGE VIII, 568.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Columna (Bernardo Colonna, d. 1328)

OM. Italian friar from Rome. Member of the Colonna clan. Master of theology and preacher as well as provincial minister of the Roman province. He would have died in Rome in 1328 and was buried in the Aracoeli church.

works

Comm. IV Libros Sententiarum: MS ?

Prediche quaresimaliConciones quadragesimales et per annum: MS ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 136; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 122.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Dappens (fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFM. German Observant Franciscan friar from Jüterbog. Lector in Jüterbog, Leipzig and Stadthagen. Opponent of Lutheranism. Author of treatises and sermons

works

Predigten/Sermones: Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Codex 1095 Helmst (autograph manuscript that also includes works/passages by Augustinus von Alveldt).

Anti-Lutheran diatribes and treatises (see the studies of Bensing & Trillitzsch, as well as Schlageter)

literature

Manfred Bensing & Winfried Trillitzsch, “Articuli (…) contra Lutheranos’: Zur Auseinandersetzung der Jüterboger Franziskaner mit Thomas Müntzer und Franz Günther 1519’, Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 2 (1967), 113-147; V. Penur, 'Dappen, Bernhard', LThK III (1995), 342; Johannes Schlageter, 'Die geschichtlichen Quellen zu Franziskus und Klara von Assisi im Streit um die franziskanische Lebensform in der frühen deutschen Reformation (1519-1535)', in: Domini vestigia sequi. Miscellanea offerta a P. Giovanni M. Boccali, ed. Cesare Vaiani, Studi e Ricerche, 15 (Santa Maria degli Angeli (Assisi), 2003), 371-421 (esp. 373-376); Joannes Schlageter, Die sächsischen Franziskaner und ihre theologische Auseinandersetzung mit der frühen deutschen Reformation, Franziskanische Forschungen, 52 (Münster: Achendorff, 2012), 303-348.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Atrebatensis (Bernard d'Arras, d. after ca. 1757/1760?)

OFMCap. French friar of the Parisian province. Lector of theology and guardian. In 1752, he was positioned in the Grand Couvent de Paris. Writer of (Thomist) theological works and anti-Jansenist polemics.

works

Le grand commandement de la Loi, ou le devoir principal de l'homme envers Dieu et envers le Prochain, exposé selon les Principes de Saint Thomas (Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard et Fils, 1734). Accessible via Google Books. Anti-Jansenist defense of Catholic conceptions of charity. To avoid controversy, the French Conceil d’État had the work suppressed.

L'ordre de l'Église, ou la Primauté et la subordination ecclésiastique selon Saint Thomas (Paris, 1735). Accessible via Google Books.

Ministère de l’absolution, ou le pouvoir de confesser, selon S. Thomas. Contra l'Apologie du Livre intitulé: La Consultation sur la Jurisdiction et l'Approbation nécessaires pour confesser (...) (Paris: Delusseux, 1740). Apparently a reaction against Jansenist attacks. Accessible via Google Books.

L’antihiérarque ou l’ennemie de la hiérarchie ecclésiastique (1744): MS Bry-sur-marne, Bibliothèque des Capuchins ?

Code des paroisses, ou Recueil des plus importantes questions sur les curés et leur paroissiens, Résolues par l'Ecriture, les Conciles, & les Peres (...) Contre le Livre intitulé: Les Pouvoirs légitimes du premier & du second Ordre dans l'administration des Sacremens & le gouvernement de l'Eglise , en France 1744, 2 Vols. (Paris: Herissant, 1746). In any case the second volume is accessible via Google Books. This work is directed against a treatise by the Abbé Travers, and explains the rights and obligations of parish priests with regard to administering the sacraments, in the process dismissing Jansenist views in this issue.

Les écarts des théologiens d’Auxerre sur l’Église, la pénitence et l’eucharistie (Luik (Liège), 1748). This work, published anonymously, attacks Jansenist rigorism with regard to these sacraments.

Le ministère primitif de la pénitence, enseigné dans toute l'Eglise Gallicane (...) (Paris: Claude Herissant, 1752). Accessible via Google Books. For this work, he received a papal commendation by Benedict XIV.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 48; Johann von Regensburg, 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), 16; DThCat II, 785-786; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bernard d’Arras’, DHGE VIII, 583.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Arezzo (Bernardus Aretinus, first half fourteenth century)

OM. Italian friar. Born in Tuscany, near or in Arezzo. Read the Sentences in the Franciscan Studium Generale in Paris ca. 1324 and became master of theology. As bacc sent. he disputed with the secular priest Nicholas of Autrecourt, when the latter held his Principia for his own lectures on the Sentences. In the context of this dispute - on agnosticism and related positions - Nicholas wrote nine letters to Bernard, of which two have survived.

works

Letters of Nicholas d'Autrecourt to Bernard de Arezzo. See: The Universal treatise, trans. L.A. Kennedy et al. (Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 1971); Nicholas of Autrecourt, His Correspondence with Master Giles and Bernard of Arezzo: A Critical Edition and English Translation, ed. & trans. L.M. de Rijk (Leiden-Boston-New York: Brill, 1994)<./p>

literature

J.R. Weinberg, `The fifth letter of Nicholas of Autrecourt to Bernard of Arrezzo', in: J.F. Ross (ed.), Inquiries into Medieval Philosophy, Festg. F.P. Clarke (1971).; L.M. de Rijk, Nicholas of Autrecourt. His Correspondence with Master Giles and Bernard of Arezzo (Leyden, 1994) 46-75; Kaluza, ‘Nicolas d’Autreccourt. Ami de la vérité’, Histoire littéraire de la France 42 (1995), 56-62.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Bessa (Bernard de Besse, d. 1300 (1304))

OM. French friar (from Aquitaine). Born in the first half of the thirteenth century in Besse. Took the habit in the Aquitain province. Apparently custos at Cahors. Mentioned as a witness in a testamentary bequest at Allois in 1250 9AFH 32 (1939), 206f & 222-224). Later secretary and socius to Bonaventure when the latter was minister general (cf. AF III, 161, 680 & Wadding, Annales ad. an. 1278 n. 31). Probably after these assignments, he wrote several disciplinary/spiritual, hagiographical and historical works (mentioned by the author of the Chronica XXIV Generalium Ministrorum). Most famous are his Catalogus Ministrorum Generalium and his Speculum Disciplinae (which for a long time was attributed to Bonaventure). He died in Cahors in or shortly after 1300.

works

Catalogus Ministrorum Generalium (after 1297), edited by F. Ehrle in Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 7 (1883), 322-352; edited in Analecta Franciscana 3 (Quaracchi, 1897), 693-707; edited by O. Holder Egger in Cronica Fr. Salimbene de Adam, MGH Scriptores XXXII (Hanover-Leipzig, 1905-1913), 653-674; AFH, 2 (1909), 431-440. [Bernard apparently listed the subsequent minister generals until Bonagratia of Bergamo (1277-1283). Some manuscript versions of the chronicle contain continuations until 1316 and 1340. The work was avidly used by later order historians.]

Liber de Laudibus Beati Francisci, Analecta Franciscana 3 (1897), 666-692; Liber de Laudivus S. Francisci, ed. G. Cremascoli, in: Fontes Franciscani, ed. E. Menestò & G.M. Boccali (S. Maria degli Angeli-Assisi, 1995), 1253-1296 [According to many scholars based on Celano, Bonaventure, and on several sources collected after a decree of the 1276 general chapter. According to Th. Ferencik (1995), the work is not a unity but a compilation of different texts, and that Bernard's book cannot just be seen as something very close to Bonaventure, but also reaches back to older traditions (which were supposedly suppressed after 1266). Ferencik sees especially the seventh chapter as an independent work on the three orders of Francis, and that this work is refered to as an independent work in the Chronica XXIV Generalium and in De Conformitate of Bartolomeo of Pisa. Based on the information on the Franciscan third order, Ferencik suggests that the seventh chapter was written by Bernard between 1289 and 1292. The seventh chapter only would have entered the Liber de Laudibus after 1385, in between the older chapters six and eight.]

Vita et Miracula Christophori de Cadurcis, Analecta Franciscana 3 (1897), 161-173 [Vita of friar Christophe de Cahors (beatus, d. 1272), buried in the Cahors convent]

De Proposito Regulae [Attribution by the author of the Chronica XXIV Generalium Ministrorum. Not found]

Speculum Disciplinae, edited in: Bonaventure, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi, 1898) VIII, 474-492 (583-622 check!). [There are many manuscript copies of the Speculum Disciplinae. See a.o. MSS Emmerich Stadtarchiv C 12 (ca. 1513) ff. 160-201v; Köln Diözesan- und Dombibl. 1500 (late 15th cent.) ff. 2-51v. There also are several German, Dutch and other translations. Cf. for instance Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 283f. and it is clear that the work had a significant impact on later works of religious instruction, such as the Ermahnung zu einem klösterlichen Leven by Heinrich Vigilis von Weißenburg. The Speculum disciplinae was printed quite early, both independently and together with works of Bonaventure. A Parisian edition of the work was for instance issu3d in 1501 and again in 1515: Speculum discipline sancti Bonaventure ad novicios (Paris: Petrus de Dru, 1501/Paris: Jehan Petit, 1515); Another early print was issued in 1504 in Magdeburg. Based on this imprint a German translation by a German Dominican, commanded by Duchess Sidonie of Saxony, was issued in Leipzig in 1510 by Melchior Lotter. Even before a Spanish version appeared as: Espejo de disciplina, o libro de las cosas pequeñas para los novicios (Sevilla: Stanislao Polona, 1502). A seventeenth-century German translation was printed as: Specvlvm Disciplinae Novitiorum, Das ist Zuchtspiegel der newen Geistlichen Personen Geschrieben durch (...) Bonaventuram (...) durch P. Christianum Seuringhausen [OFMRec] auß dem latein ins teutsch versetzt (Cologne: Wilhelm Firiessems, 1654).]

Epistola ad Quendam Novitium Insolentem et Instabilem, edited in: Bonaventure, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi, 1898) VIII, 663-666. [Like the Speculum Disciplinae, this letter used to be ascribed to Bonaventure.]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 215-216; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I. 141-142; Danou, Histoire Littéraire de France 19 (1838), 437; H. Denifle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalers 1 (1885), 145-146; K. Frey, ‘Zur Geschichte der Franziskanerliteratur’, Geigers Vierteljahrschrift für Kultur und Literatur der Renaissance 2 (1887), 97-106; O. Holder-Egger, ‘Zur Kritik minoritischer Geschichtsquellen’, Neues Archiv für altere Deutsche Geschichtskunde 38 (1913), 483-502; Potthast, Bibl. Hist. Medii Aevi 1 (Berlin, 1896), 150; Repertorium Fontium II, 498f; J. de Dieu [De Champsecret], 'Besse, Bernard de', DSpir. 1, 1504f.; F. Bernarello, La formazione religiosa secondo la primitiva scuola francescana (Rome, 1961); S. Clasen, Legenda antiqua S. Francisci. Untersuchungen über die nachbonaventurianischen Franziskusquellen (Leiden, 1967), 256f & 383-387; B. Distelbrink, Bonaventurae scripta authentica, dubia vel spuria critice recensita (Rome, 1975), 193f & 135; L. Lazzeri, `Insegnamenti ed essempi del Padre', Studi Francescani, 80 (1982), 285-293[=Italian translation of Ch. 3-6 of De Laudibus S. Francisci]; D. Amico, ‘Bernard of Besse: Praises of Blessed Francis’, Franciscan Studies 48 (1988), 213-268; L. de Angelis, ‘La povertà volontaria nel Liber de Laudibus (...)’, Misc. Franc., 95 (1995), 556-604; G. Cremascoli, 'Il “Liber de laudibus beati Francisci” di Bernardo da Bessa', in: Fontes Franciscani, ed. E. Menestò e S. Brufani (S. Maria degli Angeli - Assisi, 1995), 1243-1251; Th. Ferencik, ‘Das Buch über die drei Orden des hl. Franziskus’ des Bernhard von Besse. Abgrenzung, Übersetzung und Analyse des 7. Kapitels des‘Liber de laudibus beati Francisci’’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 58 (1995), 167-222; Paola Coali, ‘Bernard de Besse e il ‘Liber de Laudibus’ nel francescanesimo della fine del ‘200’, in: Arte francescana e pauperismo dalla Valle dell’Aniene, 85-104; Bert Roest, A History of Franciscan Education (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2000), Chapter VI; Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Bernhard von Bessa OFM [Nachtr. zu Bd. 1, Sp. 743f.]’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, Verfasserlexikon XI, 240-241; Mirko Breitenstein, Das Noviziat im hohen Mittelalter. Zur Organisation des Eintrittes bei den Cluniazensern, Cisterziensern und Franziskanern, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 38 (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2008), passim (esp. in section IV: Franziskaner); Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 113-115.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Bononia (Floriano Toselli/Bernardo di Bologna/Bernardo da Bologna, 1699-1768)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born on 17 December 1699. Joined the order in 1717 (friar of the Bologna province). For many years lector of moral and dogmatic theology, custos of Malta (1750-1753), provincial definitor and provincial minister of the Milan province (1758?). He died on 19 February 1768 in Bologna. Wrote a number of biblical, theological and philosophical works that thus far have not been sufficiently studied. He is best known for his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum.

works

Enchiridio ecclesiastico per le funzioni sacre, per le benedizioni e per assistere ai moribundi: MS ?

Manuale Confessariorum Ordinis Capuccinorum (Venice: Josep Bortoli, 1737/1738/1740/1745 (editio correcta)/Prato, 1832 (editio castigata)). The first three Venetian editions ended up on the Catholic index of forbidden books. The 1737 Venice edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Staatsbibliothek Regensburg and via Google Books.

Discorso d’introduzione al capitolo provinciale de’cappuccini celebrato in Ferrara l’anno 1743. Edited in: Collectio Orationum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1746).

Institutio Theologica Juxta Omnia Fidei Dogmata et Doctoris Subtilis Scholastico Nervo Instructa, 4 Vols. (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1746/1756). ‘Scotist’ handbook of theology with Augustinian overtones. The third volume of the 1756 edition is accessible via Google Books. The third volume also contains a Calculus Chronologicus Sacrae Scripturae de Annis a Mundi Exordio ad Christi Ortum, and a Dissertatio de Christi Aera Communi (an attempt to prove that Christ was born in the 194th olympiad, the 752nd year of Rome’s foundation and the 42nd year of emperor Octavian Augustus’ rule).

Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, Retexta et extensa a Bernardo a Bononia, quae prius fuerat a Dionysio Genuensi contexta (Venice, 1747). It is, in fact an extension and correction of the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum by Dionysio da Genoa.

Lezioni sopra la regola dei frati minori di S. Francesco esposte a suoi religiosi fratelli da f. Bernardo da Bologna cappuccino lettore teologo (Modena: Bartolomeo Soliani, 1749/Venice: appresso Simone Occhi, 1753/Bologna: Stamperia di S. Tommaso d’Aquino, 1764) [rigorist commentary. The 1749 and 1753 editions are accessible via Google Books].

Sei discorsi recitati in Malta (Catania, 1753).

Institutio Philosophica Praemittenda Theologiae, Nunc Aristotelis et Joannis Duns Scoti Acumine Structa, Nunc Recentioribus Considerationibus Aucta, Semper Autem Naturae Lumine Parta, 3 Vols. (Venice, 1761/1766). Directed against ‘modern’ Enlightment philosophy. The first volume bears the title Dialectica, Logica et Metaphysica, the second Physicae Pars Prima, and the third Physicae Pars Secunda.

Phrasarium Sacrae Scripturae Scriptoribus et Oratoribus Sacris Opportunum (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1761). This edition is accessible via Google Books. Several revised editions followed (a.o. Venice, 1762).

Lettera al maresciallo Keit sopra il vano timor della morte e lo spavento di un’altra vita del filosofo di Sans-Souci, de leggersi Sans-Foy (Bologna, 1766). Directed against Voltaire and other Enlightenment philosophers. It also contains an Ammonizione contro altri simili libri. For a more recent edition see also Multiplices epistole que diversis et variis negotiis utiliter possunt accomodari (Arti Grafiche Tamari, 1969).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 251-252; Bullarium OFMCap II, 239; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 200; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 786; Johann Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 16; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Bologne’, DHGE VIII, 596-597; DBI IX, 265ff; H. Borak, Laurentianum 5 (1964), 120ff; LThK³ II, 267; Lexicon Capuccinum, 207; Sylvio Hermann De Francheschi, ‘Morales franciscaines du jeûne et de l’abstinence au temps des Lumières. Ascétisme alimentaire et discipline régulière au XVIIIe siècle’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 193-218.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Bordeaux (Bernardin de Bordeaux/Bernard Fustier, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Aquitanian province. Took the habit in 1601. Order administrator and preacher. Involved with the foundation (and as architect also with the construction) of the Capuchin convents of Bordeaux (1609), Lavour (1613), Dax (1614), Gourdon (1616) and Villeneuve-sur-Lot (1624). Together with Maximin Guchen (d. 1654), he composed a Descriptio Chorographica Provinciarum et Conventuum Omnium Ordinis Minorum S.P. Francisci Capuccinorum Secundum Veram Illorum Distantiam, Servata Quantum Fieri Potuit Climatum Constitutione.

works

Descriptio Chorographica Provinciarum et Conventuum Omnium Ordinis Minorum S.P. Francisci Capuccinorum Secundum Veram Illorum Distantiam, Servata Quantum Fieri Potuit Climatum Constitutione (Bordeaux-Rome, 1643/Rome, 1646/Turin, 1649 & 1654). A totally revised version of this heavily illustrated work of ‘order-geography’ was made by the Capuchin friar Giovanni Battista da Cassino (Milan province): Descriptio Chorographica Provinciarum et Conventuum Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, Olim Quorumdam Fratrum Labore, Industria Delineata, Sculpta, Impressa Jussu A.R.P. Joannis a Montecalerio, Nunc Vero F. Jo. Baptistae a Cassinis, Provinciae Mediolanensis Concionatoris Capucini Itera Delineatione Super Novissimas Orbium Coelestium Observationes, de A.R.P. Augustiniatisana Ministri Generalis Mandato Communi Utilitati in Lucem Prodita (Milan, 1712).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 207 (Bernardinus Burdigalensis); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 133; Apolinaro de Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciarum Occitaniae et Aquitaniae (Rome, 1894), 45-46; Histoire des Capucins de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1897) I, 104-109, 117; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Bordeaux’, DHGE VIII, 597-598; Raoul de Sceaux , L'oeuvre cartographique des Capucins d' Aquitaine, ...; Lexicon Capuccinum, 201.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Bourges (Bernard de Bourges, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar. Anti-heretical missionart en Poictou. Author of the Réfutation des erreurs et blasphêmes infâmes proférez par le sieur de la Vallade.

works

Réfutation des erreurs et blasphêmes infâmes proférez par le sieur de la Vallade, pretendu ministre de la religion à Fontenay (Fontenay-le-Comte: Pierre Petit-Jean, 1614).

literature

Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de L'Ouest, 3rd ser. 1 (1907), 45; Louis Desgraves, Répertoire des ouvrages de controverse entre Catholiques et Protestants en France I, 192 (1614), no. 1588.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Cammarata (d. 1711)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Palermo province. Fulfilled several administrative charges (several times guardian and definitor, as well as provincial vicar between 1708-1709). Also active as a novice master. Wrote a historical compendium of the convents in the Palermo province.

works

Breve notizia de’luoghi de’frati minori cappuccini (1724): MS Palermo, Archivio provinziale dei Cappuccini di Palermo (as part of a volume entitled Relazioni di alcuni cose notabili).

literature

Antonino da Castellamare, Storia dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo, I: Il mattino luminoso (Rome, 1914), 11-14; Idem, Storia dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo, III: Ancora il mezzogiorno (Palermo, 1924), 325-327; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Cammarata’, DHGE VIII, 603.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Carpo (Bernardo da Carpo/Bernardo da Parma, d. 1425)

OM. Italian friar. Member of the Zambernelli family. Took the habit at Parma. Studied theology and reached the magisterium. Taught at the University of Bologna from 1375 onwards. Provincial minister of Bologna (1395/1400). Active at Ferrara in 1412? Bishop of Parma (elected in October 1412, and taking possession of his see the year thereafter), which position he kept until his death on 11 July 1425. He was buried in the San Antonio chapel of the Franciscan convent at Parma. During his episcopate, Bernardo compiled a set of statutes and ordinances for his cathedral (Ordinarium, 1417).

works

Ordinarium Parmense, Ordinario di fra Bernardo: Check

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Rome, 1734) X, 76; G. Allodi, Serie dei vescovi di Parma (Parma, 1856) I, 685-702; C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica (1913) I, 392; N. Pelicelli, ‘Bernard, évêque de Parme’, DHGE VIII, 721; B. Pergamo, AFH, 27 (1934), 25.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Castro Veteri (Bernardi di Castelvetere/Luciano Ferraro, 1708-1756)

OFMCap. Italian friar, born in Castelvetere (=Caulonia). Entered the order in the Reggio Calabria province. Lector of theology after 1734. Guardian of the Polistena convent in 1754, provincial definitor and preacher/confessor. Wrote a Direttorio ascetico-mistico that made a considerable impact in Italy and remained in print well into the 19th century.

works

Direttorio ascetico-mistico per li confessori di terre e villagi (Venice, 1750). At least 18 editions until 1846 (Brescia), and apparently also subsequent editions, and translations into Spanish (according to the LexCap, 208). In any case the 1757, 1761, 1687, 1842 and 1845 editions are accessible via Google Books and other digital portals. The work provides confessors with spiritual instructions and guidelines. The first part of the work is ascetical in character, providing elements of the doctrines of Francisco de Sales and Juan de la Cruz. The second part has more mystical overtones, reaching back to the doctrines of Theresa de Avila.

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), 16; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Castelvetere’, DHGE VIII, 606; DSpir I, 1505-1506; F. da Moreto, Il ‘Direttorio mistico’ del P. Bernardo da Castelvetere (Rome, 1950); F. da Moreto, ‘Bernardo da Castelvetere e Bernardino da Parma, seguaci di S. Francesco di Sales nel primo Settecento’, Italia Francescana 51 (1976), 102-107; Lexicon capuccinum. Promptuarium Historico-Bibliographicum (1525-1950) (Rome, 1951), 208; LThK 3II, 268; Emilio Lage, ‘S. Alfonso e la direzione spirituale’, Spic. Hist. C. SS. R. 48 (2000), 9-48 [also on Bernardus de Castelvetere].

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Castrogiovanni (Bernardo Maria da Castrogiovanni/Cannura, d. ca. 1730)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Palermo. Medical practitioner, known for his ice water remedies, and for that reason also referred to as 'il cappuccino medico dell'Aqua fredda'.

works

Canzoni popolari in lode dell'acqua fredda.

Giornale idropatico.

literature

Domenico Martuscelli, Biografia degli uomini illustri del regno di Napoli, p.?; E.F.Chr. Oertel, P. Bernhard, ein Kapuziner, als weltberühmter Eiswasser Doctor neu dargestellt (Leipzig, 1834); E. d'Alençon, 'Un capucin précurseur de l'abbé Kneipp! Le médicin de l'eau fraiche', Etudes Franciscaines 32 (1914), 30-39; Terenzio da Cento, 'P. Bernardo, precursore dell'idroterapia', Italia Francescana 9 (1934), 92-110 (with corrections provided in Collectanea Franciscana 39 (1939), 465, no. 527); Lexicon Capuccinum, 208-209.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Corleone (Bernardo da Corleone, Filippo Latino, 1605-1667), beatus (1768) & sanctus (2001)

OFMCap. Italian lay friar. Born at Corleone (Sicily) on 6 February 1605. Entered the order on 13 Decemner 1632 in the Palermo province, taking his noviciate in the Caltanisetta convent. Spent 35 years in the order as a lay friar, acting for instance as a cook. Became renowned for his sanctity. Died on 12 January 1667. Beatified by pope Clement XIII on 29 April 1768. Canonized in 2001. Author? See also under the section Vitae & miracula

works

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vitae

M. Frazzetta, Compendio della vita, virtu et miracoli del venerabile servo di Dio F. Bernardo da Corleone, religioso laico del sacro ordine dei P. cappuccini (Palermo, 1677); Benedetto da Milano, Vita di Bernardo da Corleone (Palermo, 1680/1725/1737); Sixte de Paris, L’histoire de Fr. Bernard de Corléon (Paris, 1690); Chrysostome de Béthune, Abrégé des vies du vén. Laurent de Brindes et du Fr. Bernard de Corléon (Paris, 1751); Gabriele da Modigliano, Vita del beato Bernardo da Corleone (Palermo, 1768 & Venice, 1770); Angélique de Montpellier, Vie du bienheureux Bernard de Corleone (Clermont-Ferrand, 1901).

literature

P. Lechner, Leben der Heiligen aus dem Orden der Kapuziner (Munich, 1864) II, 183-224; G. Coletto, Il beato Bernardo da Corleone dalla nascita a frate cappuccino (1605-1632) (Palermo, 1933); Dionigio da Gangi, Dalla spada al cilizio. Profilo del beato Bernardo da Corleone (Tivoli, 1934); A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Corleone’, DHGE VIII, 647-648; LThK II3, 271; Giovanni Spagnolo, ‘Bienheureux Bernard de Corléon. Générosité de vie et expiation’, in : Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 185-196 ; Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum, ‘Panormitana Canonizationis Beati Bernardi a Corleone (in saec.: Philippi Latino) Laici professi O.F.M.Cap. (1605-1667) Decretum super miraculo’ [1.07.2000], Analecta O.F.M.Cap. 116 (2000) 1156f.; Giovanni Sebastiano Pollani, Una vita protesa verso Dio: fra' Bernardo da Corleone (1605-1667) santo (Palermo: Frati Minori Cappuccini, 2002); Giovanni Spagnolo, Centenari di santità tra i cappuccini palermitani: Bernardo da Corleone (1605-2005: quarta centenario nascità), Andrea da Burgio (1705-2005: terzo centenario nascità), Gioacchino Fedele da Canicattì (1905-2005: centenario morte) (Palermo: Ed. Segretario Missioni Estere dei Cappuccini, 2005).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Deo (Bernat de Déu, fl. early fourteenth cent.)

OM. Spanish (Catelan) Franciscan preacher. Author of a sermon handbook (Summa Praedicabilium, 1318)

works

Summa Praedicabilium: MS Valencia, Bibl. Cap. Catedral 141.

literature

E. Longpré, ‘Fr. Bernard de Deo, O.F.M. (1318), et l’Immaculée Conception’, AFH 26 (1933), 247-249; J. Heerinckx, ‘De sermonibus dominicalibus et in festivitatibus S. Antonii Patavini’, Antonianum 9 (1934), 13f.; Oriol Catalán, 'Los sermones de Bernat de Déu, O.F.M.. en el contexto de la predicación antijudía medieval' [can be asked for via Academia.edu]

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Fresneda (Bernardus Fraxineto/Bernardo de Fresneda, ca. 1500-1577)

OFM. Spanish friar. Took the habit in the San Bernardino convent (Burgos province) in 1534. Studied theology at Alcalà and thereafter became guardian of the Franciscan San Pedro y Paolo convent in the same town. Subsequently charges as a custodian and general definitor (elected at the chapter of Salamanca, 1553). Became Philip II’s confessor and spiritual counsellor and accompanied him in that quality on the King’s trip to England for his betrothal to Queen Mary. In 1558, Bernardo is in Flanders, on missions for the Spanish King and the papacy. Bernardo was appointed bishop of Cuenca (1561/1562). Moreover, he was made ‘General Commissioner for the Crusades’ on request of Philip II. As Bernardo kept his confessional and diplomatic responsibilities at the court of Philip II, he did not see much of his diocese. His ongoing services to the crown were rewarded with the episcopate of Cordoba in 1571 and with the archepiscopate of Saragossa (1577). Bernardo died on 22 December 1577 before he could take up that last position. He was buried in the Franciscan convent Santa Maria de los Angeles de San Domingo de la Calzada, the town where he tried to help erect a university (to emulate what Cisneros had done in Alcala de Henares), and which also housed the Franciscan Colegio de San Buenaventura. This attempt was ultimately not successful.

works

De Promissis Religiosorum: MS Once kept in the Colegio de San Buenaventure in San Domingo de la Calzada.

Conciones Variae: MS Once kept in the Colegio de San Buenaventure in San Domingo de la Calzada.

Annotationes in Tridentinum Concilium: MS Once kept in the Colegio de San Buenaventure in San Domingo de la Calzada.

Liber Instructionum Regalium: MS Once kept in the Colegio de San Buenaventure in San Domingo de la Calzada.

Constitutiones et Decreta Ecclesiae Cordubensis: MS Once kept in the Colegio de San Buenaventure in San Domingo de la Calzada. The work was apparently printed in Antwerp in 1577.

Constitutiones synodales del obispado de Quenca (Madrid: Alonso Gomez, 1571/Cordoba, 1577). The 1571 edition is present in the Real Biblioteca in the Palacio Real de Madrid (for the catalogue, see https://www.realbiblioteca.es/ )

Instruccion dada por don Bernardo de Fresneda, obispo de Cuenca, para la publicacion de la bula, concedida por el papa Pio V en todos los reinos de España para la guerra contra los infieles (Madrid, 1571).

Carta a Cardinal Carafa MS Rome, Barb. lat. 3620, ff. 102-103.

to be continued

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. 1736) XI, 113 & XII, 484; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 216; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 136-137 & (ed. 1908), 142; J. Pou y Marti, ‘Fr. Bernardo de Fresneda, confesor de Felipe II, obispo de Cuenca y Cordoba y arzobispo de Zaragosa’, AIA 33 (1930), 583-603; J. Goyens, ‘Bernard de Fresneda’, DHGE VIII, 740-741; I. Tellechea Idigoras, ‘Felipe II y el Inquisidor general D. Fernando de Valdès’, Salmanticensis 116 (1969), 329-372; J.L.G. Novalin, El inquisidor general Fernando de Valdès (1483-1569), 2 Vols. (1969-1971), passim; Fray Bernardo de Fresneda y la Capilla Mayor de la Iglesia de San Francisco en Santo Domingo de la Calzad, ed. Francisco Javier Alvarez Pinedo & José Manuel Ramirez Martinez (Servicio de Cultura de la Excma. Diputación Provincial, 1979); Henar Pizarro Llorente, 'El control de la conciencia regia: El confesor real Fray Bernardo de Fresneda', in: La corte de Felipe II, ed. José Martínez Millán (Madrid, 1994), 149-188; José García Oro & María José Portela Silva, ‘El obispo fray Bernardo de Fresneda y la reforma tridentina en la Iglesia de Córdoba’, Carthaginensia 16 (2000), 139-181; Kevin Ingram, Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 101ff

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Delitiosi (Bernard Délicieux/Berardo del Litioso, d. 1320 or shortly thereafter)

OM. French (Provençal) friar. Born in Montpellier. Entered the Friars Minor in the Provence province, 1284. Lector in Carcassonne (since 1296). In close epistulary contacts with intellectual figures such as Arnold of Villanova, Raymond Llull, and with high ecclesiastical and order administrators. Became the leader of the opposition against (predominantly Dominican) inquisitorial practices in Carcassonne and surroundings. Was able to enlist the support of king Filip IV of France on his behalf (1301 and 1302). After conspiring with citizens of Albi and Carcassonne he fled to Aragon, where he was confined by the Aragonese king. In 1305 on request of pope Clemens V handed over to Avignon, where he was forced to stay until 1309. Then he entered the Franciscan convent of Béziers, where he became a defender of the spiritual cause. Became their spokesman. As their spokesman he was arrested in Avignon in 1317 during a process of spirituals and condemned to lifelong imprisonment in 1319. John XXII went a step further in 1320 by ordering that he should not longer wear his habit in prison. He died after 25 Feburary 1320 in his Avignon prison.

works

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literature

Barthélemy Hauréau, ‘Bernard Délicieux et l’inquisition albigeoise, 1300-1320’, Revue des Deux Mondes (1868), 815-862; Michel de Dmitrewski, ‘Fr. Bernard Délicieux, O.F.M.. Sa lutte contre l’inquisition de Carcassonne et d’Albi, son procès (1297-1319)’, AFH, 17 (1924), 183-218; 313-337; 457-488, 18 (1925), 3-32; Michel de Dmitrewski, ‘Notes sur le catharisme et l’inquisition dans le midi de la France’, Annales du Midi 36 (1924), 294-310 & 37 (1925), 190-212; A.Teetaert, Collectanea Franciscana 3 (1933), 236-240; Fr.-M. Henquinet, ‘Bernard Délicieux’, DHGE VIII, 652-658; Y. Dossat, ‘Les origines de la querelle entre Précheurs et Mineurs Provençaux: Bernard Délicieux’, Cahier de Fanjeaux, 10 (1975), 314-354; LthK, 3, 75-76.; A. Friedlander, Processus Bernardi Delitiosi: The Trial of Bernard Délicieux, transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 86/1 (Philadelphia, 1996); A. Friedlander, The Hammer of the Inquisitors. Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France, Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions. Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 1999); Julien Théry, ‘Les Albigeois et la procédure inquisitoire: le procès pontifical contre Bernard de Castanet, évêque d’Albi et inquisiteur (1307-1308)’, Heresis 33 (2001), 7-48; Alan Friedlander, ‘Bernard Délicieux, le ‘marteau des inquisiteurs’’, Heresis. Revue d’Histoire des Dissidences médiévales 34 (printemps-été 2001), 9-34; Jean Duvernoy, Le procès de Bernard Délicieux, 1319 (Toulouse: Le Pérégrinateur éditeur, 2001); Yver Dossat, 'Les origines de la querelle entre Prêcheurs et Mineurs provençaux. Bernard Délicieux', in: Inquisition et société en pays d'Oc: (XIIIe et XIVe siècles), ed. Jean-Louis Biget, Collection d'histoire religieuse du Languedoc au Moyen âge, 2 (Toulouse, 2014), 417-440; Alan Friedlander, 'Jean XXII et les spirituels: le cas Bernard Délicieux', in: Inquisition et société en pays d'Oc: (XIIIe et XIVe siècles), ed. Jean-Louis Biget, Collection d'histoire religieuse du Languedoc au Moyen âge, 2 (Toulouse, 2014), 441-450.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Lavinheta (Bernard de Lavinheta, d. ca. 1530)

OFM. French (Basque) friar from Béarn. He fulfilled his degree obligations at Toulouse and taught in Salamanca and later in Paris. Editor and commentator of works by Ramon Lull, leading to a systematisation of Llull’s thought.

works

Lavinheta pauperum: introductorium admodum breve et succinctum ad omnia grammatices rhetorices, philosophieque ac discipolinarum omnium & scientiarum accommodativum, secundum doctrinam & preceptionem Raymundi Lull (Lyon: Étienne Baland, 1514).

Ars brevis illuminati doctoris magistri Raymundi Lull. Quae est ad omnes scientias pauco & breui tempore assequendas introductorium & breuis via. Una cum figuris illi materie deseruientibus: necnon & illius scientie approbatione. In cuius castigatione attendat lector quam castigatissime Magister Bernardus de lavinheta artis illius fidissimus interpres insudarit (...) (Lyon: Étienne Baland, 1514/Paris: A. Gordinus, 1578). In any case the 1578 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Lauinheta de incarnatione Verbi, contra Magistrum Sententiarum et sectatores ejus: una cum impugnatione secte Nominalium et confutatione Hebreorum et Sarrhocenorum (Cologne: Quentell, 1516). Accessible via The British Library and via Google Books. Based on university disputations.

Practica compendiosa artis Raymundi Lul explanatio compendiosaque applicatio artis illuminati doctoris Raymundi Lull ad omnes facultates (Jean Moylin de Cambrai, 1523).

Opera Omnia: Bernhardi De Lavinheta Opera Omnia. Quibus Tradidit Artis Raymundi Lullii Compendiosam Explicationem, Et Eiusdem applicationem ad I. Logica. II. Rhetorica. III. Physica. IV. Mathematica. V. Mechanica. VI.Medica. VII. Metaphysica. VIII. Theologica. IX. Ethica. X. Iuridica. XI. Problematica ; Accessit Index rerum in hoc opere memorabilium, ed. Johan Heinrich Alsted (Cologne: Erben Lazarus Zetzner, 1612). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna Czech National Library in Prague, the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Numelyo), the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, and via Google Books.

Janua Artis Lulli (Cologne: Quentell, 1516).

Raemundi Lulli, eremitae, caelitus illuminati, Metaphysica noua: et Philosophiae in Averroistas expostulatio, ed. Bernardus de Lavinheta (Paris: Ascensiana, 1516).

Illuminati sacre pagine professoris amplissimi magistri Raymundi Lullii Ars magna, generalis et ultima, quarumcunque artium et scientiarum ipsius Raymundi Lullii assecutrix et clavigera (...), ed. Bernardus de Lavinheta (Lyon: Jacques Marechal, 1517). A revision of this edition was issued in 1596 by Rudolph Goclenius.

Dialectica seu logica nova venerabilis eremitae Ramundi Lulli diligenter reposita : restitutis quae nuper fuerant sublata. Et additis tractatu de inventione medii. Item tractatu de conversione subjecti & praedicati per medium per M. Bernardum Lavinhetam (Paris: Josse Bade, 1516/Paris: Josse Bade, 1518).

Duodecim principia philosophiae Raemundi Lulli: quae et lamentatio sen expostulatio philosophiae contra Averroistas : & Physica ejusdem dici possunt (Paris: Josse Bade, 1516).

Metaphysica nova et philosophiae in Averroistas expostulatio (Paris: Josse Bade, 1516).

Practica compendiosa Artis Raymundi Lulli, per Bernardum de Lavinheta lucubrata et edita (Lyon: Jean Moylin, 1523). See now also: Explanatio compendiosaque applicatio artis Raymundi Lulli, Bibliotheca Franciscana, 3 (Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1977). This is an encyclopaedic treatment of Lull's system, combining it with alchemistic elements.

Raymundi Lullii Opera ea Quae adinventam Artem Universalem Scientiarum Artiumque omnium breui compendio (Strasbour: Lazarus Zetzner, 1598). A compendium based on editorial interventions by Henrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Giordano Bruno and Bernardus de Lavinheta.

Bernhardi de Lavinheta Opera omnia: quibus tradidit artis Raymundi Lulli compendiosam explicationem et eiusdem applicationem (...), ed. Johann Heinrich Alsted (Cologne: Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1612).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129 [Bernardinus de Lavinetha]; Andrew Pettegree & Malcom Walsby, French Books III & IV (FB): Books published in France before 1601 in Latin and Languages other than French, A-G (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012), 1124; Rafael Ramis Barceló, 'Bernard de Lavinheta y su interpretación de las ideas jurídicas de Ramon Llull', in: Knowledge, Contemplation, and Lullism: Contributions to the Lullian Session at the SIEPM Congress - Freising, August 20-25, 2012 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), 207-225; Andrea Costa, 'La Combinatoire juridique de Bernardus De Lavinheta', Dix-Septième Siècle 279:2 (2018), 203-230.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Lizana (Bernardo de Lizana, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Born in Ocaña (Toledo) and member of the Castilia province. Traveled to Yucatan in 1606. Became a specialist in the Mayan language and taught it to missionaries for a number of years. He died in Mérida, on April 2, 1631. He wrote historical works, which drew on the histories of Alonso de Solana, and were themselves used by Cogolludo.

works

Historia de Yucatán, devocionario de Nuestra Señora de Izmal, y Conquista Espiritual (Valladolid, 1633/2nd ed. Mexico, 1893). Several parts also received a French translation in Diego de Landa, O.F.M., Relation des choses de Yucatan de Diego de Landa, ed. & trans. Charles Etienne Bresseur de Bourbourg (Paris, 1864), 348-365 [portions of part 1,i-iv].

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; AIA 28 (1927), 105; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 45; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 139 (no. 498).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Minervo (Bernardus a Crypta Minervae/Bernardo di Minervo da Lecce, d. 1653)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Naples province. Entered the order in 1600. Known to have fulfilled the functions of preacher, guardian, definitor and provincial minister (1629-1631). He died at Naples at the age of 70 on 25 December 1653.

works

La coronella della Vergine santissima, nella quale s’espone tutta la vita della Madonna santissima e principiano le sue lodi: MS?

Dulcis Mirra de Passione Domini, 2 Vols.: MS? [once present in the Convento della Concezione in Naples]

Itinerarium Animae ad Palmam Virgineam, sive Palma Virginea 72 Ramusculorum Juxta Numerum Annorum Virginis, Divisa in Quinque Palmis, Litteris Quinque Nominis Ejusdem Tesseratis, Quarum Quaelibet Vestita Foliis, Virens Frondescit Sacrae Scripturae Auctoritate et Sanctorum Patrum Sententiis Coronata Floribus, Vernans Florescit Subtilitate Doctrinae et Conceptuum Multitudine Copiosa Nimis et Onusta Dactylis, Spiritus Pinguedine et Dulcedinis Sapore Fructificat in Anima Incumbentis Verbo Dei, Dulci Meditationi et Contemplationi Pie Sancteque Vacantis (Naples: Ottavio Beltran, 1647).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 49; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minoruum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 55-57; Édouard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 12-13; Salvatore da Valenziano, I cappuccini nelle Puglie (Bari, 1926), 293; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Minervino di Lecce’, DHGE VIII, 696-697; LexCap>>>

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Monteto (Bernard de Monteto/Montesco, 1343-1359)

OFM. Bishop of Sagone (Corsica) since 13 juni 1343. Renounced his episcopate some time before his death. Auhor?

literature

Wadding, Annales minorum, VII (Rome, 1733), 295; G. Cappelletti, Le Chiese d’Italia (Venice, 1861) XVI, 396; Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae (Regensburg, 1873-1886) 767; Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, VI Vols. (Regensburg, 1913-1967) I, 428; Sylvestre Bonaventure Casanova, Histoire de l’Église corse (Zicavo, 1931) I, 62; L. F. Snieders, ‘Bernard de Monteto’, DHGE VIII (1935), 732.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Nantes/Nanetensis (Bernard de Nantes, fl. 1705)

OFMCap. French friar from the Brittany province. Preacher and then missionary in the Portuguese West-Indies.

works

Katecismo Indiano da lingua Kariris, acrescentado de varias Practicas doutrinaes, et moraes adaptadas ao genio et capacidade de los Indios do Brasil (Lisbon: Valentin de Costa, 1709). This work (in some catalogues mentioned as Catecismo índico da lingua Cariri) also contains eight sermons (from fol. 168 onward).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217-218; Gustave Brunet, Dictionnaire de bibliologie catholique V, 653.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Osimo (Bernardus Auximas/Bernardus Auximiensis/Bernardo da Osimo, ca. 1527-1591)

OFMCap. Italian friar, born in Osimo (Ancona). Entered the order as an adult in the Marca province. Was sent to France, in order to advance the cause of the Capuchin order. Took part in the grounding of Capuchin convents at Paris and in the neighbourhood, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Parisian Capuchin province, of which he first became general commissioner and subsequently provincial minister (1586). Entertained close contacts with the French court of Henry III, and stimulated Capuchin religious culture (supporting the ascetical and literary activities of friars such as Ange de Joyeuse, Benoît de Canfeld, Joseph du Tremblay, Honoré de Champigny and Louis d’Argentan). Bernardo eventually returned to Italy, to die at Osimo on 23 august 1591. Wrote a Passion devotion treatise.

works

Trattato della Passione del Signore, distribuito in varie meditazioni per tutta la settimana (Venice, 1589).

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1639) II, 463-465; B. Sanbenedetti, Annali dell’ordine de’frati minori cappuccini (Venice, 1645) II, 2nd part, 6-9; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 215; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 135 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 141; Dionisio da Genova, Bibliotheca Cappucinorum, 62-63; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 477; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli Scrittori Cappuccini delle Marche (Iesi, 1928), 20; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard d’Osimo’, DHGE VIII, 713; DSpir I, 1509; Lexicon Capuccinum, 212-213 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Pampeluna (Bernardo de Pamplona, d. 1739)

OFMCap. Spanish Capuchin friar from the Navarra province. Active as a lector, definitor, provincial minister and advisor for the inquisition.

manuscripts

Thesaurus Parochiorum

Ocultatissimum S. Inquisitionis Tribunalum, In Quo Agitur de S. Inquisitionis Praxi, de Qualificatorum Munere deque Reorum Confessionibus ac Sententiis

Consultationes Canonico-Morales

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 48-49; LexCap.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Pesaro (Bernardo da Pesaro/Bernardo Emiliani, d. 1706)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the March of Ancona. Active as a preacher and a missionary. Also active as custodial order administrator. He died at Pesaro.

works

L’innocenza trionfante (Modena, 1667 & 1671)

La meta sublime dei sguardi pubblici (Lucca, 1686)

La vigilanza cristiana, tesoreria dell’eternita (Rome, 1695)

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 48; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 20-21; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Pesaro’, DHGE VIII, 725; Lexicon Capuccinum, 213 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Portomauritio (Bernardus Lanterius/Bernardo da Portomaurizio/Bernardo Lanteri, 1567-1614)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born at Rome in a well-to-do family. Studied in his home town, becoming a doctor in utroque jure at quite an early age [needs checking, for he must have been very young indeed]. After his studies and a short career as a lawyer, he joined the secular clergy. But soon after, at the age of 24 or thereabouts, he joined the Capuchins in the Genoa friary, taking on the charge of magister juvenum and novice master. Later he was given homiletic assignments: engaging into anti-Protestant missionary preaching in the Savoy region. He died at the Immacolata Concezione friary at Genoa in 1614. He compiled a small number of works. Apparently none of these saw the printing press.

works

Constituzioni, regole e canoni per il buon governo di una congregazione contra gli heretici (...).

Expositio Devotissima super Psalmum XLIV: Eructavit Cor Meum. A manuscript of this work was once kept in the Convento Frati Cappuccini di Porto Maurizio.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 143; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 48; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto, 565; F. Molfino, Cappuccini Liguri (Genoa, 1909), 52; Cappuccini Genovesi (Genoa, 1912) I, 25, 221; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Portomaurizio’, DHGE VIII, 727-728; Lexicon Capuccinum, 213.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Portomauritio (Bernardo da Portomaurizio/Bernardo da Acquarone, 1618-1684)

OFMCap. Entered the order in 1634 in the Genoa province. Filfilled charges as a novice master, lector of philosophy and theology, definitor and three times provincial. On 27 May 1684 he was elected minister general of the Capuchins. He died at Catania (Sicily), on May 8, 1684 during a visitation of the Sicilian province.

works

Epistolario; MS Florence, Archivio Provinziale degli Cappuccini.

literature

Bullarium OFMCap II, 366; Peregrino da Forlì, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1884) III, 263-366; F. Molfino, I cappuccini genovesi (Genoa, 1912), 362-363; DHGE II, 366; Lexicon Capuccinum, 214.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Salisburgo (Bernhardt von Salzburg/Bernhardt Zehenter, 1640-1704)

OFMCap. Friar from Tyrol. Entered the ordr on 17 July 1658. Elected discretus for the provincial chapter. Also novice master, guardian, definitor and provincial. Died at Innsbruck, on 19 January, 1704. Author.

works

Midae Virgula Mystica, Sive Ars Aurea Magnos Meritorum Thesauros Parvo Impendio Comparandi (Salzburg, 1697). A Latin translation of a German work by Laurenz von Schnifis.

Affectus sub Missa Eliciendi, Continentes Claram ac Perutilem Instructionem de Summa Sacrificii Missae Praestantia (Salzburg, 1697).

Viator Christianus in Patriam Pergens seu Via ad Felicem Aeternitatis Aditum (Prague, 1700).

literature

A. Hohenegger, Geschichte der tiroloschen Kapuziner-Ordensprovinz (Innsbruck, 1913) I, 582-584, 737; C. Neuner, Literarische Tätigkeit in der nordtiroler Kapuzinerprovinz (Innsbruck, 1929), 35; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Salzbourg’, DHGE VIII, 739.  

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Gallo (Bernardo da Gallo/Bernardo Baglione, d. 1717)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Missionary. Bernardo entered the order at Morcone around 1680. He was the first Capuchin of the San Angelo del Regno province who became a missionary in Congo (Africa), spending at least fifteen years of his life there on two consecutive missions. He is commemorated as a missionary in the Catalogo dei Padri Missionari Cappuccini Italiani nel Congo of his fellow friar Antonio Maria da Firenze (See Italia Francescana 6 (1931), 90, 92). Based on that account, it seems that Bernardo first traveled to Congo in 1697, to return after about 9 years back to Europe. He went for a second stint in 1711, staying there until his death at Mucondo in January 1717. He is also mentioned in a letter to Clement XI by Francesco da Troia (which informs us that Bernardo was well-versed in several local Congo vernaculars, and in a statement by the mission prefect Lorenzo da Lucca. He was involved in the creation of religious schools and other initiatives to support a very strict form of Catholic faith among the local population. This apparently backfired to some extent, as it also helped to create the fanatic and anti-missionary syncretist sect of the so-called Antoniani, led by the charismatic woman Nsimba Béatrice-Marguérite, who claimed to have been called upon by Saint Anthony to restore the Congolese Kingdom. She was eventually captured, put on trial for heresy and burned alive (July 1706). Several of Bernardo's missionary letters/Relazione are kept in the Archivio di Propaganda Fide (Rome).

works

Relazione dell’ultime guerre civili del Regno di Congo; della Battaglia data dal Rè D. Pietro Quarto; e della Vittoria da lui ottenuta contro i Ribelli. Come anche del scisma nella Fede per via d’una donna, che si fingeva S. Antonio, felicemente superato colla morte di quella: MS Rome, Archivio di Propaganda Fide, Scritture Originali Congregaz. Gen., Vol. 576, ff. 291-314v.

Conto della Villicazione Missionale, o sia, Relazioni delle Miss(io)ni di Congo, et Angola, dove missionò 11 anni: MS Rome, Archivio di Propaganda Fide, Scritture Originali Congregaz. Gen., Vol. 576, ff. 316-340v.

Lettera al Cardinale Sacripanti da Venafro: MS Rome, Archivio di Propaganda Fide, Scritture Riferite a Congressi Gen., t. IV, f.41.

Lettera ai Cardinali di Propaganda Fidei: MS Rome, Archivio di Propaganda Fide, Scritture Originali Congregaz. Gen., Vol. 579, ff. 215,222.

I-II Lettera al Card. Sacripanti da Lisbona: MS Rome, Archivio di Propaganda Fide, Scritture Originali Congregaz. Gen., Vol. 587, f. 130-131.

literature

Sisto da Pisa, 'Catalogo dei Cappuccini Missionari nel Congo (1645-1711)', L’Italia Francescana 6 (1931), 74-92; J. Cuvelier, 'Gallo (Bernard de)', in: Biographie Coloniale Belge, (Brussels: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1948) I, 395; L. Jadin, 'Le Congo et la secte des Antoniens. Restauration du royaume sous Pedro IV et la «saint Antoine» congolaise (1649-1718)', Bullettin de l’Institut Historique Belge de Rome 33 (1961), 449-488, 491-533, 573-576, 580-582; T. Filesi, Nazionalismo e Religione nel Congo all’inizio del 1700: la setta degli Antoniani (Rome: A.B.E.T.E., 1972), 55-90 [partly published before in Africa 26 (1971), 463-508); T. Filesi & I. De Villapiderna, La “Missio antiqua” dei Cappuccini nel Congo (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 1978); C. Toso, Una pagina poco nota di storia congolese (Rome: pro Sanctitate, 2000), 28-66; Antonio Salvatore, P. Bernardo da Gallo. Un apostolo dimenticato, Archivio Storico dei Frati Minori Cappuccini di Foggia, XI (Foggia, 2003). Cf. the review in Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 784-785.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Grottaminarda (Bernardo da Grottaminarda/Bernardus de Robertis, 1583-1653)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Neapolitan province. Joined the order in 1600 and developed into a well-regarded preacher. Also active as provincial administrator between 1629 and 1631. Spiritual author….

works

Itinerarium animae ad Palmam Virgineam (1674).

literature

Bernardo da Bologna, Scriptores OFMCap, 49; R.C. Minieri, Memorie degli scrittori nati nel regno di Napoli (1844), 298; DHGE VIII, 696; DSpir I, 1509; Lexicon Capuccinum 210 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Guasconibus (fl. second half 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar.Provincial minister of the Tuscany province.

works

Ordinationes Fr. Bernardi de Guasconibus, Ministri provincialis Thusciae, pro bibliotheca conventus S. Crucis, edited in: Michael Bihl, 'Ordinationes Fr. Bernardi de Guasconibus, Ministri provincialis Thusciae, pro bibliotheca conventus S. Crucis, Florentiae, an. 1356-1367', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 26 (1933), 141-164.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Incarnatione (Bernardo de la Encarnación, d. 1719)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from the San Pablo province. Missionary in China. Died in Canton in 1719.

works

Check Sinica Franciscana IV (Florence: Quaracchi, 1942), 375-378.

literature

Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 94 (no. 166).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Jesu Escamilla (Bernardo de Jesús Escamilla, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Member of the San José province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 299, 329; AIA 29 (1928), 231-232; AIA n.s. 22 (1962), 274-275.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Jesus Maria (Bernardo de Jesus Maria/Bernardo de Lima/ Bernardo de Lima e Mello Bacellar/Bernardo Bacellar de Lima e Mello, 1736-ca. 1784)

OFM. Portuguese friar, possibly from Chavez, who spent at least part of his life working in Peru and Brazil. He is the author of the Arte, e Diccionario do Commercio, e Economía Portugueza (Lisbon, 1784), and possibly of two additional works.

works

Diccionario da lingua portugueza: em que se achara'o dobradas palavras do que traz Bluteau, e todos os mais diccionaristas juntos, a sua propria significacao, as raizes de todas ellas, a accentuacao, e a seleccao das mais usadas e polídas, a grammatica philosophica, e a orthographía racional no principio, e as explicacoens das abbreviaturas no fim desta obra (Lisbon: Na Offic. de Jozé de Aquino Bulhoens, 1783).

Arte, e diccionario do commercio, e economía portugueza, para que todos negoceem, e governem os seus bens por calculo, e nao por conjectura; ou para que todos lucrem mais com menos risco: Du temps des Portugues. Aprés de la decouverte de la Cote d'Or par ces fondateurs du commerce, e de la marine des Europeens (Lisbon: Na Offic. de Domingos Gonsalves, 1784). A digital copy can be accessed through Archive.org

literature

Inocencio Francisco Francisco da Silva, Dicionário bibliográfico portugues, 22 vols. (Lisbon, 1858-1923) I, 378-379 (see also I, 381); Maria Filomena Goncalves, As ideias ortográficas em Portugal: de Madureira Feijo a Goncalves Viana (1734-1911) (Fundacao C. Gulbenkian, 2003).

With thanks to Prof. John McCusker.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus de Urbino (Bernardo di Urbino/Catelani, fl. 16th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Ascoli-Picena province. Painter acquainted with Raphael. Not much seems to be known about his life and works.

literature

I. Lanzi, Storia pittorica dell'Italia, 4th Ed. II, 98; Lexicon Capuccinum, 214.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Doppenn (16th century)

OFM. German friar. Franciscan lector in Jüterbog, Leipzig and Stadthagen. His theological studies studies and sermons have survived in 19 mss. Some of his anti-Lutheran positions were published by others and used in several controversies.

literature

Vinzenz Penur, `Doppenn', LThK, 3 (1995), 342; Gerhard Hammer, ‘Doppen(n), Bernhard, obs’, in: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart II (4th ed.), 945.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Emilianus de Pesaro (Bernardo Emiliani, ca. 1626-1706)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Author of La vigilanza cristiana, tesoriera dell’eternità (Rome, 1695)

works

La vigilanza cristiana, tesoriera dell’eternità (Rome: Giovanni Francesco Buagni, 1695).

literature

DSpir I, 1508-1509

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Italianus (Bernardo Italiano/Bernardo Caronila/Bernard de Caracino/Garrovilla, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from Garrovilla in the Extremadura, who also traveled to and worked in Palestine.

works

Viaje a la Santa Ciudad de Ierusalem, verdadera y nueva descripción suya de toda la Tierra Santa y peregrinación al Santo Monte Sinay (Naples: Imp. de Egido Longo, 1632). No surviving copies?

Tratado de Constantinopla y Grandezas del Gran Turco (Naples: Otavio Beltran, 1633).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 136; Carlos García-Romeral Pérez, Bio-bibliografía de Viajeros Españoles (siglos XVI-XVII) (Madrid: Ollero & Ramos, 1998), 123 (nos. 517-518); Iberian Books II & III/Libros Ibéricos II & III, A-E (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 1428; Marco Galateri di Genola, Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d'Oltremare (Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 120.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Fuster (Bernat Fuster, fl. 1300)

OM. Spanish (Catalan) friar with spiritual leanings. Became a victim of the inquisition.

literature

Josep Perarnau, ‘Una altra carta de Guiu Terrena sobre el procés inquisitorial contra el franciscà Fra Bernat Fuster’, Estudios franciscanos 82 (1981), 383-392.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Ganzedo (Bernardino Ganzedo, fl. 1690)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Immaculate Conception province. Convent preacher of San Francisco de Arevalo.

works

Vida de la venerable Madre Elena Prieto terciaria: MS once kept in Arevalo, Convento de Santa Maria de Gesú. Current whereabouts?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 216.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Genuensis (Bernardo di Genova/Strozzi/Il Cappuccino Genovese/ Il Prete Genovese , 1581-1644)

OFMCap. Italian Painter. Born in Genoa and later predominantly active in Venice. Considered one of the founders of the Venetian Baroque painting style. After an initial training in the workshop of Cesare Corte and that of the more innovative Pietro Sorri, he joined the Capuchins in 1598 at the age of 17. In 1608, after the death of his father, Strozzi left the monastery to take care of his mother and his unmarried sister, selling his paintings to keep up the family. In subsequent years, Strozzi apparently had conflicts with his order, also because of some of the secular themes of his paintings, and when he refused to return to the monastery in 1630 after the death of his mother and the marriage of his sister, he was temporarily imprisoned in a Capuchin monastery. Yet by 1632/1633 he was working in Venice, and no longer wore the Capuchin habit, but just that of a priest. He had a substantial career afterwards, not only as a successful painter but also as an engineer.

works

Paintings and engineering works.>> To be continued...

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum, 132; Bernardo Strozzi: Master Painter of the Italian Baroque (exhibition catalogue, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), ed. J. Spicer (Baltimore, 1995); See also the informative Wikipedia entry on Bernardo Strozzi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Strozzi ]

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Glecki

OFM. Polish Observant friar.

literature

Filip Wolanski, ‘Reminescencje konfliktow miedzynarodowych w kazaniach franciszkanskich epoki saskiej’, in: Polska wobec wielkich konfliktow w Europie nowozytnej, ed. Ryszarda Skowrona (Cracow: Societas Vistulana, 2009), 125-129.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Jordanus (Bernardus Jordani/Bernardo Jordano/Bernardi Giordani, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from the Venice region. Preacher and and theologian One of the seven theologians from Venice who wrote in Italian for the Venetian Republic a Trattato dell'interdetto della Santità di Papa Paulo V.

works

Trattato dell'Interdetto Della Santità di Papa Paulo V. Nel quale si mostra, che egli non è legitimamente publicato, & che per molte ragioni non sono obligati gli Ecclesiastici all'essecutione di esso, ne possono senza peccato osservarlo (Venice: Roberto Meietti, 1606). This work, written on the behest of the Venetian Republic by a group of theologians, is accessible via Google Books. It was translated into Latin the same year: Tractatus de Interdicto S. Pauli V Papae: In quo demonstratur Ecclesiasticos multis de caussis ad executionem istius obligatos non esse, neque adeo sine peccato id observare posse (Venice: Robert Meiet, 1606). Also accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Opusculum de chordigeris S. Francisci (Venice, 1612). This work is apparently only known to exist because, according to Sbaralea, it apparently is cited repeatedly in Antonio de Leonibus' S. Francisci Chordigerorum Instructione.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Laugar (Bernard Laugar, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. French friar from the Aquitaine province. Translator.

works

As translator: Luis de La Puente, Meditations sur les mystères de la foy, trans. Bernard Laugar (Arras: Guillaume de la Rivière, 1615). This is a French translation of an abrigment made by the Jesuit Nicolás de Arnaja of Luis de La Puente, S.J.'s Meditaciones Espirituales.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; Transregional Reformations: Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe, ed. Tóth Zsombor et al., 165, note 25.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Lavandera (Bernardo Lavandeira, fl. 1770)

OFM. Spanish preacher and poet in the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 8 (1948), 338-343; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 135 (no. 474).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Le Coq (Bernard Le Coq/Bernard Lecoq , d. 1668)

OFM. French friar. Member of the Parisian province. Several times provincial minister (1647-1650, 1659-1662).

works

Exercice spirituel auquel est déclaré, comme une personne dévote et Religieuse se doit comporter tous les iours de sa vie, pour plaire à Dieu (Paris, 1647). This is apparently a reworking of a work of the same title issued in 1588 by a Clarissan nun: Exercice spirituel auquel est déclaré, comme une personne dévote et Religieuse se doit comporter tous les iours de sa vie, pour plaire à Dieu Faicte par une Religieuse de l’ordre de Saincte Claire (Paris: Th. David, 1588). Bernard would have added to the original texts an instruction on mental prayer, a meditation for the seven days of the week, a short ars moriendi and a conscience self-examination exercise.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 216; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 136; Pierre Moracchini, 'Matériaux (...)', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 80 (1987), 376-377; Pierre Moracchini, 'Au coeur d'une province franciscaine. Les Cordeliers, Clarisses, Soeurs Grises et Annonciades de 'France Parisienne' a xviie siècle', Revue Mabillon n.s. 12:73 (2001), 205-242 (passim).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Maria de Canicatti (Bernardo-Maria da Canicati, d. 1834)

OFMCap. Friar from the Palermo province. For many years active as a missonary and a an apostolic prefect in Congo and Angola, running missionary stations fo Italian Capuchins. He died at 4 July 1834 at Lisbon, in Portugal, at the age of 83. Author.

works

Dicionario da lingua bunda ou angolense explicada na portugueza e latina (Lisbon, 1804).

Collecçào de observaçoes grammaticaes sobre la lingua bunda ou angolense (Lisbon, 1805).

literature

Johann Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 16; Antonio da Castellammare, Storia dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1926) IV, 208-209.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Maria de Lantiano (Bernardo-Maria di Lanciano Valera/Bernardo-Maria da Giugliano, 1711-1783)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Abruzzi. Born at Giugliano (Chieti) on 5 August 1711. Entered the order on the first of January 1730. After a homiletic training and studies of theology in various Tuscan study houses, he became a preacher. In the course of his preaching career, he became a member of the Sienese academy of the Intronati, and the town of Lanciano honoured him with the rights of citizenship. In between his preaching assignments, he also took on the functions of lector of philosophy and theology. He also was elected definitor and appointed provincial. He died on December 16, 1783. Author of a number of homiletic and poetic works, not all of which reached the printing press.

works

Rime d’Amalfidendo Flattad (Naples, 1753). Composed and published before his entrance into the order. The collection consists of love poems and other kinds of light verse.

Raccolte delle poesie di Fr. Bernardo Maria da Lanciano, 2 Vols. (Naples, 1759). Religious poetry and nature poems.

Poesie edite ed inedite del P. Bernardo Maria Valera (Teramo, 1835). Later collection of Bernardo’s poems

Sermoni ?

literature

Johann Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 16; Filippo da Tussio, I frati cappuccini della provincia monastica degli Abruzzi (San Agnello di Sorrento, 1880), 107-109; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard-Marie de Giugliano’, DHGE VIII, 684-685; Lexicon Capuccinum, 210-211 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Maria Neapolensis/Gioffius (Bernardo-Maria da Napoli/Bernardo ‘Cioffi’ da Napoli, d. 1707)

OFMCap. Italian (Neapolitan) friar. Took the habit in 1653, to embark on a missionary career in the mountains of Georgia. After his return to Italy, he taught philosophy and theology, until he was appointed provincial minister in 1686. He died at the age of 78, on February 2nd, 1707. Several of his works pertaining to his travels and missionary activities have survived.

works

Relazione del viaggio ne’regni della Giorgia.

Dizzionarii della lingua giorgiana.

Dottrina cristiana breve composta dal cardinale Bellarmino e tradotta della italiana in lingua volgare giorgiana (Rome, 1681.)

Philothea (Giorgian translation of this work by Francisco de Sales).

Biblia tradutta nella lingua georgiana.

Prediche morali e panechiriche (Naples: Niccolò Valerio, 1706). Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence. Accessible via Google Books.

Controversia intorno alla processione dello Spirito Santo.

Dal re Baaman, favola georgiana degli avvenimenti di Baaman gran re di Evani, e qui degli errori o defetti populari.

Il Rescianiano, o gli avvenimenti di Resciano e di Manisgiana: MS. Lost?

Commenti sopra Plotino ed il cardinale Bessarione.

Lettere: MS Capua, Biblioteca Comunale.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 50; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni dei cappuccini (Rome, 1873) III, 351-352; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 59-61; J. Lenhart. ‘Language studies in the Franciscan Order’, Franciscan Studies 5 (1926), 57; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard-marie de Naples’, DHGE VIII, 685-686; LexCap, 211 (with some additional references)

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Maria Neapolensis (Bernardo-Maria da Napoli, ‘Giacco’ da Napoli, 1672-1744)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar. Member of the Giacchi family. Friar from the Naples province. Entered the order in 1688. Developed into an outstanding preacher. Only after his health began to fail, he exchanged his homiletic tasks for that of studies of theology and theology, and he fulfilled charges as lector and definitor. In addition to that, he counselled the King of Sicily, for whom he also engaged in ambassadorial missions in France and Spain, and he was part of a circle of Neapolitan erudites, which included Giambattista Vico. Bernardo died on June 5 [6?], 1744. Several of his sermon collections survive.

works

Orazione funebre nella morte del Sign. Duca D. Gaetano Argento (...) (Naples, 1731/Bologna: Longhi, 1737). Accessible via Google Books.

Orazioni sacre di Frate Bernardo Maria Giacco di Napoli Cappuccino, 3 Vols. (Venice: Antonio Bortoli, 1747/Naples, 1747/other editions followed). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Orazioni Sacre del Padre Fr. Bernardo Maria Giacco da Napoli Cappuccino Raccolte In Due Tomi (Milan: Pierantonio Frigerio, 1747). In any case the first volume is accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich. According to Apolinaro da Valencia, there also seem to exist other editions, with sometimes other/additional sermons, issued in Venice (Bartoli, 1747, 1752 & 1758), Naples (Giuseppe Antonio Elia, 1749; Andrea Migliaccio, 1763; Gaetano Castellano, 1773; Naples: Giosuè Rondinella, 1850).

Various sermons by Bernardo-Maria da Napoli can also be found in the Raccolta di panegirici (…) de’minori cappuccini (Venice, 1747) I, 85-114, and in the Collana panegirica di celebri oratori italiani e francesi (Naples, 1846-1850) I, 227-236, III, 25-31, 93-101, 511-520, 530-538, 834-841, IV 60-68.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 49-50; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 792; Johann Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 16; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capucinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 61-64; Chalva Béridzé , Bernardo Maria da Napoli (1937); A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard-Marie de Naples’, DHGE VIII, 686; LexCap, 211-212; Mastroianni Fiorenzo Ferdinando, ‘Stile e cultura nelle ‘orazioni sacre’ di Bernardo M. Giacco, Cappuccino (1672-1744)’, Studi e ricerche francescane 10 (1981), 3-114.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Monterde (Bernardo Monterde/Bernardino Monterde, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Xea de Albarracin. Member of the Aragon province. Lector jubilatus. Visitator of the Majorca and the Cataonia provinces. Provincial of Aragon, consuktant for the inquisition and synodal examiner General procurator for his order in Rome.

works

Relacion de la enfermedad, muerte, y solemne Entuerro de la Excellentissima Señora Duquesa de Aveiro Doña Maria de Guadelupe (Madrid, 1718).

Estatua funeral de la Alexandra Portugusa (...) Oracion evangelica panegyrica en las celebres exequias de la Excelentissima Señora doña María Guadalupe Lancaster, y Cardenas, duqusa de Aveiro (...) ideada por el R.P. Fr. Bernardo Monterde (...) (Zaragoza: Diego de Larumbe, 1718).

Vida, y muerte, de la excelentisima Señora Duquesa de Arcos Doña Teresa Henriquez (Madrid, 1718).

Indice Cronologico del Libro Grande de Nobleza, Vida, Virtudes, y Milagros de la Beata Jacinta Mariscoti, Ursino, y Farnese, sacado del Proceso de su Canonizacion (Zaragoza: Pedro Ximenez, 1727).

Dubios Regulares propuestos, expuestos, y resueltos oir B.N.S.P. el Papa Benedicto XIII (Zaragoza: Pedro Ximenez, 1729).

Augustinus Matthaeuccius Lucensis, Scholas Paupertatis Manducens ad puram observantiam Regulae Fratrum Minorum, juxta Declarationes editas à Nicolao III. Clemente V. & Innocentio XI. (...) Secunda Editio, ed. Bernardo Monterde (Rome: Rocco Bernabò, 1731). This second edition is accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 217; Felix de Latassa y Ortin, Biblioteca nueva de los Escritores Aragoneses florecieron desde el año de 1689 hasta el de 1753 IV, 584-585.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Mutius (Bernardo Muzio da Bergamo, ca. 1583-1623)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Bergamo. Lector of theology and general preacher. Provincial minister. He died at the age of 40 on May 6, 1623, leaving behind several unpublished works.

works

Commentarii in quatuor libros Sententiarum ad mentem S. Bonaventurae: MS ?

Retorica aggiustata per que' predicatori che volentieri si affaticano sui pulpiti di gente ordinaria: ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 576.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Neapolensis (Bernardo da Napoli/Bernardo Scarpitto/Bernardo da Capece-Minutolo, d. 1753)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Naples. Entered the order at the age of 33, making his profession on 9 January 1729. Was ordained priest and studied at Naples. Embarked on a career as a preacher, lector of philosophy and theology and order administrator (a.o. definitor for his province). Died at the age of 60, on 6 January 1752. Left behind several works, some of which deal with and were dedicated to his former Capuchin teacher Bernardo-Maria Giacco da Napoli.

works

Cansoniere a simiglianza di Petrarca: MS ? Dating from before his entrance into the order.

Epistola Nuncupatoria ad D. Cardinalem Dominicum Passionei, edited in: Bernardo-Maria Giacco, Orazioni sacre (Naples, 1746-1747). Check!

Vita di frate Bernardo-Maria Giacco, cappuccino, edited in: Bernardo-Maria Giacco, Orazioni sacre (Naples, 1746-1747).

Canzone di frate Bernardo da Napoli, cappuccino, edited in: Bernardo-Maria Giacco, Orazioni sacre (Naples, 1746-1747) III, 257-266.

Sonetto di F. Bernardo da Napoli, diffinitor cappuccino, in: Ultimi offici di onore alla memoria del Signor D. Antonio Magiocco, Consiglier del Sacro Regio Consiglio e della Real Camera di S. Chiara (Naples: Mosca, 1749), 157.

literature

Apolinario da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 55-57; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernard de Naples’, DHGE VIII, 702.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Oliver (d. 1348)

OM. Spanish friar>>

works

Contra Caecitatem Iuadeorum, ed. F. Cantera Burgos (Madrid-Barcelona, 1965)

literature

G. Dahan, `L'usage de la ratio dans la polémique contre les juifs, XIIe-XIVe siècles', in: Diálogo filosófico-religioso entre cristianismo, judaísmo e islamismo durante la Edad Media en la península Ibérica, H. Santiago-Otero (Brepols, 1994), 289-308 (esp. 296-297, 306)

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Parisiensis (Bernard de Paris, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from Paris and member of the Parisian province. Worked as a missionary in the Levant and embarked on a French-Turkish/Turkish-French dictionary. A revised Italian-Turkish version of this dictionary, edited by Pierre d’Abbeville (one of Bernard’s colleagues in the Levant and also a member of the Parisian Capuchin province), was published in an Italian translation in 1665.

works

Vocabulario italiano-turchesco compilato dal P.F. Bernardo da Parigi (...) tradotto dal francesse nell'italiano dal Pietro d'Abbavilla, 3 Vols. (Rome, 1665). A French version of this work was published by Pierre d'Abbévile in Rome in 1667.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 49; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 218; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 200; Orientalia Christiana XXXIV (Rome, 1934), 16-75-90, 98; Orientalia Christiana Analecta 130 (1941), 56-71, 143; DHGE VIII, 718; Lexicon Capuccinum 213 (with additional references)

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Perez (Bernardo Pérez, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Burgos province.

literature

AIA 26 (1926), 185; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 164 (no. 672).

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Reino (Bernardo Reino/Bernardo Reyno, fl. 1670)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Castille province. Lector jubilatus and guardian of the Franciscan San Juan de los Reyes friary of Toledo.

works

Panegírico de los tres Santos Reyes dedicado à la Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá: Francisco Garcia Fernandez, 1671).

Sermon sobre las soledades de la bienaventurada Virgen María (Alcalà: Tip. Università, 1677). Composed while guardian in Toledo.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 218; Biografía eclesiástica completa XXI, 629; Archivo Ibero-Americano (1965), 56.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Ribas (Bernard Ribas, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Burgos. Went to the new World and worked as a theology lecturer and guardian at Yucatan. In 1709, he was general comissioner and involved with the visitation of the Guatemala province. He oversaw a provincial chapter on May 11 of that year.

works

Sermon panegyrico del glorioso Doctor de la Yglesia S. Augustin predicado en la Santa Yglesia Cathedral de la Ciudad de Merida (Mexico, 1699).

Sermon de la reyna de los Angeles Maria Santissima de los Dolores, Predicado en el Convento de S. Francisco de la Ciudad de Merida el dia 10 de Abril, Viernes del Concilio de 1699 (Mexico, 1699).

Panegírico de S. Pedro Pascual, predicado en las solemnes fiestas por su canonización (Mexico, 1699).

literature

J.T. Medina, La Imprenta en Mexico, 4 Vols. (Santiago de Chile, 1907-1912) III, 216-217; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 68.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Righettus (Bernardo Righetto, fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from the Brescia region, theologian and preacher, who in 1554 sent Pietro Aretino a Historia ac vita S. Francisci Assisiatis. This episode is mentioned in a letter by Aretino in which he thanks the author and praises the work. It is unclear, however, as to whether this Historia ever reached the printing press.

works

Historia ac vita S. Francisci Asisiatis (1554). Unknown as to whether this was ever printed.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; Pietro Aretino, Lettere, Tomo VI: Libro VI, ed. Paolo Procacioli, Edizione Nazionale delle opere, IV (Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2002), 515.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Robertus (Bernardo Roberti, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Grotta Minerva (Naples Kingdom). Theologian and preacher. Provincial minister. Cultivator of Mary devotion.

works

Itinerario dell'anima alla palma verginea (Naples: Ottavio Beltram, 1647). Discussing the 72 branches of the virginal palm tree corresponding with the 72 years Mary lived on Earth.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 218; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 680.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Sabia (Bernardo Sabia, d. 1623)

TOR. Italian friar from Palermo (Sicily). Member of the Sicilian province of regular tertiaries. General procurator for his order and provincial definitor. Also involved with the creation of new friaries in Alcamo and Catania. He died on 13 January 1623 in Messina.

works

Della logica diligentemente osservata dal R.P.M. Gio. Antonio Brandi Siciliano, di Saleme, nel suo Libro del Rosario. Trattato del R.P.F. Bernardo Sabia, Siciliano di Palermo (...), edited in: Giovanni Antonio Brandi, Rosario di Maria Vergine santissima: poema sacro, et heroico (Rome: Carlo Vullietti, 1601), 531-548. Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale/Bibliothèque Numérique de Lyon and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 218; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Salazar (Bernardo Salazar, cl. ca. 1600?)

OFM. Spanish friar from Casarubios (Toledo diocese). Member of the Castille province. Theologian and confessor of the Duke Don Jorge Naxera & Maqueda.

works

Comentarios sobre el eclesiastico. Probably never published.

Tratados teologicos. Probably never published.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 218; Nicolás de la Cruz y Bahamonde, Viage de España, Francia e Italia XI (Cadiz: Manuel Bosch, 1812), 567-568.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Sannig (fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Bohemian friar. Lector of theology and professor of canon law in the studium generale of Prague. Provincial minister of the Bohemian province and visitator of the Polonian, Russian, Hungarian, Slavonian and Bavarian provinces/vicariates as well as general definitor

works

Schola Theologica Scotiscarum, 4 Vols. (Prague: Balthasar Goliasch - Joannes Mattis Factor - Daniel Michalek, 1675-1681).

Schola Philosophica Scotistarum, seu Cursus Philosophicae Completus, 3 Vols. (Prague: Catharina Czernochiana Vidua - Joannes Nicolaus Hampel, 1684-1685). The first volume (accessible via Google Books) contains Prologum in Universam Philosophiam, Dialecticam, Tractatum in Procemialia Logicae, Tractatum de Ente Rationis, Tractatum de Distinctionibus, Tractatum de Universalibus, Tractatum de Praedicamentis, Tractatum in Libros Perihermenias, Tractatum in Libros Priorum, Tractatum in Libros Posteriorum, Tractatum in Libros Topicorum, Tractatum de Ethica; The second volume (accessible via the Biblioteca Naziobale Vittorio Emmanuele in Rome and via Google Books) contains Tractatum Octo Libros Physicorum, Tractatum de Fabrica Mundi & Coeli, Tractatum de Elementis, Tractatum de Generatione, & Corruptione, aliisque Motibus; The third volume contains Tractatum in libros de Anima, Tractatum in universam Metaphysicam, Tractatum de Metheoris, Tractatum de geographia, Tractatum de Physionomia, Tractatum de Horographia, seu Horologiis.

Manuale Minoriticum complectens Directorium divini officii pro Provincia Bohemiae FF. Min. Refor. Brevem Annotationem Originis, Augmenti et Divisionis ordinis S. Francisci, Regulam et Testamentum S. Francisci. Declarationes Nicolai III. et Clement. V. in eandam Regulam. Et Speculum S. Bonaventurae ad Juvenes Reigiosos (Prague: Balthasar Goliasch, 1677).

Schola Canonica, seu universum Jus Canonicum nova methodo digestum, 2 Vols. (Neustadt-Prague: Nicolaus Hampel, 1686-1687). In any case the first volume is accessible via Google Books.

Schola Controversistica, seu Controversiae Universae Adversus Haereticos omnes veteres, et novos, 2 Vols. (Neustadt-Prague: Nicolaus Hampel, 1688). Accessible via Google Books and via the Tsjech National Library (Národní Knohovna Ceske Republiky).

Rituale Franciscanum. Continens Varias Absolutiones, Benedictiones, Conjurationes, Exorcismos, Ritos, ac alias Caeremonias Ecclesiasticas, ad utilitatem Christi Fidelium & praxim Sacerdotum, maxime Ordinis S. Francisci (...) (Neustadt-Prague: Joannis Nicolaus Hampel, 1685/Neustadt-Prague: Joannis Nicolaus Hampel, 1688/Neustadt-Prague: Anna Ursula Hampel, 1706 [3rd Ed.]). Accessible via Google Books and via the Tsjech National Library (Národní Knohovna Ceske Republiky).

Ordinationes rubricales pro sacrificio missae (...) (Prague: Carolus Joannis Hraba, 1733). This edition (there must be much older ones as well) is accessible via Google Books and via the Tsjech National Library (Národní Knohovna Ceske Republiky).

Der Cronicken der drey Orden deß heiligen Francisci Seraphici, 4 Vols. (Neustadt-Prague: Johann Nicolaus Hampel, 1689-1691). Several volumes accessible via Google Books and via the Tsjech National Library (Národní Knohovna Ceske Republiky). See for additional chronicle materials also MS Prague, National Archives, Fund Bohemian Franciscans, Books 17-21.

Rituale Ecclesiasticum. Continens varias absolutiones, benedictiones, conjurations, exorcismos, ritus ac alias caeremonias ecclesiasticas. Modum administrandi sacramenta, baptismi, poenitentiae, eucharistiae, extremae unctionis et matrimonii; introducendi mulierem post partum, visitandi et adjuvandi informos, sepeliendi mortuos (...) (Cologne: Servatius Noethen, 1698/Cologne: Servatiys Noethen, 1711 [5th Ed]/Cologne: Noethen, 1733 [6th Ed.]). The fifth edition from 1711 and the sixth edition from 1733 are accessible via Google Books and via the Tsjech National Library (Národní Knohovna Ceske Republiky).

Collectio, sive apparatus absolutionum, benedictionum, conjurationum, exercismorum, rituum, & caeremoniarum ecclesiasticarum, & administrationis sacramentorum, continens etiam modum introducendi mulieres in ecclesiam post puerperium, visitandi, & adjuvandi infirmos, & denique sepeliendi mortuos. Opus parochis, et curam animarum gerentibus perutile, et necessarium ; coordinatum a R.P. Bernardo Sannig, ord. s. Franc. reformator (1756/1783/1789).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 219-220; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 786.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Somma (Bernardo Somma, fl. second half 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Naples. Preacher.

works

Predica delle grandezze di San Nicolò: cavata dall'epistola della Messa, che si legge nella sua reale Chiesa, fatta in Bari, celebrandosi la festa della sua translazione à 9 di Maggio 1595 (Naples: Lo Stigliola, 1595).

literature

Niccolò Toppi, Biblioteca napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in Lettere di Napoli, e del Regno, 47; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 220; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 137.

 

 

 

 

Bernardus Scarlatti (Bernardo Scarlatti, d. 1496)

Florentine friar. Born ca. 1419. Member of the San Salvatore community near Florence. Renowned for his mystical experiences, among which apparitions of Christ figured prominently. He was buried in the San Salvatore Convent and is mentioned in the Martyrologium Franciscanum (12 March). Author?>>

literature

Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum, edited in: AFH 1 (1908), 338; Martyrologium Franciscanum, ed. Arthur Moustier (Paris, 1638), lemma of 12 March; Wadding, Annales (ed. Rome, 1731) X, 29, XIII, 33, XV, 322; J. Goyens, ‘Bernard Scarlatti’, DHGE VIII, 742.

 

 

 

 

Bertholdus de Wiesbaden (Berthold von Wiesbaden, fl. later fourteenth cent.)

OM. German Franciscan preacher; member of the Mainz convent (and not of the Würzburg friary, as I stated erroneously in my book Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction (2004)). Possibly the compiler of the Paratus continens Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis (Honeman in DSpir XII, 204-205 indicates that the manuscript in the Franciscan Würzburg friary (Wurzburg, Franziskanerkloster I.56) seems to suggest this). Stephen Mossman (2012) argues that these assumptions concerning Bertholdus's authorship of the Paratus are incorrect and that nothing suggests that we are dealing here with a collection of Franciscan provenance. He might be correct, although the absence of Franciscan materials is not automatically proof for a non-Franciscan provenance, as friars creating model sermon collections also catered to a non-Franciscan public for whom the presence of Franciscan saints/materials might not have been an incentive. Anyway, the Paratus is a Latin catechistic-oriented sermon collection with simple and concise sermons for the use of preachers. The collection had a large success in the German lands, which not only shows in the number of manuscripts, but also in the many incunable editions and early sixteenth century issues.

works

Paratus continens Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis: Ansbach, Staatliche Bibliothek MS Lat. 9 (ca. 1504) ff. 206v-379v (passim); Wurzburg, Franziskanerkloster I.56; Munich, Clm 9001 (an. 1428); Munich, Clm 1440; Munich, Clm 1473; Munich, Clm 1474; Munich, Clm 15326; Munich, Clm 4751; Munich, Clm 11463. In all at least 20 manuscripts! Cf. Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 523-548.[The title Paratus refers to the incipits of the sections De Tempore (I Petrus 4:‘Paratus est iudicare vivos et mortuos’) and De Sanctis (Ps. 118: ‘Paratus sum et non sum turbatus’). For editions, see: Paratus continens Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis (a.o. Hagenau: H. Gran, 1517); Sermones Parati de tempore et de sanctis (Cologna: Johan Guldenschaff, ca. 1482). For the incunable editions etc., consult also: Hain no. 12397-12412; Copinger no. 4598-4601. Each sermon starts with a biblical verse, and contain one or two exempla. Many of them teach elementary catechistic issues, such as the Ten Commandments, the Sacraments etc.). The sermons for saints-days often add a short legend on the saint in question.

literature

R. Cruel, Geschichte der deutschen Predigt im Mittelalter (Detmold, 1879), 474-478; J.A. Glonar, Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde nouv. Series 9 (1917), 232ff; F. Landmann, ‘Zum Predigtwesen der straßburger Franziskanerprovinz in den letzten Zeit des Mittelalters’ Franziskanische Studien 15 (1928), 102; K. Ruh, ‘Berthold von Wiesbaden’, VL2, 102; Volker Honemann, ‘Paratus’, DSpir XII, 204-205; VL2 I, 825; Stephen Mossman, ‘Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany’, 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), 259 & note 80.

 

 

 

 

Bertholdus Hipp (Berthold Hipp, fl. 18th cent.)>

OFM. Swiss Franciscan baroque composer.

works

Barockmusik aus Schweizer Franziskanerklöstern. Werke von Berthold Hipp, Felician Suevus Schwab, Constantin Steingaden. Ensemble Musicalin (www.arsmusica.ch/musicalina-musicalina@arsmusica.ch), Compact Disc M&S 5047/2 (Bern: Müller & Schade AG, 2007).

 

 

 

 

Bertholdus Kule (late fourteenth-early fifteenth century?)

OM. German friar. Lector in Lübeck (and Cologne?) Extended Bertram of Ahlen's De Investigatione Creatoris per Creaturas. Besides he compiled several works: a. o. the Tractatus de Pulchritudine Anime et eius Deformatione, the Tractatus de Extrema Hora Mortis, De Revelatione Filii Perditionis, De Tempore Mortis eiusque Incertitudine, and De Iudicio Proprie Conscientiae. All these works are apparently to be found in MS Hannover Stadtsbibl Mag 6. [?]

works

De Investigatione Creatoris per Creaturas: MS Hannover Stadtbibliothek Mag. 6 ff 128r-177v [reworking of the work of Bertram von Ahlen]

Tractatus de Pulchritudine Anime et eius Deformatione: MS Hannover Stadtbibliothek Mag. 6 ff 1r-65r

De Peccatorum Nocumentis: MS Hannover Stadtbibliothek Mag. 6 ff 65r-66v

De Tempore Mortis eiusque Incertitudine: Seems to consist of (1) Tractatus de Extrema Hora Mortis: MS Hannover Stadtbibliothek Mag. 6 ff 66v-90v; (2) De Tempore Mortis Secundus Tractatus: MS Hannover Stadtbibliothek Mag. 6 ff91r-127v. (inc: Diem mortis nemo scire potest)

Novem Gladii Dolorum B. Virginis/Tractatus de Compassione B.M.V: MS Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei, Theol. 2° 70 ff. 161va-175rb. (inc. Prol.: Sancta Clara sancti Francisci pia plantula prout fuit a sancto Francisco ecocta. Inc. Tractatus on f. 161vb: Incipit primus gladius: Adveniente quadragesimo die prout in lege statutum erat. Expl: tue passionis tristicia. Quod nobis misericorditer dare dignetur… amen.) Other MSS: Trier, Stadtbibliothek 693 ff. 13-41 Inc. The same; expl.: tue ad filium compassionis tristitie per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen; Trier Stadtbibliothek 529 ff. 213-233; Giessen Universitätsbibliothek 696 ff. 238r-248v; Berlin Preuss. Staatsbibliothek Lat. 4° 648 [lost?]; Edinburgh University Library 113 ff. 1-30.

literature

M. Bihl, in: AFH, 40 (1947), 3-31; Meier, Die Barfüsserschule zu Erfurt (Münster, 1957), 72; Handschriften der Ratsbücherei Lüneburg II: Die theologischen Handschriften 1: Folioreihe, ed. Irmgard Fischer (Wiesbaden, 1972), 134-135.

 

 

 

 

Bertholdus Ratisponensis (Berthold von Regensburg, ca. 1210-1272)

OM. German friar. Born in Regensburg. Entered the order in his adolescence (novice under David von Augsburg?). Studied at the provincial studium of Magdenburg between 1230 and 1235. Preacher in Augsburg in 1240. Visitator of the women cloister Niedermünster, together with his socius and friend David of Augsburg in 1246. Preached in Southern Germany, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Austria, Hungary,Switzerland, and the Rhine valley. Preached the crusade, together with Albertus Magnus, on request of pope Urban IV (1263). He died in Regensburg on 14 December 1272. Composed three or four attested Latin compilations with sermons between 1250 and 1255 (the so-called Rusticanus de Dominicus, Rusticanus de Sanctis & Rusticanus de Communi Sanctorum, Sermones ad Religiosos et Speciales) of which more than 300 mss are known (see Schneyer and Casutt), meant as homiletic handbooks. It has been stated that with these works, Berthold fulfilled the Franciscan preaching program for the general populace, as stated in the papal bull Solet Annuere (Honorius III, 1229). Several collections with sermons in the (German) vernacular are ascribed to Berthold. But apparently none of these compilations are of his own hand, although they do sometimes express themes to be found in his Latin sermons, and probably have made by Augsburg friars on the basis of Berthold’s preaching notes. None of Berthold's Latin sermon collections thus far have been properly edited. Most of the German sermons are available in a 19th-century edition. He is also mentioned as the compilor of Bible commentaries (Salimbene mentions an Apocalypse commentary from his hand. But that has not been retrieved).

works

Rusticanus de Dominicis/Rusticanus de Tempore [58 sermons]: a.o. MS Linz, Stud.B 325; Würzburg, UB, Zisterzienserabtei Ebrach M.p.th.q. 43 ff. 106r-139v (14th cent.); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Lat. 14093 (14th cent,) ff. 5ra-318ra; Olomouc, SVK MI 320 (14th cent.) ff. 3-12; St. Petersburg, Publichnaja Bibl. lat Q.I.N. 240 S (15th cent.). For editions, see: ‘Das Wirken Bertholds von Regensburg gegen die Ketzer', ed. A. Schönbach, in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, III (Vienna, 1904/Hildesheim, 1968), 2-82; `Die Überlieferung der Werke Bertholds von Regensburg, I', ed. A. Schönbach, in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, IV (Vienna, 1905-6/Hildesheim, 1968), 5-54, 175-182.

Rusticanus de Sanctis et de Communi Sanctorum [125 & 75 sermons]: a.o. MSS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 496 [this ms also contains the Rusticanus de dominicis, the probably non-authentic Sermones speciales et extravagantes, and the Sermons ad religiosos], Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497; MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 498; Brno, Moravská zemska knihovna, Mk 15; Uppsala, UB MS C 371; Würzburg, UB, Dominikanerkonvent M.p.th.q. 56 (ca. 1300); Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei 4° 60; Prague, Národi knihovna Ceské republiky XXIII G 58 [MS contains a selection of sermons from the Rusticanus de communi sanctorum, Rusticanus de dominicus, and the Rusticanus de sanctis, and possibly sermons by Konrad von Sachsen, Nicolaus Bayard and the so-called Graeculus]; Schaffhausen Ministerialbibl. Min. 71 (ca. 1300) ff. 240ra-268vb; Ansbach, Staatliche Bibliothek MS Lat. 49 (15th cent.) ff. 126ra-224rb; Munich, BSB clm 2950. For more manuscript information, see now especially the 2020 study by Alessia Francone. The work received partial editions in: Beati Fr. Bertholdi a Ratisbona Sermones ad Religiosos XX, ed. P. Hötzl (München, 1882); `Das Wirken Bertholds von Regensburg gegen die Ketzer', ed. A. Schönbach, in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, III (Vienna, 1904/Hildesheim, 1968), 2-82; `Die Überlieferung der Werke Bertholds von Regensburg, I', ed. A. Schönbach, in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, IV (Vienna, 1905-6/Hildesheim, 1968), 87-97, 104-116, 124-145; `Die Überlieferung der Werke Bertholds von Regensburg, III' in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, VI (Vienna, 1906/Hildesheim, 1968), 153-161; Pavel Blazek, 'Zwei unedierte Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg (d. 1272) für den christlichen Hausstand', in: Sacramentum Magnum. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Theologie/Le mariage dans la théologie médiévale/Marriage in Medieval Theology, ed. Pavel Blazek, Archa verbi. Subsidia, 15 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2018), 471-515 [an edition of sermons 4 and 5 from the Rusticanus de Communi Sanctorum.]; Alessia Francone, La predicazione latina e volgare di Bertoldo di Ratisbona (1210 ca.-1272), Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina 109 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2020), 296-361 [editions of Rusticanus de sanctis, sermo no. 10 ((MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497, ff. 13vb-15ra), no. 15 (MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497, ff. 18vb-20v), no. 18 (MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497, ff. 23vb-25rb), sermo no. 72 (MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497, ff. 109rb-111rb); Rusticanus de Communi Sanctorum, sermo no. 48 (MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497, ff. 243rb-246va), no. 207 (Fribourg, Couvent des Cordeliers, 117, ff. 155rb-156va), no. 208 (Fribourg, Couvent des Cordeliers, 117, ff. 156va-159va), no. 209 (Fribourg, Couvent des Cordeliers, 117, ff. 159va-161rb).].

Sermones ad Religiosos [48 (or 87?) sermons]: a.o. MS Leipzig, UB 496. For editions of the Sermones ad Religiosos, see: Beati Fr. Bertholdi a Ratisbona Sermones ad Religiosos XX, ed. Petrus Hötzl (Munich: Huttler, 1882). Cf. L. Cassut, Die handschriften mit lateinischen Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg O.Min (Fribourg, 1961), 9-10. [Composed on the basis of notes by Berthold of Regensburg]

Sermones Speciales vel Extravagantes: a.o. MS Leipzig, UB 496 & 497. For editions of these Sermones Speciales vel Extravagantes, see: `Das Wirken Bertholds von Regensburg gegen die Ketzer', ed. A. Schönbach, in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, III (Vienna, 1904/Hildesheim, 1968), 2-82 Passim & `Die Überlieferung der Werke Bertholds von Regensburg, I', ed. A. Schönbach, in: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, IV (Vienna, 1905-6/Hildesheim, 1968), 97-104; Alessia Francone, La predicazione latina e volgare di Bertoldo di Ratisbona (1210 ca.-1272), Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina 109 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2020), 296-361 [editions of Sermones speciales, sermo no. 16 (MS MS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 497, ff. 66rc-66vc)]

Sermones Latini: a.o. MSS Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. Abendl. Handschr. Series Nova 3587 f. 1 (13th cent.); Augsburg, UB, Cod. II.1.2° 56 (ca. 1440) ff. 220va, 28vb, 257ra [De BVMaria]; Trento, Bibl. Com. 1807, pp. 609-630 [De necessitate diligendi]. Several Latin sermons of Berthold have apparently also been edited on the basis of MSS in Fribourg and Munich in the 2011 study of Ariane Czerwon (see under literature).

Sermo de Eucharistia. See: G. Buchwald, ‘Eine lateinische Messpredigt Bertholds von Regensburg’, Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 39 (1921), 77-83.

Sermones de Sancta Clara (2 sermons, on the basis of MS Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale 239 ff. 156ra-158rb), edited in: Aleksander Horowski, ‘Chiara d’Assisi in alcuni sermoni medievali’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:3-4 (2011), 645-703.

Planctus S. Fastidio et Ariditate Lectionis: München BSB Lat. 4634 (ante med. XV s.) [inc.: O Domine Jesu Christe splendor glorie et figura substancie Dei, rogo te ego miser peccator…]

Deutsche Predigten: a.o. MSS Salzburg, Benediktinerinnenstift Nonnberg, 23 B 7 (26 A 17) ff. 85r-92r & 102r-130r; München, UB (deutsch), 4° 479 ff. 70v-73v & 8° 279 ff. 66r-69v [Predigt von den Himmelfürsten]; München, UB (deutsch), 4° 479 ff. 106v-112v & 8° 279 ff. 104r-110v [Predigt von der Tagzeiten]; etc.. A large number of his Deutsche Predigten, of which the authenticity cannot be proven (see also the 1969 studies by Richter and Banta, as well as later interventions by others), have been edited. See: Berthold von Regensburg. Vollständige Ausgabe seiner deutschen Predigten, ed. F. Pfeiffer & J. Strobl, 2 Vol. (Vienna: Braumüller, 1862-1880/Berlin: De Gruyter, 19652 [with preface, new bibliography and commentary by Kurt Ruh]). See also: Die Missionspredigten des Franziskaners Berthold von Regensburg in jetziger Schriftsprache, ed. F. Göbel, 2 Vols. (Regensburg, 1873/Regensburg, 1929); O.H. Brandt, Bertholds von Regensburg deutsche Predigten übertragen und eingeleitet (Leipzig, 1924); Bertholdus von Regensburg: Vier Predigten. Mittelhochdeutsch/ Neuhochdeutsch, ed. W. Röcke (Stuttgart, 1983); C. Lecouteux & P. Marcq, Berthold de Ratisbonne. Péchés et vertus. Scènes de la vie du XIIIe siècle, Textes présentés, traduits et commentés (Paris: Ed. Desjonquières, 1991). [Steer (1987), 108 informs us that the German sermons attributed to Berthold can be divided into a series of different collections. All these collections have in common a heavy emphasis on virtues and vices.]

Summa Juris: MSS Hamburg, ehem. Antiquariat Dr. Jörn Günther, no shelfmark; Heidelberg, UB 4082; Hannover, Stadtbibliothek, Mag. 148; Stuttgart, Hauptstaatsarchiv J.522 A. 670; Würzburg, UB, M.ch.f.742; Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek J. 122; Weingarten, Bibliothek der Benediktinerabtei Hl. Blut, Bio 637. See: Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz, Klaus Klein, ‘Neue Textzeugen von Bruder Bertholds Rechtssumme’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur  130,3 (2001), 298-301 & Wilfried Werner, ‘Zu einem bisher unbekannten Fragment von Bruder Bertholds Rechtssumme in der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg’, in: Alles was Recht war: Rechtsliteratur und literarisches Recht. Festschrift für Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Hans Höfinghoff et.al., Item mediävistische Studien 3 (Essen: Item, 1996), 149-159.

(Pseudo-Berthold):Bruder Perchtold fraget einen heiligen Eynsidel: München, UB (deutsch), 4° 483 f. 243r-v (15th cent.)

literature

This is just a small selection: Salimbene de Adam, Chronica, ed. Oswald Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores 32 (Hannover, 1905-1912), 559-563; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 220-221; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 138 & (ed. 1908) I, 144; G. Jakob, Die lateinische Reden des seligen Berthold von Regensburg (Regensburg, 1880); Rehorn, ‘Die Chronistenberichte über Bruder Bertholds Leben’, Germania 26 (1881), 316-338; H. Gildemeister, Das deutsche Volksleben im XIII. Jahrhundert nach den Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg (Leipzig, 1889); M. Scheinert, Der Franziskaner Berthold von Regensburg als Lehrer und Erzieher des Volkes (Leipzig, 1897); L. von Rockinger, ‘Deutschenspiegel, sogen. Schwabenspiegel, Bertholds von Regensburg deutsche Predigten in ihrem Verhältnis zu einander’, Münchener Akademie der Wissenschaften. Historische Klasse 23, 2nd part (1903-1904), 211-300, 473-536; E. Matrod, ‘Un prédicateur populaire au XIIIe siècle: frère Berthold de Ratisbonne’, Études franciscaines 12 (1904), 620-635, 14 (1905), 5-21, 129-146, 394-415; E. Matrod, ‘Berthold de Ratisbonne et l’hérésie au XIIIe siècle’, Études franciscaines 14 (1905), 133-148; Zawart, 311-312; L. Gaugusch, ‘Leben und Wirken des Bruder Berthold von Regensburg’, Theologische Quartalschrift 93 (1911), 551-568; Fr.-M. Henquinet, ‘Berthold de Ratisbonne’, DHGE VIII, 980-987; Mertens,`Die Form der Predigt bei Berthold von Regensburg (Bonn, 1936); R.J. Iannucci, The Treatment of the Capital Sins and the Decalogue in the German Sermons of Berthold of Regensburg, The Catholic University of America, Studies in German, 17 (Washington, 1942); L. Casutt, Die Hss. mit lateinischen Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg (Fribourg, 1961); Dieter Richter, Die deutsche Überlieferung der Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg (Munich: Beck, 1969); F. Banta, `Berthold von Regensburg: Investigations Past and Present', Traditio, 25 (1969), 472-479; Schneyer, I, 472-504; Georg Steer, `Leben und Wirken des Berthold von Regensburg', in: 800 Jahre Franz von Assisi. Franziskanische Kunst und Kultur des Mittelalters (Vienna, 1982), 169-175; H.J. Schmidt, `Arbeit und soziale Ordnung. Zur Wertung städtischer Lebensweise bei Berthold von Regensburg', AKG, 71 (1989), 261-296; D.L. d'Avray, `Some Franciscan Ideas about the Body', AFH, 84 (1991), 350, 361-3; A.J. Gurevic, ``L'Antropologia' e la `sociologia' di Berthold von Regensburg', in: Idem, Lezioni romane. Antropologia e cultura medievale, Einaudi 549 (Torino, 1991); C. Lecoutauex & P. Marcq, Berthold de Ratisbonne. Péchés et vertus. Scènes de la vie du XIIIe siècle. Textes présentés, traduits et commentés (Paris, 1991); E. Solbach, Welt und weltliches Treiben im Spätmittelalter. Aus den predigten des Volks- und Sittenpredigers Berthold von Regensburg (Hamburg, 1994); Georg Steer, `Berthold v. Regensburg', LThK, 2 (1994), 292; Ute Dank, Rhetorische Elemente in den Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg, Deutsche Hochschuleditionen 36 (Neuried: Ars Una, 1995); J. Hanska & A. Ruotsala, `Berthold von Regensburg, OFM, and the Mongols-Medieval Sermon as a Historical Source', AFH, 89 (1996), 425-445; Andrew Gow, ‘The Jewish Antichrist in Medieval and Early Modern Germany’, Medieval Encounters 2 (1996), 249-285; Rüdiger Schnell, ‘Bertholds Ehepredigten zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 32/2 (1997), 93-108; Käthe Sonnleitner, ‘Wertung der Geschlechter und Geschlechterbeziehungen bei Berthold von Regensburg’, in: Forschungen zur Geschichte des Alpen-Adria-Raumes: Festgabe für em.o.Univ.-Prof. Fr. Othmar Pickl zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Herwig Ebner, Paul W. Roth & Ingeborg Wiesflecker-Friedhuber (Graz, 1997), 371-389; Anna Maria Valente Bacci, ‘Berthold von Regensburg’, Dizionario di omiletica, 195-7; Dagmar Neuendorff, ‘Bruoder Berthold sprichet-aber spricht er wirklich? Zur Rhetorik in Berthold von Regensburg zugeschriebenen deutschen Predigten’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 101:2 (2000), 301-312; John Dahmus, ‘Medieval German Preaching on the Ten Commandments: a comparison of Berthold of Regensburg and Johannes Nider’, Medieval Sermon Studies 44 (2000), 37-52. [concludes that Berthold preached primarily to a peasant audience, whereas Nider addressed a predominantly urban public]; Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz & Klaus Klein, ‘Neue Textzeugen von Bruder Bertholds Rechtssumme’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 130,3 (2001), 298-301; Ursula Schulze, ‘wan ir unhail…daz ist iwer hail. Predigten zur Judenfrage vom 12. bis 16. Jahrhundert’, in: Juden in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Religiöse Konzepte-Feindbilder-Rechtfertigungen, ed. Ursula Schulze (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2002), 109-133; Margarete Hubrath, ‘Keeping the judge in mind: representations of justice in late medieval sermons’, Medieval History Journal 3:1 (2000), 91-102; Bettina Bildhauer, ‘Blood, Jews and monsters in medieval culture’, in: The Monstrous Middle Ages, ed. Bettina Bildhauer & Robert Mills (Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 2003), 75-96; Dagmar Neuendorff, ‘Etymologien in Rusticani und deutschen Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg. Struktur und Funktion’, in: Etymologie, Entlehnungen und Entwicklungen. Festschrift für Jorma Koivulehto zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Irma Hyvärinen, Petri Kallio & Jarmo Korhonen, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, 63 (Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2004), 207-221; Sabine Griese, ‘Das Andachtsbuch als symbolische Form. Bertholds Zeitglöcklein und verwandte Texte als Laien-Gebetbücher und –Bilder’, in: The Mediation of Symbol in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times/Medien der Symbolik in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. Rudolf Suntrup, Jan Veenstra & Anne Bollmann, Medieval to Early Modern Culture/Kultureller Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit, 5 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005),  3-35; Bram Rossano, “gebristet ir doch des kroenlîns’. Die Sündhaftigkeit der Maria Magdalena in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, bes. bei Berthold von Regensburg’, Mediaevistik 18 (2005), 209-234; Christa Oechslin Weibel, “Ein übergülde aller der saeligkeit…’ Der Himmel und die anderen Eschata in den deutschen Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg, Deutsche Literatur vom den Anfängen bis 1700, 44 (Wien-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2005); Nikolai A. Bondarko, ‘Die Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg in einer wiederaufgefundenen Handschrift der Wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek der Moskauer Staatlichen Lomonossow-Universität’, in: Deutschsprachige Literatur des Mittelalters im östlichen Europa: Forschungsstand und Forschungsperspektiven, ed. Ralf G. Päsler & Dietrich Schmidtke (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006), 519-561; Christoph Fasbender, ‘Handschriftenfunde zur Literatur des Mittelalters – 166: Bruchstücke einer Predigt Bertholds von Regensburg’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 135:1 (2006), 48-55; Dagmar Neuendorff, ‘Si vis exponere, hoc fac. Zu deutschen Berthold von Regensburg zugeschriebenen deutschen Predigten und ihren lateinischen Vorlagen', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 107 (2006), 347-360; Reinhard Saller, ‘Predigtwandel und städtische Ökonomie: zum ökonomischen Rationalismus in Predigttexten Bertholds von Regensburg’, in: Das mittelalterliche Regensburg im Zentrum Europas, ed. Edith Feistner, Forum Mittelalter. Studien, 1 (Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2006), 191-199; Concetta Giliberto, ‘La rappresentazione della società tedesca del XIII secolo nei sermoni in volgare di Bertoldo da Ratisbona’, in: I Francescani e la politica. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio, Palermo 3-7 Dicembre 2002, Tomi I-II, ed. Alessandro Musco (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali 2007), 523-542; Andreas Kraß, ‘Sprechen von der stummen Sünde. Das Dispositiv der Sodomie in der deutschen Literatur des 13. Jahrhunderts (Berthold von Regensburg / Der Stricker)', in: "Die sünde, der sich der tiuvel schamet in der helle". Homosexualität in der Kultur des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, ed. Lev Mordechai Thoma & Sven Limbeck (Ostfildern, 2009), 123-136; Ariane Czerwon, Predigt gegen Ketzer. Studien zu den lateinischen Sermones Bertholds von Regensburg, Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation. Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation, 57 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011) [review in CF 82 (2012), 419-421]; Michael Rupp, “Wan ir adel ist frihait’. Das franziskanische Ideal der Armut in der volkssprachlichen Verkündigung bei David von Augsburg, Berthold von Regensburg und Marquard von Lindau’, in: Gelobte Armut. Armutskonzepte der franziskanischen Ordensfamilie vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart, ed. Heinz-Dieter Deimann, Angelica Hilsebein, Bernd Schmies & Christoph Stiegeman (Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zürich: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012), 129-151; Stephen Mossman, ‘Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany’, 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), 231-272 (243-256); Almut Suerbaum, 'Formen der Publikumsansprache bei Berthold von Regensburg und ihr literarischer Kontext', in: Predigt im Kontext. Internationales Symposium am Fachbereich Germanistik der Freien Universität Berlin vom 5.-8. Dezember 1996, ed. Volker Mertens, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, and Wolfram Schneider-Lastin, Wolfram (Tübingen, 2013), 21-33; Johannes M. Depnering, Sermon manuscript in the late Middle Ages: The Latin and German codices of Berthold von Regensburg, Ph.D. Thesis University of Oxford (2014); Andrea Mader, ‘Von untriuwe und gitekeit: Die Predigten des Berthold von Regensburg Mader’, in: Kleine Regensburger Literaturgeschichte, ed. Rainer Barbey & Erwin Petzi (Regensburg, 2014), 63-70; Regina D. Schiewer, ‘Sub Iudaica Infirmitate – ‘Under the Jewish Weakness’: Jews in Medieval German Sermons’, in: The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching, ed. Jonathan Adams & Jussi Hanska (Routledge, 2014), 59-87 (esp. 64ff); Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 684-686; Pavel Blazek, 'Zwei unedierte Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg (d. 1272) für den christlichen Hausstand', in: Sacramentum Magnum. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Theologie/Le mariage dans la théologie médiévale/Marriage in Medieval Theology, ed. Pavel Blazek, Archa verbi. Subsidia, 15 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2018), 471-515; Alessia Francone, 'The Virgin Mary in Latin and German Sermons of Berthold of Regensburg', in: Medieval Franciscan approaches to the Virgin Mary: Mater Misericordiae Sanctissima et Dolorosa, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Katherine Wrisley Shelby (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), 337-365; Alessia Francone, La predicazione latina e volgare di Bertoldo di Ratisbona (1210 ca.-1272), Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina 109 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2020) [review Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 114:3-4 (2021), 654-658].

 

 

 

 

Bertrandus Atgerius (Bertrandus Latgerius/Bertrandus Escharpiti/Bertrandus Lagerius/Bertrand Lagier/Bertrand Lagerie/Bertrand de Figeac, d. 1392)

OM. French friar from the Auvergne as the son of Paul Lageri de Figeac. Made his profession in Figeac. Appointed bishop of Alazo (Corsica, 1315) by Clement VI and later bishop of Assisi and Glandêve (1368). Under Gregory XI was made Cardinal in 1371 (Cardinal-bishop of Saint Priscus and Saint Cecilia, and later also bishop of Ostia). He died in Avignon in 1392. To him are ascribed letters and depositions in the context of the papal election of Urban VI, and works against heresy and doctrinal errors, yet there might to an extent be a mix-up with the works of Bertrand de la Tour (yet Sbaralea denies that).

works

Tractatus contra errores et ritus Graecorum: MS Assisi, Conv. [check]

De schismate et contra haereses sui temporis: MS ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 221; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 138; Honoré Fisquet, La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): histoire chronologique et biographique des archevêques et évêques de tous les diocèse de France II, 309-312; Odon du Hautais, 'De l'illustration de la famille Lagier dans l'Église Catholique', Revue de L'Ouest 11: 1 (Janvier 1895), 90ff; Noël Valois, La France et le grand schisme d'Occident I (Paris: Alphonese Picard et Fils, 1896), 9, 15, 23, 31-32, 67; F. Bliemeitzrieder, ‘Die zwei Minoriten Prinz Petrus von Aragonien und Kardinal Bertrand Atgerius zu Beginn des abendländischen Schismas’, AFH 2 (1909), 441-446; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 16 (1923), 327.

 

 

 

 

Bertramus de Ahlen (Bertram on Ahlen, fl. early fourteenth century)

OM. German friar. Born in Ahlen an der Werse. Friar of the Franciscan province of Cologne. Apparently no academic grades. Lector theologiae at the studium of the Franciscan convent in Münster between 1307-8 and 1315 (possibly also later).Also discretus (representative) of his convent for the provincial chapter, where the provincial minister is elected and provincial regulations are drawn up. His major work is De Laude Domini Novi Saeculi. It is a mystical treatise, devoted to his provincial minister Gerard de Pomerio (Van den Boomgaard), who himself was master of theology (if we can trust Bertrand's utterances) and provincial minister of the Cologne province between 1304-9 (when he died). De Laude `ist eine kleine, fromme, innige und manchmal auch affektbewegte, mystische Schrift ueber die Erkenbarkeit und Erkenntniss Gottes, mit der Ziele der Gottesschau' (Bihl, AFH, 40 (1947), 4-25. The whole treatise is built upon the conceptions of Pseudo-Dionysius, as Bertrand himself makes clear. The work is cautious about the possibility of knowing God and focusses on the incomprehensible `Volkommenheit' of God and on our dependence on grace to obtain true insight. Bertram also is the compilator of De Investigatione Creatoris per Creaturas, which is heavily dependent upon Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum. A third surviving work of his are the Excerpta Bertrami ex Operibus Henrice Gandavensis, Godefridide Fontibus et Iacobi de Viterbo, an alfabetically ordered series of abbreviated quodlibetal questions, derived from the 15 Quodlibeta and the Summa Theologiae of Henry of Ghent (d. 1293), the Quodlibeta V-XIV of Geoffrey de Fontaines (d. after 1303) and the Quodlibeta I-III of jacob of Viterbo (d. 1308). It amounts to a sort of theological dictionary beginning with Abbas and ending with Imago.

works

De Laude Domini Novi Saeculi: MSS Strasbourg, Univ. & Landesbibl. Lat., 122 & 125 (15th cent.) ff. 4r-56v; Brussel, Kon. Bib. 893-98 (Cat. nr. 1368); Utrecht, UB 79; Prague, Bib. des Metropolitankapitels 1580; Paris BN Lat 18211. For a partial editio, see: De laude Domini Novi Saeculi, M. Bihl, `Fr. Bertramus von Ahlen, O.F.M. Ein Mystiker und scholastiker, ca. 1315. Vorab über dessen Schrift `De Laude Domini Novi Saec.', AFH, 40 (1947), 32-48.

De Investigationereatoris per creaturas: MSS Magdeburg, Stadtsbib. Codex XII; Erfurt, Public Library, Collection Amplonius Ratinck 2°, 172; Erfurt, Stadsbib. 2° (in-folio) 21; Prague, UB IV C 8 (15th cent.) ff. 183vb-198va; Prague Bib. des Metropolitankapitels 1579 (Alias N. LV, 15th cent.) ff. 49r-76r; Görlitz, Stadsbib. B.A.27 (15th cent.); Trier, Stadsbücherei 704 (15th cent.) ff. 288-303; Hannover, Stadsbib 4°, 40 (6) (15th cent., amplified version by friar Berthold Kule). For editions, see: De investigatione creatoris per creaturas, in: Texte aus der Zeit Meister Eckharts II. Berthold von Wimpfen: Opera (Hortus spiritalis - Speculum virtutum - Collationes sanctorum doctorum) - Ps. Betram von Ahlen: De investigatione creatoris per creaturas - Anonymus: Quaestio de intellectu - Anonymus: De natura accidentis, Herausgegeben von Alessandra Beccarisi (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2004).

Excerpta Bertrami ex Operibus Henrici Gandavensis, Godefridi di Fontibus et Iacobo de Viterbo: MSS Rome, Vat. Lat. 12995 (14th cent.?); Oxford, Balliol College Library 58 (nice copy, 15th cent.); Spoleto, Bib San Domenico?

De via contemplationis et cognitionis Dei - Excerpta super XV Quodlibet primae et secundae partis Summae Henrici de Gandavo et X Quodlibet Godefridi et III Jacobi, edited in: Texte aus der Zeit Meister Eckharts I. Betram von Ahlen: Opera (De via contemplationis et cognitionis Dei - Excerpta super XV Quodlibet primae et secundae partis Summae Henrici de Gandavo et X Quodlibet Godefridi et III Jacobi), Herausgegeben von Alessandra Beccarisi mit einem Vorwort von Loris Sturlese (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2004).

literature

M. Bihl, `Fr. Bertramus von Ahlen, O.F.M. Ein Mystiker und scholastiker, ca. 1315. Vorab über dessen Schrift `De Laude Domini Novi Saec.', AFH, 40 (1947), 3-48; Kurt Ruh, 'Bertram von Ahlen', Die deutsche Literatur de Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon I (1978), 827-829; Kurt Ruh, 'Bertram von Ahlen', Die deutsche Literatur de Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI (2004), 247.

With thanks to Prof. Dr. Loris Sturlese

 

 

 

 

Bertramus de Dorsten (Bertram von Dorsten, fl. early 15th cent.)

OM. German friar. One of his sermons drew out a Dominican reaction by Jacobus von Soest. See: De Hora Mortis Christi contra Praedicationem Factam in Buscodicis Fratris Brettrammi de Dorsten O.F.M.: MS Frankfurt a.M. Dominikanerkloster 197 f. 42v &77r (15th cent.).

 

 

 

 

Bertrandus Bellac (Bertrandus de Bajona//Bertrand de Bayonne/Strabo de Bayona, d. 1256)

OM. French friar. Fourth Franciscan provincial minister of Aquitaine. Theologian and member of the papal committee gathered by Alexander IV in 1255 to evaluate the accusations of William of St. Amour against mendicant activities at the university of Paris and in the field of pastoral care. Other members of this committee were Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great and others. In the past, scholars at times attributed to Bertrand the Manus quae contra Omnipotentem Extenditur. Yet this work should probably be ascribed to Thomas of York. No extant works. What does survive are anecdotes concerning Bertrand’s capacious memory. Bertrand died shortly before the chapter of 1256.

literature

Mariano di Rirenze, Compendium Chronicarum, Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 138; AFH 2 (1909), 313-314; Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. 1731) IV, 25, V, 120, VIII, 46; F. Delorme, AFH 3 (1910) 501; A. Bierbaum, Bettelorden und Weltgeistlichkeit an der Universität Paris (1920)>>; F. Pelster, AFH 15 (1922), 3-22; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Les querelles du clergé séculier et des ordres mendiants à l’université de Paris au xiiie siècle’, La France Franciscaine 5 (1922), 257-281; E. Longpré, AFH 19 (1926), 181-186; P. Glorieux, AFH 26 (1933), 281; LThK (first ed.) II, 1257-1260; J. Goyens, ‘Bertrand de Bayonne’, DHGE VIII, 1040; René Cuzacq, ‘`Le bigle de Bayonne (Bertrand Bellac, dit Bertrand de Bayonne Franciscain)’, Société des sciences, lettres et arts de Bayonne, n.s. 133 (1977), 109-116

 

 

 

 

Bertrandus de Turre (Bertrand de la Tour, ca. 1265-1332)

OM. French friar from Camboulit in the Cahors diocese. Entered the order at the Figeac convent in the Rodez custody. Bachelor at Paris in 1307, and magister regens in 1311/12 (check). Probably taught at Toulouse. Provincial minister in Aquitania between 1312-1317/8 (as the succesor of Vital du Four). In this function, he excommunicated several friars who had fled to the Provence to live a more stricter life of evangelical poverty. He found a patron in the new pope John XXII, who sent him and Bernard Gui OP on political missions to Italy in 1317, and to Flanders and Northern France in 1318. These missions were not very successful. Nevertheless, pope John XXII appointed Bertrand into a commission of theologians to evaluate the orthodoxy of Olivi’s Postilla super Apucaypsim (1318-1320). Shortly thereafter, in September 1320, Bertrand was made Archbishop of Salerno. This appointment was followed several months later by the appointment of Cardinal Priest of Saint Vital. As a cardinal priest, Bertrand took residence at Avignon. In 1323, Bernard was promoted to the position of cardinal bishop of Tusculum. He engaged in actions against the spirituals on behalf of John XXII and the establishment of the order. Active as peace broker in Lombardy. After some initial hesitation, he supported pope John XXII in the theoretical struggle on poverty against Michael of Cessena and Ockham ca.s. Was appointed general administrator of the Franciscan order after Michael’s deposition. Bertrand was a highly reputed preacher, and many of his sermons have survived. Bertrand’s successor as the minister general of the order, Guiral Ot, came from the same village as Bertrand and might have been a distant relation. Bertrand died in Avignon in 1332.

works

Principium ad Philosophiam: Vat.Lat. 1288 ff. 199-200v.

In I.-IV. Sent.: Mentioned by Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 139 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1908) I, 145.

Quaestiones Theologicae: Vat.Lat. 1086 ff. 117v, 128v, 229v-236v.

Quodlibet, Vat,Lat. 1086 ff. 117v-119r. For a more complete list see Duba (2007), 594-596.

Advice on the Crusade (April 1323), edited in: Coulon, Lettres secrètes et curiales de Jean XXII, n. 1698.

Marriage ‘consilia' for John XXII (inc: ‘Questiones tres fuerunt nobis per sanctissimum patrem ac dominum nostrum proposite...' & ‘Queritur utrum papa possit noviter statuere quod verum matrimonium, nondum tamen consummatum carnali copula...' ): MS Rome, Bibl. Alessandrina 79, This has been edited in Patrick Nold, Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve, Medieval Law and its Practice, 3 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009), 23-37 & 38-51.

Quaestio de Paupertate Christi: Vat.Lat. 3740 (14th cent.) ff. 42vb-50va & 82vb-85ra, 85vb-87vb (See Etzkorn, IVF, 42: this ms contains a series of statements on the poverty of Christ, compiled on request of pope John XXII); Madrid, Nac. 4165 (comparable ms with many statements from spirituals and their adversaries: see Castro, Madrid, no. 237). For en edition, see: De Paupertate Christi et Apostolorum, in: F. Tocco, La questione della povertà nel secolo XIV, Nuova biblioteca di letteratura, storia ed arte, 5 (Naples, 1910), 64-74, 84-6.

Sententia contra Excusationem Doctrinae Petri Joannis. See F. Ehrle, `Petrus Iohannis Olivi, sein Leben und seine Schriften', ALKGMA, III (1887), 451-2; See also Burr, The Persecution of Peter John Olivi, passim, and the studies of Patrick Nold.

Epistola Dilectis in Christo Fratribus Custodiae Januensi, edited in: Wadding, Annales Minorum, VII (Quaracchi, 1932), 483-4.

Relationes, edited in: S. Riezler, Vatikanische akten zur deutschen Geschichte in der Zeit Kaiser Ludwigs des Bayern (Innsbruck, 1891), n. 50, pp. 22-39; A. Ratti, `Le condizioni politico-religiose dell'Italia superiore nella relazione inedita di Bertrando della Torre e Bernardo Gui legati apostolici (an. 1317) ed altri documenti contemporanei', in: Rendiconti del Reale Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere, S. II, 34 (Milan, 1902), 985-996.

Sententia contra Spirituales Aquitanie, ed. in: Fr. Bertrandi de Turre Processus contra Spirituales Aquitaniae (1315) (…), ed. L. Oliger, AFH, 16 (1923), 327-330.

Testamentum, ed. S. Baluze, in: Histoire généalogique de la maison d'Auvergne (Paris, 1708), II, 799.

Sermones: An exhaustive survey of Bertrand’s sermons has been made by Patrick Nold, ‘Bertrand de la Tour Omin. Manuscript List and Sermon Supplement’, AFH 95 (2002), 3-52. Patrick Nold distinguishes ca. 9 different full cycles of sermons, each of which survives in dozens of manuscripts. On top of that, Patrick Nold lists many manuscripts with smaller numbers of sermon excerpts and dubia. In Nold’s classification the attested full cycles are: Postilla super Epistolas Dominicales et Feriales (including an important Quadragesimale); Postilla super Epistolas Sanctorales; Postilla super Evangelia Dominicalia et Ferialia; Collationes Dominicales; Sermones de Evangeliis Dominicalibus; Sermones de Evangeliis Sanctorum; Sermones de Mortuis; Collationes de Sanctis; Collationes ad Status. Below are just listed a few manuscripts and (partial) editions.

Postilla super Epistolas Sanctorales: MSS Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 29 ff. 1ra-157ra; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 258; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 259; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 543; Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 29 ff. 1ra-157ra. For early modern imprints see: Sermones Epistolares de Sanctis (Strasbourg, 1501/2); Splendissimum Opus Sermonum (Paris, 1521); Sermones Epistolares de Sanctis, ed. A. Senesi (Louvain, 1575).

Postilla super Epistolas Dominicales et Feriales: Altenburg, Stiftsbibliothek 14 C, ff. 1r-129v; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Conv. Soppr. C.IV.136, ff. 103ra-262ra; Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 28 (pars aestivalis); Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 27 ff. 1-247 (Quadragesimale section):Ansbach, Schossbibliothek/Staatliche Bibl. Lat. 15 (15th cent.) ff. 175ra-234vb (Abbreviati from the Quadragesimale).

Postilla super Evangelia Dominicalia et Ferialia: Bergamo, Biblioteca Civica MA 558; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. XI dext. 5; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. XII dext. 6; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 476; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 512 ff. 1-208ra (continuation of MS 476); Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 69, ff. 1ra-185va; Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Zisterzienserabtei Ebrach M.p.th.1. 12 (14th cent.) ff. 1ra-189va.

Collationes Dominicales: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 410, ff. 210r-274r; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 468, ff. 1r-69v; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. XI dext. 5 ff. 236va-254rb; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 512 ff. 208ra-214ra; Naples Naz., VIII.A.36 ff. 1ra-45vb.

Sermones de Evangeliis Dominicalibus: Bergamo, Biblioteca Civica MA 559; Braunschweig, Stadtbibliothek 51 & 74 ff. 33-251; Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale 320 & 327. Check also the early modern imprints Collationes Abbreviatae de Evangeliis Dominicalibus et Quadragesimae, de Sanctis, Pastorales et Prothemata, in: Splendissimum Opus Sermonum (Paris, 1521) [partial edition]; I.B. Pitra, Analecta Novissima Spicilegi Solesmensis, altera continuatio, II Tusculana (Paris, 1888), 466-512.

Sermones de Evangeliis Sanctorum: Admont, Stiftsbibliothek 155 ff. 157-226; Admont, Stiftsbibliothek 311; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Theol. lat.fol. 245; Melk, Stiftsbibliothek 732 (37) ff. 220ra-419vb; Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale 328. For early modern imprints see: Sermones de Evangeliis Sanctorum (Strasbourg, 1501-1502); I.B. Pitra, Analecta Novissima Spicilegi Solesmensis, altera continuatio, II Tusculana (Paris, 1888), 466-512.

Sermones de Mortuis: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 448 ff. 31va-48vb; Barcelona, Biblioteca Central de Catalunya 661 ff. 99-125; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Theol. lat. fol. 614 ff. 148r-221v; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 265 ff. 49r-97r; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 486 ff. 127r-162r; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 513 ff. 157r-262r; Kremsmünster, Stiftsbibliothek 44 ff. 1ra-125rb.

Collationes de Sanctis: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 675 ff. 70r-113v; Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellonska 194 ff. 49v-110v; Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale conv. soppr. VIII.A.36 ff. 46ra-88vb.

Collationes ad Status: Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek Lat. 376 ff. 195-253; Pamplona, Biblioteca de la Iglesia Catedral 34 ff. 127r-192v; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Lat. 3276; Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale 2001 ff. 17v-75v.

Sermones de Tempore et de Quadragesimale: Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 27 ff. 1ra-247r (15th cent); Naples Naz. VIII A. 35; Kremsmünster 44; Bologna, Univ. Bibl., 249 & 151 [?]; Vienna, Österr. Landesbibl. 4470 (an. 1390); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Lat. 14121 (an. 1425) ff. 1ra-297rb; Olomouc SVK M II 118 (14th cent.) ff. 1-277v; St. Petersburg, Publichnaja Bibl. Lat. Q.I.N. 240 ff. 113, 192v; Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracoviae, MS 1562 (a. 1403), ff. 222r-287r [exerpts]. They have been issued (in part?) in the early modern period as: Sermones de Tempore et de Quadragesima (Strasbourg, 1501-1502); Sermones Bertrandi de Tempore. Pars Estivalis (Strasbourg, 1501) [See also: Facsim. Graz, Akad. Druck- und Verlag Anst. (1996) 1CDRom [AM 00012,1]]; Sermones Quadragesimales & Collationes Theologicae (Strasbourg, 1621).

Sermones de Tempore: Padua Ant. 208; Naples, Naz. VII.AA.24 ff. 7-248; Bergamo, Bib. Com. Angelo Mai MA 559 (14th cent.); Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Theol. 2° 69; Metz, Bibl. Municip.?

Sermones de Mortuis: Naples, Naz. VIII.A.36; Vat. Arch. di San Pietro G.48ff. 34vb-36ra; Barcelona, Arch. de la Corona d'Aragon Ripoll 187 ff. 95va-96ra; Troyes BM 2001 ff. 46va-47vb; Assisi, BC 448 ff. 39va-42rb; Kremsmünster Stiftsbibl. 44 (ca. 1400?); Klosterneuburg Stiftsbibl. 265 ff. 52ra-54va & 468 ff. 129vb-131va; Innsbruck UB 234 ff. 117va-119rb; Wien Schottenstift 379 ff. 169va-171va; Sevilla Bibl. Colombina 82-4-1 [See: D'Avray, Death and the Prince, 160-161, 168, 229-230, 236-244 etc.]

Sermo de Spiritu Intelligentiae, ed. V. Gamboso, Il Santo, 15 (1975), 320-332. [from MS Padua Ant. 208.]

Sermo de Sancta Clara (based on MSS Assisi, S. Convento, Fondo Antiquo Comunale 675 ff. 99r-100r; Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale, 2001 ff. 229va-230v), edited in: Aleksander Horowski, ‘Chiara d’Assisi in alcuni sermoni medievali’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:3-4 (2011), 645-703.

For more information on the manuscripts see the Oxford dissertation of Patrick Nold mentioned below, as well as his other studies on these matters.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 221; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 139-140 & Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 145; Zawart, 302; Schneyer, I, 505-591; P. Gauchat, `Cardinal B. de Turre, O.F.M. His Participation in the Theoretical controversy Concerning the Poverty of Christ (...)', AFH, 16 (1923), 332-355 [also separately: Città del Vaticano, 1930); L. Oliger, ‘Fr. Bertrandi de Turre processus contra spirituales Aquitaniae (1315) (….)’, AFH, 16 (1923), 323-355; Pelzer, Revue Néo-Scholastique de Philosophie, 30 (1928), 316-351; J. Goyens, ‘Bertrand de la Tour’, DHGE VIII, 1084; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 103; H. Dedieu, `Ministres provinciaux d'Aquitane', AFH, 76 (1983), 129-214; A. Tabarroni, Paupertas Christi et Apostolorum. L'ideale francescano in discussione (Rome, 1990), passim; Gilbert Foucaud, ‘À propos deux franciscains figeaçois’, Bulletin de la société des études littéraires, scientifiques et artistiques du Lot 117 (1996), 271-176 & 118 (Cahors, 1997), 130  [on the franciscans Ademar de Aelsinio and Bertrando de la Tour]; Patrick Nold, Bertrand de la Tour and Franciscan Poverty, D.Phil (Oxford, 1999) [contains a full overview of Bertrand’s life and works and provides additional bibliographical information]; Patrick Nold, ‘Bertrand de la Tour, OMin. Life and Works, I’, AFH 94 (2001), 275-323; Patrick Nold, ‘Bertrand de la Tour OMin. Manuscript List and Sermon Supplement’, AFH 95 (2002), 3-52; Patrick Nold, Pope John XXII and his Franciscan Cardinal. Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003) [lengthy review by David Flood in Franciscan Studies 62 (2004), 225-235]; Anne Conrad, Gehorsamkeit und Widerstand im Franziskanerorden. Bertrand de La Tour und die ‘rebelles’ im Jahr 1315’, in: Oboedientia. Zu Formen und Grenzen von Macht und Unterordnung im mittelalterlichen Religiosentum, ed. Sébastien Barret & Gert Melville, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 27 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005), 409-422; William O. Duba, ‘Continental Franciscan Quodlibeta after Scotus’, in: Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages. The Fourteenth Century, ed. Chris Schabel (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007), 594-596; Diego Ciccarelli, ‘I codici parigini del trapanese Ludovico de Pino O.Min’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Trapani. Atti del Convegno di Studio Trapani-Alcamo 19-21 novembre 2009, ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani – Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo, 2011) [with reference to a colophon pf MS Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia, Lat. 35, f. 295r: ‘Explicit tercium volumen domini Bertrandi de Turre Super Epistolas a Pascha usque ad finem quod frater Ludovicus de Pino Provinciae Siciliane filius conventus Trapanensis fecit scribi Parisius dum actu erat ibidem studens anno Domini millesimo quatrocentesimo quinto decimo, die octava mensis iulii per manum Iohannis Hermani. Amen.’]; Patrick Nold, ‘Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour’, 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), 175-206; Patrick Nold, ‘John XXII and the Franciscan Friar Bertrand de la Tour: Anatomy of a Relationship’, in: Jean XXII et le Midi, ed. Michelle Fournié, Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 45 (Touloouse, 2012), 339-355; Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo, ‘The Classic Age of the Distinction between God’s Absolute and Ordered Power: In, Around, and After the Pontificate of John XXII (1316-1334)’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 207-266.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Antonius Alvarez (Blas Antonio Alvarez, fl. 1710)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Andalusia province. Lector jubilatus (and regent of the Sevilla studium), provincial definitor, visitator of the Los Angeles province, synodal examiner and provincial minister.

works

Oracion por la dedicacion de la iglesia (...) de Sevilla (Sevilla: Juan Francisco de Blas, 1703).

Sermon que en las funebres reales exequias, que celebrò por su invicto monarca Luis XIV (...) en el Real convento de San Francisco (...) de Sevilla (Juan Francisco de Blas, 1715).

literature

Juan de San Telmo, Oración funebre que en las exequias de el mui Reverendo Padre Frai Blas Antonio Alvarez, Lector jubilado, examinador sinodal del arzobispado de Sevilla y actual ministro provincial de la santa provincia de Andaluzia de la regular observancia (Sevilla: Francisco Sánchez Reciente, 1727); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 222; Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale (...) II, 730; AIA 24 (1925), 388-389.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Antonius de Zevallos (Blas Antonio de Zevallos, f. ca. 1690)

OFS. Spanish Secular Franciscan.

works

Flores Sagradas de los Yermos de Egypto. Vida y Milagros del Gran Padre S. Antonio Abad y sus mas principales discipulos. Origen de la ilustre religion Antoniana, y Fundacion del Orden Militar de Cavalleros de San Antonio, en los Reynos de Etyopia. Escrita aora nuevamente, y añadida con muchas sentencias, y exemplos (...) Por el Maestro Blas Antonio de Zevallos de la Venerable Orden Tercera de Penitencia, de nuestro Serafico Padre San Francisco (...) (Madrid: Antonio Gonzalez de Reyes, 1686/Madrid: Lorenço Francisco Mojados, 1729 [3rd Ed.]). The 1686 edition is present in the Library of the Benedictine monastery of Montserrat and accessible via Google Books.

Libro historico y moral sobre el origen y excelencia del Nobilisimo Arte de Leer, Escrivir, y Contar, y su enseñança: perfecta instruccion para educar a la Juventud en virtud, y letras. Santos y Maestros insignes que han exercitado la enseñança de los primeros Rudimentos (...) (Madrid: Antonio Gonzalez de Reyes, 1692).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 222; Bartolomé José Gallardo, Ensayo de una biblioteca española de libros raros y curiosos, IV: Q-Z (Madrid: Manuel Tello, 1889), 1104-1113.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Caleron (Blas Calderón, fl. 1760)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Cartagena province. Lector in the Cartagena and preacher.

works

Torre de inexpugnable fortaleza, systema felicissimo de España: oracion panegyrica, que en la fiesta, que el convento de la observancia de N. P. San Francisco de la ciudad de Cartagena (...) celebró por el nuevo patronato concedido a Maria Santissima en el mysterio (...) de su Concepcion Immaculada (Murcia: en la imprenta para el uso de la Provincia de Cartagena, de la Regular Observancia de N. P. San Francisco, s.a.). Pdf accessible via http://www.murcia.es/jspui/handle/10645/796

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 122-123 & AIA 15 (1955), 244; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 97 (no. 191).

 

 

 

 

Blasius Correa (Blas Correa, fl. 1610?)

OFM. Spanish friar.

works

Raçones representadas à su Magestad, para que vaian a la Conquista Espiritual de California, los PP. de San Francisco, con el Almirante D. Pedro Pertel Casanste: MS once present in Madrid Libreria Andrea de Barcia.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 223; Antonio de León Pinelo, Epítome de la bibliotheca oriental y occidental, nautica, y geografica II (Madrid: Francisco Martinez Abad, 1737), 759.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Benjumea (Blas de Benjumea/Blasco de Benjumena, fl. 1670)

OFM. Member of the Andalusia (Baetica) province. Professor of theology in the Collegio de San Buenaventura of Seville and lector jubilatus. Censor for the inquisition, general definitor and provincial minister.

works

Commentarii in Octo Physicorum Aristotelis Libros. Ad mentem Doctoris Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti, Theologorum facile Principis (Leiden [Low Countries!]: Thomas Lopez de Haro, 1677). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

Opera Theologica Complectentia Varios Tractatus, Scilicet: De Charitate, de Gratia, Scientia, Legibus, & selectis quibusdam Quodlibeticis Queastionibus, Juxta strictam Doctoris Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti mentem (...) (Leiden [Low Countries!]: Thomas Lopez de Haro, 1677). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 222; AIA 7 (1917), 177-178; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 93 (no. 161).

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Bononia (Blasius de Barbaria/Blasio de Bologna, late 13th-early 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar, Member of the convent of Bologna, at least between 1279 and 1313. Lector [?]

works

to be continued

literature

C. Piana, Chartularium, AF, 11 (1970), 8, n.9.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Buiza (Blasio de Buiza/Blas de Buiza/Buyza, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Saint Jacob province. Preacher, general secretary of the order and commissiarius for the Holy Land in Rome. Wrote a travel guide (Relacion) for pilgrims to Palestine, which he visited two times, in 1615 and in 1619. The first time, he came to Palestine with funds from King Philip III of Spain to help pay for the debts incurred by the Franciscans in the Holy Land for the maintenance of their churches and convents in Palestine. During his second visit, he proposed reparation projects, making use of the designs made by his fellow Franciscan Bernardino Amico.

works

Relación nueua, verdadera, y copiosa, de los sagrados lugares de Ierusalen y Tierra Santa, de las misericordias diuinas que en ellos resplandece de los muchos trabajos (...) que por conseruarlos en piedad christiana padecen los religiosos del (...) padre San Francisco que los habitan y de los (...) gastos que tienen con los turcos (Madrid: viuda Alonso Martín de Balboa, 1622/Salamanca: Diego de Cossio, 1624). The 1622 edition is acessible via the the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid, and via Google Books.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum, ad ann. 1342; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 45; Juan a San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 222; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 147; Carlos García-Romeral Pérez, Bio-bibliografía de Viajeros Españoles (siglos XVI-XVII) (Madrid: Ollero & Ramos, 1998), 51 (nos. 124-125); Marianne Petra Ritsema van Eck, Custodians of Sacred Space: Constructing the Franciscan Holy Land through texts and sacri monti (ca. 1480-1650), PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2017), passim; Marco Galateri di Genola, Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d'Oltremare (Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 116; Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, he Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (ca. 1480–1650): Theology, Travel, and Territoriality (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), passim.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Burgo (Blasio de Burgo fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Naples province.

works

Carmina plura heroica latina et empigrammata de Sanctis (Palermo, 1648).

literature

Gaetano Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani 3 Vols. (Milan, 1848) I, 177; Apolinario da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 64.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Castro (Blas de Castro y Medinilla, fl. 1651)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Granada province. Preacher, provincial definitor, provincial vicar, and censor/consultant for the inquisition.

works

Panegyrim de Immaculata Conceptione Virginis Mariae (Alcalá?/Granada?, 1651).

literature

Juan a San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 222-223; AIA 15 (1955), 255; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 102 (no. 223).

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Foligno (d. after 1385)

Italian friar from Foligno. Master of theology. Made bishop of Comacchio by pope Clement VII on 16 June 1382 (half a year earlier, pope Urban VI had already appointed into this positio a certain Federico Purlilli, yet Blasio seems to have fulfilled his charge until 1385. On 16 July of that year, Urban VI appointed the Dominican Saltarelli, who ousted Blasio).

literature

I. Cavallieri, De Comachensibus Episcopis (Comacchio, 1779), 85; C. Eubel, ‘Die Provisiones Praelatorum Während des grossen Schismas’, Römische Quartalschrift 7 (1893), 442; C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi I, 199; C. Simoni, Cronatassi dei vescovi di Comacchio (Faneza, 1908), 18; B. Gams, Series Episcoporum, 687; L. Jadin, ‘Blaise’, DHGE IX, 66.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Manzanares (Blas de Manzanarez, fl. later 18th cent.)

OFMDisc. Member of the San José province.

literature

AIA 22 (1962), 305-306; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 144 (no. 540).

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Matre Dei (Blas de la Madre de Dios, ca. 1555-1626)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Joined the order in 1582. Active in India, Malacca and the Philippines (San Gregorio province). Known for his provincial order histories/apologetics and his medical/botanical works.

works

Chronica Provinciae S. Gregorii ?

Apologia por la Provincia de San Gregorio. Apparently included in the Chronica provinciae strictioris observantiae S. Gregorii written by Antonio de Llave.

El libro de Medicinas Caseras (Manila, 1611)/El libro de Medicinas Caseras de Fr. Blas de la Madre de Dios: Manilla, 1611, ed. Francisco Guerra & María Carmen Sánchez Tellez (Madrid: Editorial Cultura Hispánica, Fac. de Medicina Alcalá de Henares, 1986). This amounts to a guide of home remedies for a wide range of illments.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca universa Franciscana I, 223; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 141; Carmen Martín Martín & José Luis Valverde, La farmacia en la América colonial: el arte de preparar medicamentos, 27.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Novara (d. ca. 1426)

OM. Italian friar. Suffragan bishop of Colosses (Rhodos) and bishop of Duvno on 15 September 1419. Author?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Rome, 1734), 26; D. Farlati, Illyricum Sacrum (Venice, 1769) VI, 174; C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi I, 230; B. Gams, Series Episcoporum, 406; L. Jadin, ‘Blaise’, DHGE IX, 66; DBI>>

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Palomino (Blas de Palomino/Blas Palomino, d. 1622)

OFMRec. Spanish friar from Audúhar. Made his profession in the Granada province and worked for a while as novice master. He transferred to the Philippines in 1609, and worked both in the Philippines, the Moluccas, and Celebes (Macasar and Manado). He was eventually killed by indigenous people on August 30, 1622.

works

Arte de la lengua de mandos.

Tratado de los Dioses, ritos, usos y contumbres de Manados.

Carta de Fr. Blas Palomino, escrita en Manados en 23 de Junio de 1619 sobre los asuntos de aquella mision dirigida a los Religiosos de Ternate, para que estos la mandasen a Manil.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 223; James Alexander Robertson, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Island and their Peoples (...) XXXIV, 293; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia geografica storica etnografica sanfrancescano (Prato: Ranieri Guasti, 1879), 443; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 7 (1914), 439-440, 639; Achilles Meersman, The Franciscans in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1300-1775 (Nauwelaerts, 1967), 93-97.

 

 

 

 

Bertrandus Rodulphus (Bertrandus Radulphi/Bertrand Rodolphe, d. 1432 [1433?])

OM. French Conventual friar. Master of theology and Ecclesiastes of the Narbonne province. Appointed bishop of Digne (appointed before June 1406). Took part in the Council of Pisa (1409), where he apparently held a public sermon De mercenariis fugientibus against royal legates, and was involved with the reform of the episcopal chapter of the diocese of Digne–Riez–Sisteron in 1430. He died on 26 February 1432 [1433?].

works

Conciones atque sermones ?

Statuta pro Ecclesia et diocesi Diniensis (1414) ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 138; Pierre Gassendi, Notice sur l'église de Digne (Digne: Guichard, 1845), 185; J.J.M. Féraud, Histoire, Geographie, Et Statistique de Departement Des Basses-Alpes (Digne: Vial, 1861), 720; Eubel, Hierarchia I, 214; II, 144 note 1.

 

 

 

 

Biagius Conti (Biagio Conti da Canzo, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the countryside of the Duchy of Milan. Had a somewhat tumultuous educational trajectory but became regent in the Bratislava friary and baccalaureus conventus and later also regent in Prague, as well as lector of the archepiscopal seminary of Prague personal theologian/counsellor of the archbishop. He died in Prague at the age of 49 on 4 April 1685. Several of his works were brought to the printing press by the Prague regent master Mariano Vnezoukhi.

works

Pars prima primi Sententiarum. De Deo Trino, & uno (Prague: Georgius Labaun, 1687).

Pars secunda primi Sententiarum. De intellectu, scientia, providentia, praedestinatione, & reprobatione (Prague: Georgius Labaun, 1687).

Pars prima secundi Sententiarum, De creatione, statu innocentia, Angelis (Prague: Georgius Labaun, 1688).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 110.

 

 

 

 

Bindus Senensis (Bindo da Siena, fl. 1300)

OM. Italian friar from the Siena region, member of the Tuscany province. Renowned preacher and theologian, admired for his sermons and for his religious virtues.

works

Sermones de Tempore: MS Città del Vaticano BAV Vat.Lat. 7697. Several sermons from MS Città del Vaticano BAV Vat.Lat. 7697 (no. 5, 6, 9, 18) have been edited by L.J. Bataillon, AFH 92 (1999), 101-116 [Bataillon, 1999, 96-98 identifies 27 sermons de tempore]. Sermon 18, Dominica XXIV post Pentecosto, MS BAV Vat.Lat. 7697 f. 42v-45r (=ed. Bataillon, 112-116) is a nice sermon of moral and religious instruction. The sermon exploits the theme ‘Non cessamus pro vobis orantes’: ‘Inter omnis que habere debet homo qui beneficium aliquod recipit duo sunt: primo quod illud beneficium recognoscat, scilicet quis est qui beneficium facit, quid est quod recipit et quomodo obligatur ex hoc ad ipsum facientem, et ideo communiter a talibus dicitur vulgariter post receptionem beneficii ‘gran merce’: merces idem est quam premium, tantum ergo valet dicere sic quantum: ‘Pro hoc beneficio teneor tibi retribuere magnum premium.’ Secundo debet proponere in corde quod retribuet et recompensabit benefacienti sibi secundum suum posse et eius velle, tamen in rebus licitis et honestis. (…) Hec ergo duo necessaria sunt, scilicet beneficium recognoscere et de retribuendo proponere. Hec autem docet Apostolus in hac epistola, scilicet ostendendo et docendo primo servitium quod Christus nobis fecit ut illud recognoscamus; secundo docendo qualiter ei retribiere possimus ad suam volentatem. Nota ergo quod primo suadet obsequia debita ex parte obligationis in principio, insinuat gratuita dona ex parte divine condencensionis gracias agi. Suadet ergo prima debita obsequia ad que tenemus ita dicens: Non cessamus, scilicet ego et Tymoteus, pro vobis orare, etc., id est continue oramus, ut impleamini agnitione, ad hoc scilicet ut Christo secundum eius voluntatem servire sciatis. Sed quia poset quis dicere: ‘Qualiter possum Christo servire ut ei sit gratum’, subdit et dicit: in omni sapiencia, etc. Ubi ponit quod quinque modis ei servire possumus: in claritate agnitionis, in honestate conversationis, in fecunditate operationis, in serenitate continuationis, in iocunditate expectationis. Primo in claritate cognitionis, in omni sapiencia, etc., quasi dicat ‘serviatis Deo et primo de anima vestra, scilicet intellectu spirituali. Hoc dicit quia triplex est intellectus, scilicet rationalis, qui est habitus principiorum et conclusionum: talis est sapiencia mundi [namely scientific knowledge and common sense knowledge] (…) Alius est carnalis qui est in mundanis, qui subtiliter excogitant ut mala fiant, proditiones et alia peccata ordinant. (…) Tercius est spiritualis, quo quis in omnibus que sunt Deum laudat et Deo placere querit (…) et de hoc dicit Apostolus. Hic est qui facit bonum; ideo dicit: In intellectu, per cognitionum, et sapiencia, per delectationem; cognoscere enim et non amare non volet. Secundo, in honestate conversationis, ut scilicet corpus nostrum sit plenum puritate. (…) Tertio, in operatione. Ideo dicit: In omni opere bono fructificantes. (…) Opera enim hominum sunt sicut fructus arborum (…) Fructuum autem quedam sunt pro hominibus boni et gratiosi, ut ficus, pera et huiusmodi; alii vero sunt pro bestiis ut glandes. Sic opera quedam sunt Deo accepta, scilicet bona; mala autem et peccata valde ei displicent. Quarto, in continuatione: In omni virtute conformati, quasi dicat: ‘Non desistas a bono, sed continua bona opera, scilicet et bonum intellectum, et honestatem, et bonam operationem.’ (…) Quinto, in ylaritate expectationis: In omni patientia et longanimitate, quasi dicat: ‘Patienter substinete tribulationes et iniurias et quecumque occurrunt adversa (…)’ Hiis ergo modis Christo servire et retribuere debemus, quia scilicet ab eo magna dona accepimus que ipse ponit in quatuor precipue, que sunt: electio gratiosa, protectio virtuosa, provectio gloriosa, dilectio viscerosa. Primo, electio gratiosa. Ideo ait: Gratis agentes qui dignos, etc. qui fecit nos per gratiam de sorte sanctorum. Nota hic quare dicitur sors. Sors enim proicitur super partes diversas. Sic Deus de omnibus hominibus fecit duas partes, unam tenebrarum, de qua sunt Iudei, Saraceni, heretici et falsi christiani, aliam luminis, de qua sunt sancti. In hac sors nos posuit Deus, scilicet sanctorum. (…) Secundo est protectio virtuosa, quia eripuit nos, etc., id est de potestate dyaboli (…) Tertium est provectio gloriosa quia transtulit, etc. Christus dicitur Filius amoris secundum naturam quia propter nimiam caritatem qua dilexit nos misit Filium in mundo. Secundum autem naturam divinitatis est consubstantialis Patri ab eo procedens sicut splendor sole. Deus ergo nos in mundo fecit de regno et populo suo per gratiam qui eramus sub potestate tenebrarum per culpam; postmodum vero transferet in celum ad gloriam per ipsum Christum qui est Filius dilectionis, id est propter dilectionem nobis datus. Quartum est dilectio viscerosa quia in eo habemus redemptionem et remissionem peccatorum. Ipse enim nobis meruit peccatorum remissionem, non auro vel argento, sed pretioso sanguine suo, id est multum si tenemur. (…)’

Quadragesimale super Evangelia Fratris Bindo Scremi de Senis: MS Florence Naz., Magl. XXXV 166 ff. 1-58v. (ad an. 1293)

Opus Quadragesimale Fratris Bindi de Senis quod Predicavit de Sero Quando Predicavit Istud Opus Precedens: MS Florence Naz., Magl. XXXV 166 ff. 58vff. [cf. the remarks of Bataillon, 1999, 96. Contrary to Schneyer, who only assigns two sermons of this collection to Bindo, Bataillon is able to identify a considerable number of subsequent sermons in the manuscript as part of Bindo’s Opus Quadragesimale.]

Several other sermon collections of Bindo apparently are lost (or remain to be identified). Cf. the 1999 study of Bataillon, as well as D.M. Faloci Pulignani, ‘La biblioteca francescana di Gubbio’, Miscellanea Francescana 9 (1902), 161; E. Filippini, ‘Notizie Storico-Bibliografiche intorno all’Archivio di S. Francesco in Fabriano’, Miscellanea Francescana 5 (1890), 182 & 183; N. Papini, L’Etruria Francescana (Siena, 1797), 146, 147, 148; C. Cenci, ‘San’ Pietro Pettinaio presentato da un predicatore sensense contemporaneo’, Studi Francescani 87 (1990), 5-30; C. Cenci, ‘Fonte anonima di un anonimo predicatore francescano senese’, AFH 87 (1994), 135-139.

literature

Bartolomeo da Pisa, De Conformitate, AF IV (Quaracchi, 1896), 518; J.-A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina (ed. Hamburg, 1734) I, 246, 673; Wadding, Annales Minorum V, ad an. 1299, n. 5; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 45; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 222; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 140-141 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 146; Zawart, 288; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bindo de Sienne’, DHGE VIII, 1501-1502; Louis-Jacques Bataillon, ‘Les sermons du franciscain Bindo da Siena pour les dimanches’, AFH 92 (1999), 95-116; Cesare Cenci, “San’ Pietro Pettinaio presentato da fr. Bindo da Siena’, AFH 99 (2006), 189-212.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Franciscus de Salamanca (Blas Francisco de Salamanca, fl. 1705)

OFM. Spanish friar from Caceres. Member of the San Miguel province. Apostolic preacher and provincial definitor. Also active in the Holy Land as priest and lector of Arabic (in Jerusalem and Damascus) and legate for Pope Clement XI in the patriarchate of Antioch. To him is ascribed a Spanish-Arabic dictionary, but it would seem that he was rather the copist (in 1704) of the dictionary of Bernardino González (see there), who was one of his teachers.

works

to be continued.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 223; Revista de Extremadura 2 (1900), 356; Bernardino Gonzalez, OFM, Interprete Arábico - Gramática Arábica [Obras manuscritas], ed.Ramón Lourido Díaz, 2 Vols. (Madrid: Real Academia de Historia, 2005) I 137; Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, ed. Everhard Ditters & Harald Motzki (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007), 210, note 2;

 

 

 

 

Blasius Hidalgus de Morali (Blas Hidalgo de Moreales, d. 1646)

Friar from Guatemala. Made his profession in the Franciscan Guatemala friary in 1607. Taught in the same friary. Known for his theological and canonist knowledge. .

works

Dissertatio de Theologia Dogmatica.>?

Dissertatio de Inmaculata Virginis Conceptione.>?

literature

A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 57.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Laghina (Blas Laghina/Laguina, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar.

works

Memoriale Seraphicum Provinciae Carthaginensis Mentioned in Du Monstier's Sacrum Gynecaeum Seu Martyrologium Amplissimum.

literature

Arthur Du Monstier, Sacrum Gynecaeum Seu Martyrologium Amplissimum: In Quo Sanctae ac Beatae, aliaeque Christi Ancillae (...) (Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1657), 5; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 141.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Sancto Gregorio (Blasio de San Gregorio, fl. 16th cent.?)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the Principatus province. He would have issued a provincial order chronicle.

works

Arbor ac descriptio provinciae Principatus: MS Madrid, Archivo Franciscano-San Francisco el Grande ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 223; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 141.

 

 

 

 

Blasius de Sancto Raphaele (Blasio de San Rafael/Blas de San Rafael, fl. first half 17th cent.?)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from the San Diego province (Andalusia). Guardian of the Cadiz friary.

works

Conquista y peles espiritual del alma, con sus desordenadas pasiones. En dialogos (Sevilla: Andres Grande, 1636). This work also contains a Spanish reworking of Bernard de Besse's Speculum Disciplinae, once considered to be a work of Bonaventure: Espejo de disciplina regular. Yet the latter reworking by Blasio also seems to have been edited independently Copies of the Conquista y peles espiritual del alma should be present in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid and in the provincial library of Sevilla.

Espejo de disciplina regula, de San Buenaventura (Sevilla: Andres Grande, 1636). Accessible vie the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid.

Exposicion de la regla de los frayles Menores?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 223; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 141; Francisco Escudero y Perosso, Tipografía hispalense: anales bibliográficos de la ciudad de Sevilla desde el establecimiento de la imprenta hasta fines del siglo XVIII (Sevilla: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1984), 410-411; Manual del librero hispano-americano: bibliografía general española e hispano-americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos, con el valor comercial de los impresos descritos XIX, 221.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Fimpelius (fl. 1600)

OFM. German friar, who received part of his theological training in the Munich friary under Marquardus Leo.

works

De substantia, proprietatibus et conditionibus spirituum angelicorum, bonorum et malorum. Theoremata Theologica in monasterio Monacensi Ordinis Fratrum S. Francisci de Observantia, ad publicam disputationem proposita. Praeside V.P.F. Marquardo Leone eiusdem ord. & Monasterii S.S. Theologiae Lectore. Respondente V.P.F. Blasio Fimpelio Praefati ord. SS. Theologiae Studioso. Disputabuntur Mensae Maio (...) (Munich, 1603). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

 

 

 

 

Blasius Szalkai (fl. ca. 1400)

OMObs. Hungarian friar and chronicler. Responsible for the compilation of the first part of the Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae (for the years 1313-1417). Later known contributors to this chronicle were Gregorius Ujlaki, Nicolaus Buzjáki and Michael Somlyai.

works

Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae: a.o. MS MS Prague, National Museum sign. VIII F 75.

literature

Elod Nemerkényi, Elod, 'Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae', in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed, Graeme Dunphy & Cristian Bratu. [First published online: 2016; consulted online on 14 November 2021].

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia Bergamensis (Bonagrazia Boncortese/da Bergamo, ca. 1265-1340)

OM. Italian friar. He was already a doctor utriumque iuris before he entered the order as lay friar (before or in 1310). As he was a well-trained lawyer, the order authorities used him in their problems with the spirituals (and Ubertino of Casale in particular) concerning the usus pauper controversy, and related issues of Franciscan life. Bonagratia took to his task with relish, producing a series of writings in which he underscored the poverty opinions of the Conventuals. When he protested against the protection offered to the spirituals by pope Clement V, Bonagratia was for some time banished to the Valcabrère convent (1312-14). During the pontificate of John XXII, Bonegratia at first took the opportunity to resume his attacks on the spirituals. He also was involved with the process against Bernard Délicieux. When, in 1322 and after, pope John XXII attacked the Franciscan majority interpretation of the absolute paupertas Christi (which had been the conventuals’ foundation for their interpretation of Franciscan poverty) with the bulls Ad Conditorem Canonum (8 December 1322) and Cum Inter Nonnullos (12 November 1323), Bonagratia became a staunch defender of the Conventual Franciscan cause against the papal positions. As procurator generalis of the Order, he wrote the treatise De Paupertate Christi et Apostolorum, and voiced vehement protests against the bull Ad Conditorem Canonum (1322). As a result, Bonagratia was kept under papal surveillance in Avignon, and witnessed there the publication of the papal bull Cum inter Nonnullos (12 November 1323), in which the opinion that Christ and his apostles had possessed nothing was declared heretical). He was able to flee Avignon on 26 May 1328, together with Michael of Cesena and William of Ockham. At the Munich court of the German emperor Louis/Ludwig of Bavaria, Bonagratia, William and Michael continued their struggles with the popal positions on poverty and sovereignty, which led to their excommunication. The polemics reached a new high point when the pope came out with his controversial ideas on the Visio Beatifica. Bonegratia died unreconciled at the Imperial court of Munich on 19 June, 1340.

works

Articuli in Causa Olivi et Eius Defensoris Ubertini Casalensis Cardinali Guillelmo Petri Godini O.P. Porrecta (ca. 1311): Lost?

Protestatio Raymundi Fronsiaci et Bonagratiae de Bergamo contra Exemptionem Spiritualibus Concessam et Denuntiatio Doctrinae Fr. Petri Olivi, 1 Martii 1311, ed. F. Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte 2 (1886), 365-374.

Responsio Raymundi Fronsiaci et Bonagratiae ad Quatuor Articulos Raymundi Gaufredi Sociorumque (June 1311), ed. F. Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte 3 (1887), 141-160.

Responsiones [Gundisalvi, Raymundi Fronsiaci et Bonagratiae] super Articulis Propositis contra Ordinem Fratrum Minorum per Fr. Ubertinum de Casali (1311/12), ed. A. Chiappini, AFH 7 (1914), 654-675 & 8 (1915), 56-80.

Consilium Bonagratiae de Propria Relegatione a Clemente V, 31 Julii 1312 Iussa, ed. F. Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte 3 (1887), 33-41.

Scripta Quaedam a Bonagratia Unacum Fr. Guillelmo Astre contra Spirituales Provinciae Provinciae (1314-1318), cf. F. Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte 4 (1888), 50-63.

Articuli Probationum contra Fr. Ubertinum de Casali Inductarum a Fr. Bonagratia (ca. 1319), ed. in: Baluze-Mansi, Miscellanea II (Lucca, 1761), 76-279.

De Christi et Apostolorum Paupertate (1322), ed. L. Oliger, AFH 22 (1929), 317-335, 487-511 & 24 (1931). Cf. G.L. Dipple, Traditio 49 (1994), 235-258 (esp. p. 242, n. 25 and p. 243) [In this work, Bonagratia defends the Order’s position with recourse to Exiit qui Seminat of Nicholas III, and a wide range of statements derived from civil and canon law.]

Glossae in Librum Guido Terreni de Perfectione Vitae Evangelicae, cf. L. Oliger, AFH 22 (1929), 308.

Appellatio contra Constit. `Ad conditorem Canonum (Protests against John XXII): MSS Vatican Library Vat. Lat. 4008, ff. 5va-12vb; 4009, ff. 8ra-12va & 4010 ff. 9-18v (Etzkorn, IVF, 58). The work has been edited as: Appellatio Bonagratiae contra Bullam Ad Conditorem Canonum in Consistorio Papae Porrecta, 14 Ian. 1323, ed. in: Baluze-Mansi, Miscellanea III (Lucca, 1762), 213-221; Bullarium Franciscanum V, ed. C. Eubel (Rome, 1898), 237-246.

Libellus contra Zenselini de Cassanis Apparatum in Librum VI et in ‘Extravagantes’ Johannis XXII (ca. 1325): Lost?

Clypeus, edited in: A. Mercati, 'Frate Francesco Bartoli s'Assisi Michelista e la sua ritrattazione' AFH 20 (1927), 271-274, 289-291.

Tabula Errorum Contra Constitutiones Johannis XXII Composita (before 1330): Lost?

Appellatio contra Constit. `Quia Vir Oprobus': Vat.Lat. 4009 ff. 190-195.

Appellatio contra Errores Iacobi de Cathurco de Animabus: Vat.Lat. 4009 ff. 164-168

Responsio ad Oppositionem fr. Gisalberti de Pergamo, ed. H.-J. Becker, in: Idem, ‘Zwei unbekannte kanonistische Schriften des Bonagratia von Bergamo in Cod. Vat. Lat. 4009’, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 46 (1996), 271-276.

Appellatio contra Errores Joh. XXII Papae de Visione Beatifica: MSS BAV Vat.Lat. 4009 ff. 207-213; Metz, Bibliothèque municipale 190. [The work exists in two versions, one finished on 10 April 1332 and a second version from 1334]. Extracts of the work are provided in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 22 (1929), 310 - 312.

Questiones proposite tales sunt (1332): MS Vat. lat. 4009, ff. 174r-176v.

Appellatio Maior Fidem Catholicam Ludovici Bavari: MSS Vat.lat. 4009 f. 179 [initium]; Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana XX sin 12. S. Crucis. For an edition, see: Proclamatio Maior Fidem Catholicam Ludovici Bavari (Frankfurt a. M., August 1338), ed. Hofmeister, MGH Script. Rerum Germanicarum (Berlin, 1924), 157-158.

Casus Papales et Epicopales cum Explanatione Praedictorum: MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 333. Partly edited and described by L. Oliger, AFH 22 (1929), 313-314.

Nota de Quibus Danda est Quarta [Canonica] secundum Fr. Bonagratiam, partly edited and described by L. Oliger, AFH 22 (1929), 314.

De Obedientia Imperatori Debita/Consilium Bonagratiae de Iuramento Ludovico Bavaro non Obediendi (ca. 1338): MS Vat.Lat. 4008 ff. 199vb-200rb. For an edition, see: J.F. Boehmer, MGH Script. Rerum Germanicarum, IV (Stuttgart, 1868), 603-608.

De Observando Iuramento in Casu Discordiae inter Episcopum et Principem:Vat.Lat. 4009 ff. 203-204v

Formula Appellationis contra Papam: Vat, Lat. 4009 f. 177v.

Responsiones ad oppositiones eorum qui dicunt quod Joannes papa XXII sententialiter definivit in constitutione Cum inter nonnullos hereticum fore censendum asserere illud quod in Exiit qui seminat § Porro, continetur. Cf. the studies of Nold & Wittneben.

Informatio de nullitate processuum papae Iohannis XXII contra Ludovicum Bavarum: Trier, Stadtbibl. 844/1310 ff. 67-72. The work has been edited in: Goldast, Monarchia I (Hanover, 1612), 18-21; W. Felten, ‘Bonagratias Schrift zur Aufklärung über die Nichtigkeit der Prozesse Johannes XXII’, Trierisches Archiv 1 (1898), 60-77.

Responsio ad Oppositionem fr. Gisalberti de Pergamo: BAV Vat. Lat. 4009 ff. 204rv.

For more information on his works in general, see L. Oliger, AFH 22 (1929), 305-317, the entry on Bonagraza in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (1969), and the more recent works by Wittneben and Nold.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Quaracchi, 1931), V-VIII; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 141; R. Müller, Der Kampf Ludwigs des Baiern mit der römischen Curie, I (Tübingen, 1879); F. Ehrle, Archiv für Litteratur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1887), 33-41, 138-160, 540-552; W. Felten, ‘Bonagrazias Schrift zur Aufklärung über die Nichtigkeit der Prozesse Iohanns XII’, Trierisches Archiv 1 (Trier, 1898), 63-66; DThCat II (1905), 954f.; H. Holzapfel, Handbuch der Geschichte des Franziskanerordens (Freiburg i. Br., 1909), 56-61, 67-69; F. Callaey, L’idéalisme franciscain spirituel au XIVe siècle. Étude sur Ubertin de Casale (Louvain, 1911), 145-250; J. Hofer, ‘Der verfasser und die Entstehungszeit der Responsiones ad Oppositionem Eorum (…)’, Franziskanische Studien 4 (1917), 9-104; L. Oliger, AFH 22 (1929), 292-335; 487-511; 23 (1930), 57-69; 106-171; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bonagratia de Bergame’, DHGE IX, 720-722; DSpir I, 1766-1767; Hans-Jürgen Beker, 'Bonagrazia da Bergamo', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XI (1969) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonagrazia-da-bergamo_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/]; Tierney, Origins of Papal Infallibility, check; Malcom Lambert, The Absolute Poverty of Christ; David Burr, Olivi and Franciscan Poverty, check; David Flood, check, Edith Pásztor, check; Chr. Trottmann, Ad'HLMA, 61 (1994), 263-301 (esp. p. 273, on MS Vat.Lat. 4009 ff. 208 & 171); Patrick Nold, ‘A Neglected Copy of a Decretal Harmony’, Antonianum 77 (2002), 585-589 [argues, like Wittneben in her lengthy 2003 study that Bonegratia is the author of the Responsiones ad oppositiones eorum qui dicunt quod Joannes papa XXII sententialiter definivit in constitutione Cum inter nonnullos hereticum fore censendum asserere illud quod in Exiit qui seminat § Porro, continetur]; Sylvain Piron, ‘Bonagrazia de Bergamo, auteur des ‘Allegationes’ sur les articles extraits par Jean XXII de la ‘Lectura super Apocalypsim’ d’Olivi’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Cacciotti & Pacifico Sella, Medioevo, 5, 2 Vols. (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002) II, 1065-1087; Eva Luise Wittneben, Bonagratio von Bergamo. Franziskanerjurist und Wortführer seines Ordens im Streit mit Papst Johannes XXII, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 90 (Leiden, 2002) [review in Franciscan Studies 61 (2003), 293-296 & Collectanea Franciscana 75 (2005), 739-744]; Eva Luise Wittneben, ‘Bonagratia von Bergamo (d. 1340). Eine intellektuele Biographie in der politischen Diskussion des 14. Jahrhunderts’, in: Politische Reflexion in der Welt des späten Mittelalters/Political Thought in the Ages of Scholasticism. Essays in Honour of Jürgen Miethke, ed. Martin Kaufhold, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 103 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 247-267; Sylain Piron, ‘Censures et condamnation de Pierre de Jean Olivi: enquête dans les marges du Vatican’, Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome – Moyen Age 118:2 (2006), 313-373 (with info on the struggle between Ubertino of Casale and Bonagrazia concerning Olivi’s orthodoxy); Michael Menzelm ‘Weltstadt mit Geist?: Marsilius von Padua, Michael von Cesena, Bonogratia von Bergamo und Wilhelm von Ockham in München’, in: Bayern und Italien: Kontinuität und Wandel ihrer traditionellen Bindungen ; Vorträge der ‘Historischen Woche’ der Katholischen Akademie in Bayern vom 17. bis 20. Februar 2010 in München, ed. Hans-Michael Körner & Florian Schuller (Lindenberg, 2010), 88-102; Jonathan Robinson, ‘Property Rights in the Shift from ‘Community’ to ‘Michaelist’’, Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 22 (2011), 141-181. [considers texts from the 1310s and 1320s in order to examine how the writings of Franciscan order leaders differed from the views of post Ad conditorem Michaelists (esp. Michael of Cesena and Bonagratia of Bergamo)]; Jonathan Robinson, William of Ockham’s Early Theory of Property Rights in Context, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 166 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012) [deals with Bonagratia of Bergamo, Michael of Cesena, Francis of Marchia, and Ockham in almost equal measure]; Jonathan Robinson, ‘Innocent IV, John XXII, and the Michaelists on Corporate Poverty’, in: Poverty and Prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. A. Scott and C. Kosso, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 19 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), 197-224; Riccardo Saccenti, 'The decree Exivi de paradiso and its implications for mendicant poverty', in: Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450, ed. Constant J Mews & Anna Welch (Routledge, 2016); Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo, ‘The Classic Age of the Distinction between God’s Absolute and Ordered Power: In, Around, and After the Pontificate of John XXII (1316-1334)’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 207-266.

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia de Sancto Johanno de Persiceto (Bonagratia da San Giovanni in Persiceto/Bonagratia di Bologna, Bonagratia Fielci, d. 1283)

OM. Italian friar from San Giovanni in Persiceto. Entered the order in the Bologna province. Provincial minister in 1261. Sent to Constantinople in 1272, to investigate a possible union between the Catholic and the Orthodox churches. He returned in 1274 with a Greek delegation, travelling on towards Lyon, where the union was proclamated during the general council. He was elected general minister of the Franciscan order at the Assisi general chapter of 1279. The same year he obtained the papal bull Exiit qui Seminat, which aimed to provide an authoritative solution of problems concerning the adherence to the Regula Bullata. Bonagratia was a very active travelling minister general, and visited several provinces to secure the observance to the rule. He also was an active promotor of Franciscan missionary efforts in the Near and Far East. In 1282, he promulgated a new set of statutes at the general chapter of Strasbourg. In 1283, at Paris, he installed a committee to examine the scholastic writings of Peter Olivi. Bonagratia died the same year of exhaustion at Avignon, on 3 October 1283.

works

Epistola ad Ministrum Provinciae Alemaniae Superioris (1281): MS Uppsala, UB C.583 (14th cent.) ff. 216r-v.

Epistola ad Regem Brittaniae. Edited in: A.G. Little, `Letter of Bongratia, Minister General, to Edward I, King of England, an. 1282. With Some Notes on Visitations of Provinces by Ministers General in the 13th Century', ed. A.G. Little, AFH, 16 (1933), 236-241; 'Duae Confraternitatis Epistolae a fr. Bonagratia, Ministro gen. datae an. 1282, altera Vindobonae', ed. M. Bihl, AFH, 23 (1930), 242-245.

Epistolae confraternitatis. Edited in: 'Duae Confraternitatis Epistolae a fr. Bonagratia, Ministro gen. datae an. 1282, altera Vindobonae', ed. M. Bihl, AFH, 23 (1930), 242-245.

Constititiones Generales (Assisi, 1279 & Strasbourg, 1282), edited in: Constitutiones Generales Ordinis Fratrum Minorum I (Saeculum XIII), ed. C. Cenci & R.G. Mailleux, Analecta Franciscana XIII, Nova Series Documenta et Studia, 1 (Grottaferrata (Rome): Ed. Coll. S. Bonaventurae, 2007).

Epistola Enciclyca de rebus ad Regulam et bonum Ordinis pertinentia, included in: Firmamenta trium Ordinum Beatissimi Patris nostri Francisci I, 22 [check!]; Speculum Minorum (Rouen, 1509) Tractatus III, f. 110 [Check!], Chronologia Seraphica, 31 [check!].

literature

Salimbene da Parma, Cronica, ed. Oswald Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII (Hanover, 1905-1913), 298, 314, 341, 402-403, 446, 511, 519-520, 579, 624, 666-668, 676, 682; Wadding, Annales Minorum V (Quaracchi, 1931), passim; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 224; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 141-142 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 147-148; Bullarium Franciscanum Epitome, ed. C. Eubel (Quaracchi, 1908), nos. 1334, 1347, 1403, 1467; Analecta Franciscana II & III (1887-1897), passim; G. Golubovich, Biblioteca Bio-Bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente francescano I (Quaracchi, 1906), 37, 104, 276, 283, 288, 301 & II (Quaracchi, 1913), 4, 80, 88, 96, 417, 428, 478; H. Holzapfel, Manuale Historiae Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Freiburg i. Br., 1909), 41, 159, 232; AFH 3 (1910), 3-21 & 26 (1933), 127, 140, 232-241; Gratien de Paris, Histoire de la fondation et de l’évolution de l’ordre des frères mineurs au XIIIe siècle (Paris-Gembloux, 1928), 326, 337-338, 365, 379-381, 653, 670; O. van der Vat, Die Anfänge der Franziskanermissionen in nahen Orient und in den mohammedanischen Ländern während des XIII. Jahrhunderts (Werl, 1934), 92, 128, 132-133, 251-252, 173-174; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bonagratia Fielci’, DHGE IX, 722-723; A. Van den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana.

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia de Varena (Bonagrazia da Varena, fl. 1610)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Milan province.

works

Vita di P.F. Francesco Panigarola di Milano, included in: Francesco Panigarola di Milano, Espositione Letterale, e Mistica della Cantica di Salomone Memoriale, ed Oratorio di Medicina Spirituale (...) Con la Vita del medesimo Monsig. composta dal P.F. Bonagrazia da Varena (Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1621). Accessible via the Alessandrina Library in Rome and via Google Books. Wadding and Juan de San Antonio mention a first edition in 1617, yet we have not been able to trace that one.

Chronica Reformationum Italiae. Apparently remained unfinished.

Liber de Vita Ven. Fr. Hieronymi Hispani Laici Mediolani ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 224; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 142; Jacopo Maria Paitoni, Biblioteca degli autori antichi, greci e latini, volgarizzati (...) V, 111-112; Archivio Storico Lombardo 15 (1911), 234f.

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia Habsensis (Bonagratia von Habsheim, ca. 1604-1672)

OFMCap. Alsacian friar from Habsheim (near Mulhouse). Studied law and medicine. Entered the Capuchin order in the Swiss province in 1624. Lector of law and moral theology. Fulfilled several administrative functions in the order (guardian, definitor). After the division of the Swiss province in 1668, he transferred to the Swabian/Austria Anterioris province. Dealt with matters of order regulations, and was active as counterreformation preacher. He died in Freiburg i. Breisgau on 3 March 1672 (or on 13 March, according to other sources).

works

Summula Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium in Specialem Usum FF. Capuccinorum (Freiburg i. Br., 1663/Freiburg: Theodorus Meyer, 1665/Cologne: Johann Busaeus, 1667). These editions, as well as later ones also contain the Isagoge ad Summulam Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium. The 1665 and 1667 editions are available via Google books. The 1667 edition is also accessible via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon.

Additamenta Summulae Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium (Freiburg i. Br.: Theodoricus Meyer, 1665). Acessible via Google Books.

A revised edition of these two works, answering some objections and condemnations by the papal curia under Alexander VII, came out at Cologne, 1667 and Lyon, 1671. This revised version bears the title Compendiosa Summula Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium.

Breviculus Quaestionum Regularium ad Usum Particularem Fr. Minorum Capuccinorum (Cologne, 1668). An extract of the Compendiosa Summula.

Quaestio cur Hodie Religiosi a Religione Catholica Deficiant (s.l., s.a.). This work can also be found in the 1665 edition of the Additamenta Summulae Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium.

Disceptatio de Matrimoniis Haereticorum (s.l., s.a.). This work can also be found in the 1665 edition of the Additamenta Summulae Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium.

Elucidatio Quorundam Locorum Theologicorum de Sacramentis in Quibus S. Bonaventura a Quibusdam DD. Graviori Censura Perstringitur (Cologne., 1669). An earlier version of this work apparently can also be found in the 1665 edition of the Additamenta Summulae Selectarum Quaestionum Regularium.

literature

Bullarium OFMCap V, 129; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 50; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 223-224; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 201; Romuald von Stockach, Historia Provinciae Anterioris Austriae Fr. Minorum Capuccinorum (Kempten, 1747), 262-263, 320; H. Hurter, Nomenclator Literarius, 3rd ed. IV, 53-54; A. Hohenegger, Geschichte der tirolischen Kapuziner-Ordensprovinz (1593-1893) (Innsbruck, 1913), 364-365, 388; M. Kunzle, Die schweizerische Kapuzinerprovinz. Ihr Werden und Wirken (Einsiedeln, 1928), 342; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonagratia de Habsheim’, DHGE IX, 723-724; LexCap, 239; Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Bonagratia v. Habsheim’, LThK II (1994), 570.

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia Romano (Bonagrazia Romano, fl. 1660)

OFMRif. Italian friar. Member of the provincia romana. Lector of theology and provincial minister. Pupil of Santoro da Melfi.

works

Morales Commentarii in Statuta, & et Constitutiones Summarias, Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (...) per P.F. Sanctorum de Melfi (...) in hac secunda impressione correptum, & auctum, Additionibus nonnullis Asterisco * notatis. Ab A.R.P.F. Bonagratia Romano (...) (Venice: Bertani, 1664). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 224.

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia Stalio (Bonagrazia Stalio de Lezina, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Croatian (Dalmatian) friar. Member of the St. Jerome province. Taught the arts, canon law and theological controversies in the Capodistria collegium. At the request of order general Pasquale da Varese he was made visitator of the Brescia province. He took part in the general chapter of Valencia (Spain) and there was appointed censor for order writings issued in Spain about which questions concerning doctrinal purity had risen. Theological consultant for several bishops in Dalmatia and Istria. Was apparently held in high esteem by the archbishop of Split (Spalato) Giovanni Luca Garagnin. He apparently wrote several works, but only one of these seems to have reached the printing press.

works

Oratio de Praefectorum Dalmaticae Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Familiae delectione, habita Phariae (Venice: Occhi, 1765).

Cursus Theologiae Moralis. Apparently used in the Lesina diocese. We have not yet been able to find this work.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 835-836; Simone Gliubich di Città Vecchia, Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia (Vienna & Zara: Lechner & Battara, 1856), 286; Girolamo Dandolo, La caduta della Repubblica di Venezia ed i suoi ultimi cinquant’ anni. Studii storici (Venice, 1858) Appendix, 312; Donato Fabianich, Storia dei Frati minori dai primordi della loro istituzione in Dalmazia e Bossina fino ai giorni nostri, 2 Vols. (Zara: Battera, 1864) II, 163. See also https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Stalio,_Bonagrazia [last accessed 14 October 2021]

 

 

 

 

Bonagratia Vignati (Buonagrazia Vignati, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Milan. Would have written different works, but the only title known is a life of Caterina Vigri.

works

Vita D. Catharinae Virginis (...). Check!

literature

Filippo Picinelli, Ateneo dei letterati milanesi, adunati dall'abbate don Filippo Picinelli milanese nei Canonici Regolari Lateranensi teologo (Milan: Francesco Vigone, 1670), 98; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 142.

 

 

 

 

Bona Parisiensis (Bonne de Paris/Bonne du Jardin de Paris/Anne du Jardin, 1592-1652)

OSCCap. French Capuchin non, who joined the order in Marseille in 1607. Author of a work of passion devotion (Alphabet de la croix de la passion du Jesu Christ), and for a long time abbess of her community.

works

Alphabet de la croix de la passion du Jesu Christ. Check!

vitae

Marcel de Riez, OFMCap, La Vie de la Révérende Mère Bonne de Paris, religieuse capucine, professe du monastère de Paris et une des fondatrices du monastère de Marseille (Marseille: Charles Brebion, 1675).

literature

Bullarium OFMCap V, 179-180; Lexicon Capuccinum, 239.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura (Bonaventure, fl. 1440)

OMObs. French Observant friar from France, about whom nothing more is known. He compiled ca. 1440 a Livre de dévotions, consisting of 38 small works or ‘dévotes oroisons.’ These prayers are seemingly heavily inspired by the Pseudo-Bonaventurean Meditationes Vitae Christi, and focus on the Passion, the Virgin, and the sacrament of the Eucharist. Some of the works in the Livre de dévotions (such as the Bon et salutaire advertissement pour à toute heure dire à Nostre Seigneur (f. 139) and the La manière de vivre dévotement chascun jour de la septmaine (f. 176) also contain some references to the devotional letters and the Opera Tripartita of Jean Gerson.

works

Livre de dévotions: MSS Paris BN Français 190 ff. 103-180 (xve s.); Chantilly, Musée Condé 1474 (xve s.; contains the Heures de la passion de Jhesu Christ Nostre Seigneur par vers et bons mètres de six, one of the 38 small works of the Livre de dévotions (The Heures de la passion is found on f. 129 of MS Paris BN Français 190)]

literature

Paulin Paris, Les manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque du Roi (Paris, 1838) II, 115-121; H. d’Orléans, Chantilly. Le cabinet des livres. Manuscrits (Paris, 1900) I, 131-132 (no. 141); E. Vansteenberghe, Revue des sciences religieuses 15 (1935), 548-549; DSpir I, 1856-1857.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Acosta (Buenaventura Acosta, fl. third quarter 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Novice master in the Spanish Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 38 (1935), 96-97.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Aesinus (Bonaventura da Jesi, d. ca. 1270)

OM. Italian friar. Should he be identified with Bonaventura de Iseo? See there.

works

Sermones in Singulas Anni Domenicas: Padua, Ant. [??]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 224, 235; Zawart, 288.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Alvarez (Buenaventura Alvarez, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from the San Juan Bautista province. Provincial definitor.

works

Tratado de miracoli de la inmaculada Virgo María e las prerrogativas del funícolo franciscano ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 142.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Angelus (Buenaventura Angel/Buenaventure Angeleres/Bonaventura Angeli; Bonaventura Angelieri de Marsala, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Marsala, Sicily. Born around 1640. He joined the order in Sicily and became master of theology. Theologian of the Doge Marc'Antonio Giustiniani, general commissarius for his order and later general vicar residing in Madrid (1690-1693). Although he was a theologian, he had (al)chemical interest and wrote a number of highly peculiar alchemical/medical/cosmological/natural science works under the pseudonym Lilio Betani. In all, it was meant to be an encompassing treatment of all knowledge on these matters in 24 volumes, but only two books apparently appeared. During his sojourn at the royal court of Madrid, he also published his treatise on political philosophy El Príncipe Melchisedech.

works

Lux magica physica Diana Coelestium, Terraestrium, & Inferorum, Origo, Ordo, & Subordinatio cunctorum, quoad esse fieri, & operari. In 24. volum. divisa sacrasque amplectens litteras. Pars Prima: De Imaginibus totius mundi, primordiis cunctorum rerum, praecise vere de re metallica, tu theoricè, tum mechanicè agit. Collectahea Lilybetani ad Serenissimum Venetiarum Principem M.A. Iustinianum (Venice: Sumptibus Pontii Bernardoni Bibliopolae, 1686). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbobliothek.

Lux magica Academica. Pars secunda, primordia rerum naturalium, sanabilium, infirmarum, & incurabilium continens; insuper de lapide Physico, Mercurio notho, ad Serenissimum M.A. Iustinianum Ducem (...) (Venice: Typis: Ioh. Bapt. Tramontini, 1687).

El Príncipe Melchisedech: Sueño del principe que habla con la prudencia durmiendo, y obra con la justicia callando. Gobierno del sabio consejo de la prudencia, justicia, templanza, magnificencia, fortaleza y liberalidad. Dividido en tres partes. Para el gobierno prudente o sabio. Para el alma o espiritualidad. Para el cuerpo o vida temporal. Primera parte de la prudencia (Madrid, 1692). Accessible via Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 3/75291.

literature

The General Biographical Dictionary, 241; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, no. 2810; Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 224-225; D. Sparacio, 'Frammenti bio-bibliografici di scrittori ed autori Minori Conventuali dagli ultimi anni del '600 a noi', Miscellanea Francescana 27 (1927), 200; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 84; Fénix de España: modernidad y cultura propia en la España del Siglo XVIII (1737-1766), ed. Pablo Fernández Albaladejo (Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-Universitat d'Alacant-Casa de Velázquez, 2006), 80ff; Gonzalo Fernández-Gallardo, 'Buenaventura Angeleres, franciscano conventual siciliano en la corte de Madrid (1690-1693)', in: I Francescani e la politica: atti del convegno internazionale di studio Palermo 3-7 Dicembre 2002, ed. Alessandro Musco, 2 Vols. (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2007) I, 453-492;

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Antonius Bravi (Bonaventura Antonio Bravi di Verona, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Verona. Obtained the status of lector jubilatus. Poet.

works

Parafrasi del sacro libro di Giobbe fatta in versi italiani dal Padre Buonaventura Antonio Bravi Accademico Olimpico (...) (Verona: Marco Moroni, 1763). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the British Library and Google Books.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 806.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Armengual (Buenaventura Armengual/Buenaventura Armenguel, d. 1645)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from Lluchmayor. Took the habit in the Gesú friary outside Palma de Mallorca. Active as lector and as guardian of the Alayor de Menorca friary. He died in the San Francisco de Palma friary on December 5, 1645.

works

Vita S. Severi Episcopi Minoricensis Lost ?

De rebus Majoricarum, 2 Vols. Lost?

Archielogium vitae, martyrii et doctrinae Raymundi Lulli doctoris illuminati (Palma: P. Marzal, 1643). Also included in Raymund Llull, Ars generalis ultima (...) (Palma: Typis haeredum Gabrielis Guasp, 1645), Appendix.

Epitome del reino Baleárico, in: Damian Cornejo, Crónica Seráfica (Madrid, 1686) III, 464.

Vida de la V. Sor Clara Coloma Fiol Never completed?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 225; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 142; Biblioteca de Autores Baleares, ed. Joaquin María Bover (Palma: P.J. Gelabert, 1868) I, 42-43 (no. 67); José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 2nd Ed. VI, 56.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Bachmilski (d. 1809)

OFMRif. Polish friar.

literature

Stanislaw Kowalczyk, ‘Bachmilski Bonawentura’, in: Powszechna encyklopedia filozofii, 453.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Barberini (Bonaventura di Ferrara, 1674-1743)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Barberini family. Born on 20 October 1674. Joined the Capuchins at Bologna at the age of 20 (1694). For many years, he taught theology in the schools of the order. He also preached frequently and in many different places (Ferrara, Bologna, Mantua, Florence, Rome), apparently to much popular acclaim. He was made apostolic preacher at the papal palace by pope Innocent XIII. A position he kept under the popes Benedict XIII and Clement XII. After functioning as a consultant for the Holy Office and as an episcopal examinator, he became general definitor for his order (1726), and eventually was elected minister general of the Capuchin order by the general chapter of 1733. Although he was not a cardinal, Bonaventura Barberini had a role to play at the conclave of 1740 that elected pope Benedict XIV (August). On September 18 of that same year, he was made archbishop of Ferrara. Bonaventura died on October 15, 1743, ‘in the odor of sanctity,’ leaving behind several works - predominantly sermons and eulogical lectures - that in the course of the eighteen century saw the printing press.

works

Orazione funebre di Monsignor Pellegrino Masserio (Forli, 1718).

Orazione panegirica in onore di Maria santissima (Forli, 1718).

Prediche dette nel sagro Palazzo apostolico per il corso di anni diecinove, 3 Vols. (Venice, 1752).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 51-52; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 782-783; Boniface de Nice, Cenni biografici e ritratti di Padri illustri dell’ordine cappuccino (Rome, 1850) I, 84-90; DThC II, 384-385; Lexicon Capuccinum, 169 (with additional references); M.-Th Disdier, ‘Barberini’, DHGE VI, 642-643; Santi e Santità nell'Ordine Cappuccino (Rome, 1981), Vol 2, 29-45.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Baronius (Bonaventura Baro/Bartholomew Baron, 1610-1696)

OFMRef. Irish friar. Born on July 24, 1610 at Clonmel (Tipperary), as the younger son of Lawrence Baron (merchant) and Mary Wadding (the sister of Luke Wadding, the Franciscan historian). Supported by his elder brother Geoffrey, Bartholomew studied philosophy at Temulagie (1626). There he entered the Franciscan order (Riformati branch), changing his name into Bonaventure. Further studies followed at Louvain, where he wrote a thesis dedicated to his oncle Luke Wadding. By 1631, he is sent to Tyrol. This is followed by short assignments in Salzburg and Augsburg. On January 8, 1633, he is called to Rome, where he follows theology lectures at the Irish St. Isidore College (founded by his oncle Luke Wadding). After he is ordained priest and after he has become professor of theology, he travels to Hungary as a provincial commissioner (1656). He fulfills the same function in Tyrol, Paris, and Würzburg. In Würzburg, he publishes the first of his works. More publications follow during a sojourn at Lyon (1661-1670). After his return to Italy, he becomes the official historiographer of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In this period he is also invited to become a member of the Florentine Academy, probably on the basis of his publication of the Trias Tuscia and the Orbes Medici. From this period stem also his treatise on the order of redemption and his 21-volume work on the lives of Saints.

works

A listing of his works is found in Juan de San Antonio and in Sbaralea. This is the information that we have found thus far:

Iuxta Mentem Dotoris Subtilis Reverendissimo admodum Patri P.F. Lucae Waddingo (…) avunculo suo plurimum colendo. Fr Bartholomaeus Baronius...conclusiones (..) philosophicae (Louvain, 1630).

Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Principi Alphonso de la Cueva (…) Fr Bonaventura Baronius (….) Conclusiones Theologicae Iuxta Mentem Dotoris Subtilis (Rome, 1633). [broadsheet]

Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Principi Francisco Card. Barberini (...) Fr Bonaventura Baronius Conclusiones Theologicae Iuxta Mentem Dotoris Subtilis (Rome, 1635). [broadsheet]

Orationes Panegyrici Sacra-Prophani, Necnon Controversiae et Stratagemata (Rome, 1642/Lyon: sumptibus J.A. Huguetan, 1656).

Elegia de immaculata conceptione B.V.M. (Rome, 1642).

Panegyrici sacro-prophani, siue orationes rhetoricae miscellaneae authore P. Fr. Bonauentura Barronio Ordinis Minorum (...) (Rome: Ludouico Grignani, 1643). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples and via Google Books.

Metra Miscellanea, Sive Carminum Diversorum Libri Duo Epigrammatum Unus, Sylvulae Secundus (Rome: Ludovicus Grignanus, 1645). This book is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Conclusiones Theologicae Ad Mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Rome, 1646). [broadsheet]

Conclusiones Theologicae Ex Universa Theologia Scholastica Canonica Morali (Rome, 1649). [broadsheet]

Harpocrates Quinqueludius; Seu Diatriba Silentii (Rome, 1651). This work of 48 pages, dedicated to the Poor Clares of the Bethlehem monastery, was issued as an appendix (with its own pagination and title page) to Prolusiones Philosophicae, Logicis et Physicis Materiis Bipartitae (1651).

Prolusiones Academicae in Potiores Sacra Theologia Materias Quum Dictandae, Aut Disputandae Offeruntur (Rome: Typis Mascardi, 1651). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Prolusiones Philosophicae, Logicis et Physicis Materiis Bipartitae (Rome: Typis Mascardi, 1651). This book is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Divus Anitius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boetius absolutus: sive De consolatione theologiae libri quatuor (Rome: typis haeredum M. Manelphii, 1653). This work also contains Portenta trilicia. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Controversiae et Stratagemata (Lyons, 1656).

Panegyrici sacro-prophani necnon controversiae et stratagemata (...) (Lyon: sumptibus J. A. Huguetan, 1656). Accessible via the Staatsbibliothek in Regensburg, Turin University Library, and via Google Books.

Metra Miscellanea. Epigrammatum Libri Tres. Sylvarum Totidem. Accesserunt Eulogia Aliquot Illustrium Heroum (Cologne, 1657).

Cursus Philosophicus, 3 Vols. (Cologne, 1660/Cologne, 1664).

Obsidio et Expugnatio Arcis Duncannon Sub Thoma Prestono (1660/Lyon: Antoine Huguetan, 1661) [published in later editions of Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Principi Francisco Card. Barberini Fr Bonaventura Baronius Conclusiones Theologicae Iuxta Mentem Dotoris Subtilis]

Declarationes Rethoricae in utramque partem controversae (Lyon: Antoine Huguetan, 1661).

Fr. Joan. Duns Scotus Ordinis Minorum Doctor Subtilus Per Universam Philosophiam, Logicam, Physicam, Metaphysicam, Ethicam, contra Adversantes Defensus, Quæstionum Novitate Amplificatus (...), 3 Vols. (Cologne: Johann Busaeys, 1662-1664/Lyon, 1668). In any case the second and third volumes of the 1662/1664 edition are accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Conclusiones theologicae: juxta mentem Doctoris Subtilis, de fide, spe et charitate quas in Seminario Archiepiscolai Pragensi praeside r.p. Antonio Ferallo, Ordinis Minorum Strictoris Observantuae (Typis Urbani Goliasch, 1663). [broadsheet, 10 pages]

Fr. Joan. Duns Scotus Ordinis Minorum Doctor Subtilis per Universam Philosophiam, Logicam, Physicam, Metaphysicam, Ethica,, contra adversantes Defensus (...), 3 Vols. (Cologne: Joannes Busaeus, 1664). At least the second volume is accessible via Google Books and via the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid.

Ioannes Duns Scotus Ordinis Minorum doctor subtilis, de Deo trino, contra aduersantes quosque defensus, quaestionum nouitate amplificatus (Lyon: sumptibus Matthaei Liberal, 1668). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid.

Opuscula Prosa Et Metro, Argumento Etiam Varia, 3 Vols. (Würzburg: Elias Michael Zinck, 1666-1669). The first volume is accessible via the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the Nórodni Knilhovna National library in Prague, and via Google Books. The third volume seems to be present in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid. It was apparently re-issued as Opuscula Prosa Et Metro, Argumento Etiam Varia, 3 Vols. (Lyon: Matth. Liberal, 1671/Lyon: Sumptibus Matth. Liberal, 1688). Several volumes of this edition are also accessible via Google Books. Two additional volumes of this work apparently never saw the printing press. For an initial description of their contents, see Juan de San Antonio.

Joannis Duns Scoti (...) Contra Adversantes Defensus Questionum Novitate Amplificatus (Lyons, 1668/Lyon 1671). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Opuscula Prosa et Metro Tomus Secundus (Lyons, 1669).

Doctor subtilis de Deo uno defensus (Lyon, 1670).

Baronis Ferraria Celebrata (Florence: Ex typographia Stellae, 1674).

Orbes Medicii (Florence, [1674? or 1676?]).

Franciscus Principis Mirandulae Anagrammati: Et Epice Celebratus (Florence, [1675]).

Joannis Duns Scoti (...) de Angelis defensus (Florence: Typ. Ducali, 1676).

Trias Tusca Sive Totidem Servi Dei Nuper in Hetruria Vitis Functi et Defuncti (Cologne: Balthasar von Egmond, 1676). Accessible via the digital editions of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Annales Ordinis SSmae Trinitatis Redemptoribus Captivorum fundatoribus SS. Ioanne de Matha et faelice de Valois, Tomus primus (Rome: typis Angeli Bernabo, 1684 [1664?]). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, the Národní knihovna National library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Luca Celebrata Eulogia Anagrammat. & Epigram. (Rome, 1685).

Tractatus Catholicus de divino opificio Hexameron, ed. Jacob Griffin, Opera, X (Prague: Witwe Johann Kaudelkin, 1744). Accessible via the Národní knihovna National library in Prague and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 225-226; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 172-173; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 727; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1906), 185-186; C. P. Meehan, Rise and fall of the Franciscans (1872), 89–93, 271Gregory Cleary, Father Luke Wadding and St. Isidore’s College Rome (Rome, 1925), 88-100; T. Wall, ‘A distinguished Irish humanist: Bonaventure Baron OFM of Clonmel’, Irish Ecclesiastical Record 67 (1946), 92–102; J. Goyens, ‘Baron’, DHGE VI, 865-866; A. Millet, ‘Bonaventure Baron’, Tercentenary of the siege of Clonmel (1950), 41–46; B. Millet, The Irish Franciscans, 1651–1665 (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1964), 366, 469–473; Terry Clavin, ‘Baron, Bartholomew (1610–1696)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2004; online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1493, accessed 3 Dec 2014]; M.W.F. Stone, ‘The theological and philosophical accomplishments of the Irish Franciscans: from Flaitrhi O Maoil to Bonaventure Baron’, in: The Irish Franciscans 1534-1990, ed. Edel Breathnach, Joseph MacMahon & John McCafferty (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009), 201-220.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Batallea (Bonaventura Bataglia, fl. early 17th cent.)

TOR. Italian friar from Ciminna. Active in the Sicily province. Magister of theology, prior of several tertiary convents, provincial minister and general definitor of his order (1616). He died in Palermo on August 31, 1627.

works

Discorso dell'arte metrica diligentemente osservata dal R. P. M. Giovanni Antonio Brandi siciliano di Salemi nel suo libro del Rosario (Rome, 1601).

Tratati sull'Imacolata Concezione. These were apparently never printed, due to the death of the author.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 226; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 173; Giuseppe Maria Mira, Bibliografia siciliana: ovvero, Gran dizionario bibliografico delle opere edite e inedite, antiche e moderne di autori siciliano o di argomento siciliano I, 89.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Belleni (later 16th cent.)

OFM. Master of theology and bishop of Andros (Asia Minor, June 8, 1587). Author?

literature

Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, 121; DHGE II, 1802-1804 & VII, 868.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Bellutus (Bonaventura Belutto/Belluti, 1600-1676 (1678?))

OFMConv. Italian friar from Sicily, and one of the most important renovators of Scotism in the seventeenth century. Studied at the Collegium St. Bonaventurae in Rome, where he met Bartholomaeus Mastrius, with whom he worked consistently in the course of his life. Bonaventure taught at Cesena, Perugia and Padova (1638-41), and tried to rejuvenate Scotism in the seventeenth-century religious and philosophical contexts. In collaboration with Bartholomaeus Mastrius, Bonaventura Belluto published several philosophical commentaries from a Scotist perspective, as well as a logical treatise (Institutiones Logicae) in the tradition established by the French Scotist Tartaret. Mastrius’ and Belluto’s major joint enterprise was the multi-volume Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti, which is among the most influential Scotist philosophical manuals of the seventeenth century. In 1645, Bonaventura returned to his home town Catania on Sicily, where he became active as provincial minister, and an advisor for the local inquisition. During that later period, he also published several works on his own.

works

Disputationes in Aristotelis Libros Physicorum, Quibus ad Adversantibus Scoti Philosophice Vindicantur (Rome 1637; Venice 1644). [=Second volume of the Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti]

Disputationes in Organum Aristotelis Quibus Scoti Logica Vindicatur (Venice 1639; Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1646; Naples 1664) [=Third volume (first part) of the Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti, composed in collaboration with Bartholomaeus Mastrius] The 1546 Venice edition and the 1664 Naples edition are accessible via Google Books.

Disputationes in Libros de Coelo et Metheoris & Disputationes in Libros de Generatione et Corruptione, 2 Vols. [first volume in Libros de Coelo et Metheoris and second volume de Generatione et Corruptione] (Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1640, 1652, 1659) [=Third volume (second part) of the Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti, composed in collaboration with Bartholomaeus Mastrius] The 1640 and 1652 edition are acessible via Google Books.

Disputationes in Libros de Anima (Venice 1640; 1652; 1671) [=Third volume (third part) of the Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti]

Institutiones Logicae, Quas Vulgo Summulas vel Logicam Parvam Nuncupant(Venice, 1646/...). [= first volume of the Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti, This is also known under the title Disputationes in Aristotelis logicam] Accessible via various digital portals.

These works were re-issued as the Cursus Integer Philosophiae ad Mentem Scoti , 5 Vols. (Venice, 1678; 1688, 1707; 1727). Some of these volumes are accessible via Google Books the Narodni Knihovna National Library of Czech Republic, the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid, and other digital portals.

Disputationes de Incarnatione Dominica ad Mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Catania; Typis Io. de Rubeis [Giovanni Rossi], 1645) [written after his return to Catania] This edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Liber Moralium Opusculorum atque Resolutionum Miscellaneo Apparatu Digestorum (Catania: Bisagnus, 1679). This edition is accessible via Google Books and via the digital collectons of the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek in Vienna.

De Sacramentis tum in Genere tum in Specie (1655). Announced but probably never appeared

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 111-113; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 226-227; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 173 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) 186; V. Di Giovanni, Storia della filosofia in Sicilia dai tempi antichi al secolo XIX (Palermo, 1872), I, 144; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Scoto nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia (Rome, 1927), 215 ff.; DThC II, 601; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Belluti’, DHGE VII, 942-943; DBI>>; Francesco Costa, ‘Bonaventura Belluto da Catania (1603-1676) filosofo e teologo scotista dei Minori Conventuali’, Miscellanea Francescana 102 (2002), 758-768; Paola Müller, ‘La dottrina delle ‘Fallacie in dictione’ nelle ‘Disputationes in Organum’ di Bartolomeo Mastri e Bonaventura Belluto’, in: Rem in seipsa cernere. Saggi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673). Atti del Convegno di studi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri da Mendola (1602-1673), ed. Marco Forlivesi, Subsidia Mediaevalia Patavina, 8 (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2006), 205-221; Marco Forlivesi, ‘The nature of Transcendental Being and its Contraction to its Inferiors in the Thought of Mastri and Belluto’, in: Rem in seipsa cernere. Saggi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673). Atti del Convegno di studi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri da Mendola (1602-1673), ed. Marco Forlivesi, Subsidia Mediaevalia Patavina, 8 (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2006), 261-337; Roberto Osculati, ‘Gli opuscoli morali di Bonaventura Bellutti (1600-1678)’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Catania: atti del convegno di studio (Catania 21-22 dicembre 2007), ed. Nicoletta Grisanti, Collana Franciscana, 25 (Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008), 159-163; Daniel Heider, 'The Role of Trinitarian Theology in Universals: Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola (1602-1673) and Bonaventura Belluto (1600-1676)', in: Herausforderung durch Religion? Begegnungen der Philosophie mit Religionen in Mittelalter und Renaissance, ed. Gerhard Krieger (Würsburg: Verlag Königshausen und Neumann, 2011), 268-284 [251-267?]; Claus A. Andersen, ‘Intuitive and abstractive cognition, “praecisiones obiectivae“, and the Formal Distinction in Mastri and Belluto and later scotist authors’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 108:1-2 (2015), 183-247; Marco Forlivesi, ‘The "ratio studiorum" of the Conventual Franciscans in the Baroque Age and the Cultural-Political Background to the Scotist Philosophy "cursus" of Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto’, Noctua 2 (2015), 253-384.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Beretta (1594-1687)

OFMConv. Italian friar. composer.

works

Clio Sacra. Davidicos psalmos vespertinis horis ascriptos notis musicis decantans. Venezia 1635, Corpus Musicum Franciscanum, 23 (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2010).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Bisi (1612-1659)

OFMConv. Italian (Bolognese) friar and painter.

literature

Amadeo Potito, Il pittorino bolognese, fra Bonaventura Bisi (1612-1659) (Urbania, 1975).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Blanchus de Cotiniola (Bonaventura Blancus Cotignolanus/Bonaventura Bianchi da Cotignola, fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Cotignola. Member of the Bologna province.

works

Quadragesimale, et De viris illustribus antiqui ac novi Testamenti Fratris Bonaventure Blanci Cotignolani ordinis Seraphici Francisci de observantia (...) (Bologna: Giovanni Battista di Phaelli, 1534/Bologna: Giovanni Battista di Phaelli, 1537). The 1534 edition is accessible via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear).

Sermoni domenicali e Omelie pel corso dell'anno (Bologna, 1537).

Sbaralea/Sbaraglia mentions another Quaresimal collection, as well as two cycles of de tempore and Sunday sermons, issued in 1537, yet we have not yet been able to confirm that.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 227; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 173; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 339.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Bontempi da Iano (Bonaventura Bontempi da Giano, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Already preacher, magister studium, lector of the arts and baccalaureus conventus in Rimini prior to his entry examn for the Collegium S. Bonaventura. His scores were sufficient that he received the doctorate in 1644 without residing in the Collegium with a letter from the Cardinal Protector. He subsequently fulfilled stints as regent in the theology chairs of Faenza, Cremona, Viterbo, Perugia, and Padua. He also preached in Viterbo, Assisi, Todi, Arezzo, Siena, Verona, Bologna, Venice, and elsewhere. He was made order secretary and became the assistant of the order general Fabretti in 1662. Later, he fulfilled stints as guardian. he might have died around 1700 in Rome.

works

Fasciculus florum moralium ex nobili viridario iuris vtriusque praesertim pontificii, seniorumue doctrinae fideliter excerptus a fr. Bonauentura Bontempio De Iano ordinis Minorum Conuentualium Sancti Francisci sacrae theologiae magistro (...) (Rome: Typis Corbelleti, 1688). Accessible via Google Books. The work deals with the internal conscience, justice and law, contracts, clerical immunity, the precepts of the decalogue, sins, the sacraments, etc.

De censuris?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 113-115; Juan de San Antonio. Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 227.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Bosellus (Bonaventura Boselli da Sestola/Bonaventura Malvasia, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Modena region (from the nobla Malvasia family). Member of the Bologna province. Master of theology. Important Lenten preacher and religious controversialist. Worked for years in de Santi Apostoli friary in Rome. He was confessor of highly placed persons, advisor of the inquisition and theologian-consultant of the Congregatio de propaganda fide, also to help prepare an Arabic Bible edition. He suffered from gout and died at the age of 68 in Rome on 1 August 1666.

works

Dilucidatio speculi verum monstrantis. In qua instruitur in fide christiana Hamet filius Zin Elabedin in regno Persarum princeps, & refellitur liber a doctoribus Persis editus sub titulo politor speculi verum monstrantis (Rome: ex typis Sacrae Congregationis de Fide Propaganda, 1628). Accessible via Archive.org, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and Google Books. This work is a response to Misqal-i safa’, written by the Persian mullah Sayyid Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Abidin al-Alavi, a work that was brought to Rome by the Portuguese Discalced Carmelite missionary Próspero del Espiritu Santo.

Funerale nella morte dell'Ill.mo et Ecc.mo Signor Prencipe Michele Peretti celebrato dalli RR. PP. FF. Min. Conv. di S. Francesco nella Chiesa di SS. Apostoli (...) (Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1631). Present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via the Biblioteca Casanatense.

Sonetti. Two of his sonnets are included in Poesie de'signori accademici Fantastici di Roma (Rome, 1637), 26, 34.

Nuncius veritatis Davidi Blondello missus a F. Bonaventura Malvasia, seu Notitia plenissima operis apologetici, ab eodem fratre conscripti pro Isidoro Hispalense collectore et Francisco Turriano propugnatore priscarum decretalium romanorum pontificium contra ipsum Blondellum (Rome: Typ. Propaganda Fide, 1639).

Vindicia Veri Isidori pro Epistolis priscorum Pontificum a Clemente ad Siricium & Gregorium adversus Davidem Blondellum Catalaunensem, 2 Vols. (Rome: apud Mascardum, 1658).

Apologiae pro epistolis veterum Romanorum pontificum a B. Clemente vsque ad Syricium, & a Syricio vsque ad D. Gregorium ... Liber primus in Dauidem Blondellum Catalaun. Authore Bonauentura Malvasia Bononiensis (...) (Rome, 1658/Rome: Typis Mascardi, 1665). The 1658 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, and via Google Books.

Cathalogus omnium haeresum et conciliorum: per centurias veterum collatione errorum recentioribus (Rome: Typis Mascardi, 1661). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and via Google Books.

Catalogus Conciliorum Catholiorum, & Etherodoxorum a Calvinistis, et Lutheranis celebratorum (Rome, 1661).

Compendio historico della ven. basilica di SS. dodeci apostoli di Roma, sua fondatione, origine, nobiltà (...) Descritto dal p. f. Bonauentura Maluasia da Bologna (Rome: Ignatio di Lazari, 1665). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Naples, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the British Library, and Google Books.

Tractatus de plenitudune potestatis Romani Pontificis?

Passione di Cristo in versi ?

Varie & affettuose Orationi alla B. Vergine, & a S. Antonio di Padova?

Responsio apologetica ad Patrem Raberderium Societatis Jesu?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 115-118; Juan de San Antonio. Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 227; G. Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia II, 3 (Brescia, 1762), 1827f; G. Fantuzzi, Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi II (Bologna, 1782), 313; Sbaralea, Supplementum et castigatio ad Scriptores trium Ordinum S. Francisci (ed. 1806), 177-178 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 190; M. Forlivesi, Scotistarum princeps. Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673) e il suo tempo (Padua, 2002), 88, 151, 345; Dario Busolini, 'Malvasia, Bonaventura', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani LXI (2007) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonaventura-malvasia_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ with more information on his life and activities]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Breugneus (Bonaventure Breugne, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar from the Saint Bernardin province. Guardian of the Digne friary. Preacher.

works

Le commerce des vivants, fait en faveur des âmes du Purgatoire. Recueilly de la Sainte Ecriture et des cérémonies de l'Eglise; appuyé sur les conciles et sur la doctrine des SS. Peres ; fortifié par la raison, et enrichy de tres-belles pensées. Oeuvre fort avantageuse aux predicateurs, tres-utile pour les confesseurs, & necessaire à tous les fidelles, pour s'avancer à la perfection, & soulager les ames qui souffrent dans le temps en l'autre monde, 3 Vols. (Lyon: Guillaume Barbier, & Jean Girin, 1658). In part available via the Bibliothèque de la ville de Lyon and via Google Books.

He also would have edited a rule commentary yet this was not published due to his death.

literature

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), 225, 229.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Brocharti (Bonaventure Brochard/'Brochard de Mont-Sion', fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. French Observant friar from Normandy. Member of the Francia province and active in the Bernay friary. Anti-heretical preacher. He accompanied the knight Greffin Affagart on his journey to the Holy Land in 1532 and helped him in compiling the story of his pilgrimage . This work, which is more informative and independent than most travel stories on the Holy Land pilgrimage, is kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris (fonds français 5642), and has been published as: Relation de terre-Sainte, 1533-1534, par Greffin Affagart, ed. M. Chavanon (Paris: Lecoffre, 1902). It has been suggested that Bonaventure Brochard, who later might have spent more time in the Holy Land, issued works of his own as well: Itineraire des Lieux Saints de la Palestine et du Mont Sinai en Arabie and Representation et Description de Jerusalem et de la Terre Sainte. Yet there is some confusion between Bonaventure Brochard and the thirteenth-century Dominican Burchardus de Monte Sion, who was known for his medieval travel account on the Holy Land. We think that these latter texts assigned to Bonaventure Brochard were just editions/reworkings of Burchardus de Monte Sion's thirteenth-century travel account, which erroneously have been ascribed to a 'Bonaventura Brocardo'.

works

Relation de terre-Sainte (as editor/co-author): : MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale fonds français 5642. This work was edited as Relation de terre-Sainte, 1533-1534, par Greffin Affagart, ed. M. Chavanon (Paris: Lecoffre, 1902).

Itineraire des Lieux Saints de la Palestine et du Mont Sinai en Arabie (Paris, 1533). Probably editions/reworkings of Burchardus de Monte Sion OP's thirteenth-century travel account.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca universa Franciscana I, 228; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174; Marco Galateri di Genola, Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d'Oltremare (Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 90 [mixing up Bonaventure Brochard and Burchard de Mont-Sion]; https://www.digihum.de/digiberichte/travel.php?ID=51&FID=329&N=F&RBNR=41&suchen1=Bonaventure%20Brochard&Vollname=Bonaventure_Brochard [more correct than Galateri]; Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche Edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d’Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 90 [different interpretation than ours].

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Buratti (Bonaventura Burato/Bonaventura Buratti da Milano, fl. early seventeenth cent.)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar from Milan. Master of theology.

works

Fondamenti di tutti li principii Grammaticali, spiegati con nuove ordine, e facilità (Milan, 1608).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 118; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 229; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Cairo de Apriliano (Bonaventura Cairo da Aprigliano, fl. late 16th-early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Calabria. Joined the Conventual branch of the order in the Aprigniano friary. Active as a preacher and confessor in the Naples region (also in the San Lorenzo of Naples). Known for a confession manual.

works

Istruzzione universale, per far la Confessione generale, ò particolare e restar senza Scrupoli (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio, 1630).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 118-119; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 229; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Calvi

OFM. Italian friar from Genua and member of the Genua province. Preacher and provincial definitor.

works

Genealogia Seraphica Provinciae Genuensis: MS Rome, Aracoeli, ? Is is a work by Bonaventura Tatti?

Relatio Fratrum Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum de Observantia Provinciae Genuensis?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 230; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 57 (1964), 450.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Camus (Bonaventure Camus, fl. 1650)

OFM. French friar. Guardian of the Toul friary. Known for a homiletically organized Eucharist treatise.

works

Le Sacrifice de l'Eucharistie en vingt sermons (Paris, 1640).

Eucharistiae Sacramentum Explicatum (Toul, 1656).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 230; Louis Ellies Du Pin, Table universelle des auteurs ecclésiastiques et de leurs ouvrages III, 249; Augustin Calmet, Bibliothèque Lorraine ou histoire des hommes illustres, qui on fleuri en Lorraine, dans les trois Evêchés, dans l'Archevéché de Trèves, dans le Duché de Luxembourg, &ca. (Nancy: A. Leseure, 1751), 217; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Capridonius (Bonaventura Capridonio da Venezia, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar from the Venice region. Theologian and astronomer/astrologer/geographer still wholesale in the Ptolemaïc tradition, but with considerable knowledge about the positioning of continents on the globe, the tides related to the position of the Moon and the Sun, major oceanic winds and currents, the lunar calendar etc.

works

Dichiaratione della carta, intitolata, idea dell'vniuerso, del R. padre maestro Bonauentura Capridonio da Venetia dell'ordine min conuent. Nella quale si esplicano tutte le ruote di essa carta distintamente, e s'hà la notitia di molte cose, cosi del Cielo, come della Terra, come si vede sommariamente nel 1. Cap. Opera curiosa, e bella. Con due tauole, vna delle cose piu notabili, l'altra dei capitoli di tutta l'opera. Aggiunto nel fine, per sodisfare ad alcuni virtuosi, vn dottissimo discorso, intorno alla occultatione insolita della stella di Marte, occorsa l'anno 1615, da cui si cavano molti iudicii utili, e degni da sapersi (Venice: Antonio Turini, 1616/Venice: Giovanni Battista Bertoni, 1618). Both editions accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 119; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Carpentorarensis (Bonaventure de Carpentras/Toussaint Barbier, 1586-1612)

OFMCap. French friar. Born at Carpentras as the son of Toussaint Barbier and Magdeleine de Brédune, and named Toussaint Barbier after his father. He was sent to Avignon for his studies and he proved to be a very promising student, quickly completing the obligatory courses in philosophy and theology, and obtaining the doctorate at the young age of 19. His professors wanted to aggregate him to the university, yet he chose to go home and soon afterwards joined the Capuchins, (11 September 1605), adopting the name Bonaventure. Still a novice, he was asked to participate in a theological debate with local Jesuits and apparently embarrassed his opponents with his theological knowledge and argumentative skills. Two years after his entry in the order, Bonaventure was appointed professor/lector of theology in the Aix friary. Due to his hard work and a fragile constitution, he developed stomach issued and he succumbed to them at the age of 27 on 7 August 1612. He is known for his abbreviation and elucidation of the five-volume Controversies of Cardinal Bellarmini. This text apparently circulated for some time in manuscript format, and eventually Bonaventure's brother Antoine Barbier, then apparently canon at Carpentras, organised the publication of this work in 1653.

works

Eminentissimi Cardinalis Bellarmini, è societate Jesu, controversiarum de fide compendium: in omnibus concionatoribus, parochis, catechistis et apostolicarum excursionum aemulatoribus utillissimum, authore R. P. Bonaventure Barbier carpentoractensi concionatore capucino (Arles: Francois Mesnier, 1653). (in-8°, 498 pages, one volume divided in 5 parts with ongoing pagination).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 230-231; Louis Desgraves, Répertoire des ouvrages de controverse entre Catholiques et Protestants en France (1598-1685) II (Geneva: Froz, 1985), 174 (1653), no. 4998; http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/b/barbier2.html

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Cavallus (Bonaventura Cavallo di Amantea, ca. 1619-1689)

OFMRif. Italian friar from Naples and member of the Terra Laboris province. Joined the Franciscan order after a brief stint as Dominican novice. Trained in philosophy and theology. Also custos, provincial minister and general commissarius. Appointed bishop of Caserta (Campania) by Pope Clement IX on 12 February 1669. He died as bishop on 10 June 1689 at the age of 70

works

Vita beati Nicolai Albergati e' sacro Carthusianorum Ordine, tituli S. Crucis in Hierusalem Cardinalis, Episcopi Bononiensis, ex ea quam italice edidit F. Bonaventura Cavallus Strictioris Minor. observantiae, conversa (Paris: Jean Dupuis, 1659). Accessible via Google Books.

Orazione funebre fatta in lode del Capitan Generale Luigi Poderico (Naples: eredi di Secondino Roncagliolo, 1674/Naples: Felice Mosca, 1714).

Panegirici sacri, never printed?

Vita del Cardinale di Tournon, never printed?

Quaresimale, never printed?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231; Vito Capialbi, Memorie per servire alla storia della santa chiesa Tropeana (Naples: Nicola Porcelli), 84-85.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Certus (Bonaventura Certo, 1586-1650)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Messina. Architect. Active in Trapani.

works

Several religious building designs and building projects. see the literature below.

literature

Francesca Campagna Cicala, 'Certo, Bonaventura', in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XXIV (1980) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonaventura-certo_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ]; Domenica Sutera, 'La figura e l’attività di Bonaventura Certo, architetto dei Francescani a Trapani nella prima metà del Seicento', in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Trapani. Atti del convegno di studi. Trapani-Alcano 19-21 novembre 2009, ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2011).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Cheurolier (Bonaventura Chevrolier/Bonaventure Cheurolier, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Member of the Recollect Marie Madeleine province. Translator of religious texts.

works

as translator: La Lumière de l'ame qui aspire à la perfection, par le Bienheureux Pere Bartelemy Solutive Recollect. Et Mis en françois par un Pere du Mesme Ordre (Lyon: Vincent de Coeursilly, 1625). This translation, based on a work by Bartolomeo Cambi da Saluzzo is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and via Google Books.

as translator: Vie de Anne-Marie de Saint-Joseph, franciscaine déchaussée de Salamanca (1632).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175; Catalogue des livres doubles de la Bibliothèque de la ville de Lyon (Lyon: M.P. Rusand, 1831), 101.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Cinelli (Bonaventura Cinelli da Firenze, fl. late 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar from Florence. Already a master of theology, he was incorporated in the Florentine Collegio Teologale on 20 November 1592. Renowned preacher in the Italian peninsula. He left several works behind (including a Lenten sermon collection) in the library of the Franciscan Santa Croce friary.

works

Sermoni quaresimali: MS Santa Croce? Current whereabouts?

literature

Luca G. Cerracchini, Fasti teologicali dell'Università Fiorentina (Florence: Francesco Moücke, 1738), 329; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Claverius (Bonaventura Claverio da Bisseglia, fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar from the Naples region. He wrote a commentary on the first three books of the Sentences during his regency at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae. Yet his appointment to the episcopal see of Potenza in 1646 prevented the edition of these and other theological and philosophical texts. He was apparently an important formative influence on a number of seventeenth-century Conventual theologians. As bishop of Potenza, he would have written a Historia Ecclesiastica urbis Potentina, as well as a genealogical work on the Loffreda family (accessible via the first volume of Scelta delle lettere memorabili raccolte dall'abbate Michele Patritio Genovese (1683)).

works

In tres primos Sententiarum libros ubertissimos tractatus ?

Historia Ecclesiastica urbis Potentina ?

Opuscula de Conceptione Immaculata Deiparae Virginis (...) postulatione ab Innocentio X. (...) (Rome: Cavallus, 1648).

Monsig. Fra Buonaventura Claverio Vescovo di Potena all'Abate Michele Giustiniani: Della Famiglia Loffredo, included in: Scelta delle lettere memorabili raccolte dall'abbate Michele Patritio Genovese, 2nd Ed., 2 Vols. (Naples: Antonio, Bulison, 1683) I, 210ff. This work is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books.

De origine Daniae, Norvegiaeque regum epistola. Check!

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 119-120; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231-232; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Columbus (Bonaventura Colombus/Bonaventure Colombe de Nice, fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFMConv. French Conventual friar from Nice. Member of the San Louis province. Theologian and preacher in Southern France and Italy (also preaching in Italian towns like Pavia, Turin, Genoa etc.). Regent in Aix-en-Provence (?), and guardian of the Nice and Avignon (1643) friaries. As a theologian he was a Scotist working in the tradition of Bartholomaeus Mastrius and Bonaventura Belluto.

works

Epitome Dyalectica et novi cursus philosophici Scotistarum (Aix-en-Provence, 1638).

Apologia Seraphica in Augustinianissimum Sancto Francisco impictum contra veritatem (Aix-en-Provence: Etienne David, 1638). Is this his work?

Apendix ad Apologiam de forma Caputii S. Francisci (Aix-en-Provence: Etienne David, 1638).

Novus Cursus Philosophicus Scotistarum, Complectens Universam Philosophiam, Rationalem, Naturalem et Transnaturalem (Lyon: Laurent Arnaud & Pierre Borde, 1669). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 121; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 232; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Colonnesus Florentinus (Bonaventura Colonnesi/Bartolomeo Colonnesi, d. 1659)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Master of theology and member of the Collegium Theologorum of the University of Florence in 1624. Decanus collegii in 1630. He Died on 19 November 1659.

works

Manuale de'Religiosi per l'acquisto della perfezione fondato negli Opuscoli del Serafico Dottor S. Bonaventura, e nelle autorità de'Padri divisi in tre parti; nella prima gl'incipienti vi trovano la purgativa della conscienza; nella seconda i proficienti d'illuminativa della mente; e nella terza i perfetti l'unitiva con Dio: MS Assisi check!

Tractatus de prohibitione duelli. In quo quicquid a Clem. VIII. Pontifice Max. de duello sancitum est, breuiter explicatur, F. Bonauenturæ Colonnensis de Florentia, Ord. Min. Conu. Artium, & Sacre Theologiae Doctoris; ac inter Theaeologos Florentinae Universitatis minimi (Florence: Ex Typographia Sermartelliana, 1625). Accessible via Archive.org, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books. To what extent is this work dependent upon works with more or less the same title issued by the lawyer Luca Floroni in 1610 and by the Regular Canon Alexandro Peregrino in 1614?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 185 (Bartholomaeus Colunnensis); Sbaralea, Suppplementum (ed. 1806), 175.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Costacciaro (Bonaventura Pio da Costacciaro/Bonaventura Pio Fauni, d. 1562)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Elected General Minister of the Conventuals at the Chapter of Ancona in 1543, a position he kept until 1549. In that year appointed bishop of Acqui (Liguria) by Paul III, a position he kept until 1558 (when a family member took over the position). As minister general, he took part in the Council of Trent and prepared in the sixth session a statement on the required acts of justification. His positions, while appreciated by several council theologians, were attacked by Dionigi Zannettini (Grechetto) and Celio Secondo Curione.

works

Opuscula in Scoti doctrinam Editions?

Epigramma, in praise of the Commentarii Joannis Vigerii Genuensis in I. Librum Sententiarum Scoti (Venice, 1527), for which work Bonaventura acted as a censor.

Sermoni ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 237; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179; Valens Heynck,  ‘Das Votum des Generals der Konventualen, Bonaventura Costacciaro, vom 26. November 1546 über die Gnadengewißheit’, Franziskanische Studien 31 (1949), 274-303. 350-395; http://www.ereticopedia.org/bonaventura-pio-da-costacciaro

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Cremonensis (Bonaventura da Cremona, fl. late 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar and disciple of Amadeo de Sylva.

works

Vita, actaque B. Amadei Congregationisque Amadeorum fundatoris: MS once kept in the Della Pace friary of Milan. An italian version of this text was apparently included in Croniche degli ordini instituiti dal p.s. Francesco. (...) Composta dal r.p. fra Marco da Lisbona in lingua portughese (...) Ed hora solamente vscita (...) migliorata, e corretta, per diligenza, e somma vigilanza del P. Leonardo da Napoli (...) 4.3, Parte quarta. Tomo terzo. Che contiene le vite, morti, miracoli, ed altri fatti egregij di molti eccellenti religiosi, e religiose, che illustri, ed in vita ed in morte, nel Serafico Ordine santamente splendettero. Raccolto principalmente dal M.R.P. Bartolomeo Cimarelli, e d'altri autori approbati, e veridichi (Naples: Nouello de Bonis, 1680). [check]

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum, ad an. 1464, no. 30; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Curcureus (Bonaventura Korculanin/Bonaventura Corculanus de Dalmatia, fl. late 15th - early 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Titular bishop of Krujë in Albania. Known for a liturgical office on St. Francis and for (non-surviving) anti-Turkish speeches delivered in the presence of Pope Leo X.

works

Officium de gratia a Deo collata sancto Francisco. Ad Matutinum , de Conformitate nativitatis ejus ad Nativitatem Christi (...). Check!

literature

Petrus Rodolphius Tossinianensis, Historiarum Seraphicae religionis libri tres (Venice, 1586) II, 196; Wadding, Annales Minorum XV (ed. Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 1932), 565; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1806), 56; Sbaralea, Supplementum et castigatio ad scriptores trium Ordinum S. Francisci I (ed. Rome, 1908), 188; M. Oreb, Zasluzni clanovi Hrvatske provincije franjevaca konventualaca (Split, 1973), 101, 191, 224–225; http://enciklopedija.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=56616 [consulted 01 Oct. 2020]; Mary Beth Winn & Daniel Sheerin, 'Mixing Manuscript and Print', La Bibliofilía 114:2 (maggio-agosto 2012), 161-206 (passim).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Czarnoluski (fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Polish friar.

works

Peregrina Religiosa, Concio Polonica pro Festo Purificationis, dicata Alexandro Clebocki Archidiacono Gnesmensi (Cracow: Typis Petricovianis, 1655).

Cautela gratiosa, Concio pro Dominica prima Aduentus, dicta Petricoviae ad Tribunal. Regni, dicata Georgio de Teczyn Ollolinscki Capitaneo Petricoviensi (Cracow: Typis Petricovianis, 1655).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 121-122.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Arenys de Mare (Bonaventura d’Arenys de Mar, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Friar from Catalonia (Arenys de Mar, near Barcelona). Preacher and theology lector. Author.

works

Compendi de l’explicació de la regla de N.S.P.S. Francesc: Manuscript?

Disputationes in Sacram Theologiam Iuxta Claram N.S.D. Bonaventurae Mentem: MS Barcelona, Convento de Sarrià, ?

literature

Manuel de Lete Triay, ‘Escriptors de la provincia caputxina de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat (1578-1900)’, in: Franciscalia. En la convergència centenària del trànsit del ‘Poverello’ (1226), de la seva canonització (1228) i de l’autoctonia de l’ordre caputxi (1528) (Barcelona, 1928), 102; LexCap

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Arezzo (Bonaventura d’Arezzo, 1648-1708)

OFMCap. Italian friar born at Quarata, near Arezzo. Entered the Capuchins in the Tuscany province on 19 July 1667. Fulfilled several functions in the order (lector, guardian, provincial definitor) and obtained considerable renown as a preacher. Late in life, he travelled to the young Capuchin province in Poland (organised from 1692 onwards under the auspices of the Tuscany province). On request of the general procurator of the order, Bernardino di Saluces, Bonaventura and a group of other Capuchin friars (alledgedly three priests, three clerics and three lay conversi) departed for Poland on 25 May 1706. Bonaventura became guardian of the Warchaw convent. He died there of the plague while serving plague victims on 26 August 1708. Author.

works

Lettere: MS Florence, Convento di Montughi, ?. Parts of these letters (dating from Bonaventura’s Polish mission) have been printed in Sisto da Pisa, Storia dei cappuccini toscani (Florence, 1909) II, 258-262, 282-283, 288-289.

Vita di P. Giuseppe Maria Bentivoglio da Bologna dell’ordine dei minori cappuccini: MS Florence, Convento di Montughi, ?

La riforma del religioso, 'o vero utilissimo trattato per tutti gli stati de' religiosi, che desiderano in breve tempo arrivare all'altezza della perfezzione cristiana (...) composto dal p. Bonaventura Bruni d'Arezzo predicatore cappuccino (...) (Lucca: per i Marescandoli : a spese di Donato Donati, 1704). An advanced novice and 'after novice' training manual? Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and by Google Books (as a work by Bonavetura Bruni).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 511; Pellegrino da Forlì, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1885) IV, 200-201; Sisto da Pisa, Storia dei cappuccini toscani (Florence, 1909) II, 180, 213-214; LexCap

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Asolo (Bonaventura di Asolo/Bonaventura Vecellio, d. 1810)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Venetian province. Theologian and preacher, known for his Lenten cycles in a number of Italian towns. He would have died in Treviso in 1810.

works

Orazioni Sacre del P. F. Bonaventura di Asolo Minor Riformato. Dedicate al Patriarca S. Francesco. Deca prima (Venice: Presso Tommaso Bettinelli, (1775). It contains: I. SS. Nome di Gesù (Collegiate church of Bassano, pp. 5-15); II. Immacolata concezione di Maria (Asolo cathedral, pp. 16-26); III. Risorgimento di Gesù (cathedral of Belluno, pp. 27-35); IV. Dolori di Maria (Servite church of Castel-Franco, pp. 36-48); V. Sacro Cuor di Gesù (S. Parisio of Trevigi, pp. 49-57); VI. SS. Natale di Gesù (Cathedral of Ceneda, pp. 58-64); VII. S. Francesco di Assisi (in the friary of Cittadella, pp. 65-78); VIII. Di S. Gaetano (the collegiate church of Bassano, pp. 79-91); IX. S. Francesco di Sales (in Trevigi, church of S. Giovanni di Riva, pp. 92-103); X. S. Lorenzo martire (in Bologna, Parrocchia del Santo, pp. 104-114.

Palinodia alla canzone del signor Abate Clemente Biondi intorno alla soppressione della compagnia di Gesù. Check!

Parafrasi in ottava rima della profezia d'Isaia con riflessioni contro la moderna filosofia. Check!

literature

Giovanni Antonio Moschini, Della letteratura veneziana del secolo XVIII fino a'nostri giorni I (Venice: Palese, 1806), 193; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 852.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Bagnorea (Bonaventura da Bagnoregio/Johannes Fidanza/Giovanni Fidanza, ca. 1217-1274), sanctus

OM. Italian friar. Born in (Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), near Orvieto and Viterbo, in or shortly after 1217. Studied arts in Paris. Magister Artium in 1242. Entered the Franciscan order in 1243. Novice in the Parisian convent. Studied theology in Paris (as student for the Roman province) under Johannes Rupella and Alexander of Hales. Bacc. Biblicus in 1248. Lectured as biblicus on Ecclesiastes, Liber Sapientiae, and the Gospels of Lucas and John. Commented on the Sentences as Bacc. between 1250-1253. Absolved all the obligations for the magisterium theologiae shortly after 1253. Yet, due to the conflict between the mendicant orders and the secular masters of Paris university, in which Bonaventure defended the mendicant position against William of St. Amour, our Baccalaurus Formatus was not allowed to become magister regens in the University, albeit that in 1254 he became regent lector ad scholas fratrum. Only after a compromise was reached, in 1257, did Bonaventure receive permision from the University to act as magister regens - at the same time as Thomas Aquinas. Shortly before (2 Febr. 1257), however, he was already asked to become minister general of the Franciscan order, to replace John of Parma, who had been discredited in disputes with the seculars concerning the joachite works of Gerard of Borgo San Donnino. Bonaventure was minister general between 1257 and 20 May 1273. Was made cardinal-bishop of Albano on 28 May 1274 and died at the second council of Lyon on 15 July of the same year. He was buried in the convent church of the friars minor at Lyon. Canonized on 14 April 1482 and on 14 March 1588 he was recognized as one of the official doctores of the Church. He is reckoned among the most influential Franciscan order administrators, theologians, preachers, hagiographers of Francis, mystical writers and biblical scholars of the thirteenth century, whose biographical writings on Francis and whose administrative measures and regulations did much to re-invigorate the order as an order of students and clerics. As a theologian, he represented a voluntarist Augustinian form of scholasticism (insofar as labels help to qualify his thought), with Dionysian influences, over against the radical Aristotelians. His oeuvre comprises a very influential commentary on the Sentences, rather innovative disputed questions, several large and likewise influential biblical commentaries, sermon collections, biographies (Legenda Major, Legenda Minor, letters, administrative regulations, mystical treatises (Itinerarium Mentis, De Triplica Via), manuals for novices, handbooks of biblical theology (Breviloquium), and academic lectures (among which the famous Collationes in Hexaemeron)

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Opera Omnia. There are several Opera Omnia editions of Bonaventura's works. Since the late nineteenth century, the standard edition is: Opera Omnia Edita studio et cura PP. Collegii a S. Bonaventura, 11 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas-Quaracchi, 1882-1902). There are quite a few older collections, starting with the multi-volume late fifteenth-century Opuscula Omnia edition from Strasbourg: Egregium opus subtilitate et devoto exercitio precellens parvorum opusculorum doctoris seraphici Bonaventurae (Strasbourg: Printer of the 1483 Jordan of Quedlinburg Collection [=Georg Husner], 1495). Comparable Opuscoli collections, which normally contained numerous apocryphal works as well, appeared in different configurations in subsequent decades. One of the most important one was the 11th volume Venice edition of he Opusculi issued in 1564 (apud Haerdedem Hieronymi Scoti), which contained 87 (smaller) works, and was reprinted in 1571/72, 1582, 1584 and 1611. A more encompassing Opera Omnia edition in 7 volumes appeared in Paris (Berthold Remblad), in 1517. In the later sixteenth century a more official Opera Omnia edition followed in the context of Bonaventure's canonisation and his designation as doctor ecclesiae in 1588. This brought about the large seven-volume Opera Omnia edition of Rome (1588-1599): Sancti Bonaventurae ex ordine Minorum S.R.E. Episcopi Card. Albanen, Eximii Ecclesiae doctoris Opera Sixti V. Pont. Max iussu dilgentissime emendata, libris eius multis undique conquisitis aucta, and its various re-issues in Mainz (1609), and Lyon (1678), which by and large contained 94 works assigned to Bonaventure. A 'corrected' edition of Bonaventure's collected works was issued in Venice (1751), partly inspired by the philological principles and criticisms formulated by he Benedictine (later Protestant) Casimoro Audino, who had cast doubt on the authenticity of many works ascribed to the Seraphic doctor. Further studies by Giovanni Giacinto Sbaraglia in his Supplementum ad Scriptores Ordinis Minorum and the findings of the Benedict Bonelli's Podromus ad opera omnia S. Bonaventurae (...) (Bassano, 1767) led to an amended, 15th-volume Opera Omnia edition was issued in the 1860s: S. Bonaventurae Opera Omnia, ed. A.C. Peltier, 15 Vols. (Paris, 1864-1871). Yet this still contained many spuria and works by Vitalis de Furno and others. The work by Sbaraglia and Bonelli, and additional studies by Fedele da Fanna and a team of collaborators, leading to the publication of the Ratio novae collectionis operum omnium sive editorum sive anecdotorum Seraphici Eccl. Doctoris S. Bonaventurae proxime in lucem edendae, manuscriptorum bibliothecis totius Europae perlustratis (Turin, 1874), made it possible to plan a new 'critical' Opera Omnia edition, which was issued as: Opera Omnia Edita studio et cura PP. Collegii a S. Bonaventura, 11 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas-Quaracchi, 1882-1902). This is until by and large the standard edition for Bonaventure's works, although some works (the Sunday sermons, the Collationes in Hexaemeron, etc.) have since then received renewed editorial attention. See on this also Balduinus Distelbrink, Bonaventura scripta. Authentica dubia vel spuria critice recensita, Subsidia scientifica franciscana, 5 (Rome: Istituto storico cappuccini, 1975); Aleksander Horowski, 'Opere autentiche e spurie, edite, inedite e mal edite di san Bonaventura da Bagnoregio: Bilancio e prospettive', Collectanea Franciscana 86 (2016), 461-544 [and subsequent articles by Horowski, who is still doing much to clarify matters concerning the works that can and cannot be ascribed to Bonaventure and what sermons in particular are still in need of editorial attention]

Beyond these Opera Omnia properly speaking a number of other omnibus editions (and translations) of works by Bonaventure have appeared. See for instance: Decem Opuscula ad Theologiam Mysticam Spectantia, in textu correcta et notis illustrata a PP. Collegii S. Bonaventurae (Ad Claras Aquas, 1965) =Reprint of Opera Omnia, VIII (Ad Claras Aquas, 1898), 365-418.]; Opera theologica selecta, Editio Minor, 4 Vols. (Quaracchi, 1949); Opera Theologia Selecta, 5 Vols. (Quaracchi, 1939-1964); Obras de san Buenaventura, ed. 6 voll., Madrid 1945-49 Escritos Filosófico-Teológicos, ed. & trans. L. Amorós, B. Aperribay, M. Oromi & I. Omaechevarria, M. Oltra, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (Madrid: 1945-1949 [& first 2 vols. also Madrid 1955]); Pensamento Franciscano, 1 (Porto Alegre, 1999). Especially for the instruction of friars, a selection of his works were published as Selecta pro Instruendis Fratribus Ordinis Minorum Scripta S. Bonaventurae una cum Libello Speculum Disciplinae (Quaracchi, 1923). For Bonaventure’s spiritual writings, see also: Timothy Johnson, Bonaventure, mystic of God’s word. A selection of his spiritual writings (New York, 1999); Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Selected Works of Theology and Spirituality, trans. Girard Etzkorn. Introductions and Supplemental Notes by F. Edward Coughlin (Saint Bonaventure, N.y., The Franciscans Institute, St. Bonaventure University, 2000); San Buenaventura, Experiencia y teología del Misterio: “Itinerario del alma a Dios”. “Incendio de amor”. “Soliloquio”. “El Árbol de vida”. “De la vida perfecta”, ed. Julio Gómez Chao & Jesús Sanz Montes, Clásicos Espirituales, 15 (Madrid, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 2000). The production of translations and omnibus editions is in fact an ongoing process, and quite a number of additional ones have appeared since the beginning of the 21st century. A more recent German omnibus of translated works is for instance: Bonaventura – Lehrer der Weisheit.: Auswahl aus seinen Werken, ed. Marianne Schlosser et al. (Sankt Ottilien: EOS Editions, 2017).

A website completely devoted to Bonaventure can be found on http://www.franciscan-archive.org/bonaventura/

A series of his works in French translation can be found on http://jesusmarie.free.fr/bonaventure.html

Enumeration of individual works, by and large following the Opera Omnia Edita studio et cura PP. Collegii a S. Bonaventura, 11 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas-Quaracchi, 1882-1902), with some additional texts issued in other editions, and found in medieval/early modern manuscripts:

Apologia Pauperum contra Calumniatorem, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 233-330;

St. Bonaventure's Defense of the mendicants, trans. José de Vinck & Robert J. Karris, Work of Saint Bonaventure, XV (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2010) [Defense of the Franciscan way of life against the fulminations of Gerard of Abbéville]. For an Italian translation, see: San Bonaventura, Opuscoli francescani, 2: La difesa dei poveri contro il calunniatore, introd. & trans. Attilio Stendardi & Silvana Martignoni, Opere di san Bonaventura XIV/2 (Rome: Città Nuova Editrice, 2005).

Quare Fratres Minores Praedicent et Confessiones Audiant (ascribed) in: Opera Omnia, VIII 375-385. [Cf. B. Thiel, ‘St. Bonaventura über ausserordentliche Seelsorge’, Theologie und Glaube 45 (1955), 49-52. Roberto Rusconi, ‘La predicazione minoritica in Europa nei secoli XIII-XIV’, in: Francesco, il Francescanesimo e la cultura della nuova Europa, ed. Ignazio Baldelli & Angiola Maria Romanini (Florence, 1986), 141-165 argues (p. 155) that in Bonaventure’s time appears ‘una linea pastorale il cui fine è integrare ceti sociali e comportamenti individuali e collettivi all’interno di un modello totalizzante, di cui sono articolazione da un lato i sermones ad status e dall’altro le summae penitenziali articolate secondo le ripartizioni giuridiche dei casus.’ This totalizing aspect of mendicant pastoral care was facilitated by the privileges given to the mendicant friars by subsequent popes. Hence, late 1281, Martin IV sanctioned in his Ad fructus uberes an almost total mendicant monopoly in the fields of preaching and confession. With some mitigations, this was confirmed in Super Cathedram of Boniface VIII, which in 1318 became part of the Clementine [for literature on this issue, see my Research Instruments, section XII] See on the sermones ad status and their aspects of social control D.L. D’Avray, ‘Sermons to the Upper Bourgeoisie by a Thirteenth-Century Franciscan’, in: The Church in Town and Countryside (Oxford, 1979), 187-199; Servus Gieben, ‘Preaching in the Thirteenth Century. A Note on Ms. Gonville and Caius 439’, Collectanea Franciscana 32 (1962), 310-324, and Z. Zafarana, ‘La predicazione ai laici dal secolo XIII-XV’, in: I frati Minori ed il Terzo Ordine: problemi e dicussioni storiografiche, Todi, 17-20 ottobre 1982 & in Studi Medievali 3rd. Series 24 (1983), 265-275. On the summae and their aspects of social control, see especially J. Le Goff, ‘Mestiere e professione secondo i manuali dei confessori nel Medioevo’, in: Tempo della Chiesa e tempo del mercante (Torino, 1977), 1143-152; T.N. Tentler, ‘The ‘Summa’ for Confessors as an Instrument of Social Control’, in: The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion, ed. C. Trinkaus & H. Oberman (Leiden, 1974), 103-126 & 137; T.N. Tentler, Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation (Princeton, 1977). ]

Breviloquium, in: Opera Omnia, V, 1-175; ‘Breviloquium’. Concordance, Indices, ed. J. Hamesse (Louvain, 1975); For a modern German translation, see: Breviloquium, trans. Marianne Schlosser, Christliche Meister, 52 (Einsiedeln-Freiburg, 2002). The work also received several other translations. See for instance: Bonaventura van Bagnoregio, , Breviloquium: De theologie in kort bestek. I. Vertaald en toegelicht door J.C.M. van Winden. Ingeleid door A.H. Smits. In samenwerking met de werkgroep Bonaventura van het Franciscaans Studiecentrum, Scripta Franciscana, 6 (Assen, Van Gorcum, 2000); Saint Bonaventure, Breviloquium, texte latin de Quaracchi et traduction française, ed. J.-G. Bougerol et al, Bibliothèque bonaventurienne, Textes, 7 Vols. (Paris: Editions franciscaines, 1966-1968); Emmanuel Falque, Saint Bonaventure et l’entrée de Dieu en théologie. La Somme théologique du “Breviloquium” (Prologue et première partie). Avec une préface de J. Jolivet, Études de philosophie médiévale, 79 (Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2000)  [see the reviews in Angelicum 79 (2002), 468-472, Rech. Théol. Philos. Méd. 68 (2001), 409-412 & Revue Thomiste 102 (2002), 271-295; Collectanea Franciscana 74 (2004), 323-325; Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie 126 (2004), 227]; The Breviloquium, trans. & introd. Dominic V. Monti, Works of St. Bonaventure, IX (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2005). Cf. also Ctirad Caclav Pospisil, ‘Il ‘verbum abbreviatum’ nel ca. IX della Regula bullata e nel Breviloquium’, Antonianum 79:1 (2004), 129-141, as well as Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium, ed. Dominic V. Monti & Katherine Wrisley Shelby (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2017) [Review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 251-254 and Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 295-299].

Commentarium in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum, in: Opera Omnia, I-IV & in: Opera Theologica Selecta, I-IV. See also Saint-Bonaventure, Les ‘Sentences’. Questions sur Dieu. Commentaire du premier livre des ‘Sentences’ de Pierre Lombard, introd., trans. & notes marc Ozilou, Épiméthée (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002). An English translation of the Prologue to Book II was made by G. Etzkorn in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. X: Writings on the Spiritual Life (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006). See also: Bonaventure, Prologues des 2e, 3e et 4e livres du Commentaire des Sentences, Introduction, texte latin et traduction, trans. André Ménard & Laure Solignac, in: Études Franciscaines n.s. 7:2 (2014); Bonaventure. Commentary on the Sentences: Sacraments. Translation, Introduction, Notes, ed. J.A. Wayne Hellmann, Timothy R. LeCroy & Luke Davis Townsend, Works of St. Bonaventure, 17 (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2016); Bonaventure, On the Eucharist (Commentary in the Sentences, Book IV, dis. 8-13), ed. & trans. Junius Johnson, Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, 23 (Leuven: Peeters, 2017). Short review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 283-285.

Quaestio `Utrum Mundus Fuerit Productus ab Aeterno', ed. in: `Une `quaestio disputata' attribuée a Bonaventure et commentaire', ed. A. van der Sande, in: Bonaventuriana, 507-534.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Mysterio Sanctissimae Trinitatis, in: Opera Omnia, V, 45-115; St. Bonaventure's Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity, ed. Zachary Hayes, Works of St. Bonaventure, IV (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1979).

Quaestiones Disputatae de Perfectione Evangelica, in: Opera Omnia, V, 117-198; San Bonaventura, Opusculi teologici, 3: La perfezione evangelica. Questioni disputate, introd. & trans. Attilio Stendardi & Andrea Di Maio, Opere di San Bonaventura, V/3 (Rome: Città Nuova Editrice, 2005); Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection, trans. Thomas Reist & Robert Karris, Works of St. Bonaventure,, XIII (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2008). [Cf. M. Bierbaum, Bettelorden und Weltgeistlichkeit an der Universität Paris, Franziskanische Studien Beiheft 2 (Münster, 1920); A. van den Wyngaert, ‘Querelles du clergé séculier et des Ordres Mendiants à l’Université de Paris’, La France Franciscaine 5 (1922), 257-281 & 6 (1923), 47-70.]

Quaestiones Disputatae de Productione Rerum de Imagine Dei et Anima Humana, ed. in: Obras de San Bonaventura, I-V (Madrid, 1945-1949), I, 54-55. See now also: Quaestiones disputatae: de productione rerum De imagine et De anima e schola bonaventuriana (codex Conv. Soppr. D.4.27, Bibliothecae Nationalis Centralis Florentinae), ed. Mikolaj Olszewski, Bibliotheca Seraphico - Capuccina, 101 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2014).

Quaestiones Disputatae de Scientia Christi, in: Opera Omnia, V, 3-43. See also: Questions disputées sur le Savoir chez le Christ, trans. E.H. Weber (Paris, 1985); ‘Quaestiones disputatae de scientia Christi’. Vom Wissen Christi. Lateinisch und Deutsch, ed & trans. A. Speer (Hamburg, 1992); San Buenventura, Cuestiones disputadas de la ciencia de Cristo, ed. Francisco Martínez Fresneda, presentación Miguel García-Baró, trad. Juan Ortín García, introd. etc. Francisco Martínez Fresneda, Publicaciones Instituto Teológico Franciscano. Serie Mayor, 27 (Murcia: Editorial Espigas, 1999); Questioni disputate della scienza di Cristo, ed. Francisco Martínez Fresneda, trans. Letterio Mauro & Francisco José Díaz Marcilla, Medioevo, 10 (Rome: Ed. Antonianum, 2005) [see review in AFH 100 (2007), 576-578]; St. Bonaventure's Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ, ed. Zachary Hayes, Works of St. Bonaventure, IV (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1992 & 2006).

Quaestiones Disputatae Variae (vaticanae), MS Rome, VAT. Palat. Lat. 612 ff. 40vb-46va, 126ra-130rb, 137rb-148rb [Cf. V. Doucet, AFH, 26 (1933), 487-496.]

Collationes de Decem Praeceptis seu Expositio Decalogi, in: Opera Omnia, V, 505-532. [transl.: Le Dix Commandments, trans. M. Ozilou (Paris, 1992); Collations on the Ten Commandments, transl. Paul J. Spaeth, Works of Bonaventure Series, 6 (St. Bonaventure, NY, 1995). Held at Paris during the academic year 1267-1268]

Collationes in Hexaëmeron. in: Opera Omnia,V, 329-449; Collationes in Hexaëmeron, [Forma Brevior], ed. F. Delorme, in: S. Bonaventurae s.r.e. episc. cardinalis collationes in hexaëmeron et bonaventuriana quaedam selecta, ed. F. Delorme (Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, VIII) Florence, 1934. Collationes in Hexaemeron/Das Sechstagewerk, trans. W. Nyssen, (Munich, 1964); Bonaventura de Bagnoregio, Ausgewählte Werke. Band 3: Collationes in Hexaemeron - Das Sechstagewerk, trans. Wilhelm Nyssen (Darmstadt: WBG, 2018); Collations on the Hexaemeron: Conferences on the Six Days of Creation: The Illuminations of the Church, trans. Jay M. Hammond, Works of St. Bonaventure, 18 (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2018). See also Maranesi, who argues for a new edition of these Collationes, as new mss has been discovered (a.o. ms Leningrad/St. Petersburg Lat. Qu.I.219 & Tours Bib. Mun. 409??) See for instance also P. Maranesi, ‘Bonaventura of Bagnoregio: A transcription of the third collation of the ‘Hexaëmeron’ from the St. Petersburg manuscript’, Franciscan Studies 53 (1993), 47-78; Bonawentura z Bagnoregio, Konferencje o szesciu dniach stworzenia albo oswiescenia Kosciola. Wydanie synoptyczne tekstu oryginalnego redakcji A. oraz B z przekladem polskim/Collationes in Hexaëmeron seu illuminationes Ecclesiae. Editio synoptica textus originalis reortationum A ac B cum translatione polona, ed. & trans. Aleksander Horowski (Craow: SERAFIN - UNUM, 2008) [Cf. reviews in AFH 102 (2009), 314F; Antonianum 84 (2009), 173f]. In these Collationes, held at Paris, between 9 April and 28 May 1273 (unfinished), Bonaventure not only developes a strong criticism of radical Aristotelian thought, but also an original ‘Geschichtstheologie',’carefully combining Augustinian and Joachist elements. See on the latter issue especially Ratzinger]

Collationes in Evangelium Johannis, in: Opera Omnia, VI, 535-632.

Commentarium in Evangelium Johannis, in: Opera Omnia, VI, 239-530. See also: Commento al Vangelo di San Giovanni, trans. E. Mariani, comm. J.G. Bougerol, 2 Vols. (Rome, 1990-1991); An English translation appeared in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. XI Commentary on the Gospel of John, Trans & notes by Robert J. Karris (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2007). See reviews in Analecta T.O.R 179 (2007), 641f & AFH 100 (2007), 617f.

Commentarium in Evangelium Lucae, in: Opera Omnia, VII, 1-604. See also: T. Reist, Saint Bonaventure as a Biblical Commentator. A Translation and Analysis of his Commentary on Luke XVIII, 34-XIX, 42 (Lanham-New York-London, 1985); San Bonaventura, Commento al Vangelo di san Luca 1 (1-4), Introd., revisione e note a cura di Barbara Faes de Mottoni, trad. di Paola Müller (cc.I-III) e Silvana Martignoni (ca. IV), Nuova Collana Bonaventuriana (Rome, 1999); Works of St. Bonaventure. Vol. VIII/1: St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke: Chapters 1-8, introd., trans. & notes. Robert J. Karris (St. Bonaventure NY, 2001); Works of St. Bonaventure. Vol. VIII/2: St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke: Chapters 9-16, introd., trans. & notes. Robert J. Karris (St. Bonaventure NY, 2003); Works of St. Bonaventure. Vol. VIII/3: St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke: Chapters 17-24, introd., trans. & notes Robert J. Karris (Bonaventure NY, 2004); André Ménard, ‘Bonaventure: commentaire du Notre Père. Evangile de Luc, chapitre 11. Note introductive et traduction’, Études Franciscaines n.s. 1 (2008), 21-57.

Commentarium in Librum Ecclesiastae, in: Opera Omnia, VI, 3-99. Works of St. Bonaventure. Vol. VII: St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes, introd. Robert J. Karris, trans. & notes Campion Murray & Robert J. Karris (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2005). Cf.  review in CF 76,1-2 (2006), 353-354.

Commentarium in Librum Sapientiae, in: Opera Omnia, VI, 107-233.

Corona Beatae Mariae Virginis, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 677-678 & E. Jallonghi, I ritmi latini di S. Bonaventura. Ricerche storiche e critiche (Rome, 1915), 234-236.

Legenda (Major) Sancti Francisci & Legenda Minor Sancti Francisci, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 504-564 & 565-579; Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae Legendae Duae de Vita S. Francisci Seraphici (Quaracchi, 1923); Doctoris Seraphici S. Bonaventurae Legenda Maior S. Francisci, in: Analecta Franciscana X (Ad Claras Aquas-Quaracchi, 1926-1941), 555-652; Doctoris Seraphici S. Bonaventurae Legenda Minor S. Francisci, in: Analecta Franciscana X (Ad Claras Aquas-Quaracchi, 1926-1941), 653-678; Legenda Maior S. Francisci Assisiensis et Eiusdem Legenda Minor (Quaracchi, 1941); Vita di S. Francesco d’Assisi scrita da S. Bonaventura, ed. & stud. Girolamo Mascia (Naples, 1974) [also appeared in Studi e Ricerche francescane 3 (1974), 141-218]. See also: J.F. Godet, Sancti Bonaventurae Legendae maior et minor sancti Francisci. Concordance, index, listes de fréquence, tables comparatives (Louvain, 1975); The Legenda Maior has been translated many times both during the medieval period and thereafter. See for instance: San Buenaventura, Leyenda Mayor. Editio facsimile cod. 768 Archivii conventus “Cardenal Cisneros” apud Madrid Collaboratio Conferentiae Ministrorum Provincialium O.F.M. Hispaniae. Curaverunt Miguel Angel de la Torre et Juan José Saavedra. Directio artistica: Jesús Herrero. Directio tecnica: Joaquín González Villamor. Coordinatio editionis: Luís Tierra Girón (Madrid, Ars Magna Editorial, S.L., 1999); Bonaventura da Bagnorea, Vita di san Francesco. Legenda maior, Libri per tutte le stagioni (Padua: Ed. Messaggero, 2008). For a modern Danish translation, see: Frans af Assisis liv fortalt af Bonaventura, trans. Johannes Jong (Copenhagen, 2002); Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Vita di san Francesco. ‘Legenda maior’, ed. Pietro Messa, Letture cristiane del secondo millennio, 42 (Milan: Paoline Editoriale, 2009). [o.a. reviews in CF 79 (2009), 679-699; Antonianum 85 (2010), 165-168; Studi Francescani 107 (2010), 285-291]. Prior to the 19th-century Quaracchi edition, the work was also issued numerous time, both separately and in combination with other texts. See for instance Vita, et costumi del glorioso et serafico San Francesco, composta per S. Bonauentura. Con aggiunta della Regola de' Frati Minori, & del terzo ordine: & con le indulgenze, e privilegi concessi a loro da Sommi Pontefici. Corretta nuovamente, & purgata da molti errori a utilità d’ogni divota, & religiosa persona (Venice, appresso Lucio Spineda, 1601/1607). The Legenda Major was also included in 16th- and 17th-century Opera Omnia editions.

Novem Lectiones de Canonizatione et de Translatione Sancti Francisci, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 547-549.

Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, in: Opera Omnia, V, 295-313 & in Opera Theologica Selecta, V, 177-214 [Itinerarium Mentis in Deum-De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam, trans. J. Kaup (Munich, 1961); J. Hamesse, S. Bonaventure. Itinerarium mentis in Deum, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Concordance-Indices (Louvain, 1972); Itinerario della mente in Dio. Testo latino dell'edizione di Quaracchi, transl. G. Melani (La Verna-Florence, 1987); Works of Bonaventure, Vol. II revised and expanded, Itinerarium Mentis in Deum,  ed. & trans. Philotheus Boehmer & Zachary Hayes (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2002); Itinerario dell’anima a Dio. Testo latino a fronte, trans. Letterio Mauro, Testi a fronte, 57 (Milan: Bompiani, 2002); Itinerarium Mentis in Deum-Der Pilgerweg des Menschen zu Gott. Lateinisch-Deutsch, trans. Marianne Schlosser, Theologie der Spiritualität. Quellentexte, 3 [reviewed in CF 75 (2005), 716-718]; Bonaventura de Bagnoregio, Ausgewählte Werke. Band 2: Itinerarium Mentis in Deum - Pilgerbuch der Seele zu Gott; De reductione artium ad Theologiam - die Zurückführung der Künste auf die Theologie, trans. Julian Kaup (Darmstadt: WBG, 2018); Into God: itinerarium Mentis in Deum of Saint Bonaventure. An Annotated Translation, trans. Regis J. Armstrong (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020). The work was composed in 1259, during a temporary retreat on La Verna]

De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam, in: Opera Omnia, V, 317-325; J. Hamesse, S. Bonaventure. Itinerarium mentis in Deum, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Concordance-Indices (Louvain, 1972); De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam, ed. Zachary Hayes, Works of Bonaventure, I (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1996); Bonaventura de Bagnoregio, Ausgewählte Werke. Band 2: Itinerarium Mentis in Deum - Pilgerbuch der Seele zu Gott; De reductione artium ad Theologiam - die Zurückführung der Künste auf die Theologie, trans. Julian Kaup (Darmstadt: WBG, 2018). See also Joshua C. Benson, ‘Identifying the Literary Genre of the De reductione artium ad theologiam: Bonaventure’s Inaugural Lecture at Paris’, Franciscan Studies 67 (2009), 149-178. See also his article in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85 (2011), 7-24. and Idem, ‘Bonaventure’s Inaugual Sermon at Paris: Omnium artifes docuit me sapientia, Introduction and Text’, Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012), 517-562. Joshua Benson argues that one of the sermons in MS Borghesiani 157 is an unedited academic sermon by Bonaventure that has to be identified with the first part of an academic principium with which Bonaventure started his magisterial theology course. Benson makes the case that Bonaventure’s De reductione artium ad theologiam is the second part of the same principium text (the resumptio). This would shed new light on the context and creation of this work.

Lignum Vitae, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 68-86 & in: Decem Opuscula, 135-180. See also: Soliloquio dell'anima o quattro esercizi di meditazione. L'albero della vita. Le cinque feste di Gesú Bambino, trans. A. Calufetti (Vicenza, 1988). A more recent Italian translation by Bernardino Garcia can be found in I Mistici. Scritti dei Mistici Francescani Secolo XIII, I (Assisi-Bologna, 1995), 375-418. For a modern German translation & commentary, see: Der Baum des Lebens. Eine Arbeits- und Exerzitienbuch zur Franziskanischen Spiritualität, trans. Marianne Schlosser; comm. Christina Mülling, ill. Sigmunda May (Paderborn, 2002) & Bonaventura, Baum des Lebens. Geistliche Betrachtungen, trans. Marianne Schlosser (Sankt Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 2012. Review in CF 82 (2012), 793-794. For early Dutch translations, see Eefje Bosmans, ‘De Middelnederlandse vertalingen van Bonaventura's Lignum Vitae’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 80:1 (March 2009), 21-47. [This meditative book on the tree of life (the crucified Christ), produced around 1260, contains a prologue and twelve ‘fruits’, divided over three themes: De mysterio originis (Fructus I-IV: Praeclaritas originis; Humilitas conversationis; Celsitudo virtutis; Plenitudo pietatis); De mysterio passionis (Fructus V-VIII: Confidentia in periculis; Patientia in iniuriis; Constantia in suppliciis; Victoria in conflictu mortis); De mysterio glorificationis (Fructus IX-XII: Novitas resurrectionis; Sublimitas ascensionis; Aequitas iudicii; Aeternitas regni) Deals with the mysteries of Christ’s origin, his passion, and his glorification, dealt with with recourse to the symbolism of the tree. The key to a proper reading of Christ’s life and his mysteries on earth is poverty, humility (man’s possible ways to imitate Christ in this life). The mystery of Christ’s glorification explains the victory of Christ over sin and death, which opens the door to eternal life. And the glory of Christ can prefigure the future glorification of man.]

Laudismus de Sancta Cruce, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 667-669.

De Septem Verbis Domini nostri Ihesu Christi in Cruce [spurious?!], in: Opera Omnia VII, 667-678; A. Wilmart, ‘Le grand poème bonaventurien sur les sept paroles du Christ en croix’, Revue Bénédictine 47 (1935), 235-278. [Bonaventurean poem, surviving in at least 8 manuscripts. Ascription to Bonaventure not secure. Also seen as a work of Geraldus Odonis. Amounts to a rythmical poetic prayer.]

Officium de Passione Domini, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 152-158 & in: Decem Opuscula, 343-363 [Composed for King Louis IX of France between 1242 and 1248: providing spiritual excercises for all the liturgical hours of the day (matins, laudes, prime, terts, sext, none, vespers, compline) replete with prayers, contemplations, hymns and psalms to be sung, readings from the Gospels etc. It is not an official liturgical Oficium, but a way for the King to organise his day with prayer and religious exercises].

Collationes de Septem Donis Spiritus Sancti, in: Opera Omnia, V, 455-503; Collationes de Donis Spiritus Sancti Brevior Reportatio, in: Sancti Bonaventurae (…) Operum Sixti V Pontificis Max. D. Ord. jussu editorum supplementum in tria volumina distributum, ed. Bonelli (Trente, 1772-1774), III, 418-494. ed. in prep. Jacqueline Hamesse [cf. J. Hamesse, `La deuxième reportation des `Collationes de septem donis Spiritus Sancti' de saint Bonaventure', BPhM, 19 (1977), 59-64; J. Hamesse, Saint Bonaventure. Collationes de septem donis Spiritus sancti. Concordances, indices (Louvain, 1979); Collationes on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, trans. Zachary Hayes & Robert J. Karris, Works of Bonaventure, 13 (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Press, 2008). These collationes were held during the academic year 1267-1268]

De Regimine Animae, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 128-130 & in: Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae Decem Opuscula ad Theologiam Mysticam Spectantia (Quaracchi, 1965), 275-282. A modern Italian translation by Bernardino Garcia can be found in I Mistici. Scritti dei Mistici Francescani Secolo XIII, I (Assisi-Bologna, 1995), 467-478. An English translation was made by G. Etzkorn in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. X : Writings on the Spiritual Life (St. Bonaventure NY : Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006). This relatively high-brow text, possibly composed between 1264 and 1274 for Queen Bianca of Navarra, to evaluate in mental excercises the state of one’s soul and to thoroughly train it in order to keep it fully geared to the path of spiritual perfection, with the practice of humility, devotion, purety, the remorse over sins and a desire for Divine grace. The central idea throughout is to sentire de Deo altissime, piisime, sanctissime]

De Triplici Via, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 3-18 & in: Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae Decem Opuscula ad Theologiam Mysticam Spectantia (Quaracchi, 1965), 1-34. [See on this work especially J.Fr. Bonnefoy, Une somme bonaventurienne de théologie mystique, le ‘De triplici via’ (Paris, 1934), which also includes a translation. Yet another French translation appeared as: La Triple Voie, trans. R.P. Valentin & M. Breton (Paris, 1942). A first modern Spanish translation appeared as St. Bonaventura, De Triplici Via, trans. I. Omaechevarria, in: Obras de San Buenaventura, IV (Madrid, 1947), 97-163. A modern Italian translation by Bernardino Garcia can be found in I Mistici. Scritti dei Mistici Francescani Secolo XIII, I (Assisi-Bologna, 1995), 343-374. For a modern French translation, see: Saint Bonaventure, La Triple Voie, trad. & comm. Jacques-Guy Bougerol (Paris, Les Éditions Franciscaines, 1998). An English translation was made by G. Etzkorn in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. X : Writings on the Spiritual Life (St. Bonaventure NY : Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006), and yet another English translation appeared as: The Triple Way by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, trans. Peter Damian M. Fehlner (New Bedford, MA: Academy of the Immaculate, 2012); De Triplici Via (alias Incendium Amoris)is a ‘summa’ or synthesis of spiritual theology along dionysian lines, composed ca. 1259-1260 for a diocesan priest, and showing the ways that led to spiritual perfection (and not dealing with the ultimate form of contemplation possible in that perfect state) contains three chapters: Cap. I. De meditatione, qua anima purgatur, illuminatur et perficitur (§ 1 De via purgativa et triplici eius exercitatio; § 2 De via illuminativa et triplici eius exercitatio; § 3 De via perfectiva et triplici eius exercitio; § 4 Corollarium) ; Cap. II. De oratione, qua deploratur miseria, imploratur misericordia, exhibitur latria (§ 1 De triplici deploratione miseriae; § 2 De triplici imploratione misericordiae; § 3 De triplici exhibitione latriae; § 4 De sex gradibus dilectionis Dei; § 5 Recapitulatio); Cap. III. De contemplatione, qua pervenitur ad veram sapientiam (§ 1 Praeambulum; § 2 De septem gradibus, quibus pervenitur ad soporem pacis; § 3 De septem gradibus, quibus, pervenitur ad splendorem veritatis; § 4 De septem gradibus, quibus pervenitur ad dulcorem caritatis; § 5 Recapitulatio; § 6 Alia distinctio novem graduum proficiendi; § 7 De duplici contemplatione rerum divinarum)]

De Sex Alis Seraphim, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 131-151 & in: Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae Decem Opuscula ad Theologiam Mysticam Spectantia (Quaracchi, 1965), 283-340. [Possibly not by Bonaventure himself, but inspired by his spirituality. Contains a Prologue and seven chapters: I. Seligendi apti superiores inter multos; incipientes indigent magistro; magistro non indigentes debent habere quatuor perfectiones; II. De prima ala praelatorum, quae est zelus iustitiae; III. De secunda ala praelatorum, quae est pietas; IV. De tertia ala praelatorum, quae est patientia; V. De quarta ala praelatorum, quae est exemplaritas vitae; VI. De quinta ala praelatorum, quae est circumspecta discretio; VII. De sexta ala prelatorum, quae est devotio ad Deum. Seems an important work for guiding life and behaviour of prelates]

Regula Novitiorum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 475-490 & in: Selecta pro Instruendis Fratribus, 191-232. [Produced between 1259 and 1260. For late medieval German translations cf. Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 251-253.

Prothema, in: Opera Omnia, IX, 731.

Soliloquium, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 28-67; Decem Opuscula, 35-133; Soliloquio dell'anima o quattro esercizi di meditazione. L'albero della vita. Le cinque feste di Gesú Bambino, trans. A. Calufetti (Vicenza, 1988). An English translation was made by G. Etzkorn in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. X: Writings on the Spiritual Life (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006). See for a modern German translation also Bonaventura de Bagnoregio, Ausgewählte Werke. Band I: Soliloquium de quatuor mentalibus exercitiis - Alleingespräch über die vier geistlichen Übungen (Darmstadt: WBG, 2018). The work had a very strong German and Dutch reception in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Cf. Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 295. For instance MS Wolfenbüttel 1136 Helmst, ff. 39r-47v. The Latin Soliloquium de IV Mentalibus Exercitiis, written in 1257 for persons aspiring to live a truly religious life and aiming to help them prepare their soul for proper contemplation with meditative exercises, contains a prologue and four chapters, the first three of which do not deal with mystical contemplation proper but with the excercises and the insights making this possible, with recourse to patristic materials. In that sense, this work in a way fleshes out the programme of De Triplici Via: Cap. I. Quomodo anima per mentale exercitium debeat radium contemplationis reflectere ad interiora sua, ut videat, qualiter sit formata per naturam, deformata per culpam et reformata per gratiam (§ 1 Praeambulum; § 2 Quam generose a summo Artifice formata sit anima per naturam; § 3 Quam vitiose a voluntate deformata sit anima per culpam; § 4 Quam gratiose a divina bonitate reformata sit anima per gratiam); Cap. II. Quomodo anima per mentale exercitium debet radium contemplationis convertere ad exteriora, ut cognoscat, quam instabilis sit mundana opulentia, quam mutabilis mundana excellentia, et quam miserabilis mundana magnificentia (§ 1 De triplici rerum mundanarum vanitate; § 2 De ratione, quare multi mundani excaecantur; § 3 De consolatione divina et de dispositione ad eam obtinendam); Cap. III. Quomodo anima per mentale exercitium debeat radium contemplationis convertere ad inferiora, ut intelligat humanae mortis inevitabilem necessitatem, iudicii finalis formidabilem aequitatem, poenae infernalis intolerabilem asperitatem (§ 1 Primo, de mortis inevitabili necessitate; § 2 Secundo, de iudicii finalis ineffabili aequitate; § 3 Tertio, de poenarum infernalium intolerabili asperitate); Cap. IV. Quomodo anima per mentale exercitium debeat radium contemplationis reflectere ad superiora, ut videat duodecim gaudia caeli orta ex contemplatione vel inferiorum, vel exteriorum, vel interiorum, vel superiorum (§ 1 De gaudio caelesti in genere; § 2 De gaudio caelesti in specie, et primo de triplici gaudio orto ex conversione contemplationis ad ea quae infra sunt; § 3 Secundo, Beati convertunt radium contemplationis ad ea quae iuxta se sunt, et triplici obiecto gaudent; § 4 Tertio, Beati convertunt radium contemplationis ad ea quae intra se sunt, et tripliciter gaudent; § 5 Quarto, Beati convertunt radium contemplationis ad ea quae supra se sunt, et in summo Bono perfecte et secundum tres animae vires gaudent) Chapter IV seems to describe the world of the beati and not the life of the viatores]

Tractatus de Praeparatione ad Missam, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 99-106; Decem Opuscula, 201-220; Pseudo Bonaventure, Trattato sulla preparazione alla messa, trans. O. Aiello (Termini Imerese: We Can Hope Editore, 2018). [This work, the authenticity of which is not secure (late manuscript tradition and a some stylistic differences), contains a prologue and two chapters: Cap. I. De praemittenda quadruplici sui ipsius probatione (§ 1 Primo, quisque se ipsum probare debet, qua fide accedat ad altare; § 2 Secundo, quisque se ipsum probare debet, cum quali proposito et dispositione accedat; § 3 Tertio, quisque se ipsum probare debet, ex quanta caritate et quali fervore accedat; § 4 Quarto, quisque se ipsum probare debet, proper quid accedat); Cap. II. De contritione et confessione, de praeparatione immediata et de ipsa celebratione. The first of these chapters teaches ho to consider the meaning of the Eucharist, to accept the miracle of the transsubstantiation with awe (and without questioning), and how to prepare mentally and corporally for its reception. The much shorter second chapter, deals with the immediate preparation of taking the host, concluding with a focusing prayer and short concluding remarks]

Vitis Mystica (forma brevis) seu Planctus de Passione Domini, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 159-189; Decem Opuscula, 365-418. [Ascription not secure. For information on late medieval Dutch translations of the work in the context of the Modern Devotion and Franciscan Tertiary communities of the fifteenth century, cf. Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 183ff. The Latin text of this ‘mystical vine’, which might not be a genuine work of Bonaventure (but rather a Cistercian text based on Bernardine theology) contains a Prologue and 24 chapters in which the branches, the leaves and the flowers/fruits of the vine are made to stand for the sufferings of Christ on the cross]

Epistula ad Abbatem Sanctae Mariae Blesensis, Opera Omnia, VIII, 473.

Epistula ad Abbatissam et Sorores Sanctae Clarae Monasterii de Assisio, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 473-474 & in: Escritos de Santa Clara y Documentos Contemporaneos (Madrid, 1970), 308-310.

Sermones Dominicales, ed. J.G. Bougerol, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 27 (Grottaferrata, 1977). [Introduction, pp. 110-118 contains a lot of information about Bonaventure's preaching techniques]; Sermoni domenicali, trans. E. Mariani, comm. J.G. Bougerol (Rome, 1992); The Sunday sermons of St. Bonaventure, trans. Timothy J. Johnson, Works of St. Bonaventure, XII (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2008).

Sermones de Tempore. Reportationes du manuscrit Milan, Ambrosienne A 11 sup., Nouvelle édition critique par J.-G. Bougerol (Paris, 1990).

Sermones de Sanctis, in: Opera Omnia, IX, 463-631. See also: I. Deug-Su, `Il `conoscere' nei sermoni agiografici di S. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', DSer 34 (11987), 47-66; Aleksander Horowski, 'Francesco d'Assisi zelante seguace di Cristo crocifisso in due sconosciuti sermoni di san Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', Collectanea Franciscana 87:3-4 (2017), 397-448 [concerning two sermons in MS Paris, BN, Lat 14595].

For an edition of a sermon on Thomas Apostolus and three reportationes of a sermon on Saint Andrew, which differ from the existing editions in the Quaracchi volumes and in the works of Bougerol, see the 2015 study of Aleksander Horowski in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 665-692.

Sermones de Diversis, Nouvelle édition critique par J.-G. Bougerol, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1993). An English translation of sermons on the way of life, on the Holy Saturday and on the Monday after Palm Sunday were made by O. Bychkov and R. Karris in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. X : Writings on the Spiritual Life (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006). For an amended edition of the Latin text and an Italian translation, see: San Bonaventura, Sermoni “De diversis”, revisione del testo latino, ed. & trans. Massimiliano Lenzi & Massimo Tedoldo, Sancti Bonaventurae Opera – Nuova collana bonaventuriana, XII/1-2, 2 Vols. (Rome: Città Nuova Editrice, 2017). This takes as its point of departure the Bougerol edition, but does offer several alternative readings. In-depth review by Aleksander Horowski in Collectanea Franciscana 88:1-2 (2018), 420-426.

Sermo Unus est Magister Vester, Christus, in: Opera Omnia, V, 567-574 & in: Opera Theologica Selecta, V, 295-307 & in: La metodologia del sapere nel sermone di san Bonaventura `Unus est magister vester Christus', con nuova edizione critica e traduzione italiana, ed. & trans. R. Russo (Grottaferrata, 1982) & in: Le Christ maître. Edition, traduction et commentaire du sermon universitaire `Unus est magister noster Christus', ed & trans. G. Madec (Paris, 1990).

Omnium artifes docuit me sapientia, inaugural sermon from Paris. The second half was later transformed into De reductione artium ad theologiam (see above). For an edition of the reconstituted text, see: Joshua C. Benson, ‘Bonaventure’s Inaugual Sermon at Paris: Omnium artifes docuit me sapientia, Introduction and Text’, Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012), 517-562 (edition on 537-562).

Sermo de S. Johanne Evangelista, in: Opera Omnia, VI, 239-242 [=part of Bonaventure's Sermones de Sanctis]

Sermo de Sanctissimo Corpore Christi, in: Opera Omnia, V, 553-566; Opera Theologica Selecta, V, 307-327. See also: ‘Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s Sermon III: Concerning de Most Holy Body of Christ’, trans. Zachary Hayes & Notes by Robert J. Karris, Greyfriars Review 20 (2006), 171-197.

Sermo de regno Dei Descripto in parabolis Evangelicis seu Sermo de Seminante, in: Opera Omnia, V, 539-553; Opera Theologica Selecta, V, 413-436.

Sermo et Collatio de Angelis, in: Opera Omnia, IX, 622-626.

Sermones de Beata Virgine Maria, in: Opera Omnia, IX, 633-721.

Sermo de triplici Testimonio Sanctissimae Trinitatis, in: Opera Omnia, V, 535-538; Opera Theologica Selecta, V, 231-238.

Sermones Quadragesimales. This is a more or less reconstructed collection put together on the basis of published Lenten sermons of Bonaventure (such as those present in his Sermones dominicales and his Sermones de diversis), and on the basis of quite a number of unpublished sermons that either in the past erroneously have been ascribed to others, such as Odo Rigaldi (cf. Schneyer, Repertorium IV, 511-517, nos. 13-91), or in other ways can be ascribed to Bonaventure, such as the reportationes by Marco da Montefeltro ('dictator fr. Bonaventurae ministri generalis', cf. Constitutiones generales Ordinis Fratrum Minorum I, ed. Cenci-Mailleux (Grottaferrata, 2007), 217 & Salimbene de Adam, Cronica, ed. Scalia (Turnhout, 1998), 471) and other witnesses in MSS Assisi, Fondo Antico Comunale (Sacrum Conv.), 387, ff. 190ra-199ra; Assisi, Fondo Antico Comunale (Sacrum Conv.), 496; Assisi, Fondo Antico Comunale (Sacrum Conv.), 510, ff. 3r-83v; Assisi, Fondo Antico Comunale (Sacrum Conv.), 533, ff. 68ra-172vb; Todi, Biblioteca Comunale, 144, ff. 5ra-120rb; Todi, Biblioteca Comunale, 148, ff. 12ra-190vb; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Lat. 14595; Bologna, Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio, A.715, ff. 118ra-190vb; Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, VIII.A.30, ff. 131vb-169va & 185rb-206vb; Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, A.11.sup; Florence, Biblioteca Provinciale OFM, 13; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. XXXIV sin. cod. 2, ff. 65vb-118vb; Fribourg, Minoritenkloster (Franciscan Convent Library) 139 [bonaventurean quadragesimale collection]; Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Thott. oct. 29, ff. 1r-66v [179-244]), see: Aleksander Horowski, 'Un 'Quadragesimale' di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio?', Collectanea Franciscana 88:1-2 (2018), 507-679 [which also provides an edition of ten sermons] & Idem, 'La Gerusalemme celeste in un discorso quaresimale di san Bonaventura', in: La via di san Bonaventura: nel segno della cittadinanza celeste. 66o Convegno di Studi Bonaventuriani, Viterbo-Bagnoregio, 25-27 maggio 2018, ed. Letterio Mauro & Prospero Rivi (Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2019), 51-65.

De Quinque Festivitatibus Pueri Iesu, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 88-95 & in: Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae Decem Opuscula ad Theologiam Mysticam Spectantia (Quaracchi, 1965), 181-199. See also: Soliloquio dell'anima o quattro esercizi di meditazione. L'albero della vita. Le cinque feste di Gesú Bambino, trans. A. Calufetti (Vicenza, 1988). A more recent Italian translation by Bernardino Garcia can be found in I Mistici. Scritti dei Mistici Francescani Secolo XIII, I (Assisi-Bologna, 1995), 571-590. The work had a number of late medieval vernacular renderings, for instance in Low German (MS Wolffenbüttel, 704 Helmst, ff. 1-79v (1461))[This meditation on the mysteries of Christ’s childhood (virginal conception, birth, way in which he received his name, the adoration of the Magi) and its repersussions for our Christian life contains a prologue and five ‘Festivitates’: I. Quomodo Filius Dei, Christus Iesus, a mente devota spiritualiter concipiatur; II. Quomodo Filius Dei in mente devota spiritualiter nascatur; III. Quomodo infans Iesus a devota anima spiritualiter sit nominandus; IV. Quomodo Filius Dei a devota anima cum Magis sit spiritualiter quaerendus et adorandus; V. Quomodo Filius Dei a devoto anima spiritualiter praesentetur in templo. Bonaventura wants to renovate the spiritual life of every individual by showing him or her how to consider these mysteries and to internalise them in one’s own spiritual outlook through various exercises, leading to spiritual purification, spiritual insight and peace]

De Perfectione Vitae ad Sorores seu de Forma Perfectionis Religiosorum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 107-127 & in: Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae Decem Opuscula ad Theologiam Mysticam Spectantia (Quaracchi, 1965), 221-273. A modern Italian translation by Bernardino Garcia can be found in I Mistici. Scritti dei Mistici Francescani Secolo XIII, I (Assisi-Bologna, 1995), 419-466. A modern English translation can be found in: The Works of Bonaventure, Vol. 1: Mystical Opuscula, trans. J. de Vinck (Paterson, N.J., 1960), 221. A new English translation was made by G. Etzkorn in Works of St. Bonaventure, Vol. X: Writings on the Spiritual Life (St. Bonaventure NY : Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006). The work was produced around 1260. In the past, it has been assumed that this work was composed for Isabelle of France (Elisabeth of Longchamp, daughter of Louis VIII and sister of Louis IX), yet this seems unwarranted. It shows Poor Clares how to live a true religious life, that is the way to spiritual perfection through the crucified Christ (via self-knowledge, humility, poverty, silence, sollitude in prayer, remembering the passion of Christ, all of which leads to a perfect love o God and the necessary perseverance to hold out until the end). This religious life is a sapientia in service of the future eternal life. This is one of the most important of Bonaventure’s works of passion devotion and christology, next to the Lignum Vitae and the Vitis Mystica.. Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 182 provides information on a Dutch translation found in MS Leiden, University Library Lett. 332 (olim 125) ff. 1r-54r. The Latin text contains a prologue and eight chapters. The prologue makes clear that for the Poor Clares (who were not supposed to read the Latin Bible independently (aside from the texts they were acquainted with in liturgical contexts!) the Lex Domini ‘…non tantum foris quarenda est in littera, sed potius per devotae mentis affectum. Est autem desideranda in spiritu et virtute, ut ille videlicet intus doceat, qui solus novit exteriorem legis asperitatem in interiorem dulcedinem commutare. Docet autem lex Domini, quid agendum, quid fugiendum, quid credendum, quod orandum, quid desiderandum, quod timendum; docet esse immaculatum et irreprehensibilem; docet servare promissa, deflere commissa; docet mundana contemnere, carnalia respuere; docet denique totum cor, totam animam, totam mentem in solum convertere Iesum Christum. Ad huius doctrinae comparationem omnis mundana sapientia stulta est et fatua. (…) Ut autem facilius possis invenire quod quaris, ideo singulorum capitulorum praemisi titulos’, namely: I. De vera sui ipsius cognitione; II. De vera humilitate; III. De perfecta paupertate; IV. De silentio et tacurnitate; V. De studio orationis; VI. De passionis Christi memoria; VII. De perfecta Dei caritate; VIII. De finali perseverantia. As Jeryldene M. Wood, Women, Art, and Spirituality. The Poor Clares of Early Modern Italy (Cambridge, 1996), 23-24 makes clear, Bonaventura’s representation of the Poor Clares as consecrated virgins remains within the accepted ecclesiastical tradition that see female religious perfection ‘as achieved through solitude deepened by humility and silence (…) speech, like choice foods, fine clothing, and other delights of the flesh, is a sensual pleasure that is as dangerous as lust to a sister. To discipline the spirit further, Saint Bonaventure recommends ‘constant prayer and devotional exercises’ and he claims that copious weeping is a necessary step on the path to ecstasy: The nuns should copy Mary Magdalen and ‘bate the feet of the Lord Jesus with … tears.’’ ]

Statuta Liturgica sue Rubricae Breviarii Auctore d. Bonaventura in Generali Capitulo Pisano an. 1263 Editae, ed. H. Golubovich, AFH, 4 (1911), 62-73.

Constitutiones Generales Narbonenses, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 449-464 & in M. Bihl, `Statuta generalia Ordinis edita in Capitulis generalibus celebratis Narbonae an. 1260, Assisi an. 1279 atque Parisiis an. 1292 (editio critica et synoptica)', AFH, 34 (1941), 37-94, 284-319. See now also the new edition by Cesare Cenci of the Franciscan order constitutions from the 13th and fourteenth centuries

Definitiones Capituli Generalis Narbonensis, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 464-466; F.M. Delorme, `Diffinitiones' Capituli Generalis O.F.M. Narbonensis (1260)', AFH, 3 (1910), 491-504 & A.G. Little, `Definitiones capitulorum generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (1260-1282)', AFH, 7 (1914), 676-682 (esp. 677).

Explanationes Constitutionum Generalium Narbonensium, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 450-455 & in AFH, 18 (1925), 514-524.

Rubricae Datae in Capitulo Generali Pisano, ed. in. G. Abate, `Memoriali (…)', MF, 35 (1935), 232-235; S.J.P. van Dijk, Sources of the Modern Roman Liturgy, II: Texts (Leiden, 1963), 144-146 & 421-432. [cf. AFH, 45 (1952), 299-322]

Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum (spurious), in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 391-437 [ see also S. Clasen, `Bonaventuras' Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum', in: S. Bonaventura 1274-1974, II, 531-570 & E. Randolph Daniel, in Franciscan Studies, 32 (1972), 86-87. Probably the work of John Pecham]

Determinationes Quaestionum circa Regulam Fratrum Minorum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 337-374. [Place Franciscan preaching and confession in a context of urban pastoral care. Cf. L. Pellegrini, ‘L’ordine francescano e la società cittadine in epoca bonaventuriana. Un’analisi del ‘Determinationes quaestionum super Regulam Fratrum Minorum’’, Laurentianum 15 (1974), 154-200. Ascription of the work to Bonaventure not fully secure (work in its surviving form might date from around 1290). Comparable issues were raised in the polemical work Quare Fratres Minores praedicent et confessones audiant.]

Epistula de Tribus Quaestionibus ad magistrum Innominatum seu Declaratio quorundam Articulorum Regulae Fratrum Minorum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 331-336 & ed. F. Delorme, in Arch. Ital. Storia Pietà, 1 (1951), 212-218.

Epistola ad Decanum et Canonicos Werdenses, ed. H. Ketteler, Urkundenbuch des Stiftes Kaiserwerth (Bonn, 1904), 70-1; Bihl, `Duae Confraternitatis Epistolae (…)', AFH, 26 (1933), 232-3.

Epistola ad Fratrem Ministrum Aragonie, ed. A. de Saldes, EF, 37 (1926), 112-4.

Epistola ad Ministrum Provincialum Aragoniae, 27 Sept. 1263, ed. A. Castellano i Tressera & A. Boades Illavat, in: Verd. Vida 54 (1996), 251-263.

Epistula de Sandalis Apostolorum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 386-390.

Epistula Continens Viginti Quinque Memoralia, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 491-498 & in: Selecta pro Instruendis Fratribus Ordinis Minorum Scripta S. Bonaventurae, una cum Libello Speculum Disciplinae (Quaracchi, 1942), 237-257. This work written on request of a friar who wanted to be instructed in religious perfection.

Epistula de Imitatione Christi, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 499-503 & in: Selecta pro Instruendis Fratribus Ordinis Minorum Scripta S. Bonaventurae, una cum Libello Speculum Disciplinae (Quaracchi, 1942), 261-271.

Epistola ad Guidonem Comitem Flandrie et Matildem Uxorem Eius, ed. Callebaut, AFH, 7 (1914), 250-1.

Epistula ad Fratrem Laurentium, or rather Epistula ad Lotharium [better reading of the text] in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 471-472 & Z. Lazzeri, `Documenta controversiam inter Fratres Minores et Clarissas spectantia (1262-1297)', AFH, 3 (1910), 678-679. A new edition of the text has been issued by A. Horowski, in his article: 'La legislazione per le clarisse del 1263: la Regola di Urbano IV, le lettere di Giovanni Gaetano Orsini e di san Bonaventura', Collectanea Franciscana 87 (2017) 65-157 (on pp. 146-148). Lazzeri and now also Horowski have decided that the name of the friar is Lotharius and not Laurentius. With thanks to Prof. Horowski for this information.

Epistola ad Ministrum et Fratres Congregationis Beatae Virginis in Civitate Brixiensi, ed. P. Guerrini, AFH, 1 (1908), 561-2.

Epistola ad Omnes Ministros Provinciales et Custodes Ordinis Fratrum Minorum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 478-469.

Epistola ad Omnes Ordinis Ministros Provinciales, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 470-471

Epistola ad Fratres Custodem et Guardianum Pisarum, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 471.

Epistola ad Fratres Universos, in: Opera Omnia, VIII, 472-473.

Epistola ad Recommendatos Beatae Virginis in Urbe Roma, ed. I.M. Pou y Martí, AFH, 17 (1924), 451-2

Epistola de Concordia cum capitulo Sanctae Mariae Cameracensis Stabilienda, ed. Callebaut, AFH, 7 (1914), 251-4.

Rubricae Datae in Capitulo Generali Pisano, ed. G. Abata, Misc. Franc., 35 (1935), 232-5; S.J.P. van Dijk, Sources of the Modern Roman Liturgy, II, Texts (Leiden, 1963), 421-32.

Quaestio Utrum Mundus Productus Fuerit ab Aeterno, ed. A. van der Sande (Tilburg, 1983)

? Quaestio de Imagine Recreationis, ed. & introd. in: Francisco Chavero Blanco, ‘La Quaestio de Imagine Recreationis del MS Assisi, Communale 186, un escrito bonaventuriano?’, AFH 92 (1999), 3-58 & K. F. Lynch, The Sacrament of Confirmation in the Early-Middle Scholastic Period, I: Texts (New York, 1957), 249-252

? Quaestio de Raptu. Edited and discussed in: Barbara Faes de Mottoni, ‘La questione ‘De Raptu’ nel ms. Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale, fondo antico 186’, Archa Verbi. Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology 1 (2004), 67-90.

De sacramento confirmationis, ed. in: K. F. Lynch, The Sacrament of Confirmation in the Early-Middle Scholastic Period, I: Texts (New York, 1957), XLIV, LXV, 149-157.

Questio autographa de superfluo, edited in: S.Bonaventura e la questione autografa "de superfluo", ed. E. Lio (Rome: Lateranum, 1966). Based on Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale, 186.

Tractatus de transcendentalibus entis conditionibus, ed. in: Franziskanische Studien 41 (1959), 41-106. Also based on Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale, 186, and with on pp 50-53 a discussion on Bonaventure's possible authorship.

Quaestio utrum, dona sint virtutes, ed. in: O. Lottin, Psychologie et moraleaux XII et XIII siècles, III: Problèmes de morale, II, 1 (Louvain-Gembloux, 1949), 401-404.

?Questio de eleemosyna, see: E. Lio, 'È veramente s. B.l'autore delle questioni "De eleemosyna" contenute nel cod. Vat. Pal.lat. 612?', Antonianum37 (1962), 115-139 (doubts attribution) & J.-G. Bougerol, Introduction à l'étude de St. Bonaventure (Paris, 1961), 246ff.

See also: Bonaventure: Mystic of God's Word. Selected Spiritual Writings, ed. Timothy J. Johnson (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006) & La letteratura francescana, volume III, Bonaventura: La perfezione cristiana, ed. Claudio Leonardi & Daniele Solvi (Milan: Fondazione Valla-Arbaldo Mondadori, 2012) [with annotated translations of the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, the Vitis mystica and other texts. See the lengthy review in Il Santo 53:3 (2013), 485-490 & the review in AFH 106:3-4 (2013), 628-630]

Vitae

Octavianus de Martinis, De vita et miraculis S. Bonaventurae Oratio, qua postulator a Sixto Quarto Summo Pontifice in Divorum referri numerum, in: AASS Jul. III, 788-794; Petrus Gelesinius Protonotarius Apostolicus, Vitae S. Bonaventurae S.R.E. Cardinalis, in: AASS Jul. III, 801-822.

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Schlosser & P. Zahner, ‘Bonaventura, Legenda Major’, 686-778; F. Mair, ‘Bonaventura, Mirakelbuch’, 779-812; P. Zahner, ‘Bonaventura, Mirakelbuch’, 779-812; P. Zahner, ‘Bonaventura, Legenda minor, Predigten und Kleinere Zeugnisse’, 813-914; Franco Cardini,‘‘Nella presenza del soldan superba". Bernardo, Francesco, Bonaventura e il superamento spirituale della crociata’, in: Idem, Nella presenza del soldan superba: saggi francescani, Medioevo francescano. Saggi, 13 (Spoleto, 2009), 41-92; Barbara Faes de Mottoni, ‘Fedele da Fanna, Antonio Maria da Vicenza e il Breviloquio di Bonaventura: Baruffe venete’, in: Religioni e doctrina. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Bernardino de Armellada in occasione del suo 80o compleanno, ed. Aleksander Horowski, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 89 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2009), 621-680; Barbara Faes de Mottoni, ‘Strumenti per lo studio di Bonaventura. La ‘Tabula’ di Bartolomeo Barbieri e il ‘Lexicon bonavanturianum’ di Antonio Maria da Vicenza’, in: Florilegium mediaevale. Études offertes à Jacqueline Hamesse à l’occasion de son éméritat, ed. José Meirinhos & Olga Weijers, FIDEM –Textes et études du Moyen Age, 50 (Louvain-la-Neuve –Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), 185-204; Barbara Faes de Mottoni, ‘la ristampa anastatica della biografia di Fedele da Fanna artefice dell’edizione critica dell’Opera Omnia di san Bonaventura’, Acta Ordinis Minorum 128 (2009), 425-428; Cristina Motta, ‘Piacere et dolore del Cristo in S. Bonaventura’, Doctor Seraphicus 56 (2009), 17-30; Cristina Motta, ‘Le passioni del Cristo nelle opere di san Bonaventura’, Studi Francescani 106 (2009), 229-302; Giuseppe Rocco, L’antropologia in san Bonaventura, Saggistica 2000, 99 (Vicenza: Editrice Veneta, 2009); E. Prenga, Il Crocifiso via alla Trinità. L’esperienza di Francesco d’Assisi nella teologia di Bonaventura (Rome: Città Nuova, 2009); Marco Bartoli, ‘Bonaventura, Olivi e le ‘Quaestiones de perfectione evangelica”, in: Religioni e doctrina. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Bernardino de Armellada in occasione del suo 80o compleanno, ed. Aleksander Horowski, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 89 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2009), 175-189; Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Die Geschichtstheologie des hl. Bonaventura Joseph Ratzingers. Nachwirken in der Forschung der Folgezeit’, in: Religioni e doctrina. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Bernardino de Armellada in occasione del suo 80o compleanno, ed. Aleksander Horowski, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 89 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2009), 741-755; Gerald Cresta, “Mira concordia et harmonia’. 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Hammond, ‘Bonaventure's Itinerarium: A Respondeo’, Franciscan Studies 67 (2009), 301-322; Catherine Innes-Parker, ‘Pastoral concerns in the Middle English adaptation of Bonaventura's ‘Lignum vitae’’, in: Texts and traditions of medieval pastoral care: essays in honour of Bella Millett (Woodbridge, 2009), 163-177; Roberto Lambertini & Letizia Pellegrini, ‘‘Per arbores et specula’. Un percorso possibile tra immagini e testi da Bonaventura a lacopo Oddi’, in: ‘Una strana gioia di vivere’: a Grado Giovanni Merlo, ed. Marina Benedetti & Maria Luisa (Milan, 2010), 349-364; Aleksander Horowski, ‘Il concetto di frutti spirituali nei domenicani parigini contemporanei di san Bonaventura’, Miscellanea francescana 110 (2010), 164-183; Timothy B. Noone, ‘Truth, Creation, and Intelligibility in Anselm, Grosseteste, and Bonaventure’, in: Truth. Studies of a Robust Presence, ed. Kurt Pritzl (Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010); Josef Ratzinger, ‘Der Einfluss des Bettelordenstreites auf die Entwicklung der Lehre vom päpstlichen Universalprimat, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des heiligen Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Offenbarungsverständnis und Geschichtstheologie Bonaventuras. Habilitationsschrift und Bonaventura-Studien, Josef Ratzinger – Gesammelte Studien, 2 (Freiburg i.Br. –Basel- Vienna: Herder, 2009), 663-692; Letterio Mauro, ‘La felicità dell’Itinerante’, Doctor Seraphicus 56 (2009), 47-62; Orlando Todisco, ‘La felicità in Bonaventura da Bagnoregio (…)’, Doctor Seraphicus 56 (2009), 63-127; Guy Goldentops, ‘God’s Unchangeability and the Changeability of Creatures from Bonaventure to Durandus. Scotus in Context’, in: The Legacy of John Duns Scotus, ed. Pasquale Porro & Jacob Schmutz, Quaestio, 8 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), 3-25; Aleksander Horowski, ‘Il concetto di ‘fructus’ (spirituali) nel pensiero di san Bonaventura’, Miscellanea francescana 110 (2010), 369-397: Alessandro Ghisalberti, ‘Il desiderio della felicità in S. Bonaventura’, Itinerarium 56 (2010), 419-432; Alessandro Mastromatteo, ‘Francesco d'Assisi: ‘novus Adam’: lettura della tipologia adamitica nella ‘Legenda major’ di Bonaventura’, Laurentianum 51 (2010), 271-334; Timothy Johnson, ‘Meraviglie di pietre e spazi. La dimensione teologica delle narrazioni sui miracoli in Tommaso da Celano e Bonaventura da Bagnoregio’, in: Paradoxien der Legitimation: Ergebnisse einer deutsch-italienisch-französischen Villa Vigoni-Konferenz, ed. Cécile Caby et al. (Florence, 2010), 479-496; Silvana Vecchio, ‘Povertà, mendicità e lavoro negli scritti di san Bonaventura’, in: La grazia del lavoro: atti del VII convegno storico di Greccio, Greccio, 8-9 maggio 2009, Alvaro Cacciotto & Maria Melli (Milan, 2010), 77-94; Orlando Todisco, ‘Il volto francescano di Dio oggi: Bonaventura in funzione di Scoto’, Miscellanea francescana 110 (2010), 55-84; Thimothy J. Johnson, “Item ordinentur de legenda beati Francisci’: Prolegomena to the study of Bonaventure’s ‘Legenda minor”, Frate Francesco 76 (2010), 225-239; Roberto Lambertini & Letizia Pellegrini, “Per arbores et specula’. Un percorso possibile tra immagini e testi da Bonaventura a Iacopo Oddi’, in: ‘Una strana gioia di vivere’: a Grado Giovanni Merlo, ed. Marina Benedetti & Maria Luisa Betri (Milan, 2010), 349-364; Filippo Ciampanelli, Hominem reducere ad Deum: la funzione mediatrice del Verbo incarnato nella teologia di San Bonaventura (Rome, 2010); Luca De Rosa, Dalla teologia della creazione all’antropologia della bellezza: il linguaggio simbolico chiave interpretativa del pensiero di San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Studi e Ricerche, Sezione teologica (Assisi: Cittadella Editrice, 2011) [needs to be read with care. Cf. the critical review in CF 81:1-2 (2011), 382-383.]; Ignazio De Vita, In principio era l'amore: unitas e primitas secondo la teologia trinitaria di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio (Pisa, 2011); Markus Riedenauer, ‘Wesen und Wirkungen des Lichts bei Bonaventura’, in: Farbe im Mittelalter, ed. Ingrid Bennewitz & Andrea Schindler, 2 Vols. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011) I, 855-868; Ilia Delio, ‘From Metaphysics to Kataphysics: Bonaventure’s ‘Good’ Creation’, Scottish Journal of Theology 64:2 (2011), 165ff; Manuel Aróztegui Esnaola, 'San Buenaventura sobre el matrimonio', Scripta Theologica 43 (2011), 265-296; Timothy J. Johnson, ‘Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching and the Cura Corporis/Cura Animae’, 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), 73-89; C.Colt Anderson, ‘Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure’s Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis’, 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), 91-113; Nicholas W. Youmans, ‘Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure’s Sunday Sermons’, 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), 115-143; Vincenzo Battaglia, ‘L’habitus sapienziale della riflessione cristologica: dall’intellectus all’affectus. Alla scuola di san Bonaventura’, Miscellanea Francescana 112 (2012), 364-383; F. Frezza, ‘«Virtutum vis et vita» nei commenti biblici di San Bonaventura’, Doctor Seraphicus 10 (2012), 7-25; E. Cuttini, ‘La volontà dell’uomo tra ragione e corporeità in Agostino d’Ippona e Bonaventura da Bagnoregio’, Doctor Seraphicus 10 (2012), 27-37; Claudio Leonardi, Bonaventura: la perfezione cristiana, comm. Daniele Solvi (Segrate (MI): Mondadori, 2012); Krijn Pansters, Franciscan Virtue. Spiritual Growth and the Virtues in Franciscan Literature and Instruction in the Thirteenth Century, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 161 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012). Review in CF 82 (2012), 787-788. with reference to Francis, Bonaventure and David of Augsburg; Sophie Delmas & Claire Angotti, ‘‘Protégées par les gardes’: des questions inédites de G. de Tournai et de Bonaventure, in: Exégèse et herméneutique de la Bible au Moyen Âge, journée d’hommage à Gilbert Dahan, ed. Annie Noblesse-Rocher (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), 161-184; 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; O. Todisco, ‘Il progetto San Bonaventura. Fecondità teoretica del pensare francescano’, Miscellanea Francescana 113:1-2 (2013), 170-197; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013) [also on Legenda Major and Legenda Minor]; H. Horowski, ‘«Legenda minor» di san Bonaventura: un breve elogio di san Francesco per uso liturgico’, Studia Franciszkanskie 23 (2013), 299-332; Aleksander Horowski, ‘San Bonaventura e il sermone "Iste pauper clamavit" dedicato a sant'Antonio di Padova’, Il Santo 53 (2013) 161-178; S. Grosse, ‘Mystik bei Bonaventura und Luther’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 76:2 (2013), 197-214; J. Lopat, ‘Preaching of Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’, Lignum Vitae 14 (2013), 115-166; Johannes Schlageter, ‘Frauen im kirchlichen Amt? Stellungnahmen von Bonaventura und Johannes Duns Scotus sowie Kommentar und Bewertung', Wissenschaft und Weisheit 76 (2013), 40-59; Angelo Pellegrini, ‘La luce e l'illuminazione. San Francesco e San Bonaventura: dalla mistica alla teoresi’, in: Angelo Pellegrini, Minoritas et libertas. Saggi su san Francesco d'Assisi e il Francescanesimo dei secoli XIII-XIV, Biblioteca Studi Francescani, N.S. 1 (Florence, 2013), 51-82; Angelo Pellegrini, ‘‘Prophetia’ in San Bonaventura. Aspetti pneumatologici - riflessi cristocentrici nel ‘Commentario alle Sentenze’’, in: Angelo Pellegrini, Minoritas et libertas. Saggi su san Francesco d'Assisi e il Francescanesimo dei secoli XIII-XIV, Biblioteca Studi Francescani, N.S. 1 (Florence, 2013), 83-105; Sven Grosse, ‘Mystik bei Bonaventura und Luther', Wissenschaft und Weisheit 76 (2013), 197-213; Tiziano Lorenzin, ‘La fede nei commentari alla Scrittura di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio’, in: Fides Virtus. The Virtue of Faith from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, ed. Marco Forlivesi, Riccardi Quinto, Silvana Vecchio et al., Archa Verbi. Yearbook for the Study of Theology, Subsidia 12 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2014), 73-86; Tikhon Alexander Pino, ‘Continuity in Patristic and Scholastic Thought: Bonaventure and Maximos the Confessor on the Necessary Multiplicity of God’, Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 107-128; John W. Coakley, ‘The Conversion of St. Francis and the Writing of Christian Biography, 1228-1263’, Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 27-71; Gerald Cresta, 'Un rasto medieval de la tolerancia en Buenaventura: la "cohibitio"', Scripta Mediaevalia 7:1 (2014), 13-28; Julio César Barrera Vélez, 'Indicios estéticos de la corporalidad en San Buenaventura de Bagnoregio', Analogía Filosófica. Revista de Filosófia 28:2 (2014), 41-56; Manuel Lázaro Pulido, 'San Buenaventura, lectura franciscana del 'affectus' anselmiano', in: Conoscenza ed affectus in Anselmo d'Aosta: atti del Simposio Internazionale in occasione del 900° anniversario dalla morte di S. Anselmo d'Aosta; Facoltà di Filosofia del Pontificio Ateneo di Sant' Anselmo di Roma, 21-22 aprile 2009, ed. Alfredo Simón (Rome, 2014), 311-328; Daniel Gullo, ‘Reflections on the Transmission of Bonaventure's Commentary on the Sentences: a Fourteenth-Century Fragment in the Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona’, Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 129-152; A Companion to Bonaventure, ed. Jay M. Hammond, J.A. Wayne Hellmann & Jared Goff, Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 48 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2014). Review by Robert J. Karris in Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 526-528; Timothy Johnson, ‘Place, Analogy, and Transcendence. Bonaventure and Bacon on the Franciscan Relationship to the World’, in: Innovation durch Deuten und Gestalten. Klöster im Mittelalter zwischen Jenseits und Welt, ed. Gert Melville, Bernd Schneidmüller & Stefan Weinfurter (Regensburg, 2014), 83-96; Daniel P. Horan, ‘Bonaventure's Theology of Prophecy in the Legenda Major: Sources and Interpretation', Antonianum 89 (2014), 43-78; Carlos Esteban Salto Solá, La función del deseo en la vida espiritual según Buenaventura de Bagnoregio, Studia Antoniana, 52 (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2014). Review in Studi Francescani 113:3-4 (2016), 335f; Joshua C. Benson, ‘A Witness to the Early Reception of Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaëmeron: Nicholas of Ockham's Leccio at Oxford (ca. 1286) - Introduction and Text', Medieval Sermon Studies 58 (2014). 28-46; Laure Solignac, La voie de la ressemblance. Itinéraire dans la pensée de saint Bonaventure (Paris: Vrin, 2014); Florian Kolbinger, Zeit und Ewigkeit Philosophish-theologische Beiträge Bonaventuras zum Diskurs des 13. Jahrhunders um Tempus und Aevum (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014); San Bonaventura e il Capitolo di Pisa (1263-2013): 750 anniversario : atti del Giornata di studio, ed. Marina Soriani Innocenti (Pisa: Convento di San Francesco, 2014). Review in Studi Francescani 113:3-4 (2016), 340f; Ulrike Ilg, 'Quasi Lignum Vitae: The Tree of Life as an Image of Mendicant Identity', in: The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought, ed. Pippa Salonius and Andrea Worm (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 187-212; Raphaele Preisinger, Lignum Vitae: Zum Verhaltnis Materieller Bilder und Mentaler Bildpraxis Im Mittelalter (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2014); Aleksander Horowski, ‘Il desiderio e la vita spirituale secondo san Bonaventura: note in margine ad una monografia‘, Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 665-692 [an in-depth analysis of the 2014 study of Carlos Esteban Salto Solá, with in an appendix different editions of two of Bonaventure's sermons (on Thomas the Apostle, and three varient reportationes of Bonaventure's sermon on Saint Adrew) that differ from those presented in the Quarachi Opera Omnia edition and in the edition of Bougerol]; Pietro Delcorno, In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), PhD Thesis Radboud University (Nijmegen: Bookbuilders, 2015), 96-103 & passim [see also the Brill version: In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), Commentaria, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2018).]; Emmanuel Montiel, 'El problema de la eternidad del mundi. Un estudio del pensamiento de Tomás de Aquino y Buenaventura', in: Raccolta di saggi in onore di Marco Arosio. II, ed. Marco Martorana, Rafael Pascual & Veronica Regoli, Ricerche di Storia della Filosofia e Teologia Medioevali, 2 (Rome: Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum – IF Press, 2015), 297-338; José María Carabante Muntada, 'El alcance existencial de la reflexión filosófica: actualidad de San Buenaventura', in: De Natura: la naturaleza en la Edad Media; VI Congreso Internacional Iberoamericano de la Sociedad de Filosofia Medieval, ed. José Luís Fuertes Herreros & Angel Poncela González Ribeirão, 2 Vols. (Ribeirão, 2015) I, 325-333; Isabel Maria León Sanz, 'El universo como poema divino: la expresividad de la naturaleza en San Buenaventura', in: De Natura: la naturaleza en la Edad Media; VI Congreso Internacional Iberoamericano de la Sociedad de Filosofia Medieval, ed. José Luís Fuertes Herreros & Angel Poncela González Ribeirão, 2 Vols. (Ribeirão, 2015) II, 567-575; Manuel Lázaro Pulido, 'Bases del uso, dominio y propiedad en la escuela franciscana: la relación con la realidad creada en el Francisco de Buenaventura', Cauriensia 11 (2016), 197-219; Tamara Saeteros Pérez, 'El De Genesi ad litteram de San Agustín en el marco de la literatura hexameral desarrollada por San Basilio, San Ambrosio y San Buenaventura', Scripta Mediaevalia 8 (2015), 43-72 [http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/app/navegador/?idobjeto=6780 ]; Isabel Maria, León Sanz, 'El universo como poema divino: la expresividad de la naturaleza en San Buenaventura', in: De Natura. La naturaleza en la Edad Media, ed. José Luis Fuertes Herreros & Ángel Poncela González, 2 Vols. (Edições Húmus, 2015) II, 567-575; Gennara Castillo, 'Dominio y uso en la noción de pobreza de San Buenaventura en la Apología pauperum', Cauriensia 11 (2016), 141-155; Manuel Lázaro, 'La hermenéutica en San Buenaventura. El Prólogo al Breviloquium', Anuario Filosófico 49 (2016), 385-399; Isabel Maria León Sanz, El arte creador en San Buenaventura: fundamentos para una teología de la belleza (Pamplona, 2016); Francisco Tauste Alcocer, 'La teología mística de San Buenaventura (1217-1274) en el Itinerarium mentis in Deum',Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 22 (2015), 77-82; Michel Bettigole, 'Cómo pensaba Buenaventura. San Buenaventura y el arte de la memoria', Selecciones de Franciscanismo 45 (2016), 239-250; Rafael Sanz Valdivieso, 'San Buenaventura de Bagnoregio. Sermón n. 59 (4 octubre 1255): traducción y comentario', Carthaginensia 31 (2015), 799-826; Edward J. Goughlin, 'Aceptar lo que debemos hacer. Buenaventura y la educación franciscana', Selecciones de Franciscanismo 45 (2016), 175-185; Gerald Cresta, 'Buenaventura: la correspondencia entre verdad y belleza en Breviloquium I, 6', Studium. Filosofía y Teología 18 (2015), 35-44; José Maria Salvador González, 'Ideas estéticas de San Buenaventura como posible fuente doctrinal de la iconografía del Trecento italiano', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 20:1 (2015), 66-91 [https://www.academia.edu/12570942 & http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/20-04.pdf ]; Felice Accrocca, 'La silloge bonaventuriana del ms. isidoriano 1/73', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 109:1-2 (2016), 3-45 [also concerning excerpts from the Legenda Major in this famous Franciscan hagiographical manuscript compilation]; Aleksander Horowski, ‘Sermoni dei Francescani tra i libri dei Cavalieri teutonici di Spira: Il codice Palatino Latino 467 della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana’, in: Litterae ex quibus nomen Dei componitur (Rome, 2016), 151-187. [Discusses a manuscript that contains 60 sermons de tempore and 45 sermons de sanctis, most of which can be traced back to Matthew of Aquasparta and Bonaventure, with some sermons by other Franciscan and Dominican theology masters (including Thomas Aquinas)]; Daniel Kowalewski, 'Testimonianze bonaventuriane su Egidio d’Assisi', in: Litterae ex quibus nomen Dei componitur. Studi per l'ottantesimo compleanno di Giuseppe Avarucci, ed. Alexander Horowski, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 104 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2016), 313-333; Pietro Maranesi, 'Dalla storia dell’Ordine alla teologia della storia in Bonaventura', in: Litterae ex quibus nomen Dei componitur. Studi per l'ottantesimo compleanno di Giuseppe Avarucci, ed. Alexander Horowski, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 104 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2016), 335-360; Aleksander Horowski, ‘Quattro redazioni del sermone di san Bonaventura da Bagnoregio per la festa di tutti i santi’, Collectanea Franciscana 86 (2016), 5-64; Felice Accrocca, 'Dalla contraposizione all'integrazione. De Legenda nova extracta moralia et devota nel ms. Isidoriani 1/73', in: La lettera e lo spirito. Studi di cultura e vita religiosa (secc. XII-XV) per Edith Pasztor, ed. Marco Bartoli, Letizia Pellegrini & Daniele Solvi, Biblioteca di frate Francesco, 17 (Milan, 2016), 19-35 [accessible on http://www.academia.edu/30058625 The article deals with a series of extracts taken from the Legenda major by an unknown friar included among the hagiographical materials in de famous ms Isidoriani 1/73]; Aleksander Horowski, 'Opere autentiche e spurie, edite, inedite e mal edite di san Bonaventura da Bagnoregio: bilancio e prospettive', Collectanea Franciscana 86:3-4 (2016), 461-544; Marie Kolbe Zamora, 'The Holy Spirit, Soul of the Church. The Pneumatological Enigma of Bonaventure's Ecclesiology, Miscellanea Francescana 116:1-2 (2016), 43-75; Michel Bettigole, 'Cómo pensaba Buenaventura. San Buenaventura y el arte de la memoria', Selecciones de Franciscanismo 134 (2016), 239-250; Gerald Cresta, ''Ordo vivendi: la iluminación moral agustiniana en Buenaventura de Bagnoregio', Liceo Franciscano 67 (2017), 233-252; Gerald Cresta, 'El acceso al Ser a través de la Belleza. Notas sobre la belleza del mundo según Buenaventura', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 24:1 (2017), 40-48 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/art.3.pdf ]; Daniel Sevillano Pascua, 'El ejemplarismo virtuoso de Jesucristo en el hombre según San Buenaventura', Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 109 (2017), 933-944; Gerald Cresta, 'Acerca de la belleza metafísica en Pseudo-Dionisio y Buenaventura', Studia Patristica 76 (2017), 91-102; Ezequiel Tellez Maqueo, 'La relación de la voluntad con las pasiones según Buenaventura de Bagnoregio y Tomás de Aquino', Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 109 (2017), 909-922; Cosimo Reho, Uomini dello Spirito. Gioacchino da Fiore, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Arnaldo da Villanova (Martina Franca (TA): Social Campus Edizioni, 2017) [Short review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:3-4 (Jul.-Dec. 2018), 705-706]; Jacques Guy Bougerol, Introduzione a san Bonaventura. Nueva edizione riveduta, corretta e aggiornata, Doctor Seraphicus – Bibliotheca, 1 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017). Short review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 285-286; Aleksander Horowski, 'Sermoni bonaventuriani e francescani nel codice Firenze, BNC, Conv. Soppr. E.6.1017', Collectanea Franciscana 87:1-2 (2017), 231-266; Johann Baptist Freyer, 'La teologia trinitaria come matrice del bene comune. L’approccio al Bene nella teologia di san Bonaventura', Miscellanea Francescana 117:1-2 (2017), 9-26; Orlando Todisco, 'Il Verbo l’artista del Padre nell’ottica di san Bonaventura', Miscellanea Francescana 117:1-2 (2017), 27-60; Carlos Salto Solá, 'Contemplare la summa pulchritudo. La sfida di leggere la realtà in chiave estetica secondo Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', Miscellanea Francescana 117:1-2 (2017), 61-77; Bogusz S. Matula, 'Maria e la dimensione individuale ed ecclesiale della vita cristiana nel sermone secondo in Epiphania di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', Miscellanea Francescana 117:1-2 (2017), 78-103; André Menard, 'Bonaventura da Bagnoregio: La spiritualità cristiana del grande teologo', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 269-276; Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium, ed. Dominic V. Monti, OFM & Katherine Wrisley Shelby (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2017) [Review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 251-254 and Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 295-299.]; Barbara Faes, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio. Un itinerario tra edizioni, ristampe e traduzioni, Fonti e ricerche, 26 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017) [Short review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 287-289]; Regis J. Armstrong, 'In Principio: September, 1974', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 137-164 (analysis of the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum); J. Isaac Goff, 'Divine Infinity in Bonaventure's Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 165-185 (argues that Bonaventure developed a much more avant-garde interpretation of divine infinity (esp. positive intensive infinity) than he has been given credit for in the past); Timothy J. Johnson, 'Reform, Hagiography, and Sanctity: Bonaventure's Sermons on the Saints', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 186-206; Katherine Wrisley Shelby, 'Bonaventure on Grace, Hierarchy, and the Symbol of Jacob's Ladder', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 207-228; Laura A. Smit, 'Jesus Christ as the Exemplar of Magnanimity: Magnanimity in Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaëmeron', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017); Aleksander Horowski, 'Francesco d'Assisi zelante seguace di Cristo crocifisso in due sconosciuti sermoni di San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', Collectanea Francescana 87 (2017), 397-448 [concerning two sermons in MS Paris, BN, Lat 14595]; Felice Accrocca, 'Bonaventura dubbioso sull'indulgenza della Porziuncola?', Collectanea Francescana 87 (2017), 449-462; Aleksander Horowski, 'Il codice F.IX.19 della Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati in Siena: Un testimone disatteso dei sermoni di San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', Collectanea Francescana 87 (2017), 635-669; George F. Rambow, 'The Function and Spirituality of Bonaventure's "Treatise" on the Miracles of St. Francis', Franciscan Studies 75 (2017), 323-341; Luc Mathieu, ‘Théologie de la création selon saint Bonaventure’, Études franciscaines n.s. 10:1 (2017), >>; Charlotte Solignac, ‘Centrum et Medium chez Bonaventure: le christocentrisme des Collationes in Hexaëmeron à la lumière de l’exégèse et de l’homilétique bonaventuriennes’, Études franciscaines n.s. 10:1 (2017),>>; P. Laurent Gatinois, ‘Ad portum aeternae felicitatis. La fonction de l’ascension du Christ dans la théologie de l’histoire de saint Bonaventure de Bagnoregio’, Études franciscaines n.s. 10:1 (2017); André Ménard, ‘Un demi-siècle de bibliographie bonaventurienne de langue française (1960-2016)’, Études franciscaines n.s. 10:1 (2017); Marc Ozilou, ‘Le chemin du soleil. Les premières années de Bonaventure: 1217-1234’, Études franciscaines n.s. 10:1 (2017), >>; Marc Ozilou, La monadologie bonaventurienne, Philosophes Médiévaux, 65 (Louvain: Peeters, 2017); Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi , ‘La dottrina della sostanza in san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 33-85; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘La dottrina della luce in san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 86-108; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘La dottrina della temporalità e del tempo in san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 109-172; Robert Glenn Davis, The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017); Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘Il concetto di tempo in san Bonaventura e in Giovanni Duns Scoto’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 173-178; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘La teologia della storia in san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 179-192; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘Cristo in san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 193-215; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘II cristocentrismo nelle ‘Collationes in Hexameron”, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 216-230; Pietro Maranesi, 'Il cristocentrismo soteriologico nell'Hexaemeron di san Bonaventura', Convivium assisiense 19 (2017), 7-70; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘II valore filosofico-mistico dell’‘Itinerarium mentis in Deum”, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 231-245; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘La dottrina della libertà in san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 246-258; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘La sfera del sentimento nell’antropologia di san Bonaventura’, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 259-265; Vincenzo Cherubino Bigi, ‘La Madonna nelle ‘Collationes de septem donis Spiritus Sancti”, in: Idem, Scritti francescani: filosofia, teologia, spiritualità, Teologia viva, 3 (Milan, 2017), 266-282; Franklin T. Harkins, 'From the Fiery Heaven to the Fire of Hell: Job in the Sentences Commentaries of Albert the Great, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas', in: in: A companion to Job in the Middle Ages, ed. Franklin T. Harkins & Aaron Canty (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 129-160; Lino Temperini, 'San Bonaventura e l'ordine dei penitenti francescani', Analecta TOR 197 (2017), 299-307; Emmanuel Falque, Saint Bonaventure and the Entrance of God Into Theology: The Breviloquium as a Summa Theologica (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2018); Deus summe cognibilis. The Current Theological Relevance of Saint Bonaventure, ed. Amaury Begasse de Dhaem, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 298 (Leuven: Peeters, 2018). [a range of interesting essays]; Paul Zahner, 'Bonaventuras Baum des Lebens als Baum des Glaubens und Reifens', in: Der franziskanische Weg zur Innerlichkeit. Beiträge auf der Tagung der Johannes-Duns-Skotus Akademie 23.-26. Oktober 2018, ed. Heribert Schneider, Veröffentlichungen der Johannes-Duns-Skotus-Akademie für Franziskanische Geistesgeschichte und Spiritualität Mönchengladbach, 37 (Mönchengladbach: B. Kühlen Verlag, 2018), 163-172; Kevin E. Jones, 'Bonaventue on Habitual Grace in Adam: A Change of Heart on Nature and Grace?', Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 39-66; Catherine Levri, 'A Structural Analysis of Bonaventure's 'Omnium artifex docuit me sapientia'', Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 67-98; Justin Shaun Coyle, 'Appropriating Apocalypse in Bonaventure's 'Breviloquium'', Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 99-136; Luke Togni, 'The Hierarchical Center in the Thought of St. Bonaventure', Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 137-158; Nicolas Faucher, 'What does a Habitus of the Soul Do? The Case of the Habitus of Faith in Bonaventure, Peter John Olivi and John Duns Scotus', in: The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy, ed. Nicolas Faucher & Magali Roques, Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action, 7 (New York: Springer, 2018), 107-126; Isabel María León Sanz, 'Relatio-ordo-pulchritudo del universo en el pensamiento de S. Bonaventura', Enrahonar. Número Extraordinario 1 (2018), 163-172; José Granados, 'Creation and Redemption in the Sacrament of Marriage: A Study in Bonaventure's and Aquinas's Commentary on the Sentences', in: Sacramentum Magnum. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Theologie/Le mariage dans la théologie médiévale/Marriage in Medieval Theology, ed. Pavel Blazek, Archa verbi. Subsidia, 15 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2018), 247-278; Shawn Colberg, 'Saint Bonaventure on the Sacrament of Marriage and Christian Perfection', in: Sacramentum Magnum. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Theologie/Le mariage dans la théologie médiévale/Marriage in Medieval Theology, ed. Pavel Blazek, Archa verbi. Subsidia, 15 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2018), 279-303; Charlotte Solignac, ''Quam ampla sit via illuminativa'. L'amplitude de la lumière selon Bonaventure de Bagnoregio. Position de thèse', Études Franciscaines 11 (2018), 155-164; Fernando Valdivieso, 'El deseo de Sumo Bien'. La noción de desiderium en la antropología de San Buenaventura y su relevancia actual para la teología moral (Santiago: Anales de la Facultad de Teología, 2018). Cf. Review in Teologia y vida 60:2 (2019), 297-302; Andrea Di Maio, 'La scala e lo specchio. l'itinerario bonaventuriano riletto in chiave umanistica odierna', in: La scala e lo specchio. L'originalità di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio a otto secoli dalla nascita. Atti del Convegno dell'Associazione Benemeriti del Comune e della Provincia di Milano. Pensiero e attualità di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio a otto secoli dalla nascita, Milano, 31 maggio 2017, ed. Davide Riserbato (Rome: IF Press, 2018), 13-48; Alessandro Ghisalberti, 'San Bonaventura nel 'Paradiso' di Dante (..)', in: La scala e lo specchio. L'originalità di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio a otto secoli dalla nascita. Atti del Convegno dell'Associazione Benemeriti del Comune e della Provincia di Milano. Pensiero e attualità di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio a otto secoli dalla nascita, Milano, 31 maggio 2017, ed. Davide Riserbato (Rome: IF Press, 2018), 49-66; Laurent Gatinois, Il fut emporté au ciel. La fonction de l'Ascension dans la théologie de l'histoire de saint Bonaventure de Bagnoregio, 3 Vols. (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018). Cf. Études Franciscaines n.s. 12 (2019), 424-430 & Collectanea Franciscana 90 (2020), 210-212; Pedro Barrajón, 'La sapienza cristiana secondo san Bonaventura. La sua attualità teologica ed ecclesiale', Miscellanea Francescana 118 (2018), 20-39; Alessandro Ghisalberti, 'Il futuro della ricerca sul pensiero di Bonaventura: problemi e prospettive', Antonianum 93 (2018), 319-338; Aurelio Rizzacasa & Fabio Caporali, 'La natura come Creato. Una riattualizzazione del pensiero bonaventuriano alla luce dell'odierna ecoteologia', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Seraphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 103-121; Johannes Baptist Freyer, 'Bonaventuras 'Legendae' - die theologische Interpretation der Einfalt (Simplicitas)', in: Bonawenturianski system myslenia. Pytanie o aktualnosc, 1217-2017, ed. Romuald Henryk Kosla (Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: Calvarianum, 2018), 325-340. [Other interesting essays in this volume in Polish on Bonaventure as conventual legislator, Bonaventure's system of thought and Bonaventure as order theologian, etc]; Ernesto Dezza, 'Il dilemma sull'eternità del mondo in Bonaventura e Duns Scoto', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Seraphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 63-77; Maurizio Malaguti, 'Nell'audacia del bene: la creazione', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Seraphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 79-102; Silvia Guidi, 'Adamo, il 'Liber Naturae' e la signoria di Gesù. Spunti di riflessione sul carisma profetico francescano a partire da san Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Seraphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 154-170; Ruben Martello, 'St. Bonaventure as a Disciple of Hugh of Saint-Victor. The influence of the 'Didascalicon' on the 'Reduction of the arts to theology'', Il Santo 58 (2018), 221-226; Prospero Rivi, 'Le dimensioni cosmiche di Cristo in Bonaventura e Teilher de Chardin', Miscellanea Francescana 118 (2018), 53-74; Luca Vettorello, 'La ricerca del divino nell'ascesa a Dio in Bonaventura da Bagnoregio', in: La scala e lo specchio. L'originalità di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio a otto secoli dalla nascita. Atti del Convegno dell'Associazione Benemeriti del Comune e della Provincia di Milano. Pensiero e attualità di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio a otto secoli dalla nascita, Milano, 31 maggio 2017, ed. Davide Riserbato, Essay Research Series, 43 (Rome: IF Press, 2018), 81-100. [See also other essays in this essay collection. Cf. Review in Miscellanea Francescana 118 (2018), 569-571]; Carmelo Pandolfi, 'La 'Aufhebung' delle idee divine nel verbo secondo san Bonaventura', in: Miscellanea in onore di Marco Arosio, ed. Alain Contat, Ricerche di storia della filosofia e teologia medioevali, 6 (Rome, 2018), 21-76; Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo, ‘The Classic Age of the Distinction between God’s Absolute and Ordered Power: In, Around, and After the Pontificate of John XXII (1316-1334)’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 207-266; Luke Togni, ‘The Hierarchical Center in the Thought of St. Bonaventure’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 137-158; Justin S. Coyle, ‘Appropriating Apocalypse in Bonaventure’s Breviloquium’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 99-136; Paul Zahner, 'Die über Bonaventura erreichte Einheit von Ost- und Westkirche am Zweiten Konzil von Lyon 1274', in: Veni, Sancte Spiritus! theologische Beiträge zur Sendung des Geistes: Festschrift für Barbara Hallensleben zum 60. Geburtstag (Münster i.W., 2018), 91-100; Catherine A. Levri, ‘A Structural Analysis of Bonaventure’s Omnium artifex docuit me sapientia’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 67-98; Kevin E. Jones, ‘Bonaventure on Habitual Grace in Adam. A Change of Heart on Nature and Grace?’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 39-66; Simeon Mladenov, 'Bonaventura and Olivi - two views on the influence of the will on knowledge', Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur 24 (2018), 169-188; Katherine Wrisley Shelby, The Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure’s Theology of Grace, Ph.D. Dissertation. Boston College (2018); Stephane Oppes, 'Matrice Cristologica Del Linguaggio in San Bonaventura', Miscellanea Francescana 118 (2018), 8-19; Aleksander Horowski, 'Un 'Quadragesimale' di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio?', Collectanea Franciscana 88:1-2 (2018), 507-679; Enzo Galli, ‘Dal triplex verbum alla filiazione divina:: Un tentativo di attualizzazione del pensiero cristologico di san Bonaventura’, Miscellanea francescana 118 (2018), 40-52; Benjamin P. Winter, 'Bonaventure's Collationes and the Eternity of the World', in: Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far, ed. Timothy J. Johnson, Katherine Wrisley Shelby & John D Young, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture (Routledge, 2018); Massimiliano Lenzi, 'La negazione delle idee e l'"oscurantismo" dei filosofi. Bonaventura critico di Aristotele', in: Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought: (XIIIth-XIVth century), ed. Jacopo Francesco Falà & Irene Zavattero (Canterano, 2018), 25-50; Maria Raffaella Menna, 'San Bonaventura e l'Apocalisse di Cimabue nella Basilica superiore di Assisi', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Seraphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 17-34; Fortunato Frezza, ''Recapitulatio e reditus' della creatura. Le lettere di Paolo e l'Itinerario di Bonaventura', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Serphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 35-48; Marc Ozilou, 'La Legenda maior comme apocalypse', in: Il vertice e l'abisso. La signoria di Gesù nella profezia francescana: Viterbo, Bagnoregio, Civita, 26-28 maggio 2017, ed. Maurizio Malaguti, Doctor Serphicus, 65 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2018), 49-62; Barbara Faes de Mottini, 'Per una storia delle traduzioni italiane di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio nel novecento', Antonianum 93 (2018), 199-229; Andrea Di Maio, 'Comprendere Bonaventura: concordanze, dizionari, contributi a un lessico', Antonianum 93 (2018), 255-282; Paolo Vian, 'Posterità di Bonaventura in Pietro di Giovanni Olivi', Antonianum 93 (2018), 283-298; Fortunato Iozelli, 'Citazioni Bonaventuriane in alcune legendae agiografiche del sec. XIV', Antonianum 93 (2018), 299-317; Scott Matthews, 'Bonaventure and the Franciscan Community', in: Reason, Community and Religious Tradition. Anselm's Argument and the Friars, ed. Scott Matthews (New York: Routledge, 2018), 113-150; Aleksander Horowski, 'La Gerusalemme celeste in un discorso quaresimale di san Bonaventura', in: La via di san Bonaventura: nel segno della cittadinanza celeste. 66o Convegno di Studi Bonaventuriani, Viterbo-Bagnoregio, 25-27 maggio 2018, ed. Letterio Mauro & Prospero Rivi (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2019), 51-65 [see also other contributions in this volume by Fabrizio Savini, C. De Filipis, Daniela Martineli, Riccardo Battiloro etc.]; Jan C. Klok, Der Lukaskommentar des Bonaventura von Bagnoregio als Handbuch der franziskanischen Spiritualität, Archa Verbi. Subsidia, 16 (Munich: Aschendorff, 2019) [Review Collectanea Franciscana 89:1-2 (2019), 358-361]; Bonaventura da Bagnoregio ministro generale. Atti dell'Incontro di studio Foligno, 20-21 luglio 2018 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi Sull'Alto Medioevo, 2019) [With as contributions: Paolo Evangelisti, 'La forma della minoritas negli anni del generalato bonaventuriano. Note sul corpus normativo costituzionale e le sue prime interpretazioni', 1-42; Roberto Lambertini, 'Bonaventura generale e la formazione dell'élite intellettuale dell'Ordine dei Minori', 43-58; Damien Ruiz, 'Bonaventure et la règle des frères mineurs', 59-76; Pietro Silanos, 'Bonaventura cardinale al II Concilio di Lione', 77-96; Francesco Santi, 'Bonaventura agiografo', 97-112; Aleksander Horowski, 'Bonaventura predicatore e i sermoni su Francesco d'Assisi', 113-160; Marco Bartoli, 'Bonaventura e la vita religiosa femminile', 161-176; Letterio Mauro, 'Filosofia e filosofi nella teologia bonaventuriana della storia', 177-192; Roberto Cobianchi, 'L'iconografia di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio fino agli inizi del Cinquecento: da autore del testo a soggetto dell'immagine', 193-200]; J. Isaac Goff, 'Mulier Amicta Sole: Bonaventure's Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Meditation in His Sermons on the Annunciation', in: Medieval Franciscan approaches to the Virgin Mary: Mater Misericordiae Sanctissima et Dolorosa, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Katherine Wrisley Shelby (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), 53-83; Aleksander Horowski, 'San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio e il vangelo “Ego sum pastor bonus”: tra esegesi e predicazione', Collectanea Franciscana 89:1-2 (2019), 51-117; Massimo Ezio Putano, 'Bonaventura secondo Guardini: 'membra' del Corpo mistico', Collectanea Franciscana 89:1-2 (2019), 119-144; Luke Togni, A Sweet Influence: St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Reception of Dionysian Hierarchy, Ph.D. Dissertation. Marquette University (2019); Aleksander Horowski, ‘‘Assumam te, Zorobabel, serve meus': san Francesco d'Assisi come rinnovatore della Chiesa nei sermoni di san Bonaventura e di altri predicatori medievali’, Collectanea Franciscana 89 (2019), 421-520; Marco Arosio, Sapienza e scienza in Bonaventura da Bagnoregio: epistemologia teologica ed esegesi biblica (Siena, 2019); Jan C. Klok, Der Lukaskommentar des Bonaventura von Bagnoregio als Handbuch der franziskanischen Spiritualität (Münster i.W., 2019); Paolo Brambilla, Unitas et trinitas, et distinctio et identitas: Bonaventura e Tommaso commentatori del I Sententiarum di Pietro Lombardo (Rome, 2019); Andrea Di Maio, 'L'evangelizzazione secondo S. Bonaventura. Testimonianza, predicazione, missione', Miscellanea Francescana 119 (2019), 142-160; Orlando Todisco, 'Il platonismo di Bessarione e di bonaventura. Riflessi nella vicenda del "Filioque"', Miscellanea Francescana 119 (2019), 9-42; Timothy Kulbicki, 'Narbonne e Nemi. Le Costituzioni francescane di s. Bonaventura e quelle odierne', Miscellanea Francescana 119 (2019), 225-241; Pensar la Edad Media cristiana: San Buenaventura de Bagnoregio (1217-1274), ed. Manuel Lázaro Pulido, Franciso León Florido & Javier Rubio (Madrid, 2019); Isabel Maria León Sanz, 'Influencia de las ideas estéticas de Boecio en S. Buenaventura', in: Boèce au fil du temps: son influence sur les lettres européennes du Moyen Âge à nos jours, ed. Sophie Conte, Alicia Oïffer-Bomsel, Elena Cantarino Suñer (Paris, 2019), 283-298; L’uomo nel pensiero di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, ed. Irene Zavattero (Canteramo: Aracne editrice, 2019) [Review in Review Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 113:3-4 (2020), 637-640]; 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); John Renner, 'Bonaventure and the Maestro di San Francesco', in: Aesthetic Theology in the Franciscan Tradition. The Senses and the Experience of God in Art, ed. Xavier Seubert & Oleg Bychkov (New York-London: Routledge, 2020), 20-48; 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; Robert J. Karris, 'The Interpretations of the Parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) by Cardinal Hugh of St. Cher (†1263) and Cardinal Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (†1274)', Franciscan Studies 78 (2020), 67-107; L'eletta dello Spirito: Maria in Bonaventura: Viterbo-Bagnoregio, 24-25 maggio 2019, ed. Letterio Mauro (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2020); Michael J.P. Robson, ‘An Early and Datable Copy of Bonaventure’s Itinerarium mentis in Deum (Cambridge, Pembroke College Library, MS. 265),’ Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 113 (2020), 55–80; 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; Joshua C. Benson, 'Facing the 12th Century: The Spiritual Senses in Bonaventure's Hexaëmeron and Stephen Langton's Lectures on Genesis', 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), 396-416; Trilogia bonaventuriana, ed. Carmelo Pandolfi & Rafael Pascual (Rome, 2020) [among other essays we want to single out for Franciscan studies properly speaking: Andrea Di Mario, La duplice dimensione cronologica e topologica del discorso bonaventuriano’, 147-198; Antonio Russo, ‘Henri de Lubac: Gioacchino da Fiore e la sua posterità spirituale’, 199-208; Pedro Barrajon, ‘Joseph Ratzinger interprete della teologia della storia di San Bonaventura’, 209-232; Alberto Ghisalberto, ‘Le fonti dell’escatologia bonaventuriana: Agostino d'Ippona e Gioacchino da Fiore’, 233-245; Pedro Barrajon, ‘Attualità del Breviloquium di San Bonaventura’, 249-274; Elisa Cuttini, ‘La responsabilità dell’uomo di fronte al mondo creato: le radici del problema nel pensiero di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio’, 293-302; Irene Zavattero, ‘Scienza teologica, dottrina dell’anima, libero arbitrio II pensiero francescano all’università di Parigi nella prima metà del XIII secolo’, 303-326; Francesco De Feo, ‘L'intelletto e la volontà nell'tinerarium mentis in Deum di Bonaventura di Bagnoregio e nella Summa Theologiae di Tommaso d’Aquino’, 303-326; Alessandro Ghisalberti, ‘Filosofia e rivelazione. Specificità del sapere teologico in Giovanni Duns Scoto’, 383-402; Sameer Vikram Advani, ‘Il rapporto tra scrittura, teologia, e rivelazione nel prologo del Breviloquium’, 403-421; Aleksander Horowski, Le molteplici redazioni dei Sermoni di San Bonaventura’, 423-456. Etc.]; Ezio Massimo Putano, 'Bonaventura secondo Guardini: "membra" del Corpo Mistico', Collectanea Franciscana 90 (2020), 119-144; Randall B. Smith, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris: Preaching, prologues, and biblical commentary (Cambridge: CUP, 2020); Andrew V. Rosato', 'The Passions of the Will and the Passion of Christ in Franciscan Theology from the Summa Halensis to Duns Scotus', in: The Legacy of Early Franciscan Thought, ed. Lydia Schumacher, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie, 67 (Berlin-Boston, 2021), 239-256 (esp. 247ff.); C. Laurens Loewe, 'Bonaventure on the Soul and Its Powers', Vivarium 59 (2021), 10-32; Alexander Fidora, 'The Philosophical Sources of Bonaventure's De reductione artium ad theologiam', Franciscan Studies 79 (2021), 23-38; Stefano Abate, 'Iglesia consumada, san Francisco y orden franciscana. La esperanza intrahistórica según san Buenaventura', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 114:3-4 (2021), 585-604; Chiara Frugoni & Attilio Bartoli Langeli, San Francesco in figura. La Legenda Maior di Bonaventura nel Manoscritto Antonianum 1, introd. Alvaro Cacciotti (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2021). [review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 114:3-4 (2021), 678-681]

Specifically geared to the reception of Bonaventure and pseudo-Bonaventurean works (see on the latter also under Joannes de Caulibus, letter J) are the following studies: Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 154-163; P. Symphorien, ‘L’influence spirituelle de S. Bonaventure et l’Imitation de Jésus-Christ’, Études franciscaines 32 (1914/1921), 36-77, 235-255, 344-359, 433-467; A. Lopez, ‘San Buenaventura en la bibliografia española’, AIA 16 (1921), 342-399; H. Gleumes, ‘Der hl. Bonaventura und die Imitatio Christi’, Franziskanische Studien 15 (1928), 294-315; B. Spaapen, ‘Nieuwe stoffen voor de studie van het Middelnederlandsch Gebodenonderricht III’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 14 (1940), 135-149; M. Castro, ‘San Buenaventura en la bibliografia española’, AIA (1951), 317-342; J. Beumer, ‘Die literarischen Beziehungen zwischen dem Sermo VI de Assumptione B. Mariae Virginis (Pseudo Bonav.) und dem Mariale oder Laus Virginis (Pseudo Albertus’), Franziskanische Studien 44 (1962), 455-460; G. Abate, ‘Un sermone sulle cinque piaghe di Gesù attribuito a s. B., in: Miscellanea M. de Pobladura (…), 2 Vols. (Rome, 1964) I, 151-171; S. Gieben, ‘The pseudo-Bonaventurian work ‘Symbolica Theologia’ (...)’, in: Miscellanea M. de Pobladura (…), 2 Vols. (Rome, 1964) I, 173-195; Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch, 2 Vols. (Bern, 1956/Darmstadt, 1964); W.-H. Haeller, Studien zur Ludwig Moser, Karthäuser Mönch in Basel (Freiburg i.d. Schweiz, 1967); M. Andres, ‘Influencia de san Buenaventura en la Mistica Española del siglo de Oro’, in: San Buenaventura. Relazione tenuta alla Funcación Universitaria Española, ed. M. Castro, H. Huega, M. Andres (Madrid, 1970), 105-140; I. Vazquez, ‘Influsso bonaventuriano nella bibliografia pp. spirituale spagnola’, in: Contributi di Spiritualità Bonaventuriana II (Padua, 1974-1975), 243-270; I. Vazquez Janeiro, ‘Libros y lectores de S. Buenaventura en España y Portugal durante la Edad Media y el Renacimiento’, in: Bonaventuriana, ed. F. Chavero, 135-176; Ildefonsus Vanderheyden, Bonaventura. Studien zu seiner Wirkungsgeschichte, franziskanische Forschungen 28 (Werl, 1976): Shows that in the German and Dutch lands many ascetical works of Bonaventure (alongside of thise of David von Augsburg and a host of Pseudo-Bonaventuriana) from the closing decades of the fourteenth century onwards (and increasingly so in the fifteenth century) appeared in the vernacular, promoted both by Franciscan and non-Franciscan translators (a large impact the Carthusian order (and particularly the Carthusian translator Ludwig Moser from Basel), which actively promoted Bonaventurian works in the vernacular, and in the Modern Devotion movement). Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 67: ‘Gegen Ende des Jahrhunderts (14th cent.) setzt dann eine eigentliche Bonaventura-Renaissance ein. Sie wird ein Jahrhundert später [1488] zur Kanonisation und Erhöhung zum Kirchenlehrer führen. Diese anwachsende Bewegung - sie ist eine Komponente der wiedererstarkten franziskanischen Bewegung und eines neuen Aufschwungs franziskanischen Schrifttums - ist in der Überlieferungsgeschichte der Werke Bonaventuras am deutlichsten zu fassen, läßt sich aber auch in der allgemeinen Theologie- und Geistesgeschichte nachweisen.’; W. Williams-Krapp, Die deutschen und niederl. Legendare des Mittelalters, TTG 20 (1986), 398f.; Rik van Nieuwenhove, ‘The Franciscan Inspiration of Ruusbroec’s Mystical Theology. Ruusbroec in dialogue with Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 75 (2001), 102-115; DSpir I, 1844-1853; M. Schlosser, `Pseudo-Bonaventura', Lexikon des MA, VII, 306-307; Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI, 270-271; Kurt Ruh, Geschichte der abendländischen Mystik, II, 439-445; G. Hasenohr, `La littérature religieuse', in: Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, VIII/1: La littérature française aux XIVe et XVe siècles (Heidelberg, 1988), 266-305; Pregiere e lodi all’Immacolata Madre di Dio Maria attribuite al Serafico Dottore S. Bonaventura per ogni giorno della settimana (Biancavilla, 1995³); Falk Eisermann, Die lateinische und deutsche überlieferung des 'Stimulus Amoris', Diss. (Göttingen, 1995); Idem, '`Diversae et plurimae materiae in diversis capitulis' Der Stimulus Amoris als literarisches Dokument der normativen Zentrierung', in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien-Jahrbuch des Instituts für Frümittelalterforschung der Universität Münster, ed. H. Keller & Chr. Meier (Berlin-NY, 1997), 214-232; Idem, ‘Zehn Staffeln der Demut’, Verfasserlexikon X², 1512-1514; Lydie Ducolomb, ‘St. Bonaventure's Reputation as Reflected in the Dissemination of His Works', in: A Pilgrimage Through the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, ed. André Cirino & Josef Raischl (Canterbury: Franciscan International Study Centre, 2008), 269-296; Sophie Delmas, ‘Can one still speak of a Bonaventurian School?', in: A Pilgrimage Through the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, ed. André Cirino & Josef Raischl (Canterbury: Franciscan International Study Centre, 2008), 297-318; Antonio Montefusco, ‘Una fedeltà paradossale: sulla memoria bonaventuriana di Iacopone’, Linguistica e Letteratura 33:1-2 (2008), 9-42; The Pseudo-Bonaventurian Lives of Christ. Exploring the Middle English Tradition, ed. Ian Johnson & F. Allan, Medieval Church Studies, 24 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013); Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ's Life, ed. Stephen Kelly & Ryan Perry (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Beaumont (Bonaventura Bellomontanus/Bonaventure de Beaumont, ca. 1640-1711)

OFMCap. Belgian friar. Born at Tournai (ou Beaumont?), he entered the Capuchin order around 1659 (French-Belgian province), finishing his theology studies in July 1668. Lector at Liège (Luik, 1671), provincial definitor (1677-1784, 1686-1690), guardian of several Capuchin convents (a.o. Luxembourg, Liège (1683), Namur (1689-1691) and Thuin (1691)), and provincial in 1697. In 1683, when Bonaventure had become guardian of the Liège convent, he was faced by separatist tendencies from Capuchins in Liège, who supported nationalist tendencies directed against Spanish rule (for further details, see the rather tendentious lemma by Hildebrand in DHGE IX, 790-791). Bonaventure died at Valenciennes on 5 April 1711. He is known as the author of a lengthy poem on the life of Christ in 12 books, entitled La Christiade, alias La Vie de Notre-Seigneur. Bonaventure did not want to have it published and nowadays it seems lost.

works

La Christiade. Poème en douze chants/La Vie de Notre-Seigneur. Lost?

literature

Bullarium OFMCap V, 235; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 52; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 226; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bonaventure de Beaumont’, DHGE IX, 790-791 (with additional bio-bibliographical information); LexCap240-241 (with differing info concerning his provincialate)

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Brescia (Bonaventura Brixienis/Bonaventura da Brescia, fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian Franciscan friar from Brescia. Joined the Conventual branch of the order in his home town in the early fifteenth century. Musisican and writer on music theory.

works

Brevis collectio artis musicae (...) quae dicitur 'Venturina: MS Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale 105 (A57), ff. 1r-41r. It would seem that an edition of this text appeared as Brevis collection artis musicae (Venturina), ed. Albert Seay, Critical Texts, 11 (Colorado Springs: Colorado College of Music Press, 1980).

Breviloquium Musicale & Regula Musice Plane Venerabilis Fratris Bonaventurae de Brixia Ordinis Minorum. We are dealing with more or less the same work. It would seem that it was first issued under the title Breviloquium Musicale (Brescia: Angelo Britannico, 1497/Facsimile ed. Milan, 1970). The work was subsequently issued as Regula Musice Plane Venerabilis Fratris Bonaventurae de Brixia Ordinis Minorum (Milan, 1500/Venice: Giacomi di Penzi de Lecho, 1511/Venice: Georgio de Rusconi Milanese, 1516 [& 1518?]/Venice: Giovanni Tacuino de Trino, 1523/Venice: Giovanni Francisco & Giovanni Antonio de Rusconi Fratelli, 1524/Venice, 1538/Facsimile ed. New York: Broude Brothers, 1975). In nearly all versions the Breviloquium /Regule contains 42 chapters with more or less the same content. A 1516/1518? edition (Regula Musice Plane Venerabilis Fratris Bonaventurae de Brixia Ordinis Minorum) seems to be accessible via Google Books, and via the collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence. There also exists a modern English translation of the Breviloquium Musicale: Rules of plain music = Breviloquium musicale, trans. Albert Seay (Colorado Springs: Colorado College Music Press, 1979).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 228; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 187; F.-J. Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens (Paris, 1861), 13-14; Gaetano Gaspari, Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna, ed. Federico Parisini, (Bologna: Liberia Romagnoli dall'Acqua, 1890) I, 171-172; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Leipzig, 1930) IV, nos. 4833-4835; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bonaventure de Brescia’, DHGE IX, 791.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Brundusio (Bonaventura Brundisinus/Bonaventura da Brindisi, d. 1628)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the San Niccolò province. Two-times provincial minister, provincial visitator of the Basilicata province and elected general definitor at the general chapter of 1618. He is supposedly the author of a large, three-volume Summarium de casibus conscientae that was never printed.

works

Summarium de casibus conscientae: MS Bari, Mon. de San Andrea ? (the friary where the author died in 1628). The work would have been divided in three parts (Pars sacramentalis, Pars censuralis, Pars casualis). Cf. the description by Juan de San Antonio & Sbaralea.

Sermones Quadragesimales: MS Bari, Mon. de San Andrea ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 228-229; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Burgo (fl. 1600)

Irish friar. Guardian of Rosserrilly (near Headford, West Ireland). Active buyer of books.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Calatagyrone (Bonaventura Secusi/Ottavio Secusio, Bonaventura da Caltagirone, 1558-1618)

OFM. Italian friar. Born at Caltagirone (Ottavio Secusio) as the third son of Enrico and Agata Maynardi. Studied with the local Jesuits in the early 1570s and attended the University of Catania in 1575/1576. He entered the Franciscan order at the age of 18 in the Santamaria del Gesù friary of Caltagirone. Took the name Bonventura at his profession. Active as lector, novice master, custos, provincial definitor and provincial minister. Theologian of the Archbishop of Palermo in and after 1586, and general visitator of the Archdiocese. Subsequently secretary of the Observant Franciscan minister general and Lenten preacher in Rome. At the Franciscan General Chapter of Valladolid, 1593, he was elected minister general. During his term, he visitated various province and stimulated the new reformed Observance. In 1594, he published the statutes for the Ultramontan Observants, followed by the statutes for the reformed Observants in 1595 and the statutes of the French and Belgian Recollects in 1597. He also stimulated the edition of the commentaries of Duns Scotus and Juan de Ovando. Was sent on various complex religious and diplomatic missions by pope Clement VIII (a.o. a mission to secure a peace treaty between Philip II of Spain and Henri IV of France). As a reward for his services, he was made Latin Patriarch of Constantinopel and canon of Saint Peter at Rome. Further diplomatic missions led to other promotions: the episcopal see of Patti (Sicily, April 1601), Messina (1605) and Catania (1609). He died there on 29 March 1618.

works

Constitutiones. In 1594, as minister general. Bonaventura Secusi da Caltagirone published the Statutes for the Ultramontan Observants (1594); Statutes for the reformed Observants (1595); Statutes of the French and Belgian Recollects (1597).

As co-editor: Commentarii in III. librum Sententiarum subtilissimi doctoris Ioannis Duns Scoti (...) Autore fratre Joanne de Ouando casecerensi. In Conventu Salmanticensi, Sacrae Theologiae Professore, per amplissimum fratrem Bonaventuram Calatagironam, totius Ordinis Seraphici Francisci dignissimum generalem ministrum (Valencia: Alvaro Franco, 1597).

Pacis Initae Inter Philippum Secundum Hispaniarum et Henricum Quartum Galliarum Reges Historia.

Breve Raguaglio del solenne ricevimento fatto dalla nobile città di Messina all’Ill.mo e Rev.mo Monsignor Bonaventura Secusio, Patriarca di Constantinopoli, suo novello Prelato (Messina, 1605).

Constitutiones Synodales Ecclesiae Catanensis. Cf. A. Longhitano, Le Relazioni «ad limina» della diocesi di Catania (1595-1890), I (Florence, 2009), 71-83.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906, 59); Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Quaracchi, 1931) XXIII, 108-109, 195-216, 249, 284, 324-325, 368-369 & XXIV, 35, 49, 315, 356, 413, 571; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 229-230; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 193; E. Taranto, Cenni biografici di Bonaventura Secusio Patriarca di Costantinopoli (Caltagirone, 1870); V. Nigido, Bonaventura Secusio. Monografia critica (Catania, 1898); L. von Pastor, Storia dei Papi dalla fine del Medio evo, XI (Rome, 1925), 155f, 166-168; Holzapfel, Manuale Historiae Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Freiburg in Bresigau, 1908), 279, 305, 312; Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste XI, 158-159, 169-180; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bonaventure Secusi’, DHGE IX, 812; S. Andretta, 'La Monarchia spagnola e la mediazione pontificia nella pace di Vervins', in: Roma y España. Un crisol de la cultura europea en la edad moderna, ed. C. Hernando Sánchez (Madrid, 2007), 441-443; G. Pace Gravina, 'Bonaventura Secusio', Rivista di Storia del Diritto Italiano 86 (2013), 23-37; Elisa Novi Chavarria, 'Secusio, Ottavio', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XCI (2018) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ottavio-secusio_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Casale (Bonaventura Casalensis/Bonaventura da Casale/Bonaventura Lupano, 1567-1641)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Casale (Lupano family). Entered the Capuchins in June 1590 in the Genoa province. Three times elected definitor and also one time provincial minister (1622-1624). Died at Genoa shortly after his third installment as a definitor for his province at the provincial chapter of 1641. He was a renowned preacher an compiled several sermon collections, which are still mentioned by Juan de San Antonio, Sbaraglia and Bernardo di Bologna.

works

Selva di concetti predicabili per l’avvento, Once present in the Capuchin convent library in Genoa. lost?

Concetti predicabili per il tempo della quaresima, Once present in the Capuchin convent library in Genoa. lost?

Selva di concetti predicabili per le feste dei santi per tutto l'anno Once present in the Capuchin convent library in Genoa. lost?

Selva di concetti predicabili per le domeniche dell'anno, Once present in the Capuchin convent library in Genoa. lost?

Sermoni diversi, Once present in the Capuchin convent library in Genoa. lost?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 174-175 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 187; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 52-53; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 628; Xavero Molino, I cappuccini Genovesi, I: Note biografiche (Genoa, 1912), 25, 222; A. Zawart, ‘The History of Franciscan Preaching and of Franciscan Preachers (1209-1927). A bio-bibliographical study’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 457; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Casale’, DHGE IX, 792-793; LexCap

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Catanzaro (Bonaventura da Catanzaro/Bonaventura Ajerba/Bonaventura Ajerbo d'Aragona/Bonaventura d’Aragona e d’Aierbe/Neapolensis, d. 1605)

OFMCap. Italian (Calabrian) friar with Spanish roots. Member of the noble Ajerba d’Aragona family, which had settled in the Kingdom of Naples under King Alphonse IV. Bonaventura was born at Catanzaro and joined the Capuchins in the Reggio Calabria province. General visitator of the Reggio Calabria, San Angelo di Foggia and the Messina provinces. Elected provincial of the Regio Calabria province at the provincial chapter of 1598, and was re-elected in 1599 and in 1600. In that year, he received the appointment of general commissioner for the French and Spanish Capuchin provinces. He apparently died during a stay in Languedoc in 1605. One of his sermons, held on 19 September 1594 after a procession to give thanks for a victory over the Turcs in 1594, was printed at Naples in 1594 and 1596. His other works apparently never reached the printing press.

works

A range of theological works, canon law materials and sermons?

Oratione Fatta dal Padre Fra Bonaventura d’Aragona, e d’Aierbe, Capuccino, e Predicatore, Doppo la processione, per rendimento di gratie à nostro Signor Iddio, della Vittoria conseguita. Dell’Illustrissimo, & Eccellentiss. Don Fabritio Carrafa Prencipe della Roccella, contra l’Armata Turchesca. A difesa della Sua Terra di Castel Vetere à 9. di Settembre 1594 (Naples: Appresso Gio. Iacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace, 1595). This sermon is also present as an appendix to Filippo Racco, La Croce e la Mezzaluna. Il Principe Fabrizio Carafa, Sinan Bassa Cicala e l'assedio di Castelvetere in Calabria Ultra 9 settembre 1594 (Locri: Franco Pancallo Editore, 2014) [Accessible via Academia.edu].

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Bullarium Franciscanum III, 61; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 142 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 148, 187; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 50-51, 53; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 65-67; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 20-23; A. Zawart, ‘The history of franciscan preaching and of franciscan preachers’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 444; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Catanzaro’, DHGE IX, 793; LexCap, 241; DBI, check!

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Cedo (18th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catalonian) friar. Theologian and long-time lector. In the context of his teaching activities, he wrote a Cursus Theologicus iuxta Mirabilem Bonaventurae Doctrinam in two volumes.

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Cursus Theologicus iuxta Mirabilem Bonaventurae Doctrinam. The first volume of this is apparently to be found in a manuscript kept in the Capuchin Sarrià convent (Barcelona).

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Manuel de Lete Triay, ‘Escriptores de la provincia caputxina de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat (1578-1900)’, in: Franciscalia. En la convergència centenària del trà sit del Poverello (1226), de la seva canonització (1228) i de l’autoctonia de l’orde caputxi (1528) (Barcelona, 1928), 222; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventura de Cedo’, DHGE IX, 793; LexCap>>>;

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Cineribus (fl. 14th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Created indices and other search instruments to disclose the works of Bonaventura da Bagnoregio.

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Quaestiones: ?

Epitomen operum S. Bonaventurae.

Tabula Magna: MS Siena, Biblioteca Comunale F.V.19 ff. 1r-136v; Todi 14 ff. 3-90

Tabula Sententiarum S. Bonaventurae: MS Siena, Biblioteca Comunale F.V.19 ff. 137r-172r; Milan, Biblioteca di Brera AF.X.7 ff. 24r-80r.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175; Colman J. Majchrzak, A Brief History of Bonaventurism, PdD Diss. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1957), 43.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Cocaleo (Bonaventura a Coccaleo/Bonaventura da Coccaglio/Bonaventura Bianchi, 1713-1778)

OFMCap. Italian friar, born at Coccaglio. After studies in the arts and mechanics, and of doctrinal theology at the episcopal seminnary of Bergamo, Bonaventura joined the Capuchins in the Brescia province, making his profession in 1733. He finished his education in philosophy and theology at the Capuchin study houses of Trenzano, Badia Bergamo and Crema. Thereafter active as a preacher, lector and guardien. He suffered a stroke during an Advent sermon rally at Coccaglio and died on 17 March 1778. Bonaventura da Coccaglio was a productive editor, translator and author (for some works apparently using the pseudonym Rambaldo Norimeno), sometimes working together with his brother, the fellow Capuchin friar Viatore da Coccaglio (see there), with whom he shared Jansenist tendencies. For a more or less complete overview of his various works, see the works of Bonari and Teetaert mentioned below.

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Carteggio de' padri Viatore, e Bonaventura da Coccaglio fratelli cappuccini della Provincia di Brescia sopra un empio scritto intitolato Solenne concio-abbiura fatta nella chiesa della terra dominante di Poschiavo nella Rezia li 26 agosto 1759 (...) In Engadina Bassa da Giacomo n. Gadina (Brescia: Giambatista Bossini, 1761).

Lettera del p. Bonaventura da Coccaglio Cappuccino circa la nuova edizione della ricerca sistematica e circa il carteggio de' due fratelli Cappuccini contro l'apostata Lorenzini (Giammaria Rizzardi, 1762).

Altra Lettera circa l'edizione della ricerca sistematica del P. Viatore (Brescia, 1763).

Lettere di ragguaglio intorno ad alcune controversie letterarie suscitate in varie Città d'Italia (Brescia: Bagnoli, 1769).

Instituta moralia Theologici Lugdunensis, aucta et illustrata, 2 Vols. (Milan: Bizzardi, 1771).

La storia de Auxiliis del P. Giacinto Serry Domenicano, tradotta e compediata da Ramboldo Norimene (Brescia: Bagnoli, 1771). Issued under pseudonym.

Ristretto istorico della vita del b. Lorenzo da Brindisi generale dell'ordine de' Cappuccini cavata da processi compilati per la sua beatificazione divisa in tre libri dal p. Bonaventura da Coccaglio del medesimo ordine (Rome: nella stamperia del Casaletti nel palazzo Massimi, 1783). Accessible via Google Books.

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Johann-Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 16; Vladimir Bonari da Bergamo, I conventi ed i cappuccini bresciani. Memorie storiche (Milan, 1891), 361-368; Ilarino da Milano, Biblioteca dei Frati minori cappuccini di Lombardia (1535-1900) (Florence, 1937), 78-85; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Coccaglio’, DHGE IX, 794-796; LexCap, 241; James Healy, The Just Wage, 1750–1890. A Study of Moralists from Saint Alphonsus to Leo XIII (Den Haag: Nijhoff-Springer Netherlands, 1966/2013), 100ff.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Barcelona (Michael Gran/Bonaventura da Barcellona, 1620-1684), beatus

OFMRef. Spanish (Catalan) Friar from Ruidoms, near Barcelona. Entered the order at the Escornabou convent, adopting the name Bonaventura and taking the habit as a lay friar on 14 July 1640. Active at several Spanish convents and thereafter porter of the San Isidoro convent at Rome. Became an active propagator of eremitical retreat and was given permission to organise houses of retreat. Thus he founded the retreats of Santa Maria delle Grazie at Ponticelli (Sabina, 1675), Montorio, Varia and San Bonaventura sul Palatino (1675). Bonaventura de Barcelona died in the last-mentioned of these retreats on 11 September 1684. Beatified by Pius X on 10 June 1906.

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Regola e Testamento del nostro Serafico Padre San Francesco, e Costitutioni per la maggiore, e più pura osservanza della medisima Regola. on alcune essortationi devote alla Apostolica Professione indrizzate, et altre orationi devote (Naples: Egidio Longo, 1666). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

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Acts of his beatification process can be found in MS Paris, BN H. 359 A. pp. 1266-1290. Cf. Analecta Bollandiana 5 (1886), 150 & the DHGE lemma by O’Briain mentioned below.

Vita di F. Bonaventura da Barcellona, Laico Riformato di S. Francesco, & Istitutore della Ricollezione, o sia Ritiro della Provincia di Roma, scritta da Francesco Maria Galluzzi, Della Compagnia di Giesu (Naples, 1723).

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Leonardo da Popi, Il B. Bonaventura da Barcelona dei minori, fondatore dei ritiri nella provincia romana (Rome, 1906); F.-M. Paolini, Il B. Bonaventura da Barcelona (Rome, 1908); Blessed Bonaventure of Barcelona of the friars minor (Calcutta, 1920); F. O’Briain, ‘Bonaventure de Barcelona’, DHGE IX, 790; A. Wallenstein, ‘Il B. Bonaventura da Barcellona maestro di spirito’, AFH 42 (1949), 236-256; Luiz Pérez Simón, ‘Beato Buenaventura de Barcelona. Religioso franciscano (1620-1684)’, in: Nuevo Año cristiano (Madrid: EDIBESA, 2001-2002) IX (Septiembre), 207f.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Corella (Buenaventura de Corella, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar and preacher from the Aragon province. Missionary in Congo and known for his account on the Congo mission.

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Relación de Congo, edited as Relation sur le Congo par Buenaventura de Corella, in: L'ancien Congo et Angola, 1639-1655, d'après les archives romanes, portugaises, néerlandaises et espagnoles, e. Louis Jadin, 2 Vols. (Brussels: Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 1975) II, 150-165.

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Joseph Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar, Mission evangelica al reyno de Congo por la religion de los capuchinos (Madrid: Domingo Garcia i Morràs, 1649), 27.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Decimo (Bonaventura da Diecimo, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the Serafica province. Chronicler and religious author Wrote anonymously out of humility.

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Secoli serafici ovvero Compendio coronologico della storia francescana dall'anno MCLXXXII in cui nacque il serafico patriarcha S. Francesco d'Assisi fondatore dell'Ordine de'Frati Minori fino al capitolo generale dell'anno MDCCLVI (Florence: Pietro Gaetano Viviani, 1757/Florence: Pietro Gaetano Viviani, 1767). The 1757 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, and via Google Books [as a work by Bernardo da Decimio].

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Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 810.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Drepano (Bonaventura da Drepano, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from the Val di Mazara province (Sicily). Lector jubilatus, custos and consultant for the inquisition.

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In 1. et 2. Sententiarum S. Bonaventurae: MS Palermo, Conv. S. Francesco, ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 232-233; Laertio Cherubini, Magnum bullarium Romanum seu ejusdem Continuatio (...) Pars prima, Constitutiones Innocentii XI, Alexandri VIII, & Innocentii XII (...) (Luxemburg, 1727), 340; Johann Christian Lünig, Codex Italiae Diplomaticus: Quo non solum Multifariae Privilegia ab Augustissimis Romanorum Imperatoribus, Italiae Principibus, & Proceribus concessa atque confirmata, Verum etiam Alia insignia varii generis Diplomata, tam edita, quam multa anecdota, Ipsos concernentia continentur Investiturarum Literae (Frankfurt-Leipzig, 1735) IV, 1292;

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Fasano (Bonaventura da Fasano, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Observant friar. Author of a Memorabilia Minoritica.

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Memorabilia Minoritica Provinciae S. Nicolai Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae (Bari: apud Zannettum et Valerium, 1656); Bonaventura da Fasano, Memorabilia Minoritica, ed. anastatica del testo latino con traduzione di P. Gregorio D’Ostuni, introd. Luigi De Santis, Historia Franciscana Sallentina, 3 (Manduria (Taranto): Del Grifo Edizioni, 2009). [review in Frontiere 7 (Bari, 2010), 171-174]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Guastalla (Bonaventura de Vastalla/Bonaventura da Guastalla/Vincenzo Raboni da Guastalla, 1712-1792)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar from the Lombardy province. Preacher and mathematician.

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Aritmetica practica divisa in due parti ed esposta con tale chiarezza che ognuno potrà per se stesso apprendere la maniera d'eseguire ogni sua ancor più difficile operazione. Coll'aggiunta di un trattato di Geometria similmente pratico. Opera che riescirà piacevole a Computisti a mercanti di qualunque sorta non solo, ma gli agrimensori ancora a vantaggiosa insieme alle particolari persone come vedrassi (...) (Piacenza: Niccolò Orcesi, 1774). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

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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), 17.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Imola (Bonaventura da Imola/Bonaventura Mongardi, 1725-1802)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Imola. Joined the Capuchins in the Bologna province. Taught philosophy in Capuchin study houses, and furthermore active as a novice master and as a provincial secretay. He continued the Leggendario cappuccino, the first three volumes of which had been issued by Gabriele da Modigliano, and wrote a number of additional works.

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Leggendario cappuccino ovvero vite di persone (…) illustri, mese di aprile, di maggio, di giugno, Vols. IV-VI (Faenza, 1787-1789). Bonaventura apparently also prepared the work on the subsequent months (July, August and September), yet these remained unpublished and can be found in the general archives of the Capuchins at Rome.

Istruzione pratica per un novello confessore (Faenza, 1795).

Compendio della vita del beato Lorenzo da Brindisi, del beato Bernardo da Offida, del ven. Ignazio da Santhia.

Specchio di disciplina di S. Bonaventura (an Italian translation of Bernard de Bessa’s Speculum Disciplinae).

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Johann-Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 16-17; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure d’Imola’, DHGE IX, 797; LexCap, 242.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura d’Imst (Bonaventura von Imst/Paul-Joseph Brunold/Bonaventura Brunold, 1739-1807)

OFMCap. Austrian friar. Born at Imst (Tyrol). Entered the Capuchin order on 29 September 1758. Several times novice master, lector of theology (1772-1778), guardian at Imst (1779-1782), Brixen (1782-1784), Klausen (1784-1787) and Bolzano (Bozen, 1791-1801). Confessor of the Poor Clares at Sankt Peter at Bregenz (the scene of dramatic incidents in August 1796, about which Bonaventura wrote an account). He was provincial between 1801-1804 and died at Bolzano on 26 July 1807.

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Wahrhafte Beschreibung der Trauerscene und der dreyfach-grausamen Mordthat des Herrn Kreishaupmanns von Indermauer, Herrn Oberamtsraths von Franzin und Herrn Burgermeisters Weber von Bregenz (Bregenz: Brentano, 1798).

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J. Bitschnau, Darstellung der merkwürdigen Begebenheiten der letzten französischen Kriege (Bregenz, 1807) I, 52ff; A. Hohenegger & P.B. Zierler, Geschichte der tiroler Kapuziner Ordensprovinz (1593-1893) (Innsbruck, 1915) II, 172-176, 202, 205-206, 211, 267-270, 351; C. Neuner, Literarische Tätigkeit in der nordtiroler Kapuzinerprovinz. Bio-bibliographische Notizen (Innsbruck, 1929), 37; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure d’Imst’, DHGE IX, 798; LexCap.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Iseo (Bonaventura Aesinus/Bonaventura da Iseo/da Brescia/da Ivreo, before 1200-ca 1260/1273)

OM. Italian friar. According to Salimbene, Bonaventura da Iseo held the position of provincial minister of the Provence, Genua, Bologna and the Marca Trevigiana. Also mentioned to be a friend of Ezzelino de Romano. He also was vicar of the Franciscan minister general Crescenzio Grizi when the latter general, had to attend the council of Lyon in 1245. Two years later, B. was present at the general chapter of the order. In 1249 B. accompagnies the new minister general John of Parma on the mission to the emperor of Constantinopel (John III Vatatzès), to bring about a union between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He was back in Italy in 1250. And as late as 1273 B. is mentioned as peace broker between the Venetians and the people from Bologna (yet this might be a different friar). Salimbene is on the whole quite positive about B. although he also criticises him. Still according to Salimbene he left a Magnum Volumen Sermonum de Festibus et de Tempore, and indeed a whole series of sermons do survive in several manucripts. He also is the alleged author of the famous Liber Compostella Multorum Experimentorum Veritatis Fratris Bonaventura de Ysio de Ordine Fratrum Minorum. This latter work would have been written after ca. 1250. It is a compilation of several alchemical handbooks (on elements, the transmutation of metals, alchemical uses of salts, properties of water and experiments derived from (pseudo-) Geber)

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Sermones de festivitatibus et de tempore: a.o. Padua, Sacro Conv. 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447 (see also Schneyer)

Liber Compostella/Liber Compostella Multorum Experimentorum Veritatis Fratris Bonaventura de Ysio de Ordine Fratrum Minorum (de naturis et generationibus metallorum): MSS Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 292 (first half 15th cent.); Bern, Stadtsbibliothek B 44 ff. 104r-208v (15th cent.); Bologna, Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio A 1417, ff. 1r-108v, with additional recipes until ff. 126v (15th cent.); Florence, Biblioteca Riccardinana L.III.13 (119), ff. 142v-166r [a shorter version of the text, see AFH, 1 (1908), 116f. & Capitanucci (2012)]; Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana L.I.15 (940) (first half 16th cent.); London, Wellcome Library 140 (14th cent.); Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek 31, ff. 2ra-81va (early 16th cent.); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 23809, ff. 1r-160r [15th cent. the only really complete text?]. Fragments in: London, Wellcome Library 563 & Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Lat. 7157. On the relations between the various manuscripts and their content, see esp. Capitanucci (2012), 210-216.

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Salimbene, Cronica, ed. Oswald Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII (Hanover-Leipzig, 1913), 553; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 177 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 148; Analecta Franciscana 3 (Quaracchi, 1897), 269, 277; Golubovich, Biblioteca Bio-Bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente Francescana (Quaracchi, 1906) I, 219-224 & II (Quaracchi, 1913), 219, 317, 367; AFH 3 (1910), 732 & 4 (1911), 621; Revue d’histoire franciscaine 1 (1924), 849; Zawart, 286; Schneyer, I, 657-694; P. Gratien, ‘Fra B. d’Iseo. Vicaire du ministre général des mineurs au Ier Concile de Lyon’, Études Franciscaines, 33 (1921), 519-531; A. Russo, ‘Fra B. d’Iseo (1180-1260) e la sua opera di scienziato’, Atti della IV Biennale della Marca e Studio Firmano per gli Studi Storici dell'Arte medica (Fermo, 1961), 211-219; L. Thorndike, A History of Magis and Experimental Science, III (New York, 1964), 45-46; C. Vasoli, ‘Bonaventura d’Iseo’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 11 (Rome, 1969), 635-636.; B. Costa, ‘Struttura e contenuti dei ‘Sermones’ di Bonaventura da Iseo’, in: Storia e cultura al Santo, ed. A. Poppi (Vicenza, 1976), 228-237; P. Marangon, Alla origini dell'Aristotelismo padovano (sec. XII-XIII) (Padua, 1977), 88-98; A. Poppi, La filosofia nello studio francescano del Santo a Padova, Centro di studi antoniani, 12 (Padua, 1989); R. Sgarbi, Fra' Bonaventura d'Iseo, alchimista (Iseo, 1991); L. Gaffuri, ‘In diebus suis cessavit praedicatio. Predicazione e società al tempo di Ezzelino da Romano’, in: Nuovi studi ezzeliniani, ed. G. Cracco (Rome, 1992), 487-506; Abele Calufetti, ‘Bonaventura d’Iseo, OFM’, Studi Francescani 96 (1999), 275-285; M. Carli, Il ‘Liber Compostille’ di Bonaventura da Iseo. Presentazione e prima edizione del manoscritto di Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana L.III.13 (119), Ph.D. Thesis (Università di Siena, Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia, 1998-1999); M. Carli, ‘Un’enciclopedia alchemica duecentesca: il ‘Liber Compostille’ di Bonaventura d’Iseo’, in: Atti dell’VIII Convegno Nazionale di Storia e Fondamenti della Chimica, ed. F. Abbri & M. Ciardi (Arezzo, 1999), 45-57; M. Pereira, ‘Nota su Bonaventura da Iseo e le acque medicinali’, in: Atti dell’VIII Convegno Nazionale di Storia e Fondamenti della Chimica, ed. F. Abbri & M. Ciardi (Arezzo, 1999), 59-68; Paolo Capitanucci, ‘Un’enciclopedia alchemica’, San Francesco Patrono d’Italia 10 (2005), 56-57; Eleonora Lombardo, ‘Bonaventura da Iseo Omin e le sue opere: status quaestionis’, Il Santo 48:1-2 (2008), 87-122; Paolo Capitanucci, ‘Agli albori della cultura alchemica e farmaceutica francescana: il Liber Compostelle di Bonaventura da Iseo, in: I francescani e le scienze. Atti del XXXIX Convegno internazionale di studio. Assisi, 6-8 ottobre 2011, Convegni S.I.S.F, XXXIX, n.s. 22 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2012), 201-237 [cf. review in Il Santo 53:3 (2013), 490-495].

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de la Bassée (Bonaventura Basseanus/Bonaventure de la Bassée/Louis de Pippre/Loys de Pippre, 1577-1650)

OFMCap. Belgian friar from La Bassée (Wallonia). Studied philosophy, canon law and theology at Douai (Doornik), reaching the licence in theology, to enter the Capuchin order at the age of 31. Fulfilled several functions in the order: lector of philosophy and theology at Luik (Liège), preacher and guardian (also at Liège). He came to the defense of the privileges of the secular clergy in a dispute beteen secular clergymen and members of the various religious orders in the dioceses of Cambrai, Arras and Tournai concerning confessional rights and other aspects of the religious ministry to lay people. In 1631, Bonaventure held a sermon at the provincial council of Cambrai, which was printed two years later (Parochianus Obediens), and saw various reprints and reworkings as the Theophilus Parochialis/Parochophilus. This drew out criticisms from members of the regular clergy, notably the Jesuite Albi, who produced an Anti-Théophile and an Apologie (1649). Aside from the criticisms raised by the Jesuite Albi, another critique of the Theophilus can be found in MS Brussels, Royal Library Varia 7266-7268 ff. 85rff. Elements of this controversy and its resolution in 1650 were echoed in the fifteenth Provinciale of Blaise Pascal.

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Parochianus Obediens, ed. Malbrancq, Abbé de Hénin (Douai, 1633)/Parochianus obediens sive De duplici debito Parochianorum audiendi scilicet Missam et verbum Dei in sua Parochia saltem diebus dominicis et festis majoribus stante commoditate. Per R.P.B.B.C.P. [Bonaventure de la Bassée]. De debito audiendi verbum Dei. (s.l., 1634).

Le paroissien obéyssant (Tournai, 1634/Antwerp, 1635/Paris, 1657).

Theophilus parochialis, seu de quadruplici debito in propria parochia persolvendo: concionis, missae, confessionis paschalis, paschalisque communionis (Antwerp: Johannes Bellerius, 1635/Antwerp 1645/Paris: Sebastian Hure, 1657/Paris: Frederic Leonard, 1679 [3rd Ed.]). The 1635 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books. Several later editions are also accessible via Google Books and other digital portals. It amounts to an amplified version of the Parochianus Obediens, dedicated to cardinal Barberini. This reworking itself saw additional editions and reworkings by others in Latin and French.

Le Theophile parroissial de la messe de parroisse (Lyon: Pierre Compagnon, 1649). French reworking of previous work.

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Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 226, II, 303; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 173; A. de Valencia, Histoire des capucines de Flandre (Paris, 1878) I, 301f; Biographie nationale de Belgique XI, 873-876; Études Franciscaines 46 (1934), 745 (note 69) & 48 (1936), 556-563; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bonaventure de la Bassée’, DHGE IX, 799-801; LexCap, 242-243; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Le P. Bonaventure le Pippre de La Bassée’, in: Idem Miscellanea IV, 1770-1776.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Lama (Bonaventura da Lama, 1649-1739)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Member of the San Niccolò province (Bari). Preacher and rovincial order historian.

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Cronica de' minori osservanti riformati della provincia di S. Nicolò composta dal R. P. Bonaventura da Lama ... dedicata al molto illustre signore, il Signor Gio: Bernardino Tafuri ... Parte Prima (Lecce ; dalla stamparia di Oronzio Chiriatti con licenza de' superiori 1723). A second volume also appeared a few years later. A modern edition of the complete work has been issued as: Bonaventura da Lama, Cronica de’minori osservanti riformati della provincia di S. Nicolò, ed. Luigi De Santis, 2 Vols., Historia Franciscana Sallentina, 1 (Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo, 2002). [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 74 (2004), 726f]

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Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 775.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Langres (Bonaventura Lingoniensis/Bonaventure de Langres, ca. 1595-ca. 1660)

OFMCap. French friar. Entered the order in the Lyon province in 1613. For many years, he taught theology in the Capuchin schools along Bonaventurean lines, notably in the Capuchin friary of Lyon (present attested around 1633), elements of which found their way in a three-volume handbook.

works

Bonaventure du Bonaventure, ou conciliation de la Theologie de saint Bonaventure & de saint Thomas (Lyon: heritiers Laurent Anisson, 1653).

Bonaventurae Bonaventura et Thomas seu Unica Geminaque Theologiae Summa ex omnibus fere sanctorum Thome et Bonaventurae placitis in eadem pagella hinc inde e regione dispositis, concinnata (...) Accedit & Praxis Concionatoria (...), 3 Vols. (Lyon: heritiers Laurent Anisson, 1655-1673). The 1655 volume is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and via Google Books.

Le paradis du temps ou le Secret veritable de se rendre heureux en toute sorte de condition ou Dieu nous appelle, opposé à la tyrannie de conscience qui travaille le pecheur par tout (Langres: I. Boudrot, 1657 [2nd Ed.]/Troyes: François Jacquard, 1658). These editions are accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and via Google Books.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 53; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 235; Collectanea Franciscana 1 (1931), 186, 363-365; 5 (1935), 410; Augustino de Corniero, ‘Capuchinos precursores del P. Bartolomé Barberis en el estudio de S. Buenaventura’, Collectanea Franciscana 11 (1941), 363-365; DHGE IX, 801; Lexicon Capuccinum, 243

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Laurenzana (Bonaventura da Laurenzana, f. second half 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Basilicata province. Theologian and hagiographer.

works

Vita del beato Egidio di Laurenzana, dell' Ordine osservante di S. Francesco d'Assisi, composta dal R.P.F. Bonaventura da Laurenzana (Naples: Giacinto Passaro, 1674).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 235.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Leyso (Bonaventura von Leys/Bonaventura Leyss, 1703-1779)

OFMRef. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol Sankt Leopold province. Hagiographer. He died on 2 April 1779.

works

Das wunderbarliche und tugend-volle Leben des heiligen seraphischen Vatters Francisci von Assis, mit nutzlichen Sittenlehren vermischet, samt einigen Andachts-Übungen zu Ehren dises glorwürdigen Ordens-Stiffters, wie auch von dem sogenannten Franiscaner Rosenkrantz gründlicher Unterricht, zusammgetragen von R.P.Fr. Bonaventura Leyss (Tegernsee: Closter Tegernsee, 1761/Innsbruck: Wagner, 1774).

Der Paduanische Wunders-Mann in seiner Lebens-Grösse abgebildet, das ist: Das heilige Leben und die erstaunliche Wunder-Werck des h. Antonii von Padua, des Heil. Francisci wohlwürdigen Sohns, mit Sitten-Lehren vermischt, samt einem Vorrath allerhand Andachts-Übungen zu seiner Ehr nutzlich vorzunehmen, zusamm getragen von R.P.Fr. Bonaventura Leyss (Tegernsee: Closter Tegernsee, 1763/1764). The work was re-issued as Der paduanische Wundersmann in seiner Lebensgröße abgebildet, das ist: Das Leben und die Wunderwerke des heiligen Antonius von Padua, mit Sittenlehre und Andachtsübungen (Munich: Zangl, 1796), and later was transformed into Leben und Wirken des heiligen Antonius von Padua aus dem Franziskanerorden, mit Betrachtungen und Andachtsübungen, ed. Michael Sintzel (Regensburg: Manz, 1846).

Kleiner doch allgemeiner Begriff großer Werk, das ist: Andachtsübungen auf die Festtage (Augsburg, 1766).

Lebensbeschreibung der heil. Jungfrau Klara, Stifterin des berühmten Klarissenordens, mit geistreichen Erinnerungen und Andachtsübungen vermengt (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1777).

Kurze Andachtsübungen zu Ehren des heiligen seraphischen Vaters und glorwürdigen Ordensstifters Franciscus von Assis, verfasst von Bonavenura Leyss (Munich: Lentner, 1797 [neue verb. Aufl.]).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 107-108 [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]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Lude (Bonaventure de Lude, d. 1645)

OFMCap. French friar from Lude (Sarthe), who entered the order in the Parisian province. Was sent out as a missionary to Asia Minor (Aleppo region) in 1629. Became custodian for the Capuchin missions in Syria and neighbouring regions. Died there in 1645. Wrote a substantial number of basic doctrinal and catechistic works in Arabic, Turkish and Syrian, partly to point out 'errors' in Greek Orthodox doctrine, as well as Arabic translations of the Regula Bullata and the Testament of Francis of Assisi.

works

Réfutation de l'épître d'Anastase, évêque grec orthodoxe; Homélie anonyme sur le salut de l'âme; Traité anonyme d'apologétique, intitulé : Muhataba garat bayna ba'd al-Suryan: MS Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Arabe 221. The work is accessible via Gallica: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004233m/f1.image

literature

Pelegrino da Forlì, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1882) I, 353-355; Hilaire deBarenton, La France catholique en Orient (Paris, 1902), 94, 122; Hilaire de Barenton, Les capucins français. Trois siècles de traveaux (Couvin-Paris, 1903), 118; Cl. da Terzorio, Le missioni dei minori cappuccini, V: Turchia asiatica (Rome, 1919), 27f, 57, 135; B. Cuneo, ‘Biblical scholars in the Franciscan order’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1925), 129; L. de Gonzaga, ‘les anciens missionnaires capucines de Syrie et leurs écrits apostoliques de langue arabe’, Collectanea Franciscana 1 (1931), 320-323, 336, 350, 465-467; 2 (1932), 39-40, 60, 183, 191f, 201; 18 (1948), 139ff.; Lexicon Capuccinum, 243.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Magdalono (Bonaventura da Maddaloni, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian frisr from the Riformati province of Naples.

works

Triplex biblico critica demonstratio in qua biblia sacra vulgatæ editionis Sixti 5. jussu recognita, & Clementis VIII. auctoritate edita non vitiosa demonstratur ado ut sit probatu difficile, vel unicum mendum in ea reperiri correctione dignum. Adversus neotericos criticos heterodoxos dignitatem ejus frustra insectantes elucubrata elucubrata a rev. p. f. Bonaventura a Magdalono (...) (Venice: Francesco Storti, 1760). Accesssible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, and via Google Books.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 824.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Manresa (1650-1720)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catalonian) friar from Manresa (near Barcelona). Lector, guardian (of the S. Eulàlia friary), and provincial definitor of the Catalonia/Barcelona province. Synodal eximinator for the diocese of Vich & Lleida. Provincial of the Barcelona province between 1696-1699 and 1704-1707.

works

Carta del P. F. Buenaventura de Manresa, que quita dudas y establece verdades manifestando con tota claridad que los PP. capuchinos tienen faculdad para dar hábitos de terceros a los seculares, en repuesta de otra que le escribió el P. lector F. Antonio Pera, religioso recoleto pretendiendo ofuscar tan manifiesta verdad (Tortosa, 1688).

Enseñanza práctica de la vida espiritual recogida de los Santos Padres y Doctores señalados en espíritu: en que se trata como se han de hazer con perfección las obras desde el princípio hasta al último día (...) (Barcelona: Martín Gelabert, 1693/Barcelona: Rafael Figuero, 1696 2x/Villafranca, ca. 1700). One of the 1696 Barcelona editions is accessible via Google Books and via the Biblioteca Central de Barcelona.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 53; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 235-236; Estudios Franciscanos 20 (1918), 446; M. de Lete Triay, ‘Escriptors de la provincia caputxina de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat (1578-1900)’, in: Franciscalia. En la convérgencia centenaria del tránsit del Poverello (1226), de la seva canonització (1228) i de l’auctoctonia de l’orde caputxi (1528) (Barcelona, 1928), 229; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Manresa’, DHGE IX, 803-804.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Meldula (Bonaventura da Meldula, fl. 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Baccalaureus Conventus in San Lorenzo (Naples) IN 1542. Master of theology and Regent lector at the Studium of Parma and public Professor of theology at Perugia, as well as accomplished preacher. Sent to the Council of Trent.

works

Lectiones in 3. Magistri Senten. exc. Patris Bonaventurae (...) (1575): MS Ferrara, Bibliotheca San Francesco ?

Epigramma in laudem libri Petri Pauli Caporellae, in praise of Pietro Paolo Caporella, Curiosa quidem ac satis admodum exacta, operum infidelium, fideliumque in peccato tamen manentium elucidatio (...) (1572), and printed there on page 2. This work by Caporella is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178-179; Acta Genuina SS. Oecomenici Concilii Tridentini sub Paulo III, Julio III et Pio IV, ed. A. Theiner (Typis et sumptibus Societatis bibliophilae, 1874) II, 25.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Mercatello (Bonaventura da Mercatello, fl. 1505)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Urbino duchy. Master of theology and secretary of Cardinal Marco Viguerio of Senigallia and historiographer for Pope Julius II.

works

Cronaca del pontificato del Giulio II (1513) ?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 317.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Moncada (ca. 1581-1627)

OFMCap. Spanish friar from Moncada (Valencia kingdom), born in a family that had many members in religious orders. After university studies and a formation at the Colegio de San Pablo of the Valencian jesuits, he joined the Capuchins. At first he wanted to be nothing but a simple friar, but later he accepted educational charges as philosophy and theology lector and also became guardian (of the Sangre de Cristo friary in Valencia and also at Murcia), provincial definitor, and provincial minister. He died at Murcia on 22 December 1627 at the age of 46.

works

Sermon de Santa Teresa de Jesus (Valencia, 1621 [1623?]).

Sermon de San Isidro Labrador (Valencia, 1621/[1623?]).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178; Vicente Ximeno, Escritores del reyno de Valencia, chronologicamente ordenados I (Valencia: Joseph Estevan Dolz, 1747), 311; Biografía hispano-capuchina: memorias históricas, 533-534.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Monte Florido (Bonaventure de Mont-Fleur, fl. early 17th cent. )

OFM. French friar. Theologian.

works

Illustrations mystiques et littérales de la règle et l'institution de San François (Saint-Paulien [Ruessium]: Etienne André, 1625).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Monteregali (Bonaventura da Montereale, d. 1604)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Abruzzi region. Member and for six years provincial minister in Umbria (San Francesco province). Also general lector in Naples. General procurator for his order in 1590 and elected general definitor on the general chapters of 1581, 1584, 1593 and 1596. Known for his Commentaria paraphrastica in Psalmos.

works

Commentaria paraphrastica in Psalmos: MS Foligno, Bibl. Conv.? [once present in the library of the local Capuchin friary]

literature

Monumenta Historiae OFMCap VI, nos. 283-290; Boverio, Annales II, 750; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 53; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 191; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 523-524; Italia Francescana 8 (1933), 476-484; Lexicon Capuccinum, 244.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Ostende (Oostende/Flanderin, 1709-1771)

OFMCap. Belgian (Flemish) friar from Oostende (Ostende). Entered the Capuchins on 22 September 1730… Guardian of Courtrai (Kortrijk, 1747-1749), Ostende (1749-1752), Malines (1752-1753, 1766-1769), Louvain (1755-1758), Brussels. Also lector and novice master (ca. 1740-1747), provincial definitor and provincial (1758-1761). Spiritual author, famous for his Dutch spiritual works for novices and lay Christians.

works

Initium, Fundatio et Progressus Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum in Belgio: MS Antwerp, Provincial Archive III.1005.

Maniere om Christelijk te leven en geluckiglijk sijn Saligheyd te Werken Behelsende diversche Meditatien Of Godtvrugtige gepeysen op de Waerheden van ons Geloof en op het Leven en Lijden Christi. Met eene Onderwijsinge van de selve te Oeffenen voor alle Staeten van Menschen. Daer-en-boven een Alderprofijtigste manier van Misse te hooren, de H. Sacramenten te Ontfangen, en den Dag Christelijk over te brengen. Uyt diversche Autheurs bij een Vergadert (Dendermonde: Jacobus J. DuCaju, Boeckdrucker ende Boeck-verkooper, 1746/Antwerp, 1746). This work, teaching ‘a way to live in a Christian fashion’, received up to sixteen editions before 1844.

Oeffeninge en Bestier van een Geestelyck Leven, seer dienstigh voor geestelycke en Godt-soekende menschen. In het welcke alle de Oeffeningen van het Geestelijck leven, de Onderwijsinge van het inwendigh Gebedt, voortganck in het selve, en de Oeffeninge van de besondere Deughden in het kort worden voorgestelt. Bij-een vergaedert uyt verscheyde Godtvrugtige Schrijvers (Antwerp, 1747; Brussels: Weduwe J. Vleugaert, Boeckverkoopster op de Hout-merckt, 1756). Excercises for the spiritual life.

Aflaeten de welcke alle onse religieusen binnen het jaer konnen verdienen (1758-1761): MS ACB III, 6027.

Caeremoniale in usum Fratrum Minorum Capucinorum provinciae Flan dro-Belgicae. In quo ritus observandi in Choro, SS. Missae Sacrificio, ac praecipuis Solemnitatibus &ca. elucidantur. Cum Licentia et Approbatione Superiorum (Louvain: Typis Joan. Franc. Van Overbeke, sub signo Lampadis Aureae, 1760).

Initium, Fundatio et Progressus F.F. Capucinorum in Belgio, Capitula et Superiores Majores. Insuper Ordine Alphabetico Nomina Religiosorum, eorumque Nomina Saecularia, Locus et Tempus eorum Professionis et Obitus. Tum Ordo quo Professi sunt et alia hanc Provinciam concernentia: MS ACB III. 1005 [cf. the studies of Hildebrand]

to be continued

literature

Biographie nationale de Belgique VII, 82; P. Hildebrand, ‘P. Bonaventura van Oostende (d. 1777), een groot bevorderaar van het inwendig gebed’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 4 (1930), 27-45; P. Hildebrand, ‘P. Bonaventura van Oostende (d. 1771) en zijn Ceremonieel der Vlaamsche Kapucijnen’, Franciskaansch Leven 12 (1929), 1622-165, 210-212; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bonaventure d’Ostende’, DHGE IX, 804-805; DSpir I, 1857; P. Optatus van Asseldonck, De spiritualiteit van de Capucijnen in de Nederlanden (1948), 172-179; Lexicon Capuccinum, 245; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Bonaventura van Oostende en zijn ceremonieel der Vlaamsche Kapucijnen’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 764-770; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Bonaventura van Oostende († 1771), een groot bevorderaar van het inwendig gebed’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 771-789.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Myrica (Bonaventura de Mirica/Bonaventura van Myrike/Bonaventura van der Heyden, fl. 1540)

OFM. Belgian friar from Louvain (Leuven). Spent time in the Holy Land between 1538 and 1540, and also afterwards. Known for a description of the Holy Land and its pilgrim sites.

works

Descriptio Hierusalem, & sanctorum ejus locorum Bonaventurae de Mirica Lovaniensis Minorita qui Hierosolymae annis 1538, 1539, 1540 continuo habitavit et postea secundo, jamque tertio eo profectus est (...) (ca. 1550). This work is alluded to in many catalogues and older reference work, but we have not seen a copy of the text itself.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178; Titus Tobler, Bibliographia geographica Palaestinae; zunächst kritische Uebersicht gedruckter und ungedruckter Beschreibungen der Reisen ins Heilige Land (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1867), 71; Reinholt Röhricht, Bibliotheca geographica Palaestinae: Chronologisches Verzeichniss der auf die Geographie des heiligen Landes Bezüglichen Literatur von 333 bis 1878 (Berlin: H. Reuther, 1890), 184; Biografische Index van de Benelux, 649; Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza Francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d'Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 92.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Neapoli (Bonaventura di Napoli, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar.

works

(wrong ascription) Compendio della prigionia, patimenti e morte Roma gloriosa de' beati martiri di Gorcum (Rome: Mancini, 1576). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, via the Internet Archive, and via Google Books. This work should probably be ascribed to Ignatio de Broeyer.

(wrong ascription) Oratione fatta dopo la processione per rendimento di gratie a nostro signor Iddio della vittoria conseguita dall'Illustriss. D. Fabritio Carrafa, principe della Rocella, contro l'armata Turchesca, a difesa della sua terra di Castelvetere a 9 di settembre 1594 (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace, 1596). This work should be ascribed to Bonaventura d'Aragona a d'Aierbe, alias Bonaventura de Catanzaro.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Occimiano (Bonaventura da Occimiano, ca. 1586-1675)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Genua province. Entered the order around the age of 20. Lector of theology and several times provincial definitor. He died at Genua in 1675 at the age of 89.

works

Tractatus de portione Canonica, & de quarta funeraria: MS Biblioteca del convento di Santa Maria Immacolata dei Cappuccini di Genova, ?

Responsiones ad nonnulla quaesita proposita occasione sepulturae electae in Ecclesia Regularium: MS Biblioteca del convento di Santa Maria Immacolata dei Cappuccini di Genova, ?

Responsiones antiquarum quaestionum, seu difficultatum circa largitionem munerum, quae Regularibus fiunt tam Saecularibus, quam inter Regulares, non servatis constitutionum conditionibus Clem. VIII, & Urbani VIII. de largitione munerum: MS Biblioteca del convento di Santa Maria Immacolata dei Cappuccini di Genova, ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236-237; Gioseffantonio Morano, Catalogo degli illustri scrittori di Casale, e di tutto il Ducato di Monferrato e delle opere da' medisimi composte (Asti: Stamperia del Pila, 1771), 39-40.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Oldenzaal (Bonaventura van Oldenzaal/Jean Lubberti, ca. 1594-1653)

OFMCap. Dutch friar and member of the Belgian-Dutch province. Was already a secular priest when he joined the order in Louvain in 1625. Spiritual director of the Franciscan sisters of Oldenzaal (North-Eastern part of The Netherlands). Vice-prefect of the Catholic mission in Northern Low Countries in 1642. Author?

literature

Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni II, 479, 487, 491; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bonaventura van Oldenzaal, de apostel van Twente’, Franciscaansch Leven 18 (1935), 381-390 (reprinted in Idem, Miscellanea II, 755-763); DHGE IX, 804; Lexicon Capuccinum, 243.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Magister (Buenaventura Maestro, fl. 1740)

OFM. Spanish friar. Historian of the Concepción province.

literature

AIA 25 (1926), 206; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 143 (no. 535).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Makowski (Makowski Marcin/Bonaventura Martinis Makowski, 1706-1795)

OFMConv. Polish friar. Chronicler.

literature

Witold Henryk Gral, ‘Kroniki franciszkanskie Zakonu Braci mniejszych Konwentualnych w Polsce’, Lignum Vitae 6 (2005), 361-379; Encyklopedia Katolicka XI, 884; Cezar Czeslaw Baran, ‘O. Bonawentura Marcin Makowski: franciszkanin-historyk (1706-1795)’, Lignum Vitae 8 (2007), 295-313.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Manentus (Bonaventura Manenti/Bonaventura da Gabbiano Manente, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Gabbiano in the Brescia province. Professor of theology in via Scoti in the Padua Gymnasio. Provincial minister and inquisitor between 1584 and 1609 Editor of Scotist works.

works

D. Petri Tatareti Artium et Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris Praeclariss. Lucidissima Commentaria sive (ut vocant) Reportata in quatuor libros Sententiarum & Quodlibeta Scoti, 3 Vols. (Venice: eredi Simon Galignani de Karera, 1583). The third Book (in tertium librum sententiarum) is accessible via the Bibliothèque Numérique of Lyon [?], and via Google Books .

D. Petri Tatareti Artium et Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris Praeclariss. Lucidissima Commentaria sive (ut vocant) Reportata, in Quartuor Libros Sententiarum Ioannis Duns Scoti Subtilium Principis ab innumeris erroribus expurgata, & germanae integritati restituta: atque insignioribus Annotationibus illustrata, ed. Bonaventura Manentis, 2nd Ed., 4 Vols. (Venice: Evangelista Duechino, 1607). The third and fourth volumes seem to be accessible via the Bibliothèque Numérique of Lyon, and via Google Books [check!].

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 235 & II, 438 [under the name Petrus Bonaventura]; Vincenzo Peroni, Biblioteca Bresciana II, 210; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Marcella (d. 1806)

OFM. Croatian (Dalmatian) friar and member of the Dalmatia province. Well respected for his knowledge of moral theology and canon law by contemporary clergymen such as Girolamo Gianuzzi and Bishop Gregorina of Cattaro, who mentioned him in their letters.

works

Translation into Croatian of the discourses of Turlot (the treasures of Christian doctine). Check!

Translation into Croatian of Casus of moral theology by Benedict XIV. Never published?

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 850; Donato Fabianich, Storia dei frati minori dai primordi della loro istituzione in Dalmazia e Bossina fino ai giorni nostri, 2 Vols. (Zara: Fratelli Battara, 1864) II, 100.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Moronus ((Bonaventura Moroni/Bonaventura Morone da Taranto, d. 1621)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Taranto. Theologian, preacher and papal penitentiary in St. John of Lateran. Well-versed in Latin, Greek and Hebrew - also taught Greek at the Aracoeli in Rome - and a productive religious dramatist. He died in 1621 as a visitator of his province.

works

Il mortorio di Christo, tragedia spirituale (...) (1601/Milan: Herede di Pietro Martire Locarni & Giovanni Battista Bidelli Compagni, 1612/Venice: Sebastiano Combi, 1615/Macerata: Pietro Salvioni, 1618/Venice: Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, 1625/Venice: Giovanni Battista Combi, 1629). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome, the Bibliotec Alessandrina in Rome, the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, the Narodni Knihovna National library in Prague, and via Google Books.

La Giustina, tragedia spirituale (1602/Venice: Giovanni Battista Combi, 1617/Venice: Giovanni Battista Combi, 1634). In any case the 1617 and 1634 editions are accessible via either digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, or via Google Books.

Ragionamento di F. Bonaventura Morono da Taranto (...) in lode di S. Cataldo Vescovo, et protettore della citta di Taranto (Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1614). Check the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich/Stadtbibliothek Augsburg & Google Books

Intermedii fatti dallo stesso autore, Rappresentandosi la prima volta il Mortorio di Christo in Torlizzo (Venice: Giovanni Battista Combi, 1616). Accessible via Google Books.

Irena. Tragedia spirituale (...)/Irena. Tragedia spiritualeNuovamente data in luce (...) (Venice: Santo Grillo & Fratelli, 1619/Milan: Alberto Besozzi, 1627/Lecce: Salentina, 1869). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome, the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, the British Library, and via Google Books.

Cataldiados ad cives suos libri sex (Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1614). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, via the British Library and via Google Books.

Rime sacre del reuer. padre f. Bonauentura Morone da Taranto, de' minori Oss. Refor. (Venice: Apresso Santo Grillo, 1619/1621). These editions are accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and via Google Books.

Carmine sacre sopra la salutatione angelica (...) (Venice: Santo Grillo, 1621 [1622?]).

Panegirico sulla lingua di San Cataldo?

Panegirici e discorsi della passione del Signore (Rosati, 1707)?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Nepos (Bonaventure Neveu/Bonaventure Nepveu, ca. 1470-1526)

OMObs & OFM. French Observant friar active in Northern France. Elected provincial of the France-Parisienne province at the provincial chapter of Metz in 1521, as successor of Jean Glapion.

works

Tractatulus dictus Deffensorium Fratrum Minorum de Observantia et Familia (Paris: Reginault de Chaudière, 1517). Accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179; Studi Francescani 89:1-2 (1992), 37-54; Clément Schmitt, 'Figures franciscaines en Lorraine au cours des siècles', Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz ser. VIII, 174:6 (1994), 123-140.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura O Connorus Kieriae (Bonaventure O Connye/Bonaventura O'Connor/Bonaventure of St. Patricj, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Irish friar, who became involved with the revolts in the 1640 and later joined the Tirol (Austrian) Sankt Leopold province, where he was a theology lector.

works

Letters on Irish matters, included in: An abstract of certain depositions, by vertue of His Majesties commission, taken upon oath, concerning the traiterous invention of the rebels in Ireland in rejectin the goverment of His Majestiy, in having a king of their own, and who that king should be (York; Robert Barker & the assignes of John Bill, 1642), (p. 7-9 is an extract of a letter by Bonaventure O Connye); The copy of two letters sent from Rome: the one to Conny MacGuire, Lord of Jniskillin, now present in the tower or to his brother Roury MacGuire in Ireland / the one written by Francis MacGuire, cosin to my Lord Jniskillin; the other from Bonaventura O Conny, to Phelim Roe O Neal; brought from Rome by Colonell Crely, who was apprehended at Dublin, and afterward executed, the 26 of Iune (London: Printed for Marmaduke Boat, 1642); A wonderfull discoverie of a terrible plot against Hutl [sic] by the designes of the Lord Digby, many papists and others of the malignant party: declaring the manner how the two ships loaden wit great store of ammunition of armes came under a pretended colour of merchants ships from the Indies (London: Thomas Powell, 1642); A most damnable and hellish plot exprest in three letters against all Protestants in Ireland and England sent out of Rome to the chief actors of the rebellion in Ireland, to animate and stirre them up, June 20. 1642. The first letter was sent by Bonaventure ô Conny to Phelim Roe Neal, the second by Francis Mac Guyre to Connor Mac Guyre, the third by Francis Farrell to Sir Phelim O Neal; shewing their zealous affections and wicked advice to their bloody proceeding. Whereof the first two were written in Irish and now translated into English, and laid open to the view of the world. Read in the honourable House of Parliament, and ordered to be printed; S.l.: Dublin first printed by William Bladen (London: Thomas Bates, 1642). This last work is digitally avaliable via the University Library of Ghent.

Quintuplex Pentekaedechyris Mariana, id est: Navicula doctrinalis quintuplicis classis quindecim ordinum, (...) authore M.V.P.F. Bonaventura O Conoro Kieriae Momoniensi Hyberno, Bulsani in Prov. Tyrol. Ord. Min. strictionis observantiae ss. theologiae Lectore (Trent: Zanetti, 1658).

Threnodia Hiberno-Catholica sive Planctus universalis totius cleri et populi regni Hiberniae, in qua (...) recensetur epitome (...) crudelitatis, qua catholici regni Hiberniae tyrannice opprimuntur ab Anglo-Autheistis sub archi-tyranno Crumuelo, trium regnorum nempe Angliae, Hiberniae et Scotiae usurpatore ac destructore, per F. M. Morisonem, Ord. Min. strictor. observantiae, s. theologiae Lectorem, praefatae crudelitatis testem ocularem (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1659).

Elenchus encomiorum celeberr. et testimoniorum clarissimorum utriusque Ecclesiae, triumphantis scilicet et militantis de sanctitate vitae (...) Doctoris Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti (...), colligente (...) M.V.P. Bonaventura O Connoro Kieriae, natione Scoto maiore sive Hyberno, ss. theologiae Professore et Lectore generali in coenobio celebri S.P.N. Francisci urbis magnificae Bulsaniensis in Tyroli (Bolsano: Girardi, 1660).

Lumen orthodoxorum spargens duodecim radios illustrioris prae ceteris lucis et ignis fidei catholicae emicantes ex (...) Sentent. (...) Joannis Duns Scoti, Doctoris Subtilis, (...) derivat et probat Fr. Bonaventura O Conorus Kieriae (alias a s. Patritio), Hybernus, Franciscanus, ss. theologiae Lector generalis (Bolsano: Typ. archiduc., 1661).

Pentateuchus sacramentalis, quinque disputationibus comprehendens integrum tractatum de Sacramentis (Passau: Höller, 1667).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 21-22. [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]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Olgiati (Bonaventura Olgiati, fl. 1605)

OFM. Italian friar from Como.

works

Cella di S. Meinrado (Milan, 1605). A partial Italian translation of the Benedictine work Wahrhafte Historie vom Leben und Sterben des heiligen Einsiedlers und Märtyrers St. Meinradts. A more extensive Ialian translation would be issued more than a century later.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 237; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179; Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, Fortsetzung und Ergänzungen zu Christian Gottlieb Jöchers Allgemeinem Gelehrten-Lexicon V (Bremen, 1816), 1071.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Paci (Bonaventura Paci da Rusciano, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born in/near Montefeltro. Became a specialist in Greek, first in the local seminary for secular priest in Rimini and later in England and at the university of Paris, in the service of high ecclesiastics. Back in Italy, he joined the order and became lector of Greek in the SS. Apostoli friary in Rome, and in the papal university.

works

Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, Italicum, Gallicum, & Hispanicum (Rome: Typis Mascardi, 1683).

Missa S. Ioannis Chrysostomo Graeca, & Latina (Rome: Typis Mascardi, 1685).

Ars literatoria sermone artificiosa pro discendis sex linguarum primordijs græcolatina interlinealiter reddita coniuncta hebraica, italica, gallica, & hispanica (...) (Typis Mascardi, 1692).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 578-579.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Paravicinus (Bonaventura Paravicino, fl. 1625)

OFM. Italian friar from the Milan province.

works

Lectiones 37 super quatuor virtutes cardinales (1626): MS?

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1806), 57; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 237; Sbaralea, Suppelementum (ed. 1806), 179.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Parisiensis (Bonafortuna, fl. second quarter 13th cent.)

OM. French friar. An interesting group of sermones de tempore et sermones festivales is formed by a so-called Collectio/Collatio Fratrum Minorum, ascribed to the Franciscan friar Bonafortuna/Bonaventura of Paris, active as provincial minister in the second quarter of the thirteenth century. For the production of this successful collection, meant to serve as a collection of model sermons for use in secular parish churches, this namesake of the more famous Franciscan minister general probably made use of collationes held at the Parisian mendicant houses. This collection, also known as the Summa que dicitur Legifer de collationibus per annum, and which seems to be mentioned on early Parisian pecia lists, has survived in various versions in a significant number of manuscripts.

works

Collectio/Collatio Fratrum Minorum/Summa que dicitur Legifer de collationibus per annum: MSS Munich Clm 7932 (possibly the earliest manuscript); Cambridge, University Library Ii.4.2; Zürich, Zentralbibliothek Rh.181; Paris BN Lat. 16510; Admont, Stiftsbibliothek 774; Cambridge, Pembroke College 87. For more information on this and comparable sermon collections with links with Franciscan academic culture, see J.B. Schneyer, ‘Die überraschende Fülle der lateinischen Sermonesliteratur im frühen Franziskanerorden’, Franziskanische Studien 58 (1976), 124-127; David L. D’Avray, ‘‘Collectiones Fratrum’ and ‘Collationes Fratrum’’, AFH 70 (1977), 152-156.

literature

J.B. Schneyer, ‘Die überraschende Fülle der lateinischen Sermonesliteratur im frühen Franziskanerorden’, Franziskanische Studien 58 (1976), 124-127; David L. D’Avray, ‘‘Collectiones Fratrum’ and ‘Collationes Fratrum’’, AFH 70 (1977), 152-156.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Parma (Bonaventura da Parma, thirteenth century, † after 1296)

OM. Italian friar. He lived in the Franciscan convent of Ferrara ca. 1271. Then moved on to Bologna where he became lector. In 1281 he became archbishop of Ragusa. Up till 1289 he was visitator of the third order of penitents. Later he became active as a papal legate in Venice (1288) and as papal ambassador in Padua and Vincenza. Author?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Rome, 1733) V, 101; Bullarium Franciscanum. Ed. J. Sbaralea (Rome, 1733) III, 427, 478; C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica I, 411; C. Eubel, ‘Die Bischöfe, Cardinäle und Päpste aus dem Minoritenorden’, Römische Quartalschrift 4 (1890), 234; L. Jadin, ‘Bonaventure de Parme’, DHGE IX, 807-808; C. Vasoli, ‘Bonaventura da Parma’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 11 (Rome, 1967), 636-637; C. Piana, Chartularium, AF 11 (1970), 7, n. 7 

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Potenza (Bonaventura da Potenza, 1651-1711), beatus

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born at Potenza. Entered the order on 4 October 1666. Was a slow starter and according to his superiors not overly bright. His provincial superiors sent to him the hermitages of Lapio and amalfi. After some time, he received his training as a priest. Ordained in 1675. Thereafter, he preached in various Italian towns. Novice master between 1703 and 1707. He died at Ravello on 26 October 1711 and was beatified by pope Pius VI on 29 June 1775. Author?

vitae

Vita del beato Bonaventura di Potenza: AASS Octobris XII, 108-169; L.-M. Marzoni, Vita del beato Bonaventura di Potenza sacerdote dell’ordine de’minori conventuali di S. Francesco (Rome: Giovanni Zempel, 1775). This latter work is accessible via Google Books.

literature

G.-D. Benvenuti, Il beato Bonaventura da Potenza della provincia dei fratri minori conventuali di Napoli (1651-1711) (Ravello, 1930); A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bonaventure de Potenza’, DHGE IX, 807; S. Stolfi, Fra Bonaventura da Potenza, Francescano conventuale, Beato della Chiesa (Naples, 1998); Antonio Di Monda, Il Beato Bonaventura da Potenza dei Frati Minori Conventuali (1651-1711) (Benevento, 2001); Antonio Di Monda, Il Beato Bonaventura da Potenza. Maestro di vita e di santità (Benevento, 2001); Cristoforo Bove, ‘Itineranza del b. Bonaventura [de Potenza] nei conventi della Campania (…)’, Bollettino di Ravello (giugno 2005), 3-6, (dicember 2005), 3-6 & (giugno 2006), 3-6.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Recanati (Bonaventura di Recanati/Carolo-Tommaso Massari, 1614-1691)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Recanati (Macerata region). Started his noviciate on 24 March 1629 in the Marches of Ancona. After his own education, he taught for 18 years in the convents of Ascoli, Fano, Corinaldo, Fabriano, Fermo and Jesi. In between his teaching assignments and for many years after he stopped teaching, he preached in many of the larger urban centres of Italy. He also fulfilled several administrative charges: he was for instance guardian of the convents of Ascoli and Fermo, provincial minister (1660), custos (1661), general definitor (1661), general procurator for the order at the curia (after 1667), and general vicar of the Capuchin order (1669-1671). Around 1661, he was ‘qualificatore del Sant’Officio’, and between 1673 and 1689 he was official apostolic preacher. After the death of pope Clement X, Bonaventura became the confessor of the conclave of cardinals (July 1676). Bonaventura died on 7 March 1691. Author.

works

Prediche dette nel Palazzo Apostolico. Dal Padre Bonaventura di Recanati, Vicario Generale, e Procurator Generale de' Capuccini, 2 Vols. (Venice: Paolo Baglione, 1693/2nd ed. Venice: Paolo Baglioni, 1709). The first volume of the 1709 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and via Google Books. A Latin translation of this work apparently appeared at Augsburg in 1736.

literature

D. Calcagni, Vita del M.R.P. Bonaventura da Recanati, definitore, vicario e procuratore generale dell’ordine de’Padri cappuccini, qualificatore del Sant’Officio, e predicatore de’Sommi Pontefici Clemente X e Innocenzo XI. Si sono aggiunte alcune memorie della vita della madre suor Maria Battista, cappuccina, sua sorella (Messina, 1702); Bullarium Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1740) I, 135; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 54; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 192; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 728; Pellegrino da Forlì, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1884) III, 451-456; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche e le loro opere edite ed inedite (1525-1928) (Jesi, 1928), 21; A. Zawart, ‘The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927). A bio-bibliographical study’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 443, 467; Mauro da Léonessa, Il predicatore apostolico. Note storiche (Isola del Liri, 1929), 102-105; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Recanati’, DHGE IX, 808-809; LexCap, 245 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Reggio (Bonaventura de Rhegio/Bonaventura da Reggio/Bonaventura Schimizzi, ca. 1512-1572)

OFMConv & OFMCap. Italian friar from Reggio Calabria. Entered the Conventual Franciscans, to switch to the Capuchins around 1534. Four times provincial/vicar of the Capuchin province of the Marches of Ancona, thereafter procurator general (1564-1570) for the order in Rome, and general definitor (1570). Strong propagator of the quarantore prayers and stimulating force behind the emergence of new confraternities.

works

Metodo di celebrare con frutto l'orazione delle 40 ore, specialmente nel tempo di quaresima (Milan, 1571). Also later editions. Is this not in fact a work by Giusepe da Ferno?

Vita di Fra Bonaventura Regini. ?

Tracce regolamentari dell’arciconfraternità della Pietà, fondata a Fermo nel 1564: MS Fermo, Biblioteca Comunale ? check!

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1632) I, 723-726; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 238; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179-180; Bullarium Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1745) III, 61; Ordinationes et Decisiones Capitulorum Generalium (Rome, 1751), 22-24; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 192; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 54; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto, 425; F. Securi da Reggio, Memorie storiche sulla provincia dei cappuccini di Reggio di Calabria (Reggio Calabria, 1885), 63-64; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche e de loro opere, edite ed inedite (Jesi, 1928), 22; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini Calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 26-27; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Reggio’, DHGE IX, 809; LexCap.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Reggio de Calabria (Bonaventura da Reggio Calabria/Bonaventura Campana, d. 1655)

OFMCap. Friar from Reggio Calabria, and namesake of Bonaventura da Reggio Calabria il Vecchio/Senior (d. 1548, who had introduced the Capuchin reform into Calabria). Our friar fulfilled several functions at the (sub-)provincial level, eventually rising to the position of provincial definitor. He died at Naples in 1655. Historian and hagiographer.

works

Cronaca capuccina in cui si tratta del principio et origine de’ frati minori capuccini in questa provincia di Reggio. Della vita, miracoli e opere maravigliose de due primi beati fondatori di essi capuccini Lodovico e Bernardino il Giorgio da Reggio e di molto altri di quei antichi padri e fratelli, tanto di essa città di Reggio, che di altri luoghi, che fiorirono in virtù e miracoli (before 1630). Remained unedited and kept in the General Archive of the Capuchins at Rome, no. Arm. A, I, 15. His work was used by other Capuchin chroniclers.

Vita Fratris Bonaventurae Rhegiensis (senioris) (a work that is also ascribed to Bonaventura da Reggio/Bonaventura Schimizzi. See there).

Vita di fr. Antonio Tripodi da Reggio, cappuccino.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179; F. Securi da Reggio, Memorie storiche sulla provincia dei cappuccini di Reggio di Calabria (Reggio Calabria, 1885), 75-76; Apollinario da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 26; Francesco da Valencia, Gli scrittori cappuccini Calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 24-26; Édouard d’Alençon, De Primordiis Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (1525-1534). Commentum Historicum (Rome, 1921), 71-72, 77-79; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventura de Reggio de Calabre’, DHGE IX, 809-810; Lexicon Capuccinum, 246.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Dernoye (Bonaventura Dernoy, ca. 1583-1653)

OFMRec. Belgian friar. Joined the Recollects in Flanders after studies in Cologne, making his profession in 1600. Active as novice master, as guardian, as provincial defininor and as provincial minister of the Saint Joseph province.

works

Praxis justitiae christianae, sive virtutum christianarum et religiosarum veraeque, mortificationis eorum quae perfectionem internam impediunt, exercitiis in totius anni, menses, hebdomadas et dies distributis, comprehensa (Cologne: sumptibus P. Henningii, 1630). Present in the Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek of Cologne, and also accessible via the Bibliothèque Numérique of Lyon (Numelyo) and via Google Books.

Récollections, ou: Conversation familière de l'âme avec la glorieuse vièrge Marie, pour la conduire a la communication de ses graces, aux ressentiments de la Passion de Iesus Christ, & a une affectueuse reception du S. Sacrement de l'Autel. (Bruges: Nic. Breyguel, 1637).

Exercitia virtutum christianarum et religiosarum verae aeque mortificationis eorum, quae perfectionem internam impediunt, in totius anni menses, hebdomadas, et dies distributa (Cologne: sumptibus P. Henningii, 1645). Present in the Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek of Cologne.

Le manuel du tiers ordre de S. François pour les personnes seculieres: Avec quelques annotations sur la Regle dudit Ordre; Quelques adresses au tres-saint sacrifice de la messe; aux sacremens de penitence & d'eucharistie, & aux debuoirs de la vie chrêtiene. Et avec les abregés des vies de Saint Yves Prêtre, de Saint Elzeare Comte d' Arian, & de Sainte Elizabeth Princesse de Hesse, de Turinge, de Saxe & du Palantinat, tous trois du même tiers ordre par F.B.D. Recollet (1667).

Medulla S. evangelii per Christum dictata S. Francisco in sua seraphica regula exposita moraliter (...) Opus posthumum (...) (Antwerp: Petrus Bellerus, 1657/Cologne: Johann Wilhelm Huisch, 1734). Accessible via the digital collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague, via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and via Google Books.

Juan de San Antonio and Sbaralea suggest several other works, but those we have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 232; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 176 & (ed. 1908) I, 188-189; J.-F. Foppens, Bibliotheca belgica (Brussels, 1739) I, 141-142; Dirks, Geschiedenis der Minderbroeders, 198-201; DSpir III, 517; Régis Bertrand, Les récollets: En quête d’une identité franciscaine, 252.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Rutiliano (Bonaventura da Rutigliano, d. 1749)

OFM. Italian friar. Master of theology and Lector jubilatus. 'Maestro delle controversie di Santa Fede', penitentiary of the Cathedral of Viterbo, general visitator, provincial minister of the Bari province, and theological consultant for Pope Clement XI. He refused out of humility a position of bishop of Corizia. He died in Bitonto in 1749 at the age of 77.

works

Lectiones in II Scoti (1706-8): See Cenci, Napoli, I, 74.

literature

Lorenzo Cardassi, Rutigliano in rapporto agli avvenimenti più notevoli della provincia e del regno. Sua origine e vicende (Bari: G. Gissi e Co., 1877), 344-345.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Salinis (Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Peruvian friar. Franciscan chronicler. Born in Lima in 1592. As an adolescent he was in service of the vice-roys Velasco and Monterrey between 1604 and 1606, and then secretary in the government of the viceroy Montesclaros (1615-1616). In this period, he also completed his education at the Colegio Real de San Martín (a Jesuit college) and at the Universidad de San Marcos, where he also worked as an archivist. He took the Franciscan habit in 1616 in the San Francisco friary of Lima (Doce Apóstoles province). His brother Diego de Córdova y Salinas likewise became a Franciscan. Following clerical studies, Buenaventura was appointed lector of Latin, arts and theology in 1621. He fulfilled comparable charges at Cuzco in 1635, and he developed into an esteemed preacher at the court of the viceroys Esquilache, Guadalcázar and Chincón, although his preaching drew the ire of the Bishop of Cuzco, fray Fernando de Vera, who tried to have Buenaventura expelled from Peru. Possibly to protect him from the bishop's machinations, Bonaventura subsequently was given charges as custodian and definitor, and was sent to Rome, to take part in the general chapter of 1639, passing by Madrid in 1638, where he was sworn in as a counselor for the Inquisition. Following the general chapter of Rome, Bonaventure spent some time as regent lector at the Santa María la Nova friary in Naples. Back in Spain in 1644, where he was appointed general commissioner for the order in New Spain. He returned to Mexico in 1647, where he visited several regions and order provinces prior to his appointment as bishop of Arequipa (Peru), yet he never made it to his diocese, dying in the Franciscan friary of Cuernavaca (Mexico) on November 15, 1653. He apparently was a productive author, but not everything has survived. His best-known work is Memorial de las historias del Nuevo Mundo. In this texts, and also in his other Memorial-publications he developed a clear political-economical vision of American society.

works

Memorial de las historias del Nuevo Mundo Pirú (Lima: Gerónimo de Contreras, 1630/facsimile reprint with introductions and other info by Warren Cook and Luis Eduardo Valcárcel, the Universidad de San Marcos, 1957). The 1630 Memorial is present in the Biblioteca Nacional in Santiago de Chile, in the British Library in London and a manuscript fragment is present in the Biblioteca del Palacio Real in Madrid.

Memorial del Padre Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova (...) procurador general de la ciudad de Lima (...) cuya grandeza y méritos representa a la magestad del rey nuestro señor D. Felipe IIII católico monarca en ambos mundos para que pida a su santidad la canonización de su apostólico patrón el venerable padre fray Francisco Solano (Madrid, 1639). A copy of this work (the only surviving copy?) is present in the Public Library of New York

Memorial como procurador general de la Ciudad de los Reyes para la canonización del venerable y apostólico padre fray Francisco Solano (Madrid, 1641). A copy is present in the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú and in the Archivo del convento de San Francisco in Lima.

Memorial informe y manifiesto al rey. Representa las acciones proprias y la estimacion con que ha seruido a su Magy a su religion. Informa la buena dictra y nuritos de los que nacus en las Indias de padres Espanoles; manifiesta lapiedad y zelo con que su magestad govierna toda la America (Madrid, 1646). Accessible via the Österreichische Staatsbibliothek, Vienna and via Google Books. There are also copies present in Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, in the Biblioteca Nacional of Perú, in the Newberry Library in Chicago, and in the John Carter Brown Library of Providence.

Panegírico en la fiesta de San Francisco (Lima, 1646). We have not yet been able to trace that work.

Oración fúnebre a las memorias del señor don Baltasar Carlos, principe de las Españas (Mexico, 1647). We have not yet been able to trace that work.

De novis Missionibus Franciscanorum apud Sinas, & Tartaros (1649). Mentioned by Juan de San Antonio and Sbaralea. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

Oración fúnebre por la muerte del conde de Salvatierra: MSS Santiago de Chile, Biblioteca Nacional ?; Bloomington, Lilly Library ?

Carta de fray Buenaventura de Salinas, Comisario General de la Orden de San Francisco para el Señor Conde de Castrillo (Mexico: 15 December 1646). Cf. Óscar Mazín, Gestores de la real justicia. Procuradores y agentes de las catedrales hispanes nuevas en la corte de Madrid, II: El ciclo de las Indias, 1632-1666 (Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2018), Segunda Parte (La Corte) Chapter 3, note 136.

Carta a un hermano (Mexico, 25 May 1649): MS Archivo Histórico del convento de San Francisco de Lima, Registro No. 6.

Sermones? Mentioned by Juan de San Antonio and Sbaralea. We have not yet been able to trace these.

Cursum integrum philosophicum/artium? This work mentioned by Wadding and Sbaralea, yet it has not yet been found. Carlos M. Gálvez Peña seems to suggest that this work is lost.

De Immaculata Virginis Mariae Conceptione? We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 238-239; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180; L.G. Peignot, Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique, abrégé des personnages illustres, célèbres ou fameux, 3 Vols. (Paris: Haut-Coeur & Gayer/Hacquart, 1822), 330; Guillermo Lohmann, 'Sobre fray Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova', Mercurio Peruano 331 (1954), 780-781; http://estudiosindianos.org/biblioteca-indiana/memorial-de-las-historias-del-nuevo-mundo-piru/ ; Carlos M. Gálvez Peña, 'El carro de Ezequiel: la monarquía hispana de fray Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova', Historia 32:1 (2008), 39-75.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Sancto Elia (Bonaventura Sant'Elia Palermitano/Bonaventura Gervasi, ca. 1660-1715)

TOR. Italian friar. Joined the regular tertiaries in 1675 and studied in Rome in the Aracoeli studium. Reached the magisterium and taught himself philosophy and later theology and canon law there as well. Discretus of the Sicilian province as well as general procurator for the order of tertiaries. Also secretary of the Roman Academia La Sapienza, diocesan examiner and consultant for the inquisition and the Congregation for the Index.

works

Synopsis oecumenicorum Orientalium conciliorum (...), 2 Vols. (Rome: Angelo Bernabò, 1687). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (in any case the second volume).

Conciliorum Oecumenucorum Schema in duas partes distributum, quarum prior quae in Oriente , posterior, quae in Occidente sunt celebrata complectitur (Rome: Angelo Bernabò, 1700).

De infallibilitate Summi Pontificis supra et extra Concilium in materia morum et fidei. Manuscript?

De sufficientia verae attritionis in sacramento penitentiae ad gratiam justificationis. Manuscript?

De Oecumenicis Conciliis Occidentalibus. Manuscript?

Synodus Orvietana. Manuscript?

literature

Ferdinando Romeo, Orazione funerale in lode del rev.mo p. maestro f. Bonaventura Sant'Elia (...) (Palermo: Gaspare Bayona, 1715); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 233; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri, 752; Antonino Mongitore, Bibliotheca Sicula sive de scriptoribus Siculis: qui tum vetera, tum recentiora saecula illustrarunt I, 113-114.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Sancto Matthaeo (Buenaventura de San Mateo, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Court preacher at the royal courts of Madrid and Vienna, provincial minister of the Sangre de Cristo province, as well as general definitor.

works

Sermon que se predico en las imperiales honras que la confadria de los españoles hizo en la iglesia de S. Miguel de la ciudad de Viena a la emperatriz doña Maria de Austria (Vienna: Gregor Gelbhaar, 1646).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 178; La Provincia de Frailes Menores Capuchinos de Castilla (1949), 171, 380, 401; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 2nd Ed. VI, 682; Alexander Samuel Wilkinson & Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, Iberian Books Volumes II & III/Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III, 183.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Surrento (Bonaventura di Sorrento/Ottaviano Palomba, 1604-1663)

OFMCap. Member of the Naples province. Joined the order in 1621 and became active as a missionary in Congo from 1644 onwards. After his return to Italy he was appointed apostolic prefect for Georgia (1660). He died of drowning in a local river near Tiblisi (or elsewhere?) in 1663. He wrote a treatise on the doctrinal erors of the Orthodox Church, as well as grammatical works on the Georgian language and on mission in those regions. Unclear as to whether this has survived.

works

Grammatica per imparare ed intendere la lingua Giorgia.

Relazione delle missioni della Georgia.

Saggio degli errori di que'Greci scismatici, e le ragioni da convincerli ne'loro errori.

literature

Bullarium OFMCap VII, 237; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle Missione III, 334, 530, 547-549, 554, 584f, 617; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 67-68; Lexicon Capuccinum, 246 (with additional references).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Trapani (Bonaventura da Trapani, fl. 1710)

OFM. Italian friar from the Sicilian Val di Mazara province. Provincial definitor.

works

Relazione del solenne trionfo, e pomposo ottavario celebrato nella Chiesa di S. Maria degli Angioli di Palermo, per la Canonizzazione della gloriosa Vergine santa Caterina da Bologna (Palermo: Gaspare Bayona, 1713). Present in the Biblioteca Municipale di Bologna

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 240; Luigi Frati, Opere della bibliografia bolognese che si conservano nella Biblioteca Municipale di Bologna I, 147.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Venere (Bonaventura di Venere da Chieti/Bonaventura Veniero, 1557-1627)

OFS. Italian Franciscan secular tertiary, active in the hermitage of Siena (Romitorio dell'Albero di S. Francesco), the hermitage of Castiglioncello, and elsewhere. Known for his spiritual and eremetical qualities and author of spiritual songs and poems.

works

Canzonette spirituali e Lodi al Signore dedicate alle Monache di Torre de'Specchi di Roma. These were apparently issued in a two-volume collection after the death of the author. At least one of them is accessible via Giovanni Battista Tartaglia JS, Vita e virtu del venerabile servo di Dio fra Bonaventura di Venere da Chieti detto di Castiglioncello del Trinoro Terziario del Terz'ordine di S. Francesco. Scritta dal p. Gio. Battista Tartaglia della Compagnia di Gesu'. Pubblicata nuovamente colle stampe a cura e spese di Gennaro Ravizza (Aquila: Grossiana, 1829), 73-75.

Rappresentazione Spirituale dell'anima, e del corpo (Rome, 1618/Florence: Amadore Massi & Lorenzo Landi, 1645). A dramatic representation of the struggle between body and soul. The first edition was issued under the pseudonym il Pellegrin Romito. The 1645 Florence edition, prepared by Fabiano Mancini, seems to be accessible via Google Books (creative search).

vitae

Life of Bonaventura di Venere da Chieti by Fabbiano Mancini (confessor of Bonaventura di Venere da Chieti).

Giovanni Battista Tartaglia JS, Vita e virtu del venerabile servo di Dio fra Bonaventura di Venere da Chieti detto di Castiglioncello del Trinoro Terziario del Terz'ordine di S. Francesco. Scritta dal p. Gio. Battista Tartaglia della Compagnia di Gesu'. Pubblicata nuovamente colle stampe a cura e spese di Gennaro Ravizza (Aquila: Grossiana, 1829). This vita, accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books, contains also one or more of the Canzonette.

Pietro Antonio di Venezia, Vite de santi, beati, e venerabili servi di Dio del terz'ordine di S. Francesco (...) (Venice: Domenico Lovisa, 1725), 320-327. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 132-133; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 181; Gennaro Ravizza, Notizie biografiche che riguardano gli uomini illustri della città di Chieti (Naples: da' torchi di Raffaele Miranda, 1830), 147-148; Peter J. Houle, ' An Unknown Version of 'The Debate of the Body and Soul", Aevum 53:2 (May-August 1979), 356-369.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Vich (1696-1768)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catalonian) friar. Active as a lector of philosophy and as a preacher. Wrote several works, at least two of which reached the printing press. Yet they seem to have drawn the attention of Catholic sensors.

works

Explicacion de las obligaciones del frayle menor capuchino conforme a las Bulas Pontificias (...) para instrucción principalmente de la juventud de la provincia de la Madre de Dios de Cataluña, ordenada en forma de dialogo (Barcelona, s.a./Tarragona: Pedro Canals, 1799).

Explicación de los preceptos, amonestaciones y libertades (Tarragona, 1799).

Respuesta a la censura de la obra intitulada ‘Explicaciones de los preceptos etc.’: MS Barcelona, Convento de Sarrìa.

Philosophiae Cursus Iuxta Mirabilem Mentem Seraphici Doctoris D. Bonaventurae Doctrinam: MS Barcelona, Convento de Sarrìa ? (apparently a manuscript dating from the period 1728-1731).

literature

M. de Lete Triay, ‘Escriptors de la provincia caputxina de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat (1578-1900)’, in: Franciscalia. En la convérgencia cent. del trànsit del Poverello (1226) de la seva canonització (1228) i de l’autocionia de l’orde caputxi (1528) (Barcelona, 1928), 239; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Vich’, DHGE IX, 813. 

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Engelberti (Bonaventura Engelberts van Oldenzeel/Bonaventura de Losser, d. ca. 1540)

OFM. Dutch friar and suffragan bishop of Utrecht (appointed on 30 October 1538 and consecrated by Bishop George of Egmond of Utrecht in November 1538), as well as titular bishop of Hebron. He died a year later (1539 or 1540). He Compiled a sermon collection

works

Sermones: MS Brussels, Royal Library 1970 (5056).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 237; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179; Nieuw Nederlandsche Biographie VI, 1078; De Katholiek 78 (1880), 185; Schoutens, Martyrologium, 30oct.; Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 95; http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/74071761

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Farinerius (Bonaventura Farinerio da Castelfranco,fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Between 1547 and 1550 provincial of the March of Treviso province. Thereafter active as an inquisitor in Treviso (1552-1556), in Aquileia (1556-1559) and in Verona (1560-1569). In February 1559 he was appointed inquisitor in Venice, to replace the rather controversial inquisitor Felice Peretti. Yet Farinerio's appointment was not confirmed and soon the inquisitorial functions of the Franciscans in Venice were handed over to the Dominicans. Farinerio himself was then appointed at Verona. He is also known for an exorcism treatise, although there is some uncertainty as to whether he is the author or the re-editor of the work.

works

Exorcismo, mirabile da disfare ogni sorte de malefici, et da cacciare i demoni, et è provato; et per il reverendo P. Frate Buonaventura Farinerio / Inquisitor revisto / et di nuovo con somma diligentia corretto, & ristampato (Venice: Domenico de' Franceschi, 1567). This seems to be a reworking of an already existing manual already issued earlier in the late 1530s and 1540s. See: Exorcismo mirabile da disfare ogni sorte de malefici, et da cacciare i Demoni probate. Et per un devote religioso composto, et novamente Stampato (Cremona, 1540/1545). Both of these editions from the 1540s are accessible via Google Books. As said above, it remains unclear as to whether Farinerio is the author of these earlier editions as well or just the editor of the revised 1567 edition.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Genuensis Drepanitanus (Bonaventura da Genova, fl. 1605)

TOR. Italian friar. Preacher and order reformer.

works

Compendium Privilegiorum Tertii Ordinis B. Francisci Regul. Observ. (Toulouse: veuve Jean Colombieri, 1607).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 233; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 176.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Genuensis Morellus (Bonaventura Genovesi Morello da Trapani, d. 1610)

TOR. Italian friar. Trained canonist. At first he opted for a religious life in eremitical retreat in the Vallechiara convent. Later more or less forced to come out of retreat and became much in demand as a preacher in Sicily and elsewhere in Italy. Was sent by Pope Paul V as an apostolic delegate to Toulouse to deal with issues of religious dissent and negotiate with King Henry IV of France

works

Miracoli di S. Antonio di Padova (Rome, 1606). A 40-chapter account of the life of Anthony of Padua. Cf. AASS II Junii ad diem 13.

Compendium Privilegiorum Tercii Ordinis S. Francisci Regularis Observantiae (Toulouse: vidua Ioannis Colombarii, 1607).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 129 [as Bernardinus Genovesius]; Fortunato Mondello, Bibliografia Trapanese, divisa in due parti (Palermo, 1876), 211.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Goffa (Bonaventure Goffa, fl. 1670)

OFMRec. French friar who became guardian in Mainz. Renowned preacher.

works

Medulla Christianae Doctrinae: Ex Sacris Paginis, Consiliorum, Et Pontificum Decretis, Jurium luminibus, SS. Patrum, et Doctorum placitis eruta: quinque comprehensa titulis. In Qua Quidquid Tum Ad Fidei Misteria Sane Intelligenda, Tum ad Sacramenta ritè conficienda, et administranda, tum ad humanas actiones Legi Divinae conformandas, et rectificandas pertinere videtur: clara, facili, et compendiaria exponitur methodo; Opvs Animarum Rectoribus Ac Sacris Deputatis Functionibus, maximè vero Sacris Initiandis Ordinibus, ac Christianae perfectioni Intendentibus utilissimum (Mainz: Johann Arnold Cholinus-Nicolaus Heyll, 1664). Accessible via Google Books.

Considerationes seu sermones praedicabiles super principales vitae christianae veritates et evangelia dominicalia et festiva duplici tomi comprehensi, 2 Vols. (Mainz: Sumptibus Joannis Baptistea Schönwetteri, 1669). A French edition of this work was apparently issued by the Parisian priest Matteo Beuclet. The latin edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Stadtbibliothek Koblenz and via europeana.eu [https://www.europeana.eu/nl/item/09428/urn_nbn_de_0128_7_640]

Considerationes Seu Meditationes Praedicabiles De Statu Et Vita Ecclesiastica, 3 Vols. (Mainz: Matthaeus Beuvelet/Johann Petrus Zubrod, 1673 [several editions that same year]).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 233-234.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Gonzaga (Bonaventura Gonzaga da Reggio,fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Reggio. Scion of the noble Gonzaga family. Regent of the Venice studium in 1566. Provincial secretary in Tuscany in 1574 (or secretary of the order as a whole?). Known for his learning and Italian poetic inclinations. wrote several religious poems/songs in the Tuscan vernacular and dedicated himself to the writing of pastoral, exegetical and spiritual works.

works

Ragionamenti del reverendo Padre Frate Bonaventura Gonzaghi da Reggio Convent. si S. Francesco sopra I Sette Peccati Mortali, & sopra I Sette Salmi Penitentiali del Ré David ridotta in sette Canzoni, & Parafrasticati dal medesimo (Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1566/Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1567). Dedicated to Domenico Paruta Abbot of the S. Gregorio monastery. This work, which consists of dialogue-sermons/songs, is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (creative search, does not always show up).

Canzone di Bonaventura da Reggio nelle allegrezze della creatione del santissimo s.n. papa Pio quinto (Padua: Lorenzo Pasquato, 1566).

Salmi di Dauid ridotti in varie canzoni con l'argomento per ciascun salmo, da Bonauentura Gonzaga da Reggio conuentuale di S. Francesco (Padua: Lorenzo Pasquato, 1568).

Alcuni avertimenti nella vita monacale, Utili, et necessari à ciascheduna Vergine di Christo, del R.P.F. Bonaventura Gonzaga da Reggio, Conventuale di San Francesco. Con la Pistola di San Girolamo ad Eustochio, del modo di conservar la Verginità. Et con lo Stadio del Cursor Christiano, Tradotto da M. Lodovico Dolce di Latino in Volgare (Venice: Gabriele Giolito De Ferrari, 1568/Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1576). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

Viue Fiamme di Maria Vergine: vari discorsi sopra le sette parole di Maria, con alcune contemplationi (Naples: Maltio Cancer, 1569).

Canzone di Bonauentura Gonzaga min. conuentuale. Nella creatione di mons. illustriss. et reuerendissimo Mont'alto cardinale di Santo Apostolo (1570? Once present in the Franciscan library of Ferrara).

Lagrime di diversi (Genua: Antonio Bellone, 1572).

Avvertimenti Monacali, Et Modo Di Viver Religiosamente Secondo Iddio per Le Vergini, Et Spose Di Giesu Christo. Di Diversi Eccellentissimi Auttori Antichi Et Moderni. Nuovamente posti insieme, & mandati in luce. Aggiuntovi Lo Stadio Del Cursor Christiano, tradotto di Latino in Volgare da M. Lodovigo Dolce. Leggano Le Religiose I Presenti Trattati, Perche sono molto utili a superare le difficulta di questa vita, et acquistare la palma, della promessa Virginità (Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1575/ Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1576/ Venice: appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1577). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna, and via Google Books. It amounts to a religious instruction manual for nuns.

Compendio della Dottrina Christiana, e Religiosa, ò Claustrale (Perugia, 1575). Written as the secretary of the General Master of the order, to be sent to all Franciscan provinces for the education of the young. Was this work ever printed?

Commenti al Magnificat (Parma, 1585).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 122-124; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 234; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 176; Helen Hills, Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 56, 144; Women in Italy, 1350-1650: ideals and realities: a sourcebook, ed. Mary Rogers & Paola Tinagli (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005), 216; Letizia Panizza, Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (New York: Routledge, 2017), passim.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Hocquardus (Bonaventure Hocquard, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRef. French Friar from the Lorraine region. Entered the order among the Recollect Riformati of Genoa. Lector of theology. Was given permission by pope Urban VIII on 19 November 1632 to go back to Lorraine, to the newly established Recollect Saint Nicholas custody of Lorraine, of which he was eventually made custos himself on 23 October 1655 by the cardinal protector Francesco Barberini. Bonaventure defended his custody against attempts by the Observant friars of the French Parisian province to assimilate it. Eventually, his furious reactions, writings and legal actions at the curia in Rome in defense of the Recollect cause caused scandal, and on 13 August 1659, pope Alexander VII ordered the dissolution of the Recollect Saint Nicholas custody.

works

Perspectivum Lutheranorum, Et Calvinistarum: In duas Partes divisum ad orthodoxorum omnium confirmationem confusionem, 2 Vols (Vienna: Matthaeus Cosmerovius, 1648-1649). Accessible (individual volumes or both) via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Perspectiv der Lutheraner und Calvinisten. In zween Theil abgetheilt. Zur bestättigung aller Rechtglaubigen, zu der zweiffelhafften underrichtung, und zur schand aller Feinden deß wahren Glauben mit sonderbahrem fleuß verfasset (...) (Vienna: Matthaeus Riches, 1650-1651). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, and via Google Books.

literature

Wadding-Chiappini, Annales Minorum XXVII (ed. Quaracchi, 1934), 616-617, XXX (ed. Quaracchi, 1951), 277-278, 494-495, 637-638; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 234; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 176-177; DThCat. VII, 17-18; Catholicisme V, 818-819.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Hogliar de Curzola (Bonaventura di Curzola/Bonaventura de Korcula, d. 1705)

OFM. Croatian (Dalmatian) friar from the island of Curzola (Korcula). Provincial minister and musical specialist/composer.

works

Melodie ecclesiastiche prodotte in varie circonstanze (1700).

literature

Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 736; Simeone Gliubich, Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia (Viena: Rod. Lechner, 1856), 177.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Hossaeus (Bonaventure O'Hosey/Bonaventure Hussey/Bonaventure O hEoghusa/Bonaventure O Eodhasa/Giolla Bríghde Ó hEoghusa, d. 1614)

OFM. Irish friar. Active in the Irish Franciscan community of St. Anthony at Louvain. Known for his Irish catechism for the laity. He also would have written an Irish song claiming the truth of Catholicism, other songs and poems, translations, and an unpublished Irish grammar.

works

An teagasc Críosdaidhe (Louvain, 1611/1614). For manuscripts (complete and extracts), see : MSS Royal Irish Academy. 23 L 19; Royal Irish Academy, 23 O 41; Royal Irish Academy, 23 I 20; Irish Academy, 24 C 39; British Library, Egerton, 192; Belfast, Museum Gaelic, XXXV. See on these (and the question about the actual circulation of the text) the studies of Ryan and Gillespie. It amounts to Irish catechism based on the catechism devised by Robert Bellarmine.

Macrae Krossanihk Illevreed, a translation of a Latin work by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Cf. Donald Mackinnon, A Descriptive Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and Elsewhere in Scotland (Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1912), 269.

Irish religious and consolatory songs and poems, as well as an eulogical song in praise of Felim, son of Faegh M'Hugh O'Byrne.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Francisana I, 234; Sbaralea, Supplementum (d. 1806), 177; Edward O'Reilly, Transactions of the Iberno-Celtic Society for 1820. Vol. I-Part. I. Containing a Chronological Account of Nearly Four Hundred Irish Writers (Dublin: Minerva Printing Office, 1820), clxviii-clxix [with more detailed info on the songs and poems]; Michael Mullett, The Catholic Reformation (London-New York: Routledge, 1999), 180; S. Ryan, 'Bonaventura Ó hEoghasa's 'An Teagasc Críosdaidhe' (1611/1614): A Reassessment of Its Audience and Use', Archivium Hibernicum 58 (2004), 259–267; Raymond Gillespie, 'Print Culture, 1550-1700', in: The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume III: The Irish Book in English 1550-1800, ed. Raymond Gillespie & Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: OUP, 2006), 27; Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World, ed. Tadhg O hAnnrachain & Robert Armstrong (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014), ad indicem.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Ibanez (Buenaventura Ibañez, 1610-1691)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Born at Elche, near Valencia. Entered the Franciscan order in the Juan Battista province. After his priest ordination, he departed for the Philippines in 1644 (San Gregorio province), and in 1649 he joined Antonio de Santa Maria to work in China. Worked several years in China as a missionary (known there as Ouen-tou-la Tao Tsi), to return to Europa in 1662. He travelled to Rome, where he arrived in 1667, to recruit new missionaries and to discuss the Chinese rites with the Congregation for the Propaganda of the Catholic faith. Bonaventura subsequently went back to Spain, where the Council for the West Indies granted him a yearly stipend for Franciscan missionaries in China. Back in Canton (China) in 1672, where he worked as a missionary, as the vice-prefect of the Franciscan mission and as a provincial commisioner until his death on 11 October 1691. Author.

works

Cartas, relaciones y informes de Buenaventura Ibañez, see: Sinica Franciscana III (Florence: Quaracchi, 1936), 6-18; Las misiones Franciscanas en China. Cartas, Informes y Relaciones (1650-1690), ed. Severiano Alcobendas (Madrid: Estanislao Maestre, 1933).

Vita P. Anthonii de Sancta Maria.

Cheng Kiao yao hium [Chinese Catechism] (Canton, 1681).

De necessaria Doctrina Dei

De praedicatione evangelii in Regno Sinarum (Cologna, 1700).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 234-235; Marcellino da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane (Prato, 1894) VII, 3rd part 52-57; Archivo Ibero-Americano 7-8 (1917) & 10-14 (1918-1920); S. Alcobendas, Cartas, informes y relaciones del Padre Buenaventura Ibañez (1650-1690), Bibliotheca Hispana Missionum, V (Madrid, 1933); A. Van den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1936) III; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bonaventure Ibanez’, DHGE IX, 796-797; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 129 (no. 429).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Jacsenius (fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRec. English friar, member and first definitor of the reconstituted English province in Douai (Spanish Low Countries).

works

Introduction au palais de la vérité (Malines [Mechelen], 1616/Milan, 1616 [?]).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 234; Jean-Baptiste Glaire, Dictionnaire universel des sciences ecclésiastiques (...) I, 1111.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Le Grand (Antoine Le Grand/Anthony Le Grand, 1629-1699)

OFMRec. Belgian friar. Franciscan missionary, active in England. Born in Douai (Spanish Low Countries). Studied theology and obtained the licence before taking up a teaching position in his home town, combining this with pastoral tasks at the Collegial Church of Saint André. He joined the English Recollects, who had a friary in Douai (Couvent de Saint Bonaventure), where he also taught philosophy and where he received a supplementary missionary training. He traveled to England in 1669, where he worked in the environs of Oxford/Oxfordshire until 1698 (possibly also guardian in Oxford, repeatedly provincial definitor, and in and around 1695 tutor in the household of Henry Fermor of Tusmore), while keeping up his philosophical interests. Elected provincial minister for the English province on July 9, 1698 (1693? check!), but he died already a year later, on July 29, 1699 (or 9 August?). Before his departure to England, he had already publised several works of moral philosophy. Once in England, he became a propagator of Carthesian ideas, alongside of other utopian and historical ventures. As a propagator of Carthesianism and other philosophical ideas, he came into conflict with Samuel Parker, the future Bishop of Oxford, and with the secular priest John Sergeant, as can also be gauched from his polemical works. Two of Bonaventure's published works, namely his Institutio philosophiae, and his Apologia contra S. Parkerum, were put on the Catholic index of forbidden books, in 1709/1714 and 1719/1721 respectively.

works

Encomium sapientiae seu humilis, Scotus humilis elucidatus (Douai, 1650).

Le sage des stoïques ou l’homme sans passion. Selon les sentiments de Sénèque (The Hague, 1662/Lyon, 1666), dedicated to the English King Charles II, and also re-issued anonymously as Les Caractères de l’homme sans passions, selon les sentiments de Sénèque (Paris, 1663/1665//1682/Lyon, 1665/1666). An English version of Le sage des stoïques appeared in London in 1675: Man Without Passion, Or, The Wise Stoick, According to the Sentiments of Seneca (London: C. Harper and J. Amery, 1675).

Physica (Amsterdam, 1664).

L’Épicure spirituel ou l’Empire de la volupté sur les vertus (Douai, 1669/Paris, 1669). An English version, issued by Edward Cooke, appeared in 1676: The Divine Epicurus, or, the Empire of Pleasure over the Virtues. The work amounts to five essays on epicurean philosophy.

Scydromedia seu sermo quem Alphonsus de la Vida habuit coram comite de Falmouth de Monarchia libri II (London, 1669; Re-issued with corrections in Nuremberg, 1680). A very peculiar utopian work, depicting the fictive state Scydromedia: a perfect Kingdom, very much in contrast with the Eglish political situation. See also: Scydromedia, ed. & trans. Ursula Greiff, Bibliotheca neolatina, 5 (Bern-Frankfurt a. M.: Verlag Peter Lang, 1991).

Philosophia veterum, a mente Renati Descartes more scolastico breviter digesta (London, 1671). A more or less scholastic exposition of Carthesianism, including expositions of logical and moral issues affected by it.

Institutio philosophiae, secundum principia Renati Descartes novo methodo adornata et explicata ad usum juventutis academicae (London, 1672/1675; Re-issued in 1678, 1680, and 1683/Neuremberg 1695?). This is an extended and updated version of the Philosophia veterum. An English version of the Institutio philosophiae was issued by Samuel Roycroft and Richard Blome in London in 1694: An Entire Body of Philosophy: According to the Principles of the Famous Renate Des Cartes, in Three Books: I. The Institution, in X. Parts. ... II. The History of Nature ... in IX. Parts ... III. A Dissertation of the Want of Sense and Knowledge in Brute Animals, in II. Parts. Modern reprints of this work appeared as: An Entire Body of Philosophy, According to the Principles of the Famous Renate Descartes: The history of nature ; A dissertation of the want of sense and knowledge in brute animals (Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972/Thoemmes, 2003).

Historia Naturae Variis Experimentis & Ratiociniis Elucidata secundum Principia Stabilita In Institutione Philosophiae edita ab eodem authore (London, 1673/1680/Nuremberg, 1678, 1680, 1702). A Carthesian work of natural philosophy, also reacting to contemporary developments in natural science and reaching back to works of Classical Antiquity.

Dissertatio de carentia sensus et cognitionis in brutis(London, 1675/Leyden, 1675/Nuremberg, 1679). A Carthesian refutation of the existence of souls in animals, depicting them as mere automatons. This work has also been issued under the name of Henry Jenkins, but that is an erroneous ascription.

Apologia pro Renato Descartes contra Samuelem Parkerum, S.T. P. Archidiaconum Cantuariensem, instituta & adornata (London, 1679/ 1682; Nuremberg, 1681). This work, now accessible via Google Books, is directed against the Oxford Anglican bishop Samuel Parker, who opposed Carthesianism.

Dissertatio de ratione cognoscendi et appendix de mutatione formali contra J.S. methodum sciendi (London, 1679). A defense of Carthesianism against the Catholic priest John Sergeant.

Curiosus Rerum abditarum Naturaeque Arcanorum Perscrutator. Sive, compendium rerum jucundarum, & memorabilium, in quo naturae arcana, multae rerum sympathiae & antipathiae, & auctoris observantions reserantur (Frankfurt a.m-Nuremberg, 1681). A German version of this text appeared in 1682: Curieuser Erforscher der geheimen Natur. Das ist: Ein kurzer Begriff vieler annehmlicher Sachen welche als geheime Naturwunder Syn- und Antipathien oder offenbare Zuneigungen und Widersetzlichkeiten gegen andere Dinge durch der Autoris Beobachtungen mit fruchtreichem Nutzen eröffnet werden (...) (Nuremberg, 1682).

Animadversiones ad Jacobi Rohaultii Tractatum Physicum (London, 1683). In fact a commentary on Théophile Bonnet's Latin reworking of Jacques Rohault's Physique.

Historia sacra a mundi exordio ad Constantini Magni imperium deducta(London, 1685/Herborn, 1686). Major work.

Missae sacrificium Neo-Mystis succincte expositum (London, 1695).

Dissertatio de ratione cognoscendi: et appendix De mutatione formali: cum castigationibus errorum, calumniarum, prævaricationum, quibus J.S. in duobus libris, quorum prior Methodus sciendi, alter Solida philosophia intitulatur, Cartesium, Malbranchium, ideistas quos vocat, omnes, immo et Aristotelem, si non Deum ipsum, multa cum futilitate, nec minore fastu, nuperrime adortus est (London: Apud Joannem Hartley, 1698). A response to a treatise of John Sergeant concerning the nature of ideas and other metaphysical concepts.

Historia Haeresiarcharum a christo nato ad nostra usque tempora, in qua potissimum exhibentur nefaria dogmata, tum ex ipsorum libris excerpta, tum a SS. patribus, et authoribus coaetaneis aut aliis scriptoribus classicis, commemorata (...) (Douai, 1702/1724/1727). Posthumous work: a universal history of heresies.

Concordia fidei et rationis, seu dissertationes de accidentibus aucharisticis (Douai, 1711).

See also: Jacques Rohault, Tractatus physicus Gallice emissus et recens Latinitate donatus, per Th. Bonetum D.M. Cum adnimadversionibus Antonii Le Grand (London, 1682).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 105; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 76; J.-Ph. Damiron, Essai sur l’Histoire de la philosophie en France au XVIIe s., 2 Vols. (Paris, 1846) II, 96-101; Fr. Bouillier, Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1868) II, 491-95; S. Fr. H. Reusch, Der Index der verbotenen Bücher, 2 Vols. (Bonn, 1885) II, 602; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographie des Frères Mineurs de l’Observance de S.-François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 313-15; N.C. Bradish, ‘J. Sergeant: A Forgotten Critic of Descartes and Locke;, The Monist 39 (1929), 571-628; J.K. Ryan, ‘Anthony Legrand (1629-99): Franciscan and Cartesian’, New Scholasticism 9 (1935), 226-50; J.K. Ryan, ‘«Scydromedia»: Anthony Legrand’s Ideal Commonwealth’, New Scholasticism 10 (1936), 39-55; Leonora Cohen Rosenfield, ‘Un Chapitre de l'histoire de l'animal-machine (1645–1749)’, Revue de littérature comparée 17 (1937), 461-487; J.M. Patrick, ‘Scydromedria, a forgotten utopia of the XVIIth cent.’, Philological Quarterly 23 (1944), 273-282; Richard A. Watson, The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673-1712. A study of epistemological issues in late 17th century cartesianism, Archives internationales d'histoire des idees, 11 (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966); Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIIe s., 2e Ed. (Paris, 1969) II, 1243; Beate Gabriele Lüsse, Formen Der Humanistischen Utopie: Vorstellungen Vom Idealen Staat Im Englischen Und Kontinentalen Schrifttum Des Humanismus 1516-1669 (F. Schöningh, 1998); Bio-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon IV, 1359-61; Catholicisme aujourd’hui VII, 234-35; DHGE XXXI (2010), 225-227; Bert Roest, 'Scydromedia van Anthony Le Grand: Een bijzonder utopisch voorstel in zeventiende-eeuws Europa', Ex Tempore - Verleden Tijdschrift 39:1 (2020), 6-22.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Leonard (Bonaventure Léonard, 1692—ca. 1768)

OFMRec. French friar. Missionary in Detroit and in Nouvelle France (Québec/Montréal), known for his strict absolution policies.

literature

R. Bacon, ‘Père Bonaventure Léonard‘, in: Dictionnaire biographique des Récollets missionnaires en Nouvelle-France, ed. O. Jouve (Montreal, 1996), 600-606; E. Louchez, ‘Léonard (Bonaventure)‘, DHGE XXXI, 685-686.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Lieurin (d. 1629)

OFM & OFMRif. French friar. Born in Amiens. Like his younger brother Antoine, Bonaventure Lieurin had entered the Observants in the St. Louis province (Provence), yet transferred to Rome, where they joined the strict observance of the Riformati.  Both Antoine and Bonaventure then joined the Provencal Recollect St. Bernardin province, where they became actively involved in the mission against Protestantism. Bonaventure died during the siege of Privas, whilst acting as the confessor of the French Royal army.

literature

Fréderic Meyer, ‘Rome et les protestants du Languedoc. Les missiones des Frères Lieurin au XVIIe siècle’, Mélanges de l’Ecole Française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée 109 (1997), 853-879.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Luchi (1700-1785)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar from Brescia (born there on 16 August 1700 as the son of Barbara Alessandri and Faustino Luchi, and baptised as Simone Rocco Giuseppe), who entered the order at the age of 15, taking the name Bonaventura. He completed his noviciate in Milan, making his solemn profession on 10 September 1716, and subsequently received his initial clerical formation in Brescia. Studies of Philosophy and theology in Bergamo, Brescia, and Milan, and sent to Rome in 1723, in the same year that he was ordained priest, for his examination to be accepted into a degree program of theology, which he fulfilled at the Collegium Sancti Antonii in Padua. He obtained the doctorate of theology on 4 December 1726. Already beforehand, in June 1725, when still a Baccalaureus theologiae, he had been invited to become teacher of metaphysics at the University of Padua, and to teach philosophy at Verona. This was followed by, or partly overlapped with positions as regent in the friaries of Vicenza (1729-1731) and Milan (regens theologiae at the San Francesco il Grande, 1731-1736, with an intermission as lector in the seminary of Crema (1733-1734)). Secretary of the order in Rome at the request of Clement XII. This was possibly followed by a stint as lector at the Sapienza in the same city (but not much real evidence for that). In any way invited in 1736 to become Professor of Metaphysics in via Scoti in the arts faculty of Studium/University of Padua, starting his lectures in February 1737. He kept this position until Spring 1744, when the death of G.A. Orsato, OSB, opened the way to become professor of Sacred Scripture, and to become incorporated in the Theology Faculty. He continued to work at the Studium/University of Padua in subsequent years as Professor of theology and in other capacities (for instance 'prorector' and syndic for the arts faculty during the academic year 1755-1756). In the mean time, he was also provincial minister of the Lombardy province (1747-1750). He was the first Italian teacher to address the works of Spinoza (for instance during the academic year of 1738), and to take on Spinoza's vision of the Pentateuch in his biblical teachings. He died in Padua in the Il Santo friary on 4 February 1785, leaving his books to the convent library.

works

Oratio pro studiis primae philosophiae (Padua 1737). Inaugural lecture at the Padua studium.

Compendium ethicae: MS. Check!

Series disputationum quas Aristotelis librum XII Metaphysicorum interpretaturus (Padua, 1739).

Spinozismi syntagma in Gymnasio Patavino ad instauranda metaphysica studia propositum (6 nov. 1738), ed. P.A. Agelli (Padua, 1738). Apparently issued against the intentions of Bonaventura Lucchi himself. See now also: Compendio dello spinozismo (Spinozismi syntagma), ed. & trans. Piero Di Vona & Francesco De Carolis (Naples: Edizioni Magna Graecia, 2005). See reviews in Miscellanea Francescana 105 (2005), 753f; Rivista Filos. Neo-Scol. 98 (2006), 172f; Il Santo 45 (2005), 785f. This edition was re-issued as Compendio dello spinozismo. Spinozismi syntagma, ed. Francesco De Carolis (Naples: Ed. Magna Grecia, 2006). See review in Frate Francesco 72 (2006), 590-592.

In funere Leandri cardinalis de Porcia oratio (Padua, 1740). Funeral oration.

Dissertatio adversus spinozismi syntagma (Padua, 1743/Faenza, 1750). Mentioned by several bibliographers, but never found?

Disquisitionum synopsis quas Exodi librum a cap. XII (Padua, 1749). Inaugural lector of a course on Exodus. Check presence in Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana.

Disquisitionum synopsis quos Numerorum librum (Padua, 1750). Outline for a course or inaugural presentation. Check presence in Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana.

De nuditate protoplastorum. De serpente tentatore. Dissertationes duae habitae in Gymnasio Patavino (Padua, 1754-1755). Biblical lectures. Check presence in Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana.

De trajectione maris Idumaei. De sacrificiorum origine et ritu. Dissertationes duae, habitae in Gymnasio Patavino (Padua, 1757). Check presence in Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana.

Nuovo manuale, o sia Istruzione pratica sopra la regola e costituzioni dell'Ordine de'padri minori conventuali di S. Francesco (Venice, 1758). This work was later translated into the Polish language.

Disquisitionum synopsis quos libri Genesis, Esodi, Levitici e Deuteronomii (...) (from the years 1759-1764). Short outlines of 8 pages each. Apparently printed, Check presence in Padua, Archivio storico dell'Università.

Ad Thomam Quirinum, divi Marci procuratorem, oratio (Padua, 1760).

De miraculis. Dissertatio habita in Gymnasio Patavino (1761). Published in: L. Rossetti, 'Francescani del Santo docenti all’Università di Padova', in: Storia e cultura al Santo tra il XIII e il XX secolo, ed. A. Poppi (1976), 198-202.

De primatu versionis graecae Septuaginta senum nomine insignitae inter Veteris Testamenti versiones. Dissertatio habita in Gymnasio Patavino (1763). Published in: L. Rossetti, 'Francescani del Santo docenti all’Università di Padova', in: Storia e cultura al Santo tra il XIII e il XX secolo, ed. A. Poppi (1976), 202-207.

Sonnetti. Occasional pieces at festive occasions (such as marriages and entries into monasteries by members of the Venetian/Paduan patriciate). MSS?

Lettere: MS Biblioteca Apostica Vaticana, Vat.lat., 8704, ff. 297-321 (letters to his nephew Michelangelo); MS Biblioteca Apostica Vaticana, Vat.lat., 10021, n. 35 (8 letters to G.B. Rodella, dating from 1767).

literature

J.H. Sbaralea, Supplementum et castigatio ad Scriptores trium Ordinum S. Francisci (ed. Rome, 1936) III, 204; F.A. Benoffi, 'Degli studi nell'Ordine de' minori conventuali', Miscellanea Francescana 31 (1931), 157f; D. Sparacio, Frammenti biobibliografici di scrittori e autori minori conventuali dagli ultimi anni del '600 al 1930 (Assisi, 1931), 109f (not very dependable); A. Ravà, 'La prima lezione universitaria sulla filosofia di Spinoza', in: Idem, Studi su Spinoza e Fichte, ed. E. Opocher (Milan, 1958), 219-234; P. Scapin, 'La figura e il pensiero di Bonaventura Luchi (1700-1785)', in: Problemi e figure della scuola scotista del Santo (Padua, 1966), 823-860; L. Rossetti, 'Francescani del Santo docenti all'Università di Padova', in: Storia e cultura al Santo, ed. Antonio Poppi (Vicenza, 1976), 175ff; Angelico Poppi, La tradizione biblica al Santo (Vicenza, 1976), 404-409; Angelico Poppi, 'L'insegnamento biblico all'Università di Padova. Lo scotista B. L. docente dal 1744 al 1785', in: Regnum hominis et Regnum Dei. Acta Quarti Congressus scotistici, ed. C. Bérubé (Rome, 1978), 175-184; F. De Carolis, 'Spinoza nel pensiero di Bonaventura Luchi.', Miscellanea Francescana 85 (1989), 109-136; Francesco De Carolis, ‘La difesa del Pentateuco in Bonaventura Luchi, OFMConv.’, Miscellanea Francescana 100 (2000), 137-167; F. De Carolis, 'La dialettica filosofia-teologia nei francescani conventuali (...)', Miscellanea Francescana 101:3-4 (2001), 495-516; Antonio Poppi, Presenza dei francescani conventuali nel Collegio dei teologi dell'Università di Padova. Appunti d'archivio (1510-1806) (Padua, 2003), 168, 170-172, 176, 178-181, 183, 185, 191, 194, 198, 203f; Antonio Poppo, 'Un restauro biografico di Bonaventura Luchi (1700-1785) metafisico e biblista nello Studio di Padova', Il Santo. Riv. francescana di storia dottrina arte 44:1 (2004), 209-219; Antonino Poppi, ‘Luchi, Bonaventura’, Dizionario Biogr. Ital. 66 (2006), 309b-312b [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonaventura-luchi_(Dizionario-Biografico) [last accessed 11 October 2021]]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Luxemburgensis (Bonaventure de Luxembourg/Henri-Rémi Micherout, 1691-1756)

OFMCap. Born at Luxembourg. Henri entered the Capuchins in 1707, making his profession in 1708 and changing his name into Bonaventure. Ordained priest in 1715. After the completion of his higher studies, he became lector of philosophy and theology at Namour (Namen) (1720-1726). Bonaventure became involved with the spiritual direction of the widow Marie Rigaux-Bourtonbourg. With the support of Bonaventure, she founded the congregation of the Sisters of Charity (Soeurs de Charité de Namur), which at a certain moment counted close to 90 religious houses. Bonaventure wrote the constitutions for this congregation, and also was involved with the final formulation of the widow’s testament. From 1725 onwards, Bonaventure fulfilled several administrative charges within the order: Guardian of Namur (1727-1730), Arlon (1730-1731) Luxembourg (1731-1732), Marville (vicar/subvicarbetween 1732-1733, guardian 1733-1734), Arlon (1734-1737) and again at Marville (1737-1739), and provincial definitor (1725-1728, 1731-1732). Bonaventure returned to the Luxembourg convent in 1739 and stayed there for the rest of his life, with the exception of an interlude at Arlon (1744-1745). He died at Luxembourg on 22 April 1756. Throughout his career, Bonaventure was a supporter of confraternities, saints cults (a.o. the cult of Donatus and the Virgin Mary), and wrote saints’ lives, religious treatises and annals. These latter historical works were partly the result from Bonaventure’s appointment in the position of provincial historian of the Wallonian province in and after 1732.

works

A full inventory of Bonaventure’s writings, among which also figure a set of polemical works, is yet to be made. Here I list only the most prominent ones. For more information, see the literature mentioned below.

Éloge funèbre (Luxembourg, 1734) . Written at the occasion of the demise of the Abbess of Clairefontaine.

Vie abrégée de la vie de Séraphin de Montegranaro (Luxembourg, 1738).

Abrégé historique de l’invocation de saint Donat (Luxembourg, 1739).

Éclaircissement sur l’origine du culte qu’on rend à la sainte Vierge dans l’église des RR.PP. capucins d’Arlons (Luxembourg, 1740/1745 (German version)).

Vie de Madame de Bourtonbourg, ed. Abbé Wilmet (Namur, 1841). Based on a manuscript dating from ca. 1740.

La dévotion au sacré coeur de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ érigée en confrérie ou confédération d’amour (Luxembourg, 1743).

La Conféderation d’amour ou confrérie dévote de Notre-Dame d’Arlon (Luxembourg, 1743 (2x, once in German/Luxembourg, 1759). This work, as well as the previous text were written for the confraternities of the Sacré-Coeur and Notre-Dame at Arlon, which Bonaventure had helped establish (and for which he had helped secure papal approval).

Annales des capucins de la province Wallone (never published, partly surviving in MS format in the Capuchin archives)

Mémoires Père Bonaventure de Luxembourg (never published, surviving in MS format)

literature

Ch. Wilmet, ‘Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages du Père Bonaventure de Luxembourg’, in: Vie de Madame de Bourtonbourg (Namur, 1841); Biographie nationale de Belgique II, 306-313; Annales de la Société Archéologique de Namurs 25 (1895), 305-310; Bibliographie de Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 1902) I, 92; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bonaventure de Luxembourg’, DHGE IX, 802-803; Lexicon Capuccinum, 243.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Maginnis (fl. 1620)

OFM. Irish friar. Scotist.

works

Apologia Apologiae pro Ioanne Duns Scoto Doctore Subtili (Paris, 1623).

literature

Joseph MacMahon, 'Irish Franciscan Scotists of the Seventeenth Century', Canterbury Studies in Franciscan History 2 (2009), 85-112.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Passerus Nolanis (Bonaventura Passeri da Nola/Buonaventura Passero, fl. 1600)

OFMConv. Italian friar. He joined the order in the Nola friary at the age of 15. Bachelor of logic in 1584. Obtained the theology master degree at the Franciscan chapter of Civitanova Marche in 1588. Regent master in Salerno in 1590. Elected Regent of Milan on the general chapter of 1593 and sent to the theology chair of Bologna in 1596. In 1599 regent in Naples, and re-confirmed in this position in 1602, 1605, and 1608. Afterwards, possibly since 1606 and more securely from 1612 onwards he seems to have been inquisitor in Siena. Aside from his teaching positions, he was in demand as a preacher, especially during the Lenten seasons (mentioned as Lenten preacher in Ferrars, Bologna, Milan, Florence, Naples, Brescia, etc.), and at general chapter meetings. Also asked to reform the Conventual school system. From 1616, he was regent at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in Rome. He kept that position for circa 10 years. He left the position for reasons of health (problems of obesity and respiratory problems) in 1626. He went back to Naples, where he still fulfilled positions as theological Dean, university chancellor (?) and corrector of books. He eventually retired to the Portici friary, near Naples, where he died in 1626.

works

Soliloquii scritturali, raccolti in piu volte dalla profinda dottrina del reverendissimo padre Maestro Filippo Gesualdo de Castrouillari, Ministro Generale dell'Ordine min.Con. di S. Francesco, da Fra Bonacentura Passero di Nola (...) (Milan: Pacifico Pontio, 1595). Accessible via the Bibliotheca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III of Rome and via Google Books. This work was a co-production of Bonaventura Passeri and Filippo Gesualdi, then the minister general of the Franciscan Conventuals.

Prediche del molto reverendo padre maestro Bonaventura Passero da Nola minore conventuale (Naples: Tarquinio Longo, 1605). Accessible via the Bibliotheca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III of Rome and via Google Books. Old catalogues suggest an older edition was issued in 1602, but we have not yet been able to trace it.

Stemma gentilitium pro Immaculata conceptione (Naples, 1618/1623?). This work seems to be lost.

Ufficio della gloriosissima Vergine Maria con l'espositione italiana del R.mo Mons.r Battista Valentini vescouo di Ciuita di Penna, et d'Atri, detto il Cantalicio. Rivista dal R.P.M. Buonaventura Passero da Nola (Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1618). This is in fact a work by Battista Valentini, now revised by Passeri for a new edition. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Pinacotheca selecta, praecipuarum conclusionum ac quæstionum diversas materias continentium, in Collegio Seraphico Almæ Urbis ex doctrina Scoti discussarum sub auspicii R.P. Mag. Bonventurae Passeri Nolani, eiusdem Collegii Regentis, & Rectoris (...) Tomus Primus. De Scientia Dei (Rome: Jacobus Massardus, 1621). Accessible via the British Library, Google Books. A collection of 28 questions on divine knowledge.

Other works referred to in older catalogues we have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1806), 57; Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 124-127; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 237; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 179; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia (Rome, 1927), 202; L. Di Fonzo, 'Lo studio del dottore serafico nel Collegio di S. Bonaventura in Roma: 1587-1873', Miscellanea Francescana 11 (1940), 153-186; P. Iannelli, Lo studio teologico Ordine frati minori conventuali nel S. Lorenzo Maggiore di Napoli. Cenni storici e serie dei reggenti-lettori e studenti (1482-1990) (Rome, 1994), passim; M. Forlivesi, Scotistarum princeps: Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673) e il suo tempo (Padua, 2002), 109-112; O. Di Simplicio, Autunno della stregoneria. Maleficio e magia nell’Italia moderna (Bologna, 2005), 33-34; Giulio Socano, 'passeri, Bonaventura da Nola', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 81 (2014) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonaventura-da-nola-passeri_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/]

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Pisanus (Bonaventura da Pisa, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Member of the Sicily province. Lector of theology, provincial secretary and definitor.

works

Relazione del pomposo ottavario per la canonizzazione di S. Caterina da Bologna celebrata nella chiesa della Gancia (Palermo: Gasparo Bajona, 1713).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 237-238; Archivio storico siciliano n.s. 20 (1895), 132.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Politius (Bonaventura Politi da Anglone, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Anglone (Basilicata). Master of theology and regens of the Convent Studium at Palermo. Eventually made perpetual definitor.

works

Morales affectus varii, in libros duos alterum per prosam, per prosonomasiam alteram divisi. Opus Concionatoribus, Achademicis, Rethoribus Politicis quoque, et Ethicis apprime salutare (Palermo: Typis Petri de Isola, 1665). Written partly in collaboration with his fellow friar Francesco-Antonio Colella.

Trionfo dell'ente di ragione, cioè insussistenze de'beni apparenti del Mondo, che sono una fintione (1680).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 127; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 238; Michele Garruba, Serie critica de sacri pastori Baresi, corretta accresciuta ed illustrata (Bari: Tipografia Fratelli Cannone, 1844), 653-654.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Prucher (Bonaventura di Castel Giobo, d. 1774)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Member of the San Vigilio province. Trained as a missionary 'in partibus infidelium' in the Collegio Pier Montorio in Rome. Thereafter missionary in Albania for about 14 years. After a sojourn in Rome, he had a new missionary assignment in Servia (for seven years) and then he was back in Albania as mission prefect. He returned to his home province late in life and died in Trento in 1774.

works

Manuale catechistico italiano-epirotico (1752). A bilingual Italian-Albanian catechism with additional word lists.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 818.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Rapiccia (Bonaventura Rapiccia di Castell'Alfero, d. ca. 1595)

OFM. Italian friar from Castell'Alfero (Asti/Piedmont region). Member of the San Antonio Abate friary in Casale Monferrato, connected with the local literary scene and author of theological and musical works.

works

Dimostrazioni e fondamenti sopra dei quali si appoggia la verità della nostra cattolica religione. Apparently lost?

Dialoghi due del reverendo Padre F. Bonaventura Rapiccia di Castel Alfero dell'ordine de' Minori osservanti di S. Francesco. Dialogo primo nel quale si tratta principalmente dell'usura (Trino: Bernardo Grasso, 1589). A work directed against alleged 'Jewish' usury, possibly in reaction the Duke of Mantua's approval for Jews to provide banking services in the region.

Dialogo del reverendo P. Bonaventura Rapiccia Da Castel Alfero Asteggiano de Minori Osservanti; nel qual si tratta di alcune Rubriche del Breviario, e del Messale. con dichiarationi copiose del Canto piano (Vercelli: Francesco Bonati, 1592/Venice: Giacomo Vincenti, 1594). Among other things, this also is a treatise on gregorian chant

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 231, 238; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 175; http://www.castellalfero.net/public/x/modules/mysections/print.php?lid=293

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Renel (Bonaventure Renel, d. 1547)

OFM. French friar, guardien of the Nancy friary, custodian of the Lorraine custody and three-times provincial minister, as well as confessor of Duke Antoine de Lorraine. Involved with the heresy procedures against Wolfgang Schuch, parish priest of Saint-Hippolyte who had become Lutheran and tried to disseminate Lutheran ideas in his parish. Bucher was burned at the stake in Nancy in 1525.

works

To be continued...

literature

P. Moracchini, 'Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire des Ministres provinciaux de la France-Parisienne', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 80 (1987), 348-51.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Reul (fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Belgian friar from Limburg. Member of the Cologne province. Theology lector, guardian and provincial minister.

works

Synopsis Obligationum Regulae S. Francisci (Cologne, 1644).

literature

Fortunatus Hueber, Dreyfache Cronick von dem drijfachen Orden dess grossen H. Seraphinischen Ordens-Stiffters Francisci (...) (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1686), 769; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 238.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Rosa Cavensis (Bonaventura Rosa della Cava de'Tirreni, fl. 1600)

OFMConv. Italian friar from La Cava (Kingdom of Naples). Lector of rhetoric and later bishop of the same town. Poet.

works

Poema sacro del pensar bene (Naples: Gian-Domenico Roncagliolo, 1609).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 127-128; Juan de San Antonio, Bibiotheca Universa Franciscana I, 238; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Rubino (fl. 1655)

OFMConv. Italian friar, possibly from Montecchio in Darfo Boario Terme, some 60 km North-East of Bergamo. Maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Palermo from 1643 to 1665, as well as a member of the Academia dei Riaccesi. Composer.

works

Vespro della Beata Vergine - Prima parte del tesoro armonico (Palermo, 1645).

Messa, e Salmi A Otto Voci, Concertati nel Primo Choro di Fr. Bonaventura Rubino da Montecchio di Lombardia (Palermo: Francesco terranova, 1651).

Il primo libro de motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro, e cinque voct. Di F. Bonaventura Rubino da Montechio di Lombardia Min F. dedicati all'illustriss. et eccellentiss. signor D. Fr. Martin de Leon, et Cardenas arcivescovo di Palermo (Palermo: Francesco Terranova, 1651).

Il secondo libro de mottetti a due, tre, quattro, e cinque voa, con una Messa de morti' nel fine a 5 concertata (Palermo: Francesco Terranova, 1653). The work was re-issued in 1650 together with a requiem of Mario Capuana (1650). And that edition apparently saw a reprint in 1999.

Salmi Varii Variamente Concertati con Sinfonie d'obligo, et a beneplacito di F. Bonaventura Rubino da Montecchio di Lombardia (...) (Palermo: Giuseppe Bisagni, 1655). 23 settings of 9 psalms.

Vespro dello stellario con sinfonie ed altri salmi (…) Opera Quinta (1655), ed. G. Collisani & D. Ficola, Musiche Rinascimentali Siciliane, XVI (Florence: Olschki, 1996). This edition amounts to a reconstruction of this massive piece, which needs several instrumental groups, up till 12 voice sections with soloists, and 4 organs. For a double CD of this work, see: Vespro per lo Stellario. Vocal ensemble of the Studio di Musica Antica Antonio Il Verso, Palermo; Coro G.P. Palestrina of Messina; Ensemble Eufonia of Palermo; Ensemble Mille Regretz of Catania; Les Rossignols de Poznan. Ensemble Elyma. Direction: Gabriel Garrido, K617. 2CD. This includes the booklet Giuseppe Collisani, Daniele Ficola, Bonaventura Rubino et la musique des Vêpres du Stellario, texte de présentation.

Salmi Concertati a Cinque Voci di F. Bonaventura Rubino da Montecchio di Lombardia, Maestro di Capella del Duomo della Felice Città di Palermo (...) (Palermo: Giuseppe Bisagni, 1658).

literature

Maria Antonella Balsano, 'Composizioni musicali per i Sabati dell'Immacolata', in: La Sicilia e l'Immacolata: non solo 150 anni: atti del convegno di studio, ed. Diego Ciccarelli & Marisa Dora Valenza (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2006), 41f; Paolo Emilio Carapezza, 'Lo Stellario: una festa per l'Europa', in: La Sicilia e l'Immacolata: non solo 150 anni: atti del convegno di studio, ed. Diego Ciccarelli & Marisa Dora Valenza (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2006), 161-182; Dinko Fabris, Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) (Abingdon: Ashgate, 2007), passim.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Sarni de Guardia (Bonaventura Sarni della Guardia, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Guardia Perticaria (Basilicata region). Educated at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in Rome from 1614 onward, reaching the status of magister theologiae. Thereafter a teaching career in Naples, as well as an important preaching career in many of the larger Italian cities. Also guardian and from 1627 onward provincial minister of the Naples province. Stimulated the pubication of works by others. In addition he apparently left sermons of his own. In honor of a series of his Lenten sermons, Francesco Antonio Rocco issued in 1635 a panegyric oration, entitled: L'Armonia, composta, e detta dal Dottor Francesco Antonio Rocco Ernandez, fra gl'Infuriate, 'l Saturno, per lo Quaresimale fatto dal F. Bonaventura nel 1636 (Naples, 1636).

works

Prediche quaresimali. As yet not found

As editor: Discorsi panegirici del reuerendiss. p.m.f. Michel'Angelo Catalano da S. Mauro (Venice: Turrini, 1656). Bonaventura Sarni also included in this work an Italian anagrammatic eulogy of the author.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 128-131; Sbaralea, Supplementum, 180; Nicolo Toppi, Biblioteca Napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in lettere d di Napoli e del Regno (...), 50; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 657.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura de Sisteron (Bonaventure de Sisteron, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMCap. French Capuchin friar from Sisteron (Provence, Basses-Alpes). Preacher in the San Louis province and historian.

works

Histoire politique et ecclésiastique de la ville et de la principauté d’Orange, 2 Vols. (Avignon, 1741).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 54; A. Teetaert, ‘Bonaventure de Sisteron’, DHGE IX, 812-814; LexCap, 246

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Severiensis Polonus (fl. 1630)

OFM. Polish friar. Theologian. He would have issued in Polish a work entitled 24 hours of contemplation. We have not yet been able to trace that.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Speeckaert (Bonaventura Speckaert/Bonaventura Bruxellensis/Bonaventure de Bruxelles/Bonaventura van Brussel/Speeckaert, 1570-1633)

OFMCap. Belgian friar. Entered the Capuchins in 1593 in the Flemish province (followed shortly afterwards by his brother). Fulfilled several guardianships (Menin, Ypres (Ieper), Louvain (Leuven) and Malines (Mechelen)). Between 1614 and 1617, he helped in the development of a German Capuchin province. After his return to Belgium, he embarked on a preaching career. He died at Brussels, on 17 February 1633. Author of spiritual works.

works

Het lijden van Christus (Antwerp, 1626). A work on Christ’s bodily and mental suffering.

Den Spieghel der Patientie Onses Salighmakers Iesv Christi ghebenediidt (Antwerp: Jan Cnobbaert, 1632). A ‘mirror of patience’. Accessible via the library of Maastricht and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 239; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180; Biographie nationale de Belgique XXIII, 312-313; Franciscaansch Leven 17 (1934), 291-292 & 19 (1936), 57; Collectanea Franciscana 11 (1941), 573 (no. 778); P. Hildebrand, ‘Bonaventure de Bruxelles’, DHGE IX, 791; Ons Geestelijk Erf, check!; LexCap, 241; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Bonaventura Speeckaert van Brussel’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 743-754.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Stabilis (Bonaventura Stabile, 1586-1649)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Trapani (Sicily). Master of theology (magisterium reached in 1614), who taught at Pavia from 1615 onward. In 1619 appointed regent of the Collegio Melitense in the San Francesco friary of Trapani. Two years later in 1620 appointed regent lector in the Gymnasium of Perugia. Later also regent in the Calatafimi friary, the renovation of which he stimulated (and where a statue was erected in his honor) and friar with humanist/poetic inclinations.

works

Dauid assumptus in regem. Carmen heroicum. Reuerendissimo patri fratri Iacobo Bagnacaballensi, artium, et sacrae theologiae doctori (...) Editum a fratre Bonauentura a Deprano (Rome: Gulielmo Facciotti, 1615)

Illustriss. et reuerendiss. D.D. Marcello Lantes S.R.E. card. ampliss. vigilantiss. Theoremata de arcano sacrosanctae triadis mysterio, & de diuina scientia, poeticé expressa, & publicae in comitijs generalibus Romae celebratis disputationi proposita. Fr. Bonauentura Stabilis à Deprano ord. Min. con. doct. theologus (Piacenza: apud Iacobum Ardizzonum, 1616).

Viridarium Seraphicum Miscellaneorum Divinae Agiographiae (Palermo: Pietro da Isola, 1648). This is a work in Latin hexameters and consisting of odes that deal with the immaculate conception and the graces/virtues of the Virgin.

Dell'opera di sei giorni/De opere sex dierum. ?

Poemata Miscellanea. ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 239; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 648; https://www.peoplepill.com/people/bonaventura-stabile/ ; Nicoletta Grisanti, 'Il Viridarium Seraphicum del poeta P. Bonaventura Stabile', in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Trapani. Atti del convegno di studi. Trapani-Alcano 19-21 novembre 2009, ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2011).

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Steidelius (Bonaventura Staidel, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMConv. Professor of moral theology. Corrector and editor of later editions of the Theologia moralis universa and the Compendium theologiae moralis by Paul Gabriel Antoin, SJ, adding to comments/corrections in earlier editions by Filippo da Carbognano, OFM.

works

Theologia Moralis Universa R.P. Pauli Gabrielis Antoine S.J. (...) notis et appendicibus pridem amplificata a. R.P. Philippo de Carboneano (...) nunc vero ad utiliorem parochorum et confessariorum, et confessariorum usum, generalibus facultatis moralis principiis a minorita conventuali Cl. P. Bonaventura Steidelio (..), 4 Vols. (a.o. Passau, 1766/Venice, 1773/ etc.).

Compendio di tutta la teologia morale del padre Paolo Gabriele Antoine della Compagnia di Gesù e delle illustrazioni del padre Filippo da Carbognano minore osservante e del padre Bonaventura Staidel minore conventuale, 2 Vols. (a.o. Venice: Baglioni, 1776/Venice: Baglioni, 1797/etc.).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 816.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Tamar (Bonaventura Thamar/Bonaventura Tamar da Isola/Bonaventura da Capodistria, d. 1634)

OFMRif. Italian friar from Istria. Member of the Venetian province.

works

Arte teoretica per ben servire a Dio (Trevigi, 1625).

Acqua di vita spirituale da pigliarsi in ogni tempo a benefizio dell'anima (Venice-Padua, 1641).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 240; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 687; Pietro Stancovich, Biografia degli uomini distinti dell'Istria II, 259; Antonio Maria da Vicenza, Scriptores Ord. minor. script. observ. reformatorum provinciae S. Antonii Venetiarum (1877), 42-43.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Tatti (fl. 1680)

OFM. Italian friar from Genoa. Preacher, novice master and order historian.

works

Geneaologia della provincia osservante di Geniva (1680): MS Rome, Aracoeli. ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 239.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Tellado (Buenaventura Tellado, 1686-ca. 1750)

OFM. Spanish friar from San Miguel de Ríofrío. Member of the Santiago province. Colegial at the Inisgne de Alba, lector of arts and moral theology in the Salamanca friary. Magister studentium in the friary of Santiago de Galicia. Guardian. Author of texts of moral theology

works

Promptuario de indulgencias que goza, excelencias con que se engrandece y privilegios con que se ilustra el seráfico instituto de la V.O.T. de Penitencia de N.P.S. Francisco (Salamanca: Herederos de Gregorio Ortiz Gallardo, 1719/Salamanca: Typ. S. Croce, 1730 [2nd ed.]).

Nueuo manogito de flores, en tres ramilletes: compuesto de varias flores para todas personas Católicas, Eclesiásticas y Religiosas (Salamanca, 1725/Salamanca: Antonio Josefo Villagordi, 1732 [2nd ed.]/Madrid: Miguel Escribano, 1764/Madrid: Benito Cano, 1787/Madrid: Ramón Ruiz, 1794). The 1764 and 1787 editions are accessible via Google Books. This amounts to a comprehensive work of religious instruction on Christian doctrine, confession, communion, prayer, religious exercises, the via sacra, the rosary, prayer stations, Christian matrimony, and the tasks and functions of the clery, including information on performing mass, abjurations, confession, benedictions, visitations, etc.

Theologia moral, que en claro y breve methodo por preguntas y respuestas arreglada a Sagrados y Apostolicos Dogmas conciliares, y Pontificios decretos, Padres y Theologos, y recogida de toda la Seraphica y Sutil Franciscana Escuela ad mentem Venerabilis Subtilisque Doctoris Joannis Duns Scoti (Salamanca: Antonio Villagordi, 1742/1748). the 1742 edition is accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 239-240; Franciscus Quecedo, ‘Notas-bio-bibliográficas sobre los padres Juan Nieto y Buenaventura Tellado’, AIA 34 (1931), 30-47, 177-208; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 183 (no. 815); Federico López Silvestre, 'La literatura ascética en la Galicia de los Austrias', in: Galicia Monástica. Estudios en lembranza da profesora María José Portela Silva, ed. Raquel Casal, José Miguel Andrade & Roberto J. López (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2009), 397-399.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Teuli (Bonaventura Theulus/Bonaventura Theuli/Bonaventura Teoli/Giovanni Battista Teoli da Velletri, 1596-1670)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Velletri. Entered the Franciscan order at Viterbo (Roman province) on 22 March 1612, taking the religious name Bonaventure. Studied philosophy at Urbino and (Scotist) theology at Bologna. Ordained priest with the capacity to preach and hear confession in 1622. Preacher and regent of the Studia of Perugia (1626), and Ferrara (1626). Elected general secretary of his order at the general chapter of 1635. Elected provincial minister of the Roman province on 28 April 1637, yet already a year later appointed general commissarius for his order province and assistant to the minister general. In May 1643 appointed Regens Collegii S. Bonaventurae in Rome. On 3 August 1655 he was made titular Archbishop of Myra and Apostolic Vicar of Istanbul/Constantinople. He traveled to Istanbul by the end of that month, to stay there until the mid 1660s, when his declining health made him return to Italy, where he spent his last years in the friary of Velletri, to die there at the age of 74 in 1670.

works

Diaphora Graecorum, idest diferentia dogmatum, cum confutationibus (...) Opus introductivum pro missionariis minoritis et aliis (...) (Velletri: Pietro Guilelmo Cafassio, 1666).

Guglielmo Okam Nominalium Principis, Philosophia (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robleti, 1635).

Philosophia Naturalis Guilielmi Occham (...) a .M.F. Bonauentura Theulo Veliterno (...) Ad Scholasticorum Commodum in Lucem Edita (1637/Facs. ed. 1963).

Teatro historico di Velletri insigne citta, e capo de' Volsci. Del reu. padre fra Bonauentura Theuli velletrano dott. teol. franciscano conuent. Diuiso in tre libri, ne' quali si narrano molte cose antiche, e moderne di Velletri. Con due tauole, vna de gl'autori citati nell'opera, e l'altra delle cose piu principali, che si contengono in essa (Velletri: Alfonso dell'Isola, 1644). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Biblioteca Santa Scolastica in Subiaco, and via Google Books. A new edition of this work was issued in 1885.

Apparato Minoritico, Historia della Provincia Romana d'Conventuali (Rome: Carlo Bilancioni, 1648/1967).

Scotus moralis pro confessariis humili manu expositus. In quo ea, quae Subtilis Doctor in quatuor Sententiarum, & Quodlibeta sparsim docuit, Interrogatorii forma inspiciuntur (...) (Venice: Matteo Leni, 1652). He worked on this work for more than 20 years. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (search under Bonaventura Teoli).

Theologia moralis Scoti, Ea, quae sparsim Subtilis Doctor in suis operibus habet, interrogatorii forma complectens (Cracow, 1652/Venice: Giovanni Battista Ferreti, 1652/Venice, 1661/Venice 1705). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, and via Google Books. To what extent is this different from his Scotus moralis pro confessariis humili manu expositus?

Triumphus seraphicus collegii D. Bonaventurae ecclesiae doctoris in Vrbe apud minores sancti Francisci conuentuales in ecclesia SS. Duodecim Apostolorum fundati (...) Auctore f. Bonauentura Theulo Veliterno (...) (Velletri: Laurentius Chellius, 1655). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, and via Google Books.

Scotus scripturalis in quo omnes auctoritates ex S. Scriptura decerptae, quae in quatuor Sententiarum et Quodlibetis adnotantur ordinate exacteque iuxta Doctoris vel sensum vel relatum habentur (Velletri: Typis Francisci Moneta, 1664). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Decachordum scoticum, sive methodus puritatis sacratissimae Mariae Dei genitricis probativa, quo tanquam modulatione decem chordarum, per dulcisonos tractus, piorum auribus resonat, immaculata conceptio Beatae Mariae Virginis. Et per Scoti vias ad plausibilem hanc veritatem sestituè percurritur (...) Auctore fr. Bonaventura Theulio Veliterno, ord. min. S. Francisci convent. (Velletri: Guglielmo Casassio, 1673). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 131-132; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 240; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 180-181; Teocrito Borgia, Vita di fra' Bonaventura Teuli da Velletri de' Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco, Arcivescovo di Mira, Suffraganeo Patriarcale e Vicario Apostolico di Costantinopoli (Velletri: Stamperia Francesco Gasconi, 1714). This work was also presented in abbreviation with an introduction by Antonio Coccia in Miscellanea francescana 71 (1971), 458-482.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Turracci (Bonaventura Turracci da Ferrara, d. ca. 1640)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Ferrara. Bachelor of theology and celebrated poet, eulogized by contemporary poets like Francesco Berni and in the Apparato de gli Huomini Illustri della Città di Ferrara, I quali nelle Lettere, & in altre nobili Virtù fiorirono. Diviso in tre parti (Ferrara: Francesco Suzzi, 1620), a product of the Conventual Franciscan Augustinus Superbus Ferrariensis (Agostino Superbi da Ferrara).

works

Poemata: See: Agostino Superbi da Ferrara, Apparato de gli Huomini Illustri della Città di Ferrara, I quali nelle Lettere, & in altre nobili Virtù fiorirono. Diviso in tre parti (Ferrara: Francesco Suzzi, 1620), passim.

literature

Wadding-Fonseca, Annales Minorum XXVIII (ed. Quaracchi, 1941), 664; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 181.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Van den Dijcke (d. 1721)

OFMRec. Belgian or Dutch friar. Lector of Sacred Scripture and later also of dogmatic theology in the Louvain friary between ca. 1683 and 1699. Then gurardian in the same friary, and subsequently guardian in Mechelen (Malines, 1705). Subsequently provincial minister of the Germania Inferioris province. Also stints as provincial definitor, visitator etc. He apparently died on 16 June, 1721 at the age of 69.

works

Theses sacrae in epistolam secundam beati Pauli apostoli ad Corinthios, quas praeside F. Bonaventura vanden Dycke (...) defendent Fr. Joannes van Valckenborgh et Fr. Eustachius Verbeeck (...) (Louvain: Martin Hullegaerde, 1685). Accessible via Google Books.

Theses theologiae de Hierarchia Ecclesiae, quas preside Bonaventura van den Dijck, defendit Franciscus Sanguessa, Lovanii in conventu ff. min. recoll. die 10 Aprilis 1690, hora 9 ante meridiem (Louvain: Overbeke, 1690).

Theses Pontificiae auctoritate (Louvain, 1691). These drew out several reactions by other writers.

Oratio funebris in exequiis Illustrissimi ac Reverendissimi Domini D. Henrici Baronis de VVassenaer et Warmondt (...) (Maastricht: Lambertus Bertus, 1709). Accessible via the digital collections of the Stadsbibliotheek Maastricht and via Google Books.

literature

De godsdienstvriend: tijdschrift voor Roomsch-Catholijken 82 (1859), 253 (letter to Bonaventura van den Dycke); Servais Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères Mineurs de l'observance de St-François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas (Antwerp: Van Os-De Wolf, 1885), 364ff; Edmond Henri Joseph Reusens, Documents relatifs à l'histoire de l'Université de Louvain (1425-1797), V: Collèges et Pédagogies, III (Louvain, 1889-1892), 252f; L. Ceyssens, ‘De thesibus antigallicanis P. Bonaventurae Van den Dijcke, O.F.M. (1691-1692)’, AFH 41 (1948), 161-176.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Veracroce d'Acquaviva (Bonaventura Veracrux/Bonaventura de Veracroce/Bonaventura Veracroce degli Acquavivesi, d. 1652)

OFM. Italian friar active in Naples. Elected provincial minister of the San Niccolò or Apulia province in 1641 in Trani and general definitor in 1642. Minister general in 1645. (Elected on the Toledo general chapter). He died in the Acquaviva friary in 1652.

works

Di Satan la rinovata impresa nell'assunta in Cielo dell'universale regina Maria sempre Vergine (...) (Lecce: Pietro Michele, 1645). This is a piece of religious drama, apparently composed in the context of (and presented at ?) the general chapter of Toledo.

La triplicata ottava del Santissimo Sacramento dell'Eucharistia (1653). A collection of 72 sermons.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I 240-241; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 181; Niccolò Toppi, Biblioteca napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli, e del Regno (...), 51.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Vicentinus (Bonaventura de Vincentia/Bonaventura Vicenza, d. 1561)

TOR. Italian regular tertiary. Master or theology and general visitator, and two times minister general of the Franciscan order of tertiaries (1546-1549, and 1559-1561, a term that ended with his death).

works

Privilegia apostolica FF. Tertii Ordinis S. Francisci de Poenitentia Regul Observ. Congreg. Lombardiae in habiti heremeticp degentium (Venice: Aldini, 1551). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève in Paris.

Generalia statuta sive Decreta Fratrum Tertii Ordinis Sancti Francisci de poenitentia nuncupati Regularis Observantiae Congregat. Longobardae in Habitu Eremitico degentium (1549/1551). Included in Antonio Silli, Studia Originem Provectumque, atque Complementum Tertii Ord. de Poenitentia S. Francisci Concernentia (1621), 9-160. Accessible via Google Books [! This work does not always show up. A combination of the name Antonio Silli and the first title words works best] The work of Silli is in any case present in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Rome.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 241; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 181.

 

 

 

 

Bonaventura Zampizonus (Bonaventura Zampizano, d. 1658)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Parma. Preacher and novice master. Highly devoted to the Virgin. He died in Parma in 1658 at the age of 72.

works

Della Conversione e della penitenza del re Davide (Modena: Barolomeo Soliano, 1647).

135 meditazioni tratte dalla sacra Scrittura (Parma: Mario Vigna, 1650).

Storia della vita e delle azioni delle sante vergini e martiri Caterina, Cecilia e Margherita (Parma: Mario Vigna, 1650).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum retexta et extensa, 55; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 241; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 181; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto, 600.

 

 

 

 

Bonhomme de Paris (d. after 1770)

OFM. French friar. Became master of theology at Paris and worked as the librarian of the Franciscan library there. Strong and reactionary adversary of masonic and enlightment tendencies and active in the denunciation of the Encyclopédie (which began to appear in 1751) and related writings of prominent French (and foreign) enlightment thinkers, such as Voltaire.

works

Consultation sur la société des francsmaçons (Paris, 1748).

Relation de l’apparition visible de Jesus-Christ au saint sacrement, arrivée à Marseille dans l’église des cordeliers à la Pentecôte (Paris, 1754).

Réflexions d’un franciscain sur les trois volumes de l’Encyclopédie avec une lettre préliminaire aux éditeurs (Berlin, 1754).

Lettre de M. conseiller à la grande chambre, à M. président des enquêtes, sur l’interêt que le parlement de Paris prend à la gloire du roi et au bien de la religion (Paris, 1755).

Lettre d’un ancient docteur de Sorbonne à un magistrat (L.N.C.) (Paris, 1756).

L’Éloge de l’encyclopédie et des encyclopédistes (La Haye/Den Haag, 1759).

L’Anti-Uranie, ou Le déisme comparé au christianisme, épîtres à M. de Voltaire (Paris, 1763).

literature

J. Dedieu, ‘Bonhomme’, DHGE IX, 876-877.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius Augustini (Bonifacio Agostini, d. 1698)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Montolmo. Magister Theologiae. Lector in Cesena, Viterbo, Florence and in the Collegium S. Bonaventurae and the Sapienza in Rome. Later episcopal examiner and provincial minister of the Marches province.

works

In I. Sententiarum juxta mentem S. Bonaventurae (Rome, 1696). His edited commentary on the other three books of the Sentences was apparently never issued due to the untimely death of the author.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 241; Picenum seraphicum rivista di studi storici locali (1915), 347.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius Bonibellus (Bonifazio Bonibello/Bonifacio Bonibelllo da Sabbio, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian lay friar from the Brescia region. Member of the Romana province.

works

Cronichetta de principii, e progressi della Riforma nella Provincia Romana.

Vita e fatti del piissimo, e dottissimo uomo Angelo de Pas.

literature

Leonardo Cozzando, Libraria Bresciana. Prima, e seconda parte, Nuovamente Aperta (Brescia: Giovanni Maria Rizzardi, 1694), 238; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 182; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 516.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Ceva (Boniface de Ceva/Bonifacio da Ceva/Bonifatius Gallus, d. ca. 1517)

OM. Italian/French Coletan friar from the Geneva or Piedmont area. Son of the Genuan Marquis of Ceva. Joined the Coletan friars at the Montbrison or Rougemont friary in the Burgundian province of St. Bonaventure after studies in law. Studied theology at the University of Paris. Apparently became doctor sub camino, by authority of the minister general Giles Delfini [Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, 531]. In 1503 he was elected guardian of the Grand Couvent, when that convent turned towards the Coletan Observance. He wrote special constitutions for that convent to enhance religious discipline. Boniface supported the Coletan reform, but opposed the regular Observance. In 1504 he became provincial of the French province, a position that he kept until 1510. During this period he tried to obtain a reform of the French, Tourraine and Provence order provinces along Coletan lines, proposing a new set of general statutes, which made him the subject of vitriolic attacks by the partisans of the regular Observance and the Conventuals alike. He died on April 12, 1517 (in the same year, pope Leo X officially divided the order between Observants and Conventuals). While Boniface’s body was buried before the main altar of the Parisian convent chapel, his heart was transferred to the Church of St. Marcel. Aside from his works related with order reform and administrative issues, Boniface is well-known for his historical compilations. The most famous of these historical works is the Firmamentum Trium Ordinum, which deals in five parts with the famous men and women of the three franciscan orders (Friars, Poor Clares, Tertiaries), the orders’ privileges, rules, commentaries and related papal bulls.

works

Firmamenta Trium Ordinum Beatissimi Patris Nostri Francisci (Paris: François Regnault expensis Jehan Petit & Jean Frellon, 1512); Speculum minorum seu firmamentum trium ordinum intitulatur (Paris: per Lazarum de Soardis, 1513). The first 1512 edition is accessible via Google Books and the digital collections of the Augsburg library. The work is also accessible via the digital collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The work deals in five parts with the famous men and women of the three franciscan orders (Friars, Poor Clares, Tertiaries), the orders’ privileges, rules, commentaries and related papal bulls. See also discussion of its contents in Sbaralea (ed. 1806), 182.

Defensorium Elucidativum Observantiae Regularis Fratrum Minorum (Paris: Josse Bade, 1517). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books. [Acidly polemic text, predominantly directed against the Observants sub vicariis. After a review by several theologians, the work was prohibited by the Parliament of Paris and the King of France.]

Viaticae Excursiones ad reverendi in Christi patris et domini, de nonnullis Hominum Vitiis sparsim edite, ed. Nicolas du Puy (Paris: Jehan Petit, 1515/Paris: Jean Petit, 1518). The 1515 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books. The work is also present in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

De Perfectione Christiana cum Praeclaris Imaginibus ad Leonem X. The full title is: Bonifacii de Ceva purificati ordinis minorum fratrum viri clarissimi. Francicque minstri vigilantissimi Excellentissimum opus de perfectione christiana, divinitus editum & excogitatum : excellentia admirabili comptissimum : ad christianissime navicule nauclerum dextimum sanctissimum in Christo patrem modernum pontificem summum Leonem. X. Cum preclaris imaginibus primore intuitu universam designantibus materiam : dicendorumque sensum subtilem (Paris, B. Rembolt-Jean Petit, 1517)

Venustissimi ac Facundissimi Sermones de Adventu R. patris F. Bonifacii, sacre theologie et juris utriusque professoris, provincie Francie super fratres Minores quondam ministro, emendatissime ac noviter impressi bonis auspiciis in publicum prodeunt, ed. Philippe Lullier (Paris, s.d. [ca. 1518]/Paris: Regnault Chaudiere-Pasquier Lambert-Jean de La Porte-Michel Moules, 1518). The oldest edition is present in Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris

Sermones prenatalicii sive De Adventu a facundissimo et doctissimo quondam Francie ministro F. Bonifacio de Ceva, ed. Johannes de Monte (Paris: Berthold Rembolt, 1518). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, the Bodleian in Oxford, the Cambridge University library and elsewhere

Conciones Tempore Adventus Domini/Adventuale (Paris, 1512 & 1518). Same work as the previous one?

Opus Admodum Insigne, Sermones Quadragesimales complectens, ed. Guillaume Huet (Paris: Regnault Chaudiere, s.d./Paris: Michel Moules, 1518/Paris: Jean Frellon, 1518/Paris: Pasquier Lambert, 1518/Paris: Jean de la Porte, 1518). The first Regnault Chaudiere edition is accessible via Google Books. The work is also present in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

Sermones Quadragesimales et Viatice Excursiones (Paris, 1515).

Sermones Quadragesimales interdeclamandum excerpti et transcripti in populoso fratrum minorum Parisiensis Cenobio anno a virgeneo partu millesimo quingentesimo supra tredecimum, ed. Nicolas du Puy (Paris: Berthold Rembolt, 1517). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale/Numérique de Lyon and via Google Books.

Excellentissimum Opus de Perfectione Christiana, cum preclaris imaginibus primore intuitu universam designantibus materiam, dicendorumque sensum subtilem (Paris: Berthold Rembolt, 1517), dedicated to Leo X. Present in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

According to Wadding and Juan de San Antonio, Boniface also wrote a Tractatus de Scientia et Arte Bene Moriendi. Nothing further is known about this text.

literature

Juan a San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 241-242; Wadding, Annales XV, 304, 498; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 60; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 182 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 194-195; N. Paulus, Kaspar Schatzgeyer (Freiburg i. Br., 1898), 35ff; Glassberger, Chronica, AF II 522-523, 528-529, 531, 533-534, 541, 543, 548, 556; Holzapfel, Handbuch der Geschichte des Franziskanerordens (Freiburg i. Br., 1909), 147ff; Béguet, ‘Nécrologe d’Auxerre’, AFH 3 (1910), 314; A. Renaudet, Préréforme et Humanisme à Paris (Paris, 1916), 556-558, 570-571, 590, 656; La France Franciscaine 3 (1914), 90-113 & 11 (1928), 113-118, 258-260, 457-494; F. van den Borne, ‘De Observantiebeweging en het ontstaan der provincie Germania inferior (1529)’, Collectanea Franciscana Neerlandica 2 (1931), 162-167; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Boniface de Ceva’, DHGE IX, 947; DSpir I, 1858-1859; O. Bonmann, Die literaturkundigen Quellen des Franziskanerordens im Mittelalter (Fulda, 1937), 44-45; A. Renaudet, Préréforme et humanisme à Paris pendant les premièr guerres d’Italie (1494-1517), 2nd Ed. (1953), 556-557, 570-571, 590; J.P. Massaut, Josse Clichtove, l’humanisme et la réforme de l’Eglise (1968) I, 423, 426-427; Robert Sauzet, Mendiants et réformes. Les réguliers mendiants acteurs du changement religieux dans le royaume de France (1480-1560) (Tours: Publications e l’Université de Tours, 1994), 56-57.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Lurio (Bonifacio da Luri/Antonio Giuseppe Bernardi, d. 1814)

OFMCap. Corsican friar. Born at Luri on 18 January 1737. Entered the order on 3 February 1752 on Corsica (at Brando), making his profession in 1753. He embarked on studies of philosophy and theology in various houses of the Bologna province, which province he joined on 18 January 1771. Several times guardian in Capuchin houses of the Bologna province, as well as preacher. Known for a series of writings, in part published anonymously, on the relationship between philosophy and theology. Prior to the French Revolution, he seemed to embrace some form of enlightenment thought, while maintaining the primacy of the Catholic faith. Shocked by the French Revolution, its violence and the consequences for religious life, he later became a contrarevolutionary polemicist. He died at Ferrara, on 26 December 1814. Author.

works

Elogio del sommo pontefice Clemente XIV (Florence, 1776). In this work, Bonifacio defended the suppression of the Jesuit order, accusing the Jesuits of creating schism in the Church.

Elogio di Guido II Bentivoglio d’Aragona cardinale (Venice: Erede di Niccolò Pezzana, 1778/Venice, 1792). The 1778 edition is accessible via Google Books.

La filosofia e la religione (s.l., s.a 1778?).

I mali che distruggono la felicità di uno stato (Verona: per gli eredi di Marco Moroni, 1779/Imola: Ignazio Galeati, 1843). The 1843 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Statale Isontina di Gorizia and via Google Books.

I pregi della rara amicizia (Venice, 1779).

Il fanatismo. Opera di F. Bonifacio da Luri Cappuccini all'Altezza Reverendissima di Monsignore Pietro Vigilio Vescovo e del S.R.I. Principe di Trento (...) Si aggiunge un Articolo, in cui si esamina: Se convegna al bene della società, l'educare le Donne nell'ignoranza (Venice: Appresso Giovanni Gatti, 1782). Available via the British Library and via Google Books.

Storia filosofica del pregiudizio e sentimento della ristampa, 2 Vols. (Florence, 1784/Foligno, 1788).

Pensieri di un solitario cattolico sopra la rivoluzione di Francia dell'anno 1789 (Cosmopoli, 1791). An anonymously published contrarevolutionary reflection.

Capitulo sull’ozio (Ferrara, 1792/Imola, 1836).

Elogii dei patriarchi dell’antico Testamento, 4 Vols. (Foligno, 1792).

Il Trionfo della religione nelle imprese di S. Antonio di Padova (Ravenna, 1792). This works defends the usefulness of religion as defense of royal power.

Elogio di Catarina II imperatrice (Venice, 1793).

L’ordine episcopale. Orazione apologetica in lode di S. Carlo Borromei (Ravenna, 1793).

Quadro del fanatismo della rivoluzione di Francia dal 1789 al 1793 (Foligno, 1793).

Riflessioni politiche e morali su i progressi della rivoluzione di Francia (Foligno, 1794). Partly blaming the disaster of the French revolution on the diffusion of radical aspects of enlightenment philosophy.

L’antica immagine miracolosissima di Santa Maria in Aula regia, venerata nella chiesa de’ Padri cappuccini di Comachio (Lugo, 1795).

Lettere sopra la filosofia del secolo XVIII (Foligno, 1795).

La sapienzia. Orazione in lode del B. Lorenzo da Brindisi (Rimini, 1795).

Il regno della Chiesa, 2 Vols. (Foligno, 1796).

Orazione alla città di Commachio, che si dedicà al dominio di S.M. Francesco imperatore (Ferrara, 1799).

Elogio dell’esimio dottore S. Agostino (Ferrara, 1807).

Elogio del marchese Guido Ville (Ferrara, 1808).

La Grandezza di Maria (Ferrara, 1809).

Benificenza e ingratitudine di D. Giuseppe Bernardi (Ferrara, 1812).

Cosa è Dio?, Cosa è Gesù Cristo? Cosa è Maria? Cosa è religione? Meditazione teologica (Naples, 1826).

Orazione recitata in Argenta nell’ acclamarsi del cardinale Francesco Caraffa, legato a latere della città e provincia di Ferrara (Ferrara, 1884).

Filosofia del cuore

Vera e falsa gloria del principato

Riflessioni sulla vera libertà di pensare

Discorso dilettevole sopra la Provvidenza

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica (Venice, 1846), 822; Johann-Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 17; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 21 (1905) 254; Éduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 15; A. Zawart, ‘The history of franciscan preaching and of franciscan preachers (1209-1927)’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 551; Donato da San Giovanni in Persiceto, Biblioteca dei Frati Minori Cappuccini della Provincia di Bologna (1535-1946) (Budrio, 1949), xx, 113-122; A. Teetaert, ‘Boniface de Luri’, DHGE IX, 956-957; LexCap>>>; Giuseppe Pignatelli, 'Bonifacio da Luri', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XII (1971);

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Nicea (Bonifacio da Nizza, d. 1815)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Nizza. Joined the order in the Rome province. In the latter province, he performed the function of lector and provincial (1792-1795). He was elected definitor general in 1796 (1799?), involved with the beatification and canonisation processes of Capuchin friars. He died at Rome, on 11 February 1815. Author.

works

Compendio della vita del beato Bernardo da Offida, laico cappuccino della provincia della Marca, tratto da’processi apostolici (Rome, 1795).

Ritratti degli uomini illustri dell’istituto de minori cappuccini promossi e destinati a dignità ecclesiastiche, 2 Vols. (Rome, 1804). A revised edition came out as: Cenni biografici e ritratti di padri illustri dell’ordine cappuccino sublimati alle dignità ecclesiastiche dal 1581 al 1850, ed. Michele-Angelo da Rossiglione, 3 Vols. (Rome, 1850).

Vita del B. Crispino da Viterbo, laico professo cappuccino della provincia romana (Rome, 1806).

Vita di Monsignore Niccola Molinari,cappuccino missionario apostolico, vescovo di Scala e Ravello, indi di Bovino (Rome, 1796). A second edition appeared in 1796, containing an appendix entitled: Sentimenti di Mons. Molinari ne’Santi esercizi spirituali, che faceva due volte l’anno.

literature

Johann-Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1862), 17; Alosio da Forano, Necrologium Seraphicum Patrum et Fratrum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum Almae Urbis Provinciae ab Initio Reformatae. Incoeptum et Deinceps Semper Prosequendum (Velletri, 1860); DHGE IX, 967; LexCap., 248.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Ragusa (Bonifacio da Ragusa/Bonifacio Stefano da Ragusa, fl. second half 16th cent.)

OFM. Croatian friar from Dubrovnik. Active in the Holy Land for a considerable amount of time. He was two times custos there (1551-1560, 1564-1566). He experienced the expulsion of the Friars from the Monte Sion friary by Suleiman in 1551, and was instrumental in obtaining the new residence (the current San Salvator friary).

works

Liber de perenni cultu Terrae Sanctae et de fructuosa eius peregrinatione (Venice: Gulraea, 1573); Liber de perenni cultu Terrae Sanctae et de fructuosa eius peregrinatione, ed. Cyprianus de Tarvisio (Venice, 1875). This nineteenth-century edition includes a bibliography and comments. The work is first and foremost a pilgrims’ guide.

literature

Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza Francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d'Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 28-29, 97.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Sezze (Bonifacio da Sezze, d. 1799)

OFM. Italian friar.

literature

‘Quei giorni spaventevoli della Rivoluzione.’ Fr. Bonifacio da Sezze (OFM) e la Repubblica romana del 1798-1799, ed. C. Ciammaruconi, M. Di Pastina & S.L. Mecoci, Atti della giornata di studio, Sezze, 18 dicembre 1999 (S. Maria degli Angeli - Assisi, 2001) [Review in Miscellanea Francescana (2003), 865ff]

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius de Stephanis (Bonifazio Stivanic/Drakoliza/Ragusina, d. 1582)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Raguza (Sicily). Entered the strict Observance and studied theology at Paris. Lector of theology, apostolic preacher and guardian of the Jerusalem convent. Took part as a theologian in the council of Trent in the 1562 session. Appointed bishop of Stagno on 17 November 1564. Sent to the Balkan region as an apostolic delegate by pope Pius V. Later, the same pope made him a special nuntius for the representation of the affairs of the Holy Land at the court of Philip II of Spain. Pope Gregory XIII thereafter enthrusted him with missions to Hungary. He died during a visit of Temesvar, on February 6, 1582. Author.

works

Liber de Perenni Cultu Terrae Sanctae et de Fructuosa eius Peregrinatione (Venice: Guerraea, 1573/Venice: L. Merlo, 1875?HardPress, 2020). The 1875 edition is accessible via Google Books.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum VII (ed. Rome, 1733), 285, XIX (ed. 1745), 174, 211, 285, 405, 435; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 242; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 183; E. Fermendzin, Acta Bosniae Potissimum Ecclesiastica (925-1752), Monumenta Spectantia Historiam Slavorum Meridionalem XXIII (Zagreb, 1892), nos. 1207-1209, 1213, 1220; G. Golubovich, Serie cronologie dei superiori di Terra Santa (Jerusalem, 1898), 52-55; C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica III, 304; M. Premrou, ‘Serie dei vescovi romano-cattolici di Beograd’, AFH 17 (1924), 492-493; L. Jadin, ‘Boniface de Stephanis’, DHGE IX, 972-973; Marianne Petra Ritsema van Eck, Custodians of Sacred Space: Constructing the Franciscan Holy Land through texts and sacri monti (ca. 1480-1650), PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2017), passim.

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius Masius (Bonifatius Maes, 1627-1706)

OFMRec. Flemish friar. Member of the St. Joseph province. Lector jubilatus, Guardian of the Ypres friary, provincial definitor and general commissarius for the German-Belgian provinces. Spiritual author.

works

Mysticke Theologie ofte verborghen Godts-Gheleertheyt. Seer nuttich voor alle devote Zielen, om hunnen Godt volmaecktelijk te beminnen, ende met hem inwendich vereenicht te worden (...) (Ghent: Maximiliaen Graef, 1668 [2nd Ed.]/Antwerp: Jan François Crabbens, 1669/Ghent: François d'Ercle, 1672 [7th Ed.]/1673/etc.). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books. The 1673 and 1691 editions (also accessible via Google Books and the Post-Reformation Digital Liberary), and possible several others also include De Seraphinsche practycke met een corte uyt-legghinghe der oprechte devotie ende brant der liefde.

Consolatiorium Piorum sive Resolutio qua exponitur, qualiter sub gravi peccato Homo Christianus & preasertim Religiosus in praesenti hac vita teneatur esse perfectus, qualiterque ad perfectionem tendere (Ghent: Franciscus d'Ercle, 1672). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books.

Deughde-Iacht Waer alle Christenen, soo weerlijcke persoonen, als Religieusen naer het betrachten der volmaecktheyt voorsichtelijck aengejaecht worden. Twee deelen. Van welcke het eerste betoont wanneer voor alle Christenen het achter-laten der raeden Godts ofte der vrij-wercken der deughden, ende voor de Religieusen het achter-laten hunder bysonder Constitutien sonde is, wanneer geene. En het tweede Deel worden sy al t'samen geleert tot troost hunder Conscientie op wat maniere yeder schuldigh is op sonde naer de volmaecktheyt te trachten, ender metter daet volmaeckt te wesen (Ghent: François d'Ercle, 1673). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books. Look also in the Post-Reformation Digital Library.

Wynckel der deughden. Waer alderhande soorten van Deughden elck in haer eyghen naturelick wesen op- en ten tooghe voorgeleyt worden door eenen Minderbroeder Recollect der Provincie van S. Ioseph in't Graefschap van Vlaenderen, Lees-meester der H. Godtheyt (Ghent: Françoys d'Ercle, 1673). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books.

Instructiones pro DD. Syndicis FF. Minorum Iuxta Decreta Summorum Pontificum Nicolao III. Clementis V. Martini IV, & V. & Pauli IV. (Rijssel (Lille): Ignatius de Rache, 1675). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books.

Instructien ofte Onderrichtinghen voor de syndicken ofte gheestelycke vaders der minder-broeders (...)(Ghent: de Hoirs van Ian vanden Kerchove, 1676). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books. Look also in the Post-Reformation Digital Library.

Resolutiones quomodo fratres minores sese gerere possint, vel debeant, quoad expensionem eleemosynae pecuniariae in ipsorum necessitates per personas idoneas (Rijssel (Lille): I. de Rache, 1675).

Resolutien hoe de Minder-broeders hun selven moghen ofte moeten draghen, aengaende het besighen vande aelmoessen van Ghelt, tot hunnen noodt (Ghent: Jan vanden Kerchove, 1676). Accessible via Google Books. It is a Dutch rendering of the Resolutiones quomodo fratres minores sese gerere possint.

Theologia Mystica seu Spiritualis, omnibus Deum perfecte Amare illique intime uniri cupientibus, nec non animarum pastoribus, ut tum suae tum saluti proximi proficiant, perquam utillissima. Clara, distincta ac breviori methodo proposita et concinnata (1677/1687 [2nd ed.?]/Louvain: Vanlinthout, 1854). The 1854 edition is accessible via Google Books. This is the Latin version of the Mysticke Theologie ofte verborghen Godts-Gheleertheyt. There is also a slightly different Latin edition from 1712, with the title: Spiritualis sive Mystica Theologia omnibus Deum perfecte Amare illique intime uniri cupientibus, nec non animarum pastoribus, ut tum suae tum saluti proximi proficiant, utillissima (...) Editio Ima in Germania post decimam iprensem (Cologne: Johann Everh. Fromaert, 1712). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Officina virtutum in quâ diversæ virtutum species: quæquæ juxta propriam naturam seu essentiam per definitionem, vel descriptionem clarè proponuntur, & dilucidè explicantur (Joannes Utruy, 1680). A Latin rendering of Wynckel der deughden.

Theologie mystique ou spirituelle, tres utile à tous ceux, qui souhaitent d'aimer Dieu parfaitement, & s'unir intimement à Luy (...) Traduite maintenant du Latin en Français de la sixième Edition, imprimée à Cologne chez Jean Friessen l'an 1677 (Ghent: Héritiers de Jean vanden Kerchove, 1687). Accessible via the digital collections of the University library of Ghent and via Google Books. It is a French translation of the Latin version of the Mysticke Theologie ofte verborghen Godts-Gheleertheyt

Vocabularium Psalterii Davidici (...) ex SS. Patribus ac Approbatis Authoribus Concinnatum. Ad usum Concionatorym, ac consolationem Eorum, qui Horis Canonicis, vel cantandis, vel legendis, sapienter, intelligenter, & devote occupari desiderant (Ghent: Mauritius vander Ween, 1706). Accessible via the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague and via Google Books.

Theologia Mystica. Das ist Geheimreiche Red von Gott, oder Unterweisung zu der reinen Lieb Gottes (...) (Innsbruck: Jac. Christ. Wagner, 1704). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books. It is a German translation of the Latin version of the Mysticke Theologie ofte verborghen Godts-Gheleertheyt.

Theologia Mystica, Das ist: Geistliche und Geheime Kunst, GOTT Vollkomentlich zu lieben, und sich mit ihme gäntzlich zu vereinigen. Erstlich in Lateinischer Sprach zusammen getrafen von R.P. Bonifacio Maes, Fratr. Minor. Recollect. (...) Anjetzo aber ins Hoch-Teutsche übersetzt von R.P.F. Benigno Lohrano Capucino Rheinischer Provintz (Mainz, 1715). It is the yet another German translation of the Latin version of the Mysticke Theologie ofte verborghen Godts-Gheleertheyt.

Kurzgefasste Geistliche Wissenschaft göttlicher Dinge. Zum Nutzen frommer Seelen (...) aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt (Augsburg-Insbruck: Joseph Wolff, 1770). Accessible via Google Books. Look also in the Post-Reformation Digital Library.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 242; http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?s=0&limit=20&a_id=4292&sort=

 

 

 

 

Bonifatius Pisanus (Bonifatio de Pisa, d. 1340/1341)

Franciscan friar and bishop.

literature

Michael Robson, ‘Boniface of Pisa O. Min., bishop of Iglesias and then Corbavia’, Bibliotheca Franciscana Sarda 7 (1997), 219-244.

 

 

 

 

Bonus Benic (Bono Benic, 1708-1785)

OFM. Bosnian friar. Order historian.

works

Protocollum conventus Suttiscae: Annals of the Franciscan house of Kraljeva Sutjeska. See for an analysis the 2017 study by Nada Zecevic.

literature

Nada Zecevic, 'Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography of Bosnia', in: A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europa, ed. Zara Martirosova Torlone , Dana LacCourse Munteanu & Dorota Dutsch (Chistester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017), 336-347.

 

 

 

 

Bonvicinus de Ripa (Bonvesin della Riva, d. 1315)

TOR? Italian. Member of the third order of the humiliati and grammar teacher in Milan. Close connections with the Franciscan order and probably also member of the third order of Francis. He was, on his own bidding, buried in the choir of the Franciscan church of Milan. Wrote Latin and vernacular poetry, as well as prose works. His Latin works are the Carmina seu Controversia de Mensibus, De Vita Scolastica/De Discipulorum Preceptorumque Moribus/Scolastica Moralis (moral and religious instructions for in the classroom) and De Magnalibus Urbis Mediolani (prose). The most important of his Italian compositions is the Libro delle tre scritture, consisting of a black book on hell, a red book on the suffering of Christ, and a golden book on heavenly beatitude. His poetry is akin to that of Giacomino da Verona.

works

Latin works

Carmina seu Controversia de Mensibus, ed. L. Biadene, Studi di filologia romanza 9 (1901), 1-130. Cf. also the corrections of G. Paris in Romania 30 (1901), 597-602 & L. Biadene, ‘Un altro manoscritto dei ‘Carmina de mensibus’ di Bonvesin da la Riva’, Giornale storica della letteratura italiana 44 (1904), 269-274.

De Vita Scolastica/De Discipulorum Preceptorumque Moribus/Scolastica Moralis, ed. E. Franceschini (Padua, 1943); Quinque Claves Sapientiae (…) Bonvicini de Ripa. Vita scolastica, ed. A. Vidmanová-Schmidtová (Leipzig, 1969), 37-113.

De Magnalibus Urbis Mediolani, ed. F. Novati, Bulletino del’Itituto Storico Italiano 20 (1898), 1-188/Grandezze di Milano, ed. A. Paredi (Milan, 1967). Cf. also the translation Le meraviglie di Milano, trans. F. Verga (Milan, 1921). New editions/translation appeared as Le meraviglie di Milano = De magnalibus Mediolani, ed. Paolo Chiesa (Rome, 2009); Le meraviglie di Milano = De magnalibus Mediolani Bonvicinus 'de Ripa', ed. Giuseppe Pontiggia, Vittorio Sgarbi & Maria Corti (Milan, 2010/Milan, 2015); Le meraviglie di Milano, ed. Angelo Paredi (Milan, 2012). A partial English translation appeared in Frances Andrews, 'Bonvesin della Riva on Milan and Its Contado (1288) translated from Latin', in: Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation, ed. Katherine Ludwig Jansen (Philadelphia, Pa., 2009), 16-19.

Vernacular (or mixed works), most of which were meant to be sung or recitated aloud:

Disputatio Mensium, De Sathana cum Virgine, De Peccatore cum Virgine, De Anima cum Corpore, Disputatio Rose cum Viola, Disputatio Musce cum Formica, Libro delle tre scritture, De falsis excusationibus, De vanitatibus, De quindecim miraculis, De die iudicii, Laudes de Virgine Maria, Rationes quare Virgo tenetur diligere peccatores, Vulgare de elymosinis, Vulgare de passione sancti Iob, Vita beati Alexii, De quinquaginta curialitatibus ad mensam, Expositiones Catonis. Most of these have been edited in: G. Contini, Le opere volgari di Bonvesin da la Riva (Rome, 1941); G. Contini, ‘Saggio d’un edizione critica di Bonvesin da la Riva’, Memorie d. R.. Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere (classe di lettere) 24 (1935), 237-272; G. Contini, Cinque volgari di Bonvesin da la Riva (Modena, 1937); Poeti del Duecento (Milan-Naples, 1960) I, 667-712.

literature

A. Ratti, ‘B. della Riva appartenne al terz’ordine degli Umiliati, o al terz’ordine di S. Francesco?’, Rendic. d.R. Ist. Lombardo di scienze e lettere ser. 2, 34 (1901), 831f; L. Zanoni, ‘Fra Bonvesin della Riva fu Umiliato o terziario Francescano?’, Il Libro e la Stampa 8 (1914), 141-148; P. Pecchiai, ‘I documenti sulla biografia di Buonvicino della Riva’, Giornale storica della letteratura italiana 78 (1921), 96-127; H. Nolthenius, Duecento. Zwerftocht door Italë’s late middeleeuwen (Utrecht, 195); Giovanni Cremaschi, 'Un codice poco noto della "Vita scholastica" di Bonvesin da la Riva', Aevum 23 (1949), 213-220; G. Contini, Letteratura italiana delle origini (Florence, 1970); A.S. Avalle, ‘Bonvesin de La Riva’, DBI XII, 465-469; Manuele Gragnolati, ‘From decay to splendor. Body and pain in Bonvesin da la Riva’s Book of the Three Scriptures’, in: Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Caroline Walker Bynum & Paul Freedman (Philadelphia, 2000), 83-97, 292-301; Manuele Gragnolati, 'La Scrittura rossa, il Purgatorio e la forza del dolore: per un dialogo tra Bonvesin da la Riva e Dante', in: Dialoghi con Dante: riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia: atti del convegno, Torino, 17-18 maggio 2004, ed. Erminia Ardissino & Sabrina Stroppa (Rome, 2007), 17-40; Gianfranco Contino, 'Saggio d'un'edizione critica di Bonvesin da la Riva (1935)', in: Frammenti di filologia romanza: scritti di ecdotica e linguistica; (1932 - 1989), ed. Gianfranco Contini & Giancarlo Breschi, 2 Vols. (Florence, 2007), 331-400; Raffaele Parisella, 'Sulle fonti extrascolastiche della Vita scolastica di Bonvesin de la Riva',Medioevo e rinascimento, n.s. 18 (2007), 1-26; Bonvesin da la Riva: poesia, lingua e storia a Milano nel tardo Medioevo; atti della giornata di studio, Heidelberg, 29 giugno 2006, ed. Raymund Wilhelm (Heidelberg, 2009); Paolo Chiesa, 'La figura di Ambrogio nel "De magnalibus mediolani" di Bonvesin de la Riva', Studia Ambrosiana 4 (2010), 29-43; Paolo Grillo, 'Il frate, il Popolo e il marchese: Bonvesin da la Riva e la politica milanese', Archivio storico italiano 173 (2015), 405-425; Visioni dell'aldilà prima di Dante: testi di Bonvesin da la Riva, Giacomino da Verona, Uguccione da Lodi, Pietro da Barsegapè, ed. Maurizio Cucchi (Milan, 2017).

 

 

 

 

Bothale (late 13th century)

OM. Preached in 1290 at the University of Oxford.

works

Worcester Cath. Q 46 f. 245r

literature

Little-Pelster, Materials, 156, 178, 184; Schneyer, I, 694.

 

 

 

 

Branca (late 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar from Bergamo (?). Author of a Historia episcoporum, vel ecclesiae Bergomensis.

works

Historia Episcoporum, vel Ecclesiae Bergomensis.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum I. 196.

 

 

 

 

Bricius de Rubromonte (Britius de Rubromonte/Brice de Rubremont, d. 1627?)

OFMCap. French friar from Brittany. Member of the Parisian province. Propagator of the devotion to the holy cross. He would have died in Paris in or around 1627.

works

Opusculum ad modum meditationum de mysteriis, & virtutibus crucis D.N. Jesu Christi.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 243; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 183.

 

 

 

 

Bricius Rennensis (Britius Rhedonensis/Brictius/Brice de Rennes, d. ca. 1670)

OFMCap. French friar from Brittany. Was trained as a missionary and worked in Syria and Palestine from 1637 onwards. Was an acknowledged Arabist and translated a number of Christian work into that language. He was also involved with the Arabic translation of the Vulgate, a project coodinated by a group of Capuchin friars at Aleppo. This translation, in turn, was used for the Arabic edition of the Bible finally published by the Congregatio Propagandae Fidei at Rome (1671).

works

Sacraments de confession et de communion

Commentaire sur les évangiles

Annalium Ecclesiasticorum Caesaris Baroni, S.R.E. Cardinalis, Arabica Epitome, 3 Vols. (Rome, 1653-1669). This abridged translation by Brice was brought to the printing press by the Congregatio Propagandae Fidei.

Annalium Sacrorum a Creatione Mundi Christi Domini Nostri Incarnationem Epitome Latino-Arabica (Rome: Giuseppe Luna, 1655).

Biblia Arabica

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 55; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni cappuccini (Rome, 1873) III, 228-229; Clemente da Terzorio, Le missioni dei minori cappuccini, V: Turchia asiatica (Rome, 1919), 87, 130-134; L. Cheikho, Catalogue des manuscrits des auteurs arabes-chrétiens depuis l’Islam (Beyrouth, 1924), 60; Louis de Gonzague, ‘Les anciens missionnaires capucins de Syrie et leur écrits apostoliques de langue arabe’, Collectanea Franciscana 1 (1931), 320, 336, 350-355, 465, 479, 487-491 & 2 (1932), 183, 201-202; A. Teetaert, ‘Brice de Rennes’, DHGE X, 669-670; Lexicon Capuccinum, 266 (with additional references)

 

 

 

 

Bridia, C. de (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Author of the Hystoria Tartarorum (1247-51), based on the travel experiences of John of Piancarpine and Benedict of Poland.

works

Hystoria Tartarorum, SF, I, 133-143; Historia Tartarorum, ed. G.D. Painter, in: The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (New Haven-London, 1965/1996(2nd. ed.); Hystoria Tartarorum C. de Bridia Monachi, ed. Alf Önnerfors, Lietzmanns Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen, 186 (Berlin, 1967); Die Hystoria Tartarorum des C. de Bridia, ed. Tonio Juriatti (Graz: Uni-Press Graz Verlag, 2019).

literature:

A.-D. von den Brincken, Die 'Nationes Christianorum Orientalium' im Verständnis der lateinischen Historiographie, Keulen-Wenen, 1973, 447; C.H. Kneepkens, ` Randbemerkungen zum Text der `Hystoria Tartarorum C. de Brydia Monachi'', MJ, 14 (1979), 273-277; B. Roest, Reading the Book of History, passim; Gregor Werner, 'Travelling Towards the Peoples of the Endtime: C de Bridia as religious re-interpretation of Carpini', in: Peoples of the Apocalypse: Eschatological Beliefs and Political Scenarios, ed. Wolfram Brandes, Felicitas Schmieder & Rebekka Voß (Berlin, 2016), 83-96.

 

 

 

 

Bruno Chassaignus (Bruno Chassaing, d. 1669)

OFMRec. French friar. Lector jubilatus, guardian of the Cognac friary (Aquitanian province de l'Immaculée Conception) and later papal penitentiary at Saint John of Lateran in Rome under Gregory XV and Urban VIII.

works

Franciscanus Redivivus Regulae Minorum quam Christo dictante considerat interpres, tum quibusdam super cum adhibitis quaestionibus (Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1652).

Privilegia regularium, quibus aperte demonstratur regulares ab omni ordinarium potestate exemptos esse (...),(Bordeaux, 1645 & 1651/Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1652/Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1654/Valencia: Luis Muguet, 1655/Venice: Francesco Storti, 1658 [4th corrected ed.]/Cologne: Andreas Brugiottus, 1671). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale/Numérique de Lyon and via Google Books (in any case the 1655 and 1671 editions). The work was apparently forbidden by the Congregation of the Index in 1661.

Praelatus Regularis. Opus in quo dignitas praelaturae, tum conditiones in praelato ad eam digne exercendam, tum ratio perfecti regimenis regularium (...) (Bordeaux: Jaconus Mongiro Millangius, 1654/1655). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale/Numérique de Lyon and via Google Books (in any case the 1654 edition).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 243-244; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 183-184; Régis Bertrand, Les récollets: En quête d’une identité franciscaine, 252.

 

 

 

 

Bruno de Patti (Bruno da Patti, d. 1677)

OFMCap. Sicilian friar from Patti. Entered the order in the Messina province. Provincial minister of Palermo (November 1668) and visitator of the provinces of San Angelo, Foggia and Aragon. Mariologist.

works

De Immaculata Virginis Mariae Conceptione.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 56; Édouard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 15; Antonino da Castellamare, Storia dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1924) III, 137; LexCap

 

 

 

 

Bruno Neostadiensis (Bruno von Wiener Neustadt, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German/Austrian friar and member of the Austrian province. Preacher.

works

Predigten für das ganze Jahr.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 244.

 

 

 

 

Brunon Neusser (Bruno Neusser, fl. 17th century)

OFMRec. French friar, who became a member of the Recollect Cologne province. Lector jubilatus (in Mainz) and custos. He translated into Latin a number of sermon collections and also produced individual treatises of his own.

works

Summa Praedicabilium Sermonum, 2 Vols. (1659).

As translator/editor: Assumpta Praedicabilia super omnia Quadragesimae Evangelia. Hoc est Sermones Morales (...) Italice per R.P.M. Michaelem de Calvo Tertii Ordinis (...) (Cologna: Johannes Busaeus, 1659/Cologne: Johann Busaeus, 1668).

Tractatus de Horis Canonicis seu Resolutiones Omnium Quaestionum quae circa Horarum, & Breviarii Lectionem moveri solent. In quibus Omissis quae Historiam ac Mysticam significationem horarum spectant, Universa materia de horis recitandis, ac de iis quae in Breviario continentur Elucidantur (Mainz: Johann Baptista Schönwetterl, 1669). Accessible via the Bibliothek Regensburg and via Google Books.

As translator/editor: Sermones per omnes Dominicas totius Anni (Mainz: Echenwetterl. 1668).

As translator/editor: Aloisius Albericus, S.J, Quadragesimale, Dominicale, ac Sanctorale (Mainz: Johann Baptista Schönwetterl, 1669).

Prodromus Velitaris Augustinus Hipponensis, Sanctissimi Galliarym Episcopi, Eminentissimi Cardinales Baronius, & Bellarminus, & centeni Societatis Scriptores vindicantur a calumnis, conviciis, imposturis, quibus scatet opus tripartitum Henrici de Noris (...) (Mainz: Johann Petrus Zubrodt, 1676). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

As translator/editor: Marius Bignoni, Encyclopedia, seu Scientia Universalis Concionatorum (Cologne: Hermann Demen, 1676).

As translator/editor: Petrus de Rota, Hortus floridissimus variorum selectiorumque discursuum praedicabilium, 4 Vols. (Mainz, 1677).

As translator/editor: Evangelista Momigno, Directorium Superiorum Regularium & Ecclesiasticorum (Cologne: Johann Bussaeus, 1665).

Absolutissima Polyanthea theologo-morali-canonica in qua ex definitionibus, Rescriptis Summorum Pontificum, Conciliorum tam Generalium quam Provincialium, Sanctionibus, Decretis, & Decisionibus Sacrarum Congregationum, quae usque ad haec tempora emanarunt, S.S.P.P. prpobatissimis Auctoribus exacte & methodice discutitur (...) (Mainz: Johann Petrus Zubrodt, 1680). Accessible via the British Library and Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 244; Charles Louis Richard, Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique (...) XVII, 412; L. Ceyssens, `L'Action antijanséniste du P. Brunon Neusser', Franz. Stud., 35 (1953), 401-411.

 

 

 

 

Bruno Ronovil (fl. 17th century)

OFM. French friar. Preacher and confessor. He died around 1696.

works

Vita prossaica admirabilis servi Dei Fr. Sebastiani ab Apparitio.?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 244; Biografía eclesiástica completa XXIII, 697-698.

 

 

 

 

Bruno Schmitz (fl. early 18th century)

OFMConv. Provincial minister in the Cologne province.

works

Instructio clara et brevis de modo concionandi (Cologne: Alstorff, 1711). Available via Google Books.

 

 

 

 

Burgardus Waldis (Burkard Waldis, fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFM. German Franciscan friar and later Lutheran author, Born around 1490 in Hassia. He joined the Franciscans at Riga in the 1510s. In 1522, the Archbishop of Riga sent him and three other friars to Rome to obtain papal support against the growing Lutheran influence in the town. After his return to Riga with papal letters and other documents, he found that the town was in Lutheran hands. Burkard was imprisoned and during that time converted to Protestantism. He was released, got married, and began a career as pewterer. In this capacity he wrote and pubished a theatre piece on the profigal son. Either for his pewterer work or in another context, Burkard went on substantial journeys. On one of these, in 1536, he was arrested by Catholic autorities in Bauske, as a result of which he spent three and a half years in prison, possibly subjected to torture in a prison of the Teutonic order. Whatever his treatment, he was allowed paper and writing materials, for in that period he translated the Psalms into German. After his release 1540, he was invited to Wittenberg to study. After three years of studies, he became a pastor of the priory at Abterode in Hassia, in 1544, where he died in 1556. Burkard Waldis is known for his De parabbell vam verloren Szohn, which he wrote during his Riga years as a Lutheran, and which was first perfdormed on Carnival Sunday of 1527 in Riga. It is a theatre piece with strong catechistic tendencies. Although it is an early Protestant work, many elements show that the author was steeped in Franciscan Lenten preaching traditions. He also is the author of an massive Aesopus translation/elaboration, which ridicules monks and nuns, and Franciscans in particular.

works

De parabbell vam verloren Szohn, edited in: Die Schabühne im Dienste der Reformation, ed. Arnold E. Berger.

Esopus von Burkhard Waldis, ed. Heinrich Kurz, 2 Vols. (Leipzig, 1862). For attacks on the Franciscans in this text, see especially the fables III, 90 ('Von dreien Mönchen'), 92 ('Wie ein Sewhirt zum Apte wirt'), 100 ('Wie ein Barfuesser Moench predigt'); IV, 4 ('Vom Gardian und einem Lotterbuben'), 22 ('Wie ein Moench Kaeß bettelt'), 89 ('Von einem Moench und seinem Sattel'), 95 ('Der junge Moench, der nichts kann als regieren'). The Esopus text was printed several times between 1548 and 1584, and had quite an impact on the German literary scene.

literature

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