Fabianus de Edolo (Fabiano di Edolo, fl. 1690)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Brescia. Provincial minister of the Brescia province, known for investment in rule Observance and uniformity in his province.

works

Il superiore in visita ideato. Non solo per Superiori, e Sudditi Regolari, mà per Prelati, per Parochi, per Predicatori alle Grate, per Confessori di Monache, per Capi di Famiglia, e per tutti quelli, che Regonno e Governano (Venice: Paolo Antonio Sanzonio, 1695). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

literature

Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 731-732.

Fabianus de Ingal (Fabianus de Hungaria/Fabianus Hungarus/Frater Fabianus, fl. 15th cent.)

OMConv. Hungarian friar. Provincial minister of the Conventuals of Hungary in the years 1452-1474. presumed author of the Speculum Vitae B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius, composed sometime between 1400 and 1443. This work is a compilation built in particular from the works of Francis of Assisi, the Actus B. Francisci, materials from the lives of Francis' early followers etc.

works

Speculum Vitae B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius (Venice: Simon de Luere, 1504). See also: Speculum Vitae B. Francisco et Sociorum Eius in duas partes divisum, ed. Guilelmus Spoelberg (Antwerp: Gerard Wolfschat, 1620-1621/). The 1620/21 edition, which was based on an extended manuscript version once kept in the Recollect house of Valenciennes, is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale/Médiathèque de Lyon and via Google Books (look under Guilielmus Spoelberch). For more info and additional versions, see the article by Bihl. Sbaralea mentions in this regard for instance Speculum Vitae S. Francisci & Sociorum ejus (Cologne: Joh. Crithius, 1623).

Catalogus Sanctorum Fratrum Minorum. Apparently a fourteenth-century saint catalogue added as an appendix go the Speculum Vitae B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius.

Catalogus Ministorum Generalium, Capitulorum Generalium, & Ministrorum, atque Capitulorum provinciae Hungariae usquer ad annum 1504. Check!

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 342; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 233-234; M. Bihl, 'L'Édition du Speculum Vitae B. Francisci parue à Györ en 1752 et l'origine hongroise du Speculum Vitae', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 20 (1937), 132-153.

Fabianus Hinckelmann (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRef. German (Bohemian) friar. Preacher and apostolic missionary in the Bohemian lands.

works

Medulla celebriorum controversiarum fidei, quae inter nos Catholicos, Lutherum, Calvinum, Graecos & Hebraeos vertunt. Expressa ex sacra Scriptura, sanctis Patribus, Conciliis, Doctoribus, rationibus ac propria praxi (...) (Ingolstadt: Sumptibus Joannis Andreae de la Haye, 1716). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 82.

Fabius Papazonius (Fabio Papazonio/Papazzonio, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Lector jubilatus of theology.

works

Conclusiones ex uniuersa sacramentorum materia ad mentem doctoris Scoti (...) (Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1639). Accessible via Google Books.

De Conceptione Immaculatae Virginis Mariae ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 342.

Fabius Sinis (Fabius Syrius de Monte Regali/Fabio Sini da Monreale, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Joined the order in the Umbria province (Monreale friary?). Renowned preacher, who preached in many of the major churches of Rieti, Foligno and Spoleto, and in the Franciscan churches of Piacenza, Padua, Florence, Palermo en elsewhere. He completed his course of studies at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1608, and fulfilled stints as lector at the study houses of Piacenza, Pisa, Ferrara, Aquila, Florence, and Palermo, to become regent in the Naples studium. He was provincial secretary in 1624. He led his province as commissarius generalis the same year, and again in 1629 and 1630, and in 1630 he was also made guardian of the Perugia friary. This appointment was only for a few months, as he was appointed to the position of provincial minister of Saxony, also to help guide the fight against Protestantism. He eventually returned to Italy, where he lived in the major Conventual friary of Rome, where a number of his works would have been kept in manuscript format. There he also acted as confessor and as personal theologian of Cardinal Girolamo Colonna. He died in his nineties on 26 May 1670.

works

Sei ragionamenti delli affetti mistici tratti dal Cantico di Salomone (Rome: Andrea Fei, 1640).

Spiritualis industria pro confessione (Rome: Battista Robletti, 1641).

Opusculum de Casibus Consientiae?

Tractates Morales Quibus Fidelis Homo as Pie Sancteque Vivendum Dirigitur (...) F. Fabii Syrii a Monte Regali, Minoritae Conventualis, doctoris theologici... (Perugia, 1670). This is a collection of treatises, including a number previously issued by Francesco Michele del Padovano (such as De insensata cura mortalium, Manuale Sacrum pro intelligenda Sacra Scriptura, De iudiciis Astrologorum parvipendendis, De morbo epidemiali, & eius cura, De longitudine ac brevitate vitae humanae epistula ad Amicum, etc. See also the entry on Franciscus Michaelus de Padua (Franciscus Florentinus/Francesco Michele del Padovano/Francesco de Firenze).

De ratione studendi sacrae Scripturae (Perugia: Sebastiano Zecchini, 1660). See also the entry on Franciscus Michaelus de Padua.

Fabii Syrii e Monte regalo Ord. Minorum Convent. sac. Theologiae Doctoris Christianarum Institutionum Opus: olim MS Rome, Conventus SS. Apostolorum. ? Check.

literature

Wadding-Fonseca, Pandzic, Annales Minorum XXXI (ed. 1956), 473; Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 171-173; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 342; Sbaralea, Supplementum ad Scriptores (ed. 1806), 234.

Faustinus Cranius (Faustinus Diestensis/Faustinus Craneus/Faustinus van Diest/Faust de Craen, fl. 1620)

OFMCap. Belgian friar from the Flanders province. Provincial minister. Biographer.

works

Alter Alexius natione Scotus, nobili familia oriundus, nuper in Belgium felici S. Spiritu afflatu delatus, & in familiam Seraphici Patris S. Francisci Capuccinorum adscriptus, sub nomine F. Archangeli (Cologna: Johann Christophorus, 1620). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books. The work was also translated into Italian: Narrativa della vita d'un figlio, et d'una madre scozzesi di patria, & nobilissimi per nascita (...) Opera composta in latino dal P. Faustino Diestense Capuccino & tradotta in lingua volgare da un divoto della religione (...) (Modona: Giulian Cassiani, 1634).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 342-343; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 234.

Faustinus de Matre Dei (Faustino da Madre de Deus, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Portuguese friar from Ovar. Member of the Algarves province. Took his profession in the Bragança friary in 1613. Fulfilled several administrative charges (such as guardian of the Ilha de Madeira friary).

works

Primeira parte do Florilegio espiritual, colhido da doctrina dos sanctos padres (...) applicado á perfeição da vida religiosa, sobre o psalmo .Beatu ummacylaru in via' (...) (Coïmbra: Manuel Dias, 1656).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 343; Innocêncio Francisco da Silva, Diccionario bibliographico portuguez II, 254.

Faustinus Gedeonus (Faustino Gideone da Brescia, fl first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Brescia province. Promotor of the devotion to the Virgin.

works

De B. Virginis praestantia, ejusque Sacratissima et immaculata conceptione tractatus (..) (Venice, 1641). This work has also been ascribed to the Certosino Faustino Salerno and others, so this ascription is not secure.

Septizonium Marianum , hoc est de Nominibus Deiparae opus nouiflimum in septem libros distributum (1648). This also needs to be checked.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores ordinis Minorum (ed. 1650), 108; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 343; Gaetano Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani II, 411.

Faustinus Tassus (Faustino Tasso/Faustino Jason/Aeneas Jason, 1541-1597)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Venice, (anti-judaic) preacher and apologist. Also involved with the Venetian Accademia degli Uranici in his younger years.

works

Oratione funebre, recitata in Firenze dal R. Faustino Tasso nell'essequie del Marchese di Monte Crivello, l'anno MDLXVIII (1568).

Venti ragionamenti familiari sopra la venuta del Messia. Del R.P. Faustino Tasso, minore osseruante. Fatti in Napoli ad alcuni hebrei (...) l'anno 1575. (...) Con due tavole: vna de ragionamenti; l'altra delle materie notabili (...)(Venice: appresso Gio. Antonio Rampazetto, 1585). Available via Google Books and via the collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.

Le historie de' successi de' nostri tempi, del R. P. Faustino Tasso vinitiano de' minori osseruanti, diuise in tredici libri. Nelle quali si contengono tumulti, ribellioni, seditioni, tradimenti, ... & altre cose occorse fra catolici, & heretici, dal fine dell'anno 1561 fino al principio dell'anno 1580 (Venice: appresso Domenico, & Gio. Battista Guerra, fratelli, 1583). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome, via the Národni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Della Conversione del Peccatore, Del R.P. Faustino Tasso Vinitiano dell'Ordine osservante di S. Francesco, Libro Primo. Nel quale si tratta quello che sii Conversione: opera utilissima per quelli, che desiderano vivere in gratia di Dio. All'Illustr.mo e Reuer.mo Cardinale d’Vrbino (Venice: appresso Domenico & Gio. Battista Guerra, 1578). Accessible via Google Books.

Libro secondo nel quale si tratta del mezzo col quale il peccatore si deve conuertire. All’Illustr.mo e Reuer.mo Cardinale Borromeo (Venice: appresso Domenico & Gio. Battista Guerra, fratelli, 1578).

Libro terzo [della Conversione del Peccatore] nel quale si tratta dell'opere, che deve far il peccatore dopo la sua conuersione. Con la spositione dell'oratione Domenicale. All'Ill.re Commendatore il cavaliere Arimondo (Venice: appresso Domenico & Gio. Battista Guerra, fratelli, 1578).

De'sermoni in honore della beata Vergine, sopra l'euangelio, exurgens Maria abijt in Montana. E sopra il Magnificat anima mea Dominum. Del R.P. Faustino Tasso, de' Minori osseruanti, 2 Vols. (Venice: presso Gio. Battista Somasco, 1587). Both volumes are accessible via the University Library of Madrid and via Google Books. It would seem that in any case the first volume is also accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon.

Il Primo( -secondo) Libro Delle Rime Toscane Del R. Faustino Tasso. Raccolte Da Diversi Luoghi & Date in Luce Da G. Campeggio, 2 Vols. (Turin: Appresso Francesco Dolce e compagni, 1573). Accessible via the University Library of Turin and via Google Books.

Oratione della felicita, e del sommo bene (...) publicamente recitata in Vinetia nell'Academia d'Uranici il giorno decimo di Giugno l'anno 1587. Al Sereniss. Principe Pasqual Cigogna, et Illustriss. Signoria di Vinetia (Venice: Presso Domenico Imberti, 1587). A lecture in honor of the start of the Accademia d'Uranici in Venice.

Parafrase sopra i sette salmi penitentiali. Del R. P. Faustino Tasso (...) Con gli argomenti nel principio de tutti i Salmi, & una diuotissima oratione nel fine (...) Con sette essercitij spirituali (...) (Venice: appresso Domenico Farri, 1590). Available via Google Books and via the collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.

Constitutioni e decreti della Congregatione Generale Napolitana, nel celeberrimo conuento di S. Maria della Noua. Sotto il Reuerendiss. padre F. Francesco Tolosa (...) bene, e canonicamente celebrata l'anno 1591. Tradotti dal latino nel volgare dal r.p.f. Faustino Tasso (Venice: appresso Domenico Farri, 1591).

Orazione recitata in Torino dal R.P. Faustino Tasso in lode della Religione di S. Lazero, Emmanuel Filiberto Duca di Savoja gran Maestro e Protettore. Check!

Orazione funerale recitata dal R.P. Faustino Tasso in Praga, nell'esequie di Ferdinando I. Imperatore. Check!

Prediche del R.P. Faustino Tasso, fatte a vari Principli d'Italia. Check!

Apologia del R.P. Faustino Tasso Minor Osservante al suo Libro: della Conversione del Peccatore. Check!

Commentaria in novum Testamentum. Ascription by Wadding and Sbaralea.

Libellus carminum spiritualium (Turin, 1573). Ascription by Wadding and Sbaralea.

Orazione di Jeremia profeta in carmine esplicata? Ascription by Sbaralea.

To be continued...

literature

Juan de San Antonio. Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 343; Giovanni degli Agostini, Notizie Istorico-critiche intorno la vita, e le opere degli Scrittori Viniziani (Venice, 1754) II, 509f; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 234-235; Michele Maylender, Storia delle Accademie d’Italia, 5 Vols. (Bologna-Trieste: Cappelli, 1926-1930) V, 412-413.

Faustinus Tusculanus (Faostino da Toscolano/Luca di Domenico Bartoli, 1595-1679)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Joined the order at the S. Maria della Spineta friary near Fratta Todina on April 17, 1617. Ordained priest om March 7, 1626. Learned Arabi in Rome, in the S. Pietro in Montorio friary. Was invited to join Dionisio Canossa, prospected guardian of Jerusalem for the OFMRef, but this was delayed after the death of Canosa, which meant a sojourn in Naples in the Santa Chiara monastery, prior to a renewed invitation by Canosa's successor, Paolo da Lodi. A journey via Messia to Alexandria, Rosetta, Cairo, and Damietta, brought Faostino to Jerusalem in March 1633. He worked for a while as a pilgrim guide, as guardian of the Bethlehem friary, and he was subsequently sent to Constantinopel in 1634 to appeal to the Sultan in a conflict over the holy places with representatives of the Grek Orthodox Church. Due to Ottoman warfare with Persia, Faostino had to seek out the Ottoman army, and was only able to obtain partial reassurances once he had presented himself in the Ottoman headquarters near Merdin. Back in Jerusalem in 1636, he helped Pietro da Montepeloso with the compilation of his Holy Land chronicles, and worked as a secretary for Giacinto da Verona and for Andrea d'Arco, the new guardian of the Holy Land province. In subsequent years, Faostino was repeatedly sent on delicate missions to help support the Franciscan presence in the Holy land, to neutralize the policies the Ottoman commander in Jerusalem, and to fend off Capuchin ambitions in the Holy Land. Eventually, Faostino traveled back to Italy and to several European courts, also to obtain financial support for the Franciscan Holy Land mission. In this context, he also transcribed the Croniche di Terra Santa of Francesco da Serino, and he took part in the Franciscan general chapter of Toledo (July 1658). He died at Trevi (Perugia province), in the San Martino friary, on February 19, 1679. He is known for his Itinerario di Terrasanta (dated 19 March 1654), and kept in a manuscript format in the Biblioteca comunale L. Leonii of Todi (MS 204). It is a lengthy itinerary in a diary format that covers 509 manuscript pages, divided into 63 chapter of unequal length. It more or less covers the period 1633-1643 and also contains itineraries for pilgrims and info concerning what they can see in various places in the Holy Land. It also contains indulgences information, additional liturgical and prayer texts, and closes with the author's return to Italy, his sojourn in Venice and his longer stay in Rome. The descriptions of the Holy Land and other regions present in this work contain a wealth of information on plants, customs, legends, roads, and peoples. It apparently also contains one of the first European descriptions of the way to prepare and drink coffee.

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Itinerario di Terrasanta: Biblioteca comunale di Todi L. Leonii, MS 204.

literature

Croniche ovvero Annali di Terra Santa del p. Pietro Verniero da Montepeloso, ed. G. Golubovich, 3 Vols. (Florence, 1929) I, LXIII & III, 120, 146, 234; Croniche o Annali di Terra Santa del p. Francesco da Serino, ed. T. Cavallon (Florence, 1939), xiif.; Annales minorum XXIX, ed. A. Chiappini (Florence, 1948), 567; Walter Bianchini, 'Faostino da Toscolano', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 44 (1994)[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/faostino-da-toscolano_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ], with additional information.

Faustus Garganellus (Faustus Garganelli/Fausto Garganello da Bologna, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Bologna. He had already completed his studies in law when he joined the order. There he studied theology and also focused in actions and writings on the edification of interior man and on the exact performance of rites and ceremonies, and the obligations of the rule. he was made guardian of the Bitonto in 1635. Thereafter guardian of the Santi XII Apostoli friary in Rome. Again guardian of Bitonto in 1643. In between these stints as guardian, he was in 1630 appointed visitator and superintendent for the visitation of all Franciscan seminaries in the Bologna province, and later he would be appointed to do the same for all Italian provinces. Also visitator and president of the Polish and Russian provincial chapter. Aparently in conflict in Poland over issues of religious rites and ambitions of rivalling Conventual factions. Back in Italy in 1637, he was visitator in Puglia (San Niccolò province) and acting provincial of England (?), provincial commissioner of the Bologna province in 1638 and provincial minister of the same province in the same year. He died several years later in the Bologna province.

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Caeremonialis Ordo Romanus ad usum Fratrum Minorum Conventualium S. Francisci, hinc inde collectus (...) (Bologna; Giovanni Rossi, 1631/Florence: Pietro Nestio, 1631). Published anonymously with support of and for use in the order.

Avvisi di Composizione Religiosa (Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1647). Published anonymously with support of and for use in the order. Several reprints would follow in Perugia, Florence, Palermo, and elsewhere.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 173-175; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 235; Gaetano Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani (...) (Milan: Luigi di Giacomo Pirola, 1848) I, 105; Dizionario biografico universale II, 974.

Febronia Ferdinanda de Jesu Ansalone (Febronia Ferdinanda di Gesù/Rosalia Ferdinanda de Gesu, 1657-1718)

TOR & OSC. Italian religious woman from Caccarone, a small town near Palermo. She became a tertiary and subsequently a Poor Clare in the Santa Chiara monastery of Palermo. She eventually became abbess there. Spiritual and mystical writer. After her death, a process of canonization was initiated, but it was put on hold in the early 19th century.

works

Regola per terziare francescane (ca. 1677/1692).

Contemplazioni, 6 Vols. (1703-1709/1752-1759). Massive work. See the 2015 studies by Mario Torcivia.

Fascetto mistico di fiori, overo considerazioni diversi (1719). See also the translation of one of her prayers: Gebeth zur Ehre unseres Herrn Jesu Christi in dem allerheiligsten Altars-Sakrament (Baden, 1795).

literature

Mario Torcivia, Francescanesimo mistico a Palermo: La Venerabile serva di Dio suor Febronia Ferdinanda di Gesù (Caccamo 1657-Palermo 1718) clarissa del monastero di S. Chiara (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2015); Mario Torcivia, 'Febronia Ferdinanda di Gesù (1657-1718). Clarissa del monastero di S. Chiara di Palermo', Antonianum 90 (2015), 101-124.

Federicus Bencivenni (1759-1829)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Bologna region (San Giovanni in Persiceto). Entered the order in March 1776. Lector, preacher, guardian, definitor. Bishop of Bertinoro and Sarcina (1817).

works

Homiliae

literature

Elogio di Monsignor Federico Bencivenni Persicetano, vescovo di Bertinoro e Sarsina (1838); Michelangelo da Rossiglione, Cenni biografici e ritratti di Padri dell’ordine cappuccino sublimati alle dignità ecclesiastiche (Rome, 1910) II, no. 9-12; M.-Th. Disdier, ‘Bencivenni’, DHGE VII,1050.

Federicus Pellegrinus (Federicus Peregrinus/Federico Pellegrini da Bologna/Federigo, fl. 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Bologna. Lenten preacher and public lector/preacher of Sacred Scripture in the San Petronio church (Vesper lectures). These lectures formed the basis for several of his works of religious edification.

works

Discorso spirituale sopra il Miserere del R.P.M. Federico Pellegrini minor conuentuale. Altre volte da lui esplicato nella Collegiale di S. Petronio. Con la tauola di tutte le cose contenute in esso (...) (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1579). Accessible via the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina in Rome, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, and via Google Books.

Oratione di Davide (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1579).

Discorso sopra il primo salmo penitentiale (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1585/Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1594). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books.

Discorso sopra il secondo salmo penitentiale (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1586).

Discorso sopra il terzo salmo penitentiale (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1586).

Discorso sopra il quarto salmo penitentiale (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1587).

Discorso sopra il quinto salmo penitentiale. Del r. p. maestro Federico Pellegrini bolognese minor conuentuale (...) (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1587).

Discorso sopra il sesto e sette salmi penitentiali?

Carmina ?

Conversione del peccatore overo riforma della mala vita dell'huomo. Del R.P. Maestro Federico Pellegrini. Opera, nellaquale dichiarando l'Autore i Salmi Penitentuali, vi sparge molta Sacra Dottrina, e la riempie d'infiniti Concetti, di Dottrina Scholastica, di Senso Literale, di Dogmi, di Contemplationi, d'Orationi, di Meditationi, di Essercitationi, e d'altri essercitii Spiritiali, cavati da Santi Dottori, da Sacri Theologi, e da altri pij, e Cattolici Autori: Utilissima ad ogni persona, che desidera acquistarsi la vita eterna, e necessara ad ogni Religioso, per i molti Casi di Conscienzi, che per essa sono sparsi, 2 Vols. (Venice: Antheo Viotti & Barezzo Barezzi, 1591). Accessible via the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina in Rome, 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), 175-176, 582-583; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 452; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 235.

Felix Antonius Guarnierus (Felice Antonio Guarnieri da Monte Reale, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the San Francesco province. Regent lector in Terni, Viterbo and Prague. Provincial minister in Umbria between 1694 and 1697, and general comissarius. Dogmatic theologian and controversialist. Wrote several works on the church militant and triumphant.

works

Opus de Ecclesia militante, capite, et membris ejusdem, Tum in toto Orbe Terrarum dispersa, tum in Conciliis congregata. Divisum in Quatuor Libros (...) (Rome: Haeredi Corbelletti, 1694. Accessible via Google Books and via the Národni Knihovna National Library in Prague.

Opus de Ecclesia purgante, et triumphante. Elaboratum a fr. Felice Antonio Guarnieri de Monte Regali (Rome: Gaetano Zenobio, 1708). Accessible 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), 576; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 106, 360 [Franciscus Antonius Guarnierus]; Miscellanea Francescana 29 (1929), 120; Isidoro Gatti, Il p. Vincenzo Coronelli: dei Frati Minori Conventuali negli anni del generalato (1701-1707) (Rome: Università Gregoriana, 1976), 915, 940; Francesco Costa, Impegno ecclesiale dei Frati minori conventuali nella cultura ieri e oggi (1209-1997) (1998), passim.

Felix Antonius Romanus (Felice Antonio da Roma, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Roman province. Provincial minister and general definitor (1772-1780).

works

Ristretto della vita di S. Serafino d'Ascoli, o sia da Montegranaro, laico professo dell' ordine de'minori cappuccini (...). esposto da un p. predicatore dell'ordine medesimo (Rome: Casaletti, 1768). Issued anonymously. In any case accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books.

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), 20.

Felix Azzi Parmensis (Felice degli Azzi di Parma, 1671-1745)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Parma. Brother of Orazio degli Azzi, who also joined the order (see Orazio da Parma (Orazio degli Azzi)). He joined the Osservanti Riformati at the age of 17 in 1688. After his religious formation and theological studies he embarked on a preaching career, leading him for about forty years through the northern half of the Italian peninsula, notably during the Lent season, but also on other occasions. He was given the honorific title of Pater Provinciae at the request of Pope Clement XII. Several times guardian of the Parma friary, where he worked to extend the library.

works

Panegirici Sacri consagrati al (...) Card. Fabrizio Spada (Parma: Paolo Monti, 1704). A collection of 8 panegyrical sermons.

La destra di Dio impegnata per Cesena nella mano sinistra del Magno Pontefice S. Gregorio (...) (Cesena: Stamperia Vescovile del Ricceputi, 1710). Panegyrical sermon. Reprinted in the Orazioni panegiriche e discorsi morali.

La Castità ne'cimenti. Discorso accademico (...) (Ravenna: Antonmaria Landi, 1717). Reprinted in the Orazioni panegiriche e discorsi morali

Le glorie di Cristo in Santa Caterina da Bologna (Ravenna, 1737). Reprinted in the Orazioni panegiriche e discorsi morali.

Panegirico ad onore di S. Petronio (Bologna, 1737). Reprinted in the Orazioni panegiriche e discorsi morali.

Quaresimale (...) dedicato a (...) Mons. Camillo Marazzani Vescovo di Parma (Venice: Francesco Pitteri, 1740).

Orazioni panegiriche e discorsi morali dedicati (...) ad Eustochio Palma Vescovo di Fossombrone (...) Opera postuma (Venice: Antonio Bortoli, 1749).

literature

Ireneo Affò & Angelo Pezzana 'Felice, ed Orazio Azzi Minori Osservanti Riformati', Memorie degli scrittori e letterati Parmigiani 7 (1833), 55-60; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 767.

Felix Beaugrand (fl. ca. 1700)

OFM. French friar. He visited the Holy Land at least three times.

works

Relation nouvelle et tres-fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu’y a de remarquable tant par mer que par terre, depuis le depart de Marseille jusqu’au retour de ce saint voyage. Par un religieux observantin qui a fait le voyage trois fois (Paris: Antoine Warrin, 1700). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books (creative search). Later editions followed: Relation fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu' il y a de remarquable, tant par mer que par terre, depuis le départ de Marseille jusqu' au retour de ce saint voyage (...) (Paris: Gabriel Valleyre, 1754/1760). The 1760 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon. His work is a practical guide for pilgrims, with additional information on the customs of the Ottoman Turks. The work is divided into two sections. The first part describes the locations voyagers encounter along the way; the second part discusses the indulgences pilgrims can earn, the processions that can be witnessed etc.

Seconde partie de la Relation nouvelle et fidele du Voyage de la terre Sainte contenant la Description des Iles depuis le Port de Marseille, des Villes du Levant, l’origine des douze differentes Nations qui habitent la Terre-Sainte, leurs Religions, &tc. Avec plusieurs Remarques Historiques & tres curieuses (Paris: Antoine Warrin, 1701). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books. This work discusses the 12 Jewish tribes once living in the Holy land, alongside of the peoples living there in the author’s own times, adding information on Islam and the laws of the Coran.

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), 166.

Felix Bergomensis (Felice Passera di Bergamo, 1610-1702)

OFMCap. Italian lay Capuchin friar in the Brescia province, infirmarer and specialist of medical herbs.

works

Il nuovo tesoro degl'arcani farmacologici Galenici, Chimici, & Spargirici. Consagrat alla Principessa di Castiglione (...), 2 Vols. (Venice: Giovanni Parè, 1688-1689). At least the second volume is accessible via Google Books.

Pratica uniuersale nella medicina: overo annotazioni sopra tutte le infermità più particolari che giornalmente sogliono avvenire ne corpi umani (Milan: Carlo Antonio Malatesta, 1693).

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 87; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 221; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 346 & III (Appendix); Valdemiro, I conventi ed i Cappuccini bergamaschi: memorie storiche (1883), 193-196; Lexicon Capuccinum, 573 (with some additional bibliographical references); Angelo D’Ambrosio, "Herbis non verbis redeunt in corpora vires'. I rimedi curativi nell’Italia del Seicento: Felice Passera da Bergamo e Francesco Dal Bosco di Valdobbiadene, speziali e infermieri cappuccini', Collectanea Franciscana 86:3-4 (2016), 669-705; Bert Roest, '‘Acciò le anime dei fedeli non morissero disperate’: Capuchin Friars, the Plague and Plague treatises in the Early Modern Period', Franciscan Studies 78 (2020), 237-250.

Felix Binus (Felix Bini Assisiensis/Felice Bini d'Assisi, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Doctor of theology, cusos and general commissarius of the Sacro Convento of Assisi.

works

Opuscula de Civitate Assisii, et de Patria Propertii?

Mensa Spirituale (Perugia: Heredi di Pietro Tomasi, 1645).

Thema salutis in orationem Dominicam?

Thematum in Orationem Dominicam, una cum Apologia in Salutationem Angelicam?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 176-177; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 344; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 235; Cesare Orlandi, Delle città d'Italia e sue isole adjacenti compendiose notizie. Notizie sacre, e profane, Tomo Secondo (Perugia: Nella Stamperia Augusta, 1772), 263; Collectanea Franciscana 3 (1933), 92.

Felix Brandimartis (Felice Brandimarte/Felice da Castelvetrano, 1628-1685)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) friar from Castelvetrano. Became a member of the Capuchin Palermo province in 1646 (14 January). Fulfilled several administrative and educational functions in the order. He was lector of theology and provincial preacher, as well as provincial definitor and provincial minister (elected at the provincial chapter of 27 October 1679). Acted as advisor and censor for the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Sicily. He died in Palermo in 22 September 1685. Several of his works reached the printing press.

works

Sapientiae tubae scientia, id est Tractatus scholasticus de arte sacra concionandi (Palermo: Domenico d'Anselmo, 1667).

L’arco trionfale. Panegirico in lode di Santa Rosalia Vergine Palermitana (Palermo, 1669).

Sermoni per alcuni santi ed uno per S. Rosalia vergine Palermitana (Palermo: Agostino Bossio, 1669).

Panegirici Sacri di diversi Santi occorrenti nell'anno con l'aggiunta di quattro prediche nel geno deliberatiuo, et vn'indice copioso di tutte le materie più notabili, e della Scrittura Sacra (Palermo: Domenico d'Anselmo Imp. Abbas Ian nuzzo G. & V. G. Imp.. R. Ioppulus, 1677). Accessible via the Nórodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and also available via Google Books.

Cursus Theologicus ad Mentem Scoti per Quatuor Annos Iuxta Quatuor Sententiarum Libros Commodis Lectionibus Distributus, 5 Vols. (Palermo, 1685). Unclear as to whether this work was indeed printed or has remained in manuscript format in the Capuchin Library of Palermo.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 344-345; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 221; Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè notizie storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani II,iv, 2012-2013; Antonino da Castellamare, Storia dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1924) III, 200, 206; Maximilian Neumayr, Die Schriftpredigt im Barock (Paderborn, 1938), 185; Egidio da Modica, Catalogo dei scrittori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1930), 54-55; A. Teetaert, ‘Brandimarte’, DHGE X, 417; LexCap, 575 (with additional references to older literature); Samuele Giombi, 'Sacra eloquenza: percorsi di studio e pratiche di lettura', in: Libri, biblioteche e cultura nell'Italia del Cinque e Seicento, ed. Edoardo Barbieri Danilo Zardin (Milan: Vita & Pensiero, 2002), esp. 204-205; Giuseppe L. Bonanno & Francesco S. Calcara, ‘I Cappuccini a Castelvetrano’, 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); Paola Celi, Un maestro dell'oratoria sacra del Seicento: Felice Brandimarte da Castelvetrano, PhD Diss. (Università di Messina, 2012) [available at http://cab.unime.it/tesi/1364/ ]

Felix Bretos de Pampilone (Félix Bretos de Pamplona , ca. 1620-1701)

OFMCap. Spanish friar from Pamplona (Navarra region). Joined the order at the age of 17 in 1637, fulfilling his noviciate in the Tarazona friary. Later confessor of the vice-roys of Navarra, Cataluña and Siracusa. Also guardian.

works

Malicia Conidica (Pamplona, 1687).

Modo de ayudar a bien morir (Pamplona, 1687).

El Menor predicador Capuchino por Fr. Felipe Bretos de Pamplona, O. F. M. Capucinorum, en ochenta y cinco discursos (Pamplona: Martin Gregorio de Zabala, 1693/1696). Very erudite sermon collection.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345; Pérez Goyena, Ensayo de Bibliografía Navarra II, 528, 586; José Javier Azanza-López, 'Manifestaciones de la cultura emblemática del Barroco en Navarra: fray Félix Bretos y El menor predicador capuchino', Príncipe de Viana 254 (2011), 277-298.

Felix Brunori (Felice Brunori da Montescudolo, fl. second half 17^th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Montescudaio. Member of the Bologna province. Master of theology. Provincial definitor. Important Lenten preacher. Preached the Lenten cycle in Modena (1674), Genoa (1675), Pavia (1676), Milan (1677), Parma (1678), Cesena (1679), Turin (1680), in the cathedral of Savona (1681), in the St. Anthony Balica in Padua (1682), in the SS. Apostoli friar of Rome (1683), Bologna (1684), Verona (1685), Ravenna (1686), Ancona (1687), Ascoli (1690), Piacenza (1691), Urbania (1692), Orvieto (1693).

works

Discorsi Panegirici in lode della mircacolosa Apparizione di Maria Vergine vicino à Savona, e del famoso Miracolo della Colonna nella Cattedrale (Genua: Antonio Giorgio Franchelli, 1681).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 177; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345; Gli scrittori d'Italia cioè Notizie storiche, e critiche intorno alle vite, e agli scritti dei letterati italiani del conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli bresciano, Volume II Parte IV (Brescia: Giambatista Bossini, 1763), 2231-2232.

Felix Ciatti (Felix Cialtus/Felice Ciatti da Perugia, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born in Bettona and raised in Perugia. Regent of the Conventual studia of Pisa. Urbino, Perugia, Florence and given the title of perpetual definitor on May 10, 1636. Member of the Bolognese Academia degli Insensati, of the Perugian Accademia degli Sonnolenti and the Accademia degli Incogniti in Venice. He apparently accompanied the Conventual master general Berardicelli during his visit of the German and Bohemian provinces. Later general commissioner (1638) and subsequently provincial minister of the Umbrian/Assisi province (1639). He would have died at a relatively young age in the Spello friary on 16 October 1642. Known for his historical/antiquitarian interests (especially concerning Perugia) and for his writings on specific devotional and hagiographical topics.

works

Apologia pro fragmentis Berosii Chaldaei?

Poesie diverse dell'Autore?

De Sepulchro Christi Salvatoris?

De mystica litterarum significatione?

De Minoritis Perusinis illustribus?

In funere r. adm. patris magistri Francisci Vecchij a Senis, Pisani Ordinis erem. S. Augustini, Oratio a.r.p.m. fratre Faelice Ciatto Perusino inter Somnolentos Accad. Sopito, Ordinis min. conuent. S. Francisci, Pisis regente, in Ecclesia S. Nicolai habita, septimo idus Iulij 1624 et per fratrem Io. Iacobum Bonacchelium Pisanum, S. Theol. Baccal. eiusdem Erem. Ordinis alumnum typis data (Pisa: Apud Ioannem Fontanum, 1624). Accessible via Google Books.

Paradosso historico nel quale si proua Perugia esser patria di Sesto Aurelio Propertio poeta elegiaco. Discorso accademico del m.r.p.m. Felice Ciatti perugino min. con. accademico insensato, e sonnolento, da lui recitato nell'Accad. Insensata sotto il principato dell'ill.mo sig.r conte Girollamo Bigazzini (...) (Perugia: appresso Angelo Bartoli, 1628). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Secondo paradosso historico, nel quale si da giuditio e parere sopra la bella, et antichissima statua di bronzo già nel distretto di Perugia ritrouata et hora nell'Augustissima Galeria del Serenissmimo Gran Duca di Toscana conservata. Discorso academico (Perugia: appresso Angelo Bartoli, 1631). Accessible in Google Books.

Il Beato coronato: Mistalogia a lode di S. Stanislao (Perugia: nella stampa episcopale - appresso Angelo Bartoli, 1632).

Dell'origine della Chiesa Perugina, e suo primo Vescovo (Venice: Sarzina, 1634).

Discorso Academici de'Signori Incogniti havuti in Venetia nell'Academia dell'Illustriss. Sig. Gio. Francesco Loredani (Venice: Sarzina, 1635).

Delle memorie annali ed istoriche delle cose di Perugia, raccolte dal...P...Felice Ciatti, Perugino Francescano. Volume Primo. Distinto in tre parti, Nelle quali si descrive con varia eruditione Perugia etrusca, romana et augusta (...) all'Eminentissimo, e Reverendissimo Sig. Cardinal Benedetto Baldeschi vescovo di Perugia (Perugia: Appresso Angelo Bartoli, 1638). Apparently (according to Giovanni Franchini), four additional volumes appeared with the same printing press, but we have not yet been able to trace all of these. The first and second volumes of this work is partially accessible via Archive.org, and also via the Bibliothèque Municipale/Médiathèque de Lyon, the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina in Rome, and via Google Books.

Il Frate Academico, discorso per Academia?

Discorso accademico in lode del color bigio?

Ristretto dell'istoria del sacro anello di Maria Vergine che si conserua nella chiesa Catedrale di Perugia. Estratto dalle memorie annali, & istoriche delle cose di Perugia. Del p.m. Felice Ciatti minore conuentuale (Perugia: Eredi d'Angelo Bartoli & Angelo Laurenzi, 1649). Accessible via the British Library, Google Books, and other digital portals. The work also received a German translation: Mähel-Ring Mariae und Josephi. Das ist: kurzer, wahrhafftiger, gruendlicher Auszug unnd Inhalt, vom hochheiligen wunderthaedigen Maehel-Ring, durch und mit welchem die allerseeligiste, glorwuerdigiste Gottesgebaererin Maria dem H. Ioseph vermaelet worden (Salzburg: Johann Baptist Mayr, 1661). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

To be continued. Check also the remarks of Sbaralea.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 178-179; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 236.

Felix Cueillens (fl. second half 17th cent.)

Felix de Alamin (Félix de Alamín/Felix de los Molinos, d. ca. 1727)

OFMCap. Spanish (Castilian) friar from Los Molinos (Madrid). Born around 1637. Member of the Castilian province. Preacher and author of works of moral theology, anti-judaic and anti-muslim texts and treatises on the pursuit of Christian happiness. He attacked the mystical writings of the Spanish Carmelites Joseph de Jesus-Maria (Don Francesco de Quiroga) and Hugh of Balma, yet this apparently backfired.

works

Falacias del demonio y de los vicios, que apartan del camino real del cielo, y de la perfeccion, y sus remedios Particulares, y generales. Declara qual sea el camino recto de la Virtud, y Perfeccion. Descubre muchas astucias del demonio, con que oculta los caminos veraderos, y propone los falsos. Preserve contra los errores de Molinos. Es obra utilissima a quien desea conocer las Falacias de Satanas, y librarse de sus lazos, come lo declara el Prologo. dividese en dos tomos (Madrid: Antonio de Zafra, 1693/Madrid: Blas de Villanueva, 1714). Present in the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid and made accessible via www.europeana.eu and via Google Books.

Espejo de verdadera y falsa confession: dividese en cinco libros. El primero propone las señales conjeturales de veraderos, y falsos dolores, y propositos en las Confesiones de pecados mortales. El segundo declara, que debe hazer de su parte quien desea hazer una verdadera confession de los pecados mortales. El tercero propone los defectos accidentales, quentos, ò historias que se deben escusar, ò quitar en la Confession y el Methodo de confessar bien, sin defectos y con brevedad. El quarto descubre los defectos que cometen en la Confession los que frequentan los Sacramentos. El quinto manifiesta las circunstancias impertinentes, quentos, ò historias, ò escrupulos que deben evitar los que frequentan la Confession; y enseña à estos à confessar sin defectos (...) (1691/Madrid: Melchior Alvarez, 1695). See also: Puerta de la salvacion y espejo de verdadera y falsa confession: dividese en cinco libros (...) (Madrid: Lorenzo Francisco Mojados, 1724). The 1695 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Espejo de verdadera y falsa contemplacion: dividese en quatro libros (...) (Madrid: Antonio de Zafra, 1695). Present in the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid and made accessible via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear).

Exortaciones a la segura observancia de los Mandamientos de la ley de Dios, en que se proponen motivos para aborrecer los vicios à ellos opuestos (...) siguiendo el Catecismo de San Pio Quinto (...) segun la intencion del Concilio Tridentino (...) (Madrid: Blas de Villanueva, 1714). Present via de Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid and accessible via Google Books.

La Felicidad o Bienaventuranza natural y sobrenatural de el hombre: dividese en ocho tratados (...) (Madrid: Manuel Román-Vicente de Senossayn, 1723). Present in the Biblioteca Complutense/Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid and made accessible via Google Books.

Puerta de la salvacion y espejo de verdadera y falsa confession: dividese en cinco libros (...) (Madrid: Lorenzo Francisco Mojados, 1724).

Impugnacion contra el Talmud de los Judios, Alcoran de Mahoma y contra los hereges: y segunda parte, de la religion christiana, apostolica, catholica y romana, dividese en cinco tratados. En el primero se refutan las mentiras, fabulas, y blasfemias, que contiene dicho Talmud, ò Biblia de los Judios, y que es contra la Ley de Moyses, contra la Natural, y Divina. En el secundo, se impugna el Alcoran de Mahoma, lleno de Fabulas ridiculas, contradicciones, mentiras, y blasfemias. En el tercero, se impugna ser falso, que Dios aya dado la Doctrina, que los Hereges publican. En el quarto, se trata de las grandes necedades, y muchos vicios, que los Gentiles cometian en la adoracion de sus falsos Dioses. En el quinto, se trata de las excelencias de la Fé Catholica, comparadas con la falsedad de las Sectas contrarias (Madrid: Lorenço Francisco Mojados, 1717/Madrid: Lorenço Francisco Mojados, 1727). Present in the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid, the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona, the University library of Santiago de Compostella, the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, and made accessible via Google Books. Apparently, a first attempt by Alamin to get this anti-judaic and anti-islamic work published in 1725 was thwarted by the ecclesiastical censors.

Thesoro de beneficios escondidos en el Credo, y motivos que inducen, y enfervorizan à agradecer, y corresponder à los muchos beneficios incluidos en cada Articulo. Dividese en tres tratados (...) (Madrid: Lorenço Francisco Mojados, 1727). Present in the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid and made accessible via Google Books (creative search, does not always appear).

Retrato del verdadero sacerdote y manual de sus obligaciones: dividese en tres tratados (...) (Madrid: Juan García Infanzon, 1704/Madrid, 1727/Barcelona: Juan Piferrer, 1747). Present in the monastic library of Montserrat, the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid, the University Library of Salamanca, etc. and accessible via Google Books.

Eternidad de diversas eternidades de Gloria a los justos en el cielo y de tormentos en eol infierno al pecador (Madrid: Imp. de la Cruzada, 1760). Present in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid.

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 86; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I 344, 346; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 251 & III, 220; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 344, 346; Bullarium OFMCap V, 366; DThCat I, 658; Andres de Palazuelo, Vitalidad Seráfica (Semblanzas Capuchinas), Primera Serie (Madrid: Bruno del Amo, 1931), 204-207; Lexicon Capuccinum, 572-573; Gonzalo Díaz Díaz, Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española I, 107; Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII III (1984), 305-306; Francois Soyer, Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2014), 54.

Felix de Albaida (1704-1794)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Member of the Sangre de Christo province (Valencia region). Preacher and provincial definitor.

works

Resumen histórico de la vida, virtudes y milagros del Beato Lore zo de Brindis, General del Orden de Capuchinos, Sacado en italiano de los procesos presentados a la Sagrada Congregación de Ritos. Dividido een tres partes por e. P. Fr. Buenaventura de Cocaleo, del mismo Orden, y traducido por el R. P. Fr. Felix de Albaida, Predicador Misionero apostolico y ex-definidor de la Provincia de Sangre de Christo de Menores Capuchinos de Valencua (Valencia: José y Thomas de Orga, 1784). Present in the University Library of Valencia [C.587 & 1-4940].

literature

Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII III, 306.

Felix de Almonte (Felix Almonte, d. 1733)

OFMCap. Spanish friar.

works

Centella seráfico del bolcán ardiente de amor, mi Seráfico Padre S. Francisco de Assis. Epilogo de su vida, prodigios y goria: contenido en cinco capítulos, que se extienden por el número nueve (...) persuadiendo a todos le celebren con novenas (...) (Cordoba: E. de Cabrera, 1714).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 344; Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII III, 306-307.

Felix de Bertinoro (Felice Sassi da Bertinoro, d. 1596.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Bologna province. Preacher and order administrator. Active as general commissioner in France. wrote about the religious wars and Protestant heresies, as well as about the Francican rule. He died at Forlì.

works

? to be continued...

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 85 ; Boverio, Annales II, 584; Lexicon Capuccinum 573-574 (with additional bibliographical references); Vincenzo Criscuolo, I Cappuccini e la Congregazione Romana: 1573-1595 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 1989), 195f; Gabriele Ingegneri, I Cappuccini in Emilia-Romagna: uomini ed eventi (Frati minori Cappuccini, 2004), ?

Felix de Cabra (Felix de Cabra, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar from the Andalusia (Baetica) province. Theology lector and several times guardian.

works

Oracion evangélica del Bienaventurado S. Felix de Cantalicio, patente el Santissimo Sacramento en el Capitulo Prouincial que celebrò (...) (Granada: Imprenta Real de Francisco Ochoa, 1682). Accessible via the digital collection of the Universidad de Navarra [https://dadun.unav.edu/handle/10171/29918 ]

Oracion sobre la canonización de San Juan de San Facundo (Malaga: Matteo Lopez, 1692).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345.

Felix de Cabrera (Felix Cabrera, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catalonian) friar. Theology lector, preacher and guardian.

works

Catena moralis diversorum annulorum ex tribus partibus composita: De reservatione in communi et in genere, de reservatis in dioecesibus gothalanie, de bulla s. cruciatae: MS Barcelona ?

literature

Dionigio di Genova, Bibliotheca scriptorum Ordinis minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, 86; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345.

Felix de Cantalico (Felix de Cantalicio/Felice da Cantalice/Porri, 1515-1587), sanctus (canonized on 22 May 1712)

OFMCap. Italian lay friar. After a youth spent working the fields, he joined the Capuchins as a lay friar in 1543. Was admired for his lifestyle by Carlo Borromeo, Pope Sixtus V and Filippo Neri. See the remarks of Stanislao da Campagnola, in ‘Un cinquecento francescano che contesta ‘novelle, poesie, historie e li prurienti canti’’, in: San Francesco e il Francescanesimo nella letteratura italiana dal rinascimento al romanticismo. Atti del Convegno Nazionale (Assisi, 18-20 maggio 1989), ed. Silvio Pasquazi (Rome, 1990), 81: ‘…nella Roma del Cinquecento, il santo ‘laico’ cappuccino Felice da Cantalice insegnava acantare a fanciulli e alle loro madri.’ Hence he taught youngsters and their mothers 'appropriate' religious songs, so that they would leave behind lascivious and other secular songs. See for more information on his life and works also the Wikipedia pages devoted to him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_of_Cantalice and https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_da_Cantalice

works

Carmina. Several were edited in the Capuchin chronicles of Moncada. See the 1964 study of Mariano d'Alatri, as well as more recent studies mentioned under the literature section.

vitae

Mattia da Salò, Vita, morte e miracoli del beato Felice da Cantalice, ed. Vincenzo Criscuolo (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2013.

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1807), 236; Gabriele da Modigliana, Legendario Cappuccino V, 251-275; Peter Lechner, Leben der Heiligen aus dem Orden der Kapuziner I, 147-228; Etudes Franciscaines 33 (1921), 97-109; Lexicon Capuccinum, 574-575 (with additional bibliographical references and info on many vitae devoted to Felice from the late 16th century onwards); Processus Sixtinus fratris Felicis a Cantalice cum selectis de eiusdem vita vetustissimis testimoniis, ed. Mariano d’Alatri (Rome, 1964) [with on pp. 387-389 info on the carmina of friar Felice]; San Felice da Cantalice: i suoi tempi, il culto e la diocesi di Cittaducale dalle origini alla canonizzazione del santo; convegno di studi storici nel IV centenario della morte di S. Felice da Cantalice; Rieti-Cantalice-Cittaducale, 28 - 30 settembre 1987. Atti del convegno, ed. Giovanni Maceroni & Anna Maria Tassi (Rieti: Editrice Il Velino, 1990); Mariano D’Alatri, ‘Félix de Cantalice, cap. Le saint des rues de Rome’, in: Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins,7-35; Pietro Zarrella, ‘Un ignoto processo di beatificazione a Napoli per san Felice da Cantalice (1615)’, Collectanea franciscana 75 (2005), 103-157; Malgorzata Pabis & Janusz Tycner, Swiety Feliks przyjaciel dzieci (Cracow: Glos Ojca Pio, 2006); Rinaldo Cordovani, San Felice da Cantalice. L'uomo del pane (Velar: EELLEDC Editrice, 2012.

Felicianus de Messina (Feliciano da Messina/Domenico Guargena/'Raffaello dei cappuccini', d. 1663)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) Friar in the Messina province, celebrated painter. All of his paintings executed in Messina have been destroyed by earthquakes, but other works still remain. See especially the info provided by Giacchino Barbara mentioned below.

works

Paintings by Feliciano da Messina. See http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/feliciano-da-messina_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/]; Wikipedia [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Guargena

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 132, 571-572; Gioacchino Barbara, 'Feliciano da Messina', DBI 46 (1996) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/feliciano-da-messina_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/]; Wikipedia [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Guargena ]

Felicianus de Miranda (Félicien de Mirande, dl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French (Occitan) friar, active in the Gascogne region.

works

Exercice spirituel pour toutes les actions de la journée, propre aux novices Capucins (1690).

Felix de Mallorca (d. 1751)

OFMCap. Spanish friar.

works

Exemplar doloroso llanto con que la Real Audiencia del Reyno de Mallorca, con assistencia del Excmo. Señor Capitán General, su Presidente, publicó su pena y cathólico zelo comulgando (...) en desagravio del sacrílego escandaloso hurto de las sagradas Formas, cometido en la capilla de N. Sra. del Rosario del convento de S. Agustín de dicha Ciudad. Predicó en tan pía y religiosa función día de S. Nicolás de Tolentino, a 10 de setiembre, el Rmo. P. Felix de Mallorca, Año 1733 (Palma de Mallorca: Viuda de Frau, 1733). Present in Palma de Mallorca, Bib. March Servera 4o 38 (19).

literature

Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII III, 309.

Felix de Montecchio (Felice da Montecchio, d. 1732)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Picena province. One of the first Capuchin missionaries in Tibet (active there from 1704 onwards). After 22 years in the field, also as apostolic prefect for the Tibetan mission, he returned to Rome to act as secretary for the organisation of Capuchin missions. He died in Rome, leaving behind several writings on his missionary endeavors.

works

Lettere. Several Letters have been edited in Luciano Petech, I Missionari Italiani nel Tibet e nel Nepal: I Cappuccini Marchigiani, 7 Vols. (Rome: Libreria dello Stato, 1952-1956) I, 4 etc.

literature

Clemente da Terzorio, Le missioni dei minori cappuccini (Rome, 1919-1920) VIII & IX, 2, 61; Streit-Dindinger, Bibliotheca Missionum VI, 13, 59, 79, 93; Bengal, Past & Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society 8-9 (1914), 176; Lexicon Capuccinum 577 (with additional references); Hugh Richardson, High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected writings on Tibetan history and culture, ed. Michael Aris (Serindia Publications, 1998), 412.

Felix de Nicosia (Felice da Nicosia, 1715-1787)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) friar. Born in Nicosia (Sicily) on 5 November 1715 as Filippo Giacomo Amoroso. Was trained as a shoemaker in his father’s workshop. Yet he became impressed with the life of the local Capuchins, and when he was 20 years old he asked the guardian for admittance into the order. The guardian and the provincial minister declined his wishes more than once, only admitting him eight years later. He fulfulled his novitiate in Mistreta (entering as a novice on October 19, 1743, and receiving the name Felice). He made his full profession a year later. He became a friar in his home town, which was unusual within the Capuchin order, and fulfilled mendicant and menial tasks as quaestor. He quickly became known for his extraordinary devotion to Christ and the Virgin and for his fasting practices during Lent. He allegedly developed thaumaturgic and bilocational capacities. He died after a short illness on 31 March 1787. In line with his vow of obedience, he would have asked his guadian for permission to die. Felice was beatified on 12 February 1888 by Leo XIII. His relics were translated to Nicosia cathedral in 1891 to facilitate the growing numbers of pilgrims/venerators, and was canonized on 23 October 2005 by Benedict XVI..

works

I fioretti di san Felice da Nicosia, ed. Mario Bertin & Salvatore Russo (Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2005). Cf. Italia Francescana 80 (2005), 572-4.

vitae

Illuminato da Ischitella, Vita, virtù e miracoli del Venerabile Servo do Dio Fra Felice da Nicosia (Naples, 1838).

Gaetano Giunta, Vita virtù e miracoli del venerabile servo di Dio Fra Felice da Nicosia laico professo dell'ordine de' Cappuccini e alunno della provincia di Messina in Sicilia (Naples: Stamperia Reale, 1838).

Gesualdo de Luca da Bronte, Vita del Servo di Dio Felice da Nicosia (Catania, 1863).

Giacinto da Belmonte, Compendio della vita del Beato Felice da Nicosia Cappuccino (Rome, 1888).

Francesco da Montecolombo, Vita del Beato Felice da Nicosia (Rome, 1888).

Many more hagiographical accounts followed.

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum, 578 (with references to older literature); Il Beato Felice da Nicosia e il suo tempo. Atti del primo convegno di studi storici, ed. S. Russo (Nicosia, 1998); S. Vacca, ‘Felice da Nicosia (1715-1787) nella storia e nella spiritualità cappuccina’, Laurentianum 45,3 (2004), 277-312; F. Santi Cucinotta, “Immaginare’ fra Felice da Nicosia (1715-1787). Per un’antropologia iconica ecumenica’, Laurentianum 45,3 (2004), 357-376; Mario Bertin, Il Santo senza parole. Fra Felice da Nicosia, Cappuccino (Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2005). Cf. Italia Francescana 80 (2005); San Felice da Nicosia. Immagini devozionali e rassegna bibliografica (Enna: Il Lunario, 2005); Salvatore Russo, ‘La canonizzazione di Fra Felice da Nicosia’, Italia Francescana 80 (2005), 495-506; É tornato Fra Felice, ed. Remigio Targia (Adriano: Tipolitografia Ricca, 2006); Felice da Nicosia. Modello di santità per I nostri giorni. Atti del Secondo Convegno di Studi, ed. S. Vacca, Studi e Ricerche, N.S. 2 (Rome: Laurentianum, 2007); Salvatore Vacca, ‘I Cappuccini e San Felice (1715-1787) a Nicosia’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura nelle province di Caltanissetta ed Enna: Atti del Convegno di studio, Caltanissetta-Enna, 27-29 ottobre 2005, ed. Carolina Miceli, Biblioteca francescana di Palermo (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008), 295-319.

Felix de Pamplona (Felice Bretos da Pamplona, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Member of the Navarra province. Well-respected preacher, confessor and religious educator. Died as an octogenarian in 1701. Author of El Menor Predicador Capuchino (Pamplona: por Martin Gregorio Zavala, 1694). This work was apparently reprinted several times.

works

El Menor Predicador Capuchino (Pamplona: por Martin Gregorio Zavala, 1694). Later editions followed.

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 87; Lexicon Capuccinum, 532, 578-579 (with additional references).

Felix de Sambuca (Felice da Sambuca/Giacchino M. Antonio Viscosi, 1734-1805)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) lay friar. Entered the order at the age of 21. Religious painter with an important reputation. He died in Palermo in December 1805. More info will follow.

works

Paintings of Felice da Sambuca, see: http://movimentonelbelice.altervista.org/fra-felice-da-sambuca-di-sicilia-itinerario-culturale-terre-sicane

literature

Emanuele Gambino, Fra Felice da Sambuca (Gioacchino Viscosi): pittore del 700 (1953); Pietro Griffo, Up-to-date Guide for the Visitor to the Monuments of Agrigento (Agrigento: Superint. Ant., 1956), 136; Fiamma Serafica (Palermo, 1933), 345-347; Gioacchino Barbera, 'Felice da Sambuca (al secolo Gioacchino Viscosi)', DBI 46 (1996) [ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/felice-da-sambuca_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]; 'Fra'Felice da Sambuca di Sicilia - Itinerario culturale Terre', [http://movimentonelbelice.altervista.org/fra-felice-da-sambuca-di-sicilia-itinerario-culturale-terre-sicane/ ]; Luigi Biondi, “Il destino dell’arte’ di fra Felice da Sambuca OFMCap (1734-1805)’, 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).

Felix Franceschinus (Felice Franceschini da Cassia, d. 1642)

OFMConv. Italian (Umbrian) friar. Vicar general and later general of the Conventuals (elected 1625). Eventually bishop of Andria (1632). At the general chapter of 1625, he organised the re-evaluation of the Conventual statutes, as he found the 1617 statutes created/accepted under his predecessor Bagnacavallo too strict and rigorous with regard to the issue of poverty. The new constitutions received papal conformation on 15 May 1628. He also backed the publication of the new caeremoniale ordinis edited by Fausto Garganelli. He died as bishop of Andria in 1642.

works

Constitutiones Urbanae Fratrum Ordinis Minorum Conventualium (Rome: Imp. Cameralis, 1628).

Caeremonialis Ordo Romanus ad usum Fratrum Minorum Conventualium, ed. Fausto Garganelli (Bologna: Eredi Giovanni Rossi, 1631/Florence: Pietro Nesti, 1631).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 280-281; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 236.

Felix Gabrielis Ascolanus (Felice Gabrielli da Asculo/Felice da Capradosso, 1603-1684)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Piceno region. He was a Bachelor of theology in Bologna, and Franciscan regent master at the St. Bonaventure college of Rome (1646). Later he was general minister of the Conventuals (elected 1653, a position he kept for two stints of three years), and bishop of Nocera (1659–1684). Important Lenten preacher (a.o. in Parma, Vicenza, Ascoli, Modena, fano, Pasaro, Padua, Venice etc.). Author of numerous theological handbooks, disputations, etc.

works

Oratio de laudibus academici usus (Bologna: Niccolò Tibaldino, 1630). An oration held when he was Bachelor and Academicus Philaleticus in Bologna.

Elogium in laudem Gulielmi Plati, a eulogy of the Conventual theologian/preacher, Guglielmo Plati da Mondiano, active in the Bologna studium when Felice was active as Bachelor, and included in Guglielmo Plati da Mondiano, Sermones in Laudem S. Francisci Assisiensis (Bologna: Nicolaus Tebaldinus, 1632).

Conclusiones theologicae de fide et dominio praeside Adm. R.P. Mag. Felice Gabriellio de Asculo, publice propugnatae Romae in Basilica SS. 12. Apostolorum a Fr. Ludovico Vertua.. (Rome: Apud Franciscum Monetam, 1652).

Conclusiones theologicae de morali virtute iustitiae, praeside admodum Reu. P. Mag. Felice Gabriellio Collegij Romani D. Bonauentura Ordinis Minorum conu. regente publice propugnatae in Lycaeo Feliciano ad SS. Duod. Apost. a Fr. Gabriele Mainardo a Nicia eiusdem ord. & collegij conuictore. Anno 1652 .. (Rome: apud Franciscum Monetam, 1652).

Theologicae disputationes de praedestinatione sanctorum, & impiorum reprobatione. Ad mentem diui Bonauenturae, & Scoti Authore P.M. Felice Gabriellio de Asculo ... (Rome: Francesco Felice Mancini, 1653).

Theologicae disputationes de fide, spe, & charitate ad mentem diui Bonauenturae, & Scoti. Authore fratre Felice Gabriellio de Asculo artium, et sacrae theologiae doctore vniu., ord. min. con. S. Francisci ministro generali... (Rome: typis Ignatij Lazari, 1656).

Tractatus de incarnatione, mentioned by Sbaralea.

Conciones quadragesimales & orationes, mentioned by Sbaralea.

To be continued...

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 181-183; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 236-237.

Felix Maria de Neapoli (Felice Maria di Napoli/Felice Maria García/Felice-Maria Garzía/Gaspar García Alonzo Guzman, 1712-1788)

OFMCap. Italian friar from a noble family with Spanish roots. Born on February 6, 1712, probably in Naples. Joined the Capuchins in 1727 (Naples province, adopting the name Felice Maria da Napoli). Studied philosophy and theology at Naples, and was ordained priest in 1736. After that, he became a successful preacher for a number or years. When his health deteriorated, he became active as an author and translator. Hence he issued a series of Orazioni sacre (1747), an appendix of which included a proposal for an overhaul/modernisation of Capuchin studies (De instauratione studiorum). In the mean time he started on a large translation project: the production of an Italian version of  the nine-volume treatise La morale chrétienne by the Jansenist French author Pierre Floriot. For a while, this, as well as several of his other undertakings and opinions caused alarm among Felice’s superiors. He was accused of being an apostate and on May 4, 1752, he was formally condemned to 14 months in confinement and several of his clerical privileges were suspended (See condemnation sentence in MS Vatican Library, Vat.Lat. 12564, ff. 354ff.). Subsequently, Felice Maria obtained sufficient suport from Cardinal Passionei and the chaplain of the King of Naples, the progressive Catholic priest Celestino Galiani to overcome the verdict. In the mean time the nine volumes of his translation (Morale cristiana) were able to appear, and in 1763 he obtained the imprimatur from  the Roman church for the project as a whole, again in part thanks to the intervention of cardinal Passionei, after which Felice’s superiors were apparently appeased. Between 1753 and 1758, Felice also published a series of Italian translations of patristic works geared to current ecclesiastical issues and introducing Jansenist positions (such as the Raccolta di trattati, opuscoli, epistole e sermoni de' ss. padri intorno ai doveri degli ecclesiastici, tratti in italiano, e illustrati con co Subsequentlypiosissime note (Napoli 1753-1758), and he held a well-received laudatio in honor of the deceased cleric F. Ventura, in which Felice argued for the importance of a spiritual and intellectual life in servoce of civil and social progress. Renewed troubles came up authorities became weary of Felice's ongoing Jansenist flings, and his willingness to read and quote 'Protestant' legal scholars (including Grotius and Pufendorf), in works such as the l'Orazione ... per d. Carlo Carabba and the Funerali dello spettabilissimo ... d. Francesco Ventura, and especially when Felice wrote the Vindiciae potestatis ecclesiastiquae contra librum H. Grotii de imperio summarum potestatum. The fact alone that Felice used the prohibited works of Grotius caused iritation. This was enhanced when Felice initially refused to submit his work to the Roman censor. Due to dramatic health problems, Felice momentarily relented and retracted the text in 1763. It is unknown whether the text as such was destroyed or not. Recovering slightly from his health problems, he continued to write (a.o. the Apologia della morale cristiana, Orazioni degli uomini illustri raccolte, e pubblicate già alla peggio da M. F. Sansovino, Regola della vita, o de' costumi tratta dalla legge naturale che si mostra essere la stessa che la divina). In 1770,he attacked the enlightenment encyclopedist C.A. Pilati for his criticism of the church (Dimostrazione della ignoranza e della empietà dell'italiano anonimo scrittore delle Riflessioni.). Some time thereafter, Felice apparently offended the government of Naples. Fed up with his cantankerous and difficult disposition, the Neapolitan authorities wanted him to leave. Felice took up residence in Salerno. There, more or less living as an invalid, he obtained permission to leave the order (1772), and to become attached as a priest to the diocese of Naples. After that moment, he devoted much of his time to write a Storia della repubblica e dell’impero romano, a huge work. In all, 50-odd volumes were planned, Seventeen of these saw the printing press, of which the first appeared under his secular name D. Gasparo García in 1778. In this latter work, Felice had evolved from a pseudo-Jansenist to a moderist Deist position. Shortly before his death, Felice/Gasparo is once more to be found in Naples, where he died on 18 October 1788.

works

Dimostrazione de' principali errori scorsi nelle opere del celebre Giangiacomo Rousseau contro la Religione e lo Stato?

Orazione in lode di s. Fedele de Sigmaringa, cappuccino, e protomartire della Congregazione de Propaganda Fide (...) (Naples: Per Felice Carlo Mosca, 1746). Available via Google Books.

Orazioni sacre di Frate Felice-Maria da Napoli (Naples: Felice Carlo Mosca, 1747) [A series of five In lode di S. Fedele da Sigmaringa; Per S. Michele, Arcangelo; Per la festa del Corpus Domini; Per S. Giacomo della Marca; Per S. Felice da Cantalice, and in an appendix a text entitled De instauratione studiorum, and an Adhortatio ad theologiae studium.]

Apologia della morale cristiana, 2 Vols. (Naples, 1747).

Giudizio dato nel Giornale de' savi stampato in Parigi nel MDCCXLVI su i libri del signor d. Giuseppe Aurelio di Gennaro, consigliere del Sacro Regio Consiglio di Napoli, tratto dal francese in italiano (Naples, 1748).

Giudizio dato nel Giornale de' savi stampato in Parigi nel MDCCXLVI su i libri del signor d. Giuseppe Aurelio di Gennaro, consigliere del Sacro Regio Consiglio di Napoli, tratto dal francese in italiano (Naples, 1748).

Morale christiana ridotta a significare tutto ciò che brevemente insegnò Gesucristo nella Orazione Domenicale, tratta in Italiano, e corretta, accresciuta, e illustrata con molte note, e lunghissime allegazioni de'Santi Padri, da Fr. Felice-Maria, cappuccino (...), 9 Vols. (Naples: Felice-Carlo Mosca, 1747-1752/Venice: Bartoli, 1753-1757 [8 Vols.]). It is an Italian translation of La morale chrétienne by Floriot.

Allegazioni, 3 Vols. [check!] (Naples, 1750-1766). A substantial series of controversies between Felice Maria with the Capuchin general minister and other Capuchin dignitaries. See for a description the entry on Felice Maria di Napoli in Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 84ff.

Quaresimale (1752).

Trattato della divinità di Gesù Cristo, e della verità della religione da lui insegnata, provata dalla santità della morale del suo Vangelo (1752).

Raccoltà di trattati, opusculi, epistole e sermoni de’ SS. Padri greci e latini, intorno ai doveri degli ecclesiastici, tratti in Italiano, e illustrati con copiosissime note (...), 10 Vols. (Naples: Giovanni de Simone, 1753-1758).

Sermoni sopra i dolori della Madonna e sopra la passione di Gesucristo recitati nella Regale Arciconfraternità di Cavalieri dirempetto al Real Palazzo, con l'aggiunta di tre altri Sermoni intitolati alle sacre Maestà di Carlo Borbone, e di Maria Amalia Walburgo, re e regina delle due Sicilie (...) (Naples: Stamperia Simoniana, 1758).

Orazione di frate Felice-Maria da Napoli Cappuccino Recitata ne' funerali dello spettabilissimo presidente del supremo magistrato del commercio D. Francesco Ventura e intitolata All'Illustrissimo, e Reuerendissimo Signore Monsignor D. Benedetto Latilla... (Naples: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1760). Available via Google Books.

Orazione di Frate Felice-Maria da Napoli, capuccino alla Sagra Reale Cattolica Maestà di Carlo Borbone, nostro Rè Clementissimo, per D. Carlo Carabba (...) (Naples, 1760).

Difesa per il p. Felice-Maria da Napoli cappuccino. Da proporsi avanti l'eccellentissimo d. Ludovico Galtieri nunzio apostolico nel regno di Napoli, e delegato della sanità di N.S. Papa Benedetto 14. nella presente causa (Naples, s.d.). Available via Google Books.

Rischiaramento del manifesto pubblicato in nome de' Zelanti sopra le controversie avute da fra Felice ... col suo superiore generale (Naples, 1763).

Dichiarazione e protesta... (Naples, 1763). For a manuscript version of this 'confession', see: Confessione generale dei peccati suoi: MS Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, 34.8.B.4.7.

Orazioni degli uomini illustri raccolte, e pubblicate già alla peggio da M. F. Sansovino ?

Regola della vita, o de' costumi tratta dalla legge naturale che si mostra essere la stessa che la divina (Naples, 1763).

Vindiciae potestatis ecclesiastiquae contra librum H. Grotii de imperio summarum potestatum (1763) never published?

Replica di frate Felice... alle due istanze di d. Marcello Ferro sopra le disposizioni testamentarie della sua madre... ?

Funerali del fu regio consigliere d. Giuseppe-Aurelio di Gennaro, con alcuni pochi componimenti in sua lode, e con l'orazione di fra Felice-Maria da Napoli, cappuccino (...) (Naples: Stamperia Simoniana, 1763).

Apologia della Morale Cristiana tratta dal Paternostro, con un Discorso cronologico-storico sopra la Dottrina della Chiesa concernente la divina grazia, e con l'aggiunta di un Ritoccamento dello stesso discorso, che le servono di supplemento. Opuscoli fatti da Fra Felice-Maria da Napoli, cappiccino (Naples: Stamperia Simoniana, 1763). This work includes an Apologia della morale Cristiana tratta del Paternostro contro le Calunnie datele dall'autore della Biblioteca Giansenista, a Discorso cronologico-istorico sopra la dottrina della Chiesa concernente la divina grazia, fatto per supplemento alla precedente Apologia, and a Ritoccamento del precedente discorso sopra la dottrina della Chiesa concernente la divina grazia.

Regola della vita, o de'costumi tratta dalla legge naturale, che si dimostra essere la stessa che la Divina. Scritta da Frate Felice Maria Garzia, Alonzo, Guzman da Napoli, cappuccino (...) (Naples: Stamperia Simoniana, 1768).

Storia della repubblica e dell’impero romano, con quelle degli altri Storici Greci, e Latini, e gli errori di quella di di Tito Livio, 5 Vols. (Naples: Giuseppe Campo, 1778-1788).

Dimostrazione della ignoranza e della empietà dell’italiano anonimo scrittore delle Riflessione sopra la Chiesa in generale, sopra il Clero Regolare e Secolare (...), 3 Vols. (Salerno-Naples: Simoniana, 1770).

Ragionamento della eredità di d. Agnese Caterina Alonzo... contra il dottore d. Marcello Ferro ?

literature

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), 20; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 80-90; Melchior de Pobladura, Historia generalis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1948-1951) II, 214, 248, 285, 306, 326-327, 344, 361 & III, 558, 562; Lexicon Capuccinum, 577-578; Stanislas de Campagnola,‘Felice Maria Garzia da Napoli tra illuminismo e giansenismo’, Collectanea Franciscana 37 (1967), 33-88; R. Aubert, ‘García ou Garzía (Felice Maria)’, DHGE XIX, 1172-1173; Russo Raffaele, ‘Felice Maria da Napoli (1712-1788) – nota bibliografica’, Studi e ricerche francescane 10, 1-3 (1981), 163-194; Mario Ajello, ‘Felice Maria da Neapoli’, in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 46 (1996), 577-578 [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/felice-maria-da-napoli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/].

Felipe Díez (d. 1601)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Active as a preacher in Lisbon and member of the Santiago (Saint Jacob) province. Died at Salamanca in 1601.

workss

Summa praedicantium ex omnibus locis communibus locupletissima, 2 Vols. (Salamanca: Ioannes Ferdinandus, 1589). At least the second volume is available via Google Books.

R.P.F. Philippi Diez Lusitani, ord. min. reg. observantiae, provinciae S. Iacobi Summa praedicantium : ex omnibus locis communibus locupletiss. ... : adverte candide lector, omnia, quae in hac summa, maximo cum labore ob Christi Iesu amorem, & proximorum utilitatem accumulavi, omnino diversa esse ab iis, quae in libris concionum à me dudum editis habentur, uti experimento poterit comprobare (Venice: Apud Damianum Zenarium, 1591). Available as a digital document at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich [http://www.e-rara.ch/doi/10.3931/e-rara-25581]

Quinze tratados en los quales se contienen muchas y muy excelentes consideraciones para los actos generales que se celebran en la Sancta Iglesia de Dios muy provechosos para los fieles christianos (Salamanca: Artus Taberniel, 1602). Available via Google Books.

R.P.F. Philippi Diez Lvsitani, ordinis minorum ... Dominicarvm aestivalivm concionum: quae à Dominica in Albis, vsque ad Pentecosten, [et] in rogationibus, [et] à Pentecoste, vsque ad Aduentum in omnibus Dominicis in Sancta Dei Ecclesia habentur (Salamanca: Ioannes Ferdinandus, 1585).

R.P.F. Philippi Diez Lvsitani ordinis minorvm ... qvadrvplicivm concionvm: quae quotidie à Dominica in Septuagesima vsque ad gloriosam Domini resurrectionem in Sancta Ecclesia habentur (Salamanca: Ioannes Ferdinandus, 1585 & 1590).

literature

Carlos Reza, ‘La Asunción de la Virgen según un célebre predicador español del siglo XVI: Fr. Felipe Díez’, LF 3 (1950), 51-57; Manuel de Castro, ‘Los padres Gabriel de Toro y Felipe Díez, escritores franciscanos del siglo XVI’, Cuadernos bibliográficos 28 (1972), 61-106; Gaspar Calvo Moraléjo, ‘María ‘Maestra y evangelizadora’ según Fr. Felipe Díez, OFM (d. 1601)’, Estudios marianos 46 (1981) [also issued separately as María "maestra y evangelizadora" según Fr. Felipe Díez, OFM. (+1601), ed. Horacio Santiago-Otero & Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, Humanismo, reforma y teología, 32 (Instituto Francisco Suárez, 1981)]; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografia de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1982), 108 (no. 266).

Felix Matthioli (Felice Matthioli da Gualdo, d. 1685)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born in Gualdo. Became a collegialis at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1644. Subsequently baccalaureus conventus in Perugia and regent of the studium of Città di Castello. He fulfilled a definitor position and then became first regent of the studium of Fano and then of Rimini (1656). Resigning from his post in 1659 to take on a position as theologian of the papal nuntius of Cologne, a delay and annulment in this move caused his appointment as regent of the Conventual studium of Florence. Subsequently visitator studium of the Roman province and the Tuscany province. Superior of the Sacro Convento in Assisi and elected provincial of the Assisi province in 1667. Later in life personal theologian/confessor of the Duke of Parma. Due to epilepsy-attacks, he became bed-ridden and died in Acquasparta on 13 November 1685.

works

Un Panegirico in lode di S. Tomaso da Villanova, detto in S. Agostino di Rimini (Rimini: Simbeni, 1659).

Prediche Quaresimali del Maestro Felice Mattioli da Gualdo Minor Convent. Teologo dell'Altezza Serenissima di Ranuccio II, duca di Parma, e di Piacenza &c. (Foligno: Antonio Mariotti, 1682). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (and hence also 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), 183.

Felix Molina (Félix Molina, 1660-1726)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Born in Valencia in 1660. Preacher and theologian in the San Juan Bautista province (Valencia). Made guardian of the Benicarlò, Jumilla, Liria and Valencia friaries. Elected provincial of the Valencia province in 1717. In this function he helped erect the new friary in the Ciudad de San Felipe and also stimulated other foundations of tertiary communities. Later also custodian as well as provincial visitator in the San Joseph province (Andalucia). He died in the Valencia friary on January 10, 1726 at the age of 66.

works

El Santo Santissimo por participacion, y semejanza, San Pasqual Baylon (1691). Based on a sermon preached in Ayora.

La Ave de gracia llena, Meria en su Purissima Concepcion. Sermon panegirico (Valencia: Francisco Mestre, 1700).

La Santa de el Santissimo, y Madre de la Comunion Santa Barbara (Valencia: Francisco Mestre, 1703). [Based on a sermon preached in Valencia in 1692]

literature

Juan de San Francisco, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 346; Vicente Ximeno, Escritores del reyno de Valencia, chronologicamente ordenados desde el año M.CC.XXXVIII de la christiana conquista de la misma ciudad, hasta el de M.DCC.XLVII.: Los escritores que han florecido desde el año M.DC.LL. hasta el de M.DCC.XLVIII. y principios de XLIX. y cinco indices, uno particular de este tomo, y quatro generales á todo la obra (Valencia: J.E. Dolz, 1749) II, 206; AIA 15 (1955), 348-349; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 149 (no. 581).

Felix Passera (Felice Passera da Bergamo, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar from Bergamo. Pharmacological specialist. Infirmerer and professor of medicine

works

Nuovo Tesoro degli Arcani Farmacologici Galenici, Chimici, & Spargirici (...) da frate Felice Passera di Bergamo capuccino infermiero della provincia di Brescia. Opera molto utile, non solo a farmacologici, ma ancor'ad ogni medico, & professore della medicina. Divisa in tre libri, 3 Vols. (Venice: Giovanni Parè, 1688-1689). In part accessible via Google Books (in any case volumes 2 and 3).

Pratica universale nella medicina overo annotationi sopra tutte le infermità più particolari, che giornalmente sogliono avvenire ne corpi humani, con varie et diverse belle osservationi, regole, et avvertimenti, pertinenti ad esse. Divisa in quattro libri. Con una copiosa tavola di tutte le cose che in essi si contengono. Opera ... di fra Felice Passera da Bergamo capuccino infermiero della provincia di Brescia (Milan: Carlo Antonio Malatesta, 1693).

literature

Juan de San Francisco, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 346.

Felix Peintner (Felicius Peintner, 1694-1769)

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

works

Wundervoller Magnus-Stab verändert in gnadenvollen Jakobs-Stab, in welchem druchwandert Erd, Höll und Himmel der hochwürdige, hoch-edlgebohrne Herr Herr Dominicus weyland des (...) Benediktiner-Ordens in dem (...) Stifft und Gotts-Hauß Sanct Mang in Füssen (...) Prälat, in einer Lob- und Trauer-Red an dem 30. dero Klag feyrlichen Leich-Bestättigung auf offener Cantzel an Tag gegeben von P.F. Felice Peintner, (...) Ordinari-Prediger ad S. Magnum in Füessen (Kempten: Stadler, 1739).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 129 [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]

Felix Peretti (Felice Peretti di Montalto, Pope Sixtus V, 1520-1590)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Grottammare (Apulia). Born on 13 December 1520. Joined the Conventual Franciscans in 1534. Studied at the Conventual studia of Ferrara and Bologna. Made baccalaureus conventus and subsequently lector at the Rimini studium in September 1544, and appointed Baccaureus of the Siena studium by the general chapter of Venice (1546), and appointed regent of the Siena studium at the general chapter of Assisi in 1549. Following this, he was made regent master of the Naples studium in 1553, regent of the Venice studium in 1556. shortly afterwards, while being regent of the Venice studium, he also became general inquisitor in Venice and the Venetian possessions between 1557 and 1560, and titular provincial of Hungary. Made assistent theologian for the Inquisition in Rome in 1560. And somewhat later he traveled to Toledo as personal theologian of Cardinal Boncompagno. General procurator for his order in 1561. In between his teaching and inquisitorial tasks, he also was a productive preacher [overview of his preaching career given by Franchini]. General apostolic vicar of the Conventuals between 1566 and 1568, and Cardinal in 1570. He became pope in 1585 (Sixtus V), and was very active in implementing the Tridentine reforms and in refurbishing Rome. Also known for his involvement with the publication of a new Vulgate Edition of the Bible, the edition of the works of Gregory the Great, the works of Ambrose of Milan, and for his involvement with the edition of the works of Bonaventure. For his published and unpublished sermons and other writings, see also Casimiro Tempesti, Sansolini and Liberale Gatti. Cf. http://www.cronologia.it/biogra2/sistov.htm as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sixtus_V

works

Predica sopra il misterioso Vangelo della Settuagesima detta in San Lorenzo di Napoli (Naples, 1554).

Bullarium sive collectio constitutionum hucusque editarum a. Dummo D.N. Sixto Quinto Pont. Opt. Max. cum rubricis, summariis et lucubrationibus Laertii Cherubini editum (Rome: Haeredes Antonii Bladii, 1588).

Predica della necessità della sacra scrittura à reformare l'huomo (Naples, 1554). Held on Ash Wednesday in Perugia?

Predica della purissima concettione de la gloriosa madre de Dio Maria Vergine. Predicata (...) alli otto di Decembre (...) in Palazzo al'Illustriss. e Reverendiss. Cardinal Paceco Vice Re di Napoli (Naples: Cilio Allifano, 1554/Naples: Giuseppe Cacco, 1588 [3rd Italian ed.?])Sermo/Tractatus de Immaculata Conceptione B.V. Mariae (Louvain, 1665 [Latin version?]).

Concio habit Perusii an. 1555 (Perugia, 1555).

Commentarius super Evangelium S. Matthaei (Naples, ?), Allegedly composed and issued when he was regent in Naples. An exposition of the Gospel of John (1554) and on the letter of Paul to the Roman (1552) would have remained in manuscript format.

Of the Following of Christ (Scolar Press, 1977).

For other published and unpublished sermons and related writings, see also Casimiro Tempesti, Sansolini and Liberale Gatti.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 184-201, 583; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 663-665; Casimiro Tempesti, Storia della vita e geste di Sisto quinto sommo pontefice dell'ordine de' Minori Conventuali di San Francesco, 2 Vols. (Rome: Remondini di Venezia, 1754); C.A. Kneller, 'Zur Vulgata Sixtus V', Bulletin d'Ancienne Littérature Chrétienne Latine 1(1921), 103f. Additional studies by Keller on the Vulgate edition pushed by Sixtus V can be found in Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie 46 (1922), 313-330, 468ff; 47:1 (1923), 601-612; 48:1 (1024), 133-151; 52:2 (1928), 202-224; J.A.F. Orbaan, 'How Pope Sixtus V Lost a Road', The Town Planning Review 13:2 (1928), 121-125; Sigfried Giedion, Sixtus V and the Planning of Baroque Rome (Paris-London, 1952); Joseph Thomas Kalman, Sixtus V, and late XVI century Roman civic design, PhD. Thesis (University of California, 1973); Tod A. Marder, 'Sixtus V and the Quirinal', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 37:4 (1978), 283-294; C. Sansolini, Il pensiero teologico spirituale di Sisto V (Rome: Tipografia poliglotta vaticana, 1989) [With in Chapter VI (Sermoni editi e inediti, pp. 121-131), information on Felice's sermons held between 1547 and 1574. See also MS BAV Vat Lat. 11.85]; Aloisio Antinori, 'Il rapporto con l'antico nella Roma di Sisto V: la controversia sulla demolizione della tomba di Cecilia Metella', Architettura, storia e documenti (1989), 55-63; Sisto V, ed. Marcello Fagiolo & Maria Luisa Madonna, 2 Vols. (Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello Stato - Libreria dello Stato, 1992); Maria Luisa Riccardi, 'Gli obelischi sistini', Storia architettura 15:1 (1992), 12-89 [Analysis of the decoration, history, and placement of four obelisks in Rome: the "Vaticano" (1586), "Lateranese" (1588), "Esquilino" (1587), and "Flaminio"]; Irene Polverini Fosi, 'Justice and Its Image: Political Propaganda and Judicial Reality in the Pontificate of Sixtus V', The Sixteenth Century Journal 24:1 (1993), 75-95; Marco Spesso, 'Bonaventura da Bagnoregio e Sisto V: Una interpretazione letteraria dei restauri degli obelischi', Esperienze Letterarie: Rivista Trimestrale di Critica e Cultura 21:3 (1996), 83-96; A. Anker, 'Il Papa e Il Duce: Sixtus V's and Mussolini's plans for Rome, capital of the world', Journal of Urban Design 1:2 (1996), 165-178; A. Landi, 'Some Recent Works on Sixtus V, a controversial pope during the Counter-Reformation', Archivio Storico Italiano 154:570 (1996), 721-729; L. Sickel, 'A 'St Francis' for Sixtus V. Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, Eleonora Orsini and the significance of the gift of a painting in January 1589', Mitteilungen des kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 43:1 (1999), 239-241; Christian Mouchel, Rome Franciscaine. Essai sur l'histoire de l'éloquence dans l'Ordre des Frères Mineurs au XVIe siècle (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2001), 519ff & passim; Leros Pittoni & Gabrielle Lautenberg, Roma felix. La città di Sisto V e Domenico Fontana, Le immagini e la memoria, 2 (Rome: Viviani Editore, 2002). Cf. Miscellanea Franciscana 103 (2003),428-430; Charles Burroughs, 'Opacity and Transparence: Networks and Enclaves in the Rome of Sixtus V', Anthropology and Aesthetics 41 (2002), 56-71; Jill. E. Blondin, 'Power Made Visible: Pope Sixtus IV as Urbis Restaurator in Quattrocento Rome', The Catholic Historical Review 91:1 (2005), 1-25; Isidoro Liberale Gatti, ‘Chiesa e Stato a Venezia nel Cinquecento in alcune lettere private dell’inquisitore Fra Felice Peretti’, Il Santo 49 (2009), 427-473; Stephan Peter, 'Rom unter Sixtus V: Stadtplanung als Verräumlichung von Heilgeschichte', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 72:2 (2009), 165-214; Steven F. Ostrow, 'Paul V, the Column of the Virgin, and the New Pax Romana', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69:3 (2010), 352-377; D. Verardi, "The Stars, the Angels, and the Bishops'. The Patristic and Medieval Sources of Astrological Thought of Sixtus V', Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 47:1 (2011), 147-156; W. T. Selley, Sixtus V: The Hermit of Villa Montalto (Gracewing, 2011); Yves Loskoutoff, Un art de la Réforme catholique : la symbolique du pape Sixte-Quint et des Peretti-Montalto (1566-1655) (Paris : Honore Champion Editions, 2011); Kimberly Dennis, 'Camilla Peretti, Sixtus V, and the Construction of Peretti Family Identity in Counter-Reformation Rome', The Sixteenth Century Journal 43:4 (2012), 71-101; Stefano Sandano, Renovatio Christiana: The Counter Reformed Patronage of Pope Sixtus V at the Holy Steps in Rome (1585-1590) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013); Javier Verdugo Santos, 'Christian interpretation of the Ancient monuments in Rome Sixtus V (1585-1590)', Archivo Español de Arqueología 90:6 (2017), 53-76 [see also the Spanish version: 'La reinterpretación cristiana de los monumentos de la Antigüedad en la Roma de Sixto V (1585-1590)', Archivo Espanol de Arqueologia 90:1 (2017)].

Felicianus de Sevilla (Feliciano de Sevilla/Sol de Almansa, 1657-1722)

works

Florida imperial corona de la gran reyna de los angeles y hombres Maria Santissima Virgen Purissima y Madre de Dios (Cadiz: Christoval de Requena, 1698).

Racional campana de fuego, que toca a que acudan todos con agua de sufragios, a mitigar el ardor del Purgatorio (Cádiz, 1702). Accessible via Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional and the University library of Sevilla.

Primera parte de Romances espirituales, y canciones devotas, acerca de la obligacion del Christiano, y otras devociones (.../Sevilla: Francisco de Leefdael en la imprenta de Vallestilla, 1705 [3rd ed.]). Accessible via Google Books.

Segunda parte de Romances espirituales, y canciones devotas, acerca de la obligacion del Christiano, y otras devociones (Sevilla: Herederos de Thomas Lopez de Haro, 1698).

Tercera parte de Romances espirituales y canciones devotas que se ordenan a dispertar al pecador del letargo de la culpa y encenderle en devociones (Cadi: Christoval de Requena, 1699).

Compendiosa, y clara instrucción para la vida espiritual (Madrid, 1700).

Exercicio practico, y vtilissimo de la sacrosanta passion de Christo ... Sacado a la letra del libro de oracion mental, y exercicios, que compuso, è imprimiò el Padre Fr. Feliciano de Sevilla (Sevilla, 1700?).

Romances espirituales y canciones devotas: qve se ordenan a despertar al pecador del letargo de la culpa, y encenderle en devociones, para destierro de otros malos, y perniciosos, que ha introducido la malicia (Sevilla: Herederos de Thomas Lopez de Haro, 1701).

Racional campana de fuego que toca a que acudan todos los fieles con agua de sufragios à mitigar el incendio del Purgatorio, en que se queman vivas las benditas Animas que alli penan (Cádiz: Christoval de Requena, 1704).

El sol increado Dios trino y uno: y la grande excelencia de su culto y devocion (Cádiz: Christóval de Requena, 1702/Mexico: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1790). The 1702 edition is accessible via the University Library of Sevilla.

Los Angelicos principes del Empyreo, quantas y quales sean sus excelencias (...) (Sevilla: herederos de Thomas Lopez de Haro, 1711). Accessible via the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid, via the university library of Sevilla, via http://www.bibliotecavirtualdeandalucia.es/catalogo/consulta/registro.cmd?id=1016106 and via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5325042715&view=1up&seq=5

Las cinco sagradas fuentes de las preciosissimas llagas de nuestro Redemptor Jesu-Christo : su gran excelencia y las copiosas dulces aguas de misericordias que por ellas se derraman sobre los que son sus devotos, exercicios de su culto (Mexico: Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1750).

Antorcha angelical, en honra de los Santos Angeles, con algunos exercicios de su especial culto, entre ellos su novena (?../Mexico: Impr. de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1758/ Mexico: Joseph de Jauregui, 1771).

Luz Apostolica, que demuestra la grande excelencia è importancia de el (...) exercicio de la Santa Mission, y de el methodo como esta se ha de practicar con especial fruto (Sevilla: Herederos de Thomás López de Haro, 1716/Granada: Juan de Palomares, 1741). The 1716 edition is present in the university library of Sevilla.

Devoción á la Santísima Virgen María : en su coronación por Reina de los Cielos (Sevilla: Viuda de Vázquez, 1820).

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 84; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 343-344; Eduard d'Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana, 23; Archivo Ibero-Americano 21 (1924), 217 [list works]; Lexicon Capuccinum, 572; Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII III, 301.

Felicianus Suevus Schwab (fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Swiss Franciscan and composer.

works

Liber secundus missarum concertatarum Quinque & sex Vocum Adjuncto Choro secundo, tam vocali quam instrumentali, pro Beneplacito. Lucubratus & Concinnatus A. F. FELICIANO SVEVI (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1654). A digital version can be accessed via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich: https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/metaopac/search?oclcno=165403798

FASCICULUS MUSICUS SACRORUM CONCENTUUM Trium Vocum. Tam Instrumentorum quam Vocalium. USUI. COLLIGATVS ATQVE TRIPARTITVS: http://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de/view?id=bsb00094168

SACRA EREMVS Piarum Cantionum AD MAIOREM DEI: DEI PARENTIS IN EREMO SANCTORUMq; HONOREM EXCVLTA ET ELABORATA, AC IN GRATIAM MUSICES AMANTIUM DVLCI, DVARUM TRIVMVE VOCUM CONCERTANtium Jucunditate animata PER F. FELECIANUM SVEVI ... LIBER SECVNDVS: http://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de/view?id=bsb00089609

Odae Latino-Germanicae, De Christi Triu[m]phatoris Resurrectione : Vocibus & Instrumentis suaviter constructae, & in Lucem emissae (Würzburg, 1651).

Magnificat seu Vaticinium Dei Parentis ... Cum Hymno Ambrosiano & Falsi Bordoni Quaternis Vocibus. Adjuncto Choro Secundo cum Violinis & Symphonijs non necessarijs, etc. Cantusi. (Altusi.) (Tenori.) (Cantus (Altus) (Tenor) (Bassus) Rip.) (Violino Rip.ii.) (Insbruck: Michael Wagner, 1651).

MAGNIFICAT Seu VATICINIVM DEI PARENTIS, SEMPER VIRGINIS MAGNAEQVE COELITVM REGINAE Cum Hymno Ambrosiano et Falsi Bordoni Quaternis Vocibus. Adjuncto Choro Secundo cum Violinis et Symphonijs non necessarijs Compositum A. F. FELICIANO SVEVI: http://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de/view?id=bsb00090356

Granarium sacrum in aliquot fornices divisum cerere & pinguedine per gratum stomacho spirituali: cantus II (Würzburg: Zinck, 1634).

PSALMODIA VESPERTINA, DEO CAELI TERRAEQVE DOMINO OPT: MAX: Eiusdem Serenissimae Reginae SEMPER VIRGINI. Sanctißimoque Caelitum Omnium Caetui SACRATA Atque à Tribus Vocibus Concenta A. F. FELICIANO SVEVI, ... LIBER QVARTVS. Cum Licentia Ad.m R.di P. M. Io. Ludouici à Musis, tunc Commissarij Generalis Prov. Argentinae. 1641: http://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de/view?id=bsb00092339

Sacra Parnassi Musici Promulsis ad maiorem Dei, Mariae Matris, coelitumque cultum, ad meliorem omnium musicae faventium, amantiumque usum, ad promptiorem festivitatum plerarumque e cantum (Würzburg, 1639).

Barockmusik aus Schweizer Franziskanerklöstern. Werke von Barthold 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).

Felix de Barcelona (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catalan) Capuchin friar. Member of the Catalonia province. Preacher and author of Instruciones de Predicadores para hazer bien los sermones y predicarles provechosamente (Barcelona, 1679).

works

Instruciones de Predicadores para hazer bien los sermones y predicarles provechosamente (Barcelona: José Forcada, 1679).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 344; Lexicon Capuccinum, 532; Darío Velandia Onofre, 'Teatro en el púlpito? La oratoria sagrada española del siglo XVII', Perífrasis 3:5 (Bogotá, January-June 2012), 35-48 [http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/peri/v3n5/v3n5a02.pdf ]

Felix de Barcelona (Felix Andreu, f. 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish (Catalan) Capuchin friar.

works

Método práctico de la hermosa dilección y sincera devoción a María Inmaculada, Virgen María. Libro primero. Piadosos cultyos y exercicios para practicar debidamente la devoción annual y universal de nuestra Señora (Barcelona: Bernardo Pla, 1763). Present in Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 3-11943, Barcelona, Biblioteca Universitaria, B.68-3-4, and Zaragoza, Biblioteca Universitaria, G-25-235.

literature

Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, ed. Francisco Aguilar Piñal (Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1984) III, 307 (no. 2409).

Felix de Conceptione (Felix da Conceiçam, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Portuguese friar from Coïmbra. Made his profession at the age of 19 in the Penella friary (Santo Antono province) on 8 December 1715. Guardian of the Lisbon friary when he was elected provincial on 10 May 1755.

works

Exercicios espirituales da Veneravel Madre Soror Maria de Jesus de Agreda, accrescentados pelo traductor, com hum methodo mais breve para se practicarem os exercicios da Cruz, e da morte por qualquer alma devota (Coïmbra: Luiz Seco Ferreira, 1730).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345; Diôgo Barbosa Machado, Bibliotheca Lusitana IV, 117-118.

Felix de Doloribus et de Sancta Martha (Félix de los Dolores y Santa Marta, fl. later 18^thcent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Member of the San Diego province (Aldalucia)

works

La humildad del gran Patriarcha de los Menores, N.S.P. San Francisco, ponderada y engrandecida. Oración panegírica que en la annual solemne fiesta del mismo Serafico Patriarca en su día, le consagró el...convento de Franciscos descalzos...de Cádiz Decíala el M.R.P... (Cadiz: Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, 1773). Present in Badajoz, Biblioteca Pública, 373 and Zaragoza, Biblioteca Universitaria, Caja 62-1276.

Oración panegírica, dicha en las honras por modo de aniversario, que a la noble piadosa memoria de su difunto marido D. Juan Francisco Gragera y Barreda, mandó celebrar en la iglesia parroquial de Talavera la Real el dia 26 de marzo de 1786 la ilustre señora Doña Maria Ana de Montoya y Solis, hija del Conde de Villa Hermosa del Pinar... (Badajoz: Francisco Barrera, 1786).

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 207-208; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 114 (no. 300); Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, ed. Francisco Aguilar Piñal (Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1984) III, 307 (nos. 2410-2411).

Felix de Granada (Felix Granatensis, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish Capuchin friar.

works

Breve tratado...de la vida y martirio del Vble P. Fr. Fidel de Sigmaringa, predicador capuchino (1669?): MS Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 13532.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 345; Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, ed. Francisco Aguilar Piñal (Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1984) III, 307 (no. 2412).

Felix Jose de Ubrique (Felix Josefo de Ubrique/Felix José de Ubrique, d. 1731)

OFMCap. Spanish Capuchin friar. Member of the Andalucía province. Preacher, lector and provincial minister. Both an itinerant preacher as well as a court preacher during the reign of Philip V.

works

Sermón que el las religiosas exequias función del Capítulo a sus Prelados difuntos ofrece esta Provincia de la Inmaculada Concepción de Nuestra Señora de Menores Capuchinos...Díxole en el convento de Santa Justa y Rufina, extra murps de la Ciudad de Sevilla... (Sevilla: 1704). Present in Sevilla, Biblioteca Universitaria, 113-85 (16) and in Madris, Biblioteca Nacional V.E. Caja 446 (16).

Sagrado holocausto, fervorosa víctima, y ardiente sacrificio, que en las aras cordiales de la más activa fidelidad, ofreció a Christo Sacramentado y su Purísima Madre, Maria Santissima del Triumpho, en acción de gracias por la victoria conseguida contra las enemigas armas de nuestro amado Rey y Señor D. Philip Quino (que Dios guarde) Don Manuel del Villar, sobre-estante de las obras de fortificación de esta ciudad de Cádiz (...) (Cádiz, 1711). Present in Sevilla, Biblioteca Universitaria, 109-75 (5).

Oración fúnebre en las exequias que a la Excma. Señora Doña María Guadalupe Alancastre y Cárdenas, Duquesa de Aveyro y Maqueda, consagró el Excmo. Señor Don Joachin Ponce de León, Duque de Arcos, su amante hijo, en su convento de R.P. Capuchinos de su Villa de Marchena, lunes día 10 de Febrero desdo año de 1716 (...) (Sevilla: Herederos de Tomás López de Haro, 1716). Present in Sevilla, Biblioteca Universitaria, 113-90 (9).

Oración fúnebre en las exequias que por el Señor D. Luis Primero (que santa gloria haya) solemnizó la ciudad de Xerez de la Frontera el dia 30 de octubre de 1724... (Cadiz, 1724). Present in Sevilla, Bibl. Facultad de Letras, 106 (23).

Sermon fúnebre que consagró la ilustre villa de Ubrique en las exequias del Excmo. Sr. D. Joaquin Ponce de León, Duque de Arcos y Maqueda (...) (s.l., s.a. [1729]). Present in Sevilla, Biblioteca Universitaria, 112-113 (5).

literature

Bernardinus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 87; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 346; Lexicon Capuccinum, 580; Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, ed. Francisco Aguilar Piñal (Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1984) III, 308-309 (nos. 2414-2418).

Felix Justus (Felice Giusti Udinese, fl. late 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Udine. Meditative author.

works

I trenta Ringraziamenti e tre offerte del Padre Fra Felice Giusti da Udine Minor Osservante utilissimi e necessarii a tutti quelli, che bramano l'amor di nostro Signore (Udine: Giovanni Battista Natolini, 1595/Udine: Pietro Lorio, 1617).

I sessanta fruttuosi Ricordi del Padre Fra Felice Giusti da Udine Minor Osservante utilissimi e necessarii a tutti quelli che bramano di lasciare i peccati, ed acquistare la gloria del celeste Regno (Udine: Giovanni Battista Natolini, 1596[1566?]/Udine: Pietro Lorio, 1617).

Preparamento ed arte molto necessaria al buon morire (1600).

literature

Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli, Biblioteca Volante di Gio. Cinelli Calvoli continuata dal dottor Dionigi Andrea Sancassani, 2nd Ed., III (Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1746), 54; Gian-Giuseppe Liruti, Notizie delle vite ed opere scritte da' letterati del Friuli III (Udine, 1780), 333; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 237.

Felix Maria de Parma (Felix Maria de Parma, 1692-1767)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Translator of hagiographical texts.

works

Vida de San Fidel de Sygmaringa, siervo del Orden de Menores de N.P.S. Francisco. Por el R.P. Fray Maximiliano de Vaughenas (...) y ahora nuevamente traducido del idioma italiano al español, por el Rmo. P. Felix Maria de Parma (...) (Murcia: Phelipe Diaz Cayuelas, 1747). Present in Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, 1-5038 (1).

Compendio de la vida del B.S. Joseph de Leonissa (...) Traducida del idioma italiana al español por el P. Felix Maria de Parma (...) (Murcia: Phelipe Diaz Cayuelas, 1747). Present in Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, 1-5038 (2).

literature

Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, ed. Francisco Aguilar Piñal (Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1984) III, 309.

Felix Potestas (Felice Potestà di Palermo/Felice Podestà, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar. Member of the Sicily province. Lector jubilatus, consultant for the Holy Office, provincial definitor, court theologian for the Kingdom of Sicily, and provincial minister. He died in the Santa Maria degli Angeli friary in Palermo. Known for his Examen ecclesiasticum: in quo universae materia morales omnesque ferè Casus Conscientiae excogitabiles, solidè, ac perspecuè resolvuntur, cum denuntiationibus ad monitoria atque edicta.... (Venice: Paulus Balleonius, 1712/Re-issued by the same printer in 1731/Madrid: ex Regia Typographia vulgo de la Gazeta, 1767). These editions all available via Google Books. He also is the co-author of the comparable Examen ecclesiasticum adauctum tres complectens tomos: in quo vniversae materiae morales, omnesque fere excogitabiles casus conscientiae solidae, et clare resolvuntur, cum denuntiationibus ad monitoria Papae, et episcoporum, ad edicta inquisitorum... (Didacvm de Larvmbe, 1718/por Pablo Campins, 1736).

works

Manuele Ordinandorum, duos complectens tractatus de Sacramento Ordinis et de Sacrosancto Sacrificio Missae (Palermo: Anglese & Leone, 1694/Tommaso Aiccardo, 1697).

Examen Ordinandorum Praedicatorum, Et Missionariorum: Complectens Sacramentum Ordinis, & sacrosanctum Sacrificium Missae (...) (Cologne: Wilhelm Metternich, 1712). Accessible via the Staatsbibliothek Regensburg and via Google Books.

Examen ecclesiasticum: in quo universae materia morales omnesque ferè Casus Conscientiae excogitabiles, solidè, ac perspecuè resolvuntur, cum denuntiationibus ad monitoria atque edicta.... (Cologne: Wilhelm Metternich, 1712/Venice: Paulus Balleonius, 1712/Re-issued by the same printer in 1731/.../Madrid: ex Regia Typographia vulgo de la Gazeta, 1767/etc). These editions all available via Google Books (but often do not show up, only use first two title worlds in the search) and some also via other digital portals, such as that of the Nórodni Knihovna National Library in Prague.

Examen ecclesiasticum adauctum tres complectens tomos: in quo vniversae materiae morales, omnesque fere excogitabiles casus conscientiae solidae, et clare resolvuntur, cum denuntiationibus ad monitoria Papae, et episcoporum, ad edicta inquisitorum (...) (Didacvm de Larvmbe, 1718/Palermo: Michele Costanzo, 1723/por Pablo Campins, 1736). This is a collective work, with Felice Potestà as one of the contributing authors.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 346-347; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 749.

Felix Reineccius (Felix Reineck, 1605-1661)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Member of the Tirol province. Court preacher in Innsbruck. Promotor of confraternities and productive author on Franciscan authors and prominent order figures. He died on 16 July, 1661.

works

Solon Franciscanus sive Sapientiae Franciscanae. Id est Auctorum In Religione Franciscana, in Indijs utrisque editorum, et synoptice conscriptorum (...), Pars Prima, 3 Vols. [?] (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1649-1650). Accessible via Google Books and vua the Národni Knihovna National Library in Prague.

Bias Franciscanus, sive Sapientiae Franciscanae: id est Actorvm A Svmmis Romanis Pontificibus Religionis Franciscanae sapienter editorum & synopticè conscriptorum, Pars Secunda (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1650). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Národni Knihovna National Library in Prague & Google Books.

Cleobulus Franciscanus. Id est Sapientiae Franciscanae Siue Actorum a Regibus Reginis Regiisque liberis in Religione Franciscana sapienter editorum ac synoptice constriptorum, Pars Quarta (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1651). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich & Google Books.

Pittacus Franciscanus oder der franciscaner Weissheit. Das ist der ienigen Thaten welche königliche Personen auß den königlichen Geschlechtern Sicilien, Ungarn, Poln, Armenien, Denenmarck, Schweden, Engelland und Portugal in den Franciskanr Orden meisslich vollbracht und kurtzlich beschriben, Fünffter Thail (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1652). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Thales Franciscanus, sive sapientiae franciscanae. id est: Actorum, ab Imperatoribus summis, Caesareique sanguinis Principibus, maxime Augustissima Domo Austriaca prognatis, in Religione Franciscana sapienter editorum, ac succincte descriptorum, Pars Tertia (Innsbruck, 1654). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Národni Knihovna National Library in Prague & Google Books. There also exists an older vernacular version: Thales Franiscanus oder der Franciscaner Weißheit, das ist, der jenigen Thaten, welche kayserlich- und königliche Personen insondertheit aus dem hochlöblichen Hauß Österreich in dem Franciscaner Orden weißlich vollbracht und kürtzlich beschrieben durch P.F. Felicem Reineccium aus der Marck Brandenburg, des Reform. Franciscaner-Ordens Hof Prediger zum hl. Creutz, dritter Thail (Innbruck: Wagner, 1650).

Chilo Franciscanus, Idest Sapientiae Franciscanae in Religione Franciscana sapienter editorum, e quibus perspicue patet, eam esse Domum Covitati Dei, Ecclesiae videlicet Catholicae, apprime conformem, & synoptice conscriptorum, Pars Sexta (Innsbruck, 1659 [1656?]). Accessible via Google Books. There also exists an older vernacular version: Chilo Franciscanus oder der Franciscaner Weißheit, d. i. kürtzlich beschribner Thaten, welche in den Franciscaner Orden so weißlich vollbracht worden das darauß zu ersehen selbiger sey ein Hauß so der Statt Gottes nemblich der christlichen, catholischen Kirchen gleichförmig sey (...), sechster Thail (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1653).

Periander Franciscanvs Sive Sapientiae Franciscanae: Id est: Actorum, quae Cardinales S. R. E. Ordinis Franciscani sapienter gesserunt, Synoptice descriptorum, Pars Septima (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1653/1656/1659). Accessible via Google Books and via the Národni Knihovna National Library in Prague.

Biblia Pauperum a Seraphico Doctore & S.R.E. Cardinale Bonaventura pauperis Ordinis Seraphici Francisci Inventa, & Exemplis ejusdem pauperis S. Francisci, pauperumque Sectatorum illius illuminata, Per P.F.F. Felicem Reineccium (...), 2 Vols. (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1658-1659). Hence an edition of a work ascribed to Bonaventure. Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Hundert hohe heilige, keyserliche, koenigliche und fürstliche Frawen. Das ist: Leben und Tugend hundert auß keyserlichen, königlichen, und Fuerstlichen hohen Geschlechtern (...) gebornen Frauwn, welche in dem andern und dritten Orden S. Francisci recht und heilig gelebt (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1660). Available via Google Booksand via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Chronicken der Mundern Brüder (...), 4 Vols. (Insbruck, 1658). The fourth volume: Vierter Theil Der Chronicken Der Mindern Brüder deß eingesetzten Ordens deß H. Seraphischen Vatters Francisci: Auß Glaubwürdigen Franciscaner Geschichtschreibern, so in der Teutschen Sprach zuuor niemahlen an das Liecht kommen, anietzo aber trewlich zusammen getragen (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner, 1658) is available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the regional library of Augsburg & Google Books.

Beschreibung Deß Herrlichen Mausolei Oder Kayserlich- und Königlichen Grabs Maximiliani Des Ersten, Röm. Kaysers: Wie auch Deren umb dises Grab herum stehenden, und in die siben Schuh hoch gar künstlich aus Ertz gegossener 28. Contrafait Statuen der fürtrefflichsten Helden und Fürtslichen Persohnen Deß Aller-Durchleuchtigisten Ertz-Hauss Oesterreichs, [et]c: Sambt der Designation, deren kleinern an dem Chor in der Höhe stehenden ertzenen Figuren; Und Nachricht von der so benamsten silbernen Capellen. So zu sehen in der Kays. Königl. Hof-Kirchen zum Heil. Creutz bey denen Wohl-Ehrwürdigen PP. Franciscanern zu Ynsbrugg (Innsbruck: Anthonius Wagner, 1731/Michael Anton Wagner: 1750/Michael Anton Wagner: 1765/1713/1731/1765/1772). Available via Google Books and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Descriptio provinciae Tirolis: MS ? Once apparently present in the provincial order archives of the Franciscan Tirol province.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 347; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 237; Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 150-152 [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]

Felix Rotondus (Felice Rotondi da Monte Leone, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian (Umbrian) friar from Monteleone. Educated at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae. Lector in Perugia and short-time regent in Bergamo. Regent in Venice in the mid 1660s, and public theologian in via Scoti at Padua university. Eventually minister general/magister general of the Conventuals in 1695.

works

Elogia Virorum ac Mulierum domo Perusiae Ord. Min. Conventualium vel sanctitate, vel doctrina, vel rebus praeclare gestis insignium: MS Biblioteca Antoniana di Padova, 608 [cf: Catalogo dei codici manoscritti esistenti nella Biblioteca di Sant'Antonio di Padova, ed. Luigi M.D. Minciotti (Padua: Minerva, 1842), 151-152].

Commenti alle poesie del P. Cattalano (Rome, 1655).

Enchiridion dialecticum (Padua: Cadorinus, 1672).

Enchiridion Rhetoricum (Pavia, Cadorinus, ?).

Enchiridion Neotericum (Padua, ??).

Scotus Dogmaticus, & Scholasticus, several volumes? It would have amounted to a large Scotist Sentences commentary. The death of the author apparently forestald the completion of the work and its publication.

Juan de San Antonio and other older bibliographers hint at several other works that we have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 201-202; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 347; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 737; Diomede Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia: con una introduzione su la vera fisionomia dello scotismo (Rome: Collegio S. Antonio-Desclée e c., 1927), 228; Marco Forlivesi, Scotistarum princeps: Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673) e il suo tempo (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2002), 239.

Felix Valles (Felis Vallés, early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Zaragoza. Entered the order in his home town on 2 June 1690 (San Francisco friary). Predicator generalis and provincial order chronicler for the Aragon province.

works

Sermon panegírico de la conversion del apostol San Pablo en su Iglesia parroquial de Zaragoza (Zaragoza: Diego de Larumbe, 1713).

Oracion funebre en la muerta do la Señora Reina Catholica de España D.a María Luisa Gabriela de Saboya, que dijo en las reales exequias que celebró la fidelisima villa de Hijar en el dia 7 de Marzo de 1714 (Zaragoza: Diego de Larumbe, 1714).

Mensa eucharistica ó sermon panegírico de quarente horas, predicado en la villa de Mallen en 31 Marzo de 1716 (1716).

Incomplete and apparently never issued: Cathálogo de escritores franciscanos de la regular Observancia de la Santa provincia de Aragon

literature

Félix de Latassa, Bibliotecas antigua y nueva de escritores aragoneses III, 316;

Ferdinandus Camberos (Fernando Camberos y Yegros, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Biographer.

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El Héroe Seráfico San Pedro de Alcántara, glorioso timbre de la familia Descalza del gran Patriarca San Francisco de Asis. Relacion histórica y panegirica de su vida, muerte y milagros (Salamanca: Francisco Garcia Onorato y San Miguel, 1723).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 348; Vicente Barrantes y Moreno, Aparato bibliográfico para la historia de Extremadura I, 74.

Ferdinando Darbi (d. 1729)

OFMConv from Conegliano. Philosopher & theologian. Apparently only his Pro studiis primae philosophiae oratio>>

works

Pro studiis primae philosophiae oratio F. Ferdinandi Antonii Darbi Coneglanensis... (Typis Seminarii apud Joannem Manfrè, 1727). Available via Google Books.

literature

Francesco De Carolis, ‘L’‘Oratio pro studiis primae philosophiae’ di Ferdinando Darbi OFMConv (d. 1729)’, Miscellanea Francescana 102:3-4 (2003), 769-781.

Fernando Bevilacqua (Fernando Bevilacqua da Fossombrone, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Master of theology, order definitor and Renowned preacher, active in Siena, Modena, Florence (Santa Croce, 1690), Naples and Rome. He died sometimes after 1707. Eulogic homiletic, theatrical, musical and devotional author and advocate of the immaculate conception of Mary.

works

Racconto della Festa, fatta nel Real Palazzo di Napoli ec. per il felice arrivo in Milano della Sposa Reale del Cattolico, e gran Re Filippo Quarto (...) (Naples: Egidio Longo, 1649). Rather early for him. Is this a secure ascription? The edition accessible on Google Books does not at all indicate that is is a work by Fernando Bevilacqua.

Conceptae Parenetae Mariae Virginis festo die in Ecclesia Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Convent. Urbis Fossempronii celebrato, Epigram. (Fano: Gaudenzio, 1689).

I Cerchi de' Divini Incantesimi. Orazione panegirica in lode della B. Umiliana de'Cerchi Fiorentina detta avanti il suo corpo (Florence: S.A.S., 1690). Accessible via Google Books.

S. Francesco d'Assisi. Dramma sacro per musica (Pesaro: Appresso i Gotti, 1690).

L'ascensione a trè cieli. Panegiroco di S. Aldebrando, Vescovo e Protettore di Fossombrone (Urbino: Giovanni Battista Bussi, 1695).

Orazione ne'Funerali del P.M. Ranieri detta nella Chiesa di S. Francesco di Rimini (Urbino: Stefano Leonardi, 1698).

Panegirico a Clemente XI, detto nella Metropolitano di Urbino (Urbino: Mainardi & Duranti, 1700).

Mosè gettato nel Nilo. Oratorio a quattro voci ad onore del glorioso S. Antonio di Padova (...) (Foligno: Nicola Campitelli, 1700).

Melodialogo. La volontà, il potere, e il decoro divino in impegno dell'Immacolata Concezione (Rimini: Ferrari, 1702).

Melodialoghi in onore dell'innocentiss. Madre i Dio senza colpa originale concetta (...) (Rimini: Ferrari, 1704).

Notizia compendiosa della vita di S. Vittorino Confessore. Panegirico in onore di S. Vittorino Anacoreta, detto in Camerino avanti il suo Corpo (Pesaro: Domenico e Fratello de'Gotti, 1702). This seems to be a false ascription?

Le lacrime favorite. Panegirico di S. Raniero, Tutelare di Pisa (Pisa: Francesco Bindi, 1705).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 202-203; Biblioteca picena o sia notizie istoriche delle opere e degli scrittori, Tomo Secondo: Lett. B. (Osimo: Domenicantonio Quercetti, 1791), 237-239; Augusto Vernarecci, Dizionario biografico degli nomini illustri di Fossombrone (Fossombrone: Monacelli, 1872, 11.

Ferdinandus Davila (Fernando Davila, d. 1620)

OFM. Spanish friar. Joined the prder in 1583. Theologian and bishop: bishop on Crete in 1593 and of the Ascoli Satriano diocese (Apulia) in 1595.

works

Annotationes in Evangeliae Adventum (Venice, 1590).

Conciones in Quadragesimam et in festos Sanctorum . Check!

Oratio in funere Philippi II Austriaci Potentissimi, Hispaniarum Indiarum ac utriusque Siciliae Regis Catholici (Naples: Paolo Venturino, 1599). Accessible via the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 348; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 237 & 251. See also http://www.ascolisatrianofg.it/ascolisatrianofg/Ascoli_vescovi_Davila.htm

Ferdinandus de Almeida (Fernando de Almeida, fl. 16th cent.?)

OFM. Portuguese friar from Alverca.

works

Apologia por algumas opinioês da Summa de Fr. Jozé Angles.: MS Madrid, Bibl. Nacional, ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 348; Diego Barbosa-Machado, Summario da Bibliotheca Luzitana II, 10.

Ferdinandus de Belvedero (Ferdinandus de Belvederio/Fernando da Belvedere d'Iesi, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Theologian.

works

Discorsi morali sopra i simbolici precetti di Pittagora, 2 Vols. (Loreto: Paolo e Giovanni Battista Serafini, 1639-1641). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Discori sulle cantica canticorum: MS once present in the Franciscan convent library of Montecarotto. The work is sometimes also ascribed to Teodoro da Belvedere.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 348; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 237.

Ferdinandus de Bononia (Ferdinando di Bologna/Fernando di Bologna, d. 1720)

OFM. Italian friar. Member of the Observant Bologna province. Took the habit in 1675. After completing his religious formation and his theology studies, he became active as a preacher, but soon was tasked by his order superiors to become the secretary of the general visitator of the Aquila, Milan, and Alessandria provinces. Subsequently several years active as 'scriptor' at the office of the minister general in Rome. He was elected provincial definitor for his Bologna province in 1693, and after his return to the province itself, he became guardian of the Bolognese dell'Annunziata friary. There he devoted himself to order-related historical studies. He died on 1 March 1720.

works

Memorie Serafiche, e Notizie diverse nella Città di Bologna, cioè dell'Origine, e Fondazione di tutte le Case dei tre Ordini del P.S. Francesco in questa città; raccolte dal P.Fr. Fernando da Bologna Minor Osservante (...) l'anno della nostra saluta MDCCI (...): MS Bologna, Archivio del Convento dell'Annunziata (now in the Biblioteca Municipale of Bologna? Check!).

Memorie del Sacro Monte di Pietà di Bologna: MS Bologna, Archivio del Convento dell'Annunziata (now in the Biblioteca Municipale of Bologna? Check!).

Memorie istoriche della Provincia de'Minori Osservanti detta di Bologna (...) divise in tre parti consacrate al merito sublime del M.R.P. Luca da Carpi Lettore giubilato, già Ministro Provinciale della medesima, e Teologo del Serenissimo di Modena (Bologna: li successori del Benacci, 1717). Present in the Biblioteca Municipale of Bologna, and also in the Bodleian Library of Oxford?

literature

Giovanni Fantuzzi, Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi IX (Bologna, 1794), 98; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri, 753; Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi IV (1851), 114; Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri (...) Part The First, A-L (...) Which will be Sold by Auction by Messr. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (...) (London: J. Davy & Sons, 1861), 137; Luigi Frati, Opere della bibliografia bolognese che si conservano nella Biblioteca municipale di Bologna (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1888) I, 198 (no. 1654).

Ferdinandus de Campo (Fernando del Campo/Fernando de Ocampo, d. 1632)

OFM. Spanish Franciscan friar from the Santiago province. Theologian. Guardian of San Francisco de Salamanca (1610). According to some catalogues, he was titular bishop of Usula (1620-1621), and bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) between 14 December 1621 and 1632.

works

De Natura et Essentia Auxilii Efficacis (1598). Edited in Isaac Vázquez, ‘Voto inédito de Fr. Fernando de Campo, OFM, sobre las controversias ‘de auxiliis”, Verdad y Vida 22 (1964), 525-540.

Doctae Annotationes in Evangelia Quadragesimalia (Salamanca, 1599).

Sermón a san Ignacio de Loyola (1610). Referred to in Alonso de Salazar, Fiestas que hizo el insigne colegio de la Compañia de Jesús de Salamanca a la beatificación de san Ignacio de Loyola (Salamanca, 1610), f. 225v. Cf. Wadding, Annales Minorum XXV, 425 n. 66.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 348; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) VII, no. 3851; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 98 (no. 196); Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 57.

Ferdinandus de Colz (Ferdinand von Colz, 1633-1701)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Member of the Tirol Saint Leopold province. Theology lector, provincial definitor and preacher.

works

Deo Gratias, das ist: Schuldige Danck- und Schlußpredig, von P.F. Ferdinando von Coltz Reformierten Franciscaner Tyrolischer Provintz Diffinitore, SS. Theol. Lect. & Concionat. Generali; in: Inßpruggerischer Lorbeer-Krantz, das ist: Lob- und Ehren-Predigten, so bey dem hochfeyrlichen Danck-Fest der zween new-canonizierten oder heilig-gesprochenen Franciscanern Johannis von Capistran und Paschalis Baylon in der ertzfürstlichen Tyrolischen Haubt- und Residenz-Statt Ynßprugg von unterschidlichen hochwürdigen wohl-ehrwürdigen, hochgelehrten Herren und Ordens-Predigern in der kayserl. Hof-Kirchen zum H. Creutz bey denen wohl-erwürdigen PP. Reformierten Franciscanern (...) in offentlichen Truck gegeben worden (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1691).

Liber vitae christianae, Lehr-Kunst christlich zu leben, das ist: Heilsame Glaubens- und Sittenlehr, (...) von P. F. Ferdinando von Colz (...) ss. theologiae Lect. und gewestem Hof- Predigern zum H. Creutz in Insprugg (Würzburg: Adolph, 1701). Apparently not very successful.

Der sicherste Weg zum Himmel, das ist: eine sehr erbauliche in verschiedenen sittlichen Lectionen bestehende Anweisung (...) (Sultzbach, 1713).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 21. [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]

Ferdinandus de Paez (Fernando de Paez, fl. second half 16t cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Toledo diocese (native of Peñalver?). Reached the doctorate at Alcalà de Henares and was professor of Scotist theology there.

works

Commentaria in I Librum Sententiarum: MS ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 349; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 237-238.

Fernando de Jesu Larrea (Fernando de Jesús Larrea y Dávalos, d. 1773)

OFM. from Quiti. Member of the San Francisco del Ecuador province and active as a missionary. He died in Santiago de Cali, November 3, 1773.

literature

Alfonso Zawadzky, Viajes del R.P. Fr. Fernando de Jesús Larrea, franciscano (1700-1773) (Cali: Imp. Bolivariana, 1947) [cf. CF 21 (1951), 235-237]; Leonardo Tafur Garcés, ‘Evocación de Fr. Fernando de Jesús Larrea y Dávalos’, Revista javeriana 49 (Bogotá, 1958), 193-200 & Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia 38 (Quito, 1958), 209-218; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed.Cisneros, 1982), 137 (no. 485). See also: http://www.wikiwand.com/es/Fernando_de_Jes%C3%BAs_Larrea#/overview

Fernando de Portugal (fl. ca. 1400)

OM. Portuguese friar. Known for his Litterae ad Pacem et Tranquillitatem Saluberrimam Ecclesiae .

works

Litterae ad Pacem et Tranquillitatem Saluberrimam Ecclesiae (13 August, 1408), ed. in: BF VII, no. 532 & Monumenta Henricina 1 (Lisbon, 1960), 319-320.

literature

F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7(Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 472.

Ferdinandus de Sancto Antonio Capilla (Fernando de San Antonio Capilla, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the San Miguel province. Long-term lector and several times provincial minister.

works

Sermón para celebrar las exequias de Maria de Cristo (Sevilla: Francisco Garay, 1711).

Vida singular de la madre Maria de Christo: venerable por esclarecida virgen, por su rigorosa penitencia, por los favores que recibió de Dios, y por fundadora de dos beatorio en las villas de la Parra y Almendralejo (...) (Manuel Ruiz de Murga, 1716).

Cincuenta y una cartas de Fr. Fernando de San Antonio Capilla al Duque de Béjar, casi todas sobre asuntos particulares si bien en alguna da noticias de la época: MS Archivos Estatales (España), OSUNA,CT.217,D.19-72 [check http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/3920634 ]

Cursus Philosophicus ?

Tractatus Theologici ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 348; Vicente Barrantes, Catalogo razonado y critico de los libros, memorias y papeles; impresos y manuscritos, que tratan de las Provincias de Extremadura, así tocante, á su historia, religion y geografía, como á sus antiguedades, nobleza y hombres célebres (Madrid: 1865), 207.

Ferdinandus de Solitudine (Fernando de la Soledad/Fernando da Soledade, 1663-1737)

OFM. Portuguese friar from Porto (born on 17 August 1663, as the son of Domingos Teixeira and Maria Pereira). He joined the order in 1682. Preacher, order administrator (also guardian of Guimaraens and provincial minister (1734-1737)), confessor of the Nuns of Santa Anna of Lisbon, and order chronicler. He continued the Historia Seraphica cronologica da Ordem de S. Francisco na Provincia de Portugal, the first two volumes of which had been issued by Manoel da Esperança. He died in the Lisbon friary on 29 December 1737.

works

Sermaõ das Almas pregado no Mosteiro da Madre de Deos de Monchique (Lisbon: Bernardo da Costa de Carvalho, 1694).

Sentimentos da Ley da Natureza, Ley Escrita, e ley da Graça, na figura, na profecia, e na experiencia articulados na morte, enterro, e sepultura de Christo Senhor Nosso (Lisbon: Manoel Lopes Ferreira, 1697).

Sermaõ nas Exequias da Serenissima Rainha N.S. Dona Maria Sofia Izabel de Neoburg celebradas em 19. de Agosto de 1699. Em o Real Convento de S. Francisco, pela Ordem Terceira (Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, 1699).

Historia Seraphica cronologica da Ordem de S. Francisco na Provincia de Portugal, Tereira Parte (Lisbon: Officina de Manoel & Joseph Lopes Ferreyra, 1705 & 1735). Dealing with the period 1448-1500.

Historia Seraphica cronologica da Ordem de S. Francisco na Provincia de Portugal, IV (Lisbon: Officina de Manoel & Joseph Lopes Ferreyra, 1709/Lisbon: Domingos Gonsalves, 1737). Dealing with the period 1501-1568. Accessible via Google Books (the corrected 1737 edition).

Novena para os 13. dias do preclarissimo, e sempre piedoso Santo Antonio de Lisboa composta em obsequio da sua caridade, agradecimento do seu patrocinio, e mayor fervor do seu culto (Lisbon: Jozè Lopes Ferreira, 1711).

Novena de Santa Clara escrita a instancia das Religiosas do Mosteiro da Madre de Deos de Monchique da Cidade do Porto (Lisbon: Mathias Pereira da Sylva, e Joaõ Antunes Pedroso, 1720).

Historia Seraphica cronologica da Ordem de S. Francisco na Provincia de Portugal, V (Lisbon: Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram [Galraõ], 1721). Dealing with the period 1569-1715

Memoria dos Infantes D. Affonco Sanches e Dona Tereja Martins, Fundadores do Real Mosteiro de Santa Clara de Villa do Conde (Lisbon: Antonio Manescal, 1726).

Sermaõ do Patriarcha S. Francisco prégado na solemnidade que lhe dedicou a sua Ven. Ordem Terceira de S. Francisco de Lisboa Occidental com hum Cathalogo das Pessoas Veneraveis, que em toda a Ordem Terceira floreceraõ com fama de Santidade (Lisbon: Officina da Musica, 1727). Hence both a sermon and a catalogue of illustrious members of the Third Order.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 349; Diogo Barbosa Machado, Bibliotheca lusitana historica, critica, e cronologica II, 56-57.

Franciscus Durandus (Francisco Durant, fl. early 17th. cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Santiago province. Lector of theology, Secretary of the Franciscan minister general Francisco de Sosa and provincial minister.

works

Dictamen espiritual y razon de estado para el discreto Cortesano, que lo pretende de ser del Cielo, con muchos avisos curiosos para todos los estados de el humre, y muchos proverbios para los Predicadores Evangelicos de la palabra de Dios (Valencia, 1612). Accessible via Barcelona, Episcopal Library, and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 380.

Franciscus Durandus (Francisco Duran, fl. second half 17th. cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Member of the San Pedro de Alcantara province. Theology lector, provincial secretary and provincial definitor.

works

Llanto religioso en las honras, que el Convento de S. Antonio de Padua de Granada hizo a nuestro caríssimo hermano Fr. Alonso Méndez , Lector de Teologia (...) (Granada: Francisco de Ochoa, 1689). Accessible via Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/A11310509 ]

Sermón panegirico (...) (Granada: Francisco de Ochoa, 1697). Needs checking.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 380; Félix Herrero Salgado, La oratoria sagrada en los siglos XVI y XVII: Predicadores dominicos y franciscanos (Fundación Universitaria Española, 1998), 678

Fernando Espino (fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Guatemalan or Nigaraguan Franciscan friar. Joined the order in 1626. Known for his knowledge of the Lenca language. Was sent out as a missionary in the Tegucigalpa region in 1667. In 1668 he was elected provincial in Guatemala. Left behind several historical works.

works

Relacion verdadera de la Reduccion de los indios infieles de la Provincia de la Tagvisgalpa, llamados Xicaques, cuyos Operarios han salido, y salen desta Provincia del SS. Nombre de Iesus de Goatemala, desde el año de 1612 hasta el presente año de 1674 (Guatemala: J. De Pineda Ibarra, 1674). Available at http://www.enriquebolanos.org/context.php?item=fondo-cultural-ciencia&m=internal_book_detail&id=100 and via http://repositorio.ihnca.edu.ni/2070/ as well as via http://memoriacentroamericana.ihnca.edu.ni/uploads/media/Fray_Fernando_Espino_Relacion_1977.pdf and via Google Books [last checked on August 24, 2016]

Razon del estado en que se hallan las reducciones de indios infieles que están á cargo de los religiosos de N.P.S. Francisco desta Santa Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, assi en la Provincia de la Taguisgalpa, en los parajes de Xicaque y Iamastran, del Obispado de Comayagua, como en la de la Nueva Segovia y parajes de la Pantasma del Obispado de Nicaragua segun las cartas que han escrito los Padres Misioneros Apostólicos que se exercitan en ellas, á N.M.R.P.Fr. Fernando Espino, Ministro Provincial desta dicha Provincia (Guatemala, 1676).A part of this work was apparently reprinted in the Relaciones Históricas y Geográficas de la Améria.

literature

A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 30; B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim; Carlos García-Romeral Pérez, Bio-bibliografía de Viajeros Españoles (siglos XVI-XVII) (Madrid: Ollero & Ramos, 1998), 99 (no. 392).

Ferdinandus Perez (Fernando Perez, fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Castilian province. Studied at Alcalà de Henares.

works

In I. Librum Sententiarum: MS ?

De angelis: MS Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana ?

De Matrimonio: MS Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 349; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 238.

Fidelis Philippi Neapolitensis (Fedele de’Filippi da Napoli, 1671-1750)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

literature

Parente Mariano, Vita ordinaria nel modo straordinario. Il servo di Dio P. Fedele de’Filippi da Napoli (1671-1750), Tau, Testi e Ricerche di Francescanismo, 7 (Naples, 2002); Mariano Parente, Vita ordinaria nel modo straordinario. Il servo di Dio P. Fedele de’Filippi da Napoli, cappuccino (1671-1750) (Naples Editrice Campania Serafica, 2002).

Ferdinandus Troyer (Ferdinand Troyer/Ferdinand von Sankt Georgen, 1595-1652)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Member of the Sankt Leopold province (Tirol). Spiritual author and historian. He died on 17 March, 1652.

works

Exercitia spiritualia, geistliche und gottseelige Ubungen sonderlich durch die viertzigtägige Fasten, als das Misere, eine kurtzer Beichtspiegel und was die Rew, Beicht unnd Bueß sey (...), aus underschidlichen (...) Authoren zusamen gezogen unnd auff viler Personen Begehr in Truck geben durch den Ehrw. P. Ferdinand von S. Georgen, reform. Franc. zu Ynßprugg (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1645).

Geschichte Tirols (1646): MS ?

Cronica der Statt Botzen (1648) in: Cultura Atesina – Kultur des Etschlandes (Bozen) 2 (1948), 140- 156; 3 (1949), 16-32, 60-76, 157-172; 4 (1950), 98-128. [A chronicle divided in 52 chapters, surviving in a manuscript from 1648 once in the Franciscan friary of Hall and now in the biblioteca della Prepositura di Bolzano (Propsteibibliothek Bozen)]

Besondere Andachten oder Übungen zu den schmerzhaften Instrumenten des leidenden Heilands (1654). Check!

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 196 [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]

Fidelis de Drepano (Fedele di Trapani, d. 1804)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Sicily. Member of the Palermo province and renowned preacher.

works

Breve ragguaglio della vita e virtù di Suor Maria Eucaristica Fardella del terzo Ordine di S. Francesco, composto e dato in luce da un solitario Capuccino (Naples, 1786).

Lettere apologetiche in risposta a Frate Eusebio ad istanza di D. Filipo Sinolfi (Palermo, 1790).

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), 21.

Fidelis de Santo Biagio (Fedele da San Biagio/Platani, 1717-1801)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Artist and author. He entered the Capuchin order in Casteltermini, and fulfilled his novitiate in Caltanisetta, where he took the habit in 1729, adopting the name Fedele da San Bagio. Soon, he displayed artistic capacities, witness paintings in Caltanisetta (Addolorata and Casteltermini (Madonna e i ss. Francesco e Antonio). He transferred to the convent of Palermo in 1742, where he was ordained priest in 1745. He became aquainted with the painter Olivio Sozzi, who painted several works in the Capuchin Palermo friary, and who became something of a mentor to Fedele. Sozzi brought Fedele into contact with his own master Sebastiano Conca, in whose workshop Fedele worked as an apprentice in 1751 and 1752. This was followed by an apprenticeship in the workshop of Marco Benefial, and visits to other painters and the Accademia di S. Luca. Subsequently, Fedele became a prominent painter within the Capuchin Sicilian province, witness a number of productions in the Capuchin churches of Nicastro, Ciminna, and the Jeremiah chapel of Palermo cathedral.
Between 1756 and 1762, Fedele was guardian of the Capuchin friary of Casteltermini, where he again painted several works (Madonna e angeli, Transito di s. Giuseppe, Estasi di s. Francesco, Madonna della Catena, S. Francesco e S. Antonio, Annunciazione, Immacolata , Esaltazione della Croce etc.). He also produced a significant number of paintings for other Capuchin churches and monasteries in (Western) Sicily. In 1765, in the context of the canonization of Serafino d'Ascoli and the beatification of Bernardo da Corleone, Fedele went back to Rome, where he worked on several paintings for the papacy, Roman cardinals and members of the Congregazione dei Sacri Riti. Afterwards, he produced a series of paintings for the Capuchins of Alcamo (Padre Fedele da Sigmaringa) and again for a number of other Capuchin houses in Sicily. In 1784 the Provincial of the Roman Capuchins commissioned a large painting for the church of San Lorenzo Nuovo near Lake Bolsena, depicting the Virgin, San Serafino da Montegranaro and seven episodes in the life of Franciscan saints.
Fedele returned to Palermo in 1786, where he issued in 1788 the Dialoghi familiari sopra la pittura difesa ed esaltata, dedicated to the Duke of Anjou. This work describes in the form of a dialogue the theoretical, technical and moral-didactical aspects of (religious) painting, with specific details on the properties of oil paints and their colors. The work also contains a wealth of information on local painters and works. Further paintings as well as writings followed. Fedele was sufficiently famous to become associated with the Accademia romana dell’Arcadia (under the pseudonym Clorindo Eliniano), and with the Accademia del buon gusto and the Accademi degli Ereini in Palermo. Fedele died in Palermo on 8 August 1801. His mummified remains can still be seen in the local Capuchin mortuary catacombs. Fedele was both a productive painter and a productive writer. A complete overview of the latter is apparently given by Roccaforte (1968) and again by Marcella (2012).

works

La costanza fra perigli epilogata nella schiavitù del servo di Dio p. Ludovico d'Alcamo sacerdote Capuccino della Provincia di Palermo opera sagro-comica del P. Fedele Palermo da S. Biagio (...) (Palermo: Giuseppe Gramigniani, 1753). A versified religious-comical opera text. Available via Google Books.

La divina clemenza espressata nella parabola evangelica del figliol prodigo. Opera sacro-drammatica-morale a pro d’un peccatore convertito, del padre fr. Fedele Palermo da S. Biagio predicatore capuccino, e Pastore Arcade (...) (Palermo: Stamperia della Divina Provvidenza presso l'erede d'Aiccardo, 1760).

Lu Giuvini addottrinatu pri nun attaccarisi a li vanità di stu munnu; in versu ottenariu, ed in lingua siciliana, cu l'aggiunta di multi proverbij, uniformi a chiddi di la Sagra Scrittura da lu p. Fidili di S. Brasi predicaturi capuccinu (...) (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Gagliani, 1774).

Dialoghi familiari sopra la pittura: difesa, ed esaltata dal p. Fedele da S. Biagio pittore cappuccino col sig. avvocato d. Pio Onorato palermitano alla presenza de' suoi allievi nella bell'Arte disposti in quindici giornate per maggior eccitamento della gioventù che si applica al disegno, e colorito; e per impegnare li protettori della nobilissima arte a maggiormente promuoverla (Palermo: Antonio Valenza, 1788). Produced in collaboration with Pio Onorato. Available via Archive.org. See also: Dialoghi familiari sopra la pittura, ed. Diana Malignaggi (Palermo: Regione siciliana, Assessorato dei beni culturali e ambientali e della pubblica istruzione, Dipartimento dei beni culturali ed ambientali ed educazione permanente, 2002).

L’empietà della dottrina ariana conculcata e convinta nel glorioso martirio di s. Ermenegildo re d'Andalusia (Palermo 1797). A versified opera drama.

See for further info the works of (Roccaforte, 1968) and Marcella (2012).

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), 21; Lexicon Capuccinum, 585 (with some additional references to older literature); Palermo, Bibl. centrale della Regione siciliana, ms. XV H 19: Domenico da Partinico, ‘P. F. da S. B. Platani’, L’Italia francescana 41 (1966), 436-454; P. Roccaforte, P. F. da S. B. Pittore e letterato (Palermo: S.F. Flaccovio, 1968); D. Malignaggi, ‘I ‘Dialoghi familiari sopra la pittura’ di padre F. Tirrito da S. B.’, in: Le arti in Sicilia nel Settecento. Studi in memoria di M. Accascina (Palermo 1985), 351-372; D. Malignaggi, ‘Storiografi della pittura sicil. fra Settecento eottocento’, in: ‘pittore dei Lampedusa’ e la pittura in Sicilia nel sec. XVIII, ed. D. Provenzani (Palermo, 1990, 161-178; Gioacchino Barbera, ‘Fedele da San Bagio’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 45 (1995) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fedele-da-san-biagio_(Dizionario-Biografico)/]; Padre Fedele da San Biagio. Fra letteratura artistica e pittura, ed. Gabriella Costantino (Caltanisetta EN: Sciascia Editore, 2002); Monica Marcella, Padre Fedele da San Biagio pittore e trattatista (Pitti, 2012).

Fidelis de Sancto Germano Vercellese (Fedele da Sangermano Vercellese/Barozzi, 1569-1623)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in the noble Barozzi family in San Germano Vercellese. Member of the Milan province and later first definitor of the new Piemonte province (created in 1616). Entered the order in 1585. Popular preacher and propagator of Quarantore prayer marathons and Marian devotions in Como and elsewhere. Involved with the creation of the Sacro Monte/Santuario di Oropa (between 1617-1620). In 1620 Paulus V named him theologus insignus and predicator apostolicus. He would have refused the cardinalate under Gregory XV. Fedele died in Rome on 10 May 1623, on his way back north from a a Lenten preaching tour in Naples.

works

Oratione in lode di santo Carlo Borromeo Cardinale di santa Prassede , e arcivescovo di Milano. Del Molto Rev. padre fra Fedele de San Germano Minoe Capuccino. Recitata da lui alli 7. di Novembre 1610, nella Chiesa della Concettione in Milano, nelle communi feste della Canonizatione del Canto (Milan: Pacifico Pontio & Giovanni Battista Piccaglia, 1610). 26 pp. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Esercizio per la conversione del peccatore (Como: Girolamo Ferrova, 1614). A quarant'ore prayer guidebook based on practices in San Damaso.

literature

Bernardinus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 87; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 349; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 238 & (ed. 1908) I, 252; Valdemiro Bonari, I Cappuccini della Provincia milanese dalla sua fondazione, 2 Vols. (Crema: Tip. S. Pantaleone di Luigi Meleri, 1898) II, 115-126; Ilarino da Milano, Biblioteca dei Frati Minori Cappuccini di Lombardia (1535-1900) (Florence: Olschki, 1937), 103;Lexicon Capuccinum, 585 (with some additional references). See also: http://www.webalice.it/garbif/felicedasangermano.htm and http://web.tiscali.it/sangermano/felicedasangermano.htm

Fidelis de Scandiano (Fedele da Scandiano/Minari, ca. 1718-1779)

OFMCap. Italian lay friar from the Parma province. Joined the order at the age of 20 in 1738. Having been trained as a mechanic/engineer, he found employment at the universities of Pavia (1769-1773) and Mutina (1774-1779). He was involved with the construction of several church interiors in Scandiano, Rio and Noverella.

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Church designs and church interiors.

literature

I Francescani a Reggio Emilia (1927), 66; Lexicon Capuccinum, 585 (with additional bibliographical references).

Fidelis de Sigmaringa (Fidelis von Sigmaringen/Mark Roy/Mark Rey, 1578-1622), sanctus

OFMCap. German friar. Born in Sigmaringen. Studied in Sigmaringen and Freiburg im Breisgau. Travelled as part of his education and as teacher-mentor of three Swabian gentlemen during their education tour through Europe. Became a lawyer in Ensisheim and Colmar (Alsace), where he developed a reputation for being a 'poor man's lawyer'. Disenchanted with the secular life, he joined the Capuchin order and became a priest in 1612, giving his first mass as an ordained priest in the Capuchin friary of Fribourg (Switzerland) on October 4 of that year. Fidelis became a popular preacher and also fulfilled administrative functions, As guardian of Weltkirchen (Feldkirch), he actively became involved with contrareformatory activities, to convert local Calvinists. His successes drew the attention of the Roman Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which commissioned Fidelis to preach in the Graubünden (Eastern Switzerland) with eight Capuchin assistents. His activities enraged local Calvinists, who began to threaten his life. Fidelis was killed by Calvinists on April 24 1622 after a sermon at Seewis im Prättigau (present-day Switserland). He was canonized in 1746. For more and sometimes diverging biographical details, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelis_of_Sigmaringen

works

Exercitia seraphicae devotionis: quae inter propria manuscripta S. Fidelis a Sigmaringa Ord. Min. Fratrum Capucinorum Missionis Apost. in Rhaetica Praefacti (...) Reperta fuerunt (Frankfurt, 1746/Rome: Johannis Zempel, 1756). The 1756 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

De articulis fidei catholicae. ? Check the 2004 study by Schmucki.

Apologia doctrinae Catholicae Ecclesiae. ? Check the 2004 study by Schmucki.

Disputatio contra quosdam haereticos Prativegienses de Sancto Sacrificio Missae. ? Check the 2004 study by Schmucki.

vitae

Lucien de Montafunertal, Leben und Marter deß Gottseeligen Capuciners P. Fidelis von Sigmaringen under dem Titul Heiliger Vor-Arlenbergischer Wunder- und Gnaden-Quell (Constance: David Hautt, 1674); Lucianus Montifontanus, Probatica sacra cisarulana quam V.P. Fidelis a Sigmaringa capucini meritis e cruore pro fide effuso stagnantem nec annuis tantum, sed quotidianis pene gratiarum Signorumque motibus miraculosis hucusque exudantem (Constance: David Hautt, 1674). Both available via Google Books. For other vitae see Lexicon Capuccinum and the studies of Schmucki, for there is quite a massive hagiographic production on Fidelis, all the way up to the 20th century.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 342; Lexicon Capuccinum, 585-587 (with additional references to older literature); O. Schmucki, ‘Fidelis von Sigmaringen als Gegenreformator’, Helvetia Franciscana 22 (1993), 106ff; Dict. Spir., 5,303ff.; Fernando de Riese,‘Saint Fidèle de Sigmaringen, premier martyr de la Propagande de la Foi’,in: Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 101-121; Hermann Bischofberger, ‘Der heilige Fidelis von Sigmaringen in der Pfarrkirche St. Mauritius und im Kapuzinerkloster von Appenzell’, in: Innerrhoder Geschichtsfreund 39 (1998), 118-123; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Extrait d’une lettre de Belgique’, in: Idem, Miscellanea IV, 1918; Rufino M. Gránde,’Fidel de Sigmaringen, Presbitero y mártir capuchino (1578-1622)’, in: Nuevo Año cristiano 4. Abril, 283-288; Oktavian Schmucki, Fidelis von Sigmaringen (1578-1622). Bibliographie. Kommentierter Literaturbericht bis 2000, Subsidia scientifica franciscalia, 10 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2004), 758-760; Matthias Ilg, ‘Die ‘Prügelaffäre’ des Jahres 1729: ein neu hinterfragtes Kapitel aus der Verehrungsgeschichte des Fidelis von Sigmaringen’, Bote Tiroler Kapuziner 88 (2005), 216-224; Christian Schweizer, ‘Kapuziner, wer und woher sind sie? Sigmaringens Bezug zu dem Heiligen seiner Heimat’, Helvetia Franciscana 34 (2005), 95-99; Ephrem Bucher, ‘Bedeutung des hl. Fidelis im Kapuzinerorden’, Helvetia Sacra 34 (2005), 109-117; Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Zur Fidelisbibliographie: Ausblick auf weitere Studien über den hl. Fidelis von Sigmaringen’, Helvetia Franciscana 34 (2005), 118-133; Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Das‘Antidotum’ von Stephan Gabriel und die Schrift des hl. Fidelis von Sigmaringen ‘De articulis fidei catholicae”, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80^o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam (Rome: Ed. Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 495-513; Hermann Ritter, ‘Der heilige Fidelis von Sigmaringen’, in: Konrad von Parzham und die Heiligen der franziskanischen Familie (Paderborn: Bonifatius Verlag, 2009), 96-105; Willi Eisele, 'Ein neuer Blick auf den heiligen Märtyrer Fidelis von Sigmaringen', Collectanea Francescana 87:3-4 (2017), 671-679; Otto H. Becker, 'Fidelis von Sigmaringen: Verehrung und Faszination', Helvetia Franciscana 47 (2018), 173-194; Markus Hofer, 'Fidelis von Sigmaringen und seine Persönlichkeit. Wir sind ihm etwas schuldig', Helvetia Franciscana 47 (2019), 159-172

Fidelis de Terra Nova (Fedele da Terranuova/Pier Francesco Taddei, 1741-1810)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar from Terranuova in Val d'Arno. Member of the Tuscany province. Born on 28 June 1741. He studied law and was already a professed lawyer when he joined the order in his early thirties (vested at Montepulciano on 17 July 1772). For many years he worked in the Spedale di Sta. Maria Nuova in Florence to assist incurables and other infirm people. While in Florence, he also published his three-volume pedagogical Istituzioni fisiche per uso della studiosa gioventù. When he was unable to continue his work at the hospital, due to health problems of his own, he retired to the Montughi friary, where he died after a steady decline on 25 June 1810.

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Istituzioni fisiche, compilate e distese a norma delle più accreditate ipotesi ed opinioni dei migliori antichi e moderni filosofi. Ad uso della studiosa gioventù delle private scuole. Con l'estensione delle più interessante nozioni di Anatomia, Igrologia, di Filosofia, e di Medicina pratica per uso dei Medici, Cerusici, e Parrochi di campagna, (...) dal P. Fedele da Terrenuova Cappuccino, 3 Vols. (Florence: Pietro Allegrini, 1792). The first volume deals with 'Fisica particolare', he second with 'Fisica generale', and the third with 'Economia del corpo umano'. The work includes many anatomical, and practical medicinal information.

literature

Memorie Valdarnesi 2 (1837, 163-164; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 850-851; 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), 21; Sisto da Pisa, Storia dei cappuccini toscani: 1692-1810 (1909), 540.

Fidelis de Zara (Fidelis Dalmatus Jaderensis/Niccolò Busotti/Fedele da Zara, 1728-1801)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Venetian province. Son of the military captain Carlo Busotti and Anna Zulatti (daughter of a medical doctor). Nicolò Was already a priest when he joined the Capuchins in Venice at the age of 27, making his solemn profession on 21 September 1756, adopting the name Fedele. After an additional spiritual and theological formation, he fulfilled several stints as guardian (Zara, Padua, Udine, Vicenza) and he became active as a preacher in Italy and Dalmatia. Also involved with the care of the sick (especially during the plague ouburst in Spalato in 1783-84). In addition, he worked as a theologian counselor for the Archbishop of Split and others, and also fulfilled ambassadorial roles at the court of Emperor Franz II. His intellectual interests, and notably his agricultural, economic and Latin poetical pursuits were sufficient to make him a member of several learned academies. He died at Split in 1801.

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Carmina (created over a period of 40 years): MS Archivio della Curia provinciale dei cappuccini a Venezia-Mestre. This collection of 'songs' is divided in four books (Epistole ed elegie, Epigrammi, Odi, Inni sacri). Only the last of these were deemed sufficiently religious and in line with the Capuchin life to be published as Hymnodion seu Hymnorum quorumdam Collectio (1797).

Sermons?

Opuscoletti del religioso cappuccino predicatore padre Felice da Zara?

Modo di celebrare una novena in onore del glorioso s. Serafino laico cappuccino (Venice, 1774).

Produzioni ascetiche ed ascetize concernenti la peste di Spalato 1784, del trovantisi in mezzo e superstite religioso cappuccino padre Fedele da Zara (Venice, 1790).

Memoria concernente la rurale economia ed il commercio in Dalmazia, recitata nella seduta del 17 maggio 1789, in: Nuovo Giornale d'Italia spettante alla storia naturale, e principalmente l'agricoltura, le arti e il commercio 12 & 13 (13 & 23 July, 1791).

Ad nob. virum com. Antonium Tartaleum, ob eius nuptias auspicatissime celebrantes epitalamium (Venice, 1790).

In nuptiarum solemniis nob. dominae d.nae Matildis marchionissae de Canossa cum nob. domino d.no Ioanne Baptista ex comitibus de Arco epigramma?

Memoria sugli ostacoli all'avanzata dell'agricoltura in Dalmazia (Venice, 1791).

Carmen saeculare saeculo XIX adproperante Regi saeculorum immortali, invisibili, soli Deo honor et gloria (Ancona, 1793). A theological reflection on the new century to come.

Sui vantaggi offerti alla Dalmazia dalla buona coltivazione della terra (Venice, 1792.

Hymnodion seu Hymnorum quorumdam Collectio, auctore p. Fedele Dalmata Iaderensi Ordinis capuccinorum sacerdote concionatore (...) (Venice. 1797). A second volume of these texts was issued Mantissa ad Hymnodion sive ad priorem hymnorum collectionem additamentum (Venice, 1800).

Notizie istoriche concernenti l'illustre servo di Dio il P. Marco d'Aviano, 2 Vols. (Venice: Simone Occhi, 1798). Accessible via Google Books and via www.europeana.eu

Ad Sacram Caesaream regalem apostolicam maiestatem Francisci II epistola archiepiscopi Spalatensis nec non Dalmatiae et totius Croatiae primatis Lelii de comitibus Cippic (Split, 1798). This work shows Gaetano's involvement with the major political upheavals in Venice during the revolutionry period, with the assassination of the French-revolutionary oriented commander G. Matutinovich and his family, and the invasion of the city by the Imperial fleet led by general M. Rukavina.

Officium proprium d. Ioannis Ursini confessoris episcopi Trauguriensis (Venice, 1799).

Pezzi di riflessione ed istruzioni intorno all'uso ingiusto del denaro, che scorgasi alla presta, e che si eviti in pratica l'uso ingiusto del denaro, e ciò che ordinariamente vien suggerito dal reo interesse (Venice, 1802). Posthumously printed.

More info on the whereabouts and historical context of his works is given in the entry of the DBI mentioned below.

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap Appendix, 21; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 832; Venezie Francescane (1936), 40-42; Davide da Portogruaro, Storia dei cappuccini veneti (Venice, 1941) I, 9; II, 79, 143, 146, 166, 204, 279; Giovanni Crisostomo da Cittadella, Bibliografia dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Venezia (1535-1939) (Padua, 1944), 99-105; S.N., 'P. Fedele da Zara poeta latino', Unione Serafica 14 (Venice, 1948), 11-16; Lexicon Capuccinum, 588 (with additional references); Redento da Alano, 'Padre F. da Zara poeta latino', Le Venezie francescane 25:3 (1958), 65-77; M. Giadrossi, 'P. F. da Z. OFM capp. (1728-1801) e le sue memorie: 1) La caduta della Repubblica; 2) La peste di Spalato nel 1783-84', Atti e memorie della Società dalmata di storia patria 12 (1984), 105-121 & 13 (1985), 61-125; Guido Fagioli Vercellone, 'Fedele da Zara;, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 45 (1995) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fedele-da-zara_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]

Fidelis Ligur Ingaunus Plebe Albingensi (Fedele Ligure da Albenga, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Genoa province.

works

Dissertationes theologico-morales ex purissimis utriusque sanctissimi testamenti atque divinarum traditionum fontibus haustæ auctore p.f. Fidele Ligure Ingauno capuccino, 3 Vols. (Bologna: Longhi, 1777 [Volume 1]; Lucca: Giusti, 1778-1779 [Vols. 2-3]). Accessible via the Biblioteca provinciale dei Cappuccini of Genoa, the Biblioteca provinciale dei Frati minori cappuccini in Turin, and the Biblioteca provinciale dei frati Minori Cappuccini in Bologna.

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), 21.

Fidentius de Padova (Fidenzio di Padova, fl. later 13^thcent.)

OM. Italian friar, author of the Liber recuperationis Terrae Sanctis (1291), partly based on his own travels in the Middle East. In this work, presented to the first Franciscan Pope Nicolas IV, Fidenzio outlined a plan to reclaim the Holy Land, after the last strongholds of Christian crusader states had been lost in 1291.

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Liber recuperationis Terrae Sanctis: MS Paris, Bibliothèque National de France, Lat. 7242, fols. 85-126r. For another manuscript, see the 2007 study of Dalché. It received its first edition in Girolamo Golubovich (ed.), Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra santa e dell'Oriente Francescano, II (1913) 1-60.

literature

A.-D. von den Brincken, Die ‘Nationes’, 448; Fabio Simonelli, ‘Fidenzio da Padova’, DBI XLVII, 412-414; Sylvia Schein, Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 75, 93-101; Paolo Evangelisti, Fidenzio da Padova e la costruzione di un modello egemonico francescano XIII-XV s., PhD. Diss. (Trieste, 1993-1994); Paolo Evangelisti, ‘Il ‘Liber recuperationis Terre Sancte’ di Fidenzio da Padova: un progetto egemonico francesano per il ricupero ed il governo della Terrasanta’, in: Acri 1291. La fine della presenza degli ordini militari in Terra Santa e i nuovi orientamenti nel XIV secolo, ed. Francesco Maria Tommasi (Ponte S. Giovanni, 1996), 143-170; Paolo Evangelisti, Fidenzio da Padova e la letteratura crociato-missionaria minoritica: strategie e modelli francescani per il dominio (XIII-XIV sec.), Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Napoli, 43 (Bologna, 1998); Paolo Evangelisti, I Francescani e la costruzione di uno Stato. Linguaggi politici, valori identitari, progetti di governo in area catalano-aragonese, Fonte e ricerche, 20 (Padua: Editrici Francescane, 2006) [a.o. with reference to Fidenzio da Padova, Ramon Llul, Francesc Eiximenis, Joan Eixemeno and Matteo d’Agrigento]; Patrick Gautier Dalché, ‘Cartes, Réflexion Stratégique et Projets de Croisade à la Fin du XIIIe et au Début du XIVe Siècle: Une Initiative Franciscaine?’, Francia 37 (2007), 80-83, Plate I, 87-92; Luca Demontis, ‘Quomodo Terra Sancta recuperari potest: Fidenzio da Padova, Raimondo Lullo e il ‘superamento’ della crociata’, Antonianum 90 (2015), 545-561; Paolo Evangelisti, Dopo Francesco, oltre il mito. I frati Minori fra Terra Santa ed Europa (XIII-XV secolo) (Rome: Viella libreria editrice, 2020), passim [reviews in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 114:3-4 (2021), 651-654; Sehepunkte 21 (2021), Nr. 6 [15.06.2021], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/06/34928.html]

Flaminius Bottardi (Flaminio Bottardi di Parma, d. 1766)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the Bologna province. His baptismal name was Melchiorre Bottardi. He was a student when he took the habit at the age of 15 in the Busseto friary in November 1725, taking as his religious name Flaminio. Became a lector of philosophy at Bologna and later became regent lector of theology. active as a lector, guardian (for instance at the Cortemaggiore friary, where he made a register of the convent archive) and as a preacher. He died in the della Nunziata friary in Parma.

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Conference di un Maestri col suo discepolo circa la controversia, se S. Pietro Regolato da Valladolid sia dell'Ordine de'Minori Conventuali. This drew out a Conventual response in their reprint of a life of the saint with additional 'responses' in a attached letter.

Conferenza seconda di un Maestro col suo discepolo intorno alla lettera i risposta alla lettera in risposta alla Conferenza prima circa la Controversia, se S. Pietri Regalato da Valladolid sia dell'Ordine de'Minori Conventuali (Parma: Salaroli, 1748).

Spiegazione de'Salmi Penitenziali e de'Salmi, Cantici ed altre cose comparse negli Uffizi di Maria Vergine e de'Morti (Venice, 1753).

Curtis Majoris Missarum pro RR. Patribus Observantibus Ordinis Divi Francisci cum aliquibus D.D. Rectoribus Venerandae Congregationis appellatae del suffragio delle anime del Purgatorio Coram Illmo. D.I.U.D. Antonio Francisco Godi Praetore amplissimo et emeritissimo Curtis-Majoris uti specialiter delegato (Parma: Paolo Monti, 1760).

Memorie Istoriche delle Chiese e dei Conventi dei Frati Minori dell'Osservante e Riformata Provincia di Bologna raccolte ed in tre tomi divise da Flaminio di Parma Frate Osservante dello stesso Ordine, 3 Vols. (Parma: Eredi Monti, 1760-1761). See the evaluation of this work and its flaws in Memorie degli scrittori e letterati Parmigiano continuate da Angelo Pezzana VII, p. 210.

Riflessioni sopra le lettere Apologetiche scritte contro il P. Luca Wadingo dal Sig. Arciprete D. Giuseppe Garuffi Riminese in defesa di Sigismondo Malatesta, e del suo Tempio dedicato a S. Francesco in Rimino, included in: Memorie Istoriche delle Chiese e dei Conventi dei Frati Minori dell'Osservante e Riformata Provincia di Bologna II, 474-498. See the remarks in Memorie degli scrittori e letterati Parmigiano continuate da Angelo Pezzana VII, p. 212.

Uffizio della Settimana Santa, con la spiegazione in italiano delli Salmi, Profezie, Vangeli, Epistole, e delle cose tutte in esso contenute (...) aggiuntevi in questa per la prima volte compiuta edizione le instruzioni ed annotazioni circa tutte le sacre funzioni, e circa li Riti usati da Santa Chiesa in questi giorni (...) (Parma: Fratelli Borsi, 1765). In fact, an older version of this work already appeared in Venice (Remondini, 1763), yet the printer, in setting the work for the printing press had changed so much in the text that the author no longer wanted to acknowledge it as his work, and decided to issue a corrected version, which then appeared in Parma two years later.

Divozioni, ovvero esercizi sacri da praticarsi da ogni fedel cristiano, cogli uffizi della B. Vergine, de'Morti, della S. Croce, dello Spirito Santo, ec., ed altre molte divote orazioni (Venice, 1755/Bassano: Remondini, 1766).

De Sacris Religiosorum studiis - de divino officio - de religiosis fratrum officiis erga fratres suos infirmos, morientes et mortuos. Allocutiones tres ad consodales. MS. Once present in the archive of the Convento della Nunziata in Parma.

Frammento delle Memorie istoriche de'suoi tempi. MS. Lost? Once present in the archive of the Convento della Nunziata in Parma. Apparently including contemporary materials dealing with issues from 1757 and after that the author had not been willing to include in his published Memorie Istoriche.

literature

Memorie degli scrittori e letterati Parmigiano continuate da Angelo Pezzana. tomo settimo ed ultimo (Parma: Tipografia Ducale, 1833) VII, 209-213; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 811.

Flaminius de Grittis (Flaminio dei Grizzi, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Preacher.

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Meditazioni pie, sia esercizi di preparazione alla morte (Macerata: Pietro Salvioni, 1620). This needs to be checked.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 350; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 238.

Flaminio Maria de Latera (Flaminio Maria da Latera/Flaminio Annibali/Girolamo C. Annibali/'Damiano Fillareti', 1733-1813)

OFM. Italian Observant friar, lector, order historian and polemicist. Born in Latera as the son of Annobale and Flaminia Nusarelli. Took the habit in 1750 in the San Bernardino friary near Orte (Viterbo region). He made his solemn profession on 23 January 1751. After his education and ordination (possibly ca. 1756), he embarked on a career as lector (lector jubilatus in 1776). Prolific author: he produced probably more than 29 monographs and a large number of letters and religious poems. Quite a number of his works led to polemics with Conventual Franciscans and others over the early history of the order. His first major work, Lettere di Damiano Fillareti ad un padre minorita was published under the pseudonym Damiano Fillareti, and dates from 1764, when he was active in the Santa Maria Nova friary of Fano. The resulting controversy was curbed by the Observant provincial minister and inquisitor Benoffi, who expressed his support for Flaminio’s positions, yet at the same time transferred him to Velletri. Later, Flaminio spent a significant amount of time in the Santa Maria del Paradiso friary outside Viterbo, where he also functioned as the spiritual director for sister Lilia Maria del SS.Crocifisso. Later he would testify during her beatification process. In the Santa Maria del Paradiso friary and later in the San Bartolomeo all’Isola Tiberina friary (Rome), Flaminio produced a large number of works concerning the history of the order, the stigmata of Francis, the porziuncola indulgence and many other topics. Quite a few of these were written in response to other works or drew out attacks from the side of the Conventual Franciscans (see under editions). He also issued a major addition to the Bullarium Franciscanum of Sbaraglia. In 1791, Flaminio became general definitor for his order, and moved to the Ara Coeli friary. He also took part in the Observant general chapter of Rome (1792). Between 1794 and 1797, he was provincial minister of the Roman province. Shortly afterwards, he experienced the French occupation of Rome. Flaminio probably spent some time in the San Antonio delle Vigne friary in Venice, and in 1805 he apparently was vicar and novice master in the SS. Trinità seminary of Orvieto. It is unknown where he spent the last years of his life, after the dissolution of religious houses by the French regime in 1808. Throughout this turbulent period, Flaminio continued to research and to write. His last work, the Notizie storiche della Casa Farnese, della sua città di Castro, del suo ducato…, appeared posthumously.

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Lettere di Damiano Fillareti ad un padre minorita (Fano: Giuseppe Leonardi, 1764). This work was issued under the pseudonym Damiano Fillareti. In this work, Flaminio attacked the opinions of Domenico Pannelli, who had argued that Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, patron saint of Dano, had never been a Franciscan. This altercation led to a polemical exchange.

Lettere di Damiano Fillareti a un Padre Minorita, nelle quali dà il suo giudizio intorno alle ragioni addotte dal signor D. D. Pannelli per negare la professione Minoritica di S. Benvenuto (...) Seconda edizione, con Osservazioni ed altro, di che si vegga una (...) introduzione, che si premette (Osimo: Domenicanotnio Quercetti, 1765/Cesare Sartori, 1766). A revised edition, as a closing argument against the opinions of Domenico Panelli. The 1765 edition is available via Google Books.

Canzoni (Giuseppe Poggiarelli, 1772). Dedicated to Cardinal Federico Lante, bishop of Porto and S. Rufina

Manuale de' Frati Minori disposto dal P. Flaminio Annibali da Latera del medesimo ordine (...) Con un'appendice, o sia Risposta all'autore del Saggio compendioso della dottrina di Giustino Febbronio ... (Rome: dalle Stampe del Casaletti a Sant'Eustachio, 1776). A reaction to a homologous work issued by the Conventual friar Giulio Antonio da Sangallo. It deals in a 'historical' way with the question which branch of the order could lay claim to the original charism of the order. This work again led to a polemic. It is available via Google Books. See also: Painacca, Esame critico: sopra il Manuale del P. Flaminio da Latera, Frate Osservante della Provincia di Roma (Venice: Appresso Francesco Sansoni, 1777); Baldassare Lombardi, Scrittura prima ... contro il Manuale de' Frati Minori del P. Flaminio Annibali da Latera, Min. Osser., stampato in Roma del 1776: a dimostrare irragionevoli affatto e vani gli sforzi, che in esso libro si fanno, per render dubbiosa, ora dopo cinquecento e più anni, la universalmente creduta esistenza del sacro Corpo di San Francesco d'Assisi nella Basilica del suo nome in quella Città (Rome: Dalle Stampe del Casaletti a S. Eustachio, 1777); Anonymus, Lettera d'un Anonimo ad un suo cordiale Amico di Roma: sull' Esame Critico dell' Avvocato Painacca, cui si premette la Serie Cronologica de' Ministri Generali dell' Ordine de' Minori (Venice, 1777).

Quanto incerto sia che il corpo del serafico S. Francesco esista in Assisi nella basilica del suo nome, ed altro che si premette intorno a varj libelli pubblicati dai PP. conventuali contro il P. Flaminio Annibali da Latera, minorita contro l'ordine suo, ed i suoi aderenti sotto diversi titoli, (Lausanne, 1779). This work again caused a stir, and can to an extent be seen to be connected with his previous Manuale dei frati minori. It can be accessed via Google Books. See also: Bonaventura Lombardi et al., Della sepoltura del Serafico Patriarca de'Minori S. Francesco nella patriarcale Basilica del suo nome in Assisi. Contro i dubbi del P. Flaminio Annibali da Latera (...) Dichiarazione, etc. (Rome: Arcangelo Casaletti, 1797).

Il giudizio imparziale sulla controversia fra i PP. Conventuali, ed osservanti, Ridotto all'Esame si scopre esser lavoro di un parzialissimo, appassionato Conventuale, e perciò ingiurioso al chiarissimo sig. ab. Giambattista Faure, Sotto il di cui nome e stato pubblicato. I soli Conventuali hanno torto (Lugano, 1780). Available via Google Books.

Censura, e risposta alla commedia intitolata La margheritona confusa (Florence, 1779/1780). Available via google Books.

Ad Bullarium Franciscanum a p. fr. Joanne Hyacintho Sbaralea... Supplementum studio et labore Fr. Flaminii Annibali de Latera (...) praeviis animadversionibus in notas ejusdem Sbaraleae illustratum, opportunisque adnotationibus refertum (Roma: Archangelus Casaletti in aedibus dei Maximi, 1780). Available via Google Books. This work, written at the request of Pope Pius VI, contains first a set of eight treatises gathered under the title

La difesa dell'antico metodo della via crucis e la censura del nuovo, scritte da F.F.A.F.O. vendicate dal giudizio proferito dai gazzettieri fiorentini nei fogli intitolati Annali ecclesiastici (Viterbo: Poggiarelli, 1783). Available via Google Books.

La pratica del pio esercizio della via crucis introdotta nella chiesa dai Fratri Minori (Viterbo: Poggiarchi, 1783). 2 editions in the same year.

Dissertationes critico-historicae: in quarum una seraphicus patriarcha Franciscus tertii ordinis institutor. In altera indulgentiae Portiunculae veritas asseritur, et vindicatur (Rome: Ex typographia Archangeli Casaletti in Aedibus Maximi, 1784).

Meditazioni sulla vera Religione interiore.

Officia Sanctorum.

Breviarium romanum ex decreto Ss. Concilii Tridentini.

Veritas impressionis sacrorum stigmatum in corpore seraphici S. Francisci Assisiensis in luce posita et a criticorum quorundam opinionibus vindicata a f. Flaminio Annibali de Latera Ordinis Minorum .. (Rome: Ex typographia Archangeli Casaletti, 1786). Taking a stance against detractors of the stigmata of Francis. Available via Google Books.

Compendio della storia degli Ordini religiosi esistenti, 4 Vols. (Rome: Luigi Perego Salvioni, 1790-1791). Dedicated to Cardinal Romualdo Onesti-Braschi. An unauthorised reprint with many errors appeared in Naples a few years layter [is that the Storia degli ordini regolari: colla vita de' loro fondatori (Naples: A spese di Nicola Gervasi, 1796) mentioned in WorldCat?]. Later a new authorised edition of the fourth volume came out which included as an appendix the Memorie storiche del Servo di Dio Padre Juan Varela y Losada. The 1790-91 imprint is available via Google Books.

L'immagine della Madonna del Suffragio ed i Miracoli a Grotte di Castro (...) (Montefiasco, 1790).

La Vergine coronata, 4 Vols. (1792).

Vita del frate Francesco Orante O.F.M. vescovo di Oviedo (1795).

F.F. Horantii (...) Locorum Catholicorum tum sacrae scripturæ, tum etiam antiquorum patrum pro orthodoxa, et veteri fide retinenda libri VII. Nunc denuò in lucem editi et à F.M.A. de Latera Præfatione (...) etc. referti, atque a (...) mendis expurgati. (Rome, 1795-6).

Vita della vergine santa Coleta riformatrice dell'ordine di S. Chiara o sia del secondo dei tre istituti del serafico padre S. Francesco d'Assisi cavata dai processi della di lei canonizzazione e da altri autentici monumenti scritta dal p. Flaminio Maria Annibali da Latera (...) (Rome: Antonio Fulgoni, 1805 & Mordacchini, 1807). Available via Google Books.

Vita della vergine S. Giacinta Mariscotti, monaca professa del tezz'ordine del serafico P. S. Francesco, scritta dal P. Flaminio Maria Annibali da Latera,... (Rome: A. Fulgoni, 1805). See also: Vie de Ste Hyacinthe Mariscotti, religieuse professe du tiers ordre de S. François, par le Père Flaminius Marie Annibal de Latera,... Traduit de l'italien, sur l'imprimé à Rome, 1805, chez Antoine Fulgoni (...) par M. Allibert (...) (Lyon-Paris: Perisse frères, 1845).

La Vita dei Ss. Martiri Cosma e Damiano (Rome: Giunchi, 1807).

(Posthumously)Notizie storiche della Casa Farnese, della sua città di Castro, del suo ducato e delle terre e luoghi che lo componevano, con l'aggiunta di due paesi Latera e Farnese. Raccolte e disposte dal padre Flaminio Maria Annibali da Latera minore osservante (Montefiascone: Stamperia del seminario, 1817).

To be continued...

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 854; Catholic Encyclopedia IX (New York 1910), 13; DHGE, III, 393; Livarius Oliger, 'Della vita e degli scritti del p. Flaminio Annibali da Latera o.f.m. (1733-1813)', AFH 7 (1914). Also issued as a a small monograph the same year (Quaracchi: Tip. del Collegio di S. Bonaventura , 1914).

Flaminius Bonera (Flaminio Bonera da Bergamo, 1602-1675)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Riformati Brescia province. Took the habit in October 1622. Professor/lector of moral theology. Custos. He died at the age of 73 on 23 July 1675,

works

Tavola ai Consigli Legali d'Achille Pedrocca, 4 Vols. ? This needs to be checked. The editions of Pedrocca'sConsiliorum celeberrimi, et acutissimi iurisconsulti, ac integerrimi volumina that we have been able to check do not mention his name and were issued too early.

Initia et progressus Reformatae Provinciae Brixiae Ordinis FF. Minorum ?

Storiche Relazioni dello Stato della Provincia di Brescia (...) con la memoria de'Frati defunti da'principi della Riforma fino a'tempi presenti. Was this ever printed? Information taken from this text was incorporated in later historical and hagiographical works.

Galeria di cerimonie sacre, Monastiche, e civili raccolte, e disposte per ordine d'alfabeto ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 350; Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia cioè Notizie storiche, e critiche intorno alle vite, e agli scritti dei letterati Italiani II, iii, 1595; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 73 (1980), 243.

Florentius Conry (Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire/Florentius Conrius/Florence Conry/Conroy/O'Mulconry/Omoelchonry, ca. 1560-1629)

OFM. Irish Observant friar. Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire studied arts, philosophy and theology at the Irish college of Salamance (founded in 1592), and worked towards his ordination prior to his entry in the Franciscan Santiago province. During the Nine Years' War, he traveled to Ireland as confessor and preacher to soldiers under the command of Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell. This all fell apart at Kinsale in 1601, after which Flaithrí returned to Spain. Two years later, he took part in an abortive maritime expedition that never made it to Ireland. We find him as a counselor of the Spanish crown concerning the settlement in Spain of Irish Catholic exiles, and he helped Irish soldiers to enter the Spanish military. In 1606, Flaithrí was elected provincial of the Irish friars minor at the general chapter of Toledo. During this period, he helped create the Irish Franciscan college at Louvain in the Habsburg Low Countries. From Douai, Flaithrí traveled to Rome, but also became involved with a new military adventure to capture Dublin Castle and start a rebellion against the English. When this fell through, the Spanish King Philip III and Pope Paul V secured for him his appointment to the archbishopric of Tuam. He was consecrated in Rome on Sunday 3 May 1609 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini. Flaithrí never went to his archiocese in person, but alternated between Madrid and Louvain, using substitutes/suffragans to act in his behalf in Tuam. Late in life, in 1626, in the context of renewed warfare between Spain and England, Flaitrí tried in vain to organise an invasion of Ireland under the guidance of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel. He died of an illness at the Franciscan friary of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid on 18 November 1629. Two Irish friars transported his remains to the Irish College of St Anthony of Padua in Louvain in 1654, where they were re-interred in the collegiate chapel. For more on his life and career, see Wikipaedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaithr%C3%AD_%C3%93_Maolchonaire]

works

Sgáthán an Chrábhaidh (Mirror of Devotion), an Irish translation of the Spanish allegorical bestseller Spill de la Vida Religiosa. See on this the Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G208020/index.html], as well as Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an chrábhaidh, by Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire (Florence Conry), ed. Thomas F. O'Rahilly (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1941/Reprint 1975).

De Augustini sensu circa b. Mariae Virginis conceptionem (Antwerp, 1619).

Peregrinus Jerichontinus, hoc est de natura humana feliciter instituta, infeliciter lapsa, miserabiter vulnerata, misericorditer restaurata (Paris, 1641).

De gratia Christi (Paris, 1646).

De flagellis justorum, juxta mentem S. Augustini (Paris, 1644).

Compendium doctrinae S. Augustini circa gratiam (louvain, 1624/LouvainL Henricus Hasterius, 1635/Rouen, 1643/Paris, 1645).

Epistola diffusa contra eos, qui assensum praebuerunt in Parlamento Hyberniae proscribendi bonis quorundam Principum Catholicorum, qui pro Fide Catholica contra Haereticos Anglos decertarunt. Included in Philippus Ossulevanus (Philip O'Sullivan), Historia Catholicæ Iberniæ compendium IV, Lib, 12, cap. 9.

catechism translation into Irish

to be continued...

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 351; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 238-239; Muriel McCarthy, Hibernia Resurgens [Catalogue of Marsh’s Library Exhibition] (Dublin: Marsh’s Library, 1994), passim; Joseph MacMahon, 'Irish Franciscan Scotists of the Seventeenth Century', Canterbury Studies in Franciscan History 2 (2009), 85-112: Benjamin Hazard, Faith and Patronage: The Political Career of Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire c. 1560-1629 (Dublin-Portland OR: Irish Academic Press, 2009) & Faith and Patronage: The Political Career of Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire c. 1560-1629, Revised Edition (Dublin-Portland OR: Irish Academic Press, 2010) [cf. review in AFH 104 (2011), 334-338]; Benjamin Hazar, 'At Ó Néill’s right hand: Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire and the Red Hand of Ulster', Early Modern History (1500–1700), Features 18:1 (Jan/Feb 2010) [see: http://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/at-o-neills-right-hand-flaithri-o-maolchonaire-and-the-red-hand-of-ulster/]

Flavianus Ricci (Flaviano Ricco da Cimbria, d. 1789)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Trento province. Doctor of theology and professor of moral theology at several universities, such as Innsbruck and Padua. He issued, among other things, a revised version of Anacletus Reiffenstuel's Theologia Moralis. He died in 1789.

works

La via sicura del cielo addittata con alcune brevi istruzioni ad un'anima che brama daddovero attendere ad una ben regolata divozione cristiana coll'aggiunta di alcune massime giovevoli per viver con pace nella società umana (Trento, 1751).

Riflessioni sopra varj sentimenti di Lamindo Pritanio, Antonio Lampridio e Ferdinando Valdesio intorno al voto sanguinario, ossia di sparger il sangue in difesa dell'Immacolata Concezione e del di lei culto : proposte in dodici lettere (...) (Trento: Francesco Michele Battisti, 1757).

Dodici lettere sul voto in favore dell'Immacolata Concezione indiritte all'autor anonimo dell'epistola stampata in Bologna l'anno MDCCLIV. Tiprodotte con la giunta di nuova lettera alla replica da lui pubblicata in Modena l'anno MDCCLVII (Cosmpoli, 1758).

De unica admittenda religione eaque revelata epistola I Flaviani Ricci olim in Oenipontana nunc in Ticinensi Academia theologiae professoris : ad juventutem divinarum rerum studiosam (Pavia: Bolzani, 1759).

De veris fictisque miraculis de angelorum in corpora potestate et de missione angelorum epistola II (Pavia: Giuseppe Bolzani, 1760).

Theologia Moralis a reverendo Patre Anacleto Reiffenstuel lector jubilato reformatae provinciae Bavariae ex-custode jam dudum edita, et novissime a P. Flaviano Ricci a Cimbria reformatae Tridentinae provinciae alumno, sacrae theologiae doctore, atque ab augustissima imperatrice et regina apostolica Maria Teresia creato publico moralis theologiae professore in inclita universitate Oenipontana (...), 2 Vols. (Trento: Francesco Michele Battisti, 1765/1773/Bassano: Remondini, 1780).

De unica admittenda religione eaque revelata epistola I Flaviani Ricci olim in Oenipontana nunc in Ticinensi Academia theologiae professoris ad juventutem divinarum rerum studiosam (1778).

Animadversiones in libellum Quid est papa? (1784).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 843; Marco Bernuzzi, 'Flaviano Ricci ( 1714 - 1789 ) e la seconda cattedra di teologia dogmatica all' Università di Pavia', Bollettino della Società pavese di storia patria 113 (2013), 453-479.

Florentinus Bonensis (Florentin von Bonn, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German friar from the Cologne province. Preacher and lector of theology.

works

Caeremoniale sive Compendium SS. Rituum (...) ad usum FF. Min. Capuccinorum Prov. Coloniensis (Cologne, 1689).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 350.

Florentinus Boulanger (Florent Boulanger, fl. later 16th - early 17th cent.)

OFM/OFMRec. French friar. Member of the Saint-Denis (Parisian) province. He made his profession in 1575 in the Beauvais friary at the age of 16. After travels to Rome and a time in Aquitaine, he joined the Recollects. In 1600, he was in Verdun, and he made a renewed profession as a Recollect in 1602. Important actor in the reform of the Urbanist Poor Clares at Verdun. He was the first Recollect custodian of the French Recollect reform custody (1603-1605), a charge he had again between 1609 and 1612. He died in Paris in 1630

literature

Pierre Moracchini, 'Notes sur les origines des Récollets de France Parisienne', in: Ecrire son histoire: les communautés religieuses régulières face à leur passé (Saint-Etienne: C.E.R.C.O.R., 2005), 471ff.

Florentinus Caletensis (Florentin de Calais, d. 1625)

OFMCap. French friar. Member of the Capuchin Parisian province.

works

Traité theologiqie contre la proposition des Héretiques, que les bonnes oeuvres ne sont pas necessaires au salut. Did this work survive?

literature

Louis Ellies-Dupin, Table universelle des auteurs ecclésiastiques (hérétiques) et de leurs , 246; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 350; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 238.

Florentinus Erdt (Florentin Erdt, 1743-1773)

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

works

Dissertatio polemica de Religione revelata contra moderni temporis Libertinos, Naturalistas et Neutralistas, (...) praeside P. F. Aemiliano Binder, (...) SS. Theologie Lectore, publicae concertationes expositas defendet P. F. Florentinus Erdt, ejusdem Instituti ac Disciplinae alumnus anno aer. v. MDCCLXXII mense maii die 7 (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1672).

SS. Theologiae tractatus duo de Actibus humanis et legibus, ex quibus praecipuas quaestiones publicae concertationi exposuit Oeniponti in conventu ad s. crucem P.F. Mauritius Schmid, (...) ss. theol. Lector, propugnantibus PP. FF. Paschasio Knoll et Florentino Erdt, eiusdem Instituti et disciplinae alumnis, anno MDCCLXIX, mense majo, die XVIII (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1769).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 29. [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]

Florentius Boulanchyer (Florent Boulanger/Florent Boulenger, fl. 1600)

OFMRec. French friar. Member of the province de France (Saint Denis province). Took the habit in 1575. Played a significant role in the recollect reform (first custodian of the recollect Custodie de la Province de France).

works

Constitutiones et caeremoniale pro monialibus.

Traitez de la closture des religieuses: Leur enseignant l'obligation que toutes y ont; Pourquoy elles en peuuent sortir: Qui y entrer; Et auoir accez aux Parloirs. Avec un sommaire de tout, pour celles qui la gardent estroictement. Tres-utils a tous ceux, qui ont charge de leur conduite (Paris: Denys Moreau, 1629). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 350; Identités franciscaines à l'âge des réformes, ed. Frédéric Meyer & Ludovic Viallet (Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2005), 176f, 180.

Florentius Burgoinus (Florentius Bourgoun/Florent Bourgoin, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Parisian friar. Editor of works by Augustin.

works

D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi, omnium operum primus tomus (...) cui accesserunt libri, epistolae, sermones, & fragmenta aliquot, hactenus numquam impressa (...) (Lyon: apud Hugonem et Haeredes Aemonis a Porta, 1541).

Index Omnium quae insigniter a D. Aurelio Augustino dicta sunt, nunc recens supra praecedentes aeditiones, per F. Florentium Bourgoinum Parisiensem, Fraciscanum, longe quam antea auctior ac locupletior redditus (Paris: Claude Chevallon, 1532/Paris: Charles Guillard, 1541/Lyon: apud Hugonem et Haeredes Aemonis a Porta, 1541/Venice: Ad Signum Spei, 1552/Valencia, 1552). The 1552 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books. The 1532 and 1541 Paris editions are accessible via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 352; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 238.

Florentius de Hanswijck (Florent van Hanswyck/Florent d'Hanswijck/Florentius van Mechelen, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Belgian friar, member of the Provincia Flandro-Belgica. Preacher and provincial definitor.

works

Cornucopiae concionatorum abundans, enarrationibus symbolicis et moralibus diversorum conceptuum. In quibus sub Speculi similitudine, una cum plurimis Electis Sacris, copiose agitur de Sacratissimae Virginis mysteriis (...), 2 Vols. (Antwerp: Willem Lesteens, 1646). Accessible via Archive.org (copy of first volume present in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples), via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the Bibliothèque Municipale/Médiathèque de Lyon, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books. Are there in fact three volumes of this work (cf. Sbaralea)?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 351; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 239.

Florentius Leijdanus van Oyen (Florentius Leydans/Florentius Leydanus, 1515-1595)

OFM. Dutch friar. Born in Leiden in 1515. Became a student at Louvain University as member of the pedagogium Het Kasteel (The Castle) to study arts in August 1533. Received his licence in the arts on March 28, 1536. Thereafter he joined the Friars Minor, probably working in Antwerp (around 1567) and Leiden (1568-1570), to become provincial on July 16, 1570. He remained in that function until August 8, 1574, witnessing the demise of a number of friaries and other problems in the context of the unfolding Dutch Revolt. In 1580, he was guardian of Mechelen. That same year, he was made general commisarius with specific visitation rights in his order province. He died in the Mechelen friary on June 20, 1595. Active as preacher and author. He wrote late 1573/early 1574 an account of the martyrdom of the Gorcum friars, which he sent to Rome in 1580, and which was published by the general minister Franciscus Gonzaga, and was re-issued in verious permutations in other works. Besides, Florentius wrote several works in the Dutch vernacular.

works

Die Wegen van Sion: MS Leiden UB BPL 2786 (a 16th century copy written by Margrieta Lauris van Delft). Is this ascription correct?

Wegen die ons leyen in't hemels Jerusalem? See: Fr. Nieuwenhuizen, Bijdragen voor de Geschiedenis van het Bisdom Haarlem 9 (1881), 96-97.

Letter to Adriaan Hugaarts, guardian in Delft, sent from Mechelen on Ascension day 1572. The Latin text can be found in Bleyswyck, Beschrijvinghe der stadt Delft (Delft, 1667), 342. A Dutch translation has appeared in R. Boitet, Beschrijving der stadt Delft (Delft, 1729), 344, and later in excerpt format in De Bourdon 7 (1931) & Franciscaansch Leeven 84 (1950), 84.

Novorum, in Inferioris Germaniae Provintia Constantissimorum Martyrum, Ordinis Sancti Francisci ex Observantia, passionis historia: à Reverendo Florentio Leijdano, eiusdem Provintiae Ministro collecta, ed. Franciscus de Gonzaga Historia (Naples: apud Horatium Salvianum, 1581)/Historia Passionis in Germaniae Inferioris Provincia Constantissimorum Martyrum Ordinis sancti Francisci ex observantia: à Reverendo Florentio Leijdano, eiusdem Provintiae Ministro collecta Ingolstadt: Wolfgang Eder, 1582)/ etc.. The most insightful analysis of the dissemination and edition history of the text is given by De Troeyer (1969), 343ff.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 352; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 239; J. Doedens, ‘Florentius Leijdanus (van Oyen) en zijn Novorum Martyrum Historia’, Collectanea Franciscana Neerlandica 1 (1927), 267-284; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 339-345 (with additional information and bibliographical references).

Florian Jaroszewicz (fl. mid 18th cent.)

OFM. Polish friar of the strict Alcantarine observance. Doctor of theology and first custos (1746-1751) of the Russian custody (the custody of Notre Dame of Sorrows), which became independent from the Polish province in 1746. For the instruction of novices, Florian published in 1752 his Principia Theologiae Asceticae. The first part of this work (pages 1-46) amounts to a catechism (with questions and answers) of Christian doctrine and ascetical theology. Florian stresses (on page 31) that ‘cognitio Dei ac divinorum non speculativa sed affectiva, per sanctas meditationes, per spirituales lectiones, per adhortationes magistrorum spiritus, et continua in bonis operibus exercitia, cum lumine coelesti acquisita.’ This catechetical part is followed by more than three hundred pages of meditations and no less than seven introductions on prayer, saintly desires, saintly aspirations, spiritual retreat, the theological, cardinal and religious virtues, temptation and mortification.

works

Principia theologiae asceticae ad usum et captum tyrocinii religiosi potissimum Seraphici Ordinis Minorum S.P.N. Francisci Strict. Observantiae Reformatorum ex probatis authoribus collecta, disposita et elucidata (Lwow, 1752).

He also wrote religious works in Polish. These are listed on WorldCat and some are also mentioned at https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Jaroszewicz

literature

Carolus-Maria de Perugia, Chronologia Historico-Legalis Seraphici Ordinis (Rome, 1752), III, 473-475; Paul Bailly, ‘Jaroszewicz (Florian)’, DSpir VIII, 171-72; Richard Butterwick, 'Catholicism and Enlightenment in Poland-Lithuania', in: A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, ed. Ulrich L. Lehner & Michael O'Neill Printy (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 324.

Florida Cevoli (1685-1767)

OSCCap. Italian Capuchin Poor Clare from Pisa. She entered the religious life in the female Capuchin house of Città di Castello. She was instructed into the religious life by Veronica Giuliani.

works

Lettere, edited in: O. Fiorucci, Ven. Suor Florida Cevoli, Contessa pisana, Cappuccina tifernate (Città di Castello, 1964), Appendix (8 letters).

literature

L. Iriarte, Beata Florida Cevoli, discipula de Santa Verónica Giuliani (1685-1767) (Pamplona: Curia Provincial de Capuchinos etc., 2002); Mediatrice di Perdono 42 (Città di Castello, maggio 2007), 15-21.

Floridus Burghusianus (Floridus Burhusianus, d. 1752)

OFMCap. German friar. Member of the Bavarian order province. Lector of theology, provincial definitor, custos and guardian. He died in 1752.

works

Buchstablich und Sittliche Auslegung Uber die Regul der Büsseren Des Dritten Ordens des Heil. Seraphischen Vatters Francisci. Bestehent In sonderbahren Fragen, und erörderten Gewissens-Zweyflen, dann verschidenen geistlichen Lehr-Stucken zu Nutzen nit allein deren unter diser Heil. Regul Lebenten, sondern auch anderer, forderist Weiblichen Geschlechts, Ordens-Persohnen (1743). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Quaestiones selectae supra IV. caput Regulae seraphicae FFr. Min. S. P. Francisci Capucinorum de licito et illicito recursu ad pecuniam, authore R. P. Florido Burghusiano (Munich: Johann Jacob Vötter, 1751). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Homo Apostolicus, Patris Cajetani Mariae a Bergamo. Versio ex Italico in idioma latinum, adjectus nonnulis additionibus.

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), 21.

Flosculus Binterim (Anton Joseph (Josef) Binterim, 1779- 1855)

OFM and later secular priest. German friar from Düsseldorf. Son of the Binterim clothmaker family. He entered the Franciscan order in the Cologne province, adopting the name Flosculus. After studies of philosophy and physics in the Franciscan Bethania studyhouse in Düren and of theology in Aix-en-Chapelle (Aachen), he was ordained priest in 1802 in Deutz, near Cologne. Due to the forced secularisation of monasteries in 1804, he left the order, yet he continued to consider himself to be inspired by the Franciscan lifestyle. From 1805 onwards, until his death in 1855, he was active as a Catholic vicar in the parish of St. Martin in Bilk (Düsseldorf). In 1821, he received a doctorate at the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg. Three years later, due to his theological production and other activities, Pope Leo XII bestowed on him the Ordine dello Speron d'Oro (Ordine della Milizia Aurata), and in 1826, he became a member of the Catholic Academy in Rome. In 1848, he joined the theology faculty at Prague, the same year that he was elected into the Prussian national parliament. Near the end of his life, in 1852, he received an honorary doctorate in Canon Law from the Catholic University of Louvain. Binterim is nowadays especially known for his studies on the Archdiocese of Cologne and on the history of the Franciscan order. He is also one of the founding fathers of the Historical Society of the Lower Rhine (Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein, est. 1854). Yet Binterim was also involved in contemporary disputes. As a spokesman of conservative Catholicism, he took a stance agains the rationalist Catholic views of Georg Hermes. He also argued against Prussian policies regarding interconfessional marriage, and protested against the confinement of the Cologne Archbishop Clemens August Droste zu Vischering, one of the Catholic opponents of Prussian religious policies. As a result Binterim himself was also for a while inprisoned in the citadel of Wesel.

works

Many documents/letters etc. can be found in the Hermann-Smeets-Archiv der Bilker Heimatfreunde (Düsseldorf). Most of his printed works are readily available via Archive.org, Google Books and especially via the digital collections of the Universität- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf [http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de].

Sechste Rede bey dem eilfhundertjährigen Jubelfeste des heiligen Bischofes Suitbertus, Apostels hiesiger Gegend und der benachbarten Länder : vorgetr. d. 11. des Monats Julius 1817 in d. Pfarrkirche zu Kaiserswerth Düsseldorf: Stahl ca. 1817). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-83144

Antonii Josephi Binterim Epistolae catholicae de probationibus theologicis. (Düsseldorf: Schreiner, 1820). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-75406

Die vorzüglichsten Denkwürdigkeiten der Christ-Katholischen Kirche aus den ersten, mittlern und letzten Zeiten, mit besonderer Rücksichtnahme auf die Disciplin der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland, 7 Vols. (Mainz,1825–1832).

(in collaboration with Joseph Hubert Mooren) Die alte und neue Erzdiözese Köln, 4 Vols. (Mainz, 1828–1831).

De libertate conjugis infidelis, factae fidelis, si infidelis alter recuset cohabitare pacifice nec sine contumelia creatoris: quaestio retractata (Hergt, 1834). Available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-80876 [last checked on 28 August 2016]

Kurze Beschreibung der jetzigen Pfarrkirche zu Bilk mit ihren Gemälden von dem Pfarrer daselbst Binterim (Düsseldorf, 1835).A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-76226

Pragmatische Geschichte der deutschen National-, Provinzial- und Diözesansynoden, 7 Vols. (Mainz, 1835–1848).

Der katholische Bruder- und Schwesterbund zu einer rein katholischen Ehe (1838). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-11956

Herrn Erzbischofs von Cöln Clemens August, Freiherrn Droste zu Vischering Schrift Über den Frieden unter der Kirche und den Staaten: mit einer Rechtfertigung gegen den Verf. der Personen und Zustände aus den politischen Wirren in Preußen u. mit mehrern noch unbekannten Documenten, erläutert und gegen die Angriffe der Gegner vertheidigt von Anton Joseph Binterim ( Mainz: Halenza, 1844). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-21488

Beleuchtung des von der Kreissynode Duisburg herausgegebenen Katechismus der Unterscheidungslehren der evangelisch-protestantischen und der römisch-katholischen Kirche (Düsseldorf: Roschütz, 1844). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-21300

An matrimonio mixto, cujus ante conjugationem cautiones pollicitae sunt ecclesiasticae, parochus catholicus benedicere possit etiam tunc, quando nupturientes modo coram ministro protestantico matrimonialter contraxerunt? (Düsseldorf, 1846). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-80868

Dissertatio altera sive discussio iterata quaestionis : an matrimonio mixto, cujus ante conjunctionem cautiones sunt pollicitae ecclesiasticae, parochus catholicus (salva conscientia) benedicere possit etiam tunc, quando nupturientes modo coram ministro protestantico matrimonialiter contraxerunt?. (Düsseldorf: Schaub, 1847). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-82647

Die Wünsche und Vorschläge der katholischen Geistlichkeit Düsseldorfs an den Hochwürdigsten Herrn Erzbischof von Köln (Düsseldorf: Engels, 1848). A digital copy is available at http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-20484

literature

Rhenania Franciscana, 10 (1939), 182-184; W. Kullmann, ‘Literarisch-freundschaftliche Beziehungen zwischen Marzellin Molkenbuhr und Anton Josef Binterim’, Franziskanische Studien 20 (1933), 130-144; Cornel Schönig, Anton Josef Binterim (1779–1855) als Kirchenpolitiker und Gelehrter, Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein, 5 (Düsseldorf, 1933); Willibald Kullmann, ‘Anton Josef Binterims Pfarrkonkurs. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Studienwesens d. Kölnischen Franziskanerprovinz in die Aufklärungszeit’, Franziskanische Studien 27 (1940), 1-21; Robert Haaß, ‘Binterim, Anton Joseph’, Neue Deutsche Biographie II (1955), 249-250; Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz, ‘Binterim, Anton Joseph’, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon I (1975/1990), 598-599; Heinz Finger, ‘Anton Josef Binterim – der „geistige Vater“ des Hist. Vereins für den Niederrhein’, Annalen des Historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein insbesondere das alte Erzbistum Köln. Festschrift zum 150-jährigen Bestehen 207 (Cologne, 2004, 33-37; Anton Josef Binterim (1779–1855). Eine Ausstellung anlässlich des 150-jährigen Jubiläums des Historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein und des 75-jährigen Jubiläums der Wiedererrichtung der Kölnischen Franziskanerprovinz, ed. Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek (Cologne, 2004); Der Bilker Pastor Anton Josef Binterim, Seelsorger und Kirchenhistoriker im wiedererrichteten Erzbistum Köln. Eine Ausstellung der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, ed. Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln (Cologne, 2005); S. Heid, ‘Joseph Binterim [O.F.M.]’, in: Personenlexikon zur Christlichen Archäologie. Forscher und Persönlichkeiten vom 16. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Stefan Heid & Martin Dennert (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2012) I, 190-191.

Fortunatus Alamandinus Bononiensis (Fortunato di Bologna/Alamandini, d. 1692)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Bologna province. Joined the order as an adult of more than 30 years. Preacher and editor of the missionary account of Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo.

works

Istorica Descrizione delli tre regni Congo, Matamba e Angola, ed. Fortunato Alamandini da Bologna (Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1687). Accessible via Archive.org.

literature

Bernardus de Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum OFMCap, 89; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 352; baralea, Supplementum III, 223; Mazzucchelli, Scrittori d'Italia I, 240; Neerlandia Franciscana 1 (1914), 262-265; Lexicon Capuccinum, 606 (with some additional references).

Fortanerius Vasalli (Fortanerius Vasselli/Fortanier de Vassal, d. 1361)

OM. Italian friar. Master of theology, regent in Avignon and minister general between 1342 and 1348. Involved with the reworking of the Franciscan general statutes that were eventually issued under Guglielmus Farinerius (1354). Bishop of Marseille, Archbishop of Ravenna, Patriarch of Grado (or Venice?) and Cardinal Designate in 1361. Died at Ferrara (or Padua?) on his way to Avignon to receive the cardinal’s hat (see a different interpretation in the account of Sbaralea).

works

Sermones ad utrumque statum Ecclesiasticum et Secularem.

Commentarii super Libros Augustini, praesertim vigesimum secundam de Civitate Dei.

Quodlibeta.

literature

Fabricius, II, 178 & VI, 161;Wadding !; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 352; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 239; Zawart, 303; AFH 3(1910), 294 & 5 (1912), 699-700.

Fortunatus de Brescia (Fortunato da Brescia/Girolamo Ferrari, 1701-1754)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Born in Brescia on December 1, 1701 as the son of Giovanni Ferrari and Angela Maioni. Received his first training by private tutors and entered the Riformati branch on 29 September 1718 in the SS. Anunciata friary of Val Camonica, adopting the name Fortunato da Brescia. He obtained a scholastic education in the order’s school system, but soon began to dabble in ‘new’ forms of mathematical science, physics, physiology/biology, and he began to produce a large number of works that demonstrate a growing familiarity with and evaluation of more recent philosophical and scientific developments and controversies in a wide range of mathematical and scientific disciplines. Several of his works were clearly meant to introduce these new developments in a measured way to the schoolmen in his order and in other scholastic institutions. From 1728 onwards, he was himself lector of philosophy in the S. Cristoforo friary of Brescia, and in 1731 he also gave theology lectures there. In 1734, he began to teach mathematics at the Accademia degli Erranti, which formed the context of his first major work: Geometriae elementa ad philosophiam comparandam accommodata (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1734). This publication was also the beginning of a long collaboration with the Brescia publisher Giovanni Maria Rizzardi, who for decades published most of Fortunato’s works. Fortunato’s intellectual development was due not only to his readings but also due to his contacts with other members of the Accademia degli Erranti and Cardinal A.M. Querini, who for a while supported Fortunato’s intellectual endeavors, notably his mathematical studies, and gave him access to his book and manuscript collections (now part of the Biblioteca Queriniana). Most of Fortunato’s works were geared to introducing new mathematical and scientific insights to a ‘scholastic’ audience. At the same time, he was rather innovative in his use of the microscope to study the embryonic origin and histological constitution of the various organs and tissues within animal bodies, building upon and transcending the work of Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek and others. From 1741 onwards, Fortunato became more and more concerned to connect philosophical/scientific insights with Catholic religious views concerning issues such as the eucharist and grace. In this context should be seen nearly all his major works from the last decade of his life. In 1753, Fortunato left Brescia to become the personal secretary of the minister general P. de Molina, whom Fortunato followed to Madrid. He continued his studies there, but in May 1754 he fell ill and he died in Madrid from a pulmonary condition within a few days (121 May, 1754). His quick demise caused some short-lived rumors in Italy, namely that he had been poisoned by Jansenist opponents.

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Letters from Fortunato da Brescia to Mazzuchelli, Rodella, Cardinal Passionei, Bottari and others can be found in Biblioteca Queriniana di Brescia MS E.IV.3, ff. 221-238, MS E.IV.7 & MS B.V.3; Rome, BAV, Vat. Lat. MS 10004, ff. 349-372; Rome, BAV, Vat. Lat. MS 10021, f. 110; Rome, BAV, Vat. Lat. MS 12564, ff. 399-403; Rome, Biblioteca Corsiniana MS 569, f. 409, MS 1635, f. 161, MS 2051 & MS 2040 (32.G.27).

Geometriae elementa ad philosophiam comparandam accommodata (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1734).

Animadversiones in propositionem 21 lib. VII Elementorum Euclidis cum nova eiusdem propositionis demonstratione... (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1738). Written in collaboration with A.M. Querini.

Philosophia sensuum mechanica methodice tractata atque ad usus academicos accommodata secundis curis p.f. Fortunati a Brixia ...: Physices particularis. pars 1. De coelo, & astris. pars. 2. De corporibus elementaribus (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1735-36/Second revised edition 1745-47/ Third revised edition 1751-1756). The third edition is Available via Google Books.

Elementa mathematica in quatuor tomos digesta, 4 Vols. (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1738-1739 & later editions). Available via Google Books.

Elementa matheseos ad mechanicam philosophiam in privatis scholis tradentam ... accommodata (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1740/1750). Different editions available via Google Books.

Philosophia mentis: methodice tractata atque ad usus academicos accommodata. Metaphysicam universam complectens, 2 Vols. (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1741-1742/Second ed. Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1747-1749/Venice, 1769). In any case the second edition is available via Archive.Org & Google Books. See also: Philosophia Mentis Methodice Tractata Atque Ad Usus Academicos Accommodata (BiblioBazaar Reprint, 2015)

Probabilismus methodo mathematica demonstratus (Lyon, 1747). Available via Google Books.

De qualitatibus corporum sensibilibus: dissertatio physico-theologica (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1749). Available via Google Books.

Cornelii Jansenii Yprensis episcopi Systema de medicinali gratia Christi redemptoris methodice expositum & theologice confutatum (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi,1751). Available via Google Books.

Animadversiones criticae in epistolam apologeticam Udalrici Weiß (...) (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1751).

OSSERVAZIONI CRITICHE DEL P.F. FORTUNATO DA BRESCIA SOPRA CERTO ARTICOLO: Delle Novelle Letterarie di Firenze al num. 27. e 28. di quest' anno 1752 (Roveredo: Presso Francescantonio Marchesani Librajo, 1752). Available via Google Books.

Cornelii Jansenii Yprensis episcopi Systema de gratia Christi methodice expositum, & theologice confutatum secundis curis R.P. fr. Fortunati a Brixia ... Opus posthumum (Madrid: Mat. Mariæ a Jesu de Agreda, 1755). Available via Google Books.

Elementa Mathematica: In Quatuor Tomos Digesta. Algebra Synopsim, generalem proportionum doctrinam, ac utriusque progressionis theoriam, & praxim continens, 4 Vols. (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1756-). At least several volumes available via Archive.Org & Google Books.

Admod. Reu. Patris Fortunati a Brixia ... De oratoriis domesticis dissertatio. Opus posthumum (Bressanone [Brixen]: Rizzardi, 1757).

Commentarius theologico-canonico-criticus de ecclesiis earum reverentia, et asylo atque concordia sacerdotii, et imperii auctore Josepho Aloysio Assemani accesserunt tractatus cl. virorum d. Josephi de Bonis de oratoriis publicis ac r.p. Fortunati a Brixia de oratoriis domesticis in supplementum celeberrimi operis Joannis Baptistæ Gattico de oratoriis domesticis, et usu altaris portatilis (Rome: sumptibus Venantii Monaldini bibliopola in via Cursus, 1766).

literature

A. Gemelli, 'Un precursore della moderna morfologia comparata', Rivista di fisica, matematica e scienze naturali 7 (1906), 355-360 [re-issued in Brixia sacra 5 (1914), 25-32; R. Mazzetti, Il card. A.M. Querini. Uomini e idee del Settecento e la nascita del giansenismo bresciano (Brescia, 1933), 109ff & passim; B. Hughes, 'Franciscans and Mathematics', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 77:1-3 (1984), 1-66 (esp. 20-24); P. Del Negro, review of Cultura religione e politica nell'età di A.M. Querini, ed. G. Benzoni & M. Pegrari (Brescia, 1982), in: Rivista Storica Italiana 96 (1984), 253-265; Ugo Baldini, ‘Fortunato da Brescia’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 49 (1997), 239-343 [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fortunato-da-brescia_(Dizionario-Biografico)/]; Pierluigi Pizzamiglio, ‘Ecclesiatici bresciani cultori delle scienze matematiche e fisiche', Brixia Sacra 3rd s. 12:1-2 (2007), 525-539.

Franciscus de Brito (Francisco de Brito, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Member of the Spanish San Miguel province. Provincial definitor.

works

Excellencias de S. Juan Baptista (Salamanca: Francisco Roales, 1644).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 373; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 248; Bento José de Sousa Farinha, Summario da bibliotheca Luzitana II, 59.

Franciscus de Brugis (d. 1516)

OMObs. Belgian Observant friar of flemish descent but active in the St. Anthony province in Venice. Together with the German Joannes de Spira (Johann Emerich of Speier, the printer) and the nobleman Luceantonius de Giunta (who provided the money), he issued a huge seven-volume Graduale (2 Vols), an Antiphonarium (4 Vols) and Psalterium (1 Vol) between 1499 and 1507. According to his introduction, Franciscus had corrected many musical mistakes. The first and fifth volume also contain a normative treatise of twelve chapters on church singing and composition. According to the necrology of the Venetian province, Franciscus died on 3 May 1516 (Franciscus de Brugis, alias Franciscus de Flandria) in the S. Giobe friary in Venice.

works

Graduale Romanum (Venice: Johannes Emericus, de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, 28 Sept. 1499; 14 Jan. 1499/1500; 1 Mar. 1500).

Antiphonarium proprium et co[m]mune sancto[rum]: s[?]m ordine[m] sancte Romane ecclesie. su[m]ma cu[m] diligentia reuisum: atq[ue] fideli studio emendatu[m], 4 Vols. (Venice: Johannes Emericus, de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, ca. 1499).

Psalterium nocturnum ac diurnum: Secundum morem et consuetudines sancte romane ecclesie (Venice: Johannes Emericus, de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, 1507).

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Giuseppe Massera, La ‘Mano musicale perfetta’ di Francesco de Brugis dalle prefazioni ai corali di L.A. Giunta, Venezia, 1499-1504. Con 7 tavv. f.t.e transcrizione integrale degli scritti teorici (Florence: Olschki, 1963); B. De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop: D. de Graaf, 1969), 1ff.

Fortunatus de Coppulis de Perugia (Fortunatus de Perusio/Fortunato Coppoli da Perugia, d. 1477)

OMObs. Italian friar. Born in Perugia around 1430 as the son of the lawyer Ivo di Niccolò and Maddalena di Paolo Montesperelli, both pertaining to the upper classes of perugian society. Fortunato studied law at Perugia’s university and from the early 1450s onwards apparently was elected into several paid ‘consultor’ positions within the town – possibly a convenient way to hand out funds to the male offspring of the urban elite in return for token administrative/political public offices. He also became bethrothed to Lucrezia di Niccolò di Mariotto Baglioni and he would officially already have married her when in 1455 he underwent a sudden conversion and joined the Observant Franciscans in the Monteripido friary near Perugia. The family of Lucrezia apparently never forgave him for that move and for a while tried to chase him down. For several years, Fortunato remained ‘hidden’ within the Observant school network, to return to Monteripido in 1459. It became more or less his home base during his many preaching campaigns throughout the Italian peninsula. He became involved with the erection of several Monte dei poveri/di pieta, both in Perugia (in collaboration with Michele Carcano da Milano) and elsewhere, and his name is also connected with a number of urban and territorial pacification projects, both on behalf of the papacy and at the request of local rulers. His preaching campaigns during the 1460s and 1470s are well-documented, as are his actions on behalf of the erection of Monte di pieta and concommitant anti-jewish homiletic diatribes in many Italian towns. Hence, during preaching ralies in Assisi and Cortona, he called Jews ‘cani selvaggi e sporchi, che hanno succhiato e continuano a succhiare il nostro sangue.’ [found in: A. Toaff, The Jews in Medieval Assisi, 60], and it seems this was in line with utterances at other occasions. In between his many urban preaching rallies – frequently during the Advent and Lent periods - Fortunato Coppoli also fulfilled several administrative charges within the Observant order family. He was elected guardian of the Porziuncola friary at Santa Maria degli Angeli (near Assisi, 1472-1474), and during 1474-1475, he was guardian of the Monteripido friary of Perugia. Spring 1475, he was elected provincial vicar of Umbria, and on the general chapter of Naples that year, he was elected commissioner en charged to act as an arbitor in conflicts among Observant factions in Brescia, Bergamo and Crema. He also intervened in the Observant reform project of the Poor Clares of Santa Lucia in Foligno under the abbess Cecilia Coppoli da Perugia (a distant kinswoman of Fortunato), initially judging the women’s ideas to adopt a regime of complete poverty too risky. Most of Fortunato Coppoli’s writings are directly related to his homiletic activities (sermons and ‘treatises’ on issues such as usury, gaming, a reworking of the Summa de Casibus Conscientiae of Bartholomaeus Pisanus etc.), and his work on behalf of the Monte di pietà (several consilia).

works

Annotazioni a casi giuridico-canonici, aggiunte e commenti alla Summa Pisanella e al sermo De dilectione proximi di s. Bernardino da Siena: Napels, Biblioteca Nazionale MS V.H.33 ff. 7r-9v, 16v-17r, 45r, 48v, 49rv, 52v, 53rv, 56r, 276r-278r.

Circa materiam ludi: Modena, Biblioteca Estense MS Lat. alfa.V.9.8 (577), f. 363r; Assisi, Biblioteca comunale MS 629, ff. 335v-339v; Assisi, Biblioteca francescana di Chiesa Nuova, MS 13, ff. 234v-237r & MS 30, ff. 260r-261r; Foligno, Bibl. comunale MS A.10.1.16, ff. 125v-127v.

Consilium de Monte Pietatis (Civitas Perusina): MS Cortona, Bibl. comunale, MS 249, ff. 39r-45v.

Consilium Montis Pietatis editum a doctissimo et venerando patre F[ratre] Fortunato Perusino ordinis Minorum Observantie (Civitas Florentina) (Venice: P. Quarenghi, 1498).

Lettere a Lorenzo il Magnifico: Florence, Archivio di Stato, Mediceo avanti il Principato, filza 21, n. 399; filza 24, n. 454; filza 33, n. 578; filza 35, n. 359.

De decimis, De usuris, De emptione: Assisi, Biblioteca comunale, MS 629, ff. 339v-340v.

Ex dictis fratris Fortunati: Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana MS 1494, f. 122r.

literature

Luke Wadding, Scriptores trium Ordinum Fratrum Minorum (ed. Rome, 1908), 254; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 353; G.G. Sbaraglia, Supplementum et castigatio ad Scriptores OFM (ed. 1806), 239 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 254; O. Scalvanti, 'Cronaca perugina inedita di Pietro Angelo di Giovanni', Bollettino della Deputazione di storia patria per l'Umbria 4 (1898), 117; M. Ciardini, Un "consilium" per il Monte di pietà di Firenze (1473) (Florence, 1905), 20 f.; A. Fantozzi, 'Documenti intorno alla beata Cecilia Coppoli clarissa (1426-1500)', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 19 (1938), 338-341; A. Ghinato, 'Un propagatore dei Monti di Pietà del '400: P. Fortunato Coppoli da Perugia, O.F.M. († 1477)', Rivista di storia della chiesa in Italia 10 (1956), 193-211; S. Maiarelli & U. Nicolini, Il Monte dei Poveri di Perugia. Periodo delle origini (1462-1474) (Perugia, 1962), passim; G. Pagnani, 'Monti di pietà', in: Dizionario degli istituti di perfezione VI (Rome, 1973), 119-122; Ariel Toaff. The Jews in Medieval Assisi, 1305-1487. A Social and Economie History of a Small Jewish Community in Italy (Florence: Leo S. Olschi, 1979), 60 & passim; A. Bartoli Langeli, 'La famiglia Coppoli nella società perugina del Duecento', in: Francescanesimo e società cittadina: l'esempio di Perugia (Perugia, 1979), 89; M. G. Muzzarelli, 'Un bilancio storico-grafico sui Monti di Pietà', Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia 33 (1979), 179 (n. 75); Ugolino Nicolini, 'Coppoli, Fortunato ('frater Fortunatus Perusinus' o 'de Perusio')', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 28 (1983), 670-675 [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fortunato-coppoli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/];

Fortunatus de Neapoli (Fortunato di Napoli, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Naples province. His sermons were once kept in the Immacolata Concezione friary.

works

Prediche d'Advento del P. Fortunato da Napoli: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.AA.65.

Ad uso del Pre Fortunato da Napoli, pred. capno. (...) Panegirici e sermoni (...) Prediche dell'Advento (...) prediche di Santi (...): MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.AA.51.

literature

Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 90-91.

Fortunatus de Rovigo (Fortunato da Rovigo/Fortunato Mattaraia/Antonio Mattaraia, d. 1701)

OFMCap. Italian lay Capuchin friar and botanist. Born in Rovigo on 10 May 1638 as son of Gasparo and Elena Mattaraia. Entered the Capuchin order in 1658 in the local S. Michele Arcangelo friary, where he completed his noviciate and made his profession on 26 January 1659, adopting the order name Fortunato. Was sent to Padua to be trained as herbalist/infirmarer under fra Gregorio da Padova. There he specialised in botanical learning, and he continued to do so after he became an infirmarer in Venice and later in the Capuchin friary of Verona and he maintained for many years a correspondence with leading Italian and foreigns botanists, many of whom are named in the ninth volume of his Erbario. He also profited from seeds and specimen sent to him by friar-missionaries in other parts of the world. A first literary product reflecting his expertise was the seven-volume Tavola di Montebaldo fiorito (1690), which never reached the printing press and much of which was lost in 1842, except for a few fragments (first 54 folios) now kept in the Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana of Florence. This Tavola was followed by an ever bigger botanical undertaking in seven/nine volumes, the Theatrum plantarum or the Erbario, six of which were produced by Fortunato, and the remaining were the work of his pupil Petronio da Verona. This work was intended to be published, but somehow never made it completely to the printing press. It was kept in manuscript format in the Capuchin convent of Verona until the reduction of Italian monasteries in 1866. After decades of neglect it found its way into the collections of the Verona Museo di scienza naturale di Verona (Sezione Botanica), whereas L'indice vecchio delle piante dell'Erbario, produced by Petronio da Verona, is kept in Mestre, in the Capuchin Archivio della Curia provinciale.

works

Tavola di Montebaldo fiorito: MS Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Ashb. 261 (fragments).

Theatrum plantarum/Erbario, 9 Vols.: MSS Verona Museo di scienza naturale di Verona (Sezione Botanica). Check!

Selva di varie compositioni appartenanti all'arte medica: MS Capuchin convent library of Venice? Check!

literature

Luigi Gaitier, Elogio di frate Fortunato da Rovigo infermiere cappuccino del secolo decimosettimo letto da Luigi Gaiter p. veronese nella chiesa de rr. pp. cappuccini in Verona il giorno 4. maggio 1840. nel quale fu dedicato nel convento medesimo un pubblico monumento alla sua memoria (Verona: Paolo Libanti, 1840) [accessible via Google Books]; Cenni intorno alla chiesa e convento dei cappuccini in Rovigo (Rovigo, 1851), 30-32; Bernardino da Cittadella, 'Un frate botanico del '600: Fortunato da Rovigo', L'Italia Francescana 3 (1928), 220-226; U. Tergolina, 'Cappuccini botanici: fra Fortunato da Rovigo, fra Petronio da Verona', Venezie Francescane 1:3 (1932), 147-162 [? also published as a small monograph La Tipografica Veronese, 1932]; A. Broglio, Il convento e i frati minori cappuccini di Rovigo (Rovigo, 1936), 16-19; Giovanni Crisostomo da Cittadella, Biblioteca dei frati minori cappuccini della provincia di Venezia (1535-1939) (Padua, 1944), 281f.; Lexicon Capuccinum, 607; Cesare da Reana, 'Fra Fortunato da Rovigo', La Palestra del Clero 35 (1956), 610-615; Pamela Anastasio, ‘Fortunato da Rovigo’, DBI XLIX, 243-244.

Fortunatus de Sospitello (Fortunato da Sospitello, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the San Tommaso Apostolo province. Lector of theology.

works

Antiquioritas Franciscana ad libram historicae veritatis examinata: Opusculum ex tom. II. lib. VI. cap. XVI. Orbis Seraphici P. Dominici de Gubernatis à Sospitello, Ordin. Minor. Strict. Observ. Chronologi, & ex opusculo secundo P. Joannis Franchini Ordin. Min. Conventualium Procuratoris Generalis collectum, & ad majorem lectorum commoditatem per paragraphos digestum, utriusque authoris textu in singulis paragraphis litteraliter inserto (...) (Lyon: Jean & Claude Anisson, 1685).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 353.

Fortunatus de Viralo (Fortuné du Virail, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar from the Saint Bernardin province (or from the Saint-Denis province?). Preacher and religious author. Definitor, custos and confessor of Queen Anne of Austria.

works

L'amour de tous les siècles envers l'immaculée Conception de la Mère de Dieu, ou l'alliance des deux misteres du tres-Saint & adorable Sacrement de l'Autel & de l'immaculée Conception (...) (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1655). Accessible via Google Books.

Psalterium Davidicum beatae et immaculatae Dei genitici Mariae ita fideliter adaptatum et multiplici sensu elicidatum, ut quilibet psalmus psalmo et versus versui respondeat (Lyon: Heritier Jean Baptiste De Ville, 1677). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 353; 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), 228-229.

Fortunatus Hueber (fl. 17th century)

OFMRef. German friar. Scotist, mariologist, angelologist, order historian, moral theologian and hagiographer from Bavaria. Born in Neustadt an der Donau, he entered the order in the Bavaria province on 5 November 1654. He fulfilled functions as theology lector, cathedral preacher in Freising (between 1670 and 1676), and provincial of the Bavaria province. In 1679, he was elected definitor-general and appointed order historian for his province. In 1698 he obtained the title scriptor ordinis. For a considerable period, he was also confessor to the Clarissan St. Jacob am Anger monastery in Munich. At several occasions, he performed visitations of the Bohemian province and the Hungarian St. Salvator province as order commissary. He died in 1706 in Munich.

works

Zoologia moralis, 2 Vols.?

Ens metalogicvm: sub cultu panegyrico entis eucharistici expositum disputationi publicae ad mentem doct. subt. Ioannis Duns Scoti in conventu Landishutano ss. caeli principum Petri et Pauli, fratrum minorum S. Francisci reformatorum (Munich: Lucas Straub, 1664).

Libellus thesium de mirabilibus operibus Domini (Munich, 1665).

Seraphische Lehrschuel Der Geistlichen Ubungen und wahren Andacht (Munich: Lucas Straub, 1670). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Das Leben des H. Petrus von Alcantara (Munich, 1670).

Homo primus et secundus in mundum prolatus (Munich, 1670).

Candor lucis aeternae, lilium regale fragans virgineum, seu D. Antonium de Padua (Munich, 1670).

Vnsterbljche Gedächtnvs Der vortrefflichen Geschichten, Heiligen Stifftungen und wunderlichen Standsverãnderungen, Welche dem Bayrischen hohen Alter haben eingedruckt Die Dapfere, Mächtige vnd Durchleichtige Hölden Von Thaurn, Andechs vnd Hohenwarth (...) (Ingolstadt: Johann Ostermaijr, 1670). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Historia der Helden und Herren von Andechs (Ingolstadt, 1670).

Zeitiger Granatapfel der allerscheinbaristen Wunderzierden in denen wunderthätigen Bildsäulen Unser lieben Frauen, der allerheiligsten Iungfrau Mutter Gottes Maria, bey zweyen hochansehnlichen Völkern der Bayrn und Böhamen, besonders von der blutfliessenden Bildsäulen der gnadenreichisten Himmelskönigin und Trösterin aller Betrübten zu Newkirchen in Kur-Bayrn, am Ober Böhamer-Wald gelegen (Munich: Lucas Straub, 1671). Available via Google Books and the Staatsbibliothek Regensburg.

Morgenländische Perlmuschl der himmlischen Belohnung und Freudens-Geniessung. An dem Fest-Tag Aller-Heiligen, im Jahr 1674, Vor einer volksreichen, ansehentlichen und andaechtigen Versammlung. In den churffuerstlichen, hochloeblichen Stifft und Pfarz-Kirchen der Chur-Bayrischen Haupt- und Regierungs-Stadt Straubing. Durch ein verguenstigte Ehren-Predig eroeffnet, geschaetzt und aussgeschenckt von Fortunato Hueber (...) (Munich: Lucas Straub, 1674). Available via Google Books.

Ornithologiae Moralis, Per Discursus Praedicabiles: ex omni genere Sacrarum Scientiarum, Historiarum, Eruditionum, Antiquitatum, Proprietatum, Doctrinarum, Conceptuum, Curiositatum, Legum, Institutionum, Sentetiarum, Affectuum, Argumentorum, Locorum & Materiarum Copiose Inventos, Svbtiliter ordinatos, facunde propositos et salubriter auditos: Formatae, Dispositae, Exornatae Et Sacris Oratoribus (...) Donatae. Pro Festis Per Annum, Ac Celeberiorum Ordinum Fundatoribus, 2 Vols. (Munich: Jaecklin, 1678). Available via Google Books and via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples.

Apparatus solemnis sublimis et illimis pro felicibus ac publicis auspiciis ad diademata, coronas, insulas, praelaturas, primitias, investituras, professiones, gradus, et varios cim saecularium, tum maxime ecclesiasticorum et regularium status inaugurandos (...) (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1680). Available via Google Books.

Tägliche und Merckwirdige Raiß-Beschreibung P. Fortunati Hueber S. Francisci Ordens der Reformierten Chur Bayerischen Provinz (…) in Hispanien nach Toleto zum General Capitl gereißet im Jahr 1682, ed. Irmgard E. Zwingler, in: Jahrbuch des Vereins für Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte 43 (2009), 353-544.

Saeculum conventus Monacensis Franziscanorum (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1684). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Sanctuarium praelatorum seu exhortationes Regulares & Ecclesiasticae, ad sublimia virtutum Exercitia & Conversationem Apostolicam directae. Sub variis Figuris ac Symbolis, potissimum es Sacra Scriptura analogice depromptum (...) (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1684). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Dreyfache Chronickh von dem dreyfachen Orden deß großen H. Seraphinischen Ordensstifters Francisci so weith er sich in Ober- und Nider-Deutschland erstrecket/Dreyfaches Chronicon vom Orden des heiligen Franziskus in Teutschland (München, 1686). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the British Library, and via Google Books.

Stammen-Buch, Oder Ordentliche Vorstellung unnd Jährliche Bedächtnuß aller Heyligen, Seeligen, Vortrefflichen, Wunderthättigen, Himmelswürdigen, Gnadenreichen, Hocherleuchten, Verzuckten, Vollkomnen, und Kirch-berühmten Diener unnd Dienerinnen Gottes, Martyrer, Beichtiger, Jungfrauen, Frauen unnd Büsseren (...) aus denen dreyen Ordens-Ständen (...) S. Francisci (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1693). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Lob-, Dank- und Ehrenreiche Gedächtniss von dem Geist- und löblichen Iungfrau-Kloster des dritten Ordens Sti. Franzisci, bey den zweyen Heiligen Ioannes, dem Tauffer und dem Evangelisten, auf der Stiegen, deren Ridler benamset, zu München an der kurfürstlichen Residenz, in seinem vierhundertjährigen Saeculo oder Weltlauf mit Freuden erneuert und aufgericht (Munich: Sebastian Rauch, 1695). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Fortgang und ausführlicher Bericht deren drey Ordensständen unsers heiligen Seraphischen Vaters und Stifters Franzisci (Munich, 1695).

Quodlibetum angelico-historicum de sanctis angelorum beneficiis, lateinisch und teutsch (Augsburg, 1697).

Menologium, seu brevis et compendiosa illuminatio, relucens in splendoribus sanctorum, beatorum, miraculosorum, incorruptorum, extaticorum, beneficorum, et quocunque Sanctimoniae, vel Virtutis Fulgore, Illustrium, Singularium, aut Praecellentium Falumorum Famularumque Dei, Martyrum, Confessorum, Virginum, Viduarum, Poeninentium. Ab initio Minoritici Instituti usque ad moderna tempora, ex triplici-ordine I. Fratrum Minorum (...) II. Clarissarum (...) III. Utriusque Sexus Poenitentium (...) (Munich: Johann Lucas Straub, 1698). Accessible via Google Books. This provides lives of the beatified and saints of the Franciscan order, and is arranged according to the liturgical year. It is an extension of the Stammenbuch from 1693.

Quodlibetum Angelico-Historicum (Augsburg, 1697), A German-Latin work on the history of the cult of angels.

Allerley Englische Geschichten, Unzerstöhrlich, unbeleibt, unzahlbar (...) Welchen allen vorstehet Der Heil. Ertz-Engel Michael, Der Ehrenreichiste Fürst deß Himmels (...), Deren Sterbenden Tröster, Schiedmann, Helffer, (...) Forderist denen jenigen Christglaubigen, Welche auff dem Weeg deß Heyls, an Leben, Verdienst und Tugenden (...) seynd vorgesehen (...) (Munich: Johann Lucas Straub, 1727). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 352-353; Winfried Baumann & Lenka Matuskova, Wallfahren als Grenzgang: Jiri Plachy SJ und Fortunat Hueber OFM (Pardubice: Univezita Pardubice, Fakulta filozoficka, 2018). See also the references in the Deutsche Biographie [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd123139465.html]

Fortunatus Losiewski (Fortunato Losiewskiego d. 1751)

OFMConv. Polish friar. Preached in Cracow and Warshaw. A series of sermon collections in Polish seems to have survived.

works

Here are given the Latin titles as found in an Daniel A. Janocki, Polonia litterata nostri temporis (Bratislava: Jacob Korn, 1750) I, 43-44:

Conciones Vernaculas, de Sacrae coenae Mysteriis (Warshaw, 1729/Cracow, 1736).

Conciones Vernaculas, de quinque Sensibus Humanis (Cracow, 1735).

Conciones Vernaculas, de Adventu Domini (Cracow, 1736).

De Studiis, in quibus Homo Religiosus versari debet, libellum, sermone patrio confectum (Cracow, 1741).

De Moribus, Homine Religiosi, dignis, libellum (Cracow, 1744).

literature

Daniel A. Janocki, Polonia litterata nostri temporis (Bratislava: Jacob Korn, 1750) I, 43-44; Ryszard Wróbel, “By stanal pokój miedzy nami i Bogiem’. Krakowskie kazania Fortunata Losiewskiego OFMConv’, in: Wielcy kaznodzieje Krakowa. Studia in honorem prof. Eduardi Staniek, ed. Kazimierza Panusia (Cracow: Wydawnictwo UNUM, 2006), 289-320; Ryszard Wróbel, ‘Póznobarokowe kaznodziejstwo franciskanskie na przyklazie adwentowych I pasyjnych kazan o Fortunata Losiewskiego’, W nurcie franciszkanskim 15 (2006), 173-203; Ryszard Wróbel, ‘Pasyjne kazania o. Fortunata Losiewskiego, jako przyklad kaznodziejstwa póznobarokowego’, Polonia Sacra 11:21 (2007), 245-266 [On the Passion sermons of Fortunato as an example of late Baroque preaching].

Fortunatus Scansani (Fortunato Scansani di Guastalla, d. 1787)

OFM. Italian friar from the Bologna province. Studied in Jesuit schools before he took the habit of the Observant Franciscans at the age of 18 in Bussetto. He studied philosophy in Ferrara and theology in Bologna. Subsequently active as a lector of philosophy and theology at Ferrara. After reaching the status of lector jubilatus, he became prefectus studiorum in Bologna and also distinguished himself as a preacher, and as consultant for the inquisition. While giving a panegyrical sermon in Mantua in 1787 he died of a stroke at the age of 51.

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Orazione dell'invenzione del santo legno della croce. Check!

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 831-832.

Francisca Clara de Sancto Levino (Françoise-Claire de Saint-Lievin, 1629-1652)

TOR. Flemish Recollect penitent. Born as Levine Sanders in Tamise (Eastern Flanders, current-day Belgium) on 9 September 1629. At the age of 12 or 14, she joined a convent established in 1626 by Jeanne Neerinck at Philippeville. That convent was a part of a new very strict branch established by Jeanne: Recollect Penitents. Françoise-Claire took the habit there on 1 August 1649 and soon became known for her visions, and other tokens of holiness. She lived part of her life secluded from other sisters, to whom she wrote a number of spiritual letters. Françoise-Claire died on 31 January 1652. She was an initiator of the devotion to the sacred heart.

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Letters. 24 of her Flemish letters survive, as well as 3 of her French letters. See for more information: C. de Clercq, 'Multiples éditions concernant Soeur Françoise-Claire de Saint-Liévin', Franciscana (NL) 19 (1964), 137-146.

Statutes: A series of statutes compiled for external spiriual friends (later a confraternity) organised by Françoise-Claire. See: Kort begryp vanden oorsprongh, voort-gangh, oeffeninghen, reghels etc. van een seer devoot Broederschap eerst begonst in ‘t Clooster der Penitenten op S. Pieters neffens Ghendt, door (saligher memorie) Sr. Francoise Clara van S. Lieven, religieuse van het selve Clooster, ed. Fulgentius Bottens, Lector Jubilatus Custos Custodum (Bruges: Pieter van Pee, 1685).

Spiritual exercises. See: Korte ende soete inleydinghe tot ende in het goddelick ende minnelick herte vanden Heere Jesus, al-waer de ziele is kommende tot een aldervolmaeckste vereeninghe met Godt, door den wegh van sijn vijf bloedighe wonden, ghetrocken uyt de schriften van (saligher memorie) Sr. Francoise Clara van S. Lieven, Penit. Rec. (Bruges: Pieter van Pee, 1685).

vitae

Het leven en de goddelycke leeeringhen van Sr. Francoyse Clara van S. Lieven, Religieuse van de derde Orden van S. Francoys in het Clooster vande Poenitenten op S. Pieters, neffens Ghendt. By een vergadert uyt gheloofweerdighe schriften van de Eerw. Moeder des selven Cloosters, ende andere treffelijcke Religieusen, die noch leven, ende ghetuyghenisse gheven van het ghene sy ghesien, ende uyt haeren eyghen mondt ghehoort hebben, ed. P. Franciscus Cauwe OFMRec (Dunkirque: Jan Wyns, 1677). A second edition appeared in 1685 and a French adaptation appeared at Liège under the name of Gilles Laoureux OFMRec. A third Flemish edition came out in Ghent: Lieven de Clerck, 1710.

literature

C. de Clercq, 'Multiples éditions concernant Soeur Françoise-Claire de Saint-Liévin', Franciscana (NL) 19 (1964), 137-146; C. de Clercq, 'Françoise-Claire de Saint-Liévin', in: Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastique XVIII, 981-982.

Francisca de Clara Monte (Françoise de Clermont, ffl. late 13th cent.)

OSC. French poor Clare living in the late 13th century in the Avignon monastery and called beata in some ancient Franciscan martyriologies. On a possible erroneous identification with the beatified Marie de Clermont, a sixteenth century woman and sister of Cardinal georges d’Amboise, pontifical legate in Avignon, see the remarks of R. Aubert in DHGE XVIII, 973.

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To be continued...

vitae

AASS Oct. XI, 390; A. du Monstier, Martyrologium Franciscanum, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1653), 435-436.

literature

DHGE XVIII, 973; Bibliotheca Sanctorum V, 1007.

Francisca de Columna (Francisca de la Columna, fl. early 18th cent.)

OSC. Portuguese Poor Clare from Torres Novas. Became abbess of the Espíritu Santo de Lisboa.

works

Comedia ao Nascimento da Christo (Barbosa, 1650). A versified dramatic representation of the nativity of Christ.

literature

Romania 33 (1915), 532; Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) I, 275; S. Eijan, La poesía franciscana (Santiago, 1936), 355.

Francisca de Triglis (Francesca del Triglio/Francesca del Serrone, d. 1601)

TOR. Italian tertiary. Daughter of peasants from Serrone (third child of Ciccone 'del Triglio' and Menica Boccaccio), who was unable to join a monastery but was able to follow a tertiary life. She was vested om February 22, 1579, and lived a pious religious life in dwellings of her family. Known for her devout verses and spiritual letters. She died at the age of 43 in the house of her niece near San Severino on April 7, 1601. Her life is known in particular through the vitar devoted to her by her confessors, the Barnabite Giulio Scampoli, and the Jesuit Giovanni Battista Cancellotti.

works

Devout verses and spiritual letters. To be continued...

vitae

Giulio Scampoli Barnabita, Vita di Suor Francesca del Serrone del Territorio di S. Severino Tertiaria di S. Francesco descritta in tre libri (Macerata: Agostino Grisei, 1649). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome; Giovanni Battista Cancellotti, Vita della venerabile serva di Dio Francesca del Serrone di San Severino, terziaria di s. Francesco (Rome, 1665).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 240; Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World, ad indicem.

Francisca Farnese (Francesca Farnese, 1593-1651)

OSC. Italian Poor Clare of noble descent. Born in Parma in 1593 (baptised Isabella). Educated at the Parmese court in highly refined courtly culture. He was supposed to marry but changed her mind at an early age, after which the family decided to let her enter at the early age of nine in the Poor Clare San Lorenzo in Panisperna monastery, Rome, where her aunt Francesca was abbess. She returned once more for several months to her family, to enter finally at the age of 14 as a novice, taking herself the name Francesca as well. Her sister Vittoria also came to live there. After a number of years, when her religious vocation had solidified and her spiritual ambitions had manifested themselves, her father, the Duke Maro Farnese, called her to his lands in the Farnese area, where he founded the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery. Initially, Francesca became novice master in the new house. Thereafter she became first vicar and later abbess. During her vicariate time, she was tasked to edit a set of new Costituzioni. later in life, she helped found the Poor Clare monastery of Albano, the Santissima Concezione monastery in Rome, and she was involved with the reforms of the Santa Maria degli Angeli monastery of Palestrina. She died in the Santissima Concezione monastery in Rome at the age of 59 on 17 October 1651.

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Costituzioni delle monache delli monasteri di S. Maria delle Gratie di Farnese, della Concettione di Albano e di S. Chiara in Palestrina (Rome: Stamperia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1640/1731).

Meditative texts and prayers for her fellow nuns. Check!

Poemata sacra (Venice: Giovanni Giacomo Hertz, 1679).

Spiritual autobiography (written at the ruquest of her confessor). Check!

Canticum de Assumptione B. Mariae Virginis (1654). Check!

Instructive letter expressing her last will concerning the observance of her monastic constitutions to her fellow nuns. Check!

vitae

A. Nicoletti, Vita della Venerabile Madre Suor Francesca Farnese detta di Gesù-Maria, dell’Ordine di S. Chiara (Rome, 1678).

literature

G. De Dominicis, Suor Maria Francesca Farnese dell’ordine di S. Chiara, fondatrice dei monasteri di Farnese, di Albano, della SS.ma Concezione in Roma e riformatrice del monastero di Palestrina (Rome, 1981); Valeria Rubbi, 'Architettura conventuale femminile: il problema di una definizione tipologica', 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), 259-267.

Francisca Josepha de Conceptione Castillo (Francisca Josefa de la Concepcion Castillo, 1671-1742)

OSC. Colombian friar and spiritual author.

works

Sentimientos espirituales de la Venerable Madre Francisca Josefa de la Concepción de Castillo (Santa Fe de Bogotá: Imp. Bruno Espinosa, 1743).

Vida de la Madre Francisca Josefa de la Concepción, escrita por ella misma (Filadelfia, 1817).

Deliquios del divino amor en corazón de la criatura y en las agonías de Huerto..

To be continued...

Opera omnia, see: Obras Completas de la Madre Francisca Josefa de Castillo, ed. Dario Achury Valenzuela (Bogota: Banco de la Republica, 1968).

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) III, 3-7; S. Eijan, La poesía franciscana (Santiago, 1936), 353-354.

Francisca Sanchez (Francisca Sanchéz de Villamayor, fl. ca. 1700)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare from Madrid. Poet.

works

Religious poetry. Known for the a sonnet 'No eleva el sol con más suave estilo/de las flores las perlas que dio aurora...', which found its way in: Sagrada métrica lid, que al supremo general impulso de seis sonoros toques, en obsequio del mejor sol Santa María de Jesús, cantó el convento de San Diego de Alcalá, ed. Joaquín de Aguirre (Alcalá: José Espartosa, 1730).

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) II, 360.

Francisca Taffin (Françoise de Saint Omer Taffin, 1581-1642)

TORCap. Belgian Capuchin nun of noble descent. Born as Françoise Taffin at Saint-Omer on 4 January 1581. She married at the age of 16 with Alexandre Maes, chastellain of Bourbourg. They had two daughters together. Already then, she was attracted by the Capuchins and their lifestyle. Had cordial relations with Augustine of Béthune, who became her spiritual director in the winter of 1611/1612. Once widowed in 1614, Françoise decided for a religious life. As the female Capuchins of Paris did not accept foreign postulants, Augustine advised her to estabnlish a religious community in her own house in Bourbourg as regular tertiary. She lived there with her daughters and several others and adopted a lifestyle with Capuchin overtones. Over time, Françoise was able to establish other houses in Bergen, St. Omer, Aire, Lille, Douai, Courtrai, Liège, St.-Trond and even in Cologne, Bonn and Paderborn. As such, she was the founder of a network of female Capuchin tertiary houses in the Low Countries and the German Rhineland. The mother convent in Bourbourg eventually was extended to be able to house up till 50 women. Françoise was assisted by Augustine of Bethune (who also helped Françoise to edit the first edition of the ‘Constitutions régulières des soeurs de la pénitence du tiers ordre réformé, dictes vulgairement capucines’ (St.-Omer, 1627). When the congregation grew and expanded, the Capuchin friar Simon of Audenaerde obtained papal approval and an official aggregation with the Capuchin Third Order. The constitutions of the congregation were approved by the pope on 22 November 1630. Françoise died on 29 December 1642 in Bourbourg. Several of her religious writings have survived. Most of these were not published during her lifetime. All of them show an ecclectic spirituality with substantual influence of John of the Cross.

works

Constitutions régulières des soeurs de la pénitence du tiers ordre réformé, dictes vulgairement capucines (St.-Omer, 1627).

Rituel (never published during the author's lifetime): MS. See Hildebrand van Hoogleden, De Kapucijnen in de Nederlanden (Antwerp, 1955) IX, 202-217; Idem, ‘Notes sur le P. Augustin de Béthune et les premières capucines flamandes’, Études Franciscaines 42 (1930), 316-323.

Instructions (never published during the author's lifetime): MS. See Hildebrand van Hoogleden, De Kapucijnen in de Nederlanden (Antwerp, 1955) IX, 202-217; Idem, ‘Notes sur le P. Augustin de Béthune et les premières capucines flamandes’, Études Franciscaines 42 (1930), 316-323.

Spiritual writings (never published during the author's lifetime). See: Bullarium Franciscanum OFMCap V (ed. Rome, 1748), 237-265; Hildebrand van Hoogleden, De Kapucijnen in de Nederlanden (Antwerp, 1955) IX, 202-217; Idem, ‘Notes sur le P. Augustin de Béthune et les premières capucines flamandes’, Études Franciscaines 42 (1930), 316-323.

literature

Frédégand Callaey d’Anvers, 'Drie stukken betreffende Zuster Francisca Taffin van Sint-Omaars', Neerlandia Franciscana 4 (1921), 269-276.DSpir V, 1125-1126; LexCap (Rome, 1951), 1665-1666; G. Coolen, Bulletin de la Société académique des antiquaires de la Morinie 19 (1961), 417-434.

Francisca van der Haeghen (Françoise van der Haeghen, 1582-1639)

OSC. Belgian Colettine nun from Ghent. She became abbess of the new monastery of Tournai by 1626. She wrote for her nuns several spiritual treatises.

works

Le temps spirituel. Check!

vitae

Abregé de la vie de la vénérable mère Françoise Vanderhaeghen, première Abbesse & fondatrice du Couvent de l'Immaculée Conception de Notre-Dame, des religieuses Clairisses de Tournay (Tournai: l'imprimerie de E. J. Henry, 1789)

literature

To be continued...

Francischinus de Baisaria ?

To be continued

Franciscus Abadía (fl. c. 1762)

OFM. Spanish friar. Lector (Nuestra Señora de Jesus friary) and Preacher in the Aragon province. Wrote on the immaculate conception.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 211-212.

Franciscus A. de los Reyes (Francisco de los Reyes, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Friar.

works

Historia de América: MS Madrid, Nac., 2550 [Castro, Madrid, n. 152]

Franciscus Adriani (Francesco Adriani, mid fourteenth century)

OM. Italian friar from Bologna. Baccalaureus (Paris?),`vir angelicae vitae' and fellow founder of the Faculty of Theology in Bologna. Renowned preacher. In 1349 he took part in the election of the provincial minister as discretus of Bologna. To him is ascribed a Tractatus in Symbolum S. Athanasii (now lost?)

works

Tractatus in Symbolum S. Athanasii. Lost?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806), 240-241 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 255; Mazzetti, Repertorio dei professori di Bologna (Bologna, 1847), 1267; B. Pergamo, AFH, 27 (1934), 8-9; C. Piana, Chartularium, AF, 11(1970), 16-18, n. 22; DHGE, XVIII,679-680.

Franciscus Alarcón (Francisco Alarcón, fl. 18 ^th cent.)

OFM. Guatemalan Franciscan friar.

works

De los seis principales daños del pecado mortal. ?

Noticias escogidas sagradas y profanas ?

literature

A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 5.

Franciscus Amperle (Franciscus Aempherle, fl. ca. 1600)

OFM. German friar, who received part of his theological education in Munich.

works

De Almo Sacrae Evcharistiae Sacramento Disputatio Theologica. Praeside V.P.F. Marquardo Leone Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observ. &x. SS. Theologiae & Philosophiae in conventu Monacensis Professore proposita. Respondente F. Francisco Aempherle eiusdem ordinis, et SS> Theologiae Studioso (...) (Munich: Adam Berg, 1597). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

De supersubstantiali, secretissimaque divina Dei essentia. Indagines Theologicae in monasterio Monacensi ordinis fratrum minorum S. Francisci de Observantia ad publicam disputationem propositae, Mense Iulio, Die 12, Praeside V.P.F. Marquardo Leone eiusdem ord. & Monasterii S.S. Theologiae Lectore. Respondente Religioso Fratre Francisco Aempherle, praefati ord., & Monast. S. Theologiae Studioso (Munich: Adam Berg, 1601). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Franciscus Andegavensis (Francois d'Angers, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Paris province. Preacher and historian.

works

L'histoire de la mission des pères capucins de la province de Touraine â Maroc (Niort: veuve Jean Bureau, 1644). For a modern edition see also: L'histoire de la mission des pères capucins de la province de Touraine â Maroc, 1624–1636 (Rome: Archives Générales de l'Ordre des Capucins, 1888).

Vie du père Joseph Le Clerc du Tremblay (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1645).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 357.

Franciscus Alvatus (Francesco Alvato d'Asti, fl. 15th cent. ?)

OM. Italian friar from Asti. Theologian.

works

Postillae in Evangelia ?

Sermones Quaragesimales ?

literature

Wadding, Scriptores; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 356; Bollettino storico-bibliografico subalpino 3 (1898), 175.

Franciscus Alvarez de Hinojosa (Francisco Álvarez de Hinojosa, fl. 1700)

TOR. Spanish regular tertiary from the Andalusia (Baetica) province. Lector of theology.

works

Oracion funebre en las honras de (...) Juan de S. Bernardo, Lector Jubilado, Calificador del Santo Oficio, Examinador Synodal de Sevilla (Sevilla: Juan de la Puerta, 1700).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 356.

Franciscus Ameyugo (Francisco Ameyugo/Francisco Amejugo, fl. second half 17^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Preacher, long-term lector and provincial minister of the Burgos province. Confessor and biographer of the Poor Clare Sor Juana de Jesús María. The biography he wrote, which went quickly through two editions, drew the attention of the Spanish inquisition and was forbidden completely in March 1679. This verdict was upheld in later editions of the index. This notwithstanding, German and Latin versions of the work appeared later on. Francisco also published other works, such as sermons and the Rethorica Sagrada y euangelica, which is a kind of preaching manual/model sermon collection.

works

Sermon de la Inmaculada y Purissima Concepcion de Maria Señora Nuestra; : predicado en el hospital de la Concepcion de la (...) ciudad de Burgos (...) por el Padre Fray Francisco de Ameyugo (Burgos: Diego de Nieva Murillo, 1657).

Nueva Maravilla de la gracia, descubierta en la vida de la venerable madre sor Juana de Jesus Maria, monja del gravissimo Convento de S. Clara de Burgos (...)(Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego, 1673/Madrid: Gonzalez de Rayes, 1674/Barcelona: Martin Gelabert, 1676/Madrid: Iuan Garcia Infançon, 1677).Both the 1674 and 1676 editions are available via Google Books. The link to a digital copty via www.europeana.eu does not seem to work.

Neues Wunder der Gnaden zu findem im Leben der ehrwürdigen Mutter Sr. Joannae von Jesus Maria (...) (Cologne: Erben Johannes Widenfeld & Godefridus de Berges, 1682). This edition is available via Google Books.

Novum gratiae prodigium: sive vita venerabilis matris sororis Joannae a Jesu Maria (Cologne: Erben Johannes Widenfeld & Godefridus de Berges, 1689). This edition is available via Google Books.

Rethorica Sagrada y euangelica: ilustrada con la practica de diversos artificios rethoricos para proponer la palabra divina (Zaragoza: Juan de Ybar, 1667 & 1670/Madrid: Andrés García de la Iglesia, 1673). The Madrid 1673 edition is available via Google Books. In this work, Francisco presented the preacher as an artful practioner, almost like a painter, and as a person who used a variety of techniques/styles to convey the proper message.

Sermon de sto Domingo de la Calzada predicado en su santa iglesia cathedral, su señoria illustrissima el señor don Juan Chalaz, su dignissimo prelado (s.l., 1649).

Sermon del glorioso doctor s. Bernardo (Valladolid: Bartolomé Portolés de la Torre, 1649).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 357; Index librorum prohibitorum ac expurgandorum novissimus: pro universis Hispaniarum regnis (...), ed. Francisco Pérez de Prado (Madrid: Emmanuel Fernandez, 1747), 457; AIA 35 (1932), 536-538; AIA 15 (1955), 220-221; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976), V, nos. 229-239; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 84; Isabelle Poutrin, Le voile et la plume: autobiographie et sainteté féminine dans l'Espagne moderne (Madrid: Safer-Casa de Velázquez, 1995), passim.

Franciscus Andreas de Turro (Francisco Andrés de la Torre, fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Burgos province. Lector, guardian of the San Francisco de Burgos friary, provincial minister, visitator of the Los Angeles province, and between 1637 and 1646 Confidant of Sr. Maria Agreda, and supervisor of the first version of her autobiographical writings. He died on March 20, 1647.

works

Super Regulam S.P.N. Francisci. ?

Contra los Vicarios Generales Independientes ?

literature

Pedro Alamín, Sumario de la vida de la Venerable Madre Sor Iuana de Iesus Maria monja del Convento de S. Clara de Burgos (Zaragoza, 1676), 66; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 357; Francisco Palou, Relacion histórica de la vida y apostólicas tareas del venerable padre fray Junipero Serra (Mexico, 1787), 337f; AIA16 (1921), 222-223; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 184 (no. 828).

Franciscus Angosto (Francisco Angosto, fl. first half 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from Carthagena. Studied in Salamanca. Member of the San Juan Bautista province. Custos.

works

Bona Mors: MS Avila, San Antonio ?

Defensio Franciscanae Paupertatis: MS Avila, San Antonio ?

Quaestio Regularis super quartum caput Seraphicae Regulae: MS Valencia, Conv. San Juan de la Ribera ?

Epilogus discursus Morales continens authoritatibus utriusque juris roboratus: MS Valencia, Conv. San Juan de la Ribera ?

Ordo Judicialis cum aliis quaestionibus ad Regulares spectantibus: MS Valencia, Conv. San Juan de la Ribera ?

Resolutiones moralis et quaestio 'Altissimae et Evangelicae paupertatis Decachordum': MS Valencia, Conv. San Juan de la Ribera ?

literature

Antonio Panes, Chronica de la Provincia de San Juan Bautista, de Religiosos Menores Descalzos de la Regula Observancia de Nuestro Seraphico Padre San Francisco II (1666), 306, 406, 563; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 358-359.

Franciscus Antonius Benoffi de Pesaro (Francesco Antonio Benoffi da Pesaro, 1706-1789 [1782/1786?])

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar and master of theology. Assistant of the inquisition in Florence and subsequently inquisitor of Adria–Rovigo between 1746 and 1650, and of Aquilea between 1750 and 1667. Provincial minister of the Marches between 1764-1765. Between 1767 and 1786 inquisitor of Padua. Known for the production of a Compendio di storia minoritica, other historical Memoriae, apologetical letters, and of a Series Inquisitorum Tusciae. The latter was apparently never printed.

works

Series Inquisitorum Tusciae: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 698 [important document for the history of the inquisition in Tuscany from the medieval period onwards].

Memorie storiche della Provincia della Marca dei Frati Minori Conventuali unite da f. Francesco Antonio Benoffi, le quali sono il frutto del suo Provincialato di quindici mesi dal Maggio 1764 a tutto Luglio 1765, ed. Stefano Rinaldi et al. (Ancona: Curia Provinciale OFMConv, 2013). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 326-327.

Lettere (Ventiquattro) apologetiche a favore dell'ordine del Minori Conventuali, indiritte da un anonimo Minor Conventuale della Marca d'Ancona al M.R.P. Lettore Flaminio Anibali, da Latera, Minor Osservante, 2 Vols. (Padua: Fratelli Conzatti, 1777-1778).

Notizie interessanti. La sagra persona del gran pontefice O. M. Clemente XIV. Con l'aggiunta in fine di alcune lettere dello stesso non più stampate. Opera di un teologo italiano (Lugano: Agnelli, 1778). Accessible via Turin University Library and via Google Books.

Compendio di storia minoritica (Pesaro: Annesio Nobili, 1829) [posthumous publication]. Accessible via Google Books.

Dei procuratori generali dei minori nella curia romana. Memorie Storiche della vita di Giovanni Dacre d'Udine, Minorita, Vescovo di Trevigi, opera postuma del P.M. Francescantonio Benoffi, da Pesaro (Pesaro: Annesio Nobili, 1830).

Spirito della regola de'frati minori commentata dalle sacre costituzioni urbane de'minori conventuali. opera postuma (Giovanni Lana, 1841).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 840; Gaetano Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani o come che sia aventi relazione all'Italia II (Milan: Pirola, 1852), 110; Maria Auguista Morelli Timparano, ‘Su Francesco Antonio Benoffi da Pesaro, minore conventuale ed inquisitore, e su Giovannu Battista Dei di Firenze, antiquario ed archivista granducale: due personaggi del scolo XVIII’, Studia Oliveriana 3^rd ser., 3-4 (2003-2004), 85-149.

Franciscus Antonius Blundus (Franciscus Antonius Blondus/Francesco Antonio Biondo, d. 1644)

OFMConv. Italian friar from San Severino. Entered the order in the Salerno diocese. After studies in the order’s internal colleges, he became a professor of theology at Rimini, Assisi, Bologna, Padua and Naples, to end up as regens at the St. Bonaventure college (Rome). Developed Scotist theological positions. On December 14, 1637, Biondo was appointed bishop of Capri. Three years later, on 13 December 1640, he was appointed bishop of Ortona and Campli. He died at Treglio in 1644.

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De intellectu, voluntate, & scientia Dei (1620)?

De unitate, et trinitate in divinis (1625)?

Quaestio de adaequato philosophiae natualis obiecto iuxta mentem Iannis Duns Scoti subtilium Principis. Hac tempestate valde utilis, et ad recte naturaliter philosophandum apprime necessaria (Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1637). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Disputationes Scoticae, in quibus divinae praedestinationis, et reprobationis mysterium juxta doctrinam Scoti eludicatur (Bologna, 1635 [1625?])

Tractatus Theologicus Moralis de Censuris Ecclesiasticis, Ac de Irregularitate iuxta Scoti doctrinam, in octo Disputationes distinctus (...) (Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1636). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, and via Google Books.

literature

Lucas Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1650) 111; Nicolaus Toppi, Biblioteca Napoletana et apparato agli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli, e del regno (...) (Naples: Antonio Bulison, 1678), 98; G. Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie litterarie di scrittori francescani conventuali (Modena, 1693), 223; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 360; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 241-242; J. Abate, ‘Series episcoporum ex ordine fratrum minorum conventualium assumptorum ab anno 1541 ad annum 1930’, Miscellanea Francescana 31 (1931),>>; L. Jadin, ‘Biondo’, DHGE VIIII, 1519.

Franciscus-Antonius Calegari (Francesco Antonio Calegari, 1656-1742)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Venice. Baroque music theorist, composer and chapel master, first at San Francesco di Bologna (1700), then at S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice, 1701-1703), and later at the Basilica del Santo, Padua (1703-1727). He spent the last years of his life again at S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice.

works

Ampla dimostrazione degli armoniali musicali tuoni (1732): MS Bergano, Biblioteca dell'Unione filarmonica. The work has been edited in the second volume of Walter William Schurr's doctoral dissertation on the composer. The Ampla dimostrazione amounts to a treatise on consonance and dissonance in chord inversions.

Trattato d'armonia (Venice, >>?).

literature

Peter Lichtenthal, Dizionario e bibliografia della musica III (Milan: Antonio Fontana, 1826), 462; Walter William Schurr, Francesco Antonio Calegari (d. 1742): Music Theorist and Composer, PhD. Diss., 2 Vols. (Catholic University of America, 1972); Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990) 25; Barocco padano e musici francescani: L’apporto dei maestri conventuali. Atti del XVI Convegno internazionale sul barocco padano (secoli XVII-XVIII), Padova 1-3 luglio 2013, ed. Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi & Maurizio Padoan, Barocco Padano, 8/Centro Studi Antoniani, 55 (Padua: Associazione Centro Studi Antoniani, 2014). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 352-354; Daniele Gambino, 'Il trattato teorico-pratico di Francesco Antonio Calegari ovvero l''Ampla dimostrazione degli armoniali musicali tuoni'', in: Barocco Padano 9: Barocco padano e musici francescani, II: L'apporto dei maestri conventuali. Atti del XVII Convegno internazionale sul barocco padano (secoli XVII-XVIII), Padova, 1-3 luglio 2016, ed. Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi & Maurizio Padoan, Centro studi antoniani, 62 (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2018), 543-607; Leonardo Frasson, 'Il p. Francesco Antonio Calegari maestro di cappella al Santo', in: Barocco Padano 9: Barocco padano e musici francescani, II: L'apporto dei maestri conventuali. Atti del XVII Convegno internazionale sul barocco padano (secoli XVII-XVIII), Padova, 1-3 luglio 2016, ed. Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi & Maurizio Padoan, Centro studi antoniani, 62 (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2018), 609-628.

Franciscus-Antonius Casimirus (Franciscus Antonius Casmirius/Francesco-Antonio Casimiri, fl. ca. 1600)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Brindisi. Theologian, active at the studium (gymnasium) of Naples, and elected provincial in October 1607.

works

Scotus dilucidatus in secundo Sententiarum Mirifico, Brevi, ac Facili Ordine (...) In quo etiam omnes controversiae inter D. Thomas, & Scotum Subtilium Principem huius 2. sent. facillimè explicantur. Scotistis, et Thomistis pro intelligentia, praesertim controversiarum apprime necessarius. Cathedrariis, ac Respondentibus summe utilis, tum propter irrefragabiles Decisiones, cum etiam propter innumeras distinctiones (Naples: Apud Ioh. Iacobum Carlinum, 1597). Accessible via Google Books and via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.

Selva topica di varie materie scolastiche applicabili alli Evangelii di Quaresima: MS ?

Commentarii in 4. Sentent. Librum. Apparently never published due to the death of the author.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali ch'hanno scritto dopol l'anno 1585 (...) (Modena: Eredi Soliani, 1693), 224 (no. 126); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 360; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 242; DThCat II, 1822; Diomede Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia: con una introduzione su la vera fisionomia dello scotismo (Rome: Collegio S. Antonio; Desclée e c., 1927), 206?

Franciscus-Antonius Colellus (Francesco-Antonio Colella di Bari, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Bari. Magister of theology, active in the San Francesco di Messina friary.

works

Morales affectus (Palermo: Pietro dall'Isola, 1665).

literature

Niccolo Toppi, Biblioteca Napoletana et apparato agli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli (...) (Naples: Antonio Bulifon, 1678), 98; Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 224; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 360;

Franciscus-Antonius Cremonensi (1652-1721)

OFMCap. Italian friar.Joined the order at the age of 17. He died in the Soresina friary in 1721. Trained as a painter under Giuseppe Battista Natali and Ippolito da Firenze. Several of his works still survive in Rome, Osimo, Comi, Cremona etc.

works

Paintings. To be continued

literature

G.B. Zaist, Notizie istoriche de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti cremonesi (Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1774), ?; Valdemiro Bonari, I Cappuccini della Provincia milanese dalla sua fondazione, 2 Vols. (Crema: Tip. S. Pantaleone di Luigi Meleri, 1898) II, 652; Lexicon Capuccinum, 623.

Franciscus Antonius Castellanos, fl. mid 18^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Historian of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA6 (1916), 336-337; AIA 38 (1935),87; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanasespañolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 100 (no. 214).

Franciscus Antonius Fogarini (Francesco Antonio Fogarini da Brescia, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Entered the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1644. Afterwards he was regent at the friaries of Brescia, Florence and Vienna [and not guardian at this time, as is suggested in the entry of the Enciclopedia Bresciana mentioned below]. And eventually he was made perpetual definitor for his order province. He also became guardian of the Brescia friary, and in December 1667 he was elected provincial minister. Throughout his life he was apparently also a philosophy and theology tutor for secular students. From a Scotist vantage point he also engaged with contemporary philosophical and physical issues. Due to the onset of Alzheimer or dementia, he was not able to bring all his work to the printing press.

works

De distinctionibus: MS Brescia, Bibl. del Convento di S. Francesco, ?

De negationibus: MS Brescia, Bibl. del Convento di S. Francesco, ?

De natura: MS Brescia, Bibl. del Convento di S. Francesco, ?

De personalitate: MS Brescia, Bibl. del Convento di S. Francesco, ?

De instrumento: MS Brescia, Bibl. del Convento di S. Francesco, ?

De creativitate creatura: MS Brescia, Bibl. del Convento di S. Francesco, ?

Geminum centiloquium, Theologicum unum, Philosophicum alterum (Brescia: Ricciardi, 1675).

Asserta Metaphysica, cum Phisico centiloquio (Brescia: Giovanni Antonio Vignaditti, 1685).

De certitudine honestatis in actibus humanis ad coscientiae securitate operante necessaria Tractatus theologicus (Brescia: Rizzardi, 1696).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 225-228; Antonio Fappani, 'FOGARI o Fogarino Francesco', Enciclopedia Bresciana [http://www.enciclopediabresciana.it/enciclopedia/index.php?title=FOGARI_o_Fogarino_Francesco_Antonio ]

Franciscus Antonius Freylus (Francisco Antonio Freyle, fl. later 18^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Provincial of the Castilia province (1763-1766). Court preacher. Known for his funerary sermons.

works

Funebre obsequiosa demostracion que hizo la ... comunidad de las señoras Descalzas reales á la ... memoria del Señor Rey de Portugal D. Juan el Quinto ... : los dias quatro y cinco de febrero de 1751 ... dixo la oracion funebre panegyrica el R.P. Fr. Francisco Antonio Freyle del Orden de N. Seraphico Padre San Francisco ... ; sacala a luz la misma Real comunidad (Madrid, 1751). Available via the Biblioteca digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano [http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000116404&page=1 [Last accessed 17-11, 2021]].

Oracion funebre, que en las reales exequias, celebradas por la comunidad de las señoras Descalzas Reales, a la gloriosa memoria de la Fidelissima Reyna de Portugal de S. Doña Mariana Josepha de Austrua, los dias 2, y 3 de Diciembre de 1754. dixo, con assistencia de la grandeza, y prelados de las comunidades, El Rmo P. Fr. Francisco Antonio Freyle (...) (En la Imprenta de Antonio Perez de Soto, 1755).

Oracion funebre panegyrica que en las honras que celebró el Real Convento de las Señoras Descalzas Reales de esta corte : el dia 28 de Agosto de este año de 1755 (...) por (...) Sor Gesualda de la Encarnacion, abadesa que fue de dicho Real Monasterior dixo el Rmo, P, Fr. Francisco Antonio Freyle (...) de la Regular Observancia de N. P. San Francisco ... (Madrid: mprenta de la viuda de Manuel Fernandez y del Supremo Consejo de la Inquisición, 1755). Available via the Biblioteca digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano [http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000116819&page=1 [Last accessed 17-11, 2021]].

Relación de las solemnes magníficas exequias que la Real Hermandad de Maria Santissima de la Esperanza y santozelo de salvación de las almas : consagró a la augusta memoria del Rey Nuestro Señor Fernando Sexto ... los días 21 y 22 de febrero de este año de 1760 y Oración funebre que en ellas dixo el Rmo. P. Fr. Francisco Antonio Freyle, Predicador del Numero de S.M., Padre de esta santa provincia de Castilla, y guardian del Convento de N.P.S. Francisco el Grande de esta Corte ... (Madrid: Andrés Ortega, 1760). Available via the Biblioteca digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano [http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000127702&page=1 [Last accessed 17-11, 2021]].

literature

AIA 26 (1926), 180-182; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 117 (no. 327).

Franciscus Antonius Gervasius (Francesco Antonio Gervasi, fl. first half 18^th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar.

works

Panegirici per l'Immacolata Concezione di Maria Vergine fondati su i vangeli de i sei sabbati di quaresima, recitati (...) nel corso quaresimale del 1734 dal (...) fr. Francescantonio Gervasi Deffinitore perpetuo de’Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco (…) (Naples: Niccolò Monaco, 1734). Accessible by Google Books.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806).

Franciscus Antonius Giuliani de Posta (Francesco Antonio Giuliani)

OFM. Italian friar

works

Sermones: See Cenci, Napoli,I, 24.

Franciscus Antonius Guadagnini (Francesco Antonio Guadagnini da Viterbo, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Regent master in the Viterbo friary. Known for his Lenten preaching cycles held in the Conventual Franciscan church of Bologna (1690) and elsewhere.

works

Albero della vita, cioe meditazioni della Passione di Christo, divise in settimane per tutto l'anno (Ronciglione: Egidio Toselli, 1686).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 228.

Franciscus Antonius Leoni (Francesco Antonio Leoni da Ruttigliano, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Theologian and canonist. Perpetual definitor of the San Niccolò province. Involved with guiding lay confraternities.

works

Memoriale ex Constitutionibus Urbanis (1634).

De Censuris Ecclesiasticis, interdicto opuscula moralia?

Istruzione de'Cordigeri, e Superiore erigenti loro Confraternità (Naples: Giacomo Caffaro, 1644). Other editions followed.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 228-229.

Franciscus Antonius Marcucci (Francesco Antonio Marcucci, 1717-1798)

OFS. Italian friar. Son of Leopoldo Marcucci and Giovanna Battista Gigli, who were members of the local aristocracy. He opted for the priesthood, against the wishes of his parents. After the death of his mother, Francesco traveled to Rome and studied in the major Dominican, Jesuit and Franciscan collegia, with financial support of his aunt, Francesca Gastaldi. Already before his ordination (25 February 1741), he apparently wrote his first work, the Introduzione nella predicazione evangelica. This work already suggests that Francesco was attracted by the Franciscan life and the Franciscan apostolate, not in the least due to his contacts with Maurizio da Porto Maurizio. Although he was a priest, Francesco did not join the order as a clerical friar. Instead he professed as a member of the secular Franciscan order. He drew the attention of the clerical authorities and was appointed Bishop of Montalto in 1770. Later, he would also become titular patriarch of Constantinople (1781), and acted as confessor and advisor of Pope Clement XIV. As bishop of Montalto, Francesco created the Pious Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Suore Pie Operaie dell’Immacolata ConcezioneDecember 1774), and he invested much energy in the erection of schools, the production of teaching materials, and in the the education and spiritual formation of female religious. His beatification process started in 1964.

works

In the context of his beatification process, Catholic scholars have started to publish the as yet unpublished works of Marcucci (the Opera Omnia marcucciana project), many of which are kept in manuscript format in the archive and in the library of the Casa Madre delle Suore Pie Operaie dell'Immacolata Concezione in Ascoli Piceno. In this series have in any case been published:

Abbozzi di esercizi spirituali dati al mio clero (Venice, 2001).

Artis Historiae Specimen. Saggio sulla storiografia. Rifflessioni sopra di alcuni precetti piú importanti dell’arte istorica, ed. & trans. Maria Giudetta Mosca & Alberto Cettoli (Venice: I.T.E. - Ascoli Piceno: Suore Pie Operaie dell’Immacolata Concezione, 2002). [cf. review in AFH 96 (2003), 529f]

De Asculo Piceno, De Inscriptionibus Asculanis, Delle Sicle e Breviature (Venice: I.T.E., 2004).

Sermoni per il Triduo e per la Festa dell'Immacolata Concezione (1739-1786), ed. Suor M. Paola Giobbi, (Venice: I.T.E., 2004).

Sermoni per le feste mariane, ed. Suor Maria Paola Giobbi (Grottammare: Croma Group, 2008).

Il saggio della Prosodia latina. Antologie metriche, ed. Franco Zenobi (Teramo, 2008).

La Gramatichetta Franzese ad uso delle educande del Ven. Monistero dell’Immacolata Concezione di Ascoli; L’Egloga pastorale per l'Epifania del 1754 e il Tetralogo tra una Maestra e tre Pellegrine Oltramontane, ed. Stefania Valeri (Ascoli Piceno, 2008).

Il Regolamento di vita, ed. Maria Paola Giobbi (Grottammare; Croma Group, 2009).

Scritti sulla musica, ed. Valter Laudadio (Acquaviva: Fast Edit, 2010).

Lettere alle suore e alle educande (1742-1797), ed. Maria Paola Giobbi (Rome: LEV, 2012).

Scritti su la predicazione e le missioni popolari (1737-1752), ed. Vincenzo La Mendola & Maria Paola Giobbi (Rome: LEV, 2014).

Other works by Marcucci have been edited as:

Saggio delle cose Ascolane e de’ Vescovi di Ascoli nel Piceno (Teramo, 1766/anastatic reprint Bologna: Arnaldo Forni Editori, 1984).

Orazione per l’Immacolata Concezione di Maria sempre vergine (Ascoli, 1768/reproduction with introductory studies by Andrea Anselmi & Stefano De Fiores: Rome: Edizioni Monfortane, 1998).

Una sorgente di ieri per santificarsi oggi, lettere di direzione spirituale, ed. Suor Cristina Egidi (Rome: Edizioni Monfortane, 1983).

Un anno con Mons. Marcucci, raccolta di pensieri e massime per ogni giorno dell’anno, ed. Marcello Morgante (Ascoli Piceno: Centro Stampa Piceno, 1998).

Pensieri per ogni giorno, ed. Maria Paola Giobbi (Rome: Libreria editrice vaticana, 2013).

literature

Arcangelo Rossi-Brunori, La vita e la istituzione di Mons. Francesco Antonio Marcucci dell’Immacolata Concezione (Ascoli Piceno, 1917); M. Cristina Egidi, Il Servo di Dio Mons. Francesco Antonio Marcucci (Rome, 1994); Vincenzo Catani, Il Servo di Dio Mons. Francesco Antonio Marcucci (1717-1798), estratto da I Santi della Chiesa Trentina (Grottammare, 1999); Maria Paola Giobbi & Rossana Barbieri, Guardando Lei: la proposta di Francesco Antonio Marcucci (Ascoli Piceno, 2007); Gianni Fazzini, ‘Marcucci, Francesco Antonio’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 70 (2008) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-antonio-marcucci_(Dizionario-Biografico)/]; Maria Paola Giobbi, Venerabile Francesco Antonio Marcucci. Educatore alla scuola di Maria (Gorle: Elledici-Velar, 2011); Angelo Ciancotti, Francesco Antonio Marcucci (1717-1798), Erudito Prete, Teologo, Vescovo, Fondatore ed Educatore (Rome: Libreria editrice vaticana, 2014).