Gaudentius de Genua (Gaudenzio da Genova, d. 1751)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Member of the Riformati province of Genoa, who later transferred to the Roman province. Theology lector, general secretary, clerical examiner and consultant for the inquisition.. He died in the Riformati friary near Soriano in 1751.

works

De visitatione cuiuscumque praelati ecclesiastici et simul de jurisdictione eiusdem, extra actum visitandi dubitationes (Puccinelli, 1748).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 801.

Gaudentius van den Kerckhove (1642-1703)

OFMRec. Belgian Recollect from the Saint Joseph province in Flanders. Lector of theology (reached the status of lector jubilatus), provincial and provincial commissarius.

works

Commentarii in generalia statuta Ordinis S. Francisci Fratrum Minorum Provinciis nationis Germano-Belgicae in Capitulo Generali Toletano Anno 1633. accommodata (...) (Cologne: sumptibus Hermanni de Men., 1700). Accessible via the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague, and via Google Books.

Methodus corrigendi Regulares, seu praxis criminalis Fratribus Minoribus propria omni Regulari Judici accomodata (Bruges: Judocus van Pee, 1701/Cologne: sumptibus Joannis Schlebusch, 1712). Both these editions are accessible via Google Books, via the British Library, the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, and the library of the University of Ghent.

According to Juan de San Antonio, he would have left behind sermons and other texts on related issues, but these apparently never reached the printing press.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 13; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1847), 749; Giovanni Evangelista Cusmich, Cenni storici sui minori osservanti di Ragusa (1864); Sylvio Hermann De Francheschi, ‘Morales franciscaines du jeûne et de l’abstinence au temps des Lumières. Ascétisme alimentaire et discipline régulière au XVIIIe siècle’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 193-218.

Gelasius de Goritia (Gelasio da Gorizia/Gelasius von Göritz. d. 1760)

OFMCap. Austrian of Italian friar from Gorizia (Göritz). Entered the order in 1700 in the province of Vienna. General diffinitor of the order from 1747 onwards, and vicarius generalis after the death of the minister general Sigismond of Ferrara (19 November, 1753) unto 1754.

literature

Analecta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum XII, 55 no. 92; LexCap 669.

Geminianus Monacensis (Geminianus von Mainz, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German friar from Mainz. Member of the Bavaria province. Preacher (also at the court of Salzburg), guardian and provincial definitor. Would have issued Lenten sermons, a volume of Sunday Sermans, and several volumes of sermons on feast days, all with the main title Geistlicher Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel. These sermons are extremely vivid, touch on all kind of issues and also include interesting remarks about the preparation of meat and other types of food. The title of these successful sermon series inspired later Franciscan spiritual authors, such as the Conventual Benedict Sigl, to issue works with comparable headings.

works

Der Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel. Das ist: Catholische Predigen ueber alle Sonn- und Feijertaegliche Evangelia deß gantzen Jahrs, nach Ordnung der H. Catholischen Kirchen gerichtet zu Beijhuelff der Prediger, Zur Auffmunderung der Laijen, zur Underweisung der Irrenden, und Trost aller frommen Christen. Gestellt durch R.P. Geminianum, Monacensem Concionatorem Capuccinum. Von dem ersten Annal das Dominical (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1667). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Geistlicher Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel. Das ist: Catholische Predigen ueber alle Sonn- und Feijertaegliche Evangelia deß gantzen Jahrs, nach Ordnung der H. Catholischen Kirchen gerichtet zu Beijhuelff der Prediger, Zur Auffmunderung der Laijen, zur Underweisung der Irrenden, und Trost aller frommen Christen. Gestellt durch R.P. Geminianum, Monacensem Concionatorem Capuccinum. Von dem andern Annal das Dominical (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1679). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Geistlicher Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel. Das ist: Catholische Predigen ueber alle Sonn- und Feijertaegliche Evangelia deß gantzen Jahrs, nach Ordnung der H. Catholischen Kirchen gerichtet zu Beijhuelff der Prediger, Zur Auffmunderung der Laijen, zur Underweisung der Irrenden, und Trost aller frommen Christen. Gestellt durch R.P. Geminianum, Monacensem Concionatorem Capuccinum. Von dem andern Annal, das Festival (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1679). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Geistlicher Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel. Das ist: Catholische Predigen ueber alle Fest- und Feyrtaegliche Evangelia desz ganzen Jahrs (...), 3 Vols. (Munich: Johann Jaecklin, 1684-1688). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Geistlicher Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel und Annuale Tertium, ed. Adalbert Monacensis, 3 Vols. (Munich: Johann Lucas Straub, 1709-1711). At least the first volume is accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 13-14; Georg Lohmeier, Geistliches Donnerwetter: Bayerische Barockpredigten (Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1961), 41f; Christoph Wagner, Universität der Genüsse (Haymon Verlag, 2015), passim; Bert Roest, 'The Voice of a Popular German Capuchin Preacher: The Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel (1668-1679) of Geminianus von Mainz', Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 171-230.

Generosus Gallaeus (Généreux Gallay, 1720-1799)

OFMConv. Swiss friar.

literature

Urban Fink, ‘[Gallay] Généreux’, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz V, 74.

Gennarus de Nola (Gennaro da Nola, 1600-1654)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Lector of philosophy and theolog, Vice-prefect of the missions in Congo, where he died.

literature

Nicolo Toppi, Biblioteca Napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli, e del Regno (1678), 105; Sisto Ambrosino, ‘L’informazione giuridica su Padre Gennaro da Nola, Cappuccino (1600-1654)’, Studi e ricerche francescane 23 (1995), 263-290.

Gennesius de Ocana (Gennesio de Ocaña, fl. 2nd half 17th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. First member of the San Juan Bautista province and later of the discalceat San Diego in Baetica province. Socius of Juan de Prado.

works

Relatio itineris P.Fr. Francisco a Conceptione (...) ad Marrocchianos (Seville: Juan Cabezas, 1675).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 14.

Gennesius de Quesada (Ginés de Quesada/Gennesio Quesada/Genesius de Quesada, d. 1633)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Carthagena province. Lector of philosophy in Belmonte. He departed for Mexico (Santo Evangelio province) in 1628, where he taught theology for a year, and then, in July 1630, he moved towards the San Gregorio province in the Philippines. There, he taught theology in Manila, and became a confessor of Gerónima de la Assumpción. Subsequently, he went as a missionary to Japan, where he became a martyr in 1633 or 1634.

works

Expositio in Logicam aliosque Aristotelis libros, juxta Ven. Doctoris Subtilis Joan. Dunsii Scoti principia: MS olim Archivio Provincial de la Provincia Franciscana de Cartagena. Cf. for a more precise description of this Scotist commentary on the logical and natural works of Aristotle, see, Gonzalo Díaz Díaz, Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española IV (1991), 819. These commentaries were linked to the friar's philosophy lectures in and after 1623.

Carta del Venerable Fr. Ginés dirigida a su tío y tutor don Cristóbal López Yáñez de Quesada, fechada en Murcia el 10 de marzo de 1628, poco antes de partir para las Misiones del Nuevo Mynco, edited in: Antonio Martín, Apuntes biobibliográficos sobre los religiosos escritores, hijos de la Provincia Seráfica de Cartagena desde su fundación hasta el presente (1520-1920) (Murcia: Imp. Sucesores de Nogués, 1920), 66-70. Earlier, this letter was included in: Pablo Manuel Ortega, Crónica de la provincia franciscana de Cartagena, de la Regular Observancia de (...) S. Francisco, 3 Vols. (Murcia: D. Francisco Lopez Mesnier-Nicolas Villargordo y Alcaraz, 1646-1753) II, libro II, Cap. 4, nos. 14-16.

Vida llena de milagros y virtudes de la Venerable Madre Sor Gerónima de la Assumpción. A manuscript of this work was present in the Franciscan Archives of the San Gregorio province in the Philippines. It was issued as: Exemplo de todas las virtudes y vida milagrosa de la Venerable Madre Gerónima de la Assumpción, Abadesa y Fundadora del convento de la Concepción de la Virgen Nuestra Señora de monjas descalzas de Nuestra Madre Santa Clara de la ciudad de Manila. Escrito por el Religiosísimo Padre Mártir después invicto Fray Ginés de Quesada, del Orden de N.P. San Francisco, ed. Agostín de Madrid (Mexico City: Viuda de Miguel de la Rivera, 1713/Madrid: Antonio Marín, 1718).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 14; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 302; Gonzalo Díaz Díaz, Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española IV (1991), 818-819.

Gennesius Ravignani (Genesius Ravignani/Gennesio Ravignani, fl. 17th cent.)

TOR. Italian Franciscan tertiary from San Genesio in the March of Ancona province. Known for an Italian chronicle/history allegedly kept in the archive of the tertiary convent outside San Genesio.

works

Epitome dell'Istorie Genesine. ?

literature

Giuseppe Colucci, Delle antichità picene XXIII: Delle antichità del medio e dele infimo evo, Tomo VIII (Fermo: Dai Torchi dell'Autore, 1795), 108; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 302

Gentilis Partinus de Monteflore (Gentilis e Monteflorum/Gentile da Montefiore/Gentile Partino, ca. 1240/1245-1312)

OM. Italian friar. Born in Montefiore dell'Aso (Fermo diocese). Entered the order at a young age in the Marsh of Ancona province. Studied in Paris and reached the magisterium before 1295. Became aquainted with Cardinal Benedetto Caetani (future Boniface VIII), and became lector of the Sacro Palazzo in Rome. Created cardinal priest of S. Martino ai Monti by Boniface VIII on the second of March 1300, and partisan of Boniface VIII in the latter's struggle with King Philip IV of France. Later, in 1303, he took place in the conclave that elected Benedict XI. Papal legate in Hungary, Poland, Dalmatia and Croatia in 1307-8, also to secure the Angevin succession in Hungary. Took part in the October in the Council of Vienne. According to Juan de San Antonio he died in Avignon in 1312, and his body was apparently transported to Assisi where he was buried in the cemetery of the San Franciscan friary. Yet according to Sbaralea, basing himself on papal registers and information on a correspondence with a Cistercian abbot, Gentile died in Lucca, when he was in the process (on behalf of the Avignon papacy) to transport papal treasures and documents from Rome. He as buried in Assisi in the chapel of S. Luigi e Martino (lower church of S. Francesco), on August 5, 1313, which had been adorned with his patronage. Part of his material possessions were assigned by the pope to the Franciscan cardinal Vital du Four.

works

Homiliae habitae ad populum: MS ?

Registrum Legationis literarum: MS Vatican City, BAV Lat. 4013.

Constitutiones pro regno Hungariae (1309) & Acta & Constitutiones? Several of these would have been issued in the editions of council decrees of Mansi (volume III, ff. 307ff.) and Labbeanus, and in the Annalium Card. Caes. Baronii Continuatio.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 99; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 14; Lorenzo Cardella, Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa (Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini, 1793) II, 56-58; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 302; Fabricius, III, 32-33; Zawart, 339; Conrad Eubel & Guglielmus van Gulik, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, Vol. I (1198-1431) (Munich: Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1913/Reprint Padua: Il Messagero di S. Antonio, 1960), 13 and 47; Umberto Betti, I cardinali dell'Ordine dei Frati Minori, ed. Alberto Ghinato, Orizzonti Francescani. Collana di cultura francescana, 5 (Rome: Edizioni Francescane, 1963), 29-30; Remigius Ritzler, ‘I cardinali e i papi dei Frati Minori Conventuali’, Miscellanea Franciscana 71:1-2 (Jan.-June 1971), 19-20; Laura Gaffuri, 'Gentile da Montefiore(Gentilis de Monteflore)', DBI LIII, 167-170.

Georgius Benignus Salviati (Giorgio Benigno Salviati/Jurai Dragišic/Drobotech/Georgius Benignus de Macedonia, 1445-1520)

OFMConv. Bosnian friar. His family fled to Ragusa (Dubrovnik) to escape the Turks. He entered the Franciscan order, and studied in Italy, France (Paris) and England (Oxford). After he completed his studies, he taught at Pisa and subsequently at the Florence studium. There, he lived for c. 30 years in the S. Croce convent, lecturing on the Bible and at times serving as guardian. In Florence, he became acquainted with the intellectual circle around Lorenzo de Medici. He was one of the tutors of Pierro de Medici, and was so well-esteemed by the Florentine Salviati family that they gave him their name. In the early sixteenth century, after a stint as a provincial minister, Giorgio Benigno returned to Ragusa, to teach philosophy and theology. In 1507, Pope Julius II made him bishop of Cagli (Umbria), in which capacity he took part in the fifth Lateran council. In 1513, Leo X appointed him titular archbishop of Nazareth (residing in Barletta). Benigno was part of the commission that examined the Augenspiegel of Reuchlin, and composed in 1515 a short dialogue in defense of Reuchlin, which subsequently was printed with a dedication to Emperor Maximilian I. Benigno also wrote a study on the nature of angels.

works

Liber de Arcanis Dei/De summa Dei libertate atque immutabilitate: MS Rome, BAV, Vat.lat. 9402 (15th cent.) ff. 157-197v [Etzkorn, Iter Vaticanum Franciscanum, 230-232]. The Liber de Arcanis Dei was edited under the name of Bessarion. See: Cardinal Bessarion, De Arcanis Dei: Card. Bessarion Eiusque Socii Anno 1471 Disputantes: Card. Franciscus de la Rovere OFMConv, Joannes Gattus OP, Fernandus de Cordoba Et Joannes Foxal OFMConv, Secretarius: Georgius Benignus Salviati OFMConv, ed. G.J. Etzkorn & S.F. Brown, Miscellanea Franciscana: I Maestri Francescani, 8 (Rome: Pontificia Facoltà Teologica San Bonaventura, 1997). [With thanks to Prof. Dr. Chris Schabel for this reference. See also the discussion/contextualisation of this work (and the complexity of its authorship, as it can probably best be seen as a collective effort by Bessarion Francesco Della Rovere, Ferdinand de Cordoba, John Foxal, John Gattus, Giorgio Benigno Salviati) in the thesis of Joost van den Oever on Bessarion and Trapezuntios defended in 2022 at Radboud University Nijmegen]

Dialogus de Libertate et Immutabilitate Dei ad Bessarionem: MS Rome BAV, Vat.lat. 1056. This work, which includes Bessarion’s coat of arms, was possibly part of the cardinal’s Latin library.

De Reformatione Calendarii ad Leonem X: MS Rome BAV, Vat.lat. 8226.

Federicus de Anima Regni Principe: MS Rome Urb. lat. 995.

De Assumptione B.V. Mariae: MS Milan, Ambros. A 30 sup.

Quaestiones Septem in Rhythmum Laurentii Medicis ad Leonem X: MS Florence, Laurenz. Cod. 18 membr. Plut. 83.

De Gratia: MS Florence Ricc. 317. [inc: Georgii Benigni Fratris Seraphicae Religionis ad virum magnanimum Laurentium Petri Cosmi patris patriae in Opus septem quaestionum ab ipso propositarym prohemium incipit]

Contemplationes Vexilli Christianae Fidei: MS Milan, Cappuccini 16 [59]; Vindob. 4797;

Contemplationes de B.V. Maria: MS Brussels Royal Library 10783.

Liber de raptis (written shortly after 1512)?

Apologeticon ad Julium II: MS Magl. XXX 215 [is this the Apologia pro Francisco Maria de Ruvere Julii II. nepote anno 1511. super Cardinalis Alidosii nece?]

Conciones per annum & Orationes variae: MS ?

Epistolae: MS ?

Poemata: MS ?

Defensio Praestantissimi Viri Johannis Reuchlin (Cologne, 1517) [Giorgio Benigno Salviati]

De Natura Caelestium Spiritum Quos Angelos Vocamus (Florence: Bartolomeo di Libri, 1499). [Giorgio Benigno Salviati, GW 3843]

Oratio Funebris pro Junio Georgio patritio Rhagusino in aede Divi Francisci XIII . Kal. Mart MCCCCLXXXXVIIII (1498). [GW 3844]

Propheticae Solutiones pro Hieronymo Savonarola Ord. Praedicatorum (...) Dialogum Apologeticum ad Ubertinum Ridsaliti (Florence: Lorenzo Margato, 1497) [GW 3845]

An Judaeorum Libri quos Thalmud Appellant Sint Potius Supprimendi quam Tenendi et Conservandi (Florence, 1518).

Dialectica Nova (Florence/Rome, 1489) [GW 3841]

Mirabilia LXXVII in Opusculo Nicolai de Mirabilibus (Florence, c. 1489)/Georgius Benignus de Salviatis Ordinis Minorum sacrae Theologiae professor ad magnanimum Laurentium Medicem septem et septuaginta in Opusculo Magistri Nicolai de Mirabilibus reperta Mirabilia prasenti opere adnotavit (Florence, 1489) [GW 3842]

Commentarii n 4. Libros Sententiarum (1512)?

literature

L. Wadding, Annales Minorum (Rome, 1734) IX, >>; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1650), 145; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 15; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 303-304 [including a letter of Giorgio Benigno with information about his life], 303; Ludwig Geiger, Johann Reuchlin (Leipzig, 1871/1964), 400-404; J. Mansi, S. Conciliorum Amplissima Collectio (Paris, 1902) XXXV, 679; C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica (1913) III, 72, 272; P.O. Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum (1937), II, 350-351; Cesare Vasoli, ‘Notizie su Giorgio benigno Salviati (Jurai Dragisic)’, Studi storici in onore di Gabriele Pepe (Bari, 1970); Nova et Vetera, 26 (1976), 3-27; Cesare Vasoli, 'Un commento scotista a un sonetto del Magnifico: l'Opus septem quaestionum di Giorgio Benigno Salviati', in: Tradizione classica e letteratura umanistica: Festschrift per Alessandro Perosa, ed. Roberto Cardini et al. (Rome, 1985), 533-575; Cesare Vasoli, 'Giorgio Benigno Salviati e la tensione profetica di fine '400', Rinascimento Ser. 2, 29 (1989), 53-78; Gian Carlo Garfagnini, 'Giorgio Benigno Salviati e Girolamo Savonarola. Note per una lettura delle Propheticae solutiones', Rinascimento Ser. 2, 29 (1989), 81-123; Thomas B. Deutscher, ‘Giorgio Benigno Salviati’, in: Contemporaries of Erasmus, A Biographical Register I, 123; E. Von Erdmann-Pandzic, `Jurai Dragišic (1445-1520) y los judíos. Sobre el V centenario de la llegada de los judíos a Bosnia', Studia Croatica 33 (1992), 30-44; Chris Schabel, DS, 6 (1995), pp. 405-409; B. Stjepan Pandzic, Bosna Argentina. Studien zur Geschichte des Franziskanerordens in Bosnien und der Herzegowina (Kölm-Weimar-Wien, 1995), 149-173; Hans Peterse, Jacobus Hoogstraaten gegen Johannes Reuchlin. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Antijüdaismus im 16. Jahrhundert, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 165 (Mainz, 1995), passim; Loredana Lunetta, 'La figura del profeta in Angelo da Vallombrosa, Girolamo Savonarola e Giorgio Benigno Salviati', in: Studi savonaroliani: Verso il V centenario; Atti del primo seminario di studi; Firenze, 14-15 gennaio 1995, ed. Gian Carlo Garfagnini (Florence, 1996), 85-92; C. Vasoli, ‘Un caso di uso politico delle profezie: Juraj Dragisíc (Giorgio Benigno Salviati) e il suo ‘Apologeticon’ per Francesco Maria Della Rovere (1511)’, in: Idem, Civitas Mundi, 101-119; T.S. Centi, ‘Le ‘Propheticae solutiones’, pareri sulla profezia. Fra Giorgio Benigno Salviati’, in: Savonarola. Quaderni del quinto centenario 1498-1998, ed. Tito Sante Centi & Alberto Viganò (Bologna, 1998), 43-48; Cesare Vasoli, 'Giorgio Benigno Salviati (Juraj Dragišic'): un teologo tra i Montefeltro e i Della Rovere', in: Lo stato e 'l valore. I Montefeltro e i Della Rovere: Assensi e conflitti dell'Italia tra '400 e '600; atti del convegno, ed. Patrizia Castelli & Salvatore Geruzzi (Pisa, 2005), 93-120; Anna Morisi Guerra, ‘Escatologia e gioachimismo nel Quattrocento: Beato Amadeo, Benigno, Galatino’, in: Il ricordo del futuro. Gioacchino da Fiore e il gioachimismo attraverso la storia, ed. Fabio Troncarelli (Bari: Mario Adda Editore, 2006), 144-147; Amos Edelheit, ‘Human Will, Human Dignity, and Freedom: A study of Giorgio Benigno Salviati’s early discussion of the will, Urbino 1474-1482’, Vivarium 46 (2008), 82-114; Michele Lodone, 'Migraciones y expectativas mesiánicas. Giorgio Benigno Salviati, el monje Teodoro y Paolo Angelo en la Italia del Renacimiento', in: Visiones imperiales y profecía: Roma, España, Nuevo Mundo. ed. Stefania Pastore & Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid: Abada, 2018), 81-102; Gianmario Cattaneo, 'Defensio Bessarionis: Giorgio Benigno Salviati and the Concept of Authorship in Cardinal Bessarion's Circle', in: Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity: Problems of authority from classical antiquity to the renaissance, ed. Roberta Berardi, Martina Filosa & Davide Massimo (Berlin etc.: De Gruyter, 2021), 175-189.

Gregorius Boari de Marrara (Gregorio Boari/Antonio Boari/Gregorio da Marrara, 1745-1817)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Marrara (Ferrara region). Entered the order at the age of 18 or 19 in Cesena, taking the habit on 7 Mai 1764. Lector, preacher, guardian and provincial minister. Priest in the papal household of Pius VI and appointed bishop of Comacchio on 26 June 1797. Was only able to take possession of his diocese on 28 July 1799. In between he sojourned at the Certosa di Galluzzo (near Florence). He worked in his diocese until his death on 24 November 1817.

works

Discorso Eucaristico della provvidenza divina (Ferrara, 1787). Based on a sermon held in the parish church of Marrara on 15 June 1783.

Fermezza di animo a non avvilirsi nelle publiche generali calamità: considerazioni a conforto de'timorosi e degli afflitti (Rome, 1796/Ferrara, 1817).

Apostolica ossia Lettera pastorale cavata dalle Epistole dei SS. Apostoli, tradotta a modo di parafrasi per istruzione del suo popolo (Florence, 1797 [1799?]).

Del culto sacro e delle Chiese (Ferrara, 1805).

Trattenimenti al giovine Clero (Venice, 1810).

Gli Angeli santi: trattenimenti (Ferrara, 1809).

Giusta idea del Redentore Crocefisso (Ferrara, 1809).

Trattato sulla bestemmia (Ferrara, 1816).

literature

Bullarium OFMCap IX, 235, 257, 269; Elogio funebre alla memoria di Mons. Gregorio Boari (Ferrara, 1818); Giuseppe Maria Bozoli, Studi biografici di rinomati Italiani (Milan: Vincenzo Guglielmini, 1843), 77-79; Donato, Biblioteca della Provincia di Bologna, 307-311; 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), 24; Analecta OFMCap 7 (1891), 247, 279 (Diarium G. Boari episc. ab eo ipso exaratum); Lexicon Capuccinum, 232 (with additional references); Franco Cristelli, ‘Gregorio Boari, qui insituit an. 1797 devotionem ad Virginem, patronam civitatis aretinae] Arezzo e gli aretini’, Atti e memoria della Accademia Petrarca di lettere, arti e Scienze n.s. 66 (2004), 359-385.

Georgius Ambianensis (Georgius Ambianatus/Georges d'Amiens/Georges Godier, 1597-1661)

OFMCap. French friar. Member of the Parisian province. Theology professor and friar with classical literary interests, known for his works on Tertulian, and for his massive three-volume commentary on the letters of Paul. He died in 1661, when he was in his sixties

works

Tertullianvs redivivus, scholiis et observationibus illustratus. In quo utriusque iuris forma ad originem suam recensetur et avitæ pietatis amatoribus inquirendi norma præscribitur, 3 Vols. (Paris: Michel Soly, Matthieu Guillemot & Georges Josse, 1646-1650). For instance present in Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon (France), the library of Leiden University (The Netherlands) and in the library of the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). At least in part available on https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200332/ABO__2BZ155396709.html and also in part accessible via Google Books (creative search, does not always show up).

Trina Pauli Theologia positiva, moralis, mystica, seu omnigena in universas Apostoli Epistolas commentaria exegetica, tropologica, analogica, 3 Vols. (Paris: Veuve Denys Thierry, 1659-1664). A massive commentary on the letters of Paul. Present in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and in the library of Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). In any case the second volume is accessible via Google Books.

Disquisitio de corruptelis in doctrina sacra: excerpta ex commentarijs in Epistolas S. Pauli Aposto (Cologne: Arnoldus Eyben & Balthasar von Egmondt, 1677). Present in the University Library of Utrecht (The Netherlands).

Theologia Sanctorum Patrum in sex tomus in folio distributa Never finished and apparently kept in manuscript format in the Capuchin convent library in Paris after the death of the author.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 14-15; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 302-303; DTh.C. VI, 1230-1231; DSpir VI, 236-238.

Georgius Gelensis (Joris van Geel/Joris Gheel/Joris van Giel/Adriaan Willems, 1617-1652)

OFMCap. Belgian (Flemish) Capuchin friar from Oevel, near Geel (Antwerp region in the Duchy of Brabant). Son of Melchior Willems and Anne Thysmans. After he was ordained, he joined the Capuchins in 1642, changing his name Adriaan to Joris van Geel. He completed his noviciate in Louvain and professed in 1642. Shortly thereafter, he became a missionary for Congo, departing in 1651. After some initial difficulties, he took up a position in the missionary station of Mbanza Matari near the Angolian border. When a transfer to the Mbata region came through, Joris went on his way, but incautiously acted against some non-Christian statues at Ulolo. The local population attacked him with sticks and stones. He succumbed to his wounds at Ngongo-Mbata several days later on 7 or 8 December 1652. His beatification process started in 1936. We have of his hand a copy of the oldest Kikongo-Spanish-Latin dictionary, which itself is probably the product of M. Roboredo and Bonaventura da Sardegna (Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum et Congense, ad usum missionarioum transmittendorum ad regni Congi missione). He also copied a confession manual in the Kigongo language

works

Kikongo-Spanish-Latin dictionary, which itself is probably the product of M. Roboredo and Bonaventura da Sardegna (Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum et Congense, ad usum missionarioum transmittendorum ad regni Congi missione).

Confession manual in the Kigongo language

literature

P. Hildebrand, Le martyr Georges de Geel et les débuts de la mission du Congo (1645-1652) (Antwerp, 1940); J. Boon, Joris van Geel, een vlaamsch martelaar in het oud koninkrijk Kongo (1617-1652) (Tielt, 1946);  P. Hildebrand, ‘La question de la béatification de G. de Geel’, Bulletin de l’Union missionaire du clergé 27 (1947), 93-102; J. Cuvelier, ‘Willems (Adrien)’, Biographie coloniale belge I (Brussels, 1948), 969-972; F. Leite de Faria, ‘Glorioso tricentenario. O capuchino Jorge de Geel morto pela fe em terras de Congo’, Portugal em Africa 56 (1953), 69-86; LexCap. 678-679; J. Pirotte, ‘Georges de Geel’, DHGE XX, 621 (with additional bibliographical references).

Georgius Ecker (Georg Ecker, d. 1598)

OFM. German friar and member of the Upper Germany province. Preacher and guardian in Freiburg i.Breisgau. Also linked to the Tirol province?

works

Auff des gottlosen, untüchtigen Schandmauls und Ehrnschänders D. Lucas Osianders ferner vorlogene Beweisung, damit er abermals den ehrnvesten, hochgelehrten Herrn D. Joannem Pistorium Nidanum, (...), mit seiner teuffelischen Federn wider all Gewissen und Erbarkeit zu schänden begert, wahrhaffte bestendige Antwort, geschrieben durch (...) F. Georgium Eckern, Barfüsser Ordens und Predigern im Barfüsser Kloster zu Freyburg (Cologne: Quentel, 1590).

Auff des Schandmauls D. Lucas Osianders, Hoffpredigers zu Studgardt, letztes unsinniges Eselsgeschrey, darinnen ehr den (...) Herrn Johannem Pistorium Nidanum (...), und dann Fratrum Georgium Eckern Franciscani Ordinis sacerdotem ferners gern ohnverschambter närrischer Weiß Iniurien und sich abermals mit bachantischer retorsione retorsionis nulliter salviren wöllen etc (...) (Fribourg (Freiburg im Üechtland): Gemperlin, 1591).

Ein schöner Alcoranischer Nessel Krantz auß den köstlichen und übertrefflichen, nicht Tischreden, sondern fürnemen Operibus unnd Büchern des vil seelverlürstigen, auch deßhalben tewren Manns und außgesprungenen Mönchs Martini Lutheri etc., für ein Meßkram zusammen in unterschiedenen Azoaras gebunden unnd auff des gottlosen Lucas Osianders, (...), unsinnig alcoranischen Haupt zu Außziehung seiner ehrrührigen, lugenhaffter Dämpf auffgesetzt etc. (...), F. Georgius Ecker, Barfüsser Ordens, Prediger zu Freyburg in Breißgau (Fribourg (Freiburg im Üechtland): Gemperlin, 1591).

Extract, Außzug und Summirung der Indulgents oder Ablaß, so von etlichen H. Bapsten gnädigst verlihen allen denen, so die Kirchen und Cappellen deß Ordens des H. Francisci auf gewiße heilige Fest und andere Täg des Jahrs mit Andacht besuchen (...), in Druck gegeben durch F. Georgium Ecker, Guardian des Barfüßer Closters zu Freyburg in Breißgaw (Freiburg i.Br.: Böckler, 1596).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 27-28. [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]

Georgius Felix Menz (Giorgio da Bolzano/Georg Felix Menz/Georg von Bozen, 1700-1759)

OFMCap. Austrian friar from Bozen (Bolzano). Also active as parish priest and rural & urban missionary.

literature

Agapit Hohenegger, Geschichte der tirolischen kapuziner-ordens-provinz (1593-1893), 510, 708; Karin Marti-Weissenbach, ‘Menz, Georg Felix (da Bolzano, 1700-1759), Dizzionario Hist. Della Svizzera 8 (2009), 329; Karin Marti-Weissenbach, ‘Menz, Georg Felix von, de Bozen, cap. (1700-1759)’, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz 8 (2009), 460.

Georgius Koenig (Georg König/Johann Georg König, 1664-1736)

OFM. German friar. Born in Solothurn on 27 April 1664. He joined the Franciscans at the age of 18, adopting the name Georgius, and became a member of the Überlingen friary. He made his solemn profession in 1683 and studied philosophy and theology in Konstanz and Überlingen, reaching the magisterium. After the completion of his studies and his priest ordination, he became a member of the Solothurn friary. Between 1693 and 1697, he travelled for nearly four years through Italy and France, visiting for instance the friaries of Assisi, Arles and Gary. After his return to Switzerland, he joined the Werthenstein friary and subsequently taught as professor of rhetorics in Thann (Alsace region). In December 1703, he was made court chaplain in the service of the French legate of Solothurn, maintaining this position until 1717, first for the French legate Marquis de Pusieux, and after his removal for Count Charles du Luc. As chaplain of the latter, Georg König travelled between 1715 and 1717 with the Count to the court of Charles VI in Vienna. They arrived in Vienna after a journey of three weeks on 12 July 1715, living in the Summer residence of the Engelskirchner family until his departure on 12 February 1717, when Count du Luc, who had fallen ill, was relieved from office. In his later years Georg was guardian of the Thann friary and in several other German Franciscan settlements. As custos custodum (a title received in 1730), he took part in the Franciscan general chapter of Rome in 1731. He died on 21 April 1736 at Solothurn, at the age of 72. Aside from two travel journals, he left behind sermons, as well as German translation of Latin, French and Italian edificatory texts.

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Wienerische Reiss-Beschreibung: Solothurn, Franziskanerkloster MS 32; Vienna, Stadsbibliothek MS 22345A. This work contains many details about the life at the court and in the city of Vienna during the early 18th century, including information about the many courtly festivities and hunting parties. The work also contains notices about the reminiscences of Vienna citizens concerning the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683. A partial edition of the Wienerische Reiss-Beschreibung in the study of Jacob Baechtold and Walter Sturminger mentioned in the literature section.

literature

Jacob Baechtold, Der Minorit Georg König von Solothurn und seine Reisebeschreibungen, nebst einem Überblick über den Anteil Solothurns an der deutschen Literatur, Solothurner Schulprogramm (Solothurn, 1874); Friedrich Ratzel, 'König, Johann Georg, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 16 (1882), 516 [Online-Version: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd136126065.html#adbcontent ]; Walter Sturminger, 'Der Minorit Georg König und die Belagerung Wiens durch die Türken im Jahre 1683', Jahrbuch für Landeskunde von Niederösterreich, Neue Folge 38 (1968-1970), 344-351 [Online-Version: https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Jb-Landeskde-Niederoesterreich_38_0344-0351.pdf ]
With thanks to dr. Sander Govaerts

Georgius Le Bailli (Georges Le Bailli, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Counselor of Samuel de Champlain. He returned to France in August 1621, to seek out the King on colonial matters. He obtained from Louis XIII that the Protestant cult was forbidden in Quebec and that permission was given and funds were made available for a seminary for indigenous candidates. George Bailli stayed on in France at the request of the vice-roy of Nouvelle-France, to act as representative for French recollect missionaries and others wanting to work in the New World (also facilitated as such the arrival of Jesuits). Author?

literature

G. Sagard, Histoire du Canada, ed. E. Tross (Paris, 1866) I, passim; O.M. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada: l’établissement de la foi, 1615-29 (Québec, 1915); H. Lemay, ‘L’œuvre manuscrite ou imprimée des récollets de la mission du Canada’, Royal Society of Canada Transactions, 3rd ser. 30 (1936), 115-126; Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto, 1966) I, 433; DHGE XXX, 1319.

Georgius Martialis de Ponzano (Giorgio Marziale di Ponzano/Giorgio Marziali da Ponzano, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Member of the Romana province. Fulfilled several administrative charges (for instance in 1650 he is found as guardian of the Santa Maria del Giglio friary of Bolsena, and in 1657 he is appoinyed provincial definitor, also as a remuneration for his courageous care of plague victims), and also became active as a religious architect, who coordinated and collaborated on renovations of several large palaces and churches, including the restauration and enlargement of the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo, commissioned to Bernini, with Giorgio Marziale as a director of the actual works.

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Architectonic designs and documents. See especially the 2010 article by Alberto Crielesi.

literature

Alberto Crielesi, ‘Fra Giorgio Marziale di Ponzano’, in: Atti del Convegno Ponzano di Fermo, 19 luglio 1998 (Ponzano di Fermo, Sala Consiliare, 1998), 20-33; Alberto Crielesi, 'Fra Giorgio Marziali da Ponzano, architetto e "direttore delle Fabriche" berniniane', Strenna dei Romanisti 71 (2010), 211-230 [accessible via Academia.edu]; Check also https://www.fermomia.it/pi-3e.html

Geraldus de Buxo (Gerardus Valetus?, fl. 14th cent.)

OM. French (Occitan) Friar from the Avignon custody, who is mentioned in a library cathalogue of the Avignon papacy (Lumina vel Promptuarium sive Concordancie fratris Geraldi de Buxo). According to Servus Gieben, he is the author of the Correctiones Bibliae found in MS Toulouse Bibl. Municipale 61, Gieben identifies this friar with Gerardus Valetus, who is known to have been provincial minister of the Provence province in the early fourteenth century, and was infamous for his severe treatment of friars with spiritual leanings. His disciplinary actions against the spirituals created so much antagonism (cf. a document from May 1316 edited in Ehrle’s Archiv 2 (1888), 160, 163), that Pope Clement V ordered him (with 15 other Franciscans) to appear at the council of Vienne and stripped him of his office ‘pro bono pacis’ (cf. Bullarium Franciscanum V (Rome, 1898), 89 (no. 203)). According to Petrus Berchorius, Gerardus Valetus wrote the Magne Concordancie (one of the main sources for Berchorius’ own Repertorium Morale). If Gieben’s identification holds true, then the Correctiones Biblie and the Magne Concordancie are one and the same work.

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Magne Concordancie/Correctiones Bibliae/Lumina vel Promptuarium: MS Toulouse Bibl. Munic. 61

literature

Histoire Littéraire de la France 36 (18>>), 611-614; Fr. Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte 2 (1888), 160-164; S. Gieben, Vivarium 6 (1968), 62-68;

Georgius Salinas (Georgius Sabinus Taurinensis/Giorgio Salino, fl. ca. 1600)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Piemonte, possibly born in Turin.

works

Compendio della vita del B. Valerico (1601).

literature

Wadding-De Cerreto, Annales Minorum XXIV (ed. 1860), 30; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 16: Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 306; Dizionario corografico degli Stati Sardi di Terraferma sistematicamente suddiviso secondo lattuale partizione politica d'ogni singolo stato Italiano compilato da paregghi dotti Italiani II (1854), 1225.

Gerardus Ansaldus (Gherardo Ansaldi da Paternò, alias Antonio (Soldani) Ansaldi, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Palermo, Sicily. Born in 1654. He joined the Conventual Franciscans. He completed his studies at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1683. Gerardo was active as a Lenten preaching and in addition devoted himself to rhetorical refinement and poety, founded himself the Academia de'Raminghi in the San Valentino friary, and was also the member of several other literary academies, such as the Accademia delli Insecondi in Rome. He died on 4 November 1692. He published several of his works under the alias Antonio Soldani Ansaldi.

works

La vita di S. Bruno, Vescovo di Segni.

Sermoni,panegirici, Quaresimale.

L'innocenza vindicata, Azione Regi-Comica (Rome: Angelo Barnabò, 1682). under the name Antonio Soldani.

I sogni d'Euterpe di Antonio Ansaldi Paternese Accademico Infecondo di Roma. Saggio Primo (Trapani: appresso Giuseppe la Barbera, 1684).

I sogni d'Euterpe, saggio secondo. Never published?

Il Trionfo della Costanza spiegato nel Martirio de S. Lorenzo, Dialogo (Trapani: appresso Giuseppe la Barbera, 1685).

Chi non sa fingere non sa vivere (Cremona: Paolo Bisagni, 1688). False ascription? This play might be the work of Giovanni Battista Ricciardi, who was not a Franciscan friar.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 281; Antonino Mongitore, Bibliotheca Sicula sive de scriptoribus siculis (Palermo, Didaco Bua, 1708) I, 255-256; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 16; Gli scrittori d'Italia cioe notizie storiche, e critiche intorno alle vite, e agli scritti dei letterati Italiani del conte Giammaria Mazuchelli Bresciano, Volume I, Parte II (Brescia: Giambattista Bossini, 1753), 819-820; Fortsetzung und Ergänzungen zur Christian Gottlieb Joëchers allgemeinem Gelehrten-Lexicon, Erster Band: A und B, ed. Johann Christoph Adelung (Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Handlung, 1784), 903.

Gerardus de Borgo San Donnino (d. 1278?)

OM. Italian friar. Born in Borgo San Donnino (near Parma). According to Salimbene, he travelled at an early age to Sicily, where he taught grammar before entering the order. In 1247, the provincial minister Matthew of Piazza sent him to France to follow a four-year lectorate course. By that time, Gerard would already have had strong Joachite inclinations. Between December 1247 and February 1248, Gerard was in the convent of Provins, where he apparently became acquainted with the Pseudo-Joachite Expositio super Hieremiam Prophetam. After a short stay in Sens (February-March, 1248), he arrived in Paris, where, according to Salimbene, he would have followed a four-year lectorate course, part of which he would have fulfilled under the Parisian lectorate of Bonaventure (who had absolved his academic obligations but was not able to become regent master, due to problems with the secular masters. A slightly different biography is given by Angelo Clareno, who maintains that Gerard took part in a missionary journey with the minister general John of Parma). Early 1252, Gerard received his testimonium, and was promoted to the lectorate. Two years later, at a time when the secular masters of Paris University were seeking materials to discredit the mendicants, Gerard published without permission of his order superiors his Liber Introductorius in Evangelium Aeternum, followed by an edition of the Joachite Concordantia Novi et Veteris Testamenti, interspersed with personal observations. Gerard’s writings caused an outcry among the Parisian academic community and brought great discomfort to the Franciscan order. The Parisian secular masters concocted an extract of Gerard works, which they sent to the Pope for official condemnation. The newly elected Pope Alexander IV appointed a committee to examine the matter. This commitee, which met at Anagni, condemned Gerard’s errors, after which the Pope, in a letter written on 23 October 1255 (Libellum quemdam), ordered the Liber Introductorius, as well as the extracts made by the secular masters to be destroyed (on May 8, 1256, the Pope had to re-iterate this order, as the secular masters and the Parisian bishop, who had to carry out the destruction, apparently dallied; probably hoping to get more out of the affair). In the mean time, the order took its own measures, not in the least to safeguard its reputation of orthodoxy. Gerard was put in confinement and stripped of his lectorate and clerical privileges. When Gerard refused to show contrition and did not want to renounce his extremist joachite ideas before a committee headed by Bonaventure (then, since a year, minister general of the order) in September 1258, he was excommunicated and spent the rest of his life imprisoned, without access to books, and the right of confession. According to Salimbene, he died 18 years later as an obstinate heretic.

works

The works of Gerard have been destroyed, but several extracts have survived. These have been edited in: H. Denifle (ed.), Protocoll der Commission zu Anagni. in: Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters, 1 (1885), 99-142; E. Benz, `Die Excerptsätze der Pariser Professoren aus dem Evangelium aeternum.' Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 51 (1932), 415-455; B. Töpfer, `Eine Handschrift des Evangelium aeternum des Gerardino von Borgo San Donnino', Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 8 (1960), 156-163. One owner of the Agnani condemnations of the Evangelium Aeternum was the anti-mendicant dean of St. Paul’s, Richard Kilvington. See on him and joachite and anti-mendicant controversies in England in the later Middle ages Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), esp. chapter three.

literature

Salimbene de Adam, Chronica, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII, 236-238, 455-458; Angelo Clareno, Chronicon, ed. A. Ghinato (Rome, 1959), 103-104, 125-126; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 306; H. Denifle, `Das Evangelium aeternum und die Commission zu Anagni', Archiv für Literatur-und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters, 1 (1885), 49-142; E. Benz, `Die Excerptsätze der Pariser Professoren aus dem Evangelium aeternum.' Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 51 (1932), 415-455; P. Cassi, Aurea Parma, 19 (1935), fasc. 3; R. Ferrari, Fr Gherardo da Fidenze (Parma, 1950); Stegmüller, RB. IX. no. 2456; B. Töpfer, `Eine Handschrift des Evangelium aeternum des Gerardino von Borgo San Donnino', Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 8 (1960), 156-163; Y.M.-J. Congar, `Aspects ecclésiologiques de la querelle entre mendiants et séculiers dans la seconde moitié du xiiie siècle et le début du xive', Archives d'histoire littéraire du moyen âge, 36 (1961), 35-151; I. da Milano, `L'incendio e scatologico nel riformismo dell'ordine francescana', Atti del III Conv. Di Todi (Todi, 1962), 82-377; M.-M. Dufeil, Guillaume de Saint-Amour et la polémique universitaire parisienne 1250-1259 (Paris, 1972), 123-127, 166-168, 172-174; Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy, 60-62, 187-190; F. Rotolo, ‘San Bonaventura e fra Gerardo da Borgo San Donnino. Riflessi del Gioachimismo in Sicilia’, in: 'O Theologos. Cultura Cristiana di Sicilia, 2 (1975), 263-297; F. Simoni Balis-Crema, `Gioacchimismo e responsabilità escatologica', in: Atti del III Convegno Internazionale Assisi, 16-18 ottobre 1975 (Assisi, 1976), 168-171; Dieter Berg, ‘Gerhard von Borgo San Donnino, OFM († ca. 1276)’, Lexikon des Mittelalters IV (1989), 1316; Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz, ‘Gerhard v. Borgo San Donnino, Franziskaner († um 1276)', in: Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon II (1990), 214; David Burr, Olivi's Peacable Kingdom, >>>; David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans, passim; Carlo Fornari, Frati, antipapi ed eretici parmensi: protagonisti delle lotte religiose medievali; Cadalo, Guiberto dei Guiberti, Giovanni Buralli, Gerardo da Borgo San Donnino, Ghirardino Segalello, fra Salimbene de Adam (Parma, 1994); R.Orioli, ‘Gerardo da Borgo San Donnino’, DBI LIII, 354-358; Louis Duval-Arnould, ‘Gerard of Borgo San Donnino († 1276/1277)’, in: Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages I (2000), 597; Fabio Troncarelli, ‘Due codici con note di Gerardo di Borgo San Donnino: Borgh. 190 e Dresden Säch. Bibl. A. 121’, Florensia 15 (2001),73-85; Roberto Lambertini, ‘Ende oder Vollendung. Interpretazioni eschatologiche del conflitto tra Scolari e Mendicanti alla metà del XIII secolo’, in: Ende und Vollendung: Eschatologische Perspektiven im Mittelalter, ed. Jan A. Aertsen & Martin Pickavé, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 29 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002), 250-261. [analysis of the works of Gerardo da Borgo San Donnino, Guillaume de St. Amour & Gerard d’Abbéville];

Marina Nardone, La persuasione dolce: La tradizione del gioachimismo nella cronachistica francescana tra XIII e XIV secolo, PhD Diss. Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Naples, s.a.), 85-97.

Gerardus de Briançon (Gerardus Briansonis/Gerard de Briançon/Guido Briansonis/Guy de Briançon, fl. second half 15th cent.)

OFMConv. French (Aquitanian) friar. Studied theology at Paris and became master of theology there in the Scotist tradition. Lector at the Toulouse convent. Also active in the convents of Arles and Orleans. Might have been imprisoned, together with Jacques d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, on charges of astrology (1477; cf. Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes 43 (1882), 597, no. 2). According to old bibliographical guides, Gerardus/Guido produced a Commentarius in I-IV Sent. ad Mentem Scoti, a Quartum Collectarium Sacrae Scripturae ex Dictis Doctorum (finished on 22 January 1485), a commentary on the seven penitential psalms, a Commentarius in Dionysium Areopagitam de Coelesti Hierarchia, and possibly several other works. Of these, only his Sentences commentary on Book IV seems to have survived. He is known for his criticism of indulgence practices, and was rather influencial in his teaching on the sacraments.

works

In septem Psalmos poenitentiales: MS ?

In Dionysium Areopagitam de Coelesti Hierarchia: MS ?

Collectarium super quartum Sententiarum/Guido Briansonis super quartum sententiarum. Eximii Parrhisiensis achademie doctoris theologi Guidonis Briansonis ordinis fratrum minorum provincie aquitane conventus aurelhaci In quartum sententiarum magistri Petri Lombardi aureum opus. In quo quasi sedula apis, et arbitrarius iudex Johannis Scoti ceterorumque doctorum mellifluos et electes flores mira ingenii solertia velut in strophium distincte luculenterque compegit. Quod propterea collectarium congruo rei nomine voluit appellari (Lyon: Simon Vincent pro Stephanum Boland, 1512/Paris: Stephan Balant, 1512 & 1517). The 1512 edition is present in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and is also accessible via Google Books.

literature

Petrus Ridolfi de Tossignano, Historiarum Seraphicae Religionis Libri III (Venice, 1586) III, 319; Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Quaracchi, 1933) XIV, 281; Wadding, Scriptores, 99; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 16; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 306 & (ed. 1908) I, 334; Sigismund de Venetia, Biografia Serafica (Venice, 1846), 262; P. Féret, La faculté de théologie de Paris. Moyen Âge (Paris, 1897) IV, 322; N. Paulus, Geschichte des Ablasses im Mittelalter III, 67; E. Wegerich, `Bio-bibliographische Notizen über Franziskanerlehrer des 15. Jahrhunderts', Franziskanische Studien, 29 (1942), 156-157; U. Chevalier, Bio-bibliographia I, 1730; Willibrord van Dijk, ‘Guy de Briançon’, DSpir VI, 1302.

Gerardus de Gouda (Gherit vander Gouden/Gerard van Gouda/Gerardus Tergouw, d. 1513)

OMObs. Dutch friar. Born in Gouda. Became friar in Boetendael (Cologne province, presence attested for 1500 and 1510). At times back in Gouda (a.o. 1506). Died in Brühl, near Cologne, either on the 27th of November or on the 10th of December, 1514 . Prolific popularizing theological author. Famous for his Boexken vander Missen. He published this work during a preaching sejourn in Gouda (1506). The Boexken explains the Mass to lay people. It is divided in three parts or books, each of which contains 33 chapters or articles (corresponding with Christ’s years on earth. The first book gives a series of explanations about the mass (the meaning of the word, a short overview of the history of the mass etc.) The second book gives guidelines on how to follow the mass in a fruitful fashion, creating allegorical correspondences between the parts of the Mass and pivotal moments in the life of Christ The third booklet deals with communion and the proper preparation for it (esp. confession). Throughout the second part of the work, the author presents 33 pivotal moments of the mass in woodcuttings. Each of these moments and depictions is complemented with a woodcutting depicting a moment from the life of Christ. Thus, even the illiterate, as the author says, ‘so mach hi devoteliken overdencken dat leven ons heren ende lesen op elcken artikel een Pater noster ende Ave Maria.’ The modern editor of the text, L. Mees, remarks that the second part of Gerard’s Boexken is dependent on the Biga Salutis (a sermon collection on the Eucharist and the Mass) of an anonymus Hungarian Franciscan friar (Anonymus Hungarus/Michael de Hungaria?). Like the author of the Biga Salutis, Gerard allegorises parts of the life of Christ to explain the Mass for all. The work of Gerard also stands in a tradition of late medieval mass explications.

works

Boexken van der missen (an explication of the Mass for the ordinary Believers. At least 24 editions since it came out: a.o. Gouda: Collaciebroders, 1506/Antwerp: Adriaen van Berghen, 1507/Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1508/Antwerp: Hendrick Eckert van Homberch, 1510/Antwerp: Hendrick Eckert van Homberch, 1511/Antwerp: Hendrick Eckert van Homberch, 1512). For more info on the old editions, see the studies of Benjamin de Troeyer. The 1512 edition is accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library and via Google Books. A modern edition appeared as: Mees, Dat boexken vander missen door broeder Gherit vander Gouden, minderbroeder vander observanten, ed. L. Mees, 2 Vols (Louvain, 1946). It stands in a long tradition of inspirational works on the mass, meant to offer the laity guidance concerning its reaction to the priest’s performance of the liturgical acts, with complementary prayers and devotionsas counterpoint to the order of the mass itself

Libellus de Missa Devotissimus (Latin reworking) (Gouda, 1512?). There also exist French translations (a.o. L’interpretation et signification de la messe, Antwerp, 1529 & 1538) as well as English ones (London, 1532 & 1903).

Libellus Stationum Conventus Bootendalensis: MS St.-Truiden Archive OFM., Mc Boet, 139-149.

literature

L. Mees, Dat boexken vander missen door broeder Gherit vander Gouden, minderbroeder vander observanten, 2 Vols (Louvain, 1946); L. Mees, Franciscana 5 (1950), 27-31; L. Mees, ‘Het ‘Boexken vander Missen’ van Gherit vander Goude (1506)’, Franciscana 10 (1955), 93-100, Franciscana 11 (1956), 1-16, 51-58;; Idem, `Franciscaanse leermeesters en voorbeelden. Gherit vander Goude,...', Alter Christus, 14 (1959), 148-97; L. Mees, `A Newly Discovered Edition of Gerit vander Goude's `Boexken vander missen'', Quaerendo, 6 (1976), 64-65; B. de Troeyer, Franciscana, 20 (1965), 6-13; B. de Troeyer, Bio-bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica, Saeculi XVI, I (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 7-13; II (Nieuwkoop, 1970), 105-115.

Gerardus de Huy (Gérard de Huy/Gerard van Hoei, fl. later 13^th century)

OM. Belgian Franciscan biblical scholar and corrector, following the ideas of Roger Bacon. He corrected the Paris Vulgate text on the basis of older (predominantly Carolingian) texts.

works

Liber Triglossos (work on the three biblical languages): MS Paris, Arsenal 904 ff. 25-103.

Correctorium: a.o. MS Vat.Lat. 4240

literature

G. Dahan, ‘La critique textuelle dans les correctoires de la Bible du XIIIe siècle’, in: Langages et philosophie. Hommage à Jean Jolivet, ed. A. de Liberia, A. Elamrani-Jamal & A. Galonnier (Paris, 1997), 365-392; G. Dahan, L’exégèse chrétienne de la Bible en Occident médiéval, XIIe-XIVe siècle, Patrimoines, christianisme (Paris: Les  Editions du Cerf, 1999), 184ff

Gerardus de Piscario (Géraud du Pescher, fl. 14th. century)

OM. French friar from Le Puy-Saint-Front de Périgueux. Respected theologian, preacher and canonist. According to the Liber Ostensor by Jean de Rocquetaillade (MS BAV Rossi 753 f. 16v), who lived with Géraud in the Toulouse friary in and after 1332, Géraud was born in the Le Puy Saint-Front quarter of Périgeux (de Petragoris, de Monte Sancti Frontonis), and was generally known to be a 'homo subtilior'. He was in pope John XXII's good books. The latter repeatedly asked Géraud's opinion on doctrinal matters (esp. on the visio beatifica question). Géraud received in a somewhat irregular manner the degree of magister theologiae in 1335 at the University of Toulouse (cf. Bullarium Franciscanum VI, 11, no. 14; CHUP II, 432), and therefore might have been the first 'magister bullatus from Toulouse. Afterwards lector at the Franiscan Toulouse studium. Géraud is an Important author. Several of these can be found in the possible autograph manuscript MS Paris BN Lat. 4367. His most famous work seems to have been his Ars faciendi sermones. Géraud had a great reputation as homiletic practitioner. A later version of the Legenda Aurea has an anecdote concerning Géraud in the context of a miracle confirming the immaculate conception of Mary (Legenda Aurea, ed. Th. Graesse (Breslau, 1899), 873; Cf. Delorme, Antonianum 19 (1944), 174). According to that story, Géraud initially denied the immaculate conception in a sermon, but then was confronted by an apparition of the Virgin while he was lifting up the sacrament during the Eucharist celebration, who reproached him with the following words: 'Qua fronte corpus de me sumptum sumere vis, frater inique, quam hodie tam verbis quam factis voluntarie maculasti.' Since then, Géraud was an ardent defender of the immaculate conception as well.

works

Quindigradum [not yet found versified abbreviation of his Sentences commentary, mentioned in the Lectura Decretalis ‘Cum Marthae’ (see below)]

Lectura Decretalis ‘Cum Marthae’ [Dedicated to Pope John XXII. Amounts to a series of lessons held in Toulouse on a letter of Pope Innocent III (from 29 nov. 1202; cf. Decretales Gregorii IX, lib. III tit. 41, c. 6, ed. Friedberg Vol. II, 636-640) regarding the celebration of Mass and the Eucharist]: MS Paris BN Lat. 4367 ff. 2-51; Bordeaux ff. 1r-73r.

Expositio super Quadripartitum Ioannis Papae: MS Paris BN Lat. 4367 ff. 52-82. [Four series of texts concerning questions raised by pope John XXII concerning the moment and the nature of the beatific vision. With the Franciscan minister general Guiral Ot as middleman, Géraud developed his own insights on these issues for the pope]

Impugnatio Theorematum Aegidii [attack on 50 positions in the Theoremata and De Gradibus Formarum by Aegidius Romanus]: MS Paris BN 4367 Lat. 82-87.

Digmaticum de Anima Separata a Corpore: MS Paris BN Lat. 4367 ff. 88-101v [Complementary to the Quardipartitum. Géraud developes in this Digmaticum his ideas on 33 additional positions developed by Pope John XXII]

Compendium Super Libros Dionysii Aeropagiti: MS Paris BN Lat. 4367 ff. 102-123v. [This work written in answer to a request by an unknown correspondent, who desired an explanation of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius. Géraud based his answer on the available translations of the works of Ps.-Dionysius

Expositio Decretalium (?): MS BAV, Vat.Lat. 3172

Ars Faciendi Sermones: MS Todi 57 ff. 220a-224d; Paris, BN Lat. 15965 ff. 135-141 (fragments: in fact the abbreviation made by Ascentius de S. Colomba). See the edition of F.M. Delorme on other manuscripts of Ascentius of S. Colomba's abbreviation/adaptation. According to his Ars, Géraud had also written a series of sermons according to the rules devised in the Ars. To my knowledge these sermons have not survived. The only sermon known to me is the one found in the Budapest University Library. The Preaching manual of Géraud also received modern editorial attention: Ars Faciendi Sermones, ed. F.M. Delorme, Antonianum 19 (1941), 180-198. Following this edition, the is divived in eight chapters. With exception of chapter seven, they are all rather short and to the point. Chapter seven is more elaborate, providing in twelve sections (capituli) specific techniques concerning the proper words and word combinations to be used by the preacher in order to preach effectively (see on this the article by David D'Avray).

Sermo: Budapest University Library MS 102 [cf. Studi Francescani 61 (1964), 367 no. 187] This sermon in the Budapest manuscript is edited incBernardinus Senensis, Opera Omnia II (Quaracchi, 1950), 372-381 [in Bernardino’s Quadragesimale de Religione Christiana].

literature

Ch.-V. Langlois, ‘Géraud du Pescher’, Histoire Littéraire de la France 36 (1927), 614-617; F.M. Delorme, ‘L‘‘Ars faciendi sermones’ de Géraud du Pescher’, Antonianum 19 (1944), 169-198; E. Delaruelle, Annales du Midi 65 (1953), 361, 363-365; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 117; DHGE, XX, 838-9; David L. D’ Avray, ‘The Wordlists in the Ars faciendi sermones of Geraldus de Piscario’, Franciscan Studies 38 (1978), 184-193; C. Delcorno, `L'`Ars praedicandi' di Bernardino…', in: Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, ed. D. Maffei & P. Nardi (Siena, 1982), esp. n. 18 & 44 (on the use of Gerardus's work by Bernardine of Siena); Bert Roest, “Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus’: The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition’, in: Franciscans and Preaching. Every Miracle from the Beginning of the World Came about through Words, ed. Timothy Johnson, The Medieval Franciscans, 7 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012), 396-399.

Gerardus de Prato (Gerardo da Prato, d. after 1283)

OM. Italian friar of Tuscan descent. Entered the Franciscan order, just like his brother Arlotto (the later min. Gen.). He received his preliminary theological immersion at the Pisa friary between 1241-43. There, Salimbene of Parma was a fellow student. (See on this Salimbene, Cronica, ed. Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII, 210, 311). Further studies (in all probability a lectorate course) followed at the Studium generale of Toulouse (1247; he was sent there together with friar Benedict de Colle). He received the title cathedralis magister, and became lector in his Tuscan home province. In the course of his lectorate appointments, he composed between 1252-1264 his Breviloquium super Quatuor Libros Sententiarum Magistri Petri Lombardi, which amounts to an abstract of the Summa Halensis and the Sentences commentary of Bonaventure. In 1264, when still a lector, he (together with Rainerius de Siena) was consigned by pope Urban IV to a mission to Constantinople, with as goal the unification of the churches of East and West. By 1270, he was back in Tuscany (cf. La Verna 11 (1913), 24-31), and in 1278 followed a departure (with four other friars) to the Mongol empire as ambassador, yet he never came further than the court of Illkhan Agabha. He returned to Italy in 1282, to become a socius of the min. Gen. Bonegratius (1283), and he was active (also as temporary replacement of the latter) at the provincial chapter where the writings of Olivi were evaluated (Avignon) on the basis of the Littera Septem Sigillorum. In his function as substitute minister general, Gerard wrote to the friaries of the Provence province to hand over to him all writings of Olivi.

works

Breviloquium super IVor Libros Sententiarum Magistri Petri Lombardi: MSS Florence, Naz. Conv. Suppr. A.3.1818 & II.IX.48 ff. 102-124; Naples Naz. VII.D.41 ff. 77-105v & VII.E.9 ff. 1r-29v.; Prato Bibl. Roncioniana 11, Q. II.26 (II) (14th cent.) ff. 2ra-27rb; Vat.Lat. 3159 ff. 1-69; Vat.Lat. 4272 (14th cent.) ff. 68r-86r [Etzkorn, 110]; Vat.Lat. 5062 ff. 1-24v; Vat. Reg. Lat. 430 ff. 36r-64v. The work was edited as: Il Breviloquium super Libros Sententiarum di Frate Gherardo da Prato, ed. (with lengthy commentary) M. da Civezza (Prato, 1882)

literature

Wadding, Annales IV an. 1264 (n. 2), V an. 1278 (n. 8-12) & an. 1283 (n. 8); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 307; Ehrle, ALKG 3 (1887), 423-9; AF III, 376; H.Boeckl, Die sieben Gaben des heiligen Geistes in ihrer Bedeutung für die Mystik nach der Theologie des 13. Und 14. Jahrhunderts (Freiburg i. Breisgau, 1931), 131-121; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), ..; Stegmüller, RS, n. 368,1; Golubovich, BBb, I, 193, 254-9; II, 426-8; DThC XII, 2790-2792; Enc. Catt. VI, 89-91; DHGE XX, 786-788; Anna Pegoretti, ‘‘Nelle scuole delli religiosi’: materiali per Santa Croce nell'età di Dante’, L'Allighieri. Rassegna dantesca n.s. 18:50 (July-December 2017), 5-56.

Gerardus de Spineto

OM? Possibly a French friar (or is there a confusion with a Cistercian monk from Clairvaux?)

works

Sermones de Sanctis, MS Toulouse 329 f. 21ra

literature

Schneyer, II, 184.

Gerardus de St. Trond (fl. second half 14th century)

OM. Belgian (Flemish) Franciscan friar, active in St. Trond. Poet and spiritual writer for the female religious of Mielen (one of whom was a sister in the flesh of Gerard). Gerard wrote for the sisters of Mielen in medieval Dutch a versified life of St. Lutgard of Tongeren and of St. Christina the Admirable, following closely the Latin vitae of Thomas of Cantimpre OP (AASS, June III, 134-62; June V, 650-60).

works

Het Leven van Sinte Lutgardis: MS Amsterdam Univ. Library, I.G.56. The work was edited as: Het Leven van Sinte Lutgardis, ed. J.H. Bormans, in: De Dietsche Warande voor de Nederlandse Oudheden en Nieuwere Kunst en Letteren 3 (Amsterdam, 1857), 37-67, 132-265, 285-322 & De Dietsche Warande 4 (1858), 155-170, 267-302. Also published as monograph edition: Het Leven van Sinte Lutgardis, ed. J.H. Bormans (Amsterdam, 1857).

Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare: MS Amsterdam Univ. Library, I.G.57. The work was edited as: Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare, in oud-dietsche rijmen, ed. J.H. Bormans (Ghent, 1850).

literature

J. Deschamps, Middelnederlandse handschriften uit Europese en Amerikaanse bibliotheken. Catalogus (Brussels, 1970), 66-68.

Gerardus Feuleti (Gérard Feuillet/Gerardus Feuleti de Salinis, fl. c. 1430)

OMConv. French friar. Studied in Paris under Lucas Franciscus of Assisi. Bachelor at Paris in 1425. He received the licence in theology in December 1429 [cf. reference in BN Lat. 5657a fol. 17v] and received his master degree on March 30, 1430. Regens in the same year Scotist in his teachings. Taught for instance to William of Vorillon. Involved with the 1431 trial of Jeanne d'Arc, helping to draft the articles of accusation and one of those participants who related the conclusions to the Duke of Bedford and the University of Paris. [cf. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/joanofarc-trial.asp and https://saint-joan-of-arc.com/bios.htm]

works

to be continued

literature

Stegmüller, Repertorium 141, no. 304; CHUP IV 500, no. 2351; J.Ch. Murphy, ‘A History of the Franciscan Studium Generale at the University of Paris in the Fifteenth Century’, Diss. U. of Notre Dame (Notre Dame Indiana, 1965), 130.

Gerardus Jaceanus (Gerardus de Jace/Gerard de Jauche, d. 1611)

OFM. Belgian friar from Jauche (Nivelle region). Guardian of the friaries of Brussels (1597-1600) and Antwerp (1600-1603, 1606-1609). Provincial minister of Franciscan Germania Inferioris province (13 November 1593-April 1597, October 1603-October 1606). For sometime afterwards, he was held captive by the Protestant Gueux. After his liberation, he died at Antwerp on 25 July 1611. Several administrative letters from 1597 adressed at Sasbout Vosmeer, apostolic vicar for the missio hollandica, still survive.

works

Epistolae, ed. D. van Heel, in: Neerlandica Seraphica 6 (1932), 39-46. Accounts of the missionary situation and practical issues related to the missio hollandica.

literature

A. Sanderus, Chronographia sacra Brabantiae (The Hague, 1727), 207; S. Schoutens, Martyrologium Minoriticum Belgicum (Hoogstraten, 1902), 122; S. Schoutens, Geschiedenis van het voormalig minderbroederklooster van Antwerpen (1446-1797), 2^nd ed. (Antwerp, 1908).

Gerardus Odonis (Geraldus Odonis/Gerardus Oddonis/Gerard Ot/Guiral Ot, d. 1349)

OM. French friar. Born at Camboulit. Took the habit at the Figeac convent. Was sent through the Franciscan educational system and did his theology degree studies in the 1320s. Taught at Paris and Toulouse (c. 1326). In 1329, he was elected minister general, after the removal from office of Michael of Cesena. He kept this office until 1342, at a time when the higher gremia of the order (and certainly the papacy) wanted stability and obedience. Gerardus was strongly on the side of John XXII and took severe action against the spiritual Franciscans and fringe fraticelli groups. Yet he also allowed obedient Franciscan rigorists, such as Giovanni della Valla and his companions, to follow their strict observation of the Franciscan rule in the Brogliano convent (1334, Foligno). Gerard Ot took part in the committee that was to formulate a final solution (the Benedictus Deus statement of 29 January 1336) to the Visio beatifica problem that had arisen under John XXII’s pontificate. He also took part in the committee that prepared new general constitutions that Benedict XII imposed on the Franciscan order in 1336, to which Gerard Ot added supplemental statutes on the 1337 general chapter of Cahors. In 1339-1340, Gerard was also active as papal ambassador to Hungary and Bosnia, in the context of the struggle against the Bogomiles. On 27 November 1342, Gerard was made patriarch of Antiochia and episcopal administrator of the Catania diocese. There he died of the plague in 1349. Gerard’s literary ‘Nachlaß’ consists of teaching texts, bibical commentaries and academic exercises (a.o. logical and ethical texts, Sentences commentaries, disputed questions etc. from his time as lector, bachelor etc. in the Franciscan school network), theological determinations, sermons, statutes, letters, and administrative texts (composed during his career as order administrator, member of various papal committees, and prelate of Catania). Many of these texts need further study and have not received a critical edition.

works

Tractatus de contractibus et restitutionibus et de sententia excommunicationis: Mss Cortona, Bibl. Com. 57, fol. 96ra-134vb (XV); Escorial, Bibl. Convento San Lorenzo, D. III. 12, fol. 1r-39v (XV); Siena, Bibl. Com. U.V.8, fol. 77r-110v (XV, the personal ms of Bernardinus Senensis); Troyes, Bibl. Mun. [Médiathèque] 1522, fol. 1r-33 (XIV). With thanks to dr. Sylvain Piron for these manuscript references. Following Piron & Ceccarelli (Gerald Odonis' Economics Treatise', Vivarium 47 (2009), 164-204) and Odd Langholm (Economics in the Medieval Schools), it would seem that the work was written at Toulouse around 1315, at an early stage in Guiral’s teaching career. It has significant links with the works of Scotus (Book IV, distinction 15 of the Ordinatio Oxoniensis) and also shows strong connections with Olivi's De Contractibus (Guiral possibly had access to a cache of confiscated manuscripts of Olivi's work at the provincial order archives in Aquitaine, collected after the condemnation of Olivi's works in 1299). The thirteenth question of the treatise has been edited in the 2009 Vivarium article of Piron & Ceccarelli.

Logical texts, including Logica: a.o. Madrid, Nac., 4229; Tractatus de Syllogismo: a.o. MS BAV, Vat.Lat. 3092 ff. 72vb-84vb; Tractatus de Suppositione: a.o. MS BAV, Vat.Lat. 3066 ff. 86ra-91va; Vat.Lat. 3092 (14th cent.) ff. 86ra-91va

Ethical texts, including Expositio super Ethicam: a.o. MS Assisi, Conv. 285. The latter work is also available in an incunable edition: Expositio super Ethicam (Brescia, 1482/Venice, 1500). See also Bonnie Kent, Aristotle and the Franciscans: Gerard Odonis’ Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, Phd. Diss. (Columbia University, 1984).

Tractatus de intentionibus, see: Giraldus Odonis, Opera Philosophica, Volume II: De Intentionibus, ed. with a study of the medieval intentionality debate up to ca. 1350 by L.M. de Rijk, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 86 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005). Cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 76,1-2 (2006), 370-372.

Quaestiones theologicae: a.o. MS Vat.Lat 3066 (14th cent.) ff. 10va-14rb [to be continued]

Quaestiones de Prescientia Dei. See: ‘‘Non aliter novit facienda quam facta’. Gerard Odonis’s Questions on Divine Foreknowledge’, ed. Chris Schabel, in: Chemins de la pensée médiévale. Études offertes à Zénon Kaluza, ed. Paul J.J.M. Bakker et al., Textes et Études de Moyen Âge, 20 (Louvain-la-Neuve: FIDEM – Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), 351-377.

Repetitiones in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum: Madrid, Nac. 65 [Castro, Madrid, no. 4] (1326)

In I-IV Sent.: a.o. MSS Sarnano E.98 (I & II); Pamplona, Cath. 5 (extracts from II); Naples, Naz. VII.B.25; Madrid, Univ. Libr. 65 [=In I Sent.] Cf. AFH 47 (1954), 117; Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública 57 (In IV Sent.). This Sentences commentary has not yet been edited in full. For editions of individual questions, see: G. Gál, ‘Geraldus Odonis on the Univocity of the Concept of Being’, Franciscan Studies 52 (1992), 23-51 [with an edition of In I. Sent., dist. 3, on the basis of Madrid Nac., 65 ff. 34vb-38rb]; Chris Schabel, ‘‘Non aliter novit facienda quam facto.’ Gerard Odonis’ Questions on Divine Foreknowledge’, in: Chemins de la pensée médiévale. Études offertes à Zénon Kaluza, ed. J.J.M. Bakker et al., FIDEM, Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, 20 (Turnhout, 2002), 351-377 [In I Sent., dist. 38].

Super Compositionem Epistolarum: Madrid, Nac., 95 ff. 8a-144b [on the Pauline letters]

Postillae in Psalmos: MS ? Check!

Postillae in Ep. Ad Galatas: MS ? Check!

Liber de Figuris Bibliorum: See for further information on his biblical commentaries esp. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum II, n. 2466-2472.

De Septem Verbis D.N. Ihesu Christi in Cruce: MS Paris Mazarine 3897 f. 73 [pseudo-Bonaventurian poem on the seven words uttered by Christ on the cross]

Officium de Stigmatibus: MSS Naples, Naz. VI.F.36 f. 4; Chartes, Bibl. Municipale 341 [rhyme officium. For the attribution, see the study of Wilmart (1935)]

Catechismus Scolarium Novellorum: MS Chartes, Bibl. Municipale 341 [rhyme catechism?. For the attribution, see the study of Wilmart (1935), 250, which gives the explicit (p. 250, note 4): ‘Explicit Cathecismus editus a reverendo in Christo patre fratre Geraldo Oddonis generali ministro Ordinis fratrum Minorum, Sacre Theologie doctore, completus per ipsum in sacro loco conventus Assisii anno Domini millesimo CCCXXXVIIIo.’ This catechism was dedicated to the Duke of Calabria, Andrew of Hungary.]

Opinio de Immaculata Conceptione: MS Naples, Naz. VIII.A.11 f. 88ff

De Paupertate (contra Mich. De Cessena): MS BAV, Vat.Lat. 4008 ff. 157vn-159ra

Quodlibet de Visione Beatifica: See A. Maier, `Die Pariser Disputationen des Geraldus Odonis über die Visio Beatifica', Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà, 4 (1965), 213-252, and also La vision de Dieu aux multiples formes. Quodlibet tenu à Paris en decembre 1333, ed. & trans. Christian Trottmann (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2001).

Sermones: a.o. MS Madrid, Nac., 95 ff. 2a-7vb [Castro, Madrid, no. 11] Cf. also Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones II, 178.

Sermones de Tempore: MS ? Check!

Sermones de Sanctis: MS ? For more info see Schneyer

Epistola: MS BAV, Vat.Lat. 4010 (14th cent.) ff. 215v-219r (an. 1331)

De Septem Verbis D.N. Ihesu Christi in Cruce, edited in Bonaventura, Opera Omnia (ed. Quaracchi) VII, 667-678 & VIII, 674-676; Wilmart, Revue Bénédictine 47 (1935), 257-261.

To be continued...A lot is happening in the study of Guiral.

literature

Bartholomaeus Pisanus, De Conformitate, AF IV (1906), 339, 538; Wadding, Script., 99f; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 16-17; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 306-307; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (Rome, 1908), 324; AFH, 2 (1909), 271; AFH, 2 (1909), 271; 3 (1910), 294; M.P. Anglade, ‘Sur la patrie de fr. Gérard Odonis, Ministre général’, AFH 6 (1913), 392-396; Histoire littéraire de la France 36 (1927), 203-225; Zawart, 303; B. Léon, Fray Gerardo de Odón (Murcia, 1928); DThC XI, 1658-1663; A. Wilmart, Revue Bénédictine 47 (1935), 248-256; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 117; A.M. Mruk, ‘Singularis opinio Gerardi Odinis O.F.M. circa naturam divortii in casu adulterii’, Gregorianum 41 (1960), 273-283; Catholicisme V, 418-419; A. Maier, ‘Die Pariser Disputation des Gerard Odonis über die Visio beatifica Dei’, Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà IV (Rome, 1965), 213-251; B. Distelbrink, Bonaventura Scripta (Rome, 1975), 125-126; Clément Schmitt, ‘Ot’, DSpir XI, 1057-1058; Bonnie Kent, Aristotle and the Franciscans: Gerard Odonis’ Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, Phd. Diss. (Columbia University, 1984); L.M. de Rijk, ‘Works by Gerard Ot (Gerardus Odonis) on Logic, Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy in Madrid, Bibl. Nac., 4229’, AHDLMA, 60 (1993), 173-93; L.M. de Rijk, ‘Gerardus Odonis O.F.M. on the Principle of Non-Contradiction and the Proper Nature of Demonstration’, Franciscan Studies, 54 (1994-97), 51-67 [article on Odonis's Logica, Part. III: De Principiis Scientiarum]; Chr. Trotmann, ‘Vision béatifique (...)’, in: Via Scoti. Metodologia ad Mentem Joannis Duns Scoti, ed. L. Sileo, Medioevo, 1, 2 Vols (Rome, 1995), II, 739-747; J. Spruyt, ‘Gerardus Odonis on the Universals’, Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 63 (1996), 171-208; L.M. de Rijk, ‘Guiral Ot (Gerardus Odonis) o.f.m. (1279-1349): his view of copulative being in his Commentary of the Sentences’, in: in: Vestigia, Imagines, Verba: Semiotics and Logic in Medieval Theological Texts (Xith-XIVth Century). Acts of the XIth Symposium on MedievalLogic and Semantics, San Marino, 24-28 May 1994, ed. Costantino Marmo, Semiotic and Cognitive Studies, 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), 355-369; J. Spruyt, ‘The extreme realism of Gerardus Odonis’, in: ‘Vestigia, Imagines, Verba’; Chris Schabel, Theology at Paris, 1316-1345: Peter Auriol and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents (2001), 158-162; Christian Trottmann, ‘Guiral Ot: De l’éternité au temps et retour. Conjectures à partir du ‘De multiformi visione Dei’, in: The medieval concept of time: Studies on the Scholastic debate and its reception in early modern philosophy, ed. Pasquale Porro, Studien und Texte der Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 75 (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2001), 287-317; Chris Schabel, ‘Landulph Caracciolo and Gerard Odonis on Predestination: Opposite Attitudes toward Scotus and Auriol’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 65 (2002), 62-81; Chris Schabel, ‘Parisian Commentaries from Peter Auriol to Gregory of Rimini, and the problem of predestination’, in: Mediaeval Commentaries on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard. Current Research, ed. G.R. Evans 2 Vols. (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2002) I, 221-265; Christopher Schabel, ‘The sentences commentary of Gerardus Odonis, OFM’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 46 (2004), 115-161; L.M. de Rijk, ‘Girald Odonis on the Real Status of Some Second Intentions’, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 16 (2005), 515-551; Risto Saarinen, ‘Wisdom as Intellectual Virtue: Aquinas, Odonis and Buridan’, in: Mind and Modality: Studies in the history of philosophy in honour of Simo Knuuttila, ed. Vesa Hirvonen (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006), 189-198; Lambertus Marie de Rijk, ‘Giraldus Odonis, Godfrey of Fontaines, and Peter Auriol on the principle of individuation’, in: ‘Ad ingenii acuitionem’. Studies in honour of Alfonso Maierù, ed. Stefano Caroti, Ruedi Imbach, Zénon Kaluza, Giorgio Stabile & Loris Sturlese, Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, 38 (Louvain-la-Neuve: FIDEM – Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 403-436; Bonnie D. Kent, Aristotle and the Franciscans: Gerald Odonis' Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, PhD. Thesis (Columbia University, 2008) [see: http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:1272 ]; Christian Trottmann, ‘Intellect et images dans ‘La vison aux multiples formes’ de Guiral Ot’, in: Intellect et imagination, 1875-1886; Francesco Costa, ‘La figura del francescano Geraldo Oddone, Ministro Generale dell'Ordine, Patriarca d'Antiochia, vescovo di Catania’, Ardori Serafici 86:1-2 (2009), 13-15, 23-27; Francesco Costa, ‘Geraldo Oddone, O. Min., Ministro Generale, Patriarca d'Antiochia e Vescovo di Catania (1342-48)’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Catania: atti del convegno, ed. Nicoletta Grisanti, Franciscana, 25 (Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana-Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008), 21-102; Gerald Odonis, Doctor Moralis and Franciscan Minister General. Studies in Honour of Professor L.M. de Rijk = Vivarium 47 (2009) (Leiden: Brill, 2009). [essays on the logical, philosophical, polemical, economic and theological works of Gerald Odonis by W.O. Duba, Chr. Schabel, A. Spruyt, P.J.J.M. Bakker, S.W. De Boer, S.F. Brown, G. Ceccareli , S. Piron, Camarin Porter, R. Lambertini, including William Owen Duba & Christopher Schabel, ‘Introduction’, pp. 147-163; Giovanni Ceccarelli & Sylvain Piron, 'Gerald Odonis' Economics Treatise', pp. 164-204; Joke Spruyt, ‘Gerald Odonis on the notion of ‘esse tertio adiacens”, pp. 221-240; Camarin Porter, 'Gerald Odonis' Commentary on the Ethics: A Discussion of the Manuscripts and General Survey', pp. 241-294; Christopher Schabel, 'Gerald Odonis on the Plurality of Worlds', pp. 331-347; Roberto Lambertini, ‘Letters and Politics: Gerald Odonis vs. Francis of Marchia’, pp. 364-374; William Owen Duba, 'The Beatific Vision in the Sentences Commentary of Gerald Odonis', pp. 348-363]; Christopher Schabel, 'Gerard Odonis', in: Encyclopedia of medieval philosophy. Philosophy between 500 and 1500 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011), 399-402; Roberto Lambertini, 'Geraldo Oddone contro Francesco d'Ascoli', Schede medievali 51 (2013), 75-82; Christopher Schabel, 'Projectile Motion in a Vacuum According to Francesc Marbres, Francis of Marchia, Gerald Odonis, and Nicholas Bonet?', Early science and Medicine 22 (2017), 55-71; Irene Zavattero, 'Omnis magnanimus est humilis. The Doctrine of Humility in Gerald Odonis' Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics', in: Representations of Humility and the Humble, ed. Silvia Negri, Micrologus' library, 108 (Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021), 141-171.

Gerardus Vervuust (Gerardus Vervoestius/Gerard Veruvit/Gerardus Veruust/Gerard Verwust, ca. 1548-1596)

OFM. Belgian (Flemish) friar from Bruges, where he entered the order and became active as a preacher. During the Calvinist interlude (1578-1584), he protested against the mistreatment and dubious legal procedures against fellow friars. In reaction, Gerardus was put in prison, mistreated and then exiled from Bruges, alongside of other Catholic clerics. He probably went to Ghent, where he worked as guardian sometime between 1578 and 1592. But in between he also was back in Bruges in 1584, where he worked as lector. In 1592 he was vicar in Ypres (Ieper), in 1593 lector in Farciennes, and in 1595 guardian, again in Ypres. He supposedly died on April 26, 1596 in Veurne, just after preaching a Lenten cycle there. He published a number of works connected with his own homiletic activities.

works

Libellus de praestantissimis Novi Testamenti Donis (Louvain: Jan Maes, 1593). Dedicated to Anton of Burgundy, Lord of Wakken. This dedication was written in the Franciscan monastery of Brussels on Epiphany, and he represents himself as lector in Farciennes. The work is an elucidation in 15 chapters of the new gifts given by Christ in the New Testament.

Sequuntur Tres conciones, quarum prima est de gloriosa Resurrectione Domini nostri Iesu Christi. Secunda, de laetabunda Resurrectione iustorum hominum. Tertia, de iucundissimis glorificandorum corporum dotibus (Louvain: Johannes Maes, 1593). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna and via Google Books. Also issued at the end of the 1593 Libellus de praestantissimis Novi Testamenti Donis edition, adding to the message of Christ's gifts.

Pro sanctissimo die Parasceves conciones tres. Quae breviter atque dilucide, Dominicae passionis historiam explicant: omnibus divini verbi proeconibus utilissime, & ad declamandum facillime (Antwerp: Jan Van Keerbergen, 1594). Also dedicated to Anton of Burgundy, Lord of Wakken and vice-admiral. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Sermones in orationem Dominicam (Antwerp, 1594 or 1596)? This work is signaled by older bibliographers, but according to De Troeyer the work had not been found.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 17; Dirks, Histoire littéraire (1885), 113; B. De Troeyer,Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 373-376.

Gerardus Zetl (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRef. German friar, Member of the Bavaria province. Lector generalis and provincial definitor.

works

Sympatheismus corporis coelestis cum sublunari ad Mentem Doctoris Mariano-Subtilus Joannis Duns Scoti Philosophice Inquisitus et in Episcopali Studio Frisingensi FF. Min. S.P. Francisci Reform. Pacifice Disputatus, Praeside P.F. Gerardo Zetl (...) (Freising: Typis Joan. Christiani Caroli Immel, 1711). Scholarly disputations. Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Theses theol. de sacratissimo Verbi incarnati mysterio (Freising, 1716). Scholarly disputations. Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Gratia Dei Pasch. Quesnelii Presbyteri Parisiensis ad mentem Doctoris Joannis Duns Scoti dogmatice inquisita, et in Conventu Monacensi FF. Min. S.P. Francisci Reform. publicae Disputationi subjecta. Praeside P.F. Gerardo Zetl (...) (Munich: Johann Lucas Straub, 1720). Scholarly disputation held in the Munich friary/studium. Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Peccatum Actuale Ad Mentem Doctoris Mariano-Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti Speculativo-Practice inquisitum (...) Publicae Disputationi expositum (...) Praeside P.F. Gerardo Zetl (...) (Munich: Johann Lucas Straub, 1720). Scholarly disputation held in the Munich friary/studium. Accessible via Google Books.

Confessarius Tam Saecularis Quam Regularis: Juxta triplex Officium Judicis, Doctoris, & Medici Practice Instructus (...) Pars I. De Iudice Sacramentali (Ingolstadt: Sumptibus Joan. Andreae de la Haye, 1729/Munich: Witwe Maria Magdalena Riedlin, 1730). Accessible via Google Books and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Confessarius Tam Saecularis Quam Regularis: Juxta triplex Officium Judicis, Doctoris, & Medici Practice Instructus (...) Pars II. De Doctore, & Medico Sacramentali (Munich: Witwe Maria Magdalena Riedlin, 1729). Accessible via Google Books, via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 17.

Gerardus Zoethelme (d. 1519)

OMObs & OFM. Belgian (Flemish) friar. Born in Flanders ca. 1460. Guardian of the convent of Ypres (Ieper). Definitor of the French Parisian province from 1505 onwards. Vicarius of the same province in 1508. Introduced the Observance in the Braamberg convent of Bruges. After his vicariate, Gerard was guardian of Ypres (1511-1513) and Ghent (1515-1517), and another three times provincial definitor (1513, 1515, 1517). Participated in the general chapter of Lyon (1518). There sent out as commissary-visitator to the provinces of the Holy Cross and St. John the Baptist in Saxony (where he died on 6 March 1519). Edited and completed the Monumenta Ordinis Minorum of Francis de Ledesmer (Salamanca, 1506), under the title Speculum Minorum.

works

Speculum Minorum (Rouen: Martin Morin, 1509). The work amounts to a collection of Franciscan privileges (papal bulls etc.), order constitutions, rule commentares, and other documents (on clothing, religious rituals in the order, profession rites etc.). The work is accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books.

literature

DHGE, XX, 807-8; H. Lippens, ‘Les chapitres et les vicaires observantins de la Province de France’, Revue d’histoire franciscaine 6 (1929), 278-279; A. Heysse, ‘Necrologium Conventuum Brugensium Fratrum Minorum’, AF VIII (1946), 19; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 91; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica I (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 17-18, 56, 69-70; J.-X. Lalo, ‘Les recueils des sources juridiques franciscaines (1502-1535)’, AFH 73 (1980), 314.

Germania de Armaing (Germaine d'Armaing, 1664-1699)

OSC. French Poor Clare, and member of the Observant Saint-Cyprien monastery in Toulouse. Germaine apparently started self-flagellation exercises by the age of eight. She tried to enter the Clarissan house in her native town (Pamiers) but was refused. At the age of 22 she was accepted by the Poor Clares of Toulouse (Saint-Cyprien) and she did her profession on 9 September 1687. She spent her whole life in Toulouse, becoming more and more famous for her extreme penitential exercises and mystical experiences. Her grave became a cult site. In 1805, her body was translated to the sacristy of Saint-Nicolas de Toulouse.

works

Lettres spirituelles. See: J.B. Chapdu, La vie et les vertus de la Soeur Germaine d'Armaing, religieuse des pauvres filles de la première règle de Ste Claire du faubourg S. Cyprien de Toulouse, avec ses lettres spirituelles (Toulouse: Fournié, 1700).

vitae

J.B. Chapdu, La vie et les vertus de la Soeur Germaine d'Armaing, religieuse des pauvres filles de la première règle de Ste Claire du faubourg S. Cyprien de Toulouse, avec ses lettres spirituelles (Toulouse: Fournié, 1700).

literature

Agathange de Paris, Une Clarisse de Toulouse au XVII siècle: soeur Germaine d'Armaing (Fournier, 1957).

Geroldus Hagenmayer (Gerold Hagenmayr, 1719-1788)

OFMRec. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol province.

works

Uraltes unter dem Metzen hervorgezogenes und auf einen neuen Leuchter gesetztes Licht, das ist: Lob-, Dank- und Lehr-Rede von dem heiligen Bischoff und Beichtiger Theodolo, uraltem Schutz-Heiligen der österreichischen Stadt Ehingen an der Donau, als desselben Fest-Tag den 16ten Tag Augusti 1758 das erstemal wiederum feyerlich ist begangen worden, von P.F. Geroldo Hagenmayr (...) würcklichen Pfarr-Prediger (1758?).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 74. [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]

Gervasius Brunck (Gervasius Brisacensis/Johann Martin von Breisach/Gervasus von Breisach, 1648-1717)

OFMCap. Austrian/Swisss friar. Born in Breisach/Brisach (then part of Austria and now in Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany. Son of Richard and Ansatasia Schleer. Doctor of philosophy and in Roman and Canon law. Lawyer in Ensishem (Alsace). Entered the Capuchin order in 1671. Lector in Freiburg i. Üechtland, and Solothurn. Three-times provincial (1700-1703, 1705-1708, 1711-1715), and visitator of the Flemish-Belgian order province between 1704-1705. Known for his published academic disputations and for his philosophical and theological handbooks. The latter were used in many Capuchin schools and studia.

works

Cursus philosophicus brevi et clara methodo in tres tomulos distributus, 3 Vols. (Solodori: Typis & impensis Petri Josephi Bernardi, 1697/Cologne: sumptib. Johannis Schlebusch, 1699/Cologne: sumptib. Johannis Schlebusch, 1711). At least the 1711 edition is available via Google Books. The 1697 volume can be acquired digitally from the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.

Cursus theologicus, brevi et clara methodo in tres partes et sex tomulos distributus, in quo omnes materiae theologicae tam speculativae, quam practicae (...) continentur (Solodori: typis et imperis Petri Josephi Bernardi, 1689). Later editions followed.

Excerpta Controversiarum Illustrium, De Testamento Inofficioso, praeside (...) Johanne Henrico Feltzio J.U.D. Pandect. & Jur. Can. Prof. (...) sistit ad d. v. Augusti anno MDCCVII Gervasius Brunck Brisacensis (Strasbourg: Josias Staedel, 1707). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Q.D.B.V. Disputatio inauguralis juridica de successione descendentium irregularium in feudis. Quam sub tutela divini numinis, permissu et auctoritata magnifici ac amplissimi jurisconsultorum ordinis in illustri Argentinensium Universitate pro licentia summos in utroque jure honores ac privilegia doctoralia rite consequendi solenni eruditorum examini subjicit ad diem 4. Julii anno MDCCIX Gervasius Brunck (Strasbourg: Josias Staedel, 1709). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 17-18; DThCat VI, 1338; A. Sieffert [Archangelus von Alttorf], ‘Der Kapuziner Theologe P. Gervasius von Breisach’, Archiv für elsässische Kirchengeschichte 3 (1928), 187-200; Bonaventura von Mehr, Das Predigtwesen in der Kölnischen und Rheinischen Kapuzinerprovinz im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Rome, 1945), 159, 424; LexCap., 682; LThK 2^nd ed., IV, 763; Christian Schweizer, ‘Brunck, Gervasius’, Dizzionario storio della Svizzera II, 699a; Dieter Breuer, Die Aufklärung in den deutschsprachigen katholischen Ländern 1750-1800: kulturelle Ausgleichsprozesse im Spiegel von Bibliotheken in Luzern, Eichstätt und Klosterneuburg (Schöningh, 2001), 59. Check also https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/025866/2003-01-31/

Gervicus Haverland (Gerwinus Haverland, alias 'Daniel von Soest'?, d. 1534 or 1535)

OFMConv. German friar from Soest. Member of the Cologne province. Master of theology, custus and provincial minister. Probably long-term guardian of the Soest friary, which he helped embellish. Under the pseudonym Daniel von Soest he would have produced several polemical writings against local Lutheran factions. Two of these reached the printing press in 1539. One of these editions, namely Ein Dialogon darinne de sprock Esaie am ersten Capitel, nömlich wu iß de getruwe Stadt eine Jore worden, also contains two other works allegedly by the same author. There are questions about the authorship of these works, as Gervicus died before some of them would have been written. And he was certainly dead before they reached the printing press. It could be that other friars were involved in their production as well. Yet it could also be that Daniel von Soest was a completely different figure altogether, for the pseudonym Daniel von Soest has also been linked to Cardinal Johannes Gropper, the Canon Jasper van der Borch der Jüngere, and to the Franciscan guardian Patroclus Boeckmann. The latter identification nowadays seems to have gained some weight thanks to the studies of Norbert Eickermann.

works

Eine Gemeyne Bicht oder Bekenning der Predicanten tho Sost, bewyset wo und dorch wat maneren se dar tor stede dat wort Gods Hebben ingevört up dat aller korteste durch Daniel van Soest beschreven im Jar CCCCC.xxxiii (1539). A satyrical description of the actions, deceit and shortcomings of Lutheran pastors. This work drew out a reaction from Johannes Pollius. It is possible that a first edition of Eine Gemeyne Bicht already appeared in 1534, yet no copy of that edition can be traced. There also exists a 19th century edition of Eine Gemeyne Bicht, ed. L. F. v. Schmitz (1948), is not very dependable and based on later copies.

Ein Dialogon darinne de sprock Esaie am ersten Capitel, noemlich wuo is de getruwe Stadt eine Hore worden. Wandages wonende rechtigheit in er, nu averst mordenetß, dyn silver is verandert in rost. Dyn wyn is gemenget mit water. Dyn Voersten synt untruewe medegesellen der deve. Sey hebben alle leiffde gaven Und etlicke ander sproke meer, up de Lutherschen bynnen Sost recht gedüdet wert. Im jar M.D.XXXVII (1539). Wrong attribution? This amounts to a dialogue between Daniel and Philochristus. Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books.

Apologeticon, das ys ein Entschuldynge an dey achtbaren hoechgelerten, wolwysen Legaten der Stadt Soest - dorch D.v.S. beschreven ym yar M.CCCCC. und xxxviii. Included in the edition of Ein Dialogon darinne de sprock Esaie am ersten Capitel, nömlich wu iß de getruwe Stadt eine Jore worden. The Apologeticon is adressed at the representatives of the city of Soest sent out to Smalkalden and who had suscribed to the articles of the Smalkalden league.

Ketterspegel, van arth, natuyr und herkompst der ketteren - dorch D.v.S. um yar Dusent vyffhundert dree und dertych beschreven. Included in the edition of Ein Dialogon darinne de sprock Esaie am ersten Capitel, nömlich wu iß de getruwe Stadt eine Jore worden.

Satyrical song: Gods deijnst sey versturen, mit falschen logen groeth, um gelt, um gyfft, um gaben, na wyven dat sey daven. See: Albrecht Wolters, Reformationsgeschichte der Stadt Wesel (Bonn: Adolph Marcus, 1868), 70, note 1.

Omnibus edition: A very coloured 19th-century edition of Eine Gemeyne Bicht, Ein Dialogon, Apologeticon etc. is provided in Daniel von Soest: ein westfälischer Satiriker des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Franz Jostes (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1888). The editor comes up with several reasons why Daniel von Soest should not be identified with Gerwin Haverland.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 307; Hartzheim, Bibliotheca Coloniensis (1747), 102; Seibertz, Westfälische Beiträge zur deutschen Geschichte (Darmstadt, 1819), 267-270; Gustav Moritz Redslob & Franz Jostes, 'Soest, Daniel von', in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie XI (1880), 117-118 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz80491.html ; Norbert Eickermann, 'Wer schrieb den Saniel von Soest?', Soester Zeitschrift 86 (1974), 34-41; Schriften von katholischer Seite gegen die Täufer, ed. Robert Stupperich (Münster: Aschendorff, 1980), 4, 8-9; Franziskanische Studien 72 (1990), 15

Gesualdo de Reggio Calabria (Gesualdo da Reggio/Gesualdo Malagrino da Reggio/Giuseppe Malacrino, 1725-1803)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Reggio Calabria. Entered the order at Fiumara on 5 November 1740. Ordained priest in 1748. Taught ecclesiology, philosophy and church history in the order between 1748 and 1752. Therafter active as preacher and confessor in Southern Italy, which procured him the nickname ‘Apostle of Calabria.’ Promoted order reform in the Reggio Calabria province and transformed the Terranova convent in a house of strict observance for meditative retreat (active there until 1783). After the suppression of the religious orders, he continued to work in Reggio Calabria as priest/preacher and as teacher to seminarists. In 1790, he refused a position as bishop of Martirano. After the reconstruction of the Calabrian Capuchin order province, Gesualdo was elected provincial minister. He died on 28 January 1803 in a reputation of sanctity. Official process for his beatification started by 1855. Gesualdo has left a large number of spiritual, theological, philosophical and filological writings, which have remained unedited.

works

Fioretti del ven. p. Gesualdo da Reggio Calabria, ed. Silvestro Pietro Morabito (1969).

To be continued

literature

DHGE XX, 1114-1115; G. Arcovito, Elogio funebre per le solenni esequie dell’ apostolo delle Calabrie e del Valdemone, il M.R.P. Gesualdo Malagrino da Reggio (Naples, 1851); R. Cotroneo, La vita del P. Gesualdo da Reggio cappuccino (Siena, 1894); J.. Kessler, Der erwürdige P. Jesuald von Reggio aus dem Kapuzinerorden der Apostel Calabriens (Kempten, 1907); Francesco da Vicenza, Scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 48-54; LexCap. 797-798; Remigio da Cropani, Il venerabile P. Gesualdo da Reggio, 2nd Ed. (Reggio Calabria, 1953); Melchior da Pobladura, Miscellanea Francescana 53 (1953), 190-212; Idem, Collectanea Franciscana 24 (1954), 110-135, 329-382 & Collectanea Franciscana 29 (1959), 50-62; Idem, Saggio della corrispondenza spirituale del venerabile Gesualdo da Reggio (Catanzaro, 1968); S. a Nadro, Acta et decreta causarum beatificationis et canonizationis OFMCap (Rome, 1964), 778-793; Silvestre de Taurianova, Fioretti del ven. P. Gesualdo da Reggio Calabria (Reggio Calabria, 1969); Raimondo da Castelbuono, La contestazione d’un frate ubbidientissimo. Il ven. P. Gesualdo da Reggio (1725-1803) (Chiaravalle Centrale, 1974); Raimondo da Castelbuono, Il ven. P. Gesualdo da Reggio Calabria (1725-1803) (Messina, 1977); Idem, L’Italia Francescana 55 (1980), 295-324; Orizzonti francescani. Ven. P. Gesualdo da Reggio Calabria. Bollettino di teologia spirituale pastorale francescana dei Frati Minori Cappuccini di Reggio Calabria-Catanzaro 1/1 (November 1999).

Giacomino da Verona (Joannes de Verona, second half thirteenth century)

OM. Italian friar from the North. Known for his vernacular didactic poems (surviving with Latin titles), that he probably wrote in his youth/early adulthood (after he had joined the order): De Ierusalem Celesti and De Babilonia Civitate Infernali. Both poems consists of quatrins with rhyming endwords, with respectively heaven and hell as subject. The De Babilonia civitate infernali is 280 verses long and the De Jerusalem celesti contains 336 verses. Comparable works were produced by his contemporary fellow friar Bonvesin della Riva from Milan. This type of didactic poetry, which some scholars claim would have had a formative influence on Dante Alighieri, stands alongside of the laudi, which came into fashion during the same period. Most of these laudi can be retraced to Umbria, and the most famous producer of these was, no doubt, Jacopone da Todi.

works

De Ierusalem Celesti and De Babilonia Civitate Infernali: MSS Venice, Marciano it. 4744, ff. 50r-65v (late 13th cent.); Siviglia Biblioteca Colombina 7.1.52, ff 1r-10v; Udine, Biblioteca Arciescovile lat. in quarto XIII, ff. 40r-50v; Oxford, Bodlian, Canonic. 48, ff 1r-5v (only the De Ierusalem Celesti). The poems have been edited in: A.-F. Ozanam, Documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire littéraire de l'Italie (Paris 1850), 291-312 [only based on the Venice MS]; A. Mussafia, 'Monumenti antichi di dialetti italiani', Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, philol.-hist. Klasse 46 (1864), 136-158; E. Barana, Giacomino da Verona, La Gerusalemme celeste e la Babilonia infernale (Verona, 1921) [more or less a full diplomatic edition]; E.Y. May, De Jerusalem celesti and De Babilonia infernali of fra Giacomo da Verona (Florence, 1930) ['critical' edition]. The works have also been included in subsequent Italian literary source omnibusses.

literature

Esther Isopel May, 'Il poema di Giacomino da Verona nella Libreria Gonzaga di Mantova', in: Nuovi Studi Medievali 3 (1927/28), 259-266; Isopel Esther May, 'De Jerusalem celesti' and the 'De Babilonia infernali' of Fra Giacomino da Verona (Florence, 1930); Francesco Sarri, 'Sacro 'dolce stil nuovo' con particolare riguardo a Jacopone da Todi e a fr. Giacomino da Verona', Studi Francescani 36 (1939), 97-122; V. De Bartholomeis, Primordi della lirica d’arte in Italia (Torino, 1943); H. Nolthenius, Duecento. Zwerftocht door Italië’s late middeleeuwen (Utrecht, 1951); M. Vitale, Rimatori comico-realistici del Due e Trecento (Torino, 1965); Ruggiero Stefanini, 'Una congettura a Giacomino da Verona (B51)', Romance Philology 23 (1969/70), 300-303; Francesco Bruni, 'Giacomino da Verona, OFM', Lexikon des Mittelalters IV (1989), 1439; Paolo Canettieri, 'Babilonia infernale (La) di Giacomino da Verona', in: Letteratura italiana. Dizionario delle Opere I (Turin, 1999), 81; Paolo Canettieri, 'Gerusalemme celeste (La) di Giacomino da Verona', in: Letteratura italiana. Dizionario delle Opere I (1999), 510-511; Gabriella Milan, 'Giacomo da Verona', in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 54 (2000) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomino-da-verona_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]; Marco Schrage, 'Giacomino da Verona: eine Übersicht zur Forschungslage', Letteratura Italiana Antica 3 (2002), 279-290; Marco Schrage, Giacomino da Verona: Himmel und Hölle in der frühen italienischen Literatur (Frankfurt a. Main etc., 2003); Ruggero Stefanini, 'Giacomino da Verona', in: Medieval Italy. An Encyclopedia (2004), 416-417; Ruggero Stefanini, 'Giacomino da Verona (13th century)', in: Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Kenneth Emmerson & Sandra Clayton-Emmerson (New York, NY, 2006), 251-252.

Giovanni Antonio Bianchi (Giovanni Antonio Bianchi/Lauriso Tragiense, 1686-1758)

OFM. Italian Observant friar. Born in Lucca on 2 October 1686. Studied medicine, theology (at Rome and Naples) and law before and after his entry into the order at the age of 17 in 1703 (Orvieto). Lector of philosophy and theology and provincial minister of the Roman province (1728-_). Also personal theologian of the cardinals Spinola, Falconieri and Cozza. Well-respected by the Roman curia and the popes Clement XII and Benedict XIV. The latter made him a consultant of the inquisition. Possibly at the behest of Clement XII, Giovanni Published several juridical and apologetical texts, arguing against the political and legal historical notions of the Neapolitan lawyer Pietro Giannone, and the secularist ambitions of the realms of Naples and Sardinia. He also wrote in defense of theatre and published some theatre pieces himself, sometimes under pseudonym (Lauriso Tragiense & Farnabio Gioachino Annutini). He died at Rome on January 18, 1758 [1768?]

works

Tragedie sagre e morali di Farnabio Gioachino Annutini, cioe La Matilda, Il Giefte, La Elisabetta, Il Tommaso Moro (Bologna: L. dalla Volpe, 1722). Accesible via the British Library and via Google Books.

Il Tommaso Moro. Tragedia di Farnabio Gioachino Annutini (Rome: Bernabò, 1724). Accessible via the library of Turin University and via Google Books.

La Elisabetta, reina di Portogallo. Tragedia (Rome: Bernabò, 1727). Accessible via the library of Turin University and via Google Books.

Lettere di ragguaglio d'un buon amico a Filalete Adiaforo sopra la controversia di qual'ordine de' minori sia il B. Andrea Caccioli da Spello (Lucca: Sebastiano Domenico Cappuri, 1727). Accessible via the library of Turin University and via Google Books.

La Matilde. Tragedia di Farnabio Gioacchino Annutini (Rome: Zenobi, 1727). Accessible via the British Library, the Bibloteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and via Google Books.

De sanctis Jacobo Piceno et Francisco Solano Ordinis Minorum de Observantia. Oratio habita Romae in Templo Sanctae Mariae in Capitolio VII. Calend. Octobris (...) (Rome: Rocco Bernabò, 1727). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

De sancta Margarita Cortonensi ordinis S. Francisci oratio habenda Romae in Templo Sanctae Mariae in Capitolio VI. Id. Septembris (...) (Rome: Rocco Bernabò, 1728). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona and via Google Books.

Il don Alfonso. Tragedia di Farnabio Gioachino Annutini da rappresentarsi nel Teatro in Campo Marzo detto la Pallaccorda di Firenze nel Carnevale dell'Anno 1729 (Rome: Rosati & Borgiani, 1729). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Oratio habita Mediolani in aede Sancti Angeli 4. Calend. Junii 1729. Pro aperitione Comitiorum universi Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (MilanL eredi Domenico Bellagatta, 1729). Based on a sermon held at the Franciscan general chapter. Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona and via Google Books.

Il Demetrio. Tragedia di F.G.A. Da recitarsi in Roma nel Teatro della Pallacorda di Fiorenza il Carnevale dell'Anno 1730 (Rome: Zenobi, 1730). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

La Virginia tragedia di Farnabio Gioachino Annutini (Bologna: Longhi, 1732). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Ragioni della sede apostolica nelle presenti controversie colla corte di Torino, 4 Vols. (1732). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

Lettere di risposta d'un particolare di Roma ad un'amico di Napoli sopra le pendenze di Gravina (1733). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Naples and via Google Books.

La Dina tragedia sagra di Farnabio Gioachno Annutini da rappresentarsi nel Teatro della Pallacorda di Firenze nel Carnevale dell'Anno 1734 (Rome: Giorgio Placho, 1734). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

L'Attalia. Tragedia sagra (Rome-Bologna: Longhi, 1735). The work is accessible via the Internet Archive and can also be accessed via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence.

Il David perseguitato da Saùl tragedia sagra di Farnabio Gioachino Annutini (...) Da recitarsi nel Teatro alle Valle l'Anno MDCCXXXVI (Rome: Giovanni Zempel, 1736). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Clarissimo, & eruditissimo viro Antonio Cocchio eminentiss. & reverendiss. Principis Ludovici Pici ex sereniss. Mirandulae Ducibus Familiari et Medico, et in Romano Archigymnasio Anatomes et Medicinae Lectori (1737). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Della potestà e della politia della chiesa: trattati due contro le nuove opinioni di Pietro Giannone, 6 Vols. (Rome: Pallade, 1746-1751). Several volumes are accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and via Google Books. The work was also published in French as: Traité de la Puissance Ecclésiastique dans les rapports avec les souverainetés temporelles, trans. L'Abbé A.C. Peltier, 4 Vols. [?] (Paris: Gaume, 1857).

Sui vizii e sui difetti del moderno teatro e sul modo di corregerli ed emendarli Ragionamenti VI di Laurio Tragiensi (Rome: Pallade, 1753). Partly to refute Daniele Concina OP's De Spectaculis theatralibus, and also against some positions of the Venetian playwright and advocate Carlo Goldoni. The work is accessible via the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/stream/deivizjedeidifet00bian?ref=ol] The work was re-issued as: Conversaciones de Lauriso Tragiense, pastor arcade, sobre los vicios y defectos del teatro moderno, y el modo de corregirlos y enmendarlos (1798).

Tragedie di Lauriso Tragiense, pastore arcade. Con due ragionamenti del medesimo sopra la composizione delle tragedie (Rome: G. Salomoni, 1761).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 800; García y García, `Textos jurídicos de autores franciscanos (...)', in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo (Rome, 1997), 314-5.

Girolamo Censino da Foligno (Hieronymus Censius, fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFM. Italian friar and Scotist philosopher.

works

Medulla Aristotelica philosophica tripartita ex logica, physica et metaphysica ad mentem Scoti (Perugia, 1618).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 69-70; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 344; Die Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts (Schwabe, 1988), 305.

Girolamo Menghi (Il Viadana, 1529-1609)

OFM. Italian Observant friar, preacher, and exorcist. Born in 1529 in Viadana (Mantovano). Entered the Observant branch of the order in 1549. Member of the Annunziata monastery of Bologna since at least 1556. By then, he had already started with his exorcist practices, which in the course of time became his principal occupation. His fame as an exorcist was such, that he was asked to perform exorcisms in a number of Italian towns (including in Reggio, in 1574, where he would have liberated c. 20 people from demonic possession). His most popular work is his two-volume Compendio dell’arte essorcistica. From the 1580s onwards, Menghi's exorcisms also drew increasing criticism from more sceptic ecclesiastics, theologians, canonists amd medical doctors. In 1587, Menghi was made definitor for his province, and on 28 October 1598, Pope Clement VIII confirmed his appointment as provincial minister, to replace the elected Teodoro da Bologna. In 1600, Menghi again received papal permission to replace the recently elected provincial Raffaele da Bologna. Menghi died at Viadana on 8 July, 1609. Menghi's works remained in use for a considerable time, even after the Rituale Romanum of 1614 described the practice of exorcism in much more cautious terms than was the case in Menghi's own texts. Only in 1704 did Menghi's Flagellum and his Fustis become subjected to serious censorship, and in 1707 his Compendio was forbidden altogether.

works

Aureus tractatus exorcismique pulcherrimi et efficaces in malignos spiritus effugandos de obsessis corporibus… (Bologna, G. Rossi, 1573), in fact an edition of an exorcist tresatise written in 1502 by the Dominican Silvestro Mazzolini.

Compendio dell’arte essorcistica et possibilità delle mirabili et stupende operationi delli demoni et de’ malefici, I (Bologna: G. Rossi: 1576 [and sixteen additional editions until 1617]); Compendio dell’arte essorcistica et possibilità delle mirabili et stupende operationi delli demoni et de’ malefici, rist. Anastatica (Genoa, 1987). The work was dedicated to the Cardinal Protector of the Observant Franciscans, Giulio Feltrio Della Rovere. The introduction contains an apology of the importance of exorcism in the face of scepticism, and the work itself is a mixture of demonological theory and the practice of witch hunting, partly based upon the Malleus maleficarum of Heinrich Krämer (Institoris) OP and partly based on Menghi’s own actions as an exorcist. Later in life, Menghi also published a second, more autobiographical, volume: Parte seconda del Compendio dell’arte essorcistica (Venezia: G. Varisco, 1601). This work also contains a defense against the attacks of the medical doctor Scipione Mercurio, issued in the Gli errori popolari d’Italia (1599), who argued for a medical approach towards cases of demonic possessions.

Flagellum daemonum, seu exorcismi terribiles, potentissimi, efficaces… (Bologna: G. Rossi, 1577 [fourteen editions between 1577 and 1626, and yet another one in 1687: Flagellum Daemonum, Exorcismos Terribiles, Potentissimo & Efficace]). A facssimile edition has been published as: Flagellum Daemonum, Exorcismos Terribiles, Potentissimo & Efficace (Aicurzo (MI): Gruppo Editoriale Castel Negrino, 2006). This work, which was dedicated to the Cardinal Bishop Gabriele Paleotti, also received a modern Italian translation, which also includes parts of the Compendio and the Fustis daemonum (see below): Il flagello dei demoni, trans. L. Dal Lago (Vicenza, 1997). The Flagellum was probably written by Menghi in tandem with the Compendio, but with a slightly different public in mind. Whereas the Compendio aimed at a wider public, in part to counter doubts and scepticism with regard to exorcism and demonology, the Flagellum is more a handbook for the exorcists.

Fustis daemonum, adiurationes formidabiles, potentissimas et efficaces in malignos spiritus fugandos de oppressis corporibus humanis…complectens (Bologna: G. Rossi, 1584 [in total seven editions between 1584 and 1708]).

Eversio daemonum e corporibus oppressis… (Bologna: G. Rossi, 1588).

Fuga daemonum, adiurationes potentissimas et exorcismos formidabiles, atque efficaces, in malignos spiritus expellendos…continens (Bologna: G. Rossi, 1596).

Translation of Della Somma angelica del r.p.f. Angiolo da Chivasso…nuovamente di latino in lingua italiana tradotta (Venice: D. Nicolini, 1591/Venice: Libreria della Speranza, 1594). Menghi’s translation includes a series of additions.

Translation of the Giardino delitioso de i frati minori… (Bologna: G. Rossi, 1592 & 1594), which contains vernacular versions of a series of documents concerning the Franciscan order, complete with explanations by Menghi.

Tesoro celeste della gloriosa Madre di Dio Maria Vergine (...) (Bologna 1607).

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum XXIV (ed. Rome, 1860), 275f; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 75; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 349; Sbaralea, Supplementum et Castigatio I (ed. Rome, 1908), 369; Francisco Gonzaga, De Origine Seraphicae Religionis Franciscanae (ed. Venice, 1603) I, 83, 320; Giaconto Picconi da Cantalupo, Serie cronologico-biografica dei ministri e vicari provinciali della minoritica provincia di Bologna (Parma, 1908), 175-177; H.C. Lea, Materials toward a History of Witchcraft (Philadelphia, 1939) III, 1055ff; M. Petrocchi, Esorcismi e magia nell’Italia del Cinquecento e del Seicento (Naples, 1957), 15-20; G. Bonomo, Caccia alle streghe (Palermo, 1971), 341-343; Mary R. O’Neil, ‘Sacerdote ovvero strione: ecclesiastical and superstitious remedies in 16th century Italy', in: Understanding Popular Culture: Europe from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, ed. Steven L. Kaplan (Berlin-New York-Amsterdam: Mouton, 1984), 53-83; O. Franceschini, ‘Un ‘mediatore ecclesiastico: Girolamo Menghi, 1529-1609’, in: G. Menghi, Compendio dell’arte essorcistica et possibilità delle mirabili et stupende operationi delli demoni et de’ malefici, rist. Anastatica (Genoa, 1987), iiiff; G. Volpato, ‘Girolamo Menghi o dell’arte esorcistica’, Lares 57 (1991), 381-397; G. Romeo, Esorcisti, confessori e sessualità femminile nell’Italia della Controriforma (Florence, 1998), passim; G. Dall’Olio, ‘Alle origini della nuova esorcistica. I maestri bolognesi di Girolamo Menghi’, in: Inquisizioni: percorsi di ricerca, ed. G. Paolin (Trieste, 2001), 83, 85-88, 99, 108-112, 115, 122-124; V. Lavenia, “Tenere i malefici per cosa vera’. Esorcismo e censura nell’Italia moderna’, in: Dal torchio alle fiamme. Inquisizione e censura: nuovi contributi dalla più antica biblioteca d’Italia. Atti del Convegno nazionale di studi (2004), ed.V. Bonami (Salerno, 2005), 127-172; Manfred Probst, Besessenheit, Zauberei und ihre Heilmittel. Dokumentation und Untersuchung von Exorzismushandbüchern des Girolamo Menghi (1523-1609) und des Maximilian von Eynatten (1574/75-1631), Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 97 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2007) [see review in Collectanea Franciscana 78 (2008), 474-476; Maison Dieu 257 (2009), 154-156]; Guido Dall’Olio, ‘Menghi, Girolamo [obs., d. 1609]’, DBI 73 (2009), 475-478; Bert Roest, ‘Demonic Possession and the Practice of Exorcism: An exploration of the Franciscan Legacy’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 301-340.

Gisalbertus Bergomensis (fl. ca. 1335)

OM. Italian friar. Member of the Milan province, and maybe active as provincial minister. He seems to have been in league with Michael of Cesena and Bonegratia of Bergamo in the poverty disputes with Pope John XXII. His Commentarius de Catonis Sententiis was meant for use in the classroom.

works

Commentarius de Catonis Sententiis, see; Antonio Salvi, ‘Gisalberti Bergomensis, Quaedam de Distichis Catonis’, Collectanea Franciscana 65 (1995), 207-219

literature

To be continued

Giusto Grotta (Carlo de Motrone, 1690-1763), beatus

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born on 4 February 1690 at Motrone, receiving the name Giusto. After an initial education and the death of his father, he took the Capuchin habit in the Palanzana friary (Viterbo) on 7 November 1709, taking the name Carlo de Motrone. After completing his philosophical and theological training, he worked in Bagnoregio and in Rome, receiving his priest ordination around 1717. In any case from 1722 onward, he began to be known as a Lenten preacher. He also was a spiritual guide for convicts and sailors of the papal fleet at Civitavecchia. In 1726, he is found as guardian of the Gallese friary, and in 1733/34 he was guardian of the Farnese friary. In subsequent years, he again took the roads as a Lenten preacher, and as a popular missionary, working his way through the Italian peninsula with a team of confessors and other assistants. None of his many sermons seem to have survived. Near the end of his life, his preaching style and the content of his sermons began to draw out criticism, yet attempts to block him from preaching by previous collaborators were annulled by the Capuchin minister general Paolo da Colindres. He died from a stroke during a sermon session on 28 April 1763. See for an initial evaluation of his preaching the entry of Stanislao da Campagnola in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.

works

Sermons in the Italian vernacular. They apparently were never printed. See for all the evidence the 1956 study of Mariano d'Alatri.

literature

Mariano d'Alatri, 'Il ven. Carlo da Motrone (1690-1763) e le sue missioni popolari', Collectanea franciscana 26 (1956), 251-265, 373-420; Stanislao da Campagnola, 'Carlo da Motrine'Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XX (1977), 287-288 [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-da-motrone_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ]; DHGE XXII, 387-388;

Giuseppe Napoli da Trapani (1586-1649)

OFM. Sicilian friar from Trapani, theologian. Studied at the St. Bonaventure college in Rome and thereafter taught in Bologna (1613-1616), to become regent lector at Padua in 1617. In 1618, he was elected provincial of Sicily, yet he apparently continued to teach. From 1623 onwards, he is found teaching in Naples as regent. By 1625, he returns to Trapani, where he died. He is not known to have left any works, but is regarded as the teacher of the influentual Scotist Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, who attributes to Giuseppe the concomittance doctrine that explains the coherence between Divine foreknowledge and human liberty.

works

To be continued

literature

Marco Forlivesi, Scotistarum princeps: Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673) e il suo tempo, 85-87, 90, 101 (note 18).

Gomarus de Quercu (Gummarus a Quercu/Gomarus van der Eyken, d. 1641)

OFMRec. Belgian friar. Member of the Recollect Germania inferioris province.

works

Privilegia pontificia Ordinis B. Mariae Annuntiatae (Antwerp: Plantin, 1644).

Elogium B. Joannae Valesiae, Ordinis B. Mariae Annuntiatae Fundatricis?

Allegedly he also issued a new Latin edition of the rule of the order of the Annonciade.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 50; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 333.

Gometius Ulyssiponensis (Cometius Ulysponensis/Gomes de Lisboa, fl. c. 1500)

OMConv. Portuguese friar. Studied at the Franciscan studium generale in Paris (lectorate program?). Continual studies leading to reaching the Baccalaureatus theologiae in or before 1478, when he was residing in the convent of Venice. Regent lector in Venice and Pavia. Vicar General of the order between October 1511 and May 1513 (see the praise of Gomes as Vicar General in a letter by Vincenzo Dodo of Pavia OP, included in the appendix of Dialogo Pauli Ricci Physici Caesarei in Symbolum Apostolorum (Augsburg, 1514/Pavia, 1517), cf. Sbaralea Supplementum (ed. 1806), 310). Gomes took part in the first sessions of the Fifth Lateran Council of 1512. He received an archbishopric early 1513 from Pope Julius II or Leo X, yet apparently died shortly thereafter.

works

Published, together with Bartholomaeus Feltre (de Bellato), a revised version of the Summa de Casibus of Astesanus de Asti: Summa de Casibus per Fratrem Astesanum de Ast. Maxima cura et sollicitudine famosissimi sacre theologie magistri fratris Bartholomei de Bellat de feltro circa iuris collationes necnon fratris Cometij hispani de Ulyxbona provincia Portugalie sacre theologie bacchalarij clarissimi in conventu Venetiarum circa residuum (Venice, 1478/Venice, 1519).

Questio perutilis de cuiuscumque scientie subiecto principaliter tamen naturalis philosophie (Venice, 1517) [together with works by Antonius Andreae and Franciscus de Mayronis], edited in more recent times as: Questão muito útil sobre o objecto de qualquer ciência, e principalmente da Filosofia Natural, ed. M. Pinto de Meneses (Lisbon, 1964). This Question apparently was written in reaction to the Questio an ens mobile sit totius philosophie naturalis subiectum (1480) of the Teatine theologian Nicoletto Vernia.

Apologia Montium Pietatis, seu quaestio an licita sit institutio montis pietatis. ?

Tractatus de incolentibus purgatorium . His est tractatus animas quas expia ignis Summum Pontificem solvere posse docens (Venice, 1500).

Lectura in Librum Primum Scripti Oxoniensis Scoti (Venice, 1527).

Lectura super Quatuor Libros Sententiarum: MS Venice, Franciscan Convent Library ?

Questiones Quodlibeticae in Via Scoti: MS Valladolid, Praemonstratensian Convent Library ? [apparently together with commentaries by Girolamo Pardo on the Sentences commentary of Robert Holcot]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 20; Sbaralea Supplementum (ed. 1806), 309-310 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1908-1936) I, 327-328; J. de Carvalho, ‘Cultura filosófica e científica’, in: História de Portugal edição monumental (Barcelos, 1932) IV, 514-515; J. de Carvalho, ‘Gomes de Lisboa e o averroista Nicoletta Vernia’, Estudos sobre a cultura portuguesa do século XV (Coimbra, 1949), 269-282; I. de S. Ribeiro, ‘Autores Franciscanos Portugueses (filósofo-teólogos) do século XV’, Itinerarium (1960), 223-225; 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),495-496; Artur Moreira de Sá, Humanistas portugueses em Itália: subsídios para o estudo de Frei Gomes de Lisboa, dos dois Luíses Teixeiras, de João de Barros e de Henrique Caiado (Lisbon, 1983); José Francisco Preto Meirinhos, ‘Metaphysics and the ‘modus multiplicandi scientias’ in the ‘Questio perutilis de cuiuscumque scientie subiecto’ by Gomes of Lisbon (c.1497)’, in: New Essays on Metaphysics as Scientia transcendens: Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Medieval Philosophy, held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 15 - 18 August 2006, ed. Roberto Hofmeister Pich (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2007), 321-342.

Gonsalvus de Carrión (Gonzalo de Carrión, fl. late 14th cent.)

OM. Spanish friar. Teacher of philosophy and master of theology. During his studies at Paris, he transcribed several (up to 15?) questions of Petrus Thomas’ Quaestiones de Ente, as well as several Quaestiones Variae (by Peter of Navarra and others).

works

Quaestiones de Ente Petri Thomae: MS, BAV Vat.Lat. 2190 ff. 2r-62v. After some time, the manuscript entered into the hands of friar Nicolaus de Florentio (friar from the Roman province)

Quaestiones Variae: MS BAV, Vat.Lat. 2190 ff. 62v-72v.

literature

Codices Vaticani Latini. Codices 2118-2192, ed. Anneliese Maier (Città el Vaticano, 1961), 220 & 224; Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Repertorio de franciscanos españoles graduados en teología durante la edad media II’, Repertorio de historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 429.

Gonsalvus de Valdivia Tenorio (Gonsalvus Tenorius/Gonzalo Tenorio/Gonzalo de Valdivia Tenorio, fl. ca. 1660)

OFM. Peruvian friar. Born in 1602. Entered the order after studying at the Colegio de San Martín Friar from the Doce Apóstoles province, Peru (Creole descent). Theologian, provincial minister and general comissarius (1650). Eschatological thinker. Author of a massive, 16 [22?]-volume Compendium/Ideas, some type of exegetical treatise, using biblical readings to expound at length on the glory of the new World as the chosen land of the immaculate Virgin, developing an utopian idea of a universal American Christian empire. Although the work was ready for press and had passed inquisitorial vetting, it was never printed, as the junta de teólogos de la Immaculada apparently forbade it. he died after 1675.

works

Compendium ideae et totius operis elaborati ab A. R. P. Fr. Gundisalvo Tenorio: Madrid, Biblioteca del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, MSS 446-467.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 21-24.AIA 15 (1955), 466-479; Antonio Eguíluz, ‘Fr. Gonzalo Tenorio, OFM, y sus teorías escatológico-providencialistas sobre las Indias’, Missionalia hispanica 16 (1959), 257-322; Antonio Eguíluz, ‘Father Gonzalo Tenorio, O.F.M. and His Providentialist Eschatological Theories on the Spanish Indies’, The Americas, A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 16:4 (April 1960), 329-356 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/978992 ]; A. Eguíluz, ‘La predestinación absoluta al reino escatológico de Cristo, según Fr. Gonzalo Tenorio, OFM’, Verdad y Vida 19 (1961), 491-514; John Leddy Phelan, The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World, 2nd Ed. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970), 122-125; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 183 (no. 818) & 188 (no. 854); Klaus Reinhardt, Bibelkommentare spanischer Autoren (1500-1700), II: Autoren M-Z (Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1990), 368; Revista Peruana de historia eclesiástica 4 (1995), 157; Jean Delumeau, Une histoire du paradis: Mille ans de bonheur (1995), check!; The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (1998), 20-23; Mariano Delgado, ‘Der Traum von der Universalmonarchie-Zur Danielrezeption in den iberischen Kulturen nach 1492’, in: Europa, Tausendjähriges Reich und Neue Welt: zwei Jahrtausende Geschichte und Utopie in der Rezeption des Danielbuches, ed. Mariano Delgado, Klaus Koch & Edgar Marsch (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag Freiburg, Schweiz, 2003), 252-305 (esp. 291ff.).

Gonsalvus Herrera (Gonzalo Herrera, ca. 1610-1665)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar. Travelled to Peru and becamer a member of the Franciscan Peruvian province of the Twelve Apostles (Doce Apóstoles del Perú). In 1630, he was active in the San Luis de Cañete friary. Thereafter, he was elected provincial minister and consultant for the Sacrum Officium. During his provincialate, he issued a set of Constituciones de la Santa Provincia de los Doce Apóstoles de Lima (Lima, 1653). He also showed himself to be an influential preacher. According to some stories, his sermon of 8 December 1654 was instrumental for choosing the Immaculate Virgin as the patron saint for the town of Lima (Oración evangélica en defensa de la Inmaculada, Lima, 1655).

works

Constituciones de la Santa Provincia de los Doce Apóstoles de Lima (Lima, 1653).

Oración evangélica en defensa de la Inmaculada (Lima, 1655).

To be continued.

literature

Pedro de Alva y Astorgo, Militia Immaculatae Conceptionis Virginis Mariae (Louvain, 1663); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) II, 50; AIA 16 (1921), 152; AIA 34 (1931), 469; AIA 37 (1934), 456; AIA 2^nd ser. 5 (1945), 99; AIA 15 (1955), 314; AIA 19 (1959), 68; AIA 25 (1965), 316; AIA 27 (1968), 444-445; AIA 41 (1981), 128; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 128 (no. 413); M. Acebal Luján, ‘8. Herrera’, DHGE XXIV, 172.

Gonsalvus Hispanus (early 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar and member of the Santiago de Compostela province, about whom not much is known. Alleged editor of a Speculum Fratrum Minorum (Valencia, 1523).

works

Speculum fratrum minorum per quendam reverendum patrem cum esset provintialis fratrum minorum provintie sancti Jacobi editum (s.l., 1523). Present in the British Library and accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 21.

Gonsalvus Hispanus de Balboa (Gondisalvus de Vallebona/Gonzalo de Balboa y Valcarcel, ca. 1255, Galicia - 13. 04, 1313, Paris)

OM. Spanish (Galician) friar. Theologian and minister general. Studied theology in Paris and became baccalaureus sententiarum in 1288. Provincial minister of Santiago. Master of theology in Paris, ca. 1297. Regent master in the general studium of Paris (1302-1303). Became minister general in 1304. Active as a reformer of the order (and as such praised in De Planctu Ecclesiae of Alvaro Pelayo): promotion of studies, and suppression of the spirituals. Active in the council of Vienna.

works

Conclusiones Metaphysicae: Oxford Bodl. Lyell 79 ff. 79-112v; MS Cambridge, Peterhouse UC 48; Conclusiones Metaphysicae (Venice, 1503; Lyons, 1639; Paris, 1891 (as a work of Duns Scotus)).

Quaestiones Disputatae et de Quolibet, ed. L. Amorós, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi IX (Quaracchi, 1935). Cf. AIA 45 (1985), 398-401.

Tractatus de Praeceptis regulae, ed. F. Elizondo, Laurentianum, 25 (1984), 192-201. Older editions are to be found in the Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511) and in the Firmamentum Trium Ordinum S. Francisci (Venice, 1513).

Utrum Laus Dei in Patria sit Nobilior eius Dilectione in Via (Contra Echardum de Hochheim). Ed. M. Grabmann, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaft, 32 (Munich, 1927), 106-111. Reprinted in M. Grabmann, Gesammelte Akademieabhandlungen, I, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes, N.F. 25 (Paderborn-Munich: Schöningh, 1979), 366-371.

Utrum Laus Dei in Patria sit Nobilior eius Dilectione in Via (Solutio Rationum Equardi), ed. J. Koch, in: Maître Eckhart, Lateinische Werke, V (Stuttgart, 1936), 64-71.

Quaestio Magistri Consalvi Continens Rationes magistri Echardi utrum Laus Dei in Patria sit Nobilior eius Dilectione in Via. Les ‘quaestiones parisienses’, no. 1 et no. 2, ed. A. de Libera, in: Maître Eckhart à Paris, une critique de l'ontothéologie, ed. E. Zumbrunn, Z. Kaluza et.al. (Paris: PUF, 1984), 200-223. Cf. K. Ruh, Initiation à Maître Eckhart, théologien, prédicateur, mystique, Vestigia 23 (Paris, 1997), 22-24.

Responsio ad Propositionem Procuratorum Narbonensium ‘Sanctissime Pater’ et ad Responsionem Raymundi Gaufredi et Sociorum ‘Ad Articulos per Santissimum Patrem’ (1309), ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 18-20.

Impugnatio Petitionum Quas Domino Papae Fecerunt Raymundus Gaufredi et Socii ‘Cum tota Causa Commotionis’, ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 19.

Iustificatio Prohibitionis Librorum Petri I. Olivi, ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 19.

Declaratio Communitatis circa Materiam de Usu Paupere, AFH 10 (1917), 116-122.

Communitatis Responsi ‘Religiosi Viri’ ad Rotulum Ubertini de Casali, AFH 7 (1914), 659-675 & 8 (1915), 56-80.

Tractatus de Usu Paupere [?], AFH 10 (1917), 116-122.

Responsio ad Accusationem Ubertini (…), ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 22.

Responsio ad Replicationem Ubertini (…), ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 23.

Responsio ad Eandem Replicationem Ubertini (…), ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 23.

Tractatus de Formali Ratione Voti Fratrum, ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 23.

Declaratio ‘Quae Sint in Regula Beati Francisci Praeceptoria et Aequipolentia Istis’, ed. Denifle & Ehrle, Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 3 (1885), 23; Annales Minorum VI, 191-192, n. 4.

Litterae ad Fr. Antonium, provincialem ministrum Thusciae: MS Alvernia 20.VIII.1304; Annales Minorum VI, 45, n. 15.

More pastoral and administrative letters by Gonzalo de Balboa are listed by Sbaralea and above all in: 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), 15-16.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 20-21; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 310; Auguste Pisvin, ‘Die Intuitio und ihr metaphysischer Wert nach Vitalis de Furno († 1327) und Gonsalvus Hispanus († 1313)’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 12 (1949), 147-162; Jorge J.E. García, ‘The doctrine of the possible intellect in Gonsalvus Hispanus' Question XIII’, Franciscan Studies 29 (1969), 5-36; Klaus Reinhardt, ‘Balboa y Valcarcel, Gonzalo de, (Gonsalvus Hispanus)’, Lexikon des Mittelalters I (1980), 1361; M. Andrés (ed.), Historia de la teología española, Vol. 1 (Madrid, 1983), 474-478; Vicente Muñiz Rodríguez, ‘Gonzalo Hispano, mediación entre San Buenaventura y J. Duns Escoto en la crítica a la teoría cognoscitiva de la iluminación’, Cuadernos salmantinos de filosofía 13 (1986), 153-172: Fernando Dominguez, ‘Gonsalvus Hispanus’, LThK, 3 (1995), 832-833; Stephen F. Brown, ‘Gonsalvus Hispanus (Gonsalvo of Spain) (ca. 1255-1313)’, in: Historical dictionary of medieval philosophy and theology (Lanham, Md., 2007), 127-128; Manuel Lázaro Pulido, ‘Filosofía y teología em Gonzalo Hispano. Comntribución hispana en el año de Juan Duns Escoto’, Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico 13 (septiembre 2008), 31-52; Bruno W. Häuptli, ‘Gonsalvus von Balboa (Gonsalvus de Hispania, Gonsalvus Hispanus, Gonsalvs Gallaecus (…))’, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 30 (2009), 505-509; Michael B. Sullivan, The debate over spiritual matter in the late thirteenth century: Gonsalvus Hispanus and the Franciscan tradition from Bonaventure to Scotus, Ph.D. Diss. (Catholic University of America, 2010) [ http://search.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/365436717/135AA241C3A14EC3140/328?accountid=14632 ]

Gonsalvus Mendez (Gonzalo Méndez, 1505-1582)

OFM. Spanish friar from Guadalajara. Studied at Alcalá de Henares and joined the Franciscans at the Santa María de Jesús friary of Villalón, receiving his novitiate instruction from Diego Ordoñez. Gonzalo traveled to Guatemala in 1539/40, sponsored with several others by bishop Marroquín. Gonzalo apparently was a very humble man and at first did not want to be ordained priest. Once the bishop overcame his qualms, Gonzalvo became a missionary, first in Atitlan, where he helped build a rudimentary friary and a church. Later both missionary, custos and definitor in Yucatan, and in 1563 or 1564, he became the successor of Diego de Landa as provincial minister of Yucatan and Guatemala. Gonzalvo helped erect the new Santísimo Nombre de Jesús province of Guatemala in 1565 and was its provincial when he died, on May 5, 1582. Gonzalvo was known for his interest in indigenous languages (notably Kiché, Kachiquel and Zutugil) and cultural artifacts, and he stimulated the production of chronicles and dictionaries by his fellow friars.

works

Idioma zutugil. Mentioned in Vázquez II, 20.

Catecismos, diccionarios y explicación de la doctrina cristiana en el idioma zutugil. Mentioned in Vázquez II, 20.

literature

Francisco Vázquez, Crónica de la Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, 2nd Ed., Bibliotea “Goathemala”, 14-17, 4 Vols (Guatemala, 1937-1944) II, 20, 27; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 54-55; Manuel de Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas americanas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del siglo XVI’, in: Actas del II Congreso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVI) (Madrid: DEIMOS, 1988), 544.

Gordianus Wasowski (fl. 18th cent.)

OFMConv. Polish friar. Guardian and provincial definitor.

literature

Filip Wolanski, ‘Reminescencje konfliktow miedzynarodowych w kazaniach franciszkanskich epoki saskiej’, in: Polska wobec wielkich konfliktow w Europie nowozytnej, ed. Ryszarda Skowrona (Cracow: Societas Vistulana, 2009), 125-129.

Gosmarus de Verona (Gosmario di/ Gosmari da Verona, fl. early 14^th cent.)

OM. Spanish friar from Verona. Apparently lector of theology and preacher in the Ravenna convent, around 1303-1304 (he was in possession of an abbreviation of Bonaventure’s In III Sent. (with additional conments and glosses). This manuscript now can be found under the signature MS Padua, Bibl. Antoniana cod. 128). On request of the newly appointed archbishop Rainaldo de Concoregio, Gosmario wrote a letter-booklet on the virtues and the obligations of priests and preachers. This letter-booklet was brought to the archbishop by friar and lector Gondoaldo da Ferrara. After the archbishop sent a letter of thanks, in which several spiritual issues were addressed as well, Gosmario answered with a letter-booklet De bono animae.

works

Lettera de perfectione et virtutibus praelatorum: Check! For an initial description, see Cenci, 1988, 54-55.

Lettera de bono animae: MS Arezzo, Biblioteca della Città 325 ff. 2r-34v. [Cf. Cenci, 1988, 64ff. & 67-71 (partial transcription)]. For an edition see now: Lettera sul bene dell’anima, ed. Edoardo Ferrarini (prefazione Emmanuele Fontana) (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2020) [Review Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 113:3-4 (2020), 646-649]. The letter is predominantly based on a series of ‘verba Augustini super Psalmos,’ and consists of five major parts. The first part proves in eight chapters that ‘solum deum esse anime bonum.’ The second part ‘de humilitatis virtute morboque superbie agitur, et habet capitula quinque.’ The third part deals shortly with materials already dealt with in the Lettera de perfectione et virtutibus praelatorum (to which Gosmario refers). The fourth part ‘agitur de regno et civitate Dei et civibus eius, et habet capitula X.’ The fifth part ‘pauca de virtute orationis et caritatis continetur et quedam de iusticia, quam acquirit homo per opera virtuosa, et habet XII capitula non adnumerata conclusione epistole.’

literature

C. Cenci, ‘Lettera ‘De bono animae’ di fr. Gosmario da Verona al B. Rainaldo, Arcivescovo di Ravenna’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 81 (1988), 50-71; Chiara Mercuri, ‘Gosmari, Gosmario (Gosmario da Verona; Gusmarius, Gosmarius, Gusmerius, Cosmarius, Gusmanus, Gusmanius, Gusinarius’, DBI 58, 124-125

Gosoinus (Gosvinus/Gossuin, fl. 1272)

OM. French Franciscan friar active as a preacher in Paris. He should be distinguished from Eustace d'Arras, under whose name Schneyer lists Gosoinus' sermons in Paris BN Lat. 16481-2 compiled by Raoul de Châteauroux.

works

Sermones: MS Paris BN Lat. 16481-2, sermons no. 30 & 57 [56? According to Sbaralea].

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 310-311; A. Lecoy de La Marche, La chaire française au Moyen Âge, spécialement au XIIIe siècle, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1886), 507; Schneyer, Repertorium II, 44, nos. 36-37 (under Eustachius d'Arras); Bériou, L'avènement des maîtres de la Parole II, 754-755.

Goswinus Capuccinus/Goswinus de Westphalia (fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German friar from the Cologne province. Preacher. Issued a devotional manual in the German vernacular based on teachings of Birgitta of Sweden in Hildesheim: Jodocus Henricus Cromer, 1676.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 24.

'Got' de Langelo (fl. first half 14th cent.)

OM. German friar. Lector at Erfurt.

works

Expositio Evangelii de Passione Domini Beati Iohannis: London, Univ. College Odgen 2 ff. 49-68v (an. 1341)

Gotthardus Weber (Gotthard Weber, 1734-1803)

OFMCap. Swiss Capuchin friar. Born in Zug on 27 September 1734 as son of Joachim Leonz and Maria Anna Keiser. Following an education at the Zug gymnasium and the Jesuit college in Luzern, he entered the Capuchin order in Altdorf in 1753. After his religious formation, he became lector of philosophy and theology in Stans (1764), lector of theology in Luzern (1767), and guardian in the friaries of Sursee, Olten, Baden and Solothurn. He was secretary for the provincial minister between 1783-1786, and between 1789-1792, and became provincial minister himself in 1795, a position he held until 1802. As provincial minister he negociated the survival of the Capuchin order province during times of revolutionary turmoil and also stimulated the creation and expansion of convent libraries.

works

Kurze Traktat über die Indulgenzen (Zug, 1781).

Historisch-kritische Abhandlung von dem Portiunkelablasse (Einsiedeln, 1784).

Kurze Lebensbeschreibung des seligen Laurentius von Brundus, Ordensgeneral der Kapuziner nebst den Gebethe welches (..) Pius VI. vorgeschrieben hat (1784).

Frage: Hat d. Religios Ursache zu klagen, wenn man ihn aus s. Kloster jagt? (1786).

Rigyberg der Himmelskönigin eingeweiht unter dem Titel Maria zum Schnee, oder: Ursprung der heiligen Kapelle sammt einigen alldort gehaltenen Gnaden und Gutthaten: mit beygesetzter Marianischen Wochenandacht, zur Erbittung eines seligen Endes und nützlichen Messgebethern (1789/.../1829/.../1894 [7th ed.]).

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), 24; 'Gotthard Weber', in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz [https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/026275/2012-11-16/ (last accessed 23 October 2021)]

‘Graeculus’ (Teuto von Österreich, early fourteenth century)

OM. Austrian friar (probably). Active ca. 1300. He was a prolific preacher, whose activities apparently also extended to the Saxony province. The name ‘Graeculus’ is found in the sermon manuscripts. It is not known whether this is a nickname or not. His sermons show the use of Berthold von Regensburg’s Rusticanus, the sermons of Jacopo da Voragine, and those of contemporaries, like Konrad von Sachsen and Peregrinus von Oppeln. The sermons of ‘Graeculus’ follow the divisions/distinctions and dilatatio structure of the sermo moderna, and contain numerous exempla, as well as similes and allegories drawn from the world of nature [relation with works of Bartholomaeus Anglicus; Bertram von Ahlen etc.?]

works

Sermones de Sanctis [200 sermons for the feast days of the whole year]: a.o. MSS St. Florian, Stiftsbibliothek 289 (mid 14th cent.); München, clm 9730, 269, 13446; Prague UB XX (Admont 569) B. 8; etc. [See especially Schneyer, Rep. II 236, for an overview of 28 manuscripts]

Sermones de Tempore per Circulum Anni [182 sermons]: a.o. MSS Vienna BN Lat 859, 1645 (a. 1348), 166, 3865, 5062; Graz UB 275, 566, 726, 1137; Linz, Universitätsbibliothek IV 22 (a. 1341); St. Florian, Stiftsbibliothek XI 342 & XI 289; Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek 130 (a. 1388) [for more manuscripts, see aside from Franz (1907), especially Schneyer, Rep. II, 220ff.]

Sermones de Sanctis & Sermones de Tempore per Circulum Anni [Manuscripts containing both collections]: MSS Graz, 730 [?]; Klosterneuburg, 52; St. Florian 239(?), 259, 263, 289; Vienna, BN Lat 1654

Sermones de Tempore super Epistolas [? see for the ascription Franz (1907), 149f.]

literature

A. Franz, Drei deutsche Minoritenprediger aus den XIII. und XIV. Jahrhundert (Freiburg, 1907), 107-157; M. Bihl, AFH 2 (1909), 330-333; Zawart, 314; Schneyer, Rep. II, 206-240; K. Ruh, ‘Greculus (Graeculus)’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon ²III, 231-232.

Gratianus (mid fourteenth century)

OM. Italian friar. Lector bibliae in Bologna in 1345.

works

Dialogus cum fr. Aegidio: MS Naples, Naz. XII.F.32, f. 183rv

literature

Piana, Chartularium, AF, 11 (1970), 18, n. 23.

Gratianus Brixianus/Brixiensis (Graziano da Brescia, d. 1506)

OMConv. Italian Conventual friar. Professor of Theology in via Scoti at Padua, 1477 and at Bologna, 1482 [?]. Several years, until 1488 provincial of the Romagna. Lector regens at Padua, 1488-1491 and after. Famous Lenten preacher, supporter of the Montes Pietatis and defender of these institutions against the Dominicans. Scotist, editor of Scotus' Oxiense. Wrote also a commentary on the Sentences of Scotus, book 2 of which was published. He also edited works by Guiral Ot (Gerardus Odonis).

works

In Lib. I-II Ioannis Duns Scoti: MSS Vat.Lat. Ottob. 476; Vat. Lat., 107 ff. 2-211.

(as editor) Scriptum super librum ethicorum editum a fratre Geraldo Odonis de Ordine fratrum minorum magistro in theologia, ed. Graziano da Brescia (Impressa Brixie ad expensas Sp. domini Bonifacii de Manerva, 1482). Hence an edition of the commentary on Aristotle's Ethics by the 14th-century Franciscan Guiral Ot.

(as editor) Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Scoti cum textu Petri Lombardi, ed. Graziano da Brescia, (Venice, Bernardino Rizzio da Novara, 1490). [T. 1: Tabula Scoti., 24 f., Sin.: [1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6,7,8]8, [9, 10, 11]6, [12, 13, 14]6 -- T. 2: Primus sententiarum doctoris subtilis scoti., 186 f., Sin.: a-y8, z10., 1490. die. 17. mensis Julij -- T. 3: Secundum sententiarum doctoris subtilis Scoti., 136 f., Sin.: 2a-2r8., 1490. die. 3º. martij -- T. 4: Tertius sententiarum doctoris subtilis Scoti., 102 f., Sin.: A-M8, N6., 1490. die. [ri?]. aprilis -- T. 5: Quartus sententiarum doctoris subtilis Scoti., 208 f., Sin.: 2A-2Z8, 2[et]8, 2[cum]8, 2[rum]8., 1490. die 3º. mensis Noue[m]bris -- T. 6: Quotlibeta doctoris subtilis Scoti., 62 f., Sin.: 3a-3g8, 3h6. Cf. also the remarks by Sbaralea. See for (digital) availability for instance https://minerva.usc.es/xmlui/handle/10347/7045, as well as https://data.cerl.org/istc/id00382000 ]

(as editor) Quaestiones quodlibetales Scoti & Tractatus de primo principio, ed. Graziano da Brescia (Venice, Bernardino Rizzio da Novara, 1490). This is linked with the work mentioned above. Cf. also the remarks by Sbaralea.

(as editor) Lectura super Librum Secundum Sententiarum Scoti (Carpi: Benedictus Dulcibellum, 1506). The volumes In tertium Sententiarum and In quartam Sententiarum were never published?

Consilium de Mutui Datione Communitatis Perusinae et Communitatis Mantuanae (Venice: Joannis Tacuinus de Tridino, ca. 1500).

literature

Wadding, 101; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 24; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 311 & Sbaralea, Supplementum, I, 328ff; Weggerich, Franz. Stud., 29 (1942), 154-156; C. Piana, Ricerche su le Università di Bologna e di Parma nel secolo XV (Quaracchi, 1963), 61, 67, 151, 243, 274; C. PianAa, Nuove ricerche su le Università di Bologna e di Parma (Quaracchi, 1966), 220f; A. Poppi, 'Il contributo dei formalisti padovani al problema delle distinzioni', in: Problemi e figure della scuola scotista del Santo (Padua, 1966), 663-668; A. Poppo, 'Per una storia della cultura nel convento del Santo dal XIII al XIX secolo', Quaderni per la storia dell'Università di Padova 3 (1970), 13; Franco Bacchelli, ‘Graziano da Brescia’, DBI LIX (2002), 6-7; Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Catania: atti del convegno di studio (Catania 21-22 dicembre 2007), ed. Nicoletta Grisanti (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008), 88.

Gratianus de Francia (Grazia di Francia, fl. early 16th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Guardian of the Santa Maria Gratiarum friary of Senigallia 1515-1516, in or around 1522 and in 1533. Initial chronicler of a Cronachetta (started in 1522), which is both a local chronicle, and a convent chronicle with a wide variety of info (also on the Della Rovere family), which was continued by others.

works

Cronachetta: MS Falconara, Archivio Provinciale dei Frati Minori delle Marche. [check!] For an edition of the first 24 folios, see: Maela Carletti, ''Questo libretto ho scripto io': frate Grazia di Francia e la chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Senigallia', Picenum Seraphicum n.s. 29 (2014), 61-104.

literature

M. Bonvini Mazzanti, 'Frate Grazia di Francia storico dei Della Rovere tra XV e XVI secolo', Studi Senigalliesi, Bollettino della Società degli amici dell’arte e della cultura (1985-1986 [Senigallia, 1988]); Maela Carletti, ''Questo libretto ho scripto io': frate Grazia di Francia e la chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Senigallia', Picenum Seraphicum n.s. 29 (2014), 61-104.

Gratianus de Mongo (Gracián del Monge/del Monje, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. According to a list alluded to in Vázquez IV, 20, Gracián del Monje was a native of Alfaro (Logroño), who had taken the habit in Guatemala in 1657. He was a retiree in the Santiago de Atitlán friary by 1690. Before that he had filfilled several positions, such as that of novice master and guardian of the Guatemala friary. He was known for his knowledge of Kiche, Cakchiquel and Tzutuhil. Apparently the author of several works, but none of them have as yet been traced.

works

Sermones en Cakchiquel (1674). Mentioned by Sánchez García, 12.

literature

Francisco Vázquez, Crónica de la Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, 2nd Ed., Bibliotea “Goathemala”, 14-17, 4 Vols (Guatemala, 1937-1944) IV, 20; D. Sánchez García, Catálogo de los escritores franciscanos de la Provincia Seráfica del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala (Guatemala, 1920), 12; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 56; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 459-460.

Gratianus Montfortius (Gratien de Montfort/Denis de Formond, c. 1580-1650)

OFMCap. French friar. Member of the Burgundy province. Teacher of philosophy. He died at Salins on 21 november 1650. Wrote also under pseudonym.

works

La tarantule du guenon de Genève, ci-devant nommé Léandre, et à présent Constance Guenard, hérétique, apostat, dévoyé de la vraie Foi, composé par Denis de FERMOND, théologien bourguignon (Saint-Mihiel: François Dubois, 1620). Apparently present in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Besançon. Cf. Catalogue de la bibliothèque publique de Besançon (1850), 442 (no. 2796)

Axiomata philosophica, quae passim ex Aristotele circumferri et in disputationum circulis ventilari solent; Multiplici distinctionum genere, variaque eruditionis suppelectile illustrata (...) Opus novum et antiquum, ex reconditis probatissimorum Auctorum monumentis erutum, et in optimum ordinem per litteras digestum (Antwerp: Plantin, 1926). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon (check Numelyo), via the Post-Reformation Digital Library, and via Google Books,.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1650), >>; Wadding, Annales Minorum XXV (ed. Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 1934), 393; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 24; Antoine-Alexandre Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes en français IV, 17, 212.

Gratus Bscheider (fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFM. German friar from Strasbourg. Member of the Upper Germany (Strasbourg).

works

Neues Palästina: Mit biblisch-, historisch- und sittlichen Anmerkungen in dreijen Theilen geschildert (Augsburg: Johann Georg Bullmann, 1788). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Das heilige Land: nach seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande geschildert (Augsburg: Nicolaus Doll, 1792/1794). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books. It is a concise history of Palestine from antique times until his own times.

literature

Röhricht, Bibliotheca Geographica Palaestinae, 327; 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), 194.

Gregorius Alberti (Gregorio Alberti da Massa, d. 1637)

TOR. Italian friar from Massa (Umbria). Entered the regular tertiaries in the Umbria province. Doctor of theology and esteemed preacher. General definitor for the order of Regular Tertiaries in 1628. Elected general minister in Rome, on 3 June 1634. He died in this function (shortly after his second election to the post) at Piacenza on 15 September 1637. One of his sermon collections survives.

works

Sermoni varii/Prediche (Piacenza, 1633).

Eulogium Piacensis/Oratio de laudibus Placentiae (Piacenza: Bazachi, 1635).

literature

Bordoni, Chronologium Tertii Ordinis S. Francisci (Parma, 1658), 317-318; Juan de San Antonio Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 24; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806), 311; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (Venice: B.B. Merlo, 1846), 626; Miscellanea Francescana 10-12 (1906), 94.

Georgius Benignus Doglioni (Giorgo Benigno Doglioni da Belluno/Georgius Utinensis, fl. 2nd half 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Scion of the noble Doglioni family in Belluno. Master of theology, commissarius of the Polish province, visitator for non-Italian provinces and inquisitor. Appointed bishop of Belluno [?Bellinense] in 1594 and suffragan bishop of Bressanone in Tirol. Allegedly the author of a Tractatus de oficio fidei inquisitoris. In the works of Wadding and Juan de San Antonio, this work is ascribed to Georgius Utinensis, a Conventual friar from the San Antonio province in Italy, and as a master of theology active as an inquisitor. It is quite possible that Giorgo Benigno Doglioni and Georgius Utinensis are one and the same.

works

Tractatus de oficio fidei inquisitoris.

literature

Franchino, Bibliosophia, 174, 316; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 306.

Gregorius Angelerio (Gregorio Angelerio/Angelico da Panagia, d. 1662)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Angelieri family at Panaja (Calabria). Joined the Capuchins in the Reggio province. Active as a preacher and as provincial definitor. Died at Naples on 15 January 1662, where he was busy publishing his various works since the early 1650s. Due to his death, most of his works never reached the printing press.

works

Il pretioso tesoro del sangue di Cristo, raccolto dalla Sacra Scrittura, et da Sacri Dottori in Quaranta Prediche (Naples: Francesco Savio, 1651).

De Praeparatione Catholica Narrationes Septem, Abunde Denarrantes Fabulationes Atheorum, Gentilium, Hebraeorum, Mahumeti, Haereticorum, Schismaticorum, et Catholicae Fidei Veritatem (Naples: Francesco Savio, 1653).

Conformitates Miraculorum Seraphicae Religionis Capuccinarum, cum miraculis Sanctorum veteris et Novi Testamenti libri 20. Apparently never published. Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

Opuscula de Deo, de Anima Rationali, de Logica, de Phisica, de Elocutione oratoria, de Grammatica, De Demonstratione Catholica libri duo. Apparently never published. Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

De Vero Deo, & de Vera Ecclesia Dei. Apparently never published. Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

Christo Crocifisso, dipinto in uno Hinno poetato dalla Divina Poetessa Maria Vergine sua Madre (...). Apparently never published. Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

La fontana del Sole, che con le illuminose acque delle sue cinque canali, rallegra la Città di Dio della Serafica Religione de Frati Minori Capuccini di S. Francesco. Apparently never published. Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

Il Pretioso Tesoro delle lagrime di Christo, e di Maria Vergine sua Madre, 3 Vols. Never published? MS Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

La Salve pietosa, composta dal Padre delle Lettere Agostino Santo, con la quale egli adorando saluta tutte l'afflitte membra del delicato Corpo dell'appassionato Giesù Christo nostro redentore, in quattordici discorsi esposta, 3 Vols. Published? MS Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

Il Torchio del Sangue di Christo, spiegato in cinquantacinque Sermoni. Published? MS Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

Sermoni quatragesimali, 3 Vols. Published? MS Once present in the Capuchin friary in Santa Panagia (Syracuse).

To be continued

literature

Niccolo Toppi, Biblioteca napoletana, et apparato a gli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli, e del Regno delle famiglie, terre, citta, e religioni, che sono nello stesso Regno. Dalle loro origini, per tutto l'anno 1678 (Naples; Antonio Bulifon, 1678), 178; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 24-25; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747); LexCap.

Gregorius Bolivar (Gregorius de Bolivar/Gregorio Bolivar, d. 1631)

OFM. Spanish friar from Plasencia. Travelled to the Franciscan province of the Twelve Apostles (Lima). Worked for ca. 20 years as a missionary among the indigenous populations of Peru and Bolivia. In 1631, they were executed by the Chiriguano Indians. Aside from an interesting letter to the Congregatio Propagandae Fidei on the conversion of native peoples, Gregorio wrote several historical works, as well as an advisory treatise/letter for the recently created Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei, also concerning the missionary reconquest of the Virginias.

works

Carta/Littera: MS Archivio Congr. Prop. Fid., Scritture antiche 189 ff. 62-74.

Historia Americi Orbis. Check!

Relacion (1625). See: D. Purificación Gato Castaño, 'El informe del P. Gregorio de Bolívar a la Congregación de Propaganda Fide (1623)', Archivo Ibero-Americano 50:197-200 (1990), 493-548. Also accessible via Dehesa. Repositorio institucional Universidad de Extremadura [https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi8guzf2eXtAhVEZN8KHRX8C3MQFjAAegQIARAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdehesa.unex.es%2Fbitstream%2F10662%2F5821%2F1%2FAnuAcaBolHisEcl_2010_105.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1JyDniWRmk2Whe5sVc6IuU ]
See also: Father Gregorio Bolivar's 1625 Report: A Vatican Source for the History of Early Virginia, ed. Edward L. Bond, Jan L. Perkowski and Alison P. Weber, inThe Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 110:1 (2002), 69-86 [Accessible via JStor].

Tractatus Rationum ad Hispaniae Restaurationem (Madrid, 1626).

To be continued

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Quaracchi, 1934) XXVII, 230, 373-375; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 235; A. Corrado, Il collegio francescano di Tarija (Quaracchi, 1887), 69; M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missione francescane, VII, p. 2 (Prato, 1891), 76; L. Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen, 291, 318; B. Izaguirre, Historia de las misiónes franciscanas, I (Lima, 1922), 84-88; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bolivar’, DHGE IX, 615-616;

Purificación Gato, ‘El informe del P. Gregorio de Bolivar a la Congregación de Propaganda Fide de 1623’, in: Actas del III Congreso Internacional sobre Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 de septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: DEIMOS, 1992), 493-548.

Gregorius Brugensis (Gregorius van Brugge, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Belgian friar. Member of and preacher in the Rijssel (Lille) province.

works

Het leven van den Eerw. pater Archangelus van Schotland, voormaels graef Joris van Lesley, Capucyn en apostelyken zendeling, of wonderbare en gelukkige zending in Engeland en Schotland gedurende de zeventiende eeuw. Eerst in het italiaensch beschreven door den Aertsbisschop en Prins van Ferme, daerna in het fransch door den Eerw. Pater Franciscus Barraut, Procurator generael van de Paters der christelyke leering, en nu in het vlaemsch, door F. Gregorius van Brugge, Capucyn, Nieuwe en verbeterde uytgave (Ghent: P.L. Vereecken, 1847). Accessible via the digital collections of the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 25-26; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 311.

Gregorius Capuccinus (Gregura Kapucina/Iuraj Maljevic, 1734-1812)

OFMCap. Croatian friar.

works

Trojverstna Marie Therezie rimske cesarice i apostolske kraljice krepost vu vremenu mertveckoga obsluzavanja dana 6 Prisinca 1771. imano govorenje (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1781). See also: Carica Marija Terezija u propovijedi Gregura Kapucina (1781): povodom 400. obljetnice dolaska kapucina u Zagreb (1618.-2018), ed. Alojz Jembrih (Zagreb: Hrvatska kapucinska provincija sv. Leopolda Bogdana Mandica, 2018). [On the depiction of Empress Maria Teresa of Austria in the preaching of Gregorio Cappuccino (1781)]

Dar za novo leto 1784 (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1784).

Nebeski pastir pogublenu ovcu isce. U Optuju kod Franje Schürza, 2 Vols. (1785-1795).

Nagovaranje soldatov na vojevanje proti Turcinu (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1787).

Novoga presvetlogu biskupa pozdravljenje, koj je ovcam na veselje (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1788).

Nestranicno vezdasnjega tabora izpisavanje za leto 1788 (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1789).

Najzvisenejsi Joan Erdödy na visoku banalsku cast po Leopoldu izvisen (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1790).

Nestranicno vezdasnjega tabora izpisavanje za leto 1789 (Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1790).

i>Nestranicno vezdasnjega tabora izpisavanje za leto 1790(Zagreb: Jos. K. Kotsche, 1791).

Duhovni kalendar iz knjige Tomasa od Kempis napravljen (Zagreb: Ivanu Trattneru, 1793).

Horvatska od Kristusevoga Narodjenja vitia (Zagreb: Novosellu, 1800).

literature

Bibliografia Hrvatska (Zagreb: Brzotiskom Dragutina Albrechts, 1860), 46-47

Gregorius Cladera (Gregorio Cladera, d. c. 1720)

OFM. Spanish friar from Valencia. Became professor of theology in Yucatan. Later, he attended as a custos the Franciscan general chapter of Rome in 1699. After his return he preached in Mexico. The printed version of these sermons states that he was ‘Lector Jubilado, con exersicio del Rey N. Señor, Qualificador del Santo Officio de la Nueva España, y por la Suprema, y General Inquisicion, Theologo, y Examinador del Tribunal de la Nunciatura de España, Escriptor Publico, Ex-custodio, y Pe. de las dos Provincias de S. Joseph de Yucatan, y del Santissimo Nombre de Jesvs de Guathemala.’ (cited from Eleanor B. Adams).

works

Sermon moral de la Feria Sexta de la Semana primera de Cuaresma predicado en el Hospital de Santiago de los Españoles de Roma (Rome, 1700).

Sermones de las Santissimas Imagenes de Maria Señora Nuestra de Aranzazu y Begoña, en su sumptuossa Capilla, cita en el Convento de Nuestro P.S. Francisco, de la Corte, y Ciudad Mexicana en 19 de Agosto, y 16 de Septiembre año 1703 (Mexico, 1703).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 26; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 25.

Gregorius de Corella (d. 1688)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. He was already a doctor in canon and civil law when he joined the Capuchins in the Navarra province. Developed into a well-respected preacher, and became also known as a defender of his order, who published several apologiae in support of the Capuchin lifestyle.

works

Apologiae variae in defensionem ordinis capuccinorum (Pamplona: Gregorio Zabala, 1683/1684/1685).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 26; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri: che fiorirono nel Francescano istituto, 723.

Gregorius de Furio ab Ischia (Gregorio da Forio d'Ischia, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Naples province. Preacher.

works

Orazioni sacre (Naples, 1763).

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), 24.

Gregorius de Marsala (Gregorio da Marsala/Valenzano/Valentiano, d. 1669)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Sicily (Palermo province). Doctor of theology and preacher; involved with the tribunal of the Sicilian inquisition.

works

Hymnodia Sanctorum Patrum 2 Vols. (Venice, 1646 (=Vol. I) & Messina, 1649 (=Vol. II))

Soccorso ai Moribondi, diviso in due trattati, il primo roguarda gli agonizanti, il secondo i condannati a morte (Messina: Jacopo Matei, 1650-1658). See also: I frati capuccini, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (1988) III, 3403-3634.

Practica Moralis (1664)

Casus Conscientiae

literature

E. da Modica, Catalogo degli scrittori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1930), 92-94; I frati capuccini, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni III, 3403-3634.

Gregorius de Monte Corvino (Gregorio da Montecorvino, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Active in the Naples province. Two-times provincial minister.

works

Conciones Quadragesimales Innumerabilibus Sacrae Scipturae, Sanctorumque Patrum auctoritatibus locupletae, multisque sacrarum, ac prophanarum historiis decoratae. Quae omnes sunt Quinquaginta, & sex, adsunt namque aliquae duplices, & de materiis necessariis, a nemine usquemodo, saltem ita ex professo tractatis (...) (Naples: Secundino Roncalioli, 1648). Accessible via Google Books and via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 27.

Gregorius de Neapoli (early thirteenth century)

OM. Italian friar. Vicarius General in 1219 and Provincial minister of Francia in 1223 (successor of friar Pacificus). According to Eccleston a renowned preacher at Paris. After one of his sermons held at Good Friday in the St. Denis convent, four university masters asked to be accepted into the Franciscan order (such as Haymo of Faversham and Simon of Sanwyr).

works

Sermones: MS Paris BN Nouv. Acq. Lat. 338 f. 148r, 159r.

Sermones de Tempore, ed. M.M. Davy, Les sermons universitaires Parisiens de 1230-31 (Paris, 1931), 350-369. The university sermons held at ‘Jeudi Saint’ (20 March) 1231 and at the Vigil of Easter (22 March 1231), are rather interesting from the perspective of religious instruction. The first sermon, based on the theme ‘vade, lavare septies in Jordano (II. Reg. V, 10) teaches that we should leave sin behind and go to the light, that is leave behind exterior matters, concupiscence and attachment to the world, and shine through our example, and be ready to convert. Subsequently we have to wash ‘the feet’, that is our affections, and that we should wash away our various impurities. We have to wash ourselves in the river Jordan, which is Christ, our source and our judgment, and we have to wash ourselves sevenfold to partake in proper humility, justice, continence, misericordia, love of purity, spiritual devotion, and eternal life. The sermon then concludes: ‘Sic ergo debemus lavari septies, ut sic, lavati et purgati, ad septimum rivulum, scilicet ad vitam aeternam pervenire valeamus.’ The second sermon, based on the theme from Leviticus 26:5: ‘Apprehendet messium tritura vindemiam, et vindemia occupabit sementem, et comedetis panem vestrum in saturitate.’ The bread that will feed us is threefold. It is the bread of absolution from our sins. It is the bread of the reparatio animae in the contemplative and the active life, it is the salvific body of Christ.

Epistolae, ed. Sabatier, in: Speculum Perfectionis, ed. Sabatier, British Society of Franciscan Studies XIII (Manchester, 1928), 332-334.

literature

Eccleston, De Adventu Minorum in Angliam, [provide edition and page numbers!]; A. Callebaut, ‘Essai sur l’origine du premier Couvent des Mineurs à paris et sur l’influence de Grégoire de Naples’, La France Franciscaine 11 (1928), 298ff; Schneyer, II, 246.

Gregorius de Neapoli (Gregorius Neapolitensis/Gregorio di Napoli, d. 1601)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Probably born in Naples before or around 1550. He became a canon of S. Gennaro and studied both civil and canon law. After finishing his graduate studies he joined the Capuchins in 1576. He became a well-esteemed preacher and also held a number of consultant positions. For instance, he was a member of the committee for the revision of books in service of the Archbishop of Naples, and he also was a consultant for the Congregation for the Index in the late 1580s. He wrote several works (see under manuscripts and editions).

works

Istruttione mystica: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale MS VII.E.49.

A list of expurgations of suspicious authors (written by Gregorio and other theological censors): MS Vatican City, BAV, Vat. Lat. 12728 (a Holy Office codex brought over to the Vatican Library in 1922).

Enchiridion ecclesiasticum, Sive praeparatio pertinens ad Sacramentum Poenitentiae, & sacri Ordinis, Editum a R.P.F. Gregorio Capuccino Neapol. (...) (Venice 1585/Venice: eredi Giacomo Anelli de Maria, 1588). It amounts to a confession handbook with significant attentions to doctrinal errors and heresies, etc. Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and via Google Books.

Institutiones ecclesiasticae (1597). In fact a new edition of the Enchiridion ecclesiasticum.

I sedici avertimenti sopra la meditazione del ben morire (Venice 1606).

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

literature

Wadding, Scriptores 101; Sbaraglia, Supplementum I, 330; Tafuri, storia degli scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli III, 276-278; Bonaventura da Sarento, I cappuccini della provincia monastica di Napoli e Terra di Lavoro (S. Agnello di Sorrento, 1879), 38; H. Reusch, Der Index der verbotener Bücher I (Bonn, 1883), 498-501; Analecta O. Fr. Cap. XIII (1897), 25-28; DictThCat VI, p. 1839; Lexicon Capuccinum, 701-702; Jeanne Bignami Odier & José Ruysschaert, La Bibliothèque Vaticane de Sixte IV à Pie XI (Vatican City: BAV, 1973), 263, 278; DHGE XXII, 14.

Gregorius de Quesada (Gregorio de Quesada y Sotomayor, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Long-term lector (obtained the status of lector jubilatus). Consultant for the Inquisition. Provincial definitor of the Doce Apostoli province and visitator of order libraries.

works

Sermon de la Purissima Concepcion de Maria Predicado en Su Octavario Este Año de 1696 Dia Septimo en Que Costeo la Fiesta el Ilustre Tribunal del Consulado (Lima: Josefo de Contreras, 1696/re-issued in the Forgotten Books collection in 2016).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 32.

Gregorius de Reggio Emilia (Gregorio da Reggio, d. 1614)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Botanist and priest from the Bolognese province. Travelled through Italy and Tirol to collect plants. He built a botanic garden in his home convent (Monte Calvario at Bologna) and corresponded with other botanists throughout Europe. Several of his letters survive, as well as his commentary on American plants and animals. He died in Piacenza.

works

Lettere di Fra Gregorio da Reggio, cappuccino e botanico del tardo Rinascimento, ed. Giuseppe Olmi, in: Musa musaei: Studies on scientific instruments and collections in honour of Mara Miniati, Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi/Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, 49 (Florence: L.S. Olschki, 2003), 117ff. For his letters see also Leiden University Library, VUL 101.

literature

DHGE XXII, 28; V. Mazzelli, ‘Il padre cappuccino Gregorio da Reggio celebre botanico del secolo XVI-XVII’, Bolletino storico bibliografico francescano I (1930), 23-27 & II (1931), 64; Donato da S. Giovanni in Persiceto, Biblioteca dei Frati Minori cappuccini dell provincia di Bologna (1535-1946) (Budrio, 1949), 321ff.; Florike Egmond, The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610 (2010), passim (with references to letters and documents); Florike Egmond, 'Into the Wild: Botanic Fieldwork in the Sixteenth Century', in: Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural, 166-211 (passim)

Gregorius de Rives (Grégoire de Rives, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar active in the Avignon region and member of the S. Louis province. Younger brother of Dionysius de Rives.

works

Epitome canonum conciliorum, in locos communes per alphabetum digesta (...) ab apostolis usque ad nos (...) (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1662/Lyon: heritiers de de Benoit Coral, 1663). The Lyon edition is accessible via Google Books.

Historia omnium conciliorum, tam generalium, quam provincialium, cum subscriptione praecipuorum patrum, maxime Galliarum (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1663).

Conciliabula tum Schismaticorum, tum Acatholicorum, cum Controversia Historiva, & declarationibus locorum difficilium in Historia Ecclesiastica (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1663).

All works by Grégoire de Rives on Councils and council texts were apparently issued together in: Epitome canonum Conciliorum in locos communes per alphabetum digesta, ab Apostolis usque ad nos. Breuis historia omnium Conciliorum, tum generalium, tum Prouincialium: (...) Conciliabula tum schismaticorum, tum haereticorum. His accessit Controuersia historica, et pro corollario, Declaratio vocum difficilium, in historia ecclesiastica. Collectore F. Gregorio de Riues, Auenionensi sacerdote Capucino (Lyon: heritiers de de Benoit Coral, 1663). This edition is accessible via the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp, and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 32.

Gregorius de Valle Camonica (Gregorio Brunelli da Valle Camonica, d. 1713)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Member of the Venetian San Antonio province. Provincial definitor, custos and provincial minister.

works

Compendio della vita, morte e miracoli del venerabile servo di Dio Fra Ludovico da Breno, minor riformato (Brescia, 1679).

Curiosi trattenimenti contenenti ragguagli sacri e profani dei popoli camuni, ed. Oliviero Franzoni (Breno: Banca di Valle Camonica, 1998) [reprint of the edition that first appeared in Venice: Tramontin, 1698]. Cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 70 (2000), 627-629.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 26; Atti del convegno di studio in ricordo di P. Gregorio da Valle Camonica, Breno, 16 febbraio 1999, Quaderni della “Fondazione Camunitas” – Breno [Bs], 5 (Breno, Fondazione Camunitas, 2000) [a.o. Abele Calufetti, ‘Aspetti storici del progetto religioso della “Riforma” francescana vissuta da P. Gregorio Brunelli da Canè’, 6-21; Gabriela Ferri Piccaluga, ‘Padre Gregorio da Valcamonica e il convento dell’Annunciata di Borno’, 36-47; Oliviero Franzoni, ‘Gregorio e i suoi confratelli’, 48-78]

Gregorius de Vinica (Grgur Maljevac/Juraj Maljevac, d. 1812)

OFMCap. Croatian friar from Vinica in the Croatian Varazdin County. Prolific author and poet. Died in Varazdin.

works

Calendaria croatica (...) cum additamentis in versu croatico (1769-).

Applausus excellentissimo illustrissimo ac reverendissimo domino domino Ioanni Baptistae Paxi, dono Dei et apostolicae sedis gratia episcopo Zagrabiensi (...) pro festiva sacrae inaugurationis die oblatus a Zagrabiensi pp. Capucinorum conventu (Zagreb: Antoni Jandera, 1771).

Nebeski pastir pogubljenu ovcu isce, ed. Aloiz Jembrih (Donja Stubica-Zagreb: Kajkaviana-Hrvatska kapucinska provincija, 2005).

Epska trilogija ili Nestrancno vezdasnjega tabora ispisavanje za leto, 1788, 1789, 1790, ed. Aloiz Jembrih (Zagreb: Hrvatska kapucinska provincija, 2010).

Horvatzka Od Kristussevoga Narodyenya Vittia. Od Gregura Kapuczina (Zagreb: Novoszelzkemi Szlovotizki, 1800)/Horvacka od Kristusevoga Narodenja Vittija, ed. ed. Aloiz Jembrih (Zagreb: Hrvatska kapucinska provincija, 1999).

Horvat Horvatom horvatski govori (1801). Part of the so-called 'Kajkavski' verses (1801), previously wrongly attributed to Tito Brezovacki.

Krist u hrvatskom pjesnistvu: od Jurja Sizgorica do nasih dana: antologija duhovne poezije.

To be continued

literature

DHGE XXII, 50-53; Milan Ratkovic, 'O autorstvu pjesme 'Horvat Horvatu horvatski govori'', in: Zbornik u cast Stjepana Ivsica (Zagreb, 1963), 303-316; Acta Iugoslaviae Historica 1 (1970), 89; Iugoslaviae scriptores Latini recentioris aetatis (1971), 210, 217, 315, 325, 421.

Gregorius Foyas (Gregorio Foyas/Fayas/Gregorio de Foyas, 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Born at the start of the century in La Almunia de Dona Godina. Long-term theology lector, guardian and provincial definitor in the Aragon province.

works

Sermon que predico el P. F. Gregorio Foyas, letor de Teología e hijo de la Santa Provincia de Aragon, en la Junta que se celebro en el Convento de San Francisco de Zaragoza, par la elección de Vice Comissario General de la familia Cismontana (s.l., 1699). [cf. info given at http://biblioteca.culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?biblionumber=66373]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 26 [Gregorius Fayas]; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 311; Bibliotecas antigua y nueva de escritores aragoneses I, 552.

Gregorius Gallicanus (Gregorio Gallicano/Giorgio da Gallicano, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar. Preacher and theologian in the Milan province.

works

Breve modo di comporre, e recitare le prediche con tutto quello, che si ricerca à un predicatore evangelico (Milan: Giovanni Battista Paganello, 1621).

Mariale, sive apophthegmata sanctorum patrum in omnibus festiuitatibus & materiis Virg. Mariae. Auctore F. Gregorio Gallicano, Ordin. Min. Regular. Observatiae, praedicatore, theologo prouinciae Mediolani (Brescia: Bartolomeo Fontana, 1624). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 26; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 311.

Gregorius Gedanense (Grzegorz Gdanski, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRif. Polish friar active in northern Pomerania. Chronicler.

works

Grzegorza Gdanskiego Kronika Klasztoru Franciszkanow Scislejszej Obserwancji w Wejherowie w latach 1633–1676, Liber seu matricula conventus ordinis fratrum minorum strictioris observantiae ac totius fundationis wejheropolitanae in annis 1663–1676 auctore Gregorio Gedanense, ed. G. Labuda (Wejherowo, 1996).

literature

G.A. Kustusz, Grzegorz Gdanski', in: Slownik Biograficzny Pomorza Nadwislanskiego, ed. S. Gierszewski, II (Gdansk, 1994), 129; Jan P. Dettlaff, 'O Grzegorz Gdanski OFM, reformata Pomorski charyzmatyk czasu Tridentinum', Liturgia Sacra 24:1 [51:1?] (2018), 241-253 [https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/ls/article/view/132/106]

Gregorius Girardus (Grégoir Girard, 1765-1850)

OFM. Swiss friar from Fribourg, born Jean-Baptiste Girard. After studies with the Jesuits, he joined the Franciscans, as they offered better possibilities for a more popular apostolate. After further studies in Offenburg, Ueberlingen and Wurtzburg (between 1784-1788), he became active as priest and educator in Bern and Fribourg, and gained a reputation as pedagogue in the field of primary education. This also caused the Swiss minister of education to ask him for an outline/plan of Swiss educational reforms. Notwithstanding criticism of his Catholic orthodoxy, he was given the opportunity to become rector of schools in Fribourg (1807-1823), where he pushed through a number of reforms and started collaboration with other pedagogical reformers, such as Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. His reforms and ideas continued to generate opposition from the local bishop, conservative civil authorities in Fribourg and the Jesuits, which forced Gregorius in 1823 to abandon his pedagogical functions, to become professor of philosophy at the Luzern Gymnasium (1823-1834). After 1834, he returned to Fribourg, where he continued to write. His progressive pedagogical writing and ideas had a considerable impact in Switzerland, France, and Italy. In France he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour, and a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, and his pedagogical ideas were discussed and hailed by a number of education reformers. At the same time, both his pedagogical ideas and his quite liberal Christian ideas, informed by Kantian concepts, also made him suspicous in the eyes of Catholic conservatives.

works

Bericht über die Pestalozzische Erziehungs-Anstalt zu Yverdon (Bern: Ludwig Albrecht Halles, 1810). Present in the library of the Université de Lausanne and accessible via Google Books.

Mémoire sur l'enseignement religieux de l'école française de Fribourg (Fribourg: François-Louis Piller, 1818). Present in the library of the Université de Lausanne and accessible via Google Books.

Discours prononcés par le préfet de l'école française de la ville de Fribourg, à la distribution des prix, le 3 septembre 1817, dans l'église des RR. PP. Cordeliers (Fribourg: F.-L. Piller, 1817). Present in the library of the Université de Lausanne and accessible via Google Books.

Discours prononcé par le préfet de l'Ecole française de la ville de Fribourg, à la distribution des prix, le 2 septembre 1819, dans l'église des RR. PP. Cordeliers (Fribourg: François-Louis Piller, 1819). Present in the library of the Université de Lausanne and accessible via Google Books.

Emploi des tableaux de lecture et d'orthographe dans les écoles d'enseignement mutuel (Fribourg: François-Louis Piller, 1820).

De la nécessité de cultiver l'intelligence des enfants pour en faire des chrétiens (Veuve Navarre, 1821). Accessible via several digital portals, including Google Books.

Grammaire des campagnes, à l'usage des écoles rurales du canton de Fribourg (Fribourg: François-Louis Piller, 1821). Present in the library of the Université de Lausanne and accessible via Google Books.

Discours prononcé par le révérend père Girard, préfet de l'Ecole française de la ville de Fribourg, à la distribution des prix, les 30 Août 1821 et 1822 dans l'Eglise des RR.PP. Cordeliers (FribourgL François-Louis Piller, 1822). Present in the library of the Université de Lausanne and accessible via Google Books.

Lettre au Conseil municipal de la Ville de Fribourg sur le verbal qui a été dressé d'office à l'Ecole des garçons, le 13 mars 1823, pour constater les moyens que l'on emploie en faveur de l'enseignement religieux (Fribourg: François-Louis Piller, 1823).

Cours de philosophie fait au Lycée de Lucerne (1829–1831).

De l'enseignement régulier de la langue maternelle (1834). The work remained in print as late as 1894 [9th ed.], and in 1847 also received an English verson: The Mother-tongue: Or, Methodical Instruction in the Mother-tongue in Schools and Families, trans. Viscount Ebrington (London: John W. Parker, 1847).

Des moyens de stimuler l'activité dans les écoles (1835).

Ueber die Bethätigung des Fleisses in Schulen: ein Gespräch, der Versammlung der Schweizerischen gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft in Trogen (J. Schläpfer, 1836).

Parallèle entre la philosophie et la physique (1840).

De l’enseignement régulier de la langue maternelle dans les écoles et les familles (Fribourg, 1844/Paris: Dezobry & Magdeleine, 1844 [2nd ed.]/Paris, 1848/...). The second 1844 edition is accessible via Google Books and the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich. The work also appeared in a longer two-volume edition entitled Cours éducatif de langue maternelle à l'usage des écoles et des familless, 2 Vols. (Paris: Dezobry & Magdeleine, 1847/...). In this version the second volume is a designated Manuel de l'élève.

To be continued.

literature

Enc.Catt. VI, 649-651; A. Daguet, Le P. Girard et son temps, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1896); L. Veuthey, Un grand éducateur, le P. Girard, 1765-1850 (Paris, 1934); Mélanges P. Girard. Gedenkschrift zur Erinnerung an das Zentenar seines Todes (Fribourg, 1953); E. Petrini, L’opera e il pensiero del Padre Girard (Brescia, 1960); Leon Veuthey, Il padre Girard, un grande educatore (1765-1850), ed. Gian Carlo Corrà, Leone Veuthey. OFMConv, Opera Omnia, 9 (Rome: Editrice Miscellanea Franciscana, 2002); Leone Veuthey, Gregorio Girard educatore e pedagogista francescano, ed. E. Piacentini, Leone Veuthey, OFMConv, Opera omnia, 10 (Rome: Editrice Miscellanea Franciscana, 2002); Père Grégoire Girard 1765-1850. Son Oeuvre, sa pensée pédagogique, son impact. Sein Werk, sein pädagogisches Denken, seine Bedeutung, ed. Fritz Oser & Roland Reichenbach (Fribourgh CH: Editions Universitaires/Universitätsverlag, 2002); Otho Raymann, ‘Grégoire Girard und seine Schulen. Schicksal eines Freiburger Franziskanerkonventuals und dessen Schulkonzept im Spannungsfeld zwischen Aufklärung und Restauration’, Helvetia Franciscana 31 (2002), 69-85; Armandi Rigobello, ‘Estiste una ‘pedagogia francescana’? Alla scuola di G. Girard e L. Veuthey’, Commentarium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Conventualium 99 (2002), 63-68; Une pédagogie à l’origine de l’école actuelle, Le Père Grégoire Girard (1765-1850), ed. Pierre-Philippe Bugnard (Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, 2016).

Gregorius Hurtado de Mendoza (Gregorio Hurtado de Mendoza/Gregorius Baptista Mendoza, fl. c. 1630)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Theologian in the Catalonia province. Later transferred to the Benedictines and returned to Portugal.

works

Annotationes in cap. 12. Sacrosancti Christi Evangelii secundum Joannem (Coïmbra, 1621). Later apparently also issued in the Portuguese vernacular.

Dominicale 4. Conciones de singulis Dominicis totius anni continens (Lisbon: Antonio Alvarez, 1630).

Completorio de Gesu, trans. Ferdinando Camargo (Perpignan: Louis Rovre, 1633) ? Mentioned by Juan de San Antonio and after him by Sbaralea. We have not yet been able to trace this work.

Annotationum in Evangelia totius anni, tam dominicarum quam festivitatum, prima pars. Authore R.P.F. Gregorio Hurtado Mendoça, Lusitano, ex Seraphico instituto, Sanctae Provinciae Cathaloniae Filio, & Sacrae Scripturae veterano Interprete (...) (Barcelona: Pedro Lacavalleria, 1638). Accessible via the library of the Abbey of Montserrat (Spain), the Hesburgh Library of Notre Dame University, the University Library of Leiden (The Netherlands), and via Google Books. An edition from the same year that also includes the second part seems to exist as well (Check the Bibliothèque Nationale of France in Paris and the Biblioteca Complutense in Madrid). Cf. also the additional remarks about the author's prologue in Sbaralea's entry on this author.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 26-27; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 311-312; AIA 15 (1955), 318-319; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 129 (no. 428).

Gregorius Hibernensis (Gregorius of Ireland/Gregory of Ireland, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Irish friar. Member of the Flanders province. Preacher, theologian and religious poet.

works

Poemata, & Epigrammata varia sacra, & moralia (Cologne: Arnaldus Kempens, 1646).

literature

Dionisio da Genova & Bern, Bibliotheca scriptorum O.M.S.Francisci Capuccinorum retexta et extensa (1747), 111; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 27; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 311.

Gregorius Joannes Biñer (Jorge Juan Biñer, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Baetica province. Lector of the Collegio de San Buenaventura in Sevilla.

works

Sermón panegyrico, que en la solemne fiesta de estreno del nuévo dorado retablo, que celebró la Hermandad y Esclavitud de María Santíssima Nuestra Señora del Rescate (...) (Sevilla: Francisco Lorenzo de Hermosilla, 1721).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 27; Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII II, 550.

Gregorius Lugdunensis (Gregoire de Lyon, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Lyon province. Preacher and theology professor.

works

Le Nouveau catéchisme théologique qui donne brièvement et d'une manière particulière les definitions, & l'explication des principales dificultés dont on traite en Theologie. Ouvrage tres utile, non seulement à ceux qui servent aux Autels, et qui s'exercent aux fonctions de l'Eglise, mais encor à toutes sortes de personnes, curieuses de sçavoir les verités de nôtre Religion (Lyon, 1688)/Le Nouveau catéchisme théologique qui donne brièvement et d'une manière particulière les definitions, & l'explication des principales dificultés dont on traite en Theologie (...) Nouvelle Edition, reveuë, corrigée, & augmentée par l'Autheur (Lyon: André Molin, 1696). Both editions are accessible via Google Books and via the collections of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 27;

Gregorius Mirault (Grégoire Mirault, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv? French friar. Alleged author of a life of B. Jeanne de Valois, founder of the order of the Annonciade.

woks

Vita Beatae Joannae Valesiae (1615). Check!

literature

Wadding, Scriptores; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 27.

Gregorius Moretus (Grégoire Moret, 1693-1779)

OFM. Swiss friar from Romont. He made his solemn profession in 1713 in Fribourg. Following philosophical and theological training, he became a respected preacher. Also guardian of the Soleure friary between 1742 and 1747.

works

Tractatus theologicus de gratia Christi Salvatoris (Fribourg, 1741).

literature

Revue de La Suisse Catholique 15 (1883-1884), 339f; Urban Fink, ‘Moret Grégoire, conv. (1693-1779)’, Dizionario storico della Svizzera 8 (2009), 626.

Gregorius Movilla (Gregorio Movilla/Gregorio de Mouilla, fl. c. 1630)

OFM. Spanish friar from Carrión de los Conde (Palencia), and member of the Concepción province (Nuestra Señora de Calahora friary). Departed for the Santa Elena province in Florida sometime in the early seventeenth century. Definitor in 1621 and also guardian of the San Francisco de la Habana friary. Known for his knowledge of the timucuana or apalachina language. Published several works.

works

Explicación de la doctrina cristiana por el cardenal Bellarmino puesto en lengua tinqua de la Florida (Madrid: Francisco Martínez, 1631). A second, corrected edition of this work appeared as: Explicación de la doctrina que compuso el cardenal Belarmino, por mandado del señor papa Clemente VIII. Por el P. Fr. Gregorio de Mouilla, diffinidor de la provincia de Santa Elena, de la orden de S. Francisco, natural de la villa de Carrión de los Condes, hijo de la provincia de la Concepción y del convento recoleto de nra. Señora de la Calahorra. Corregida, emmendada y añadida en esta secunda impresión, por el mesmo autor (Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1635).

Forma breve de administrar los sacramentos a los indios y españoles que viven entre ellos. Approbado por autoridad apostólica, y sacado del Manual mexicana que se usa en toda la Nueva España y Pirú, mutatis mutandis, esto es, lo que estava en lengua mexicana traducido en lengua floridana (Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1635).

literature

Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 439-440.

Gregorius Neapolitanus (Gregorio da Napoli, d. 1601)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Theologian and preacher. He joined the order in the Naples province as an adult with a completed education in secular and canon law, taking his solemn vows in 1576. Friar with strict ascetical tendencies. Several times guardian and confessor and counselor of dying people. He died on 26 October 1601. Author of works of religious instruction.

works

Enchiridion ecclesiasticum, siue praeparatio pertinens ad sacramentum poenitentiae, & sacri ordinis editum a r.p.f. Gregorio Capuccino Neapol. vno ex deputatis patribus pro reuisione librorum in ciuitate Neapolit. per illustriss. et reuerendiss. archiepiscopum, nunc denuo auctum, & amplificatum ab eodem auctore, & tandem typis chalcographis traditum, cura admodum excel. ac r.p.d. Horatij Venetia v.i.d. canonici Ecclesiae Neapolitanae. Ecclesiasticis viris, ac philosophiae, & legum studiosis valde vtile, & necessarium (Naples: ad instantiam Christofari Guarini Veneti apud haeredes Matthiae Cancer, 1585).

Enchiridion ecclesiasticum, siue praeparatio pertinens ad sacramentum poenitentiae, & sacri ordinis editum a r.p.f. Gregorio Capuccino Neapol. vno ex deputatis patribus pro reuisione librorum in ciuitate Neapolit. per illustriss. et reuerendiss. archiepiscopum, nunc denuo auctum, & amplificatum ab eodem auctore, & tandem typis chalcographis traditum, cura admodum excel. ac r.p.d. Horatij Venetia v.i.d. canonici Ecclesiae Neapolitanae. Ecclesiasticis viris, ac philosophiae, & legum studiosis valde vtile, & necessarium (Venice: sumptibus Iaco Anelli de Maria bibliopolae Neapolitani: Hieronymo Polo typographo Veneto imprimente, 1588). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, and via Google Books.

Regola vnica del serafico s. Francesco, con la dichiaratione fatta da diuersi sommi pontefici; et la Regola della beata verg. s. Chiara d'Assisi; con l'espositione dell'vna, e dell'altra, con sedici auertimenti per i morienti, et altri deuoti discorsi: compilata dal reueren. padre f. Gregorio capuccino, & da lui chiamata, seconda parte dell'Enchiridion ecclesiastico; opera molto vtile ad ogni persona spirituale (Venice: appresso Girolamo Polo, 1589). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, and via Google Books.

Epitome di priuilegii estratto dal compendio di priuilegii della religione di s. Francesco (...) comprobati con il sacro Concilio Lateranense, & Tridentino, e con 86 constitut. del Bollario Romano: con hauerci posto per estenso la bolla del Mare Magno, & la bolla aurea (...) compilata dal p.f. Gregorio Capuccino di Napoli, & ampliata dal m.r.d. Ferrante Romeo Napolitano, in nome di terza parte dell'Enchiridion ecclesiastico (Naples: appresso Gio. Tommaso Aulisio. Ad instanza di Paolo Venturino, 1594). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books. This work would have drawn the ire of the Dominican Gregorio Lombardelli as it would have slighted the stigmata claims of Catherine of Siena.

Institutiones ecclesiasticae: in quibus, qui ad sacros Ordines, & ad confessiones, animarumque curam admittendi sunt, facile breuiterque instruuntur. His accessit, librorum corrigendorum ratio, et regularum indicis de libris prohibitis explicatio ... Auctore f. Gregorio Capuccino Neapolitano librorum Neapoli expurgatore (Venice: apud Ioan. Baptistam, & Io. Bernardum Sessam, 1597).

Sedeci avvertimenti sopra la Meditazione del ben morire, con una preparazione cristiana molto utile in tal materia a consolazione ed edificazione dell'Anime divite (Venice: Eredi di Marchio Sessa, 1600/Venice: Sessa, 1606). In fact transformations and re-issues of parts of the Regola vnica del serafico s. Francesco, con la dichiaratione fatta da diuersi sommi pontefici; et la Regola della beata verg. s. Chiara d'Assisi; con l'espositione dell'vna, e dell'altra, con sedici auertimenti per i morienti, et altri deuoti discorsi (...). Sbaralea also mentions an earlier (Latin) edition of the Sedeci avvertimenti, entitled Monita necessaria pro infirmis et specialiter pro illis, qui ultimo supplicio sunt plectendi (Venice, 1589). We have not yet found that version. In any case a 1617 edition of the Sedeci avvertimenti is accessible as well, in a combined edition with a work by the Dominican Bartolomeo d'Angelo. See: Bartolomeo d'Angelo, OP & Gregorio da Napoli, Ricordo del ben morire della consolatione de' penitenti libro quinto & vltimo: doue s'insegna a ben viuere & ben morire & il modo d'aiutare à ben morire gl'infermi & di consolare & confortare gli condannati à morte (...) Con li Sedici Avvertimenti del P.F. Gregorio Capuccino Napol. sopra la medesima materia (...) (Venice: Appresso li Seffa, 1617). This 1617 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Casanata in Rome and via Google Books.

Instruttione mistica del P. Gregorio da Napoli: MS Naples, Bib. Nazionale VII.E.49. This amounts to a series of spiritual discourses and mistical 'raggionamenti', 'meditationi', an 'alfabeto spirituale', etc.

Molte cose attenenti alla fondazioni de conventi non curate da rispettivi Frati di notarle, per aversi memoria de publici istrumenti, decreti, ed assensi. Check!

Riordinò le scritture dell'Archivio Capitlare della Cattedrale, a beneficio de Canonici. Check!

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 27; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 312; Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 100-103.

Gregorius Parghella (Gregorio da Parghella/Jorge Parghella, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Calabria. where he was provincial minister of the Riformati. As well as preacher and general lector between 1677 and 1684. He moved to Palestine and lived there until 1691, being for six years Guardian in the Mount Sion friary .

works

Relaçau verdadeira do celeberrimo triumfo e vitoria, que conseguio a Religão Franciscana, recuperando os Santos Lugares de Jerusalem, usurpado pela nação Greca Cismatica, em virtude de un mandado imperial que deu o Sultan Solimao a 20 abril 1690 (Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, 1691). present in the National Library of Portugal, Lisbon. Parghella wrote in 1690 a letter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany to inform him about the Sultan’s decision to restitite the sanctuaries in the Holy Land to the Franciscans. This letter was reworked and brought to press by fra Antonio de Santo Agostinho, Commissary of the Holy Land for Portugal, the same friar who in 1670 issued a Breve summario dos conventos based on the work of Domenico di Arizaval.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 31; 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), 162.

Gregorius Petrocha (Gregorio Petrocha, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Mantua, Member of the San Antonio province. Taught for a considerable number of years theology in the Aracoeli friary in Rome. Later, around 1620 appointed bishop of Acqui in Piemonte. He would have died in his diocese in 1632.

works

Oratio dissertissima in Sacro Cardinalium Senatu ad Paulum V de Legatione Japponica per Ludovicum Sotellum Virum gravissimum, & nobilem Philippum Faxecuram Equitem (...) (Rome, 1615). For a Spanish version, see: Juan de San Antonio, Chronica de la Santa Provincia de San Pablo IV Vols. (Salamanca-Madrid: Antonio Villagordo, 1728-1744) II, Lib. 3, no. 97.

He was also involved with the publication of Scipione Amati, Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone: dell' antichita, nobilta, e valore del suo re Idate Masamune: (...) e dell' Ambasciata che ha inuiata alla Sta. di N.S. Papa Paolo V. e delli suoi successi (...) / fatta per (...) Scipione Amati (...) interprete, & historico dell' Ambasciata (Rome: Mascardi 1615), and a prayer/supplication by him was included in Diego de San Francisco's Relacion verdadera y breue de la persecucion y martirios que padecieron pr la confession de nuestra Santa Fee Catholica dn Iapon quinze Religiosos de la Provincia de S. Gregorio, de los Descalços del Orden de nuestro Seraphico P. S. Francisco de las Isdlas Philippinas (...) (Manila: Thomas Pimpin, 1625).

Theologica opuscula?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 31; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 312.

Gregorius Pius Milesius (Gregorio Pio Milesio, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar.

works

Lettere scambievoli di due teologi Nelle quali si tratta delle usure, e Cambi Maritimi. Opera molto giovole a'Confessori, e Mercadanti (Ancona, 1742). Accessible via Google Books, via the Biblioteca Casanata in Rome, and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

Colloqui di F. Gregorio Pio Milesio minore conventuale sopra la sostanza, uso, ed abuso delle cartelle dell'Immacolata Concezione di Maria Vergine e di altre cose sagre, e naturali (...) (Naples: Serafino Porfile Regio Stampatore, 1747). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

Gregorius Pucciati (Gregorio Pucciati da Prato, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar, active in Tuscany. Preacher, lector jubilatus and poet.

works

Sonnetti quattordici sopra alle quattordici principali azzioni fatte da Christo sig. nostro in questo mondo, insieme con dodici ottave sopra il dire tre volte. Domine non sum dignum, et una laude per la notte di natale (Florence: Nesti, 1636).

Canto per la notte di natale ed altro canto sul'antifono Stella caelo extirpavit, per il tempo della pesta?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 31; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 312; Bibliotheca Italica: Verzeichniss der Bibliothek des Dr. Lottich. Erziehers des Fürsten F. Baciochi in Bologna. Catalog III. der N.G. Elwert'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung in Marburg (Marburg: Universitäs-Buchdruckerei, 1877), 120.

Gregorius Ruiz (Gregorio Ruiz, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar and member of the Concepción province. Theology lector and consultant for the Inquisition.

works

Controversiae theologicae in totum quartum Sententiarum Scoti usque ad 50 distinc., vita Scoti praemissa (Valladolid: Juan Godînez de Millis, 1613).

Vita Subtilis Doctoris?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 32; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 313; Duns Scot à Paris 1302-2002: actes du colloque de Paris, 2-4 septembre 2002, ed. Olivier Boulnous (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), 53.

Gregorius Salinus (Gregorius Sabinus/Gregorio Salino di Torino, fl. ca. 1600)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Turin. Member of the Genoa province. Preacher and erudite.

works

Compendio della vita del beato Valerico (1601).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 32; Onorato Derossi, Scrittori piemontesi savoiardi nizzardi registrati nei catalogi del vescovo Francesco Agostino della chiesa e del monaco Andrea Rossotto. Nuova compilazione (Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1790), 79; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 313.

Gregorius Salmanticensis (Gregorio de Salamanca, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Member of the Castile province, theologian and several times guardian, as well as vicar of the S. Antonio friary in Madrid. Editor.

works

Compendium Quaestionum Selectarum super Regulam S.P.N. Francisco pro Leandri de Murcia (Alcala de Henares: Maria Fernandez, 1666).

R.P. Fr. Leandri de Ss.mo Sacramento Navarri (...), Ordinis Discalceatorum Sanctissimae Trinitatis, Redemptionis Captivorum (...) Omnium operum summa elaborata, & in lucem edita per patrem fr. Gregorium, Salmanticensem (...) (Lyon: Laurent Arnaud & Pierre Borde, 1672). Accessible via Google Books.

Compendium Summae P. Eligii Baffaei Capuccini, ed. Gregorio de Salamanca (Lyon: Laurent Arnaud & Pierre Borde, 1674/Lyon: Filippe Borde & co., 1678).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 32-33.

Gregorius Sánchez (Gregorio Sánchez, 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Castilia province. Professor of theology in the San Diego friary of Alcalá de Henares

works

Controversia de Immaculata Conceptione: MS Madrid, Nac., 156 ff. 376-420 [Castro, Madrid, n. 20]

Tractatus de Statu Immaculatae Conceptionis Regine Angelorum (Madrid, 1662).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 33; AIA 15 (1955), 435-436; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 177 (no. 774).

Gregorius Scherius (d. 1642)

OFMRef. Italian friar and Scotist philosopher. Lector in the San Nicholas Province, provincial vicar and definitor. He would have died in 1642. In some catalogues, he is also called Bonaventura Scherio, yet that seems to be a mistake.

works

De Deo Trino et Uno per P.F. Gregorium Scherium Lyciensem, Lectorem generalem Provinciae Reformatae Sti Nicolai elaboratum. Opus maxima eruditione refertum, in quo nedum mens Scoti solidatur, verum et aliorum contradicentium opiniones subtilissime confutantur (...) (Lecce: apud Petrum Michaelem, & Nicolaum Franciscum Rubeum, 1644). Accessible via the Bibloteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome and via Google Books.

Disputationes et quaestiones de Deo Uno et Trino ad mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Lecce: apud Petrum Michaelem, & Nicolaum Franciscum Rubeum, 1646).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 239 & II, 33; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 313; Diomede Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel mezzogiorno d'Italia (Collegio S. Antonio, 1927), 215.

Gregorius Téllez (fl. early eighteenth cent.)

OFM, Spanish Friar from Toledo. Member of the Castilian province. Appointed bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1721 (until 1738).

works

Tractatus de scientia futurorum contingentium iuxta mentem Subtilis Magistri et Mariani Doctoris (c. 1709): MS Madrid, Bib. Nac. 13669.

literature

Castro (1973), p. 551 (§ 550).

Gregorius Gregorius Ujlaki (Gregorius Újlaki, fl. ca. 1500)

OMObs. Hugarian friar. Historian. He continued the Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae started by Blasius Szalkai. Újlaki compiled the years 1452-1504.

works

Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae: a.o. MS MS Prague, National Museum sign. VIII F 75.

literature

Elod Nemerkényi, Elod, 'Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae', in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed, Graeme Dunphy & Cristian Bratu. [First published online: 2016; consulted online on 14 November 2021].

Gregorius Valentianus Siculus (Gregorius Valentianus a Marsalia/Gregorio Valenziani, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Sicilian friar and member of the Palermo province. Theologian and consultant for the papal inquisition. Not to be confused with the older Jesuit Gregorius de Valentia.

works

Hymnodia Sanctorum Patrum, seu Commentarius uberrimus & dilucidus, in omnes Hymnos, qui in S. Romana Ecclesia per Annum decantari solent (Messina, 1644/Venice: Combi, 1646/Genoa: eredi Benedetto Guascho, 1660). The 1644 and 1660 editions are accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Commentaria in hymnodiam sanctorum parum cum mantissa epist. B. Mariae Virginis scriptae ad messanenses (Messina: Iacomo Matteo, 1649). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome and Google Books.

Practica moralis undecim casuum reservatorum quatenus pertinet ad religiosos juxta decretum Clementis VIII, (...) per quam utilis (...) confessariis et poenitentibus, in qua omnis elucidatio (...) exacte continetur, in tres tractatus divisa (...) (Palermo: D. de Anselmo, 1664).

Auxilium agonizantium adjectis Tractatibus de quatuor Novissimis, ac de Confessione generali (Palermo: Giuseppe Bisagno, 1668). We still have not been able to trace this work, which apparently was issued posthumously, and the real title of which should be in Italian.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 33; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 313.

Gregorius Vindobonensis (Gregorius de Vindobona/Gregorius de Wina/Georg von Wien, fl. early 15th cent.)

OM. Austrian friar? Ascription correct?

works

Summula de Remediis contra Caliginem (Tractatus de Oculis): Gdansk, Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Mar. F. 238, ff. 133r-134v; Kraków, Jagell. 778 (ca. 1425) ff. 184v-185r [inc: 'Teste philosopho, nichil est in intellectu, nisi prius fuerit in sensu'; Expl: 'Explicit Summa de caligine et remediis oculorum a magistro Gregorio de Wina longa experiencia probata, inquam, pluribus experta. Amen']

literature

http://www.mirabileweb.it/author/gregorius-de-vindobona-saec-xiv-xv-in--author/23342