Ladislaus Marsoni (Ladislaus Marsomi, d. 1506), Beatus (1586)

OMConv. Polish Observant (Bernardine) friar. Entered the order at the age of 16 after hearing a sermon of John Capistran. Known for his commentaries on the OT and NT, for Carmina super Magistrum Sententiarum [? MSS?] and for his levitation miracle when preaching.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores 158; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 268; Sbaralea, II, 163; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5342; AFH, 4 (1911), 338; Zawart, 355.

Lactantius Arturus Cropanensis (Lactantius Arctarius Cropanensis/Lattanzio Arturo da Cropano, fl. second half 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the Calabria province. Regent lector in various studious houses, guardian and general procurator for his order in Rome. Elected provincial of of the Calabria province in 1586. In 1590 he was appointed general commissary in Cosenza and he also functioned as theologian and counselor for the diocese and bishop of Squillacci. He probably died in 1604.

works

Predica della Nave Christiana, alla presentia del Serenissimo Don Giovanni d'Austria, fatta al 10 di settembre MDLXXI (...) (Naples: Horazio Salviani, 1573). This a sermon prior to the naval battle of Lepanto

Predica delle nozze euangeliche fatta nella citta di Terranoua celebrandosi il sacro Sinodo Metropolitano di Reggio la seconda Domenica di Ottobre sopra l'Evangelio corrente (Naples: Horazio Salviani, 1574). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Rome and via Google Books.

Predica della Vittoria Navale contra Turchi l'anno MDLXXI, il settimo d'ottobre alla presentia del serenissimo Don Giovanni d'Austria, tornato vittorioso in Messina (...) (Naples, 1575).

Methodus componendi conciones.

Orazione funebre, al Card. Sirletti, detta in Squillace il di 26. Ottobre 1585 (Naples: Salvioni, 1586).

Poesie Latine & Italiane

Prediche

Concetti predicabili per Quaresima

De Praedestinatione

Repertorium Sanctorum Patrum

De Ecclesiastica Monarchia, libri duo. According to Franchini, this was Lattantio's most important work, but due to the author's death and other complications, it was never printed. Franchini provides a short analysis of its hierocratic contents.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 380-382; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 267-268; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 481; Giuseppe Arenaprimo, La Sicilia nella battaglia di Lepanto (Messina: Giuseppe Principato, 1892), 105, 125, 179-180.

Lactantius de Teramnia (Lactantius Interamnensis/Lactantius de Interamnia/Lattanzio da Terni, d. 1619)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the San Francesco province. He died in Todi, leaving behind a volume of Lettere morali e spirituali, which for a long time was kept in the Todi friary.

works

Lettere morali e spirituali: MS Todi ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 268; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 481; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 534.

Ladislaus de Gielniow (Ladislaus de Gielnovio/Wladyslaw of Gielniowca, ca. 1440-1505), Beatus

OMObs. Polish friar from Gielniow (Poland, Gniezno diocese). Studied theology (?) at the university of Cracow and entered the Polish Observants (1462/4). Was guardian of the Observant Cracow convent by 1487, at which date he was elected provincial vicar, a post he held until September 1490 (also attended the general chapter of Urbino in that year). Was elected for another term on 24 June 1496 and attended the general chapter of Milan (1498) as provincial vicar of the Polish Observant vicariate. Was famous for his barefooted travels throughout the large Polish vicariate (between 1487-1490 and again after 1496) to visit the various convents. Made a series of new constitutions for the Polish Observant province, which were approved on the provincial chapter of Cracow (12 August 1488), and established a several new convents (such as Skepe (Poland,) and Polock (Hungary, 1498). Cf. AFH 63 (1970), 80-82). At the end of his life, Ladislaus was elected guardian of the Warschaw convent in September 1504. Died there on 4 May, 1505, supposedly after a bout of levitation and a few weeks of illness. Was highly regarded for his saintly lifestyle and received a cult after his death. This cult received papal approbation by Benedict XIV, when he was beatified on 11 February 1750. The same pope named him the patron of Poland and Lithuania on 19 August, 1753. Apparently, the dossier for his official canonisation is still in preparation.
Aside from his constitutions, Ladislaus left a substantial number of sermons for sun- and feast days, many of which addressed the passion of Christ and its moral and eschatological implications. In addition, he composed a series of religious songs, to be sung/recited during and after hearing the sermon. These songs, as well as the sermons indicate that Ladislaus was well-acquainted with ars-memoriae techniques, which is not surprising, as he was a pupil of the Polish friar Jan Szklarek, known for his expertise in that area. Several of the songs of Ladislaus (notably Judasz Jesusa sprzedal (Judas has sold Christ) and some songs on the Virgin Mary) became very popular (also helping to bolster Polish antisemitism). Ladislaus also devised a lengthy devotional exercise (taking up ca. one hour) for after the Vespers, consisting of eight Pater Noster and 72 Ave Maria recitations, interspersed with meditations on the joys and sorrows of the Virgin. According to some bibliographers, Ladislaus is also the author of a penitential manual (Taxatae Poenitentiae Metricae) that concentrates on the appropriate penance for severe vices.

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Constitutions for the Polish Observant province (1488).

Sermones de Tempore ac de Sanctis: See esp. the study of Kantak.

Rythmi & Cantilenae. Religious Songs: See esp. the study of Kantak, the 2006 study of Jan Godyn, the 2010 study of Rafal Wójcik, and the 2019 study of Paul J. Radzilowski.

Opuscula devotionem excitantia Devotional exercises in Latin and Polish: See esp. the study of Kantak.

Norma recitanda corona Deiparae Virginis [?]

Taxatae Poenitentiae Metricae [?]

vitae

V. Morawski, Lucerna Perfectionis Christianae sive Vita B. Ladislai Gielnovii (Warschaw, 1633); AASS May I (Antwerp, 1680), 561-614. Cf. Bibliotheca Sanctorum VII (Rome, 1966), 1067-1068; H. Wrobel, Hagiographia Polska 2 (Poznan, 1972), 555-572; Collectanea Francisana 44 (1974), 172-173.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum XV (Quaracchi, 1933) 349-351 (an. 1505, no. 25-30); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 268; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 481-481 & (ed. 1921) II, 163; J. Komoroswski, ‘Memoriale Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (…) Specialiter de Provincia Poloniae’, Monumenta Poloniae Historica 5 (Lwow, 1888), 256-258, 266, 291-293; K. Kantak, ‘Les données historiques sur les bienheureux Bernardins (Observants) polonais’, AFH 22 (1929), 444-451; Clément Schmitt, ‘Ladislas de Gielniow’, DSpir IX, 60; Gerlach van's-Hertogenbosch & Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Ladislaus (Wladyslaw) von Gielniów’, Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie VII (1974), 361; Wiesaw Wydra, Wladyslaw z Gielniowa. Z dziejow sredniowiecznej poezji polskiej (Poznan: Bestseller, 1992); Alicja Szulc, “Reduc me in memoriam’. Wokol nurtu pasyjnego sredniowiecznych kazan bernardynskich’, in: Bernardyni na Slasku w poznym sredniowieczu, ed. Jakub Kostowski (Wroclaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, 2005), 157-168. On affective themes and terminology in late medieval Observant preaching, esp. in the sermons of Ladislaw de Gielniow; Bogdan Hojdis, ‘Kilka uwag literaturoznawcy o polskich wierszach Wladyslawa z Gielniowa’, in: Cantando cum citharista: w piecsewtlecie smierci Wladyslawa z Gielniowa, ed. Romana Mazurkiewicza (Warchaw: Instytut Badan Literackich, 2006), 103-110; Jan Godyn, ‘Retoryka i interpunkcja w pieciu polskich piesniach Wladyslawa z Gielniowa’, in: Cantando cum citharista: w piecsewtlecie smierci Wladyslawa z Gielniowa, ed. Romana Mazurkiewicza (Warchaw: Instytut Badan Literackich, 2006), 120-134 [see also other articles in this volume]; Wieslaw Franciszek Murawiec, ‘Rozwój kultu bl. Wladyslawa z Gielniowa w latach 1505-1750’, in: “Cantando cum citharista.” W. piecsetlecie smierci Wladyslawa z Gielniowa, ed. R. Mazurkiewicza (Warshaw, 2006), 147-157; Kataryzna Kruk-Weiss, ‘Ikonografia bl. Wladyslawa z Gielniowa’, in: “Cantando cum citharista.” W. piecsetlecie smierci Wladyslawa z Gielniowa, ed. R. Mazurkiewicza (Warshaw, 2006), 158-163; W. Goleman, ‘Ladislaus de Gielniów, Wladyslaw’, DHGE XXIX, 1297-1299; Rafal Wójcik, ‘Anti-Jewish Motifs in the Poetry of Blessed Wladyslaw of Gielniów (c. 1440 - 1505)’, in: Identity and Alterity in Hagiography and the Cult of Saints, ed. Ana Marinkovic & Trpimir Vedriš, Bibliotheca Hagiotheca. Series Colloquia (Zagreb, 2010), 235-244; Paul J. Radzilowski, 'Bl. Ladislaus of Gielniów: An Observant Franciscan Shaper of Religious and Literary Culture in Poland (with selected translation of his poetry)', in: Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 53-88 [a bit hagiographical but informative].

Ladislaus Prugger (Ladislaus Brugger, 1672-1732)

OFMRef. Austrian friar and member of the Tirol Sankt Leopold province. Productive preacher, who issued a significant number of sermon collections.

works

Die dem allerdurchleuchtigsten Ertz-Hauß Österreich allezeit unter Augen stehende und absonderlich in der glückseeligisten Geburt des allerdurchleuchtigsten Ertz-Hertzog Leopoldi verwunderlich hervorstrahlende Vorsichtigkeit Gottes, in einer schuldigisten Lob- und Danck- Red vorgestellt von P. F. Ladislao Prugger, (...) kayserlichen Hofprediger bey dem H. Creutz zu Ynspruggg, den anderten Sonntag nach Ostern, als den 26. Tag Aprilis 1716 (Insbruck: Wagner, 1716).

Ruth spicilegians evangelico-concionatoria tripartita, oder: Die evangelische Aeher-suchende Ruth, das ist Dreyfache sittliche Lehr-Predigen über die Sonntäge des Jahres samb einigem Zusatz Ehren-Predigen, zusammen getragen von P.F. Ladislao Prugger, (...) olim concionatore aulico ad S. Crucem Oeniponti, spica prima oder erster Aeher (Augsburg: Schlüter & Happach, 1726). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna Czech national library and via Google Books (does not always show up).

Ruth spicilegians (...), Lehr-Predigen über alle Sonntag und gewohnliche Wercktag der Fasten, spica secunda oder zweyte Aeher (Augsburg: Schlüter & Happach, 1726). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Ruth spicilegians (...), Lehr-Predigen, vom ersten Sonntag nach Ostern biß zu dem Advent, spica tertia oder dritte Aeher (Augsburg: Schlüter & Happach, 1726).

Ruth spicilegians (...), das ist theils Lob- theils Sitten Predigen über die gewohnliche Feyer- und andere Fest-Tag des Jahrs (...), spica quarta oder vierte Aeher (Augsburg: Schlüter & Happach, 1728). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Addidamentum Panegyricum, Ruth spicilegiantis (...) oder Lobsprechender Zusatz der evangelische Aehr-suchenden Ruth, das ist Lob-Reden über besondere Fest der Heiligen des Jahrs (Augsburg: Schlüter & Happach, 1728). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Panegyris Beatae Hyacinthae Mariscottae, Panegyris Beatissimae semperque Immaculatae Virginis Mariae, das ist: Lob-Red der Seeligen Hyacinthae von Mariscottis, ist auch ein Lob-Red Mariae der allerseeligsten und allzeit Unbefleckten Jungfrauen, bey dero Beatifications-Solemnität vorgetragen von P.F. Ladislao Prugger, ...olim concionatore aulico ad s. Crucem Oeniponti anno 1726 den 23gisten Tag Decembris (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1727). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Wunderseltsamer Buß- und Tugend Spiegel erhellend in Margarita von Cortona deß dritten Ordens deß H. Vatters Francisci, welche den 16. May 1728 von Ihro päbstl. Heiligkeit Benedicto XIII der Zahl der Heiligen einverleibt worden, allen Sünderen zu billichen Trost zusammengetragen von P.F. Ladislao Prugger, (...) olim concionatore aulico ad s. Crucem (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1728).

Passionale Ruth spicileginatis (...), das ist: Traur-Reden über alle Geheimnussen des schmerzhafftisten Passion Jesu Christi der evangelischen Aeher-suchenden Ruth, gezogen aus dem Christo addolorato P. Joannis Pontoli de Parma Ord. Min. Reform. S. Francisci, von P. F. Ladislao Prugger (Augsburg: Happach, 1735). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (does not always show up).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 138-139 [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]

Ladislaus Sappel (1721-1796)

OFMRec. German friar. Joined the order in 1741. Active as a lector in the Upper Germany province and later in Lenzfried (where he died in 1796).

works

Quaestio dogmatica Utrum ex sacra scriptura demonstrari possit, quod omnes Christianae ecclesiae cum ecclesia Romana ut membra suo capiti sese unire teneantur?: iunctis thesibus ex universa theologia dogmatico-scholastica ad mentem doctoris mariano-subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti publicae disputationi proposita (Mayr, 1756). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Quaestio dogmatica Utrum ex ratione demonstrari possit, quod omnes ecclesiae Christianae ab ecclesia Romana separatae, eidem denuo implantatae refloreant?: iunctis thesibus ex universa theologia ad mentem doctoris mariano-subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti publicae disputationi proposita (Mayr, 1759). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Quaestio dogmatica Utrum ex omnibus theologiae fontibus demonstrari valeat quod ecclesia Romana cum ecclesiis sibi implantatis sit decora sicut Jerusalem, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata? Theses ex universa theologia adnexas Praeside P. Ladislao Sappel (...) (Salzburg: Joannes Josef Mayr, 1760). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Die Gekrönte Hoffnung, Das ist: Der Heilige Clemens Ein römischer, und eben darum mit Glorie und Ehre gekrönter Martyrer, in einer Ehrenrede vorgestellet, da dessen heiliger Leib (...) feyerlichst übersetzet worden (Augsburg & Innsbruck: Joseph Wolff, 1765). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Epistola Ladislai Simmoschorvini: Tusci-Romae, et a Sorbana Lutetiae Parisiorum probata : nunc primum paucis, intuitu circumstantiarum mutatis, in lucem atque ad Cl. V. Justinum Febronium Jctum emanata (Siena, 1765). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples and via Google Books.

Liber singularis ad formandum genuinum conceptum de statu Ecclesiae et Summi Pontificis potestate contra Iustinum Febronium, 4 Vols. (Augsburg: Erben Joseph Wolff, 1767-1775). Accessible via the library of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, and via Google Books (at least a number of volumes).

Geschichte der fortgepflanzten Religion. In drey Bände und dreyßig Bücher abgetheilt, 3 Vols. (Augsburg: Bartlische Buchhandlung, 1783). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Religiosi viri Ladislai Sappelii ex ordine S. Francisci Recollectorum (...) Liber singularis de statu ecclesiæ et Summi Pontificis potestate contra Justininum Febronium (...) (Augsburg & Innsbruck: Sumptibus J. Wolff, 1773).

Epistola Sillasipi a Lapide ad Clar. V. de Eibel Jctum in Causa an Summus Pontificatus a Romana Ecclesia Avelli, et alio Transferri Possit? (Augsburg, 1782). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna and via Google Books.

literature

DThC; AF VIII (1946), 404 & 555; LThK, 3rd ed. IX, 66

Lambertus Benedictus (Lambert Benoît)

OFM. Belgian Observant friar. Lector in the Flanders province. Alleged author of a notice on the immaculate conception.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 268; Bulletin de la Société d'art et d'histoire du diocèse de Liège 66 (2004), 80.

Lambertus de Espes de Gracia (Lamberto de Espes de Gracia, d. 1619)

OFM. Spanish friar from Zaragoza. Member of the Aragon province. Guardian, definitor, provincial minister (?) and spiritual author. He would have issued a Tratado de Ejercicios espirituales. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

works

Tratado de Ejercicios espirituales. Check!

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 268; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 482; Félix Latassa y Ortín, Biblioteca nueva de los escritores aragoneses que florecieron desde el año 1600 hasta 1640 (Pamplona: Joaquin de Domingo) II, 245; Biografía eclesiástica completa: vidas de los personajes del antiguo y nuevo testamento (...) (Madrid-Barcelona, 1855) IX, 36.

Lambertus de Sancto Trudone (Lambert van Sint-Truiden/Lambert de St, Trond, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OMRef. Belgian friar. He would have written historical notices, remarks on the Franciscan rule and Franciscan interaction with money, a Corona Beatissimae Virginis Mariae and a passion devotion treatise. We have not yet been able to trace these works.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 269.

Lambertus Malgara (Lambert Malgara, 1694-1749)

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

works

Rosetum pontificiis gratiis consitum, seu Tractatus continens religiosorum privilegia usque ad modernum papam Innocentium XIII ab aliis antecessoribus concessa et innovata, a P.F. Ernesto Tanner, (...) Friburgi Brisgoiae in conventu ad S. Martinum ss. theologiae Lectore ordinario compilatus ac unacum 30 assertionibus publicae disputationi expositus, defendente P.F. Lamberto Malgara, eiusdem Ordinis alumno, mense iulii die 28, MDCCXXII (Freiburg: Handler, 1722).

literature

Pascal M. Hollaus, 'Die Schriftsteller der Tiroler Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Leopold gesammelt von P. Gerold Fußenegger OFM (1901-1965), 111 [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]

Lambertus Maspurgensis (Lambertus von Masburg, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German (Bavarian) friar, preacher and definitor in the Bavarian province. He would have written five books of controversies against Lutherans and Calvinists, and that work would have appeared in Munich in 1684. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 268; Dionisio da Genoa & Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum Ordinis minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum retexta et extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 166.

Lambertus Pevee (Lambert Pevee, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Belgian friar, mariologist. He would have issued a work entitled Gloria Immaculatae Virginis Maria totius Ordinis Seraphici Patronae, variis Sacrae Scripturae locis & Chronicis adumbrata, & 23 anagrammatibus prorsus puris et Angelica Salutatione integra (...). We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 269.

Lambertus Slaggert (Lambert Slaggert, fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. German Franciscan friar from Stralsund. In 1522 mentioned as a Franciscan friar in the Stralsund Franciscan 'Johanniskloster', when he took part in the provincial chapter of Saxony in Hamburg. During this chapter, he was appointed confessor and preacher at the Clarissan monastery of Ribnitz, and lector and guardian of the adjacent Franciscan house (guardian position in 1525 taken over by Joachim Meier). Lambert Slaggert worked in close collaboration with the Clarissan Abbess, Duchess Dorothea von Mecklenburg (1480-1537, daughter of Duke Magnus II and sister of Dukes Albrecht VII and Heinrich V), who had been abbess since 1498. Lambert and Dorothea apparently created hot air heating in the monastery. Lambert became involved with drinking water management, the creation of a propper brewery and even was involved hands-on with masonry and plastering activities. He also was instrumental in the installation of an astronomical clock in the Clarissan refectorium and worked together with the nuns on the creation of a number of devotional tables (Andachtstafeln), six of which can still be seen in the Nuns' choir of the Ribnitz monastic church.
Partly based on an older text (now lost), Lambert created possibly a concise Latin and in any case a more elaborate Middle German chronicle of the Clarissan monastery, running until the year 1532/33 (until 1538 in the smaller Latin text). The German text was dedicated to Abbess Dorothea. Scholars have been discussing the provenance and the authorship of the Latin text, and its possible dependency on an older fourteenth century text by the Franciscan custos Dietrich von Studitz. For an evaluation of these positions, see esp. Honemann (2011 & 2015), who comes to the conclusion that Lambert Slaggert should be considered as the author of both the Latin and the German early sixteenth-century texts.

works

Die Chroniken des Klosters Ribnitz. A complete digital version of the German version from the Schwerin library can be accessed at http://ub-goobi-pr2.ub.uni-greifswald.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-g-1943787
For an edition, see: Die Chroniken des Klosters Ribnitz, ed. Friedrich Techen, Mecklenburgische Geschichtsquellen, 1 (Schwerin, 1909). [The Latin text is edited on pp. 1-61, and the German text can be found on pp. 63-172. The works, which aside from the possible precursor text of Dietrich von Studits has traces of several other sources (such as the Reimchronik of Ernst von Kirchberg, and the Annales Herulorum of Nicolaus Marschalk), give a plethora of information on the Clarissan house, sisters, abbesses, vicaresses, inventories, monastic possessions etc. etc.] An older edition of the Latin text is given in: Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megapolensium, ed. Ernst Joachim Westphal, Band 4 (Leipzig, 1745), 841ff (Chronicon Coenobii Ribenicensis ord. S. Clarae 1206-1540). A partial edition of the German text is also given in Karl Ferdinand Fabricius, 'Bruchstück aus der deutschen Chronik des Fräulein-Klosters St. Claren-Ordens zu Ribbenitz von Lambrecht Slagghert, Franciscaner-Lesemeister, aus Stralsund', Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 3 (1838), 96-140. See also the studies by Honemann (2011 & 2015).

literature

Karl Ernst Hermann Krause, 'Slaggert, Lambert', in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 34 (Leipzig, 1892), 450f.; Wolfgang Huschner, 'Die Gründung des Klarissanklosters Ribnitz (1323/24-1331). Eine landesherrliche Stiftung gegen städtischen und weltgeistlichen Widerstand', in: Gestiftete Zukunft im mittelalterlichen Europa. Festschrift für Michael Borgolte, ed. Wolfgang Huschner & Frank Rexroth (Berlin, 2008), passim; Axel Attula, 'Beobachtungen zu sechs Meditationstafeln aus dem Klarissenkloster Ribnitz', in: Ecclesiae ornatae. Kirchenausstattungen des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (Bonn: Kulturstiftung der Deutschen Vertriebenen, 2009), 143-160; Volker Honemann, 'Die Ribnitzer Chroniken des Lambert Slaggert', Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 126 (2011), 91-110; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 824-833.

Lambertus Willot (Lambert Willot, d. 1579)

OFMRec. Belgian friar from Fontaine-l'Évèque and oncle of Henri Willot. he joined the order at Farciennes (Sambre) and shortly after his priest ordination he became guardian pof the Biez friary. Later also active as guardian at the friaries of Namur and Liège. He died in Liège on 23 or 24 April 1579. According to an anonymous biographer, he wrote a number of spiritual songs for lay and religious women, with penitential themes and emotional adresses to the divine spouse (focusing on the Magdalene figure, on the vanity of worldly pursuits, and using spousal imagery from the Song of Songs). Some of these songs would also have been gathered in a small illustrated booklet, entitled Varii fidelis Sponsae affectus, quibus erga Sponsum Redemptorem dulcissimum varie illa fertur.

works

Varii fidelis Sponsae affectus, quibus erga Sponsum Redemptorem dulcissimum varie illa fertur (religious songs).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 269; Bulletin du Bibliophile Belge V (1850), 458-459; Mémoires et publications de la Société des sciences, des arts et des lettres du Hainaut (Mons, 1884), 390-391.

Lamprecht de Ratisbona (Lamprecht/Lambert von Regensburg, fl. c. 1240)

OM. German friar from the South-West (Upper Rhine region). Probably born around 1215. Studied at the Regensburg cathedral school or at a neighbouring cloister school. Before he entered the order, he already expressed his admiration and veneration for the Franciscans through his Sanct Francisken Leben (c. 1238). This work, predominantly based on Celano I, is the oldest German vernacular Franciscan saints’ life. The author presents a narrative subject, namely a young man, who has begun to realise the folly of his frivolous life in the world (which will lead to damnation), and expresses the wish to live the apostolic life along the lines of the friars minor (the work can therefore also be interpreted as a written act of personal conversion). After his entrance in the order, the provincial minister Gerard asked Lamprecht to write another poem on finding God, on the basis of the themes ‘Quaesivi illum et non inveni’ (Cant. 3, 2 & 5, 6) and the Isaiah theme on the daughters of Sion (Jesaiah 6, 1 & 62, 11). The result was Diu Tohter Syon/Tochter Syon (c. 1248), a poem of 4312 strophes. Both poems indicate that Lamprecht had some command of Latin, and probably was a cleric.

works

Sanct Franciscken Leben: MS Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.o.17a ff. 11v-118r (13th cent.) It amounts to a versified vernacular elaboration of Celano I in 5049 lines. The work, which is one of the oldest surviving pieces of Franciscan literature, did not have a large reception, maybe because of the suppression of the Celano materials after the production of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major.
For an edition, see: Lamprecht von Regensburgs Sanct Franciscken Leben und Tochter Syon, ed. K. Weinhold (1880), 43-260. See also: Vena vivida - Lebendige Quelle. Texte zu Klara von Assisi und ihrer Bewegung I: Deutsche und niederländische Zeugnisse zur hl. Klara, Werkstatt Franziskanische Forschung, 2 (Münster: Fachstelle Franziskanische Forschung, 2008), 17-27 (extracts from the Sankt Francisken Leben, with an introduction and translation by Cornelius Bohl.

Tochter Syon: MSS Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum cod. 42563/64 (second half 13th cent.; fragments); Prague, Národní Muzeum cod. X I 13 ff. Ira-XXXIvb (second half 13th cent.); Berlin, mgo 403 (olim Lobris/Schlesien, Gräfliche Nostitzische Bibliothek) ff. 19r-59v (anno 1314); Gießen, Universitätsbibliothek cod. 102 ff. 1r-99v (second half 14th cent.). Amounts to a versified vernacular reworking in 4312 lines of a Cistercian Daughter of Sion treatise (which was repeatedly translated in the vernacular; >? De Languore Animae Amantis/Liber Amoris). It is an allegorical representation of the spiritual marriage or mystical union between the soul (the daughter of Sion) with the heavenly groom (Christ). Lamprecht might have been given access to this Cistercian work by friar Gerard (mentioned in lines 46ff and 140ff), the Franciscan provincial minister of the Upper Germany province. Lamprecht repeatedly refers to the mysticism of female religious in Brabant and Bavaria. For the relationship between Lamprecht’s versified translation and other Latin and German versions of the Daughter of Sion treatise, see Joachim Heinzle, VL² V, 522 and W. Wichgraf (1922).
For an edition, see: Lamprecht von Regensburgs Sanct Franciscken Leben und Tochter Syon, ed. K. Weinhold (1880), 261-544; W. Wichgraf, ‘Der Traktat von der Tochter von Syon und seine Bearbeitung’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 46 (1922), 173-231 (includes an edition of the prose adaptation found in MS Munich Cgm 29 pp. 177-181 (15th cent.)); Kurt Ruh, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 100 (1971), 346-349 has published a fragment of the text that according to him represents the oldest witness of the text. For editions of medieval Dutch versions, see: Van der Dochtere van Syon (Antwerp, 1492) [cf. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke VII, no. 8589], facsimile reprint as Van der Dochtere van Syon, introd. J. van Mierlo (Antwerp, 1941); Van der Dochtere van Syon, ed. J.-M. Willeumier-Schaly, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde 67 (1949), 1-23 [cf. Collectanea Franciscana Bibliographia Franciscana 11 (1954-1957), 256, n. 986. This edition is based on an older text]

literature

Edward Schröder, ‘Lamprecht von Regensburg’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und Literatur 42 (1898), 321; W. Wichgraf, ‘Der Traktat von der Tochter von Syon und seine Bearbeitungen’, PBB 46 (1922), 173-231; L. Reypens, ‘Het latijnsche Origineel der Allegorie van der Dochtere van Syon’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 17/2 (1943), 174-178; J. Morson & H. Costello, ‘‘Liber Amoris’. Was it written by Guerric of Igny?’, Cîteaux 16 (1965), 125-135; K. Ruh, ‘Fragmente der Tochter von Syon Lamprechts von Regensburg’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 100 (1971), 346-349; Margo Schmidt, ‘Einflüsse der ‘Regio dissimilitudinis’ auf der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters’, Revue des études augustiniennes 17 (1971), 299-313 (310-313); M. Schmidt, ‘Lambert (Lamprecht) de Ratisbonne’, DSpir 9 (1976), 142-143; N.R. Wolf, ‘Beobachtungen zum ‘Franziskusleben’ Lamprechts von Regensburg’, Franziskanische Studien 60 (1978), 155-167; S. Solf-Maennersdoerffer, in: Seligenthal 1231-1981, ed. G. Busch, Rhenania Franciscana Antiqua 1 (Cologne, 1981), 317-382; M. Schierling, ‘Lamprecht von Regensburg’, NDB 13 (1982), 466; Norbert Richard Wolf, ‘Lamprecht von Regensburg’, Lexikon des Mittelalters V (1991), 1634; Joachim Heinzle, ‘Lamprecht von Regensburg’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon² V, 521-524 & XI, 905; Joseph Morsel, ‘Lambert (Lamprecht) of Regensburg (c. 1215-after 1250)’, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages II (2000), 816; Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, My secret is mine. Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages, Studies in Spirituality, Supplement, 4 (Louvain, Peeters, 2000). [with reference to Lamprecht von Regensburg’s  Tochter Syon]; Cornelius Bohl, ‘Belehren und Bekehren. Das ‘Sante Francisken Leben’ des Lamprecht von Regenburg als Zeugnis franziskanischer Bildung, Seelsorge und Frömmigkeit Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland’, in: Europa und die Welt in der Geschichte. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Dieter Berg, ed. Raphaela Averkorn, Raimund Haas & Bernd Schmies (Bochum: Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 2004), 574-592; Edith Feistner, ‘Regensburger Blicke auf einen europäischen Heiligen: Zur mittelhochdeutschen Franziskusvita Lamprechts von Regensburg’, in: Kulturarbeit und Kirche. Festschrift für Paul Mai zum 70. Geburtstag, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Bistums Regensburg, 39 (Regensburg: Pustet Verlag, 2005), 339-348; Edith Feistner, ‘Regionalisierung und Individualisierung in europäischen Dimension: der Blick Lamprechts von Regensburg auf den hk. Franziskus von Assisi’, in: Das mittelalterliche Regensburg im Zentrum Europas, ed. Edith Feistner, Forum Mittelalter. Studien, 1 (Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2006), 177-189; Raymond Graeme Dunphy, ‘Ein neues Literaturmilieu kündigt sich an: Lamprecht von Regensburg', in: Kleine Regensburger Literaturgeschichte, ed. Rainer Barbey & Erwin Petzi (Regensburg, 2014), 71-75.

Landulfus Caracciolus (Landulphus de Mazoriis/Landolfo Caraccioli, d. 1355), doctor collectivus

OM. Italian friar. Born at Naples, c. 1295. Studied first at Naples and subsequently at Paris, where he developed a Scotist theological framework. Taught theology at Paris between 1321 and 1326, before he received the first theology chair at the university of Naples. Was provincial minister of Terra Labora and fulfilled several diplomatic missions for Queen Jane of Naples. Also known for his homiletic activities. Was appointed bishop of Castellamare di Stabia by pope John XXII (221 August 1327, BF V, no. 671). On 20 September 1331, he was transferred to the archdiocese of Amalfi (BF V, no. 931), where, as archbishop, he became an active persecutor of the Fraticelli (cf. BF V, 963-965). Author of biblical commentaries, theological works, sermons, and quaestions on metaphysics.

works

In Sent. I-IV: a.o. MSS Vienna ONB 1496 Vienna; Basel, Univ. Bibl. B.V. 25 (book IV); Erlangen, Univ. 338 (books I, III & IV); Cracow, Univ. 1276 & 1391 (book IV); Florence, Naz. Conv. Soppr. B. 7. 642 & G.1.643 (book IV); Milan, Ambros. I.151 Inf. 2 (books III & IV); Lüneb. Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 48 ff. 1r-116v (14th cent., books III & IV); Florence Laurenz. Plut. 3. Sin. I, ff. 205-245 & Plut. 7 Dext. 3 ff. 19r-23v [Book IV]; Florence, Naz. Conv. Soppr. B.5. 640 (book I); Cambridge, Gonv. & Gaius 326 (book II); Naples, Naz. 7. C 49 (book III, incomplete); Florence, Naz. Conv. Soppr. A.3.641 (book II); Vicenza Bertoliana 247; Padua Anton. 155 (sec. xiv) ff. 1r-71r; 166 ff. 1r-145r; 169 ff. 3r-127v; Padua Bib. Civ. 619 ff. 4r-66v (tabula on ff 75r-76r); Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente, 44 [=In IV Sent]; Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente, 46 [=In I Sent.]; Dole, Bibliotheque muncipale 80 [Book I]; Naples, Naz. VII.C.49 (only the question on the immaculate conception, edited by Scaramuzzi in Studi Francescani, 28 (1931), 43-69. See for the Bolognese mss Piana, Antonianum 17 (1942), 113 & 114. See in general for mss info Stegmüller, Repertorium Comm. in Sent. I no. 514; AFH 47 (1954), 143; Grocholl (1969), xiii, 11-17; an edition of dd. 38-40 of book I is in preparation by Chris Schabel. One question of the third book (utrum Virgo fuerit concepta cum originali delicto) has been edited in Studi Francescani 28 (1931), 44-69 [is this really Landulphus’ work? See the doubts expressed by Grocholl (1969), 175-180]. The second book of Landulphus’ Sentences Commentary was published in Naples (1487 and 1637) [cf. Studi Francescani 28 (1931), 33-69. For the edition of individual questions, see also the studies of Duba (2010) [namely and edition of distinction XII of his commentary on book II of the Sentences, «Utrum materia dicat aliquam entitatem» and «Utrum materia possit esse sine forma»] and Schabel (esp. 2011)]

In metaphysicam quaestiones. According to Sbaralea cited in the Metaphysica (1480) of Gabriel Zerbius.

Commentaries on several OT and NT books MSS Padua??? Cf. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum III, n. 5365-5366.

Sermones Dominicales/Postilla in Evangelia Domenicalia: MSS Naples, Naz. VIII.AA.16 (Check! See Cenci, Napoli II, 741-2); Padua Bib. Univ. 1462 (an. 1353) ff. 1r-108r; Assisi?

Sermo in Dominica Palmarum & Sermo in Die Cinerum: MS Naples, Naz. VIII.A.23 ff. 45r-68v

Sermones de Tempore: a.o. MSS Padua Anton. 468 ff. 1ra-162rb; Munich, Staatsbibl. Lat. 8827; Monte Cassino G. 376

Sermones de Sanctis: Munich, Clm 8872 (? check!); Cf. also Sbaralea, who seems to suggest that once manuscripts of Sermones festivi by Landolfo were present in the Franciscan Library of the Bologna friary.

Liber Collationum spiritualium: BAV, Vat.Lat. (Check!)

Sermones in Quatuor Evangelia (Naples, 1637).

Commentaria Morali in IV Evangelia (Naples, 1637) [postills for preaching purposes]

Sermones de Exaltatione Crucis: BAV, Vat. Lat. (Check!)

Oratio ad Papam Nomine Reginae Siciliae: BAV, Vat. Lat. (Check!)

Ars Sermocinandi: MSS Cracow, Bibl. Univ., 1295; Bologna, Bibl. Comm. Archigymnasii A. 981 ff. 205-215.

Quaestio de Medio inter Contradictoria (attributed): BAV, Vat.Lat. 6768 (14th cent.) ff. 227rb-228va

Tractatus de Conceptione Virginis: ? Cf. Sbaralea.

literature

Wadding, Script., 158; Wadding, Annales Minorum>>; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 269-270; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 482-483 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 163-165; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scotus nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia (Rome, 1927), 67-75; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5365-7; Schneyer, IV, 1-11 [lengthy listing of sermons]; Zawart, 290; D. Scaramuzzi, ‘L’Immacolato concepimento (…)’, Studi Francescani 28 (1931), 33-69; A. Emmen, 'Het getuigenis van Landulphus Caraccioli over Scotus' dispuut van de onbevlekte ontvangenis', Coll. Franc. Neerl. VII (1946), 92-129; Doucet, AFH 47 (1954), 143; G. Mascia, ‘Landolfo Caracciolo (Rossi) da Napoli (d. 1351) e Leonardo De’Rossi da Giffoni (1407), due grandi figure francescane del quattrocento’, Cenacolo serafico (Naples, May-June, 1966); W. Grocholl, Der Mensch in seinem ursprünglichen Sein nach der Lehre Landulfs von Neapel. Edition und dogmengeschichtliche Untersuchung (Munich, 1969); Clément Schmitt, DSpir IX, 194-195; S.D. Dumont, `William of Ware, Richard of Conington and the Collationes Oxonienses of John Duns Scotus', in: John Duns Scotus. Metaphysics and Ethics, ed. L. Honnefelder, R. Wood & M. Dreyer (Leiden, 1996), 66-67; L. Ricciardi, `Manoscritti di Mons. Landolfo Caracciolo', in: La chiesa di Amalfi nel medioevo, 475-482; Chris Schabel, ‘Landulphus Caracciolo and a Sequax on Divine Foreknowledge’, Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 66 (1999), 299-343; 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, ‘Landulph Caracciolo’, in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, 24 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003),  409-410; Russell L. Friedman & Chris Schabel, ‘Landulph Caracciolo on Human Intellectual Cognition of Singulars’, in: Florilegium mediaevale. Études offertes à Jacqueline Hamesse à l’occasion de son éméritat, ed. José Meirinhos & Olga Weijers, FIDEM –Textes et études du Moyen Age, 50 (Louvain-la-Neuve –Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), 235-257; Christopher D. Schabel, ‘The Commentary of the ‘Sentences’ by Landulphus Caracciolus’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 51 (2009), 145-219; Christopher Schabel, ‘How Landulph Caracciolo, Mezzogiorno Scotist, Deviated from His Master's Teaching on Freedom’, in: Lo scotismo nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia: atti del Congresso internazionale (Bitonto 25 - 28 marzo 2008), in occasione del VII centenario della morte di Giovanni Duns Scoto, ed. Francesco Fiorentino, Textes et études du moyen âge, 52 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 245-268; Willia Duba, 'What is Actually the Matter with Scotus? Landolfo Caracciolo on Objective Potency ad Hylomorphic Unity', in: Lo scotismo nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia: atti del Congresso internazionale (Bitonto 25 - 28 marzo 2008), in occasione del VII centenario della morte di Giovanni Duns Scoto, ed. Francesco Fiorentino, Textes et études du moyen âge, 52 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 269-301; Christopher Schabel & Russell L. Friedman, ‘Landulph Caracciolo on Intentions and Intentionality’, Quaestio 10 (2010), 219-225; Christopher Schabel, ‘The Reception of Peter Auriol's Doctrine of Place, with Editions of Questions by Landulph Caracciolo and Gerard of Siena’, in: Représentations et conceptions de l'espace dans la culture médiévale: Colloque Fribourgeois 2009, ed. Tiziana Suárez-Nani & Martin Rohde (Berlin etc., 2011), 147-192; Christopher Schabel, ‘Landulph Caracciolo’, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, 2 Vols. (Dordrecht etc., 2011), 681-684; Christopher Schabel, ‘Landulph Caracciolo vs. Peter Auriol on thè Divine Will’, in: Contingenza e libertà: teorie francescane del primo Trecento: atti del convegno internazionale, Macerata, 12-13 dicembre 2008, ed. Guido Alinney, Marina Fedeli & Alessandro Pertosa (Macerata, 2012), 77-96; Francesco Fiorentino, ‘Conoscenza e scienza in Landolfo Caracciolo’, Franciscan Studies 71 (2013), 375-410; Tiziana Suarez-Nani, 'Nature spécifique, degrés et modes intrinsèques: l'héritage de Duns Scot chez Landulphus Caracciolo et François de Meyronnes', in: Universals in the Fourteenth Century, ed. Fabrizio Amerini & Laurent Cesalli (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2016), 155-186; William Owen Duba, 'From Scotus to the Platonici: Hugh of Novocastro, Landulph Caracciolo, and Francis of Meyronnes', in: Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought: (XIIIth-XIVth century), ed. Jacopo Francesco Falà & Irene Zavattero (Ariccia, RM: Aracne, 2018), 239-370.

With thanks to Prof.dr. S.D. Dumont & Prof.dr. Chris Schabel

Laurentius Brixiensis (Laurentius Brixianus/Lorenza da Brescia, fl. 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Philosopher and preacher, known to have preached in Venice.

works

Magistri Laurentii Brixiensii Phylosophi, & Theologi praestantis in Io. Scoti Doctoris subtilis Formalitates isagogica expositio (...) (Venice: Francesco da Siena, 1588). According to Sbaralea, this is the second edition, stating that the first edition would have been issued some 50 years earlier: Breves, faciles, ac perutiles Isagogi in Jo. Scoti Formalitates (Brescia: Damiano de Torlino, 1537). See also the additional remarks of Sbaralea on this work.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum (ed. 1806), 160; Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 399-400; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 483-484

Laurentius Caraducius (Laurentius Corraduccius/Laurentius Corraducius/Lorenzo Caraducci, d. ca. 1505)

OMConv. Italian friar from Fabriano, and member of the Picena province.

works

Sermones Festivae et Feriales: Fabriano, Bibl. Conv. S. Francisci, ? (Check!)

literature

Zawart, 324

Laurentius Cardusius (Lorenzo Cardoso, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Lucca. Member of the Riformati Tuscany province.

works

Villa Regia di Maria Vergine. Con delitiosa habitatione per l'incarnato Dio e Real Palagio guernito di Gioie, e di Pitture di gran pregio, in messo a bellissimo Giardino di varie piante adornato (...) Con la lettura sacra Annuale del Giardino di Milano, spiegandi le tre lettioni dell'offitio piccolo della Madonna (...) Con discorsi, e concettu Scritturali applicabili, & applicati a tutte le feste che tra l'Anno si celebrano della Madre di Dio (Venice: Giorgio Valentini, 1630). Accessible via the Episcopal Seminaryt library of Barcelona, and via Google Books.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1806), 160; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 273; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484.

Laurentius Coltri (Lorenzo Coltri, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Lay Italian friar and alleged author of Il Boschetto dell'Alma (Venice: Giovanni Francesco Valvasense, 1652). This work, mentioned under the Latin title Viridadium animae by Juan de San Antonio, would also have included at the end a Corona della dulcissima Nome di Gesù, a Glosa sulla sequenza dei defunti, and a Dies Irae explication. We have not yet been able to trace this work.

works

Il Boschetto dell'Alma (Venice: Giovanni Francesco Valvasense, 1652).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 273-274.

Laurentius Companius (Lorenzo Compañy, d. 1745)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from Lluchmayor (Majorca). Lector, master of rhetoric and preacher at the San Francisco de Asis friary in Palma. Known for his Poema dramático alegórico de S. Buenaventura y Santo Tomas de Aquino (1740), which apparently was never published.

works

Poema dramático alegórico de S. Buenaventura y Santo Tomas de Aquino (1740). Never published?

literature

Biblioteca de Autores Baleares, ed. Joaquin María Bover (Palma: P.J. Gelabert, 1868) I, 207 (no. 301).

Laurentius Corbosa (Lorenzo Corbosa, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar and member of the Tuscany province.

works

Lectiones 46. super psalmum Fundamenta ejus in montibus sanctis, & super caput 24. Ecclesiastici (1627).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum (ed. 1806), 160; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484.

Laurentius (early 14th century)

OM. Italian friar. Provincial minister of the Provincia Terrae Laboris.

Laurentius Cozza (Lorenzo Cozza di San Lorenzo, 1654-1729)

OFM. Italian friar from the Rome province. Lector jubilatis, guardian of Mount Sion and custos of the Holy Land custody. Consultant for the congregation of the Index and for the Roman Inquisition. Also comissarius generalis for the Cismontan order family, minister general (1723) and appointed Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726.

works

Vindiciæ areopagiticæ Patris Laurentii Cozza a Sancto Laurentio (...) una cum antiquae Ecclesiae disciplinia circa varios Ritis & Apologia Joannis Novii pro scriptis Areopagiticis (Rome: Giorgio Plach, 1702). Accessible via the British Library, the Library of Turin University, via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Vita S. Dionysii Areopagitae cum annotationibus pro Parisiensi Episcopatu. Edited in Vindiciæ areopagiticæ Patris Laurentii Cozza (...) (1702)

Dubia Selecta Emergentia circa Sollicitationem in Confessione Sacramentali, juxta Apostolicas Constitutiones ex probatis Auctoribus digesta, atque discussa (..) (Rome: Giorgio Plach, 1709/Louvain, 1750). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, Ghent University Library and via Google Books.

Commentarii historico-dogmatici in librum S. Augustini de haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum (...), 2 Vols. (Rome: Giorgio Plach, 1717). In part accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Historia polemica de Graecorum schismate ex ecclesiasticis monumentis concinnata (...), 4 Vols. (Rome: Giorgio Plach, 1719-1720). In part accessible via Oxford Bodleian Library, via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Tractatus dogmatico-moralis de jejunio ecclesiastico, in tres partes distributus (...) (Rome: Giorgio Plach, 1724).

Vita e Diarii del Card. Lorenzo Cozza, già Custode di Terra Santa e Ministro Generale de’ Frati Minori. Tomo unico (1654-1729), ed. Livario Oliger, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente Francescano, Nuova serie - Documenti: Tomo III (Quaracchi: Collegio di S. Bonaventura, 1925).

Atti del Rev.mo Padre Lorenzo Cozza, Custode di Terra Santa. Tomo I: Parte I (1709-1715), ed. Eutimio Castellani, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente Francescano, Nuova serie - Documenti: Tomo IV (Quaracchi: Collegio di S. Bonaventura, 1924) & Atti del Rev.mo Padre Lorenzo Cozza, Custode di Terra Santa. Tomo II: Parte II (1709-1715), ed. Eutimio Castellani, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente Francescano, Nuova serie - Documenti: Tomo V (Quaracchi: Collegio di S. Bonaventura, 1924).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 274-275; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 763; Livario Oliger, Vita e diarii del Card. Lorenzo Cozza giá custode di Terra Santa e ministro generale de'Frati Minor (1654-1729), con otto tavile furi testo (Rome: Collegio di S. Bonaventura, 1925);

Laurentius de Ajofrin (Lorenzo de Ajofrin, fl. later 18th cent.)

OMCap. Spanish friar. Lector of theology, commissary of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide for the missions in the Americas and Tibet, 'Cronista' of the Capuchin Encarnacion de las dos Castillas province. Wrote also under the pseudonym Leandro Frinozejo.

works

Primores de la divina gracia manifestados en la admirable vida, y portentosos milagros del nuevo Taumaturgo de Sicilia el siervo de Dios Fr. Geronymo de Corleon, religioso Lego Capuchino, 2nd Revised Ed. (Madrid: Joachin Ibarram 1775). Accessible via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and via Google Books.

Vida, virtudes y milagros del beato Lorenzo de Brindis (Madrid: Joachîn Ibarra, 1784).

Tratado theológico-místico-moral: en que se explica, segun los principios mas sólidos, la bula pastoralis curae de la santidad de Benedicto XIV, sobre el confesor extraordinario de las monjas (Madrid: Pedro Marin, 1789). Accessible via the library of Monserrat Abbey and via Google Books.

Diario del viaje que hicimos a México fray Francisco de Ajofrín y fray Fermín de Olite: capuchinos (J. Porrúa e hijos, 1936/Real Academia de la Historia, 1959 [ed. Buenaventura de Carrocera ]/Instituto Cultural Hispano Mexicano, 1964/Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1986).

Laurentius de Ancona (Lorenzo d’Ancona, fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Inquisitor.

literature

P. Iocco, ‘Il caso giudiziario di un inquisitore inquisito: fr. Lorenzo d’Ancona (OFM)’, Picenum Seraphicum 22-23 (2003-2004), 11-65; Maria Grazia del Fuoco, 'La custodua francescana di Camerino nel Duecento', in: Bausteine zur deutschen und italienischen Geschichte: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Horst Enzenberger, ed. Maria Stuiber & Michele Spadaccini (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2014), 113-115.

Laurentius de Aponte (Lorenzo di Aponte, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OM? Italian friar. Is he a Franciscan friar? Juan de San Antonio says he is a Neapolitan friar, yet the 1629 and 1641 editions of his In Sapientiam Salomonis call him a member of the Ordo clericorum regularium minorum, or the Institute of the Consecrated life. In that case he is not a Franciscan.

works

In Sapientiam Salomonis, commentaria, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1629-1641). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF II, 270.

Laurentius de Bonovenito (Lorenzo de Bienvenida, d. 1585)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Santiago province. Missionary in Yucatán and Costa Rica.

works

Cartas. Listed in Castro (1996) and partly edited in AIA 21 (1921), 244-245; L. Gómez Canedo, La provincia franciscana de Santa Cruz de Caracas (Caracas, 1974) I, 397-399; Manuel M. Peralta, Costa Rica, Nicaragua y Panamá en el siglo XVI (Madrid, 1888), 550-552.

literature

Manuel de Castro y Castro, Bibliografía hispano franciscana (Santiago, 1994), nn.  6921f, 7040; 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), 

Laurentius a Brundusio (Laurentius Brundusinus/Lorenzo de Brindis/Lorenzo da Brindisi, 1559 - 1619), Sanctus

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Venice province. Provincial minister of both this province and of the Genoa and Tuscany provinces, and Vicar general of the capuchin order (elected in 1602: that general leadership position in the Capuchin order was renamed into that of minister general by Pope Paul V in 1618). During this stint at the head of the order, he undertook extensive visitation journeys through order provinces in Italy, France and Spain. Prior to this appointment, he had become famous for his actions as army chaplain of the Austrian imperial army of Rudolf II under the command of Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, duc de Mercoeur, during the battle/siege of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg, September 1601). Following his stint at the head of the Capuchin order, Lorenzo became active in anti-Protestant missions in Germany, and subsequently he was ambassador for the Spanish crown and the papacy at the court of Maximilian of Bavaria, head of the Catholic League. In this period he also acted as spiritual director of the Bavarian armies, and he traveled with other Capuchin friars and other priests as popular missionary in Bavaria, Saxony, and the Palatinate. He retired to the omonastery of Caserta in 1618, yet was asked again to perform an ambassador task, this time on behalf of leading circles Naples to inform Philip III if Spain about the actions of Viceroy Ossuna of Naples. He traveled to Spain and later back via Lisbon, where he died on 22 July, 1619. He was buried in the cemetery of the Clarissan Convento de la Annunciada in Villafranca del Bierzo (Spain). His beatification process, started some time after his death was not concluded prior to 1783, and eventually was canonized on 8 December, 1881. Lorenzo is famous for his propagation of Mary devotions. He also was a renowned preacher and biblical theologian, as well as meditative author. Most of his works (for a long time only or predominantly accessible via 13 manuscript volumes in the Archivio dei Cappuccini di Mestre, were issued in modern editions after his canonization.

works

Opera Omnia a patribus min. Capuccinis Prov. Venetae e textu originali nunc primum in lucem edita notisque illustrata, XV Vols. (Padua: Ex officina typographica Seminarii, 1928-1956). This contains many of Lorenzo's works, including his Quadragesimale Primum, Secundum, Tertium & Quartum, his Adventus, his Sanctorale, Dominicalia, Sermones de tempore, and his Lutheranismi hypotyposis.
See also: Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, Opera Omnia in Twelve Books, trans. Vernon Wagner (Delhi: Media House, 2007). This massive translation comprises: Vol. I: The Mariale; Vol. II: Lenten Sermons, Volume I; Vol. III: Lenten Sermons, Volume II, Part 1; Vol. IV: Lenten Sermons, Volume II, Part 2; Volume V: Lenten Sermons, Volume II, Part 3; Volume VI: Lenten Sermons, Volume III; Volume VII: Lenten Sermons, Volume IV; Vol. VIII: Advent Sermons; Vol. IX: Sunday Sermons, Volume One; Vol. XII: Sunday Sermons, Volume Two; Vol. XI: Feastday Sermons; Vol. XII: Seasonal Sermons. See the review by B. Vadakkerara in Collectanea Franciscana 79 (2009), 305-312.

Lutheranismi Hypotyposis, included in: S. Laurentii a Brundusio opera omnia, II (Ex Officina typograhica Seminarii, 1928). It also received a new edition as: Lutheranismi hypotyposis, ed. entre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium, 2 Vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010); Appendix ad opus 'Lutheranismi hypotyposis' pertinens, ed. Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium, 2 Vols (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).

Explanatio in Genesim, ed. Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).

Expositio in Ezechielem.

Nativitas et Epiphania: (Sermones ad nativitatem et epiphaniam pertinentes), ed. Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).

Epistulae duae et ordinatio, ed. Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).

Thesaurus Laurentii a Brundusio, I: Opera theologica et exegetica. Series A – Formae. Enumeratio formarum. Index formarum a tergo ordinatarum. Index formarum secundum normam collatarum. Tabulae frequentiarum. Concordantia formarum, ed. Paul Tombeur, Paolino Zilio et al., Corpus Christianorum. Thesaurus Patrum Latinorum (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005) [see CF 77 (2007), 705f].

Thesaurus Laurentii a Brundusio, II: Sermones. Series A – Formae. Enumeratio formarum. Index formarum a tergo ordinatarum. Tabulae frequentiarum. Index formarum secundum orthographiae normam collatarum. Index formarum graecarum. Index formarum hebraicarum. Concordantia formarum, ed. Paul Tombeur, Paolino Zilio et al., Corpus Christianorum. Thesaurus Patrum Latinorum (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007) [Cf. reviews in Revue Bénédictine 118 (2008), 398f; Collectanea Franciscana 78 (2008), 405f., Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 104 (2009), 275f.].

De Rebus Austriae et Bohemiae Commentariolum, edited in: Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 25 (1909). See also: Andrew J.G. Drenas, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi‘s ‘Commentariolum de rebus Austriae et Bohemiae‘: An introduction to, and translation of the document in English‘, Collectanea Franciscana 85: 3-4 (2015), 595-629.

Breviario Laurenziano. Meditazioni quotidiane dagli scritti di san Lorenzo da Brindisi, ed. Lorenzo da Fara (Padua, 1999).

Un testo laurenziano sul Santo Natale, ed. Giacomo Carito, in: Natale per risorgere. IV rassegna internazionale del Presepe nell’arte e nella tradizione (Brindisi: Pubblidea, 2001).

Le feste della Madonna, ed. Mariano da Alatri (Rome-Vicenza: Liberia Mariana-Tup S. Giuseppe di G. Rumor, 1959). Part of the Mariale.

Marial: María de Nazaret, ‘Virgen de la Plenitudo’, ed. & trans. Agustín Guzmán Sancho y Bernardino de Armellada (Madrid: BAC, 2004).

To be continued...

vitae

Angelo M. de' Rossi, Vita del ven. P. Lorenzo da Brindisi (Rome: Bernabo, 1710).

Opera sacra sulla vita del B. Lorenzo da Brindisi Generale dell'Ordine de' Minori Cappucini dichiarato protettore della fedelissima citta di Napoli il di 20 febbraro 1788 dagli eccellentissimi sig. eletti della medesima. Dedicata all'Eccellentissimo Senato da Fr. Bernardino dalla Torre del Greco predicatore Cappuccino (Naples: Luigi Migliaccio, 1802)

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 272; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484; Anselmo de Legarda, ‘Vestigios clásicos en san Lorenzo de Brindis’, Estudios franciscanos 61 (1960), 389-430; Arturo M. da Carmignano di Brenta, San Lorenzo da Brindisi Dottore della Chiesa universale (1559-1619), 4 Vols. (Venezia-Mestre, 1960-1963); Felix a Mareto, Bibliographia laurentiana, opera complectens an. 1611-1961 edita (Rome, 1962); Giacomo Carlini, ‘S. Lorenzo da Brindisi, Vicario provinciale in Toscana. Riflessioni storico-critiche’, Fra noi 13 (1996), 221-236; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘L’Eucaristia nella vita e nella dottrina di san Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: L’unico Salvatore, 167-181; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: Lexicon. Dizionario dei Teologi, 810-812; Vincenzo Criscuolo, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: Il grande libro dei Santi II, 1215-1218; Alfonso Pompei, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: Dizionario di omiletica, 877-878; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La figura e l’opera di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 3-21; Giorgio Basso, ‘Bibliografia laurenziana. Opere su S. Lorenzo da Brindisi scritte dal 1961 al 1999’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 207-221; Paolino Zilio, ‘I manoscritti di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi. Primo approccio’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 23-90; Simonetta Pelusi, ‘Descrizione dei manoscritti laurenziani conservati presso l’Archivio Provinciale dei Cappuccini veneti di Venezia-Mestre’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 91-110; Fabio Gambetti, ‘Filosofia ed ermeneutica biblica in S. Lorenzo da Brindisi: le ‘Dissertationes’ della ‘Explanatio in Genesim’’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 151-170; Claudio Favero, ‘Le note della vera Chiesa nella “Lutheranismi Hypotyposis” di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 171-206; Leny Escalada, ‘The mystery of the Incarnation in the writings of St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Chronicle (Quezon City, Philippines) 1 (2000), 43-50; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La spiritualità di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi Dottore Apostolico della Chiesa’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 111-149; Arturo M. de Carmignano, ‘Saint Laurent de Brindes (1559-1619)’, in: Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 71-100; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Saint Laurent de Brindes à Arras en 1602’, in: Idem, Miscellanea IV, 1634-1640; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een Nederlandsch Gedicht over S. Laurentius van Brindisi (1783)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea III, 1197-1200; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Amor esponsal de Dios-Trinidad a la virgen Maria siguiendo el ‘Mariale’ de san Lorenzo de Brindis’, : Negotium Fidei. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Mariano D’Alatri in occasione del duo 80° compleanno, ed. Pietro Maraneso, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 67 (Rome-Bravetta, 2002), 287-313; Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart V⁴, 120; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Le vie della bellezza verso Maria nel Mariale di san Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 72:1-2 (2002), 231-249; Ferdinando Mastroianni Fiorenzo, Immacolatissima. Maria in san Lorenzo da Brindisi (Naples, 2003); B. de Armelladda, ‘The spirituality of saint Lawrence of Brindisi: apostolic doctor of the church’, Greyfriars Review 17:1 (2003), 85-121; Giacomo Carito, ‘Massimiliano di Baviera e Lorenzo da Brindisi per la pace tra protestanti e cattolici nei paesi d’oltralpe’, Apulia 7 (2005), 200-203; Angelo Catarozzolo, “Padre Brindisi”, apostolo senza frontiere. Riflessioni sulla spiritualità di Giulio Cesare Russo, Padre Brindisi, nel suo itinerario ascetico, culturale, storico (s.l. Cattedra Laurenziana, 2005); Leonardo Lotti, San Lorenzo da Brindisi Dottore della Chiesa, Sentieri, 45 (Terlizzi (Bari): Ed. Insiemme, 2005); Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La Virgen María en tres sermones de San Lorenzo de Brindis’, Naturalezza y Gracia 52 (2005), 359-383; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La Inmaculada Concepción de la Virgen en s. Lorenzo de Brindis’, in: La ‘Scuola Francescana’ e l’Immacolata Concezione. Atti del Congresso Mariologico Francescano, ed. Stefano M. Cecchin, Studi Mariologici, 10 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, 2005), 427-453; Luis Valbuena, ‘San Lorenzo de Brindis (1559-1619)’, El Mensajero Seráfico 117: 1542 (Madrid, 2005), 256-259; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Dinamismo sobrenatural del dolor en la teologia y en los santos’, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam, Bibliotheca Seraphico Capuccina, 81 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 487-493; Dario Busolini, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Dizionario biografico degli Italiani 66 (2006), 64b-67; Fiorenzo Fernandino Mastroianni, Simillima Jesu. La Madre di Gesù nei discorsi di san Lorenzo da Brindisi (Naples: Editrice Domenicana Italiana, 2006); Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La más bella profecía de la hermosura de la Virgen. El ‘Cantar de los cantares’ en san Lorenzo de Brindis’, Laurentianum 47 (2006), 349-362; Robert J. Karris, ‘Two sermons of St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, The Cord 56 (2006), 136-144; La mistica parola per parola, ed. Luigi Borriello, Maria R. Del Genio & Tomás Spidlík (Milan: Ancora, 2007); Pietro M. [p. Rosario] Sammarco, La cooperazione di Maria SS. alla Redenzione nel ‘Mariale’ di s. Lorenzo da Brindisi (Frigento: Casa Mariana Editrice, 2008) [A shortened version appeared in Immaculata Mediatrix 9 (2009), 229-262]; Antonio Fregona, ‘San Lorenzo Russo da Brindisi ‘Dottore apostolico’ (1569-1619)’, Vita Minorum 79 (2008), 201-226; Bernardino De Armellada, ‘La excepción de la Inmaculada. Exégesis generosa de s. Lorenzo de Brindis’, Collectanea Franciscana 79:1-2 (2009), 45-60; Vincenzo Criscuolo, ‘San Lorena da Brindisi e i due monasteri brindisini delle cappuccine’, Collectanea Franciscana 79:1-2 (2009), 149-176; Benedict Vadakkekara, ‘A Tribute to St. Lawrene of Brindisi (…)’, Collectanea Franciscana 79 (2009), 305-312; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La predicación de san Lorenzo de Brindis sobre san Francisco de Asís’, Naturaleza y Gracia 56 (2009), 273-300; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘San Francisco de Asís visto por san Lorenzo de Brindis’, Naturaleza y Gracia 56 (2009), 301-321; Manuel González García, ‘Magnificat, el cántico de María, la Virgen Madre de Dios, en San Lorenzo de Brindis’, in: Religioni e doctrinae. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Bernardino de Armellada in occasione del suo 80o compleanno, ed. Aleksander Horowski, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 89 (Rome: Istituto Storico del Cappuccini, 2009), 489-505; Sergio Pagano, ‘Inediti vaticani su san Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:1-2 (2011), 145-155 [a short notice on letters by the Capuchin missionary Lorenzo da Brindisi not yet treated in Arturo M. da Carmignano di Brenta, San Lorenzo da Brindisi Dottore della Chiesa universale (1559-1619), 4 Vols. (Venezia-Mestre, 1960-1963)]; Niklaus Kuster, Laurentius von Brindisi. Apostel auf den Straßen Europas, Topos Taschenbücher, 714 (Kevelaer: verlagsgemeinschaft topos plus, Butzon & Bercker, 2010). Review in CF 81:1-2 (2011), 400-402; Vernon Wagner, ‘The Eucharist: Sacrament and Sacrifice according to St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:1-2 (2011), 157-186; Vernon Wagner, ‘The Holy Spirit According to ST. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012), 679-694; V. Wagner, ‘The final judgment according to St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 83:1-2 (2013), 119-149; V. Wagner, ‘Fraternal correction according to St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 83:3-4 (2013), 433-450; Vernon Wagner, ‘The nature and role of women according to St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 187-206; Andrew J.G. Drenas, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi‘s ‘Commentariolum de rebus Austriae et Bohemiae‘: An introduction to, and translation of the document in English‘, Collectanea Franciscana 85: 3-4 (2015), 595-629; Leonhard Lehmann, 'Vom Glückskind zum Kirchenlehrer: Laurentius von Brindisi', Kapuziner Jahresschrift 2018/2019. Berichte, Ereignisse (Munich: Deutsche Kapuzinerprovinz, 2018), 56-58; 'Colloquium charitativum'. San Lorenzo da Brindisi in dialogo con i luterani. Atti del I. Convegno di studi storico-ecumenici: Bari, 29 aprile 2017, ed. Alfredo Di Napoli, Studia PACS, 3 (Bari: L'Aurora Serafica, 2018). Essay collection on the friar's theological positions, interactions with Lutherans etc.; M. Luca Genovese, 'L'umiltà di Maria. San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Mariale, I, II, Sermone I, II, 6-7', Immaculata Mediatrix 18 (2018), 293-306; Lopes Morgado, 'O motivoda Encarnação do Verbo em São Lourenço de Brindes', Bíblica 27 (2018), 132-148; Andrew J.G. Drenas, The Standard Bearer of the Roman Church. Lawrence of Brindisi & Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire (1599-1613) (Washinton, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018) [review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 112 (2019), 702-707; Wissenschaft und Weisheit 82 (2019), 291-295], 702f.; Christian D. Washburn, 'St. Lawrence of Brindisi on the One True Church of Christ', Collectanea Franciscana 88 (2018), 189-222; Roberto Cuvato, 'Maria di Nazareth in Lorenzo da Brindisi e Mattia Bellintani da Salò', L'Eco di Gibilmanna 99:2 (2018), 7-12; Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 427-442.

Laurentia de Baldino (Lorenza di Giovanni di Baldino/Lorenza dei Baldini, fl. ca. 1500)

OSC. Italian nun from Perugia (S. Maria di Monteluce), who was involved with the enclosure of the Santa Caterina/San Sebastiano house in San Sepolcro, and its transformation into a Clarissan house. She wrote about the process in a highly charged narrative that downplayed the history and significance of the third-order background of the community.

works

Storia di Santa Caterina in San Sepolcro. See the 2007 and 2009 studies of Banker and Lowe.

literature

James R. Banker & K.J.P. Lowe, 'Lorenza di Giovanni di Baldino (or dei Baldini) da Perugia’s Narrative of Enclosure: The Regularization of a Third-Order Franciscan House in Borgo San Sepolcro in 1500', Analecta Tertii Ordinis Regularis 179 (2007), 443-457; James R. Banker & K.J.P. Lowe, 'Female Voice, Male Authority: A Nun’s Narrative of the Regularization of a Female Franciscan House on Borgo San Sepolcro in 1500', Sixteenth Century Journal 40 (2009), 651-677.

Laurentius Accerenza/Accheruntia (Lorenzo Accerenza)

OMObs. Italian friar. Two times appointed visitator of the San Angelo and Terra Laboris provinces. Also general definitor, apostolic penitentiary and apostolic visitator in he Milan and Genoa provinces. He would have left behind an unedited commentary on the third book of the Sentences of Lombard, which according to Juan de San Antonio was kept in the Aquaviva convent library (San Niccolo province of the regular Observance).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 270.

Laurentius Altieri (Lorenzo Altieri, 1730-1796)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Ferrara. Entered the order at the age of 17 in the San Francesco di Ferrara friary. He became public professor of theology at the Lyceum of Ferrara and synodal examiner. In 1787 he was appointed regent of the Collegio di S. Bonaventura in Rome. Due to his failing health, he returned to Ferrara in 1794, where he died in 1796.

works

Elementa philosophiae in adoloscentium usum ex probatis auctoribus adornata a F. laurentio Altieri Min. Conv. in patrio Ferrariensi Lyceo sacrae theologiae publico professore, 3 Vols. (Venice: Tomas Bettinelli, 1783 [4th Ed.]).

literature

Efemeridi Letterarie di Roma 12 (1783), 133-134; Giuseppe Cenacchi, Tomismo e neotomismo a Ferrara (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1975), 54-55.

Laurentius Arianensis (Lorenzo d'Ariano, fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar from Puglia. According to Wadding made Bishop of Ariano (Ariano di Puglia/Ariano Irpino) around 1327, a position he would have kept until 1342.

works

Origo Christi et Virginis Mariae per Historias Bibliae compilatae a Fr. Laurentio Episcopo Arianensi Ordinis Minorum (inc.: Tres calami...): MS olim Bologna, Conv. S. Francisci ? Apparently consulted there by Sbaralea.

Breve Opusculum Collectionum temporum veteris Testamenti (inc.: Licet nostrum non sit, nosse tempora...): MS olim Bologna, Conv. S. Francisci ? Apparently consulted there by Sbaralea.

Laurentii de Ariano Ord. Min. Chronica ab Adamo usque ad Christum: MSS olim Florence, Conv. S. Mariae Annunciatae Ord. Servor. B.V., >>>>; Paris, BN, lat. 6582 ?

Sermones Dominicales Fr. Laurentii de Ariano: MS olim Udine, Bibl. Conv. S. Francisci. Cf. Sbaralea.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum, check!; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 483.

Laurentius Aurelianensis (Laurent d'Orléans, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar.

works

La mort mystique, ou la Mort de l'Ame propre par soumission volontaire en la Main de Dieu (Paris, 1684).

literature

Louis Ellies Dupin, Table Universelle des auteurs ecclesiastiques II (Paris, 1704), 2676; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 270.

Laurentius Bordogna (Lorenzo Bordogna/Lorenzo dal Cornello Terra, 1599-1646)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Took the habit in 1616. Became a renowned preacher in a number of Italian cities and also took on several guardian charges. Known for a series of sermon collections that he prepared for the press but that were never published due to his long illness and death at a relatively young age on 24 January 1646.

works

Bibliographical guides mention a Quaresimale, an Annuale, a Mariale and Santorale, as well as Sermoni del Santissimo Sagramento, Sermoni per li Sabbati and Prediche straordinaria. The wherabouts of manuscripts containing these works are as yet unknown to us.

literature

Donato Calvi, Scena letteraria de gli scrittori bergamaschi aperta alla curiosità de suoi concittadini I (Bergamo: Marc'Antonio Rossi, 1664), 359-360; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 270-271; Sbaralea, Suppementum (ed. 1806), 483.

Laurentius Branchatus (Lorenzo Brancati da Lauria/Gian-Francesco Brancati, 1612-1693)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born as the son of a noble neapolitan family in Lauria (Calabria, 10 April 1612, mother Dorotea Serubbi, father Marcello Serubbu). Received his first education from the former advocate Aquilante Vitale. Due to lack of funds, Lorenzo was unable to continue his studies outside his home town. Became a cleric in service of the Policastri convent. After a severe illness, he wanted to enter the Franciscan order in the Nola convent, but at first he was not allowed into the noviciate, due to governmental and family pressure on the order. Yet after a spiritual crisis and a renewed attempt in 1630 he was able to enter the noviciate at Lecce and make his profession on July 7, 1631, changing his name into Lorenzo. He studied physics and philosophy at Lecce, Rutigliano and Bari (also under the Jesuit teacher Vincenzo Colella, 1633-1634). During this period, he became friends with Giuseppe da Copertino. Thereafter Lorenzo entered the St. Bonaventure Collegium in Rome (ca. 1634), where he obtained a doctorate after defending a series of theological questions at subsequent chapter meetings of the order. he also was ordained priest in 1636. Following his studies at St. Bonaventure, which he concluded in 1637, he was supposed to teach liberal arts in the San Lorenzo collegium of Naples, but with some pressure from his teaches in Rome he was sent first to Aversa, where he taught logic and philosophy and became really acquainted with Scotist theology. He was transferred to Naples in 1639. Soon, he became second secretary to the general G.B. Berardicelli da Larini. Following that, he was a few months later appointed as regent master of the Florence studium, and in 1641 he was first transferred to the studium of Ferrara (1641), and subsequently the studium of Bologna (1644), where he also taught theology. In and after 1647, Lorenzo was the secretary and assistant of the minister general Michelangelo Catalani. He also functioned for some time (from 1650 onwards) as the guardian of the Holy Apostles convent, the home of the minister general. After his renunciation of these positions (which may have been induced by criticisms), he retreated to the Albano Laziale friary, were, at the request of the minister general Michelangelo d’Albano, he embarked upon a major Scotist commentary concerning sacramental issues. (Commentaria in quatuor libros Sentent. Mag. Ioannis Duns Scoti), in which can be traced some aspects of the strugle against Jansenism and the contemporary Catholic answer to it in centres like Louvain and Paris. Due to his work on Scotus, Lorenzo obtained the esteem of cardinal Fabio Chigi, who helped him to become professor of theology at La Sapienza in Rome (1653), where Lorenzo finished his Epitome Canonum. After Fabio Chigi was elected pope, (Alexander VII, 1655-1667), Lorenzo became counsellor of the Holy Office. More functions and favours followed, both under Alexander VII and under this pope’s successors: Clement IX, Clement X and Innocent XI. The last-mentioned of these pope made him a cardinal (1681) and librarian of the Vatican. In the wake of these various functions, Lorenzo wrote several works on mission and became active in several congregations, through which he became involved with several actual debates (regarding the condemnation of the Spanish Quetist Miguel de Molinos, issues of laxism and rigorism etc.), which enticed him to write his Opuscula tria de Deo quoad opera praedestinationis, reprobationis et gratiae actualis. Lorenzo died on 30 November 1693, 81 years old. He was buried near the basilica dei Santi XII Apostoli, which had been refurbished and restored with his support.

works

Commentaria in tertium et Quartum Librum Sententiarum Mag. Ioannis Duns Scoti, 9 Vols.(Rome, 1653-1682). A huge treatise on the third and fourth books of the Sentences commentary of Duns Scotus, which appeared at Rome in eight folio volumes between 1653 and 1682. A number of these are now accessible via the digital collections of for instance the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and via Google Books. The first volume is also known under the title De Sacramentis in genere,de Baptismo et de eucharestia (Rome: Haeredes Manelphi, 1653), the second, dedicated to Alexander VII, is also known under the title De poenitentiae virtute et poenitentiae sacramento (Rome: Angelus Bernabo, 1656). Subsequent volumes have as subtitles: Tomus tertius... de sacramentis confirmationis,ordinis,extremae unctionis,matrimonii (Rome: Vitalis Mascardus, 1662), Tomus quartus... de omnibus novissimis necnon de medio statu animarum, et parvulorum (Rome: Haeredes Corbelleti, 1665), ... De virtutibus in genere,de quatuor cardinalibus,eorumque speciebus et de virtute heroica (Roma: Haeredes Corbelletti, 1668), De virtutibus theologicis in genere,de fide propagata et propaganda, de missionariis martyrio,haeresi et poenis haereticorum (Rome: Typographia Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1673), De spe, de charitate, donis Spiritus Sancti,beatitudinibus,gratia habituali,de gratiis gratis datis,specialiter de miraculis (Rome: Haeredes Corbelletti, 1676), De Sacrosancto incarnationis divini Verbi mysterio (Rome: Haeredes Corbelletti, 1682).

Epitome Canonum omnium qui in Conciliis Generalibus ac Provincialibus, in Decreto Gratiani, in Decretalibus, in Epistolis, in Constitutionibus Romanorum Pontificum usque as SS. D.N. Alexandri VII Annum Quartum continentur (Rome: Mascardi, 1659/Venice: Apud Benedictum Milochum, 1673/Cologne, 1683/Cologne, 1684/Venice, 1689/Venice, 1706). It amounts to a collection of all the canons from general and provincial councils, from the Decretals of Gratian and of Gregory IX, and from papal encyclical letters and constitutions up till the pontificat of Alexander VII. This work was later re-issued by the Barnabite provincial vicar Gian-Paolo Paravicini: Polyanthea Sacrorum Canonum Coordinatorum, 3 Vols. (Prague, 1708/Cologne, 1728). The 1659 and 1673 Venice editions are accessible via the digital collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and via Google Books. Likewise, a 1684 German edition, issued in Cologne, is also available via Google Books.

Disputationes 30 de sacrosancto incarnationis divini verbi mysterio (Rome: 1682). This work included in the 1682 edition of the first volume of the Commentaria F. Laurentii Brancati de Laurae, Ordinis Minorum Conventualium S. Francisci (...) in III et IV Librum Sententiarum Magistri Fr. Joannis Duns Scoti. And as such this work is also accessible via Google Books.

Opuscula Octo de Oratione Christiana ejusque Speciebus, in Tyronum orantium gratiam edita ab eorum amantissimo Fr. Laurentio Brancato Tit. Basilicae SS. XII Apostolorum S.R.E. Presbytero Cardinali de Lauraea (Rome: Corbelletti, 1685/Venice, 1687/Brescia, 1687/Rome-Venice-Brescia: Giovanni Maria Ricciardi, 1697/Montreuil-sur-Mer, 1891). The 1685 and 1697 editions are accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and via Google Books. This work deals with prayer in general, mental prayer, contemplative prayer, explanations of the active and the contemplative life, the nature of acquired contemplative insight, requirements for the contemplative life, infused grace and supernatural support in the contemplative life, and mystic union with the divine. See also: Lorenzo Brancati da Lauria, La preghiera cristiana, ed. & trans. Antonio Cantisani (Catanzaro: Edizioni la Rondine, 2006).

Opuscula Tria de Deo quoad Opera Praedestinationis, Reprobationis et Gratiae Actualis, in Commodum Tyronum Sancti Augustini Doctrinae Studiosorum Elucubrata (Rome: Typis Haeredum Corbelletti, 1687/Rome, 1770/Rouen, 1705). The 1687 and 1705 editions are accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Devota ad D. N. Jesum Christum Precatio; Devota Laudis ad SS. Trinitatem Oratio; Gratulatoria Humilis et Devota Oratio ad Omnes Caelestium Civium Ordines; Devota ad Beatam Semper Virginem Mariam Salutatio (Rome, 1688/Rome, 1689/Rome, 1695). The 1688 edition with a slightly different title is accessible via Google Books.

Index Alphabeticus Rerum et Locorum Omnium Memorabilium ad Annales Cardinalis Baronii, ed. Joâo de Lima y Mello (Rome: Typis Bernabò, 1694). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Vita et Opera Jesu Christi, Manu Sanctorum Evangelistarum Calamo Sacram Jesu Christi Describens Historiam, ed. Bartolomeo Commando (Rome, 1695).

Compendium Cardinalis Baronii?

Compendium Nicolai de Lyra?

Dissertationes variae (Rome: Niccola Angelo Tinassi, ?). [De privilegiis quibus gaudent Cardinales, De optione sex episcoporum S.R.E. Cardinalium, De pactionibus cardinalium quae vocantur conclavis capitula, De sacro viatico in extremo vitae pericolo certantibus exhibendo, De potu Chocolatis, De regulis SS.PP., De Benedictione Diaconali, De Altarium consecratione].

Coordinationis sacrorum canonum Tomi, 3 Vols. (Carolus Franciscus Rosenmüller, 1708). At least the third volume is accessible via Google Books.

Polyanthea sacrorum canonum coordinatorum qui in conciliis generalibus ac provincialibus, in Oriente ac Occidente celebratis, in Decreto Gratiani, in Decretalibus in Epistolis, ac Constitutionibus (...), ed. Giovanni Paolo Paravicini, 3 Vols.? (Cologne: Franciscus Metternich, 1719). Accessible (at least in part) via Google Books.

Juan de San Antonio also mentions a number of unedited juridical, scholastical and ecclesiological works. These need to be checked out further.

vitae

Bartolomeo Comando, Vita F. Laurentij Brancati Ex Ordine Minorum Conventualium Tit. SS. Duodecim Apostolorum S.R.E. Presbyteri Cardinalis Bibliothecarij (...) (Rome: Typis Haeredum Corbelletti, 1698); Vita del cardinale Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria dell'Ordine de' minori conventuali scritta compendiosamente dall'abbate Gabriello Baba (...) (Rome: nella stamperia del Bernabò, 1699) [Accessible via Google Books]. See also: Forma procedendi in causis Sancti Officii ac haereses omnes a Laurentio a Laurea SS. D.N. Papae consultore dispositae et in unum collectae: MS Rome, BAV, Borg. Lat. 559.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 387-398; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 271-272; B. Commando, Vita Fr. Laurentii Brancati de Laurea Card. Bibl. (Rome, 1698); G. Baba, Vita del cardinalo Lorenzo Brancati (Rome, 1699); DThCat. IX, 13-16; D. Sparacio, ‘Cardinalo Lorenzo Brancati’, Miscellanea Francescana 25 (1925); M.-Th. Disdier, ‘Brancati’, DHGE X, 396-398; R. Ravaschio, ‘De gratia sufficienti et efficaci iuxta Card. Laurentiu Brancati, OFMConv (d. 1693)’, Miscellanea Francescana 49 (1949), 205-247; Giuseppe Pignatelli, ‘Brancati da Lauria, Lorenzo’, DBI 13 (1971), 827-831 [with additional biographical and bibliographical information, and with information on Lorenzo's involvement with doctrinal and ecclesiastical discussions]; Remigius Ritzler, I cardinali e i papi dei Frati Minori Conventuali, collana Miscellanea francescana, 71 (Rome: Seraphicum, 1971), 64-65; Bruno Neveu, L'erreur et son juge (Naples, 1993), 256-259, 291-294, 471-473, 645-651; Domenico Paoletti, ‘Il Cardinale Lorenzo Brancati da Lauria. Nel IVo centenario della nascita: una figura significativa e un messaggio attuale’, Miscellanea Francescana 112 (2012), 209-222.

Laurentius Brandersen (d. 1496)

OMObs. Danish or more in general a Scandinavian friar. Active propagator of the Observance in the ‘Dacia’ province, reforming and/or founding Observant convents in Odense (1469), Svendborg (1472), Nysted (1477), Kökars (1485), Copenhagen (1487), Malmö (1487), Roskilde (1489), Halmstadt (1494), Husum (1495), Flensburg (1495), and Helsingör (1496). Laurentius died on 5 December 1496. Author?

literature 

AF II (Quaracchi, 1887), 521; Wadding, Annales Minorum XIV (ed. Quaracchi, 1931), 627-628; J. Collijn, ‘Franciskanernas Bibl. pa Gramunkeholmen i Stockholm’, Nordisk Tidskrift 4 (Uppsala, 1917), 101-171.

Laurentius de Casa Maxima (Lorenzo de Casamassima, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar and member of the San Niccolò province (Apulia).

works

Il Sacro Mortorio di Gesù e Maria (1645). Never printed?

literature

Mirabilia Minoritica Provinciae S. Nicolai Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae per Adm. R.P.F. Bonaventuram a Fasano (Bari: Zanneto & Valerio, 1656), >>; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, >>; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484.

Laurentius de Concha (Lorenzo de Cuenca, fl. ca. 1600)

OFM. Spanish friar and member of the Castile province.

works

Homiliae variae in Evangelia (Madrid, 1602).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum, 160; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484.

Laurentius de Guevara (Lorenzo de Guevara, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFM. Guatemalan friar. Took the habit in the Guatemala friary in 1657. Worked in several friaries and became active as a missionary in Honduras. By 1690, he was guardian of the Sonsonate friary.

works

Relación de las conquistas espirituales hechas por los franciscanos entre los Xicaques de Honduras. Mentioned by Sánhez Garcia.

literature

D. Sánchez García, Catálogo de los escritores franciscanos de la Provincia Seráfica del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala (Guatemala, 1920), 47-48; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 38.

Laurentius de la Cueva (Lorenzo de la Cueva, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar and member of the Castile province. Known for a versified vernacular account of the conversion of Saint Francis.

works

La conversion del beato san Francisco (Alcala: viuda de Juan Gracián, 1619). No surviving copies?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 275; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484; Iberian Books, II & III / Libros Ibéricos, II y III III, 328.

Laurentius de Monte Politiano (Lorenzo di Montepulciano, d. 1607 [1601?])

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Tuscany province. Later provincial minister of the San Francesco province and in the Abruzzi province. For years active as a novice master and known for a novice instruction manual in the Italian vernacular on the external and internal constitution of the religious subject that seems to have resembled the work of David of Augsburg and was also in part based on the teachings of Bonaventure. Thus far, we have not been able to trace that work. He would have died in 1601 of 1607 in Penne.

works

Novice instruction manual in the Italian vernacular. Check I Frati cappuccini: documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo II, 1573.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 277; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 519.

Laurentius de Lucca (Lorenzo da Lucca, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Missionary and apostolic prefect in Congo between 1713 and 1720.

works

Account of the Capuchin missions in Congo. See: J. Cuvelier, Relations sur le Congo du P. Laurent de Lucques (1700-1717) (Brussels, 1953).

literature

T. Filesi, La «missio Antiqua» dei Cappuccini nel Congo (1635-1845) (Rome, 1978), 168-169.

Laurentius de Luna (Lorenzo de Luna, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar and preacher in the New World, active in Bogota and the neighbouring region. A sermon by him on the canonisation of S. Ignatius was signalled by Juan de San Antonio as being present in the library of the Jesuit College of San Hermenegildo in Sevilla.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276-277.

Laurentius Brito (fl. c. 1340)

OM. English friar. Lector at Oxford. Known for his sermons, which he interspersed with English verse.

works

Sermo: MS British Library Rawl. C. 534 f. 7ff; Oxford Merton College 248 ff. 131a-132b [=same sermon collected in 14th-century sermon anthology of bishop Sheppey]

Laurentius de Parisio (Laurentius Parisinus/Laurent de Paris, d. 1631)

OFMCap. French friar. He entered the Capuchins at Paris on 7 October 1581. Preacher, guardian (Bourges, Chartres, Meudon, Amiens, Paris, Auxerre, Meaux) and provincial definitor. Also active as philosophy lector, and after 1611 teacher of Hebrew H

works

Palais de l’amour divin, entre Jesus & l'ame Chrétienne auquel toute personne tant séculière que religieuse peut voir les Règles de parfaitement aimer Dieu et son prochain en cette vie (Paris. 1599/1602/1603/Paris: Denys de la Noë, 1614). The 1614 edition is accessible via library of Ghent University and via Google Books. This is just the first part of an envisaged five-volume work: 1. Le palais de l'amour divin; 2. La chambre du trésor de l'amous divin; 3. La salle de l'amour divin; 4. Les tapisseries sacrées et royales de l'amour divin; 5. Le sacro-saint cabinet du très pur amour divin. Aside from volume 1, the 4th volume also appeared.

Les tapisseries du divin amour ou la Passion de N. Seig. Jésus-Christ rédemoteur des humains (...) (Paris: Veuve de Nicolas Bion, 1631).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 277; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485; Annales franciscaines XVII (Paris, 1892), 435ff; M. Dubois-Quinard, Laurent de Paris. Une doctrine du Pur amour en France au début du XVIIe siècle (Rome, 1959); C. Bérubé, L’amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfiel et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997).

Laurentius de Pertusio (Laurent de Pertuis, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from the Saint Louis province. Theologian, provincial definitor and provincial minister.

works

La Vie du Vénerable serviteur de Dieu, Fr. Bernard de Corleon, Capucin illustre par la grande sainteté de sa vie (Paris, 1684).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 278; Jacques LeLong, Bibliothèque Historique De La France: Contenant Le Catalogue des Ouvrages, imprimés & manuscrits, qui traitent de l'Histoire de ce Royaume, ou qui y ont rapport (...), 2nd Ed. (Paris, 1775) IV, 359-360.

Laurentius de Portel (Laurentius Portel/Laurenço de Portel/Lourenço de Portel, 1541-1642)

OFM. Portuguese friar from the Algarve. Provincial minister and lector of theology.

works

Caeremoniale ad usum fratrum provinciae Algarbiorum (...) (Lisbon: Emmanuel & Joseph Ferroyta, 1708).

De los casos que a los religiosos se pueden reservar (Lisbon, 1611/Lisbon, 1615/Lisbon: Jorge da Costa, 1671).

Explicaçao dos cazos reservados conforme ao breve so sanhor papa Clemente VIII (Lisbon: Jorge Rodriguez, 1611).

De triplici voto solemni (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1616 [1626?]).

Sermones spirituales et Exhortationes Monasticae Religiosis personis necesariae, & saecularibus utilissimae (...) (Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, 1617)/Sermones spirituales et Exhortationes Monasticae Religiosis personis necesariae, & saecularibus utilissimae (...), Edition quarta auctior et correctior (Antwerp: Willem Lesteen & Engelbert Gymnicus, 1645/Antwerp: Willem Lesteen, 1651/Antwerp: Willem Lesteen & Engelbert Gymnicus, 1655). Several of these editions are accessible via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, the Nederlandse Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, the Mediathèque of Lyon (check also Numelyo), and via Google Books.

De impensis factis in Templo Salomonis (Lisbon, 1617).

Dvbia Regvlaria, Sive Accvrata, Brevisqve Discvssio Difficvltatvm, Circa Religiosam persona, atque Familiam; ac etiam circa Sacerdotem regularem, Confessiones saecularium excipientem (Lisbon: 1618Lyon: Jean Amato Candy, 1634/Lyon: Laurent Arnaud, 1643/Venice: Paolo Balleono, 1645). Acessible via Google Books.

Responsiones Aliquorum casuum Moralium, spectantium praecipuè ad personas Regulares, ac Saeculares (Lisbon, 1629/Lyon: sumptibus Lavrentii Dvrand, 1633)/ Responsiones Aliquorum casuum Moralium, spectantium praecipuè ad personas Regulares, ac etiam Saeculares, Editio Novissima (Lyon: Laurent Durand, 1640)/Responsiones Aliquorum casuum Moralium, spectantium praecipuè ad personas Regulares, ac Saeculares, Revised Edition (Lyon: Laurent Anisson, 1652). The 1640 and 1652 editions are for instance accessible via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and via Google Books.

Responsionum Moralium Tomus Secundus Cum duplici Indice, uno Casuum, altero Rerum & verborum copioso, Revised Edition (Lyon: Laurent Arnaud, 1644/Venice: Paolo Baleonio, 1645). Accessible via, for instance the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 278; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485; Henrique Pinto Rema, ‘Frei Lourenço de Portel (1541-1642), religioso franciscano. Professor de teologia e escritor de audiencia internacional’, Itinerarium 53 (2007), 241-258; Iberian Books/Libros Ibéricos II & III, 1827f.

Laurentius de Purificatione(Lourenço de Purificacão, fl. ca. 1700)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Active as a preacher in the San Antonio province in Brazil.

works

Caeremoniale (Lisbon: Emmanuel & Joseph Ferroyta, 1708). We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 278.

Laurentius de Sancto Francisco (Lorenzo de San Francisco, fl. first half 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar, member of the San Diego province (Andalucia). Novice master, guardian and provincial definitor.

works

Tesoro celestial y divino para rescate y consuelo de las almas, asi de los vivos, come de los Fieles difuntos (...) (Cadiz: 1638/Sevilla: s.n., 1650/Sevilla: Simón Fajardo, 1650/Cadiz-Sevilla: Juan Lorenço Machado, 1665). The 1665 edition is accessible via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and via Google Books (on that portal erroneously ascribed to Lorenzo de San Francisco (O.E.S.A.)).

Juan de San Antonio suggests that he left behind other works, but we have not yet been able to trace those.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484; AIA 32 (1929), 58-59; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 141 (no. 514); Iberian Books Volumes II & III/Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols): Books published in Spain, Portugal and the New World or elsewhere in Spanish or Portuguese between 1601 and 1650/Libros publicados en España, Portugal y el Nuevo Mundo o impresos en otros lugares en español o portugués entre 1601 y 1650: A-E, ed. Alexander Samuel Wilkinson & Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015), 2153.

Laurentius de Sancto Paulo (Lars Skytte/Laurent de Saint Paul, 1610-1696)

OFM. Swedish friar. A Swedish Lutheran diplomate related to Queen Christina of Sweden. Sent to Portugal as a legate. There he joined the Observants.

works

Confessio veritatis Ecclesiae Catholicae (Cologne: Cornelius von Egmond, 1652).

Peregrinatio sancta fr. Laurentii a D. Paulo sveci ordinis minorum s. Francisci regularis obseruantiae (Rome: Typis Angeli Bernabò à Verme, 1658). Available via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

Scala pietatis tribus gradibus Virtutum Theologalium (Rome: Typis Angeli Bernabò, 1668).

Portentum paenitentiae, sive vita Sancti Petri de Alcantara... (Rome: sumptibus A. Bernabò, 1669). Available via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF II, 277-278 [with additional info on the Scala pietatis tribus gradibus Virtutum Theologalium in particular]; Agustín Arce, ‘Lars Skytte, Luterano, Diplomático, Franciscano’, AFH 65 (1972), 415-474; Karl Gustel Wärnberg, The Sacred Pilgrimage: The Concept of Truth in the Life and Work of Lars Skytte, MA Thesis, Dept. of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University (Uppsala, 2017) [full text available on http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1120124/FULLTEXT01.pdf ] This thesis focuses on Lars's semi-autobiographical book Peregrinatio sancta fratris Laurentii a D. P. Sueci to make statements about the author's concept of (religious) Truth. See the short review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 304-305.

Laurentius de Toledo (Lorenzo de Toledo, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Preacher in the Prado friary (Castille province). One of his poems, entitled Canción Real was included in a work of religious songs, poems and liturgical acts issued in Alcala de Henares in 1730.

works

Canción Real, in: Sagrada métrica lid. (...) Antología de Joaquín de Aguirre (Alcalá: Imprenta de Joseph Espartosa, 1730), 81-82. This work was issued to commemorate the literary and liturgical acts and festivities surrounding the consecration of a new altar piece in the Church of San Diego in Alcalá.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF II, 278-279.

Laurentius de Trinitate (Lorenzo de la Trinidad, fl. second half 17th cent.)

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

works

Oracion panegirica de el Augustisimo Sacramento de el Altar: predicada en el capitulo intermedio (...) en el convento de Badajoz (...) (Salamanca: Melchior Estevez, 1676 [1678?]).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF II, 279.

Laurentius de Vallico (Laurentius a Vallico/Lorenzo da Vallico, fl. first half 17th cent. )

OFM. Italian Observant friar. Born as a scion of the Falconi family in the Grafagnana region (Tuscany). Philosophy and theology lector.

works

Commentaria in Summulas Petri Hispani (Venice, 1640).

Girolamo Tiraboschi, Biblioteca Modenese, o notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori natii degli stati del serenissimo signor Duca di Modena (...) V (Modena: La Società Tipografica, 1784), 322; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485.

Laurentius de Villamagna (Lorenzo da Villamagna, 1475-1535), beatus

OFM. Italian friar from Villamagna. Born on 12 May 1476. Priest and celebrated preacher. He died in Ortona on 6 June 1535 in the odor of sanctity. He received an official cult as beatus in 1923 (commemorated in 6 June in the roman martyrology).

works

Sermones: Naples, Naz. VIII.A.11 & XII.G.11 (See Cenci, II, 657ff and 922ff)

literature

G. d'Agostino, Vita del B. Lorenzo da Villamagna (Lanciano, 1923).

Laurentius Fassanus Viola (Laurentius Fasanus/Lorenzo Fassano Viola, fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian (Neapolitan) friar. Member of the Terra Laboris province. Scotist theologian.

works

Lumen Agonizantium. Tractatus de adjuvandis Infirmis ad pie moriendum (Naples: Tarquinio Longo, 1617).

Arcana fere omnia tum theologiae tum philosophiae quaestiones disputatae ac ultimae voluntates Subtilissimi Doctoris I. Duns Scoti (Naples: Tarquinio Longo, 1618).

literature

Nicolaus Toppi, Biblioteca Napoletana et apparato agli huomini illustri in lettere di Napoli, e del Regno (...) (Naples: Antonio Bulifon, 1678), 190; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 275-276.

Laurentius Felix Vecino (Lorenzo Felix Vecino, fl. first half 18^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Preacher in the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 25 (1926), 207; AIA 38 (1935), 355-356; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 189 (no. 858).

Laurentius Forestani (Laurentius Forestanus/Lorenzo Forestano/Lorenzo Forestani da Pescia, d. 1623)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Theologian and mathematician. Born in Cerreto (or Pescia?). Reached the magisterium in theology and taught theology as well as mathematics/geometry in Prato, San Miniato, San Gimigniano, Volterra, Venice and elsewhere. Performed mathematical services for waterworks in Tuscany. He died in Pescia on 14 February 1623.

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Pratica d'arithmetica, e geometria del Rev. P. Lorenzo Forestani da Pescia de'Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco (Venice: Georgio Varisco, 1603/ Siena: Libreria del publico, 1682). The 1603 and 1682 editions are accessible via the British Library, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome, the Biblioteca Universitaria of Turin, the University Library of Michigan and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 400-401; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 618.

Laurentius Fraguas (Lorenzo Fraguas, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMDisc. Mexican Creole friar originating from Maella and member of the Mexican San Francisco de Menores Descalzos province. Theology lector in the San Diego friary and provincial definitor.

works

Promptuario de Sermones: MS ? Mentioned by Juan de San Antonio as a text he had seen.

Hermanada idea de sacerdotes y religiosas, mystico sol Christo Sacramentado; sermon, que el dia 28 de Agosto de este Año de 1720, predicó en el Religiosissimo Convento de Señoras Capuchinas de esta Corte, y Ciudad de Mexico (...) (Mexico: Juan de Ortega y Bonilla 1721).

Sermón en la profesión de Sor Angela Coleta, Religiosa capuchina (Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal [Higal?], 1724).

Santidad del templo, comunicada en el título por virtud del oleo, sermón que en la dedicación de la Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua (Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1725).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276; Félix de Latassa, Bibliotecas antigua y nueva de escritores aragoneses I (1884), 527; Americana Iberica: books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in Mexico, Cuba, Central and South America, 1556-1866 (1962), 73; José Toribio Medina, La imprenta en México: Epítome (1539-1810) (Sevilla: E. Rasco, 1893), 97; Charles A Witschorik, Preaching Power: Gender, Politics, and Official Catholic Church Discourses, 55-58.

Laurentius Guardiola (Lorenzo Guardiola, fl. c. 1660)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Valencia province. Preacher, lector and provincial order historian.

works

Sermon de la purissima concepcion de la virgen santissima (Valencia: Silvestre Esparsa, 1644).

Memorias históricas de la Provincia de Valencia (1644).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276;Sbaralea, AIA 31-32 (1929), 397; AIAn.s. 15 (1955), 307; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) XI, nos. 2663-2664; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 124 (no. 382); Iberian Books Volumes II & III/Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols): Books published in Spain, Portugal and the New World or elsewhere in Spanish or Portuguese between 1601 and 1650/Libros publicados en España, Portugal y el Nuevo Mundo o impresos en otros lugares en español o portugués entre 1601 y 1650: A-E, ed. Alexander Samuel Wilkinson & Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015) III, 1377.

Laurentius Guilelmus de Savona/Savoria (Lorenzo Traversagni/Laurentius Guilelmus Traversanus Savonensis/Guilelmo Traversagni da Savona, 1425-1503 (1505?))

OFMConv. Italian friar from Savona. Lorenzo professed as a Conventual friar around 1445 and studied philosophy and theology, first in Padua under under Gaetano da Thiene and Francesco della Rovere (the future Sixtus IV), and later in Bologna and Vienna (between 1450 and 1457). After his promotion to Doctor theologiae, he remained in Vienna until 1459. Around this tiome, he began to compose dialogues on the value of commemorating the death, and a humanist-inspired. A wished for position as professor of rhetorics did not materialize. Hence Lorenzo moved to Avigon (Spring 1460) and later to Toulouse, where he taught canon lawm, moral philosophy and rhetoric at the university. Around this time he finished his dialogue Recta semita ad mentem sanum (1460), and his Directorium mentis ad Deum (1462). He was back in Italy by 1468, in Noli (near Savona), from where he dedicated his Libellus de varia fortuna Antiochi to the marquess of Noli and Finale. In the 1470s, Lorenzo moved to England, where he was the first humanist to teach ethics and rhetoric in Cambridge (he came to Cambridge in 1476 and taught there regularly for two years and repeatedly returned to Cambridge until 1482, in between a stint at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1480, lecturing in England at least on three different topics, namely rhetoric (1476), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (1476) and on Augustine's De Civitate Dei (1478). Two of his inaugural lectures for 1476 and 1478 still survive in his Savona manuscripts). His revised Margarita Eloquentiae Castigatae/Nova Rhetorica, based on lectures delivered at the Universities of Paris and Cambridge, was printed for the first time by Caxton in 1479 (The colophon of Caxton's copy-text manuscript states that the work was finished at Cambridge on 26 July 1478). Rhetorics is presented as both a liberal art and as an art of preaching. The goal of rhetorics is the promotion of virtue (ethical discipline). O’Malley (1986) sees the Margarita Eloquentiae Castigatae in the same category as the Ecclesiastes of Erasmus. Alongside of his letter writing manual, letters, poems etc., he also wrote a variety of theological works. Hence, while in in the London friary, in 1477, he wrote the preface to his Triumphus pudicitiae Beatae Virginis Mariae. Later, in 1483, he completed in London his Triumphus justitiae Jesu Christi, which he dedicated to Edward IV (who died almost immediately afterwards). In or after 1487 Lorenzo Traversagni was back in the Franciscan friary of Savona, where he remained until his death, promoting rhetorical teachings, preaching, and writing additional triumphi sacri. He died late 1503, in the process of creating an opera omnia edition of his works, which remained unprinted.

works

De Arte Metrica: MS Bloomington Indiana University Library, Poole 118.

Modus conficiendi epistolas. Cf. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 3: 1400-1557 (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), 299-300.

Epitome Margaritae Eloquentia (Paris, 1480/Westminster: W. Caxton, 1480). Present in Leeds University Library, Special Collections [https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/118515]. A modern edition was made by Ronald H. Martin, in Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section 20 pt. 2 (1986), 131-269. See also his article ‘The Epitome Margaritae Eloquentiae of Laurentius Guglielmus de Saona’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section 14 pt. 4 (1971), 99-187. The work (with three additional rhetorical works) also can be found in MS Rome BAV Vat.Lat. 11441 (s. xv.) ff. 89r-108r.

Rhetorica Nova sive Margarita Eloquentiae Castigatae (Westminster: Caxton, 1479/St. Albans, 1480). A modern edition appeared as Rhetorica Nova sive Margarita Eloquentiae Castigatae, ed. G. Farris (Savona, 1978). See also MSS Rome BAV Vat. Lat. 11441 (s. xv) ff. 1r-84v & Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-18 (s. xv).

Letters and speeches. See Sharpe, Handlist, 364.

Libellus de Varia Fortuna Antiochi, ed. G. Farris (Savona, 1972). See also MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-15 ff. 52v-..

Rhetoricae Facultatis per Fratrem Laurentium Guilelmus de Saona Ord. Min. Sacrae Paginae Professorem [=Rhetorica Nova/Rhetorica pro Junioribus] (St. Alban, 1480).

Arenga de Epistolis Faciendis/Modus Conficiendi Epistolas (Paris, ca. 1478/etc.); Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek MS 2° 133 (s. xv) ff. 130r-145r; Budapest, University Library MS Prayana Tomus XLIX (s. xv) pp. 379-434. For more manuscripts, see Sharp, Handlist, 363.

De Exordiis Doctrinabiliter Componendis: Rome BAV MS 11441 ff. 204r-208v.

Dialogi de Vita Aeterna (Vienna, 1453/Paris & London, 1480);MSS Rome BAV Vat.Lat. 11607 ff. 5r-60v; Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-15 ff. 102r-142r [=Book I], ff. 143r-147r [=prooemia], ff. 150r-167v [=Book II], ff. 168r-195v [=Book III], ff. 341r-v. Cf. Kristeller, Iter Italicum 2, 149.

Directorium Humanae Mentis ad Deum (Toulouse, 1462).

Directorium Vitae Humanae [seven dialogues]: Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana MS Lat. VI. 34 (3631) (ad. 1492). Cf. Kristeller, Iter Italicum 2, 220.

Semita Recta ad Mentem Salutis sive Dialogi de Monte Orationis (Toulouse, 1460); MS Rome BAV Vat. Lat. 11607 ff. 63v-106v.

Sermones contra Ambitiosos et Contra Otiosos (Written in Cambridge, 1478); MS Rome BAV Vat. Lat. 11441 ff. 212r-215v, 216r-219v.

Triumphus Amoris Domini Iesus Christi (written in London, 1485); MS Lambeth Palace 450 (ad. 1485) ff. 9r-45v.

Triumphus Clementiae: MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-17 (s. xv) ff. 1r-105r.

Triumphus Divinitatis Iesu Christi: MS Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 11607 (s. xv) ff. 167r-252r [autograph]

Triumphus Fortitudinis: MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-15 (s. xv) ff. 298r-340r.

Triumphus Iustitiae Iesu Christi (Written in London, 1483): MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-15 (s. xv) ff. 235r-291r.

Triumphus Pudicitiae Beatae Mariae Virginis (written in London, 1477): Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 11608 (ad. 1495) ff. 204r-212r; MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-15 (s. xv) ff. 90r-98v; MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-17 (s. xv) ff. 228r-253v.

Triumphus Sapientiae Iesu Christi (Savona, 1487): MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-15 (s. xv) ff. 199r-213r, 218r-234v; Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 11607 (s. xv) ff. 255r-329v.

Triumphus Veri Amoris (in Savona, 1496): MS Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-17 (s. xv) ff. 112r-227v.

Triumphus Vitae supra Mortem (in Savona, 1498): MSS Rome BAV Vat. Lat. 11607 (s. xv) ff. 106v-166v; Savona, Biblioteca Civica MS IX B. 2-14 (s. xv) ff. 2r-141r.

Quinque Triumphi Domini Iesu Christi: MS Rome, BAV Vat. Lat. 11608 (ad 1495) ff. 1r-200v.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276; Sbaralea Supplementum (ed. 1806), 484 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 167; Zawart, 373; J. Ruysschaert, ‘Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni de Savone, un humaniste franciscain oublié’, AFH 46 (1953), 195-210; J. Ruysschaert, ‘Les manuscrits autographes de deux oeuvres de Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni imprimées chez Caxton’ Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 36 (1953-54), 191-197; J.J. Murphy, ‘Caxton’s Two Choices. ‘Modern’ and ‘Medieval’ Rhetoric in Traversagni’s Nova Rhetorica and the Anonymous Court of Sapience’, Medievalia et Humanistica N.S. 3 (1972), 241-255 [reprinted in Idem, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Aldershot: Variorum, 2005), 241-255]; R.H. Martin, ‘The ‘Epitome Margaritae Eloquentiae’ of Laurentius Guglielmus de Saona’, in: Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section) 14 (1970-1972), 99-187; G. Farris, Umanesimo e religione in Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni di Savona (Milan, 1972); Giovanni Farris, ‘Paideia ed umanesimo nel trattato di retorica del Traversagni’, Atti e memorie della Società Savonese di Storia Patria N.S. 15 (1981), 143-161; John O’Malley, ‘Form, Content, and Influence of Works about Preaching before Trent: The Franciscan Contribution’, in: I frati minori tra ‘400 e ‘500, Atti del XII Convegno Internazionale Assisi, 18-19-20 ottobre 1984 (Assisi, 1986), 26-50; Lawrence D. Green, `Classical and Medieval Rhetorical Traditions in Traversagni's Margarita Eloquentiae', Quarterly Journal of Speech 72 (1986), 185-196; Martin Wagendorfer, 'Eneas Silvius Piccolomini und die Wiener Universität - ein Beitrag zum Frühhumanismus in Österreich’, in: Enea Silvio Piccolomini nördlich der Alpen, 21-52; D. Luscombe, `The Ethics and the Politics in Britain', in: Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, ed. J. Marenbon (Turnhout, 1996), 345; Claudia Villa, ‘Schede per una attribuzione: Pietro Luder o Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni?’, in: Filologia Umanistica. Per Gianvito Resta, ed. Vincenzo Fera & Giacomo Ferraù, Medioevo e umanesimo,94-96, 3 Vols. (Padua, 1997), 1861-1872; Richard Rex, The Theology of John Fisher (Cambridge: CUP, 1991/2003), 15-16 ; Sharpe, Handlist, 362-365; Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum, XI Vols (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-2007) XI/3-4, 223f; J.B. Trapp, 'Traversagni, Lorenzo Guglielmo [Laurentius Guilelmus Traversanus Savonensis, Laurence William of Savona](c. 1425–1503)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004) [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/24748]; Martin Wagendorfer, 'Eneas Silvius Piccolomini und die Wiener Universität - ein Beitrag zum Frühhumanismus in Österreich’, in: Enea Silvio Piccolomini nördlich der Alpen, ed. Franz Fuchs (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008), 21-52; Peter Mack, A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011), 260-161.

Laurentius Haas (Laurent Haas, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Belgian friar, active in Brussels. Poetic mariologist.

works

Ambassade privée et poétique, vers le Capitale, en faveur de la glorieuse et Immaculée Conception de la Mere de Dieu (Antwerp, 1660). Dedicated to the Estates of Brabant.

Chanson elucidant l'image de la conception de la reine des anges (Louvain, 1663).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276; Ed Speelmanns, Histoire du culte de Marie en Belgique: calendrier belge de la Sainte Vierge, y compris l'ancien territoire de Lille, de Douai, de Cambrai, etc. (Paris-Tournai: H. Casterman, 1859), 154.

Laurentius Lupus (Lorenzo Lobo, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Castile province. According to Juan de San Antonio he published in Madrid with the tipografia regia in 1632 a concise explanation of the rubrics of the breviary and the missale romanum in Spanish. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

works

Compendiosa Explicación de Missal (Madrid: Tip. Regia, 1632). ?

Conciones ?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 277; Sbaralea, Supplementum (d. 1806), 484.

Laurentius Maria da Genua (Lorenzo Maria da Genova, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Genoa province. Theologian and provincial minister. Preacher in several large Italian cities (Genoam Rome, etc.), and for a time Cathedral preacher in Lucca.

works

Il volere diuino vera corona de' principi predica del P. Lorenzo Maria da Genova Cappuccino. Predicatore nella Cathedrale di Lucca. Detta nella Sala dell'eccellentiss. Senato di Lucca nel secondo sabbato di Quaresima, primo giorno di Marzo dell'anno 1670 (Lucca: Iacinto Paci, 1670). Accessible via the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 277.

Laurentius Mongius (Lorenzo Mongiò Galatino, 1550/56-1630)

OFM. Italian friar From Galatina. Studied philosophy in Bologna and theology in order studia, known for his knowledge of Greek, Hebrew, German and Spanish. Active as preacher from his mid 20s onwards. Appointed bishop of Minervino Murge in 1596 to resign in 1605. Issues with the inquisition and temporary inprisonment in Rome. Later auxiliary bishop of Sevilla in Spain (1606), Archbishop of Lanciano (1610), and (Arch)bishop of Pozzuoli (1617-1630). Family connection with Pietro Colonna Galatino.

works

Notorio della vita di F. Lorenzo Mongiò di S. Pietro in Galatina Frate Zoccolante e vescovo di Pozzuoli, fatta con l'occasione della sua carceratione in Roma per conte di Santo Officio: MS France, Bibliothèque Nationale, Italien 733, pp. 27-32 [formerly MS Ital. 10496].

literature

'Il mecenatismo di Mons. Frate Lorenzo Mongiò di Galatina (1556-1630) e la Biblioteca Galatinese di S. Caterina secondo il 'Notamento' della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Cod. Vat.Lat. 11268, ff. 781r-797r) compilato nel 1600', in: La Regolare Osservanza Francescana nella Terra d'Otranto, I: Il Divenire Storico-Legale 1391-1898 (Lecce: Congedo, 1992), 99-108; Christoph Brandhuber & Oliver Ruggenthaler, ‘Zwischen Sonnenstaat und Geistergrotte. Der Franziskaner Lorenzo Mongiò - ein Ikonograph für Salzburg?’, in: Zentrum der Macht. Die Kunstsammlungen der Salzburger Fürsterzbischöfe: Gemälde/Graphik/Kunstgewerbe, ed. Roswitha Juffinger (Salzburg, 2011), 496–509.

Laurentius Massorillus (Lorenzo Massorilli, 1490 - ca. 1560)

OFM. Italian friar. He joined the order in 1508. Following his philosophical and theological education in the order, he was lector at Perugia (ca. 1530), guardian of the Porziuncola in 1532, and provincial minister of Umbria between 1538-1541. He was guardian of the Monteripido convent (Perugia) in 1543, again guardian of the Porziuncola in 1544 and custos in 1546. In that function he was elected diffinitor fot the general chapter of Assisi (1547). Thereafter guardian at St. Bartolomeo (Foligno) and another time provincial minister of the Umbrian province between 1550-1553. He is the author of a large number of Latin hymns (partly following the form made popular through the Stabat Mater tradition, partly adopting hexameters and legiac distichs, and inspired by the classical vocabulary and themes found in the poetry of Virgil, Ovid, Martialus, and Lucretius), collected in the Aureum Sacrorum Hymnorum Opus, 4 Vols (Foligno, 1547). These comprise complete cycles of liturgical and para-liturgical hymns illustrating the life and suffering of Christ from Nativity to Ascencion and Pentecost, as well as planctus Mariae hymns, a series laudatory hymns on the Virgin, over 40 commemorative hymns on saints (for use in the liturgy and celebration at particular saints’ days), and laudatory hymns on the Holy Land, earthly and heavenly Jerusalem, the Eucharist, the Commandments, the Last Things, and the virtues of religious asceticism.

works

Aureum Sacrorum Hymnorum Opus, 4 Vols (Foligno: L. Simone & V. Cantagallo, 1547). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books (creative search, use author name Massorillus. The pdf does not always apear).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 277; Sbaralea, Supplementum et Castigatio ad Scriptores Trium Ordinum S. Francisci a Waddingo aliisque Descriptos (ed. 1806), 485 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 167-168; Giuseppe Cremascoli, `Sull'opera poetica di Lorenzo Massorilli', in: Francescanesimo e società cittadine. L'essempio di Perugia, ed. U. Nicolini (Perugia, 1979), 163-214.

Laurentius Panormitanus (Lorenzo di Palermo, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian (Sicilian) friar. Member of the Sicily province. Known for a confession manual (Somma di casi di coscienza). We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 277.

Laurentius Receveur (Claude-Francois Joseph Louis Receveur 1757-1788)

OFMConv. French friar. Born on 25 April 1757 in the village of Noël-Cerneux, Canton of Russey, After an initial education, he opted for the religious life, and entered the Franciscan order, probably in Besançon. After his solemn profession, taking the name 'Laurent', he became active in the Franciscan friary in Paris and devoted himself to scientific life. He obtained a reputation as a naturalist, astronomer and all-round scholars. He took part in several exploratory missions of the French navy between 1776 and 1780, and eventually was selected in 1785 to join the exploratory expedition of Paul-Antoine Vicomete Fleuriot de Langle. As a result, Receveur traveled around the world, crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific ocean, visiting Concepción, Easter Island, the Hawaiian group, Alaska, Monterey (California) and Macao, ad well as some of the Philippine Islands, Formosa (Taiwan), South Korea, and via the Sea of Japan and the Indonesian archipel to Australia. At Tutuila, in the Samoan Islands, Receveur was wounded during a skirmish with Aboriginals and eventually succumbed at Botany Bay, Australia. His grave at Botany Bay eventually became a site of commemorative masses, and in the 20th century this attained the character of a more substantial pilgrimage to his grave.

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Scientific and other letters. Extracts from this correspondence included in I. Gatti, `Laurent Receveur OFMConv (1757-1788) scienziato e circumnavigatore', Miscellanea Francescana 95:3-4 (1995), 605-666 and in Edward Duyker, Père Receveur: Franciscan, Scientist and Voyager with Lapérouse (Sydney: Dharawal Publications, 2011).

literature

Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, ed. MLA Milet-Mureau, 4 Vols. (Paris: L'Imprimerie de la République, an V (1797)); H Selkirk, 'La Pérouse and the French Monuments at Botany Bay', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 4:7 (1918), 329–361; I. Gatti, `Laurent Receveur OFMConv (1757-1788) scienziato e circumnavigatore', Miscellanea Francescana 95:3-4 (1995), 605-666; Edward Duyker, Père Receveur: Franciscan, Scientist and Voyager with Lapérouse (Sydney: Dharawal Publications, 2011). See also: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/receveur_laurent

Laurentius de Schnuffis (Laurentius von Schnüffs/Laurentius Martin von Schnifis/Johannes Martin von Schnüffis, 1633-1702)

OFMCap. Austrian friar. Preacher, edificatory author and composer of songs. Born in Schnifis (Vorarlberg) on August 24, 1633, Johannes Martin made at first a living as traveling comedian, and later became court actor in Innsbruck (from ca. 1655 onwards), under the protection of Archduke Ferdinand Karl, who made him the leader/manager of the court playwrights. He ended his active acting and impressario career in 1565 and joined the Capuchins, taking the name Laurentius. Yet he continued to write, and in 1682 Emperor Leopold I crowned him as a poet laureate for his Mirantisches Flötlein. During his Capuchin years, he tried to connect Antique mythology with Christian traditions, and he also linked Christian themes to themes from nature. He also provided elucidating commentaries in his poems for readers less well-versed in the literary tradition.

works

Philotheus. Oder deß Miranten durch die Welt, uund Hofe wunderlicher Weeg nach der ruh-seligen Einsamkeit (1665/Vienna: Hautt, 1678/Passau: Georg Hoeller, 1688/ Russ, 1963). This is more or less an autobiographical ‘Schäferroman‘ (which was a typical 18th-century subgenre of the pastoral romance). The 1678 edition is digitally available via the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. The 1688 edition is available via Google Books. See now also Laurentius de Schnüffis, Philotheus oder des Miranten durch die Welt und Hofe wunderlicher Weg nach der Ruh-seligen Einsamkeit (1665), Schriftenreihe der Rheticus-Gesellschaft, 76 (Feldkirch: Hecht, 2018). Cf. review in Helvetica Franciscana 48 (2019), 178-179.

Des Miranten/Eines welt- und hof-verwirrten Hirtens wunderlicher Weeg nach der Ruhseeligen Einsamkeit (Konstanz: Hautt, 1689). In fact an extension of the Philotheus. Digitally available via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Mirantisches Flötlein. Oder geistliche Schäfferei: In welcher Christus under dem Nam[m]en Daphnis die in dem Sünden-Schlaff vertieffte Seel Clorinda zu einem bessern Leben aufferwecket (1682/Franckfort-Basel: König, 1694/Tredition Classics, 2012). Edificatory poetry. Digitally available via the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.

Mirantische Wald-Schallmey/ Oder: Schul wahrer Weisheit: Welche Einem Jungen Herrn und seinem Hof-Meister/ als Sie auß frembden Ländern heimbkehrend/ in einem Wald irr-geritten/ von zweyen Einsidlern gehalten worden (Konstanz: Hautt, 1688). Poetry.

Mirantische Mayen-Pfeiff. Oder Marianische Lob-Verfassung In Welcher Clorus ein Hirt der Grossmaechtigsten Himmels-Koenigin, ... anmuethig besingt (1682/1691/1692/1707). Poetry.

Mirantische Maul-Trummel oder Wohlbedenckliche Gegen-Sätze böser und guter Begirden (1695). Poetry

Futer über d. Mirantische Maul-Trummel, Oder Begriff, in welchem d. jetzigen Welt thorechtes Beginnen in Lateinisch- u. Teutschen Elegien, samt schönen Sinnbildern, u. neuen Melodeyen an d. Tag gegeben wird (Konstanz 1698/1699).

Lusus mirabiles orbis ludentis. Mirantische Wunder-Spiel der Welt, vorstellend die zeitliche Eitelkeit (...) (Kempten: Caspar Kollen, 1703/Kempten: Caspar Kollen, 1703). Available via Google Books.

Vil-färbige Himmels-Tulipan: das ist: Auserlesenes Gebett-Buch, in welchem das gantze sehr verlangte Cornucopiae, samt anderen schönsten Andachten, als Morgen- und Abend-Gebetter, Zubereitung zu der H. Beicht und Communion samt deren Dancksagungen (Konstanz: Hautt, 1699/Franz Xaveri Kälin, 1775).

See also: Laurentius von Schnüffis, Seraphische Geistesblumen, ed. Rufin Steimer (Benziger & Company A.G., 1908); Laurentius von Schnüffis, Gedichte. Eine Auswahl, ed. Urs Herzog (Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag, 1972); Laurentius von Schnüffis, Eine Werkauswahl, 2 Vols. (Helbling, 1979); Laurentius von Schnifis, Gesamtausgabe der musikalischen Werke, ed. Tine Nouwen-van de Ven (Edition Helbling); Laurentius von Schnüffis, Lieder, ed. Berthold Büchele (Vorarlberg, 2002).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 278; Dieter Breuer, Der ‘Philotheus‘ des Laurentius von Schnüffis. Zum Typus des geistlichen Romans im 17. Jahrhundert (Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1969); Irmgard Scheitler, ‘Geistliche Lieder als literarische Gebrauchsform. Versuch einer Gattungsbeschreibung am Beispiel der Lieder des Laurentius von Schnüffis‘, Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, 47:1. Sonderband: Oberdeutsche Literatur im Zeitalter des Barock (München: Beck, 1984), 215–239; Irmgard Scheitler, ‘Laurentius von Schnüffis‘, in: Die österreichische Literatur. Ihr Profil von den Anfängen im Mittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert (1050–1750), ed. H. Zeman, Die österreichische Literatur. Eine Dokumentation ihrer literarhistorischen Entwicklung, 2 (Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1986), 1191–1235; Gerhard Dünnhaupt, ‘Laurentius von Schnüffis‘, in: Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1991) IV, 2565–2575; Wilfried Kilga, Der Dichterkomponist Laurentius von Schnifis ein originerller Komponist: Stilistische Betrachtungen der 133 Lieder des Dichterkomponisten Laurentius von Schnifis (Götzis, 1993); Annemarie Geissler, ‘‘Mirantische Wald-Schallmey’, eine Mixtur aus Satire, emblematischer Predigt und Lied-Dichtung des vor 300 Jahren verstorbenen Laurentius von Schnüffs (1633-1702), eines zunächst schweizerischen und hernach vorderösterreichischen Kapuziners’, Helvetia Franciscana 31 (2002), 184-226; ‘Laurentius vin Schnifis (1633-1702). ‘Singspiele zum 300. Todesgedenken’, Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 85 (2002), 76-79; Tine Nouwen, ‘Laurentius von Schnifis (1633-1702) zum 300. Todesgedenken. Festvortrag am 8.1.2002 in Schnifis, Vorarlberg’, Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 85 (2002), 5-8; Gaudentius Walser, ‘2002: Gedenkjahr für Laurentius Martin von Schnifis, 1633-1702’, Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 85 (2002), 168-173; Ruth Gstach, Mirant, Komödiant und Mönch. Leben und Werk des Barockdichters Laurentius von Schnifis (Feldkirch: W. Neugebauer Verlag, 2003) [cf. review in CF 75 (2005), 423-425]; Ruth Gstach, ‘Unbekannte Liederhandschrift im ‘Mirantischen Flötlein’ des Laurentius von Schnüffis’, Montfort: Vierteljahresschrift für Geschichte und Gegenwart Vorarlbergs 57:2 (2005), 151-170; Ruth Gstach, ‘Originalwerke des Barockdichters Laurentius von Schnüffis in deutssprachigen und ausländischen Bibliotheken’, Montfort 57 (2005), 270-285; Ruth Gstach, ‘Himmlisches Paradies und ewige Hölle. Tod- und Jehnseitsvorstellungen im 17. Jahrhundert. Laurentius von Schnüffs und Martin von Cochem’, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80^o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam (Rome: Ed. Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 515-557; Ruth Gstach, Von Verzicht und Erfüllung auf der Suche nach Gott. Der Barockdichter Laurentius von Schnüffis erzählt aus dem Leben des Franz von Assisi und der ersten Minderbrüder (Hard: Hecht-Verlag, 2008). Cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 80 (2010), 682-684.

La Roche (early 16^th cent.)

OFM. French friar. Member of the Blois friary. First name not known. Sometimes mixed up with the Dominican propagator of the rosary Alain de La Roche. Our Franciscan friar is known for writing a Contemplation du jour des Roys, which can be found in MS Bourges (manuscrits provenant de l'archevêché) 163 (after Louis Héllian's De optimo principe instituendo.

works

Contemplation du jour des Roys: MS Bourges (manuscrits provenant de l'archevêché) 163.

literature

Mendiants et réformés. les réguliers mendiants acteurs du changement réligieux dans le royaume de France (1480-1560), ed. Robert Sauzet (Tours: Publications de l'Université de Tours, 1994), 137.

Laureanus de Cruce (Laureano de la Cruz, fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFM. Ecuadorian friar. Member of the Quito province.

works

Nuevo descubrimiento del Rio de Marañón llamado de las Amazonas por Fr . Laureano de la Cruz (1651): MS Madrid, Nac. 2950 [Castro, Madrid, no. 177; See also https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008726753 ]; UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation, UCD Archives, Luke Wadding Papers. UCD-OFM, D.01, vol. 1, pp. 105-124 [accessible via http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:18835 ].
The work was edited as: Fray Laureano de la Cruz, ofm. Descripción de los Reynos del Perú con particular noticia de lo hecho por los franciscanos en la evangelización de aquel país, ed. Julián Heras & Laura Gutiérrez Arbulú, Publicación del Instituto Riva-Agüero, 176 (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú-Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Lima 1999) [review in Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia 10 (2001), 618-619].

literature

Civezza, Saggio (Madrid, 1900), 269-300, no. 325; AIA 20 (1923), 67-68; Sánchez Alonso, Fuentes II, 339, no. 7454; AIA, 4 (1944), 138-9; Donald George Morton, Spanish Exploratory and Missionary Activity in the Province of Maynas, Audiencia of Quito, 1618-1686 (Berkeley: University of California, 1948), 38-39; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 138 (no. 488); Mariano Cuesta Domingo, ‘Los exploradores franciscanos, Domingo de Briera y laureano de la Cruz’, 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, 1991), 1139-1178.

Laurentius Roche (Lorenzo Roche, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Majorca province. Consultant for the inquisition and provincial minister.

works

Promptuarium morale examinandorum ac examinantium (Pamplona: Martín Gregorio de Zabala, 1677).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 278.

Laurentius Rosales (Lorenzo Rosales, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFM. Guatemalan Creole friar, who joined the order in Guatemala in 1665. Known for his knowledge of various indigenous languages. In 1690, he was active in the San Francisco de Panahachel friary. Preacher and linguist. None of his works have been edited.

works

Sermones de Santos in Cachiquel. Mentioned in Carlos J. Rosales, Gramática del idioma Cachiquel. 1748, ed. Daniel Sánchez García (Guatemala, 1919), xxiv.

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, 28; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 70; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 461.

Laurentius Spatha (Lorenzo Spada, fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Professor of metaphysics in Bologna in 1529. General master of the Conventuals in the 1540s and bishop of Calvi between the first of June 1543 until his death in 1644 (in Naples?).

works

Elucidationes in primum Sententiarum Scoti?

Quodlibeta Scoti Mistaken ascription ?

Constitutiones

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 278; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485.

Laurentius Stramusciolo (Lorenzo Stramuscioli/Crespi/Stramusoli, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Carpi. Made his profession in Ferrara. Professor of Rhetorics and Philosophy in Cesalonia. Preacher. Known for some type of preaching manual. He died in or around 1704.

works

Apparato d'Eloquenza Italiana, e Latina, utilissima agli Oratori, 4 Vols. (Padua: Stamperia del Seminario, 1699-1700/1702/1703). At least volumes two and three are now accessible via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 575; Biblioteca modenese o Notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori (...) (Modena, La Società Tipografica, 1784) V, 144

Laurentius Vannini (Lorenzo Vannini, d. 1678)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Tuscany province. He joined the order at the age of 19 in 1629. Theologylector, provincial definitor and renowned preacher. He died of a stroke or an attack while preaching in the pulpit.

works

Sancta sanctorum discorso per la prima messa celebrata in Prato dal P. Gio. Francesco da Lucca Cappuccino (Lucca: Giacinto Paci, 1671).

Le Metafore sacre. Quaresimale del Padre Lorenzo Vannini di Lucca (...) (Florence: Ipolito della Nave, 1676). Accessible via Google Books.

Trenti sermoni per le quarant'ore e per tutti i sabbati del quareima?

Marian sermons and Advent sermons?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 276 (Laurentius Lucensis); Memorie e documenti per servire all'Istoria del ducato di Lucca 10 (1831), 29.

Laurentius Venetus (Lorenzo da Venezia, d. 1781)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Venetian Riformati province. Lector of philosophy and theology. Preacher with rhetorical ambitions.

works

Osservazioni spettanti al buon gusto di predicare raccolte, ordinate, ed accresciute per formare la gioventù religiosa alla scienza del Pergamo coll'aggiunta di due panegirici composti, e recitati dall'autore (Arezzo, Michele Bellotti, 1753). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Orazione panegirica recitata in lode del glorioso martire S. Emidio primo vescovo e protettore della città di Ascoli dal molto reverendo padre Lorenzo di Venezia lettore teologo de' minori osserv. rifor. (...) nel suo corso quaresimale del anno 1758 (Ascoli, 1758).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 806.

Laurentius Veronensis (Lorenzo da Verona, d. 1631)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar, and member of the Venetian province. He was known for his preaching campaigns and his ascetical and prayer intensive preaching preparations. He died after an illness in 1631.

works

Sermoni sul sacramento della penitenza ed alii. They would have circulated anonymously in manuscript.

Sermoni domenicali. Check!

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 618.

Leander de Dijon (Léandre de Dijon, d. 1667)

OFMCap. French Capuchin friar from Lyon [or from Dijon, as the name suggests?]. Propagator of the Holy Heart devotion, and author of a series of large devotional works.

works

Oraison funèbre de Mgr l'évesque et comte de Chalon [J. de Nuchèze], prononcée dans l'église des capucins de Chalon, le 12 de may... 1658 (Philippe Tan, 1658).

Les vérités de l'Evangile, ou l'idée parfaite de l'amour divin, 3 Vols. (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1659/Paris: Denys Thierry, 1662). Available via Google Books. Modern edition issued in 1946.

Sermon sur le Cantique des Cantiques (...) (1661).?

Discursus praedicabiles in aureas sententias Doctoris gentium, in duas partes divisi, 2 Vols. (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1665). Available via Google Books.

literature

Luc de Lyon, L'idée parfaite du véritable amour: doctrine du P. Léandre de Dijon,OFM Cap. (1667) sur l'amour de Dieu (Rome: Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, 1946); Julien-Eymard d’Angers, ‘La doctrine de l’Immaculée Conception chez les capucins français du XVIIe s.’, Études franciscaines 5 (1954), 153-182; Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le XVIIe siècle, ed. G. Grente (Paris, 1954), 596 [2nd. Ed. (Paris, 1996), 719-720] Lex. cap., 935; A. Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIIe s., 3 Vols. (Paris: Ed. F.N.R.S., 1966-1969) II, 1216; Dspir IX, 442-443; Dictionnaire de la Bible IV, 142-143; DHGE XXX (2010), 1303.

Leander de Murcia (Leander Montanus/Leander de Montano/Leandro de Murcia, 1615-1660)

OFMCap. Spanish (Castilian) Capuchin friar. Theology lector, guardian of the Capuchin Saint Anthony convent in Madrid, preacher for King Philip IV of France, advisor of the Spanish inquisition and order provincial (in 1646). Biblical commentator and specialist of the Franciscan and Clarissan rules, constitutions and privileges.

works

Breves ac dilucidae institutiones ad organum logicum intelligendum valae necessariae (1624)?

Questiones selectas regulares y exposicion de la regla de los frayles menores por el R. P. Fr. Leandro de Murcia, lector de sancta teologia (Madrid: Gregorio Rodriguez, 1645). Available via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Numelyo), and via Google Books.

R.P. Fr. Leandri Montani Aragonii Murcianii sive Fr. Leandri a Murcia, ordinis Sancti Francisci Capucinorum (...) Commentaria ad literam et moralia in Librum Esther (Madrid: ex officina typographica Ildephonsi à Paredes, 1648). Available via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, and via Google Books.

Llave maestra y escudo de la verdad: explicacion de las Bulas de nuestro Santissimo Padre Inocencio Dezimo, y de la Santa Cruzada, en las quales se suspenden todas las Indulgencias, facultades, y indultos de absolver de los casos reservados a la Seda de Apostolica, en que se explican, y como con llave se abren, y exponen todas las dificultades que de ordinario se ofrecen, acerca destas suspensiones generales del año Santo, y de la Bulla de la santa Cruzada, con otro tratado en que el autor, come con escudo defiende la verdad de algunas opiniones que llevò en su libro de las questiones selectas regulares, y exposicion de la Regla de nuestro P. S. Francisco (Madrid: Gregorio Rodriguez, 1650). Available via the Abbey Library of Montserrat, via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and via Google Books.

Apología de sus Questiones selectae morales (...) (Madrid, 1655)?

Apología in defensionem Annalium Capuccinorum P. Boverii?

Breue y clara exposicion y declaracion de la primera regla de la gloriosa virgen Santa Clara, confirmada por el papa Inocencio Quarto de feliz recordacion, la qual guardan las madres Descalças y Capuchinas, que por otro nombre se llaman las señoras Pobres del Orden de la gloriosa Santa Clara: en que se tratan y resueluen muchas dificultades, que pertenecen al estado de las religiosas de todas las ordenes, particularmente a los tres votos essenciales y al de la clausura, recepcion y profession en la religion, ayuno, oficio diuino, elecciones y potestad de las preladas (Madrid: Gregorio Rodriguez, 1658).

Comentarios sobre la Regla de los Frayles Menores (Madrid: Gregorio Rodríguez, 1658).

Disqvisitiones morales in primam secundae Divi Thomae: et resolvtiones in eas potissimvm qvaestiones, 2 Vols. (1653-1660/Paulus de Val, 1663).

Compendio de las questiones selectas y esposición de la Regla de n.p.s. Francisco (Alcalà: Maria Fernandez, 1666). Available via http://bvpb.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=11003059

Juan de San Antonio and Sbaralea mention several other Apologiae and Memoriales that we have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 279-280; Bernardus a Bononia, Bibliotheca scriptorum Ord. Min. Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 170; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 485-486; Biblioteca del murciano o Ensayo de un diccionario biográfico y bibliográfico de la literatura en Murcia I, 535; Buenaventura de Carrocera, La Provincia de FF. Menores Capuchinos de Castilla,I: 1575-1701 (Madrid, 1949), passim; Melchor de Pobladura, Los FF. Menores Capuchinos en Castilla (Madrid, 1946), passim; Lex.Cap., 935; DHGE XXX, 1303; Iberian Books Volumes II & III/Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols): Books published in Spain, Portugal and the New World or elsewhere in Spanish or Portuguese between 1601 and 1650/Libros publicados en España, Portugal y el Nuevo Mundo o impresos en otros lugares en español o portugués entre 1601 y 1650: A-E, ed. Alexander Samuel Wilkinson & Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015), 1622; 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.

Leander Mediolanensis (Leandro da Milano, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Milan province. Theologian and preacher.

works

Compendio della vita e morte della Ven da Madre Veronica Calcaterra fondatrice del collegio della B. V. Maria e S. Filippo Neri in Milano (...) (Milan: Ludovico Monza, 1673). Is a manuscript of this work present as MS 414 in the Biblioteca Trivulziana?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 279; Gabriella Zarri (ed.), Donna, disciplina, creanza cristiana dal XV al XVII secolo: studi e testi a stampa (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1996), 578.

Leander de Roma (Leandro da Roma, d. 1761)

OFMRef. Italian friar, First member of the Provincia Riformata della Marca, who as a student-friar transferred to the Roman province. Fulfilled several provincial administrative charges and was very active as a preacher. He would have died in the San Francesco a Ripa friary in Rome.

works

Orazioni panegiriche del padre fra Leandro da Roma de' Minori Osservanti Riformati di san Francesco. Dette in varie solennità ed ottavari, 2 Vols. (Rome: Giovanni Zempel, 1734). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Prediche quaresimali del padre fra Leandro da Roma de' Minori osservanti riformati di San Francesco con due indici l'uno delle prediche, e loro argomenti, l'altro delle cose notabili (Rome: Giovanni Zempel, 1746). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 803.

Leander de Rosario (Leandro de Rosario, fl. 18th. cent.)

OFMDisc. Portuguese friar and member of the Brazilian San Antonio province. Preacher/missionary.

works

Oracion de las Cuarenta Horas (Coïmbra: Tipografia de la Compañia de Jesus, 1729).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 280; Biografía eclesiástica completa XXIII, 874-875

Leander Luegmayr (fl. 18th cent.)

OFMRef. German friar. Theology lector and provincial minister (elected in 1753 & in 1762). Present at the general chapter of Valencia of 1768.

works

Dissertatio Juridico-Theologica de Dominio Clericorum, Religiosorum & Franciscanum (1740).

literature

Vigilius Greiderer, Germania franciscana, seu Chronicon geographo-historicum Ordinis S.P. Francisci in Germania (...) I (1777), 72, 299, 434, 437, 451; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 798.

Legerius Soyer (Legèr Soyer, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. French friar active in Paris (Grand Couvent de Paris). Theologian and preacher.

works

Pratique familière pour se préparer à faire les vœux solemnels de la Religion. En esprit et vérité, 2 Vols. (Paris: Antoine Chrestien, 1664/1669). The 1664 edition already is presented as an augmented and revised one. It is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

Les Oeuvres spirituelles du R. P. Soyer, 2 Vols. (Paris: Muguet, 1664/1667/Paris: Louis Guerin, 1693). It is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

Les devoirs d'une ame vrayement chrétienne, contenant des instructions et exercices I. Pour le matin & le soir, II. Pour la Confession, III. Pour la Communion, IV. Pour la Visite du Sacrement, V. Pour l'Oraison Mentale (ParisL Muguet, 1681 [5th Ed.!]). It is accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

Leo Assisiensis (Leo de Viterbo/Leone d'Assisi/Frate Leone, d. 13 November 1271) Beatus

OM. Italian Friar from Viterbo (and not from Assisi). One of the close compagnions of Francis of Assisi and also a close friend of Clare of Assisi. Became a point of reference for future generations of Spiritual Franciscans. Late in his life, in 1263 or thereabouts, he left his writings/dossiers, his breviary and the so-called Cartula S. Francisci with the blessing of Francis to the women of San Damiano. Leo is known for a Vita S. Aegidii, and for a number of letters and dossiers that stood at the basis of a number of hagiographical collections. For the exact relationships between these various writings and their reliance on the materials of Leo, see esp. Pasztor, Baroli Langeli, Dalarun, Accrocca and Piron.

works

Vita S. Aegidii & other writings in: Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli, Sociorum S. Francisci, ed., trans. & stud. R.B. Brooke (Oxford, 1970).

Legenda Trium Sociorum. See in Anonymous Works section.

Compilatio Assisiensis/Legenda perusina: Compilatio Assisiensis. Scritti di fr. Leone e Compagni, prima edizione integrale dal ms. 1046 di Perugia con versione italiana a fronte, ed. Marino Bigaroni, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana-Chiesa Nuova-Assisi, 2 (Assisi, 1975); Fonti agiografiche dell’Ordine Francescano: Passione dei santi frati martiri in Marocco. Dialogo sulle gesta dei santi frati Minori. Vite di Antonio di Padova: Vita prima o Leggenda “Assidua” – Vita seconda – Legenda “Benignitas” – Legenda Raimondina – Legenda Rigaldina. Vita Perugina – Vita Leonina – Detti del beato Egidio di Assisi, Atti del beato Francesco e dei suoi compagni, ed. Maria Teresa Dolso (Padua: Efr-Editrici Francescane, 2014) [Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 300-303]. Cf. Also François d’Assise. Écrits, Vies, témoignages, ed. J. Dalarun (Paris: Le Cerf-Éditions franciscaines, 2010), passim & especially the article in that volume by Sylvain Piron: 'Les écrits de frère Léon. Introduction', I, 1165-1184.

Liber de Intentione S. Francisci/Intentio Regulae & Verba s. Francisci, edited in Documenta Antiqua Franciscana I: Scripta Fr. Leonis socii S.P. Francisci, ed. L. Lemmens (Quaracchi, 1901), 83-99. See also the edition with corrections by Edith Pasztor, ‘Il Manoscritto Isidoriano 1/73 e gli Scritti Leonini su S. Francesco’, in: Cultura e società nell’Italia medievale. Studi per Paolo Brezzi (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 1988), 635-663 [with the edition of the Intentio on 655-116 and of the Verba on 661-663. At least in part these works seem to go back on notes by Leo written during the last years of his life. Later, it would seem that material was added, and as such these works were read and used by Angelo Clareno and Ubertino da Casale. See on this also Pasztor (1980).

Vitae Bernardini Quintavallensis [partly lost] Cf. Mariano de Florentia, Compendium Chronicarum, AFH 1 (1908), 104.

Rotula: Mentioned in Ubertino of Casale, Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu (ed. Venice, 1485), 433b, 445.

Anonimo della Porziuncola, Speculum perfectionis status fratris Minoris, ed. D. Solvi (Florence, 2006). See also the anonymous authors section.

Flores Trium Sociorum: Several dossiers/reminiscences allegedly created in answer to the request of Crescenzio of Jesi at the Franciscan general chapter of 1244 and used by other Franciscan hagiographers (such as Thomas de Celano), that were later reworked in the Legenda Trium Sociorum. For the Legenda Trium Sociorum, see: Legenda trium sociorum, ed. Théophile Desbonnets, in: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 67 (1974), 38-144; Fontes Franciscani, ed. Enrico Menestò, Stefano Brufani, Giuseppe Cremascoli, Giovanni M. Boccali et al., First Edition (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1995), 1373-1445.

literature

There exists a large body of literature on Leo and the other close compagnions of Francis. Here is only given a small selection of studies and texts: Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 486-487; Fr. Bartoli de Assisio, Tractatus de Indulgentia S. Mariae de Portiuncula, ed. P. Sabatier (Paris, 1900); Actus B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius, ed. P. Sabatier (Paris, 1902) & Actus B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius ed. Cambell (>>>>); AFH 8 (1915), 12-22; F.C. Burkitt, ‘Scripta Leonis and the Speculum Perfectionis’, in: Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle III (Rome, 1924), 1-24; L. Lemmens, ‘Die Schriften des B. Leo von Assisi’, Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle III (Rome, 1924), 25-48; Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli, Sociorum S. Francisci, ed., trans. & stud. R.B. Brooke (Oxford, 1970); DSpir IX, 631-633; Edith Pasztor, ‘Frate Leone testimone di san Francesco’, Collectanea Franciscana 50 (1980), 35-84; E. Menestò, ‘Leone e i compagni d’Assisi‘, in: I compagni di Francesco e la prima generazione minoritica (Spoleto, 1992), 31-58; Daniel Elcid, 'El hermano León o la alegría', in: Idem, Compañeros primitivos de San Francisco, BAC Popular 102 (Madrid: BAC, 1993), 139-164; Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Gli autografi di frate Francesco e di frate Leone, Corpus Christianorum Aurographa Medii Aevi, V (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000); C. Paolazzi, ‘Per gli autografi di frate Francesco. Dubbi, verifiche e riconferme‘, AFH 93 (2000), 3-28; Felice Accrocca, ‘L’illetterato e il suo testimone. Considerazioni sull’autografia di Frate Francesco e Frate leone in margine ad un recente volume’, Collectanea Franciscana 72 (2002), 337-355; Tommaso Calió, ‘Leone d’Assisi (Leone da Viterbo)’, DBI 64 (2005), 549-552; J. Dalarun, ‘Plaidoyer pour l’histoire des textes. À propos de quelques sources franciscaines‘, Journal des savants (2007) 319-358; Jacques Dalarun, ‘Sicut mater. Une relecture du billet de François d’Assise à frère Léon‘, Le Moyen Age 113 (2007), 639-668; Edith Pásztor, Intentio beati Francisci. Il percorso difficile dell’Ordine francescano (secoli XIII-XIV) (Rome, 2008); Felice Accrocca, ‘La Compilatio Assisiensis ovvero la voce dei compagni‘, Frate Francesco 75:2 (November 2009), 485-519; Jacques Dalarun, 'Sicut mater. Una rilettura del biglietto di Francesco d'Assisi a frate Leone', Frate Francesco 75 (2009), 19-51; Jacques Dalarun, ‘La ‘Légende des trois compagnons’. Quelques réponses simples à des questions inutilment compliquées', Hagiographica 16 (2009), 105-129; Sylvain Piron, ‘Les écrits de frère Léon. Introduction‘, in: François d’Assise. Écrits, Vies, témoignages, ed. J. Dalarun, 2 Vols. (Paris, 2010) I, 1165-1184; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 77-97; Wieslaw Block, ‘Fray León, "ovejuela de Dios": algunas notas sobre el pefil espiritual del compañero de Francisco de Asís’, Selecciones de Franciscanismo (2013), 389-418; François Delmas-Goyon, Nouveaux Regards sur la 'question franciscaine', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111 (2018), 317-364; Sylvain Piron, 'Note sur Léon et Rufin, l'écriture et le corps', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111 (2018), 365-376.
. For more info, see also the vitae & miracula section (general info, info on Francis, and info on Leo), and the section on Anonymous works (with info on the Speculum Perfectionis, the Legenda Trium Sociorum, and comparable collections and their relation with Leo).

Leo Baccon (Léon Baccone, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. French friar from Aquitaine. Translator into French of the Summa de la theologia moral y canonica of Henrique de Villalobos. This French edition would have appeared in Paris in 1646. Should he be identified with Leo Bacovius (Léon Bacoue, the author of Delphinus, seu de Prima principis institutione (1671 and after)), as Sbaralea seems to suggest? See also there

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 280; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487.

Leo Bacovius (Léon Bacoue, d. 1694)

OFM. French Observant friar from the Toulouse province. Later bishop of Glandéves (1672) and Pamiers (1685). Known for his Delphinus, seu de Prima principis institutione, which is a political treatise or a prince's mirror.

works

Delphinus, seu de Prima principis institutione, sex libris ad clarissimum Ducem Montoserium, Serenissimi Galliarum Delphini Institutione Praefectum (Paris: Jacob Piget, 1671/Paris, 1685/Lyon, 1688). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon (check Numelyo) and via Google Books. The work is divided in six books: 'Primo libro agitur imprimis de Regum regnorumque origine, tùm de iis omnibus que Principis in spem regni surgentis Nativitatem, prosapiam, infantiam, indolem, ac primum rationis usum praecedunt, comitantur, ac sequuntur; Secondo, de rectae institutionis necessitate utilitate ac proventu. De pravae periculis ac damnis, de virtitibus instituentium; Tertio de iis quae pertinent ad virtutes et exercitationes corporis; Quarto de informatione animi per artes et scientias; Quinto de institione in iis quae spectant ad religionem, fidem ac pietatem; Sexto de affectuum animi regimine.'

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 280; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487.

Leo Balestrinus (Leone Balestrino, 1257)

OFM. Italian friar from Perugia. Preacher. He would have left a range of sermons (quaresimal sermons, Sunday sermons, Advent sermons), theological works and religious songs. These have not yet been found.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 280.

Leo Borianus (Leonardus Borianus/Léon Borian, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. French friar. Member of the Aquitaine province. He would have written a book of religious controversies against Protestant heretics, which would have been issued in Toulouse: Jean Boudet, 1620. We have not yet been able to trace this work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 280.

Leo de Perego (Leo Valvassorius/Leo dei Valvassori da Peregro, 1257)

OM. Italian friar. Provincial minister of Milan. Famous preacher during the 1233 Alleluia (mentioned by in the chronicle of Salimbene), and Archbishop of Milan (1244-1257). Author of several letters and synodal constitutions.

works

Synodal constitutions. See: Gli atti dell’arcivescovo e della curia arcivescovile di Milano nel sec. XIII: Leone da Perego (1241-1257). Sede vacante (1257-1262 luglio), ed. Maria Franca Baroni (Milan: Università degli Studi, 2002).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487; P.M. Sevesi, 'Beato Leone dei Valvassori da Perego, dell’Ordine dei frati Minori, arcivescovo di Milano (1190 ?-1257)', Studi francescani 13 (1927), 70-93 & 14 (1928), 41-55; W.R. Thomson, Friars in the Cathedral. The First Franciscan Bishops, 1226-61 (Toronto, 1975), 94ff; M.P. Alberzoni, Francescanesimo a Milano nel Duecento, Fonti e Richerche 1 (Milan: Ed. Biblioteca Francescana, 1991), 168; R. Perelli Cippo, 'L’arcivescovo Leone da Perego e la diocesi di Milano alla metà del tredicesimo secolo', in: Tra arcivescovo e comune (Milan, 1995), 65-95; Grado Giovanni Merlo, ‘Leone da Perego, frate Minore e arcivescovo’, Franciscana 4 (2002), 29-110 [also published in: Grado Giovanni Merlo, Tra eremo e città. Studi su Francesco d’Assisi e sul francescanesimo medievale, 2^nd extended Ed., Saggi, 2 (S. Maria degli Angeli-Assisi: Ed. Porziuncola, 2007), 269-335; Gli atti dell’arcivescovo e della curia arcivescovile di Milano nel sec. XIII: Leone da Perego (1241-1257). Sede vacante (1257-1262 luglio), ed. Maria Franca Baroni (Milan: Università degli Studi, 2002). Cf. Archivo Stor. Lomb. 8 (2002), 471-473; Maria Pia Alberzoni, ‘Leone da Perego: strategie parentali e diffusione della presenza francescana nel Milanese’, Franciscana 8 (2006), 31-62; R. Aubert, 'Léon de'Valvassori da Peregro', DHGE XXXI (2012), 648-649.

Leo de Sambuca (Leone di Sambuca, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) friar and member of the Palermo province. Lector and provincial minister, as well as custos generalis and inquisitor in Sicily.

works

Spicilegium seu Causa pauperum, in qua firmissimis rationibus et argumentis Jus pauperum ad ligandas spicas demonstratur, ed. Girolamo Maria da Caltanisetta (Rome, 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), 30.

Leo de Vennes (Leo Vannetensis/Leo de Vannes, fl. early 17th cent.)

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

works

La seconde naissance de N.S. Jésus-Christ, complément de la première, ou Conversion d'une âme formée sur le modèle du Verbe incarné (Nantes, 1635/Paris: Robert Bertrand, 1637).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487; Dictionnaire de Bibliographie Catholique, présentant l'indication et les titres complets de tous les ouvrages qui ont été publiés dans les trois langues Grecques, Latine et Française (...) II, 474; Bibliographia Franciscana XI, 607.

Leo Grodtwall (Leo Grodtwall von Gratz, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Austrian friar. Translator.

works

He issued in or after 1689 a German version of the Italian life of Giuseppe da Copertino.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 387.

Leo Strohl (18th cent.)

OFM. German friar. Preacher.

literature

A. Mangold, Franziskanische Studien 12 (1925), 166-169.

Leonardus Balestrini (Leonardo Balestrini, d. 1522)

OFM. Italian friar from Perugia or Genoa (there is some discussion about his origins). Theologian and preacher as well as Archbishop of Colossi on Rhodos (1506, appointed by Julius II). He died in Rome in 1522. It could well be that none of his works reached the printing press.

works

Sermones in Adventu, Quadragesimales et in Dominicis.

De Rebus Theologicis.

Carmina plura.

Orationes, including an Oratio ad Equites Hierosol. Religionis habita cum obsidio a Turcis immineret (1521/2), mentioned in Franz Paul von Smitmer, Catalogo della biblioteca del Sagro militar ordine di S. Giovanni Gerosolimitano oggi detto di Malta (1781), 31.

Istoria dell'assedio di Rodi (Venice: Giacomo Sansovino, 1564) ? Check!

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487; Giovanni Battista Vermiglioli, Biografia degli scrittori perugini e notizie delle opere loro ordinate e pubblicate, I: A-D (Perugia: Vincenzio Bartelli & Giovanni Costantini, 1829), 167-168; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri: che fiorirono nel Francescano istituto (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 363-364.

Leonardus Bergomas (Leonardo Benaglio da Bergamo, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Preacher and several times provincial minister of the Brescia province. He would have edited Alexio de Salo's Apologia pro arte amandi Deiparam (Brescia, 1611).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; Archivum franciscanum historicum 84 (1991), 514.

Leonardus Carta (Leonardo Carta, d. ca. 1656-7)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the S. Saturnino province. Lector jubilado, consultant for the inquisition and two-times provincial.

works

Vida y admirable Doctrina del V.D. S.P.F. Juan Duns Escoto, ed. Juan Maria Carta (Caller: Antonio Galcerin, 1657). This work was published posthumously.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 184 (Joannes Maria Carta); Eduart Toda y Güell, Bibliografia espanola de Cerdena (Madrid: Los Huérfanos, 1790), 95.

Leonardus de Aachen/Aquisgranensis (Leonard von Aachen, d. 1694)

OFMCap. German Capuchin friar. Preacher in the Cologne province. Homiletic and Spiritual author.

works

APIS ARGUMENTOSA Die Arbeitsame Gewinnreiche Biene, Der erster Bienen-Schwarm, welcher durch den Druck offentlich ist außgeflogen; Das ist: Feyertags- Predigen durch das gantze Jahr, auch auff alle Festtage der Mutter GOTTES. Der erster Jahrgang. In welchem der Hönig des süssesten himmlischen Trost, den Wachs Göttlichen Lobs, alle fromme, andächtige Seelen mögen einsamlen, Wie dann auch die Sünder den scharffen Stachel der beschet, dener Abstraffung ihrer Sünd und Laster heylsamlich empfinden werden: Alles zusammen geklaubt, ordentlich verfast, und abgetheilt, gleichsam in seinem Wachs- Täflein und Hönig- Hauslein, auß den edlesten Blumen der Sprüchen Göttlicher H. Schrifft, der Theologischer und heiliger Vätter Lehr, und dann auß der richtiger Anweisung der guter recht blühender Vernunfft durch P. leonardum von Aachen (...) (Coellen: Johann Wiedenfeldt, 1693). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague. Google Books.

Apis argumentosa: Oder der zweyter Bienen-Schwarm (...) Feyertags-Predigen durch das gantze Jahr (...) (Coellen: Johann Wiedenfeldt, 1693).

Mansuetus de Novocastro, OFMCap, Eigentliche Abbildung Einer recht vollkommener Obrigkeit: Historisch- und Sittlicher Weiß entworffen In dem geführten Leben der Ehrwürdiger Muttern, Mariae Ioannae Franciscae, Erster Priorinnen Deren Annunciaten Coelestineren zu Düsseldorf. Von dem Viel-Ehrwürdigen P. Mansueto Novocastrensi, deß Ordens deß H. Vatters Francisci, Capuciner genant, Prediger, auff dem Papier in der Franzoesischer Sprach beschrieben, in die Deutsche aber uebersetzt und zum Druck verfertigt Durch R.P. Leonardum von Aachen, selbigen Ordens Prediger (Coellen: Peter Alstorff, 1683). Hence as translator and editor. Accessible via Google Books.

Mansuetus de Novocastro, OFMCap, Die getrewe Büsserin: aller Tugend und Buß befliessene (...) vorgestellt in dem Leben der tugendreicher Schwester Clarae Franciscae von Antwerpen, Büsserinn Capucinesse. Von dem R.P. Mansueto Novocastrensi Capuciner Ordens Prediger beschrieben, in der Franzoesischer Sprach; Jetzt aber in der reiner, teutscher, trewlich uebersetzt, Von R.P. Leonardo Aquensi, desselbigen Ordens Predigern (Coellen am Rhein: Johann Hermann Weyer [?], 1676). Hence as translator and editor. Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; DSpir IX, 643-644; S. Schneiders, ‘Geistliche Reden zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit. Leonard von Aachen OFM cap (1627/28-1694) und sein Beitrag zur Homiletik des XVII. Jhts in Niederdeutschland‘, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 51 (1988), 52-73: DHGE XXXI, 666.

Leonardus de Porto Mauritio (Paolo Girolamo Casanova/Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, 1676-1751), Sanctus

OFMRef. Italian preacher and missionary. Born at Porto Maurizio as the son of Domenico Casanova e Anna Maria Benza. Baptized a Paolo Girolamo Casanova. In 1688, when he was about twelve years old, he departed from Liguria and, possibly at the urging of his very strict and pious father, he started living in the house of his oncle Agostino Casanova to pursue studies of arts and philosophy. At the age of 19, he became a novice in the Franciscan order (August 17, 1702) in the Ponticelli friary (Sabine hills) [or in the Sta Maria delle Grazie di Ponticelli friary (Rieti)?] This was followed by theological studies in the principal friary of the Riformati movement, namely the San Bonaventura friary on the Palatine. After his ordination as priest, he continued to work there as a lector, and he prepared himself for a career in the Chinese missions. This prospect was thwarted when, in 1703/4, he suffered a severe gastric haemorrhage, and became so ill that he was sent back to his native region of Porto Maurizio, to recuperate (or die) in a friary of the Franciscan Observants (1704). Supposedly cured thanks to intervention of the Virgin Mary, he retained his sacerdotal obligations. In 1709, when Cosimo III de’ Medici handed over the del Monte friary (on San Miniato near Florence, also called Monte alle Croci) to the members of the Franciscan Riformella movement, his Franciscan superiors sent him to Florence to develop that house and establish a new friary in the mountains outside Florence: the so-called friary of San Francesco all'Incontro. From about this moment onwards,Leonardo and a group of assistants embarked on an impressive preaching career, first in the Florentine region and later (from c. 1720 onwards) through large parts of South and Central Italy, obtaining the esteem of popes Clement XII and Benedict XIV. In the 1740s, this was followed by preaching tours in the papal states, the Genoa republic, Lucca, Pistoia, Corsica, and the Kingdom of Naples. Called back to Rome by pope Benedict XIV near the end of his life, Leonardo died there on November 26, 1751 in the San Bonaventura al Palatino friary. He was a fervent propagator of lay confraternities and stimulated via crucis devotions, as well as devotions to the sacred heart, the immaculate conception, and the perpetual adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. He left behind sermons, ascetic treatises, letters and books of devotion for the use of the faithful and of priests, especially missionaries. Friar Diego of Florence wrote a ‘Diario’ of his many Italian missions, which contains a wealth of information on the ascetical practices and homiletic technoques of Leonardo and his fellow friars. Many of Leonardo's writings have been translated into other languages. Leonardo was beatified on March 19, 1796, canonised on June 29, 1867 and declared patron of the internal mission in Catholic countries by Pius XI (17 March, 1923).

works

Epistolario, ed. Katalin Soltész Frattaioli (Santa Maria degli Angeli (Pg), Edizioni Porziuncola, 2000). [See reviews in Collectanea Francescana 72 (2002), 748f; Frate Francesco 68 (2002), 429-431; Il Santo 41 (2001), 531f.]. See also: Marino Bigaroni, `Lettere inedite di San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio', AFH, 64 (1971), 172-196; L. Vagaggini, ‘Altre lettere inedite di S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio‘, Divus Thomas 82 (1979), 157-166), and Bianca Maria Donatiello & Katalin Soltész, `San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Lettere e documenti inediti', Studi Francescani, 94: 3-4 (1997), 353-425.

Via Sacra Spianata ed Illuminata, Colla dichiarazione fatta dalla Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Clemente XII (Rome: Antonio de'Rossi, 1739). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Proponimenti (a set of rules for attaining higher levels of Christian perfection). See for instance Proponimenti di san Leonardo da Porto Maurizio tratti dall'autografo (Fiorenza, 1937).

Prediche quaresimali del b. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (Assisi: Ottavia Sgariglia, 1806 [4 Vols.]/Mazzoleni, 1822/Milan: Ernesto Oliva, 1851/Milan: Ernesto Oliva, 1854). Quite a few volumes accessible via the usual digital portals.

Esercizj spirituali del beato Leonardo da Porto Maurizio divisi in tre parti, 3 Vols. (Milan: Giovanni Silvestri, 1836).

Il tesoro nascosto ovvero I pregi e l'eccellenza della santa messa (Naples: Gaetano Nobile, 1829); Il tesoro nascosto nella Santa Messa (Libanti, 1843).

Sermons, exhortations et conférences pour les missions (H. & L. Casterman, 1860).

De Administratione Poenitentiae, Et Confessione Generali Opuscula Duo. Seu Discursus mysticus et moralis ad continendos in sacro foedere et uniformi poenitentiae sacramenti administratione confessarios intitutus et Directorium confessionis generalis rite instituendae, quo tam confessario, quam poenitenti, ad hanc exacta et facili brevitate ordinandam lumen accenditur (...) (Augsburg: Erben J. Wolff, 1769). Parts of this work have been issued in translation as well. See for instance Anleitung zur Generalbeichte: für Beichtväter und Beichtkinder (...) Nach der neuesten Römischen Originalausgabe (Regensburg: Georg Joseph Manz, 1850).

Opera Omnia: Many of Leonardo’s works, including sermons, letters, his popular Via Sacrea spianata ed illuminata, his Mass treatise Il Tesoro Nascosto and his widely-read Proponimenti [a set of rules for attaining higher levels of Christian perfection] have been included in the thirteen-volume Collezione completa delle opere di B. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (Rome, 1853-1884), and again in the five-volume Opere complete di S. Leonardo di Porto Maurizio (Venice, 1868-9). A French version of his complete works was issued as OEuvres completes de S. Leonard de Port-Maurice, 8 Vols. (Paris-Tournai, 1858). See also Sermons de S. Leonard de Port Maurice, 3 Vols. (Paris, 1861), and Bianca Maria Donatiello & Katalin Soltész, `San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Lettere e documenti inediti', Studi Francescani, 94: 3-4 (1997), 353-425. Some extracts of his works have also been published in a modern French translation in Ivan Gobry, Mystiques franciscains (Perpignan: Artège Editions, 2013), 218ff.

vitae

Summarium processus beatificationis V.S.D. Leon. a P. Maurizio (Rome, 1781); Rafello da Roma, Vita del P. Leonardo da P.Maurizio (Rome, 1754); Jos. de Masserano, Vita del B. Leonardo da P.Maurizio (Rome, 1796); Salvatore di Ormea, Vita del B. Leonardo da P.Maurizio (Innsbruck, 1869).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 792; L. De Cherance, Études Franciscaines 8 (Paris, 1902), 501-510; L. De Cherance, S. Leonard de Port-Maurice, Nouvelle Bibliothèque Franciscaine, Série I, 13 (Paris, 1903); AIA 22 (1924), 425-426; Hildeberto Schmidt, ‘Opere complete ed edizioni particolari di s. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio’, AFH 40 (1947), 208-275 & 60 (1967), 164 (nos. 2474-2478); F.M. Pacheco, S. Leonardi a Porto Maurizio doctrina de caritate (Rome, 1963); ‘Alcuni capitoli inediti della vita di Clementina Sobieski-Stuart scritti da S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio‘, Studi francescani 62 (1965), 235-263; Marino Bigaroni, `Lettere inedite di San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio', AFH, 64 (1971), 172-196; LThK <sup>3</sup>VI 836; A.S. Rosso, ‘San Lorenzo da Porto Maurizio e le missioni cinesi‘, Antonianum 47 (1972), 455-482; R. Sbardella, San Lorenzo da Porto Maurizio Notizie storico-artistiche (Rome, 1976); R. Colombo, `Il linguaggio missionario nel Settecento italiano. Intorno al “Diario delle Missioni di San Lorenzo da Porto Maurizio”‘, Rivista di Storia e Letteratura religiosa 20 (1984), 369-428; S. Gori, ‘Un perfetto imitatore di S. Francesco nel sec. XVIII, S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio’, Studi francescani 80 (1983), 309-358; Bianca Maria Donatiello & Katalin Soltész, `San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Lettere e documenti inediti', Studi Francescani, 94: 3-4 (1997), 353-425; Fabio Berti, ‘San Leonardo, testimone di speranza’, Frate Francesco 65 (1999), 24-29; Leonardo García Aragón, Concordancias de los propósitos de San Leonardo de Puerto Mauricio (Guatemala, Iglesia de la Recolección, 2000); Giovanni Bensi, Fra Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. padrone dei cuori di Roma. Dai Santi Ritiramenti nel Palco di Prato alle prediche romane per il Giubileo di Benedetto XIV (1750) (Prato, Santa Maria del Giglio, 2000); Luciana Maria Mirri, ‘Il metodo missionario di s. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, del b. Bartolomeo [Maria] Dal Monte [ofs † 1778] e di s. Elia Facchini [ofm † 1900]’, Vita Minorum 60 (2000), 226-244; Luiz Pérez Simón, ‘San Leonardo de Porto Mauricio. Presbítero franciscano (1676-1751)’, in: Nuevo Año cristiano (Madrid: EDIBESA, 2001-2002) XI, 453-455 (26 Nov.); Katalin Soltész Frattaioli, ‘Appunti di san Leonardo da Porto Maurizio per le missioni di Roma (1749) in preparazione dell’anno giubilare 1750’, Frate Francesco 69 n.s. (2003), 149-154; Cesare Vaiani, La Via Crucis di san Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (Milan: Edizioni Glossa, 2003); Sanleonardiana. Per la bibliografia di S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (1676-1751), ed. Giovanni Bensi (Rome: Ecogeses, 2004); Cesare Vaiani, La Via Crucis di San Leonardi da Porto Maurizio (Milan: Edizioni Glossa, 2003) [cf. Review in Il Santo 46/1-2 (2006), 296-297; Dario Busolini, ‘Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, santo’, DBI 64, 437-439; La mistica parola per parola, ed. Luigi Borriello, Maria R. Del Genio & Tomás Spidlík (Milan: Ancora, 2007), 229; Pietro Stella, ‘‘Il Tesoro nascosto’ di Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Appunti per la storia di un testo di letteratura religiosa popolare’, in: Idem, Il libro religioso in Italia, ed. Maria Lupi Collana, Studi e ricerche (Università di Roma Tre, 2008), 125-156; Michel Olivier, ‘Faire le portrait d’un saint: Subleyras et Leonard de Port-Maurice’, in: Il Settecento e le arti. Dall’Arcadia all’Illuminismo, nuove proposte tra le corti, l’aristocrazia e la borghesia, Convegni Lincei, 246 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei – Bardi Editore, 2009), 283-323; Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, missionario con un cuore da eremita (Rome: Città Nuova, 2009); Servus Gieben, ‘Leonardo da Porto Maurizio incontra un brigante Lupo. Note iconografiche’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:1-2 (2011), 313-322; Massimiliano Taroni, San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Predicatore itinerante e apostolo della Via Crucis (Elledici, 2013); Pietro Messa, 'The Via Crucis of Saint Leonard of Porto Maurizio, Namely the Via Sacra Spianata ed Illuminata', Spirit + Life. Journal of Franciscan Culture 124 (2018), 18-24.

Leonardus de Altare (Leonardus ab Altare/Leonardo dell'Altare, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Piedmont and meber of the Genoa or San Diego province. Theology lector, preacher and guardian of the Ss. Anunziati friary of Fossano.

works

Vita, e miracoli della beata Paola Gambara Costa contessa di Bene, Trinità, e Carrù del terz'ordine del padre san Francesco (Mondoui: Gio. Gislandi, e Gio. Francesco Rossi, ca. 1650).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281.

Leonardus de Capua (Leonardo da Capua/Bernardino Caramanno, d. 1680)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Naples province. He took his solemn vows as a lay friar in Sessa Aurunca on 26 January 1639, adopting the name Leonardo da Capua. He distinguished himself as caretaker of plague victims in Nales (1656-1657). Later for some time incarcerated when some people denounced his questor (terminary) practices around Capua. He died at the age of 60 on 28 February 1680.

works

Relazione de'RR.PP. Cappuccini di questo occorso nel lazzaretto di San Gennaro di Napoli circa la pesta del 1657, composta da un religioso di detta Religione (Macerata: Elisei, 1658).

literature

Apolinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 119-120.

Leonardus de Cremona (Leonardus Mainardus, early fifteenth century)

OM. Italian friar, active in Bologna. Might be the compilor of a Compilatio Artis Mensurativae Practicae.

works

Compilatio Artis Mensurativae Practicae: MS Rome, Bibl. Boncompagni 302 (14th cent.) & 303 (15th cent.). Check also MSS Ambr. J. 253 inf. and Parma Parm. 984.

literature

Sbaralea, Suppl., II, 172; B. Pergamo, AFH, 27 (1934), 32; M. Clagett, Archimedes in the Middle Ages (Madison, 1964), I, 636.

Leonardus de Grifonio (Leonardus Huiphonensis/Leonardus de Ciffono/Leonardus de Giffono/Leonardus ex Geofano/Leonardus de Jovis Fano/Leonardus de Rubeis/Leonardus Rubeus/Leonardo di Rossi/Leonardo De Rossi da Giffoni Valle Piana, c. 1335/40 - 1407/15)

OM. Italian friar from Giffono Valle Piana near Naples. After entering the order, he studied theology, apparently finishing his degree course at Cambridge. Became provinial minister and was elected minister general on June 5, 1373 (at the general chapter of Toulouse) [for the Constitutions from that general chapter, which show Grifonio’s commitment to matters of poverty, religious discipline, the proper organisation of learning, and missionary exploits in Bosnia, Russia and the East, see Miscellanea Francescan 29 (1929), 171-176]. As minister general, he supported the reform attempts of Paoluccio di Vagnozzo Trinci (d. 1390), who stood at the cradle of the regular observance. Grifonio also assisted in eradicating forms of heresy at Corsica and Sardinia. After refusing the offer of Pope Urban VI to bestow him with the cardinalate (September 1378), he was deposed as minister general. Shortly thereafter, Grifonio accepted the cardinalate from the Avignon Pope Clement VII (16 December 1379). In September 1381, he was taken into captivity by Charles of Durazzo, agent for Urban VI. For five years, Grifonio was held in captivity, to be released on 13 May 1387. He travelled to Avignon [Cf. M. Dykmans, in Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome 83 (1971), 389, 402, 406-407], where, as cardinal, he took part in discussions to end the Schism (cf. his Utrum Via Renuntiationis (1395); Ex Septuplici Medio (1398)), trying to bridge the gap between the various papal contenders, and where he participated in a committee that examined the writings of the Parisian master Jean de Monzon OP, who had argued against the immaculate conception. Grifonio probably died in 1407 or shortly thereafter. Grifonio’s most well-known (political/ecclesiological) writings deal with the schism. Yet he also left important exegetical, homiletic and penitential works, none of which seem to have been edited thus far. These latter writings probably would give us a good insight in teaching and homiletic training at the more important Franciscan studia during the 1370s.

works

Grifonio’s works related to the schism (esp. Utrum Via renuntiationis (1395) & Ex Septuplici Medio (1398)), have been studied and edited by Clément Schmitt in AFH 50 (1957) & 51 (1958). [Also lists manuscripts; a.o. MS Grenoble, Bibl. Municipale 988] These and related works are also known under other titles, such as Tractatus adversus Benedictum XIII. tamquam haereticum in schismata; Tractatus utrum via renunciationis Summi Pontificis eo modo sit acceptanda, quo oblata a nonnulis proponitur, et an subtractio obedientiae debeat fieri Benedicto XIII; Epistola ad Carolum VI. Galliae Regem die 8. Septembris an. 1395 data (1395).

Expositio in Canticum Canticorum: MS Florence, Laurentianum (S. Croce Pluteus VIII, dext. 1) ff. 1-224 [Cf. H. Riedlinger, Die Makellosigkeit der Kirche in den lateinischen Hoheliedkommentaren des Mittelalters (Münster, 1958), 347-354. The commentary contains 143 chapters.]

Sermones Varii (six volumes): MS BAV Barberini Lat. 754-759 [Cf. Fabricius, IV, 265; Zawart, 292; AFH 50 (1957), 284. The first of these volumes apparently comes from the Franciscan friary in Avignon]

Theologia Moralis/Summa Notabilis: MS Valenciennes, Bib. Municipale 22 ff. 119-161 [Manuscript once belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Sponheim. It deals with penitential issues. In all probability we are dealing with a fragment of Grifonio’s Summa. Cf. Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France XXV (Paris, 1894), 201 & AFH 50 (1957), 283]

Liber Soliloquiorum Anime Penitentis ad Deum pro Impetranda de Peccatis Venia et Gracia Lacrymarum (? attributed): MS Paris BN Lat. 3351 [Cf. Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue général des manuscrits latin V (Paris, 1966), 262. H. Lippens, Sacris Erudiri 1 (1948), 253 would like to attribute another manuscript of this text to Henry de Baume, the collaborator and confessor of Colette of Corbie]

literature

Wadding, Script., 159; Wadding, Annales Minorum VIII (ed. Quaracchi, 1932), 327 (n. 19); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 282; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 488 & (ed. 1921) II, 172-173; DThC IX (1926), 396-397; C. Schmitt, ‘La position du cardinal Léonard de Giffoni, O.F.M., dans le conflit du Grand Schisme d’Occident’, AFH 50 (1957), 273-331 & 51 (1958), 25-72, 410-472; Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (Cambridge, 1963), 257-258; Agatangelo da Roccagloriosa, Il cardinale Leonardo De' Rossi, 1335-1407 da Giffoni Valle Piana: ricerche storiche (Padua: Studio S. Antonio di Padova dei pp. Cappuccini, 1964); G. Mascia, ‘Landolfo Caracciolo (…) e Leonardo De’Rossi da Giffoni, due grandi figure francescane del quattrocento’, Cenacolo serafico (Naples, May-June, 1966); Stegmüller, RB, III, 5390; Catholicisme VII (1969), 364-365; Clément Schmitt, ‘Léonard de Giffoni’, DSpir IX, 644-646; A. da Roccagloriosa, ‘Il cardinale L. de’ Rossi‘, Rivista di letteratura e storia ecclesiastica 5 (1973), 281-302; LThK 3rd. ed. VI, 835; R. Agatangelo, ‘Leonardo De Rossi (1335-1407) figlio autentico di s. Francesco‘, L’Italia francescana 57 (1982), 701-720; F. Accrocca, ‘Il card. Leonardo da Giffoni o.f.m. sulla rinuncia di Celestino V‘, Studi francescani 87 (1990), 31-46; Riccardo Di Martini et al., Il cardinale Leonardo de Rossi da Giffoni (Giffoni Valla piana: Ripostes, 2019) [with much additional information].

Leonardus de Neapoli (Leonardo del Giudice, 1622-1690)

OFM. Italian friar from Lauria (Basilicata). Entered the Franciscan order in the Terra di Lavoro province. Several time guardian of the Santa Maria la Nuova friary of Naples, which was an important studium generale. Later provincial minister, secretary for the Franciscan minister general and general definitor. He died in Naples on 26 March (Easter!?) 1690 in the Santa Maria la Nuova friary. As guardian and provincial, he embarked on significant building projects, which not only touched the Santa Maria la Nuova friary, but also extended to the Franciscan friary of Santa Maria di Monte Calvario, and other friaries in the province. Also involved with a new edition, with some hagiographical embellishments, of Marco of Lisbon’s Chronista general da ordem dos frades menores do seraphico Padre San Francisco.

literature

Teofilo Testa da Nola, Serafici Fragmenti della Provincia Osservante di Terra di Lavoro, 346-348 (Manuscript kept in the provincial Franciscan archive of the Naples province); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; Sbaralea, Supplementum ad Scriptores II, 212-213; DHGE XXXI, 671.

Leonardus de Publiciis (Leonardo da Piobesi, d. 1550)

OFM. Italian friar from Piobesi in Liguria (Aliberti family). Joined the order before the official division of 1517 and ended up in the Observant branch (OFM). Guardian in Turin and confessor of the Duchess of Savoye. Was elected provincial definitor in May 1520, and again in April 1533. Appointed general vicar of the orde by Pope Clement VII on 24 December 1533, taking charge of the order until the election of a new minister general in May 1535. Thereafter General commissionar for the Cismontan family. No extant writings?

literature

A. Casini, La Provincia di Genova dei Frati Minori dalle origini ai nostri giorni (Chiavari, 1985), passim; L. Barbini, ‘Tre personaggi notevoli della provincia francescana di Genova. Schede biografiche’, Studi franciscani 84 (1987,) 139-140: R. Aubert, ‘Léonard de Piobesi’, DHGE XXXI, 678.

Leonardus de Reutlingen (Leonard von Reutlingen)

OM. German friar.

works

Collectio Sermonum de T.: Stuttgart, Württemb. Landesbibl. HB, I. 18 ff. 2ra-252ra (15th cent.)

Leonardus de Tornaco (Leonardus Nevius/Nervius/Léonard de Tournai/Corneille Musel, ca. 1582-bafore 1652)

OFMCap. Belgian Capuchin friar from Tournai (Doornik). From early on Corneille Musel/Mussele was recognized for his musical gifts and appointed cantor of the French royal choir in 1593. The year after, he traveled to Madrid, where he stayed between 1594 and 1600. Three years later, in 1603, he joined the Capuchins in Douai, taking the name Leonard. He was ordained priest and fulfilled several pastoral charges. In between he remained active as composer and as editor of religious music. He apparently edited seven volumes of church music, about five of which have survived, albeit incomplete.

works

Several edited works of religious works, alledgedly printed (in part, 5 Vols.?) in Antwerp: Check!

literature

Hildebrand d’Hooglede, ‘Wie was Leonardus Nevius?’, Musica sacra 43 (1936), 103-107 & Idem, Miscellanea,II (Louvain, 2000), 921-125; Biographie nationale de Belgique XI, 826-827; Collectanea franciscana 40 (1941), 578; Lex.Cap., 947; H. Vanhulst, ‘Nervius, Leonardus’, in: The New Grove Dict. of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie (New York, 2001) XVII, 770; Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart XII (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2004), 998-999; G. Ingegneri. ‘Léonard de Tournai’, DHGE XXXI, 680.

Leonardus de Trap (Léonard de Nevers, († 29 October 1629)

OFMCap. French friar. Archbishop of Auch since 1599, who joined the Capuchin order near the end of his life.

literature

DHGE XXXI, 674.

Leonardus Duliris (Leonard Duliris, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Member of the Immaculée Conception de Nostre-Dame province (Guyenne). Mathematician/astronomer/geographer.

works

La Théorie des Longitudes reduite en pratique sur le globe céleste, Extraordinairement appareillé, pour cognoistre facilment en Mer, combien l'on est esloigné de toutes les terres du Monde. Avec l'invention du Globe Hauturien (...) (Paris: Jean Guillemot, 1647). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books.

The work on longitudes became part of a controversy. See:

La science des longitudes de J.B. Morin, avec la censure de la nouvelle théorie et pratique du secret des longitudes du P.L. Duliris, récollet (Paris, 1647). Polemic against the usurpation and misappropriations by J.B. Morin.

Apologie ou juste deffence du secret des longitudes pratiqué en mer, contre l'injuste usurpation et corruption qu'en a fait le sieur J.B. Morin (Paris, 1648).

Éphéméride maritime dressée pour observer en mer la longitude et la latitude, selon l'invention du P. Léonard Duliris, (...) avec un nouveau moyen de perpétuer l'éphéméride du soleil, pour avoir tousjours exactement sa déclinaison (...) par le susdit P. Léonard Duliris (...) (Paris: E. Couterot, 1655).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487; J.C. Houzeau & A. Lancaster, Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie I, 1194.

Leonardus Maier (Leonhard Mair, d. 1455)

OMObs. Swiss friar. Guardian of Basel in 1443.

literature

Christian Folini, ‘Mair, Leonhard, obs (d. 1455)’, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz 8 (2009), 231.

Leonardus Padera (Leonardo Padera a Martinez de la Raga, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Valencia province. Long-term lector, provincial minister, order secretary, consultant for the inquisition.

works

Sacra aborema Doctore Seraphico Divi Bonaventura, divini ardoris flamma succenso excegitatems subtilissimi Doct. Joan Duns Scoti fructibus sacundata, universaque Sacra Scriptura de Christo Domino intellecta liberalium mechanicarumque artium thesauribus ad Theologiam Deumque redicti ornata, ac Veluti in medio Paradysi Franciscanae Religionis plantata, Catholici Cherub custodia tuto coronata (...) (Rome: Angelo Bernabó, 1664). Dedicated to Philip IV of Spain.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281-282; Índice de la colección de don Luis de Salazar y Castro XLV, 63-64; Archivo Ibero-Americano (1967), 112, 119.

Leonardus Parisiensis (Leonard de Paris/Jacques de Querequifinian, d. 1641)

OFMCap. French friar. He joined the oder at the age of 21 or thereabouts. Four or five times provincial minister in the Parisian province, as well as one time in the Lorraine province. He was spiritual guide of secular tertiaries and also worked as preacher-confessor at the court of the English Queen Henriëtte-Marie de Bourbon. Also active as anti-heretical preacher and he organised with Joseph du Tremblay Capuchin missions to Greece and Canada. Also general definitor of the Capuchin order (1633). He was elected provincial definitor in June 1614 and was sent to the Marais friary as the new guardian, het he fell ill and was brought to Saint-Honoré, where he died on 4 September 1641 at the age of 75.

works

Expositio literalis super Regulam Fratrum Minorum secundum mentem S.P. Francisci (Paris: Jean Fovet, 1623/Lyon, 1631 & 1633).

After his death a commentary on the Franciscan Rule for Tertiaries by him would have been issued in Paris, 1651. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 282; Cyprien de Gamaches & Apollinaire de Valence, Mémoires de la mission des Capucins de la Province de Paris près la Reine d'Angleterre depuis l'année 1630 jusqu'a 1669, Revised Edition (Paris: Librairie Poussielgue, 1881), 23 et passim; Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France 20 (1893), 151-152; Jean Mauzaize, Le rôle et l'action des capucins de la province de Paris dans la France religieuse du XVIIème siècle, 3 Vols. (Atelier Reproduction des thèses, Université de Lille III, 1978) III, 116-1117.

Leonzinus de Arimino († ca. 1389)

OM. Italian friar. Baccalaureus theologiae. Lector of the convent of Bologna in 1349. Fulfilled several administrative tasks. Succeeded Iacobus de Signorellis as provincial vicar. Became inquisitor in Romandiola (1351) and was elected bishop of Fano on 8 November 1362.

literature

Memorie francescane Fanesi. Omaggio a S. Francesco d'Assisi nel VII centenario della sua morte (Fano, 1926); C. Piana, Chartularium, AF, 11 (1970), 23-24, n. 28.

Leopoldus de Gaicho (Giovanni Croci/Leopoldo da Gaiche, 1732-1815), beatus

OFMRef. Italian friar from Gaiche di Piegaro (30 October 1732). Entered the order in the Cibottola di Piegaro friary. Itinerant preacher for nearly 50 years, and from 1768 onwards as apostolic missionary. Followed in his emotional and evocative preaching style the method/example of Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Put in prison after the occupation of the Papal State by Napoleon, when he refused to proclaim his loyalty to the new regime. After the restauration, he continued his apostolate. uried in the Church of Saint Francis in Spoleto; his tomb became the site of reported miracles. He fell ill during a sermon on Christmas 1814, and died in 2 April 1815. He was buried in the Church of Saint Francis in Spoleto. His tomb became a cult site. This and accounts of reported miracles made that a beatification process was opened in Spoleto in 1844. Officially beatified on 12 March 1893.

works

Diario. A booklet in which Leopoldo da Caiche noted his many missions, the Lenten retreats he supervised and his other devotional initiatives. See the studies by Ceccacci and Occhialini mentioned below.

literature

Sacra rituum congregatione ... Spoletana Beatificationis, et canonizationis Servi Dei P. Leopoldi a Gaichis 6 Vols. (Rome: Typ. Cam. Apost.-Typ. artificum a S. Joseph, 1825-1892); Pacifico da Rimini, Della vita e dell'eroiche virtù del venerabile padre Leopoldo da Gaiche minore riformato di S. Francesco nella provincia serafica, istitutore del ritiro di Monte Luco, e missionario apostolico (Foligno: Tipografia Tomassini, 1835) [available via Google Books]; Anton Maria da Vicenza, Vita del b. Leopoldo da Gaiche dell'ordine dei Minori riformati (Artigianelli di S. Giuseppe, 1892); Paolo Campello della Spina, Vita del Beato Leopoldo da Gaiche: minore riformato della provincia serafica (Tip. Artigianelli di S. Giuseppe, 1893); DSpir,IX, 675-676; U. Ceccacci, Il beato Leopoldo di Gaiche, missionario apostolico della provincia serafica di Santa Chiara, fondatore del ritiro di Monteluco (Turin: Tip. G. Tarditi, 1931); Luciano M. Canonici, Il faro sul monte: il B. Leopoldo Da Gaiche, frate minore missionario apostolico (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1957); Serena Veneziani, ‘Leopoldo da Gaiche (al secolo Giovanni Croci)’, DBI 64, 667f.; Luciano Canonici, B. Leopoldo da Gaiche O.F.M.: (il faro sul monte), ed. Pietro Ottorino Alberti (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1986); Umberto Occhialini, Tutto di Dio, tutto degli uomini: il beato Leopoldo da Gaiche di Perugia (Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 1993); Umberto Occhialini, Beato Leopoldo da Gaiche. Il francescano e l'apostolo (Elledici, 2012)

Leo Wolff (1640-1708)

OFMRec. German Franciscan friar from Munich. He joined the order in Bamberg in 1659 and was a member of the Recollect Strasbourg province. He preached in the Schwaben region and later became pilgrimage preacher in Kloster Mariahilf (Lechfeld). Also active as provincial definitor. Known for the edition of multi-volume German sermon collections that contain many historical legends and exempla, and also contain stories about sorcery and witchcraft. He died in Lechfeld on 28 September 1708.

works

Rugitus Leonis, oder geistliches Löwen-Brüllen. Das ist: hertz-beweglicher Red-Verfassungen, von dem bösen Sünden-Schlaff, von denen vier letzten Dingen des Menschen, und von der gnadenreichen Hülff der allerseeligsten Jungfrauen und Mutter Gottes, sechs Theil, welche durch die h. Advent-Zeit, umb die Seelen der Menschen aus dem verdammlichen Sünden-Schlaff zur Besserung des Lebens aufzuwecken, auf unterschiedlichen Cantzeln geprediget worden, nunmehr aber mittelst eines Indicis Applicationum also eingeordnet seynd ... : nebst beygefügten Florilegio von zwölff Predigen an denen Monathlichen Sonntägen der löbl. Ertz-Bruderschafft Chordigerorum, oder Strick-Gürtel des h. seraphischen Vatters Francisci, auch mit unterschidlichen Registern versehen (Augsburg: Verlag Johann Caspar Brandans, 1701). For instance accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, via Google Books, and via https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/11433950

Rugitus Leonis, oder Geistliches Löwen-Brüllen. Das ist: Eingriffige Sonntags-Predigten durch ein gantzes Jahr. Aus klaren Stellungen der H. Schrifft, Lehr-reichen Sprüchen der H.H. Vätter, raren Antiquitäten, schönen Symbolischen Gleichnussen, bewehrten und beweglichen Historien u. zum Schröcken und Trost der Sünder verfasset, auch mit unterschidlichen Registern wohl versehen(...). (Augsburg: Georg Schlüter, 1702/Augsburg: Caspar Brandans, 1702/Augsburg, 1707). The 1702 editions are accessible via the library of Luzern University, via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Rugitus Leonis, oder Geistliches Löwen-Brüllen. Das ist: Des zweyten Dominicalis kurtz verfaßte Sonntags-Predigen, Durch das gantze Jahr. Aus klaren Stellungen der H. Schrifft, Lehr-reichen Sprüchen der H. H. Vätter, raren Antiquitäten, Symbolischen Gleichnussen, bewehrten und beweglichen Historien [et]c. theils zum Trost, theils zum Schröcken der Sünder zusamm getragen, und mit unterschiedlichen Registern wohl versehen (Augsburg: Georg Schlüter & Martin Happach, 1708). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, via Google Books, and via http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/opendigi/Gi766_qt#p=1

Rugitus Leonis, oder Geistliches Löwen-Brüllen. Das ist: Lob-schuldigste Ehren-Predigen auf alle Fest-Tag. So in der Roemisch-Catholischen Kirchen durch das gantze Jahr feijerlich begangen werden (...), 2 Vols. (Augsburg, 1705/Augsburg: Georg Schlüter, 1707). The first volume (Erster-oder Winter-Theil from 1705 is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books. The second volume (Ander-oder Sommer-Theil) from 1705 and 1707 is for instance accessible via the library of Luzern University, via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Rugitus Leonis, oder Geistliches Löwen-Brüllen. Das ist: Hertz-berührende Red-Verfassungen. Durch die H. Vierzig-Tägige Fasten-Zeit (...) (Augsburg: Georg Schlüter, 1706). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Deutsches Literatur Lexikon (DLL). Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch, 3rd. Ed. (Bern-Zürich, 1968-) XXXV, 405-407; Karl Pörnbacher, Schwäbische Literaturgeschichte. Tausend Jahre Literatur aus Bayerisch (Weißenhorn: Anton H. Konrad Verlag, 2002), 193f.; Hans-Jörg Uther, Handbuch zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Entstehung – Wirkung – Interpretation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 47f.

Leo Zambellus (Leone Zambelli/Zambello, 1582-1656)

OFM. Italian friar from Piacenza. Member of the Bologna province. Theologican and provincial minister. Known for his works on politics and political economy.

works

Il sauio industrioso nella politica militare di difesa (...) dedicato all (...) Odoardo I. Farnese. Il Morale, il Politico, ed. il Guerriero (Bologna: Clemente Ferroni, 1635). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples and via Google Books.

Il Savio industrioso nella economia di Fra Leone Zambelli Piacentino (...) (Bologna: Clemente Ferroni, 1635). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome and via Google Books.

Iuris criminum regulæ generales iudicio regularium maximopere vtiles, ac necessariae, ut Iudices Religiosi (...) (Bologna: Clemente Ferroni, 1635). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books.

Globo Celeste, e politico della vita del prencipe in tempo di pace, e di guerra (...) alla sagra Cattolica Maesta'Reale di Filippo Quarto, re per tutte le parti del mondo (...) (Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1642). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Repertorium morale resolutorium casuum conscientiae (Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1640/Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1650). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

Vita del Prencipe nella pace, e nella guerra, 2 Vols. (Venice: Ginammi, 1655). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome. Both volumes are also accessible via Google Books, but do not always show up immediately.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 281; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 487; 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; Daniela Frigo Il padre di famiglia: governo della casa e governo civile nella tradizione dell' "economica" tra Cinque e Seicento (Bulzoni, 1985), passim; Dennis Romano, Housecraft and statecraft: domestic service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 150.

Leutfridus de Svitio (Leutfried Schmidt/Luitfrid Schmid von Schweiz, 1702-1779)

OFMCap. Swiss friar and member of the Provincia Helvetica. Lector and guardian.

works

Freundliches Gespräch über die in der Nachbarschaft entstandene Irrlehr deren Widerlegung, zwischem einem Catholischen und einem Verführten (Zug, 1747). It refers to the process against Jacob Schmidlin/Schmidli, who was burned at the stake for heretical views, and whose family was exiled. The work by Luitfrid is in fact not so 'friendly', but staunchly polemical.

Mons regius, der königliche Berg unter dem Titel Maria zum Schnee, das ist der Rigi-Berg (Zug, 1759).

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), 30; Archiv für die schweizerische Reformations-Geschichte 1 (1869), 557.

Liberatus de Loro (Liberato da Loro, d. c. 1260), sanctus

OM. Italian friar.

works

Summarium super Non Remotione Cultus: MS ?

literature

Quinto Damiani, ‘San Liberato da Loro Piceno e gli Actus-Fioretti di S. Francesco’, Collectanea Franciscana 32 (1962), 325-335; Arnaldo Sancricca, ‘Il piatto di s. Liberato da Loro. Aspetto devozionale di una reliquia ex contactu’, Picenum Seraphicum 22-23 (2003/04), 297-305; Arnaldo Sancriccia, ‘La ‘Genealogia delle Provincie de’Beati e Santi della Religione di s. Francesco’. Un’Opera a stampa attribuita a Fra’ Mariano da Firenze nel Summarium super non remotione cultus’ di s. Liberato da Loro’, Picenum Seraphicum 24 (2005), 147-189.

Liberatus Weiss (d. 1716)

OFMRef. Austrian friar.

literature

Wolfgang Frühwirth, ‘Der selige Liberat Weiss. Zweiter Patron der Österreichischen Franziskanerprovinz’, in: Franziskaner auf dem Weg, 30-35.

Libertus de Broeckem (Libertus Bericensis/Libertus Belga/Libertus Braehuna/Libertus van Broekom, ca. 1420-1506)

OM. Dutch friar. Member of the Cologne province. He became suffragan bishop of Liège (Luik/Lüttich), taking the title Episcopus Bericensis (titular bishop Bishop of Beirut 'in partibus infidelium').

works

Speculum peccatorum (Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1485/Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, ca. 1486); Spiegel der zondaren (Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, 1487). The 1486 Latin edition is accessible via the University Library of Ghent (for digital access, see: https://lib.ugent.be/nl/catalog/rug01:001995371 and also Google Books), the Bibliothèque municipale of Lille, the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague (also via Google Books), and via the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. The Dutch 1487 edition is in any case accessible via the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.

Collectio reuerendissimi patris et Domini dñi Liberti Episcopi Gericensis de Crucibus (Strasbourg, 1478 [?]/Antwerp, 1501/Basel: Furter, 1503/Hieronymus Emser, 1503); Uslegung, und betütnus der crutz, so yetzo fallen (...) (Hupfuff, 1503/Froschauer, 1504). The Latin editions from 1501 and 1503 are for instance accessible via the the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague, the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, and via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The German editions from 1503 and 1504 are in any case accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The work argues that the Holy Cross must be revered, and that falling crosses visible in the skies were a sign of God's wrath against relapsing sinners and those who attacked the Church. These same crosses indicated God's displeasure in vain dresses of women, and that Christianity should wage war against the Turks and other infidels.

Tractatus adversus separationem FF. Min. Observantium a Conventualibus: MS Check!

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 488; De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Ante Saec. XVI (1974) I, 170-187; Andrew Pettegree & Malcolm Walsby, Netherlandish Books: Books Published in the Low Countries and Dutch Books Printed Abroad before 1601, 2 Vols. (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2011) II, 828

Liborius Schemlinck (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRef. German friar. Member of the Saxonian Holy Cross province. Definitor.

works

Triumphus sanctorum: sub galea salutis invictorum devictis mundo, carne, ac daemone illustratus sacrorum voluminum, authorum tam sacrorum, quàm profanorum, vetustiorum, & recentiorum sententiis, nec non plurimis curiosis discursibus, variisque utilissimis documentis adornatus (...) (Augsburg: Philipp, Martini & Joannis Veith, 1724). Accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library, Europeana.eu. Google Books.

Galea salutis. Quod est Verbum Dei Ephes. 6.17 Plurimis sanctorum Patrum Sententiis corroboratum, probatorum Scriptorum auctoritatibus illustratum, variis figuris, emblematibus, symbolis & similitudinibus exornatum in Dominicis et Festis Domini per Annum Pradicatum (...) (Augsburg: Philipp, Martini & Joannis Veith, 1721). Accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 282; Leonhard Intorp, Westfälische Barockpredigten in volkskundlicher Sicht (Aschendorff, 1964), 13, 39.

Licintus de Guatimira (Licintus de Guatimira/Aloisius Maria Padovensis/Aloisio Maria da Padova, fl. 18th cent.)

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum, 532.

Lilius Medicus (Lelius Mediceus/Lelio Medici da Piacenza, d. 1608)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born in Piacenza. Studied philosophy and theology in the schools of the order and became regent of the intermediate order schools of Venice and later (1578) in Bologna. After becoming master of theology and a stint as provincial minister (residing in Piacenza), he became professor of theology at the University of Pisa (1588-1603). Subsequently he worked as official inquisitor in Pisa (1586-1603) and in Florence (1603-1608).

works

Discorso del P.M. Lelio Medici Piacentino Min. Conv., inquisitore generale di Fienze e suo dominio sopra i fondamenti e le ragioni delli SS. Veneziani, per le quali pensano di essere scusati della disubbidienza che fanno alle censura et interdetto della Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Paolo Quinto (…) (Bologna: Giovanni Battista Bellagamba, 1606). This work is accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 383-387; Juan de San Antonio, BUF II, 280; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 486; A. Fabroni, Historia Academiae Pisanae, 3 Vols. (Pisa, 1791-1795) II, 120-121; Sbaraglia, Supplementum II, 169-170.

Linus Moronus (Lino Moroni, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian (Florentine) friar from the Tuscany province. Provincial definitor and provincial minister. He would have died in 1633.

works

Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (Florence, 1612/Florence, 1626). This is a richly illustrated works, with at least 23 engravings by Domenico Falcini and others. The work is now accessible via Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008411585/page/n3/mode/2up ]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 282; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 488.

Livinus Brechtius Antwerpensis (Levinus Brechtus/Lieven de Brecht/Livius Brechtanus/Livinus Brechtanus/Laevinus, c. 1515-c. 1660)

OFM. Belgian friar. Born at Antwerp around 1515, or maybe as early as 1502. Studied arts and theology at Louvain (immatriculated in the arts on 28 August 1516 and known as biblicus in 1530), and entered in the Franciscan order at the Observant convent of Louvain. Became an educator in the Louvain friary/studium and became a renowned preacher as well as an esteemed author of Latin poetry and tragedies. He also edited the Konstighe refereynen vol schoone schrifture ende leeringen, begrepen in drye verscheyde boecken of the Dutch poetess Anna Beijns, in which he also included a number of his own dedicatory poems. At the same time Livinus was a staunch defender of Franciscan poverty. He died as the guardian of the Mechelen (Malines) convent in 1558 or 1660.

works

Euripides, Tragoedia Christiana, de Vitae Humanae Inconstantia (Louvain: Jacobus Bathenius for Martinus Rotarius & P. Phalesius, 1549/Louvain: Apud Petrum Phalesium, 1550/Cologne, 1555/Cologne, 1556). An expanded edition, with additional poems came out as Euripides, Tragoedia Christiana, de Vitae Humanae Inconstantia, cum Appendice Selectorum Aliquot Carminum (Cologne: Tutger Velpius, 1568). The work also was included in Lateinische Ordensdramen des XVI. Jahrhunderts mit deutschen Übersetzungen, ed. F. Radle (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1979), pp. 3-276 and 524-544 (analysis). This tragedy, which constists of a variation of the Everyman theme - was initially performed at the Faucon college of Louvain university, where Lieven de Brecht had studied himself. Once the play was printed in 1549/50, it had a European circulation, especially in Jesuit schools (Bloemendal: “Euripus became one of the cornerstones of the Jesuit drama in Europe’).

Sylvia Piorum Carminum (Louvain: Reynerus Velpius for Joannes Waen, 1555). A collection of religious poetry. The 1555 edition is available via Google Books (does not always show up).

Carmen Natalicium: MS Brussels, Royal Library. Check!

Carmen, included in Petrus Philicinus, Dialogus de Isaaci immolatione (Antwerp: J. Steels, 1543 & 1544).

Carmen, a laudatory poem/song included in Anna Bijns, Het tweede Boeck vol schoone ende constighe Refereynen (Antwerp: Marten Nuyts, 1548?/Antwerp: Jan van Ghelen, 1553/Antwerp: Hieronymus Verdussen Jr., 1646).

Jubilum Magdalenses, included in Petrus Philicinus, Comoedia tragica Magdalena Evangelica (Antwerp: Jan Steels, 1544/Antwerp: Jan Steels, 1546).

Epistola ad Ansonium: MS Brussels, Royal Library. Check!

Carmen de Christo. Cf. F. Doelle, Arbeiten des Kirchenhistorischen Seminars der Franziskaner zu Paderborn (Münster, 1930), 27

Memorabilis Historia Martyrum (Louvain: Reynerus Velpius for Martinus Rotarius, 1551). A compilation of martyr histories in prose and rhyme.

Vita B. Christinae Mirabilis. A reworking of this text taken from the work of Thomas of Cantimpré. Lost?

Vita S. Lamberti Episcop. Leodiensis?

Vita B. Zachariae Franciscani?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 282; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 488; J.-N. Paquot, Mémoire pour servir à L’histoire littéraire XI (Louvain, 1768), 402-404; P. Hoffman-Peerlkamp, ‘De vita ac doctrina omnium Belgarum qui latina carmina composuerunt’, Mémoires couronnés de l’Académie Royale de Belgique 2 (Brussels, 1822), 55;  Idem, De Poetis Latinis (Haarlem, 1838), 60; Biographie nationale de Belgique II, 913; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères mineurs de l’Observance de Saint-François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 79-81; Holzapfel, Handbuch, 586; J. Lindenboom, ‘Anna byns en haar invloed in kerkelijke kringen’, Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis n.s. 11 (Den Haag, 1914), 324-331 (esp. 328); Ons Geestelijk Erf 7 (1933), 361; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 98-100; F. Baix, ‘Brecht’, DHGE X, 483; C. Sloots, ‘Pater Livinus Brecht, O.F.M. en Anna Bijns', BGPMN 27 (1958), 420-422; B. De Troeyer, ‘Livinus Brechtus’, Franciscana 19 (1964), 12-19; B. De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographica Franciscana Neerlandica saec. XVI, I: Pars biographica (Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1969), 171-177; J.M. Valentin, ‘Aux origines du théâtre néo-latin de la réforme catholique: L’Euripus (1549) de Livinus Brechtus’, Humanistica Lovaniensia 21 (1972), 81-188; Neo-Latin Deama in the Low Countries, in Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, ed. J. Bloemendal & H.B. Norland (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 293-364.

Livinus Martyr (Livinus Gallus, d. 1345)

OM. French friar who sought Martyrdom in Egypt and was executed in 1345. He would have written De Christi Infantis, & ejus purissima Virginis Matris opuscula pia and a Tractatus adversus Turcos (this latter ascription is highly improbable, considering the date of death of the author, cf. Sbaraea, who proposes to ascribe this to Livinus Brechtius). We have not yet been able to trace these works. What seems to be available is a letter-quaestio, discussing whether preaching in mosques is to be considered suicide.

works

De Christi Infantis, & ejus purissima Virginis Matris opuscula pia. Check !

Tractatus, seu Quaestio, utrum liceat Christiano Mesquitam Saracenorum ingredi, eorumque legem palam improbare ob periculum mortis imminentis, docte resoluta. Check !

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 282; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 488-489; Abraham Gross, Spirituality and Law: Courting Martyrdom in Christianity and Judaism (Lanham-Boulder-New York-Toronto-Oxford: University Press of America, 2005), 29-31; Christopher MacEvitt, 'Martyrdom and the Muslim World through Franciscan Eyes', The Catholic Historical Review 97: 1 (January, 2011), 1-23.

Livius Galantes (Livio Galanti/Livio da Imola, d. 1630)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Imola, active as professor of philosophy.

works

Christianae theologiae cum Platonica comparatio: Quinimo cum tota veteri sapientia ethnicorum, Chaldaeorum nempe, Aegyptiorum et Graecorum. In qua primò dogmata de Deo, de Angelis, de Mundi, & Hominis creatione, de Anima, de Daemonibus & de Beatitudine conspiciuntur (...) (Bologna: Clement Ferroni, 1627). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, via Google Books and Archive.org

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 283; H. Hurter, Nomenclator Literarius Recentioris Theologiae catholicae Theologos exhibens de a Concilio Tridentino FLoruerunt I, 512; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 489; Dario Busolini, ‘Galanti, Livio’, DBI 51, 343-344

Livius Rabesanus/de Vincentia (Livio Rabesano da Montursio, fl. second half 17th century)

OFM. Italian friar. Born in Vicenza. Studied Scotist philosophy and theology after his entrance in the order, and probably taught in Padua. Became consultant for the inquisition and the author of a large three-volume Cursus philosophicus ad mentem Doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti. The first part of this work deals with logical issues (published as Logicam minorem et maiorem (Venice, 1665). Part two and three deal with Scotist Physics and Animastics. The work is influenced by the works of Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto.

works

Cursus philosophicus ad mentem Doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti, 3 Vols. (Venice, 1665).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 283; G.L. Betti, 'Fermenti culturali e tensioni interne nella Minoritica Osservante Provincia Bolognese nei primi anni del Seicento: Un processo per eresia a Evangelista Sartonio da Bologna e Livio Galanti da Imola', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 79 (1986), 411-448.

Lope Monte (fl. 15^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Poet in the Castilia province.

literature

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) III, nos. 2217 (117), 2267 (141), 322-328, 345-350; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 150 (no. 587).

Lopez de Salinas (Lupus de Salinis/Lopetius a Salinis/Lopez de Salazar y Salinas, 1393/4 - 1463)

OMObs. Spanish friar from Burgos. At the age of 10, he (and other children, among whom Pedro Regalado) was accepted by Pedro de Villacreces at the La Aguilera convent of Valladolid. According to the surviving custodial constitutiones, he would have started his noviciate at the age of 14 (and his profession at 18?). He travelled with Pedro de Villacreces to the Council of Constance (c. 1417) and in between this (and other) journeys with Pedro, he was a cook at the Abrojo convent of Valladolid. After 1422, Lopez founded a range of hermitages, as well as convents for female religious of the third order, promoting therewith the Villacrecian reform (in between Conventual way of life and and Regular Observance). In his writings, Lopez de Salines developes a pedagogical ideal, rooted in biblical study and Franciscan forms of meditation and (mental) prayer.

works

Some of the works mentioned below are probably not written by Lopez himself, but of some of his fellow friars in the Villacrez movement.

Memoriale Religionis/Memorial de los oficios activos y contemplativos de la religión de los frailes menores, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 687-713.

Memorial de la vida y ritos de la Custodia de Santa Maria de los Menores, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 714-746.

Constituciones, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 747-774.

Satisfacciones I, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 775-851.

Satisfacciones II, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 852-896.

Testamento, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 897-925. This work is dated 30 March 1458. A Latin version of the text is found in Wadding, Annales Minorum XIII (Quaracchi, 1932), 99-132. [The Testamento gives a good insight in the spirituality and the organisation of religious life in the Villacrecian reform. The Testamento proscribes two hours of meditation, seven hours of celebrating the Divine Office, and three hours for various other devotions. The Divine Office was not sung and was not accompagnied by music. In Villacrecian life, the observance of the rule of Francis (and his rule for hermits) should be strict, There is a heavy emphasis on the virtues of poverty (no less than six degrees of poverty, with regard to objects, housing, clothing, the body (chastity), rest and the spirit), mortification and obedience, as well as on penitence. The Villacrecian ideal should be exercised in almost full enclosure, in small hermitages of (as a rule) at most 12 friars, where almost total silence would rule (aside from the Divine Office). The friars were not to eat meat, confess their sins every saterday, and take communion every two weeks. Study was not obligatory and as seen of secondary importance]

Memorial contra las laxaciones y abusiones de prelados y súbditos, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 926-931.

Declaración de un pasaje de la regla que dice: ‘Donde quiera que los frailes sepan e conozcan que no pueden guardar la Regle espiritualmente, puedan et deban recurrir a sus ministros’, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 932ff.

Instrucción sobre la misa/Instrucción sobre el modo de oir devotamente la misa, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1957), 936-945.

Collationes Spirituales [Wadding, Check!; Zawart, 344]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 310; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 506-507; Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano’, = Archivo Ibero-Americano 17 (1957), 374-470, 623-660 y 687-945 (Madrid, 1957); M. Andrés Martin, Historia de la teologia en España, 1470-1570 (Rome, 1962), 91-97, 101-106, 110-111, 124-129; DSpir IX (1976), 993-996; Dietrich Briesmeister, ‘Lope de Salazar y Salinas OFM (1393/94-1463)’, Lexikon des Mittelalters V (1991), 2110

Lucas Assisiensis (Lucas Assisias/Luca di Assisi, fl. ca. 1440)

OM. Italian friar. Regent master of the Grand Couvent de Paris and later guardian of the San Francesco friary in Assisi. Allegedly the author of a work on the incarnation of Christ. Probably to be identified with Lucas Franciscus Assisiensis. See there as well.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, Check!; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 283.

Lucas Baglioni (Lucas Balionius/Luca Baglioni/Baglione, fl. later sixteenth cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant preacher from the Perugia region and author of an influential preaching manual.

works

L’arte del predicare contenuta in tre libri, secondo i precetti rhetorici (Venice: Andrea Torrisano, 1562/Cesena: Bartolomeo Raverio, 1581). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, via the British Library, via Google Books and via Archive.org

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 283; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 489; John O’Malley, ‘Form, Content, and Influence of Works about Preaching before Trent: The Franciscan Contribution’, in: I frati minori tra ‘400 e ‘500, Atti del XII Convegno Internazionale Assisi, 18-19-20 ottobre 1984 (Assisi, 1986), 44; Larissa Taylor, Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period, 165; Mouchel, Rome franciscaine, 409ff.

Luca Belludi (Lucas Belluda/Lucas Patavinus/Lucas de S. Antonio, d. 1285) beatus (1927)

OM. Italian friar. Born ca. 1195 in Padua (correct?). Not to be confused with Luca lettore, lector and preacher (d. 1287) and Lucas de Bitonto (Cf. Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 178 (n. 2611)). Entered the Franciscan order in 1220, when he probably had spent some years at the schools of Padua. Was ordained priest and came in contact with St. Anthony (one of his close companions) After Anthony's death Luca was one of the editors of his sermons. Also author of Sermones Dominicales and Sermones de Adventu et Festivis of his own. Famous preacher, lector and several times provincial minister (1267, 1281-1284)

works

Sermones Dominicales. & Sermones de Festis: MSS Padua, Anton. 417, 418, 419, and partly also in 466 and 527; Munich, Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14281

Sermones in Evangelia & Epistolas: MS Washington D.C., Holy Name College, no. 34

V. Gamboso, `Cinque sermoni inediti di fra Luca lettore (d. 1287) in lode di S. Antonio', Il Santo, 9 (1969), 233-281 (deals predominantly with sermons of the other Luca).

literature

AF IV (1906), 274; Wadding, Annales, IV (ed. Quaracchi, 1931), 335n.X; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 489-490 & (ed. 1921) II, 178; Oliviero Ronchi, ‘Cenni storici sulla Cappella del Beato Luca Belludi’, Il Santo. Rivista francescana di storia, dottrina e arte 1 (1928/29), 283-294; Luigi Guidaldi, ‘Decreto per la beatificazione equipollente del servo di Dio Luca Belludi, compagno del Santo (n. 1200 c. - m. dopo il 1285) . - Due codici sconosciuti dei Sermoni di frate Luca ; Documenti: I. Testimonianze del sec. XIII su "Luca de S. Antonio" (B. Luca Belludi), "Luca lettore", "Fra Antonio da Lucca". Francescani contemporanei vissuti nella Provincia del Santo. II. Arredi sacri della Cappella Conti (ora B.Luca Belludi)’, Il Santo. Rivista francescana di storia, dottrina e arte 1 (1928/29), 253-258, 344-347, 358-364; Schneyer, IV, 72-94; A. Blasucci, `Belludi, beato', Bibliotheca Sanctorum, II, 1085f.; Francesco Lazzari, ‘Belludi, Luca’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani VIII (1966) [ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luca-belludi_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/]; Antonio Rigon, ‘Una ignorara deposizione testimoniale del B. Luca’, Atti e Memorie dell’Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 90 (1977-1978), 43-51; Luca Baggio, ‘Aspetti della committenza e della decorazione pittorica nella capella del beato Luca Belludi’, Il Santo. Rivista francescana di storia, dottrina e arte 2nd Ser. 28 (1988), 177-206; Ekkart Sauser, ‘Belludi, Lukas, hl. Franziskaner (um 1200-1285)’, Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XVI (1999), 97-98; Emanuele Fontana, ‘Luca lettore da Padova (d. ca. 1287) e i sermoni del Codice Antoniano 466’, Il Santo 47 (2007), 7-104.

Lucas de Subereto (fl. second half 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Baccalaureus formatus in or around 1482 and later regens in Pisa (after he received the magisterium theologiae in the context of the general chapter of Cremona (1488?)). Editor of metaphysical questions of Antonius Andreae.

works

(as editor): Antonius Andreae, Expositio in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis (Venice: Gregorius & Joannes Forolivensis, 1482/Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, 1487/Poitiers: Jean Bouyer & Guillaume Bouchet, 1495/Venice: Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1495/Venice: Andreas Torresanus, after 1500).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 492; Rolf Schönberger, Andrés Quero Sánchez, Brigitte Berges, Lu Jiang, Repertorium edierter Texte des Mittelalters aus dem Bereich der Philosophie und angrenzender Gebiete, 2nd Revised Ed. (Akademie Verlag-Walter de Gruyter, 2012), 553.

Lucas Espinosa (fl. c. 1750)

OFM. Spanish friar. Latinist and philologist in the Cartagena province.

works

Gramática Latina> (1750).

literature

AIA 38 (1935), 81-82; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 110 (no. 289); El franciscanismo en la Península Ibérica: balance y perspectivas : I Congreso Internacional, Madrid, 22-27 de septiembre de 2003 (Barcelona: Griselda Bonet Girabet, 2005), 493.

Lucas Franciscus (Lucas de Sancto Francisco/Luc François Claude/Frère Luc, 1614-1685)

OFMRec. French Recollect friar and painter. Born at Amiens and baptised Claude François. He studied in Paris and Rome and became known as the 'kings' painter' for his work in the Louvre (1640-1642). He joined the Recollect branch in 1644. Later in his life, between August 1670 and 1671, he traveled to New France, Known for his altar pieces and other religious paintings executed in France and Canada (Nouvelle France), and for his impact on later paintings.

works

Religious paintings. See for an overview Gérard Morisset, La vie et l’oeuvre de Frère Luc (Quebec, 1944) & Jean-Jacques Danel, 'Frère Luc, peintre et récollet, son oeuvre en Nouvelle-France', in: Les Récollets en Nouvelle-France: traces et mémoire, ed. Paul-André Dubois, Patrimoine en mouvement (Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2018), 389-418.

literature

Ch.-Ph. De Chennevières-Pointel, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de quelques prêtres provinciaux de l’ancienne France (Paris, 1847-1862) III, 305-306; H. Lemay, ‘Un peintre de renom à Quebec en 1670: le diacre Luc François, récollet’, Royal Society of Canada Transactions 3^rds., 26 (1932), 65-82; Gérard Morisset, La vie et l’oeuvre de Frère Luc (Quebec, 1944); Dictionary of Canadian Biography I (Toronto-Qquebec, 1966), 312-315; R. Aubert, ‘François (Claude), dit Frère Luc’, DHGE XVIII, 796; Frère Luc. Un peintre, un religieux, un voyageur. Journée d’étude organisée par le Centre d’Étude du Pays Sézannais, ed. Jacqueline Touchais-Yanca (Péas: Centre d’Étude du Pays Sézannais, 2012). Signaled in AFH 106:3-4 (2013), 687-688; Jean-Jacques Danel, 'Frère Luc, peintre et récollet, son oeuvre en Nouvelle-France', in: Les Récollets en Nouvelle-France: traces et mémoire, ed. Paul-André Dubois, Patrimoine en mouvement (Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2018), 389-418.

Lucas de Bitonto (Lucas Bituntinus/Lucas de Prato, Lucas de Villa Dei/ Lucas Apulus/Lucca da Bitonto d. in or shortly after 1242)

OM. Italian friar, possibly from Bitonto (near Bari). Probably studied for some time theology at Paris (the manuscripts Vienna Staatsbib. 1349, Vienna, Staatsbib. 1364, as well as Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 175 give him the surname ‘parisiensis/parisinus’). Some thirteenth-century sources, including Salimbene, Cronica, ed. Holder-Egger MGH Scriptores XXXII (Hanover, 1905), 182 call him an eminent doctor: ‘Et tunc vivebat frater Lucas Apulus ex ordine fratrum Minorum, cuius est sermonum memoria, qui fuit scholasticus et ecclesiasticus et litteratus homo et in Apulia in theologia eximius doctor, nominatus, sollemneis atque famosus; cuius anima per misericordiam Dei requiescat in pace, amen.’ Not know however, whether he actually reached the magisterium. Entered the Franciscan order before 1220. In that year, Francis of Assisi appointed him provincial minister of the oriental province (as successor of friar Elias). A Luke of Bitonto is further mentioned in some letters of Honorius III from December 1220 and February 1221 (BF I, 7-8) as provincial minister of Rumania, Greece and the Holy Land. After his return to Italy, a friar called Luke of Bitonto became lector (cf. Dialogus de Gestis Sanctorum Fratrum Minorum, ed. F.-M. Delorme (Quaracchi, 1929), 117) and became quite renowned for his learning and homiletic eloquence. This might be the same friar (although Rasolofoarimanana (2002), 240-241 has his doubts). According to Salimbene, Lucas Apulus held a sermon (taking as biblical them ‘Arripuit Abraham gladium, ut immolaret filium suum’) at the funeral of the son of Emperor Frederick II 1242 (Salimbene, Cronica, ed. Holder-Egger 87-88). Lucas Apulus died shortly thereafter. He left behind a lengthy collection of Sermones Domenicales, with an interesting prologue, which doubles as a treatise of moral theology and a rudimentary ars praedicandi. Luke’s sermones, written around 1233, follow the sermo modernus-structure, something that he might have picked up at Paris. His Sunday sermons in general amount to veritable commentaries on the gospel and epistle readings for Sun- and feast days and exhibit a sound theological learning. They also contain a lot of doctrinal and moral instruction, with ample recourse to etymological and symbolical explanations, and at times have an ad-status approach.(with attention to social issues (urban virtues and vices) and the stratified society of the French and Italian urban landscape). In between can be found several important sermons address Franciscan saints. Pierre Péano, DSpir IX, 1122 remarks: ‘Cette oeuvre dénote chez son auteur une vraie culture. Celui-ci fait preuve de sa parfaite maîtrise par la sûreté de sa doctrine, basée sur de nombreuses citations, bibliques et patristiques, à l’occasion empruntées aussi à l’antiquité et à l’histoire romaine. Il cite saint Anselme, Hugues de Saint-Victor, Pierre le Mangeur et principalement saint Bernard. Il agrémente son exposé d’allusions aux Lieux saints et à la situation religieuse de l’Orient; il rapporte des traits de la vie de saint François. La forme reste scolastique, un peu rigide et didactique; les divisions se présentent claires et logiques. Il célèbre les mérites de la vie religieuse, vitupérant parfois contre les clercs et les laïques illettrés.’ The work, which, as Lucas signals in his prologue, was written on request of his provincial minister and the minister general, is devised to function as a model-sermon collection and as instrument and aide for friars in training at the study houses of the order. Luke’s sermons have this in common with those of Anthony of Padua. Like Anthony, Luke gives a full sunday and quaresimal cycle. Only Luke is more ‘modern’ in his division of the text in accordance with the latest developments as taught in the artes praedicandi, and are more lively in his examples dwelling on the realities of life. As such they circulated widely, probably even wider than the celebrated sermons of Anthony of Padua: ‘…some preachers almost forgotten now were important and influential in the Middle Ages: it seems likely that the sermons of the obscure Luca da Bitonto were more used and read than those of Antony of Padua.’ (D’Avray (1985), 156). Rasolofoarimanana (2002), 246 remarks that the most important source for Luke seem to be the Postillae of Hugues de Saint-Cher OP (d. 1263), which were written shortly after 1235 (how does this fit in with the date of Luke’s Sermones Dominicales, on which he embarked in or shortly after 1233?).

works

Sermones Dominicales, Quadragesimales et de Festis: a.o. MS Naples, VIII.A.6; VIII.A.14; VIII.AA.36; Paris BN Lat 3738 (?); Paris BN Lat. 15958; Paris, BN Nouvelles Acquisitions 410; Rome Casanat 17; S. Florian 226 & 352; Padua, Sacro Conv. 417 & 418 & 419 13th cent.) & 527 (14th cent.); Uppsala, UB, C. 634 (ca. 1450), ff. 43-48 & C. 665 (ca. 1400) ff. 45-46v; Rome, BAV Chigi C.VI.164; BAV Vat. Lat 6010; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 1356 (13th c.); MS Avignon, B.M., Lat 83 (The prologue on f. 3a: ‘Quare cum insufficentiam meam videam et impericiam cognoscam ad insipientiam mihi mandato superioris urgente, necnonet quorumdam fratrum desiderio impellente, opusculum sermonum dominicalium coactus sum annotare.’ probably refers to the request by the Franciscan minister general Elia da Cortona, Luke’s provincial minister and fellow friars by 1233 to put into writing his sermons for the instruction of the friars: therewith turning the spoken word into an authorised Latin text.); Würzburg, Franziskanerkloster cod.I.85; Florence, Bibl. Naz. Conv. Soppr. C-7-236 [=Laurenz. Plut. XXXIV Sin Cod 5; [etc. more than 100 mss? For an initial overview (that probably will change somewhat after further study), see Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, BGPhThM XLIII (Münster, 1972) IV, 49-71.
For an incunable edition, see: Sermones Dominicales, Quadragesimales et de Festis (s.l. 1483) [a copy of this incunable edition is found in the Public library of Bruges, Belgium (Stedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek). The prologue to the Sermones Dominicales (Narraverunt mihi iniqui) has been edited in: B. Sderci da Gaiole, L’apostolato di S. Francesco e dei francescani, I (Quaracchi, 1909), 374-381; A. Barzon, ‘Saggio dei sermoni di frate Luca’, Il Santo 1,4 (1930), 348-357; Moretti, Lucas Apulus, 162-172. The sermon for the first Sunday of Advent (Universe vie Domini) has been edited in A. Barzon, ‘Saggio dei sermoni di frate Luca’, Il Santo 3 (1930), 77-88. The sermon for sexagesima Sunday (Exiit qui seminat) has been edited in C. Delcorno, ‘La predicazione volgare in Italia (sex. XIII-XIV): teoria, produzione, ricezione’, Revue Mabillon 65 (1993), 104-105. The sermon for Ash Wednesday (In domo pulueris) and of the Feria VIa after the first Sunday of the Passion (Domine, omes, qui) can be found in Moretti, Lucas Apulus, 187-190, 190-196. A complete edition of Luke’s sermons is presently being prepared by Rasolofoarimanana. See for additional editions of individual sermons also the more recent articles of this author mentioned below.

literature

Wadding, Script., 162; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 283; Sbaralea, Supplement (ed. 1806), 489 & (ed. 1921) II, 174-175; Zawart, 285; B. Sderci, L’apostolato di S. Francesco e dei Francescani (Quaracchi, 1909), 372-381; G. Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa I, 97, 99, 109, 128-129, 135 & II, 283-284; R. Zanocco, ‘I Sermoni ‘Narraverunt’ sono del b. Luca Belludi?’, Il Santo 1 (1929), 337-343; L. Guidaldi, ‘Due codici sconosciuti del sermoni di fr. Luca’, Il Santo 1 (1929), 344-347; A. Barzon, ‘Saggio dei Sermoni ‘Narraverunt’ (…)’, Il Santo 1 (1929), 348-357 & 3 (1930), 77-88; L. Guidaldi, ‘Il vero autore dei Sermoni ‘Narraverunt’, Il Santo 3 (1930), 59-76; A. Murray, ‘Piety and impiety in thirteenth century Italy’, Popular Belief and Practice, Studies in Church History 8 (Cambridge, 1972), 83-106; Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 49-71; D. Forte, Itinerari Francescani in terra di Bari (Bari, 1973), 12-15, 261-263; Pierre Péano, ‘Luc de Bitonto’, DSpir IX, 1121-1122; David L. D’Avray, The Preaching of the Friars. Sermons diffused from Paris before 1300 (Oxford, 1985), 156; Nicola Pice, ‘I Sermones LXXVI e XXXI di Luca da Bitonto’, Studi Bitontini 68a (1999), 61-80; Felice Moretti, ‘I sermoni di Luca da Bitonto, francescano del Duecento’, Studi Bitontini 68a (1999), 39-60; Felice Moretti, Luca Apulus, un maestro francescano del secolo XIII (Bitonto, 1985); Felice Moretti, ‘I sermoni di Luca da Bitonto fra cattedra e pulpito’, Il Santo 40 (2000), 49-69; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Une interpolation dans un sermon de Noël de Luca de Bitonto, OMin. survenue au cours de la tradition manuscrite’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 95 (2002), 185-203; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Luc de Bitonto, Omin, et ses sermons’, in: Predicazione e società nel medioevo. Riflessione etica, valori e modelli di comportamento/Preaching and Society in the Middle Ages: Ethics, Values and Social Behaviour, Atti/Proceedings of the XII Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium Padova, 14-18 Iuglio 2000, ed. Laura Gaffuri-Riccardo Quinto (Padua, 2002), 239-247; F. Moretti, ‘I sermoni di Luca da Bitonto, francescano del Duecento’, in: Studi di storia sociale e religiosa, 39-60; N. Pice, ‘I “Sermones LXXVI e XXXI” di Luca da Bitonto’, in: Studi di storia sociale e religiosa, 61-79; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Luca da Bitonto e Servasanto da Faenza. Sermoni contenuti nel Cod. Vat. Lat. 6010’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Caciotti & Pacifico Sella (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002), 171-262; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Sermons anonymes de Sanctis attribués à Luca de Bitonto, Omin’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 96:3-4 (2003), 301-372; Felice Moretti, ‘Le rappresentazioni animali nei sermoni di Luca da Bitonto, Omin.’, Il Santo. Rivista francescana di storia, dottrina e arte 2nd. Ser. 43 (2003), 263-309; Felice Moretti, ‘Il mondo animale nei sermoni di Luca da Bitonto’, Studi Bitontini 74 (2002), 17-50; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘La tradition manuscrite des sermons de fr. Luca de Bitonto, OMin.’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 97 (2004), 229-274 & 99 (2006), 33-132; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarianana, ‘Un sermon anonyme et inédit attribué à Luca da Bitonto’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 102 (2009), 391-418 [with critical edition on pp, 397-418]; Jussi Hanska, ‘Mendicant Preachers as Disseminators of Anti-Jewish Literary Topoi: The Case of Luca da Bitonto’, in: From Words to Deeds: The Effectiveness of Preaching in the Late Middle Ages, ed. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli,Sermo, 12 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 117-138.
With thanks to dr. Stefano de Luca for his corrections.

Lucas de Caltanisetta (Lucas Calessilitanus/Luca Termini, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Messina (Sicily).

works

L'arte di ben comporre in ogni genere di eloquenza (Parlemo, 1738).

Ristretto dell'arte oratoria, ovvero brevi documenti a' giovani studiosi nel sacro ministero del predicare evangelico. Sommariamente compilata dall'opera intitolata Arte del ben dire autore il molto rev. padre Luca Termini da Caltanissetta predicatore cappuccino della Provincia di Palermo (Palermo: Stefano Amato, 1738).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 490; Alessio Narbone, Bibliografia sicola sistematica, o apparato metodico alla storia letteraria della Sicilia III (Palermo: Fratelli Pedone Lauriel, 1854), 24; Lexicon Capuccinum, 532.

Lucas de Cutiliano ((Lucas Mencholinius a Cutiliano/Lucca da Cutiliano, d. 1590)

OFM. Italian friar from Pistoia and member of the Tuscany province. Theologian (lector of Scotist theology in L'Aquila, Perugia, Florence, and Venice) and renowned preacher. Known for a set of Contradictiones in Prologum Primum & Secundum Sententiarum Scoti that later formed the basis for Jacobus Pierius (Giacomo Pierio)'s Subtilissimae Contradictiones in Prologum Primum atque Secundum Sententiarum Scoti (Florence: Petrus Cecconcellius, 1621/1625).

works

Contradictiones in Prologum Primum & Secundum Sententiarum Scoti. A revised version was issued in 1621 by Giacomo Pierio/Peri (Jacobus Pierius, see letter J).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 284; Sbaralea, Supplementum (eed. 1806), 490.

Lucas de Gaitán (fl. c. 1500)

OMObs. Spanish Observant friar, author of a treatise to recapture the Holy Land (compiled between 1504 and 1506), insights of which were incorporated in the proposals of Fra Mauro Hispano and in the thought of Cardinal Cisneros.

literature

García Oro, El Cardenal Cisneros (Madrid, 1992) II, 580-585.