Ubaldus Stoiber (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRef. German friar of the Bavarian province of the strict Observance. Lector of theology in the Freising Studium. Author of an exorcist manual.

works

Armamentarium Ecclesiasticum ad insultus diabolicos elidendos (Augsburg: Philippus Martinus, 1726)/Armamentarium Ecclesiasticum complectens Arma spiritualia fortissima ad insultos diabolicos elidendos, & feliciter superandos. Ad Utilitatem omnium animarum Pastorum, Editio Tertia (Regensburg-Stadtamhof: Erben Johann Gastl, 1744/Editio Quarta Ibidem, 1757) Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, via the British Library, the Narodni Knohovna National Library in Prague, and Google Books.

Immunitas Localis Ecclesiarum, aliorumque Locorum immunium conformiter novissimae Constitutioni S.M. Benedicti XIII. Clara, ac succincta Methodo explicata, Ac una cum Parergis publicae Concertatione exposita. Praeside P.Fr. Ubaldo Stoiber (...) Defendentibus P.P.Fr.Fr. Probo Schmidhueber, Theodosio Haimmwrl, & Felicissimo Gropper (...) (Freising: Johann Christian Carolus Immel, 1736). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Immunitas Personalis Clericorum, Aliarumque Personarum Immunium, Clara, ac succincta Methodo explicata, Ac una cum Parergis publicae Concertationi expisita. Praeside P.Fr. Ubaldo Stoiber (...) Defendentibus PP.FFr. Wulfrano Sartor, Concord, Raubb, Gabriele Trieb, & Venustiano Hiebel (...) (Freising: Johann Christian Carolus Immel, 1737). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Disquisitio Canonica Theorico-Practica de Dispensationibus Apostolicis, Episcopalibus, & Regularibus, Clara & succincta Methodo in usum omnium indigentium, & easdem sollicitantium conscripta, ac una cum Parergis ex Lib. I. & II. Decretalium desumptis, Publicae Disputationi exposita Praeside P.F. Ubaldo Stoiber (...) Defendentibus PP.FF. Wigberto Ertl. & Quinctiliano Bôll, ejusdem Ordinis, SS. Canonum Candidatis (...) (Freising: Johann. Christian Carolus Immel, 1739). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 134; Bert Roest, ‘Demonic Possession and the Practice of Exorcism: An exploration of the Franciscan legacy’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 301-340 [esp. 336f.]

Ubaldricus Gabliennsis (Ulrich von Gablingen/Ubaldricus von Gablingen/Udalricus von Gablingen, 1722-1800)

OFMCap. German (Bavarian) friar and member of the Provincia SS. Conceptionis. Philosophy and theology lector, and almoner in the German armies of King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. Died on September, 1800 in Augsburg. Prolific author.

works

Mirabilia Fidei Divinae, Quae Deus Velut Tot Miracula In Quolibet Christiano, Qui ex Fide Vivit, Quotidie Operatur (...) ad omnium devotorum lectorum ingens solatium, ac contra omnes maxime hodiernos fidei catholicae hostes potens subsidium, 2 Vols. (Turin: Reindl, 1773 [2nd Ed.]). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (creative search).

Wissenschaft des Heils durch Erkanntnuß Der Glaubens-Wahrheit von jedem Menschen nothwendig zu erlernen, In kurzen Fragen und Gründlichen Antworten (1773).

Imago Dei sive Anima Rationalis ad Expressionem Rationis Aeternae Facta. Lectori Benevolo ad Jucundum Intuitum et Libertino Philosopho ad Salutare Documentum Exhibetur (Venice: Giuseppe Paniale, 1772/1777 [Editio Secunda]). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (creative search).

Anbethung Gottes im Geist und in Wahrheit von dem Lehrmeister aller Heiligkeit Christo JEsu, dem Samaritanischen Weib und in dieser einer jeden christlichen Seele gelehret (...). Neuestes Lehr-, Gebeth- und Betrachtbuch zu allgemeiner Hilf und Trost (...) (1777).

Vita Aeterna in Morte ad Omnium Mortalium Immortale et in Vita et in Morte Solatium (Vercelli: Giuseppe Paniale, 1779).

Ostensio spiritus et virtutis in privato sermone et publica praedicatione Verbi Dei (Vercelli: Giuseppe Paniale, 1780). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (creative search).

Der Im Reiche Gottes großer Ehre und vieler Liebe werthe Diener Gottes P. Laurentius von Brundus, des H. Francisci Ordens der mindern Brüder der Kapuciner General deutscher Provinzen u. Stifter und Provinzial. Mit beygesetzten kurzen Bericht der erhabnen Merkmaalen der Grabstatt des Heil. Vaters Franciscus zu Assis (1783).

Vita P. Fr. Richardi a Dertona, Capuccini Qui Pie in Domino Obiit (...) A quo additur In subsidium eorum, qui moribundis assistunt Melior morientes juvandi modus (Vercelli: Giuseppe Paniale, 1784). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (creative search).

In subsidium eorum, qui moribundis assistunt Melior morientes juvandi modus, printed as an appendix to Vita P. Fr. Richardi a Dertona, Capuccini Qui Pie in Domino Obiit (...) (Vercelli: Giuseppe Paniale, 1784).

Psallens Inter Coelites Capucinus, Aut Quivis Alius Ecclesiasticus, Quem Auctor Eucharisticus Delineavit (Günzburg: Johann Antonius Wagegg, 1789). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (creative search).

Grundfeste Wahrheit des Lebens und Ordens des heiligen Franziskus von Assis. Vorgestellt der Welt zum Nutzen (Günzburg: Johann Christoph Wagegg, 1786). Accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books (creative search).

Der Starke Geist des Vollkommensten Wesens Lehret und vertheidiget seine Göttliche Religion, und bestreitet, besieget, bezwinget die Ganze Welt. Zu Hilf und Trost aller Gelehrten und Ungelehrten Rechtglaubigen, Irrglaubigen, Unglaubigen (1794).

Der Mächtige Geist des Schöpfers und Erlösers Lehret und Zeigt augenscheinlich dar das Edleste Wesen und Wirken des Vernünftigen Menschen, und überzeugt die Ganze Welt. Zum ungemeinen und allgemeinen Nutzen und Vergnügen aller Gelehrt- und Ungelehrten, aller Rechtglaubigen, Irrglaubigen, und Unglaubigen (1795).

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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), 39; Lexicon Capuccinum, 533; DSpirXVI, 25-26; Johannes Madey, ‘Ulrich von Gablingen’, in: Biographisch­Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XVII, 1435-1437.

Ubertinus de Casale (Ubertino da Casale/Umbertino da Casale/Ubertinus de Illia/de Monte Ferrate, 1259 - after 1328)

OM. Italian friar. According to his principal work, the Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu, he was born in Casale Monferrato (Piemont) in 1259 and he entered the Franciscan order in 1273. Between 1285 and 1289 he was in Tuscany to pursue his studies and got involved with a circle of devout lay people (among whom the Sienese Peter Pettinagno). In Florence, he also became acquainted with Peter Olivi, who was lector at the studium of St. Croce in Florence between 1287 and 1289.
According to some, Ubertino studied at Paris between 1289 and 1298. The contacts with the tertiary Angela Foligno would have put an end to this part of his life.
According to the majority of scholars, however, Ubertino studied in Paris between 1274 and 1283, which means that he would have gone to Tuscany afterwards (1285-1289). After his stay in Florence, where he worked with/under Peter John Olivi, Ubertino would then have devoted himself to ca. 5 years of preaching in Central Italy, and came in contact with Angelo Foligno.

He was in any case (again?) lector for ca. 4 years (from 1298 to 1302), either at Florence, or (less probable) at Siena. And he spent much of his time preaching in the neighbourhood (especially in Perugia). Apparently, Ubertino was suspended from his preaching tasks, due to his attacks on the regular clergy, his criticism of the papacy of Boniface VIII, and his overt contacts with the spirituals. He was summoned to Rome by pope Benedict XI, but he was soon released, and he was assigned a period of spiritual retreat on mount Alverna (1304-5), where he composed between 9 March and 28 September 1305 the first version of his Arbor Vitae (on the request of the friars of la Verna): a lengthy spiritual-eschatological treatise in five books. The work, which probably received its final redaction between 1326 and 1329, had a reasonable success in Latin, and received a wide range of vernacular adaptations in the late Middle Ages, especially in the Low Countries [There we find manifold direct (partial) adaptations, with titles as Der Rosengarten Jesu und Marias; Vanden inwindigen lijden ons liefs heeren Jesu Christi, Oefening van St. Ubertinus; Hubertynus spreect vander maghet marien, as well as many instances in which the Arbor Vitae is used as source material for other vernacular works of private devotion, such as Johannes Brugman’s Devote Oefeninge and Een trostelic Hantboucxkin, composed by the Carmelite Franciscus Amery. For more information on such matters, see esp. the article of Ruh, Verfasserlexikon² IV, 217ff]
From 1306 onwards Ubertino became a member of the household of cardinal Napoleone Orsini, pontifical legate in Toscane. He was commissioned by the cardinal in 1307 to conduct the process against the sect of the free spirit in Arezzo. He also tried to negociate - without success - a return of the black Guelfs to Florence, who had been exiled by their adversaries. In the context of these activities, he probably met Dante Alighieri. (see Paradiso XII, 124). [He might already have met Dante between 1285-1289, when Dante apparently frequented the Florentine studium of the St. Croce.]
Between 1309 and 1310, Ubertino traveled to the court in Avignon (under Orsini's protection), at a time when pope Clemence V tried to resolve the tensions within the Franciscan order by instituting a committee (filled with friars of both denominations) to look into the problems that fractured the Franciscan Order. Ubertino probably was a member of this committee, and in any case produced a substantial number of polemical writings and actively worked at the papal curia alongside of Angelo Clareno in order to get recognition for the spirituals (autonomy) and to defend the works of Olivi.
The new pope John XXII was more heavy-handed concerning the conflict, however. He believed in obedience and ordered the spirituals to submit themselves. At the same time, he seemed somewhat concerned with Ubertino's wellfare, and the pope had him enter the Benedictine monastery of Gembloux (1317). But it is questionable whether Ubertino ever went there. He continued to work near Avignon under the protection of cardinal Orsini. In 1319 he was accused of heresy by Bonegratia of Bergamo. In 1322, Ubertino once more intervened in a new dispute, which this time was concentrated more closely on the poverty of Christ and the apostles. This new conflict - in which Pope Joh XXII took an active part - ended with a papal condemnation of the Franciscan positions on the absolute poverty of Christ. In this period Ubertino again wrote several polemical statements, which in good Olivian vein stressed usus pauper (without necessarily needing to uphold the fiction of lack of possessions). Several of his arguments probably were used by the pope himself for during his altercations the order about the absolute poverty of Christ and hence the lack of possessions of the order, whichhad made the pope the official owner of Franciscan goods, something the pope wanted to get rid of.
In 1325 a new process of heresy against Ubertino was launched at the curia. But Ubertino escaped arrest by secretly stealing away, again with support of the Orsini's. On 18 april of 1328, Ubertino was in Rome, where he delivered a strong statement against the pope in the presence of the emperor Louis of Bavaria. Thereafter Ubertino's trace is lost. He might have been assassinated, like the spirituals claimed. Or he might have kept out of sight in a Benedictine or even a Carthusian house under the protection of the emperor.

works

Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu : In all there are 34 or more mss that contain (parts of) the Arbor Vitae (10 mss contain all the 5 books). For a more or less complete listing, see P.B. Guyot, `L'Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu' d'Ubertin de Casale et ses emprunts au `De articulis fidei' de s. Thomas d'Aquin', in: Studies Honoring Ignatius Brady, Friar Minor (new York, 1976), 300-304 & Daniele Solvi, 'Nuove evidenze sull'apocrifo francescano «Absorbeat» (con un censimento della tradizione manoscritta dell'«Arbor vite» di Ubertino da Casale)', Filologia mediolatina. Rivista della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini 27 (2020), 257-282: a.o. MSS BAV. Vat.Lat. 4319 and 7732 (see Etzkorn, IVF); Assisi, Bibl. Comunale 338; Toulouse Bibl. Municipale 224. For a very nice early fifteenth-century manuscript that can be read on-line (and downpoaded as pdf), see: http://weblioteca.uv.es/cgi/view7.pl?sesion=201603191458525384&source=uv_ms_0289&div=1&mini=1&mend=60 [the Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu consists of five books: presenting Christ as the actor et materia, finis et forma of this work and life in general. The first deals with the eternal birth of the Son from the father up to the birth of Mary. The second runs from Jesus’ circumcision to the teachings of John the Baptist. The third deals with the preaching of Jesus until the Last Supper. The fourth book exlores the Passion and the Resurrection, until the Ascension of Christ and the ascencion of Mary. The fifth deals with the renovation of faith throughout church history and contains a lengthy Apocalypse commentary, heavily dependent on the Apocalypse commentary of Olivi. The five books together form a tree of life, centered on the incarnation (a simile obtained from Bonaventure’s Lignum Vitae. Book One is the root, Book Two the stemm, Book Three and Four the branches and the twigs, Book Five the fruits.). The work presents the possibility to imitate Christ via meditation on the deeds of Christ during his lifetime (notably the crucifixion). The work therefore offers a method/road of perfection by which the self can be fully transformed into the likeness of Christ. Overall, the Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu is heavily dependent on Bonaventure (esp. Breviloquium, Apologia Pauperum, Ligum Vitae, De Triplici Via), and the writings of Olivi. He also makes abundant use of Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, De Articulis Fidei et Ecclesiae Sacramentis), Bernard of Clairveaux (esp. Sermones super Cantica and the Sermones per Annum). Especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, the work had a great influence on European Passion devotion, and parts taken from its first four books (whether prose sections or its lamentations and hymns on the Virgin) can be found in many Latin and vernacular prayer books and meditation manuals. The work also had a definite impact in the Observant and Capuchin milieu]
For editions, see: Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu, ed. Andrea de Bonetis (Venice, 1485; reproduced with introduction of C.T. Davies (Turin: Bottega d’Erasmo, 1961); a translation of Book IV was printed in 1564 in Foligno by Lorenzo da Foiana OP; A new edition of book four is being prepared by Carlos Martínez Ruiz. A poem on the lamentation of the Virgin at the foot of the cross (Arbor Vitae Book 4, chapter 25), has been edited in D.L. Jeffrey, The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality (London, 1975), 269-271. See also the studies of C.M. Martínez Ruíz. Book Five of the Arbor Vitae received a partial English translation as: ‘The Tree of the Crucified Life of Christ. Book Five (Excerpts)’, in: Francis of Assisi. Early Documents, Vol. III: The Prophet, ed. Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellmann & William J. Short (Hyde Park NY-London-Manila: New City Press, 1999), 139-203. A new, Spanish version has appeared as: Arbol de la vida crucificada. Fr. Ubertino de Casale, ed. Luis Pérez Simón, Publicaciones Instituto Teológico Franciscano, Serie Mayor, 46 (Murcia: Publicaciones Instituto Teológico Franciscano, 2007) [see review in AFH 103 (2010), 517f. The 1485 Venice version can now be accessed in digital fashion, for instance on http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022701/oai_bibliotecavirtualandalucia_juntadeandalucia_es_8192.html, on http://fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/libros/395/502/arbor-vitae-crucifixae-jesu-christi/, or on http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k607511

Tractatus de Septem Statibus Ecclesiae (attributed): Paris, BN Lat. 3455 ff. 46-149 (16th cent.)

Tractatus Ubertini de Altissima Paupertate Christi et Virorum Apostolicorum (March-December 1322): MS Vienna Staatsbibl. 809 ff. 128r-159v . Inc: Ego sum via… [Not yet edited? Probably composed between 26 March and 8 December 1322. Largely dependent on the Quaestio VIIIa de Perfectione Evangelica of Peter John Olivi].

Rotulus Iste, ed. F. Ehrle, ALKGM (=Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters) 3 (1887), 93-137 [A defense of usus pauper as central element of Franciscan poverty according to the Regula Bullata and Exiit qui Seminat (1279)].

Sanctitati Apostolicae (apology for Olivi, written March-July 1311), ed. F. Ehrle, ALKGM, 3 (1887), 377-416 [Presented at the Council of Vienne, and refutes allegations against the Spirituals and especially the theological, philosophical, and ecclesiological views of Olivi].

Sanctitas Vestra (response to four questions of Clement V, written in 1309), ed. F. Ehrle, ALKGM 3 (1887), 51-89 [Answer to four questions asked by Clement V (1309) on the relationship between the Spirituals and the Free Spirit movement, the existing decadence within the Franciscan order, the abuse of power within the order, and the orthodoxy of Peter John Olivi].

Super Tribus Sceleribus (=Tractatus de Usu Paupere), ed. Albanus Heysse, AFH 10 (1917), 103-174 [Composed between July and August 1311 in answer to the Circa Materiam de Usu Paupere (1309/1310). Ubertino argues again that not solely the renunciation of property but first and foremost usus pauper defines the essence of Franciscan poverty].

Contra Quasdam Responsiones, ed. Ferdinand Delorme, in: Idem, ‘Notice et extraits d’un manuscrit franciscain’, Collectanea franciscana 15 (1945), 72-82.

Declaratio Fratris Ubertini de Casali, ed. F. Ehrle, ALKGM, 3 (1887), 162-196 [August 1311. Ubertino’s final response to the poverty arguments of his Franciscan opponents

Responsio ad Quaestionem de Paupertate Christi et Apostolorum Iussu Ioannis XXII, ed. several times, for instance in the Tractatus fr. Andreae Richi de Florentia OFM contra Fraticellos, ed. L. Oliger, AFH, 3 (1910), 274-75, AF, 2 (1887), 150-51, Wadding, Annales Minorum, 6 (Quaracchi, 1931), 409-10; BF, ed. C. Eubel Vol. V, 233-234 [Advise written in March 1322 for pope John XXII on the issue of evangelical poverty (esp. the question whether it was heretical to affirm that Christ and the apostles did not possess anything). It was one of the many advisory works written on request of the pope when he was planning to solve the poverty issue with a binding statement. See also Ubertino’s unedited Tractatus Ubertini de Altissima Paupertate Christi et Virorum Apostolicorum. Eventually, (with the bull Ad Conditorem Canonum (8 December 1322) and the bull Cum inter Nonnullos (12 November 1323), pope John XXII decided that evangelical poverty did not mean lack of possession (which in effect was not so far removed from Ubertino’s viewpoint: for Ubertino the issue of usus pauper was far more important than the question of dominium). Pope John XXII not only dismissed the construct on the basis of which the Franciscan order could have the use of its convents, churches etc without officially having ownership over it, but also ruled that the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ and his apostles was heretical, therewith cutting at the root of the main-stream Franciscan defense of evangelical poverty. This lead to a veritable crisis within the order and caused the dissent of formerly obedient Franciscan spokesmen (such as Bonegratia of Bergamo, Michael of Cesena, and William of Ockham), who themselves were not sympathizing with the spiritual cause].

Reducendo Igitur ad Brevitam (March-December 1322), ed. C.T. Davies, in Studi Medievali, 3rd series, 22 (1981), 41-56 [Writen between 26 March and 8 December 1322. In essence an abbreviation of the Tractatus Ubertini de Altissima Paupertate Christi et Virorum Apostolicorum.

Beatus Vir (doubtful, 1311-1312), ed. A. Heysse, AFH, 42 (1949), 218-235 [polemical work, written by Ubertino or another spiritual spokesman in the context of the council of Vienne. Cf. Ehrle, ALKGM 3 (1887), 45].

Several other works apparently are lost, such as: Nova Bella Elegit Dominus; Quoniam Constitutionem; Diligenter Attende; Ostendam Vos Fabricatores Mendacii; Ad Evidentiam; Ultimo Ponunt Magistri; Contra Quosdam; Ne in Posterum [in defense of Olivi]; Sermones [although the Arbor Vitae apparently contains some sermon material. See on this the studies of C. Cenci, C.M. Martínez Ruíz, and A. Martini] Litterae. For a short presentation of these lost works, see also the article of Gian Luca Potestà, in DSpir XVI, 13.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 134-135; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 684-685; F. Callaey, L'idéalisme franciscain spirituel au xive siècle, Etude sur Ubertino de Casale (Louvain, 1911); A. Chiappini, ‘Communitatis responsio ‘Religiosi viri’ ad Rotulum fr. Ubertini de Casali’, AFH 7 (1914), 654-675 & 8 (1915), 56-80; L. Oliger, ‘De Relatione inter Observantium Querimonias Constantienses (1415) et Ubertini Casalensis Quoddam Scriptum’, AFH 9 (1916), 3-41; F. Callaey, `L'influence et la diffusion de l'Arbor vitae de Ubertin de Casale', Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 17 (1921), 533-546; P.E. Blondeel d’Isegem, ‘L’influence d’Ubertin de Casale sur les écrits de S. Bernardin de Sienne’, Collectanea Franciscana 5 (1935), 5-44 & 6 (1936), 57-76; M. Zugai, ‘Assumptio B.M. Virginis in Arbor vitae (…)’, Miscellanea Franciscana 46 (11946), 124-156; O. v. Asseldonck, `De invloed van Casale op het geestelijk leven in de Nederlanden', Franciskaans Leven, 30 (1947), 112-114; A. Folgado, `La controversia sobre la pobreza franciscana bajo el pontificado de Juan XXII...', La Ciudad de Dios, 172 (1959), 73-133; R. Manselli, ‘Pietro di Giovanni Olivi ed Ubertino da Casale’, Studi Medievali III, 6 (1965), 95-122; P.B. Guyot, `L'Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Iesu' d'Ubertin de Casale et ses emprunts au `De Articulis Fidei' de S. Thomas d'Aquin', Studies Honoring Ignatius Brady, Friar Minor (New York, 1976), 300-304; M. Thomas, ‘Der Gedanke des Lebensbaumes (Lignum Vitae) in der Generation nach Bonaventura’, in: Bonaventura. Studien zu seiner Wirkungsgeschichte, ed. I. Vanderheyden, Franziskanische Forschungen 28 (Werl, 1976), 157-165; G.L. Potestà, `Un secolo di studi sull' `Arbor Vitae'. Chiesa ed escatologica in Ubertino da Casale', Coll. Franc., 47 (1977), 217-267; K. Ruh, ‘Hubertinus von Casale’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon IV<sup>2</sup>, 211-219 [especially on the vernacular traditions in the German lands and especially in the Low Countries]; Charles Davis, Ubertino da Casale and His Conception of ‘Altissima Paupertas’ (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1984); G.L. Potesta, Storia ed escatologia in Ubertino da Casale (Rome, 1980); C. Cenci, AFH 79 (1986), 516 n. 1; M. Damiate, Pietà e storia nell'Arbor vitae di Ubertino da Casale (Florence, 1988); G.L. Potestà, `Ideali di santità secondo Ubertino da Casale ed Angelo Clareno', in: Santi e santità nel secolo XIV. Atti del XV Convegno Internazionale Assisi 15-17 ottobre 1987 (Assisi, 1989), 103-137; B. de Margerie, Histoire doctrinale du culte au coeur de Jésus, I: Premières lumières sur l'amour (Paris, 1992); G.L. Potestà, Ubertin de Casale', DSpir, XVI (1994), 3-15 [with detailed info on works and studies]; J. Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, `Achegas ao estudio da influência da `Arbor vitae' e da `Apocalypsis nova' no século XVI em Portugal', Via Spiritus, 1 (1994), 55-109; Burr, Capitani etc.; Carlos Martínez Ruis, `Ubertino de Casale autor de dos versiones del `Arbor vitae'', AFH 89 (1996), 447-468; Carlos matteo Martínez Ruíz, ‘Il processo redazionale dell’Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu’ di Ubertino da Casale’, in: Editori di Quaracchi, 275-278; Mistici Francescani Secolo XIV, 589-673 (includes Italian translations of several parts of the Arbor Vitae); Guido Baldassarri, `Letteratura devota, edificante e morale', in: Storia della letteratura italiana, 211-326; M. Damiata, Aspettando l’Apocalisse in fervore e furore con Ubertino da Casale (Rome, 2000); Carlos Mateo Martínez Ruíz, De la dramatizacíon de los acontecimientos de la Pascua a la Cristología. El cuarto libro del Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Iesu de Ubertino de Casale, Studia Antoniana 41 (Rome, 2000) [a.o. reviews in Collectanea Francescana 70 (2000), 580-584; Analecta T.O.R. 32 (2001), 398-400; Antonianum 75 (2000), 605-607; Carthaginensia 17 (2001), 215-218; Selecc. Franc. 30 (2001), 316-318; Stud. Patav. 48 (2001), 539-541]; Peter Segel, ‘Ubertino da Casale’, LThK³ X, 338f; Gregory S. Beireich, ‘Franciscan Poverty as a Basis for the Reform of the Church in Ubertino da Casale’s Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu’, in: Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Studies in Honor of Louis Pascoe, S.J., ed. Thomas M. Izbicki & Christopher M. Bellitto, Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 96 (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2000), 50-74; Johannes Schlageter, ‘Ubertino von Casale’, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4^th Ed VIII (2005), 683; 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/3-4,251-254; Ubertino da Casale nel VII centenario dell'`Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Iesu' (1305-2005). Atti del Convegno di Studi, La Verna 15 settembre 2005, ed. Gabriele Zaccagnini = Studi Francescani 104 (Florence, 2007), 3-183 [With the following essays: Daniele Solvi, ‘La figura storica di Ubertino da Casale. Temi e problemi della storiografia recente’, 13-36; Gabriele Zaccagnini, ‘La spiritualità dell‘Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu’’, 37-97; Marina Soriani Innocenti, ‘Ubertino da Casale predicatore’, 99-146; Nicoletta Baldini, ‘Riflessi dell‘Arbor vitae’ di Ubertino da Casale nella pittura del Trecento', 147-165 (with 15 additional illustrations)]; Paul Vian, ‘Angelo Clareno e Ubertino da Casale: due itinerari a confronto’, in: Angelo Clareno Francescano. Atti del XXXIV Convegno internazionale. Assisi, 5-7 ottobre 2006, Atti dei Convegni della SISF e del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani XXIII, n.s. 16 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2007), 167-225; Riccardo Quadri, ‘Un prezioso incunabolo della nostra biblioteca: l‘Arbor vitae’ di Ubertino da Casale’, Fogli 29 (Lugano, 2008), 31-37; Stephen Mossman, ‘Ubertino da Casale and the Devotio moderna’, Ons geestelijk erf 80:3 (2009), 199-280; Stefano Brufani, ‘Ubertino da Casale e le mistiche umbre magistri practici’, in: Santa Chiara da Montefalco monaca agostiniana (1268 - 1308) nel contesto socio-religioso femminile, ed. Enrico Menestò (Spoleto: Centro di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2009), 143-162; Barbara Piraccini, ‘Sequela, imitatio e conformitas nell’Arbor vitae di Ubertino da Casale’, Franciscana 11 (2009), 95-123; Luis Pérez Simón, ‘Presencia de Ubertino de Casale (1259-1329) en el Primer Abacedario Espiritual de Francisco de Osuna (1492-1541/2)’, Verdad y Vida 67 (2009), 275-308, 549-574; Ana Paula Tavares Magalhães, ‘O Alter Christus: Cristocentrismo e construção da imagem de Francisco na Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Iesu, de Ubertino de Casale (1305)’, Scintilla. Revista de Filosofia e Mística Medieval 7:2 (2010), 87-126; Alberto Cadili, ‘Ubertino da Casale dopo il 1325: un possibile itinerario’, Franciscan Studies 69 (2011), 257-284; Gian Luca Potestà, ‘Ubertino da Casale e la altissima paupertas, tra Giovanni XXII e Ludovico il Bavaro’, Oliviana 4 (2012) [http://oliviana.revues.org/471]; Valerio Gigliotti, La tiara deposta. La rinuncia al papato nella storia del diritto e della chiesa, Biblioteca della Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa. Studi, 29 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2013). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 285-287; Ubertino da Casale: atti del XLI Convegno internazionale: Assisi, 18-20 ottobre 2013, ed. Enrico Menestò, Atti dei Convegni della Società internazionale di studi francescani e del Centro interuniversitario di studi francescani. Nuova Serie, 24 (Spoleto: CISAM, 2014) [This contains the following essays: Marco Bartoli, ‘Ubertino nella storiografia, e oltre’, pp. 3-26; Antonio Montefusco, ‘Autoritratto del dissidente da giovane. Gli anni della formazione di Ubertino nel primo Prologo dell'"Arbor vitae"’, pp. 27-82; Marina Soriani Innocenti, ‘Ubertino da Casale, "fervens praedicator evangelicae veritatis"’, pp. 83-112; Carlos Mateo Martínez Ruiz, ‘Historia y proceso redaccional del "Arbor vitae"’, pp. 113-148; Riccardo Parmeggiano, ‘Ubertino e lo "Spiritus libertatis"’, pp. 149-188; Francesco Verderosa, ‘Ubertino e le fonti francescane’, pp. 189-216; Paolo Vian, ‘"Noster familiaris solicitus et discretus": Napoleone Orsini e Ubertino da Casale’, pp. 217-298; Roberto Lambertini, ‘Ubertino contro la Comunità: argomenti e posta in gioco’, pp. 299-324; Alberto Cadili, ‘L'"enigma" degli ultimi anni di Ubertino da Casale’, pp. 325-402; Sylvain Piron, ‘La réception de l'oeuvre et de la figure d'Ubertin de Casale’, pp. 403-442]; Felice Accrocca, ‘Il punto su Ubertino da Casale. Nota di lettura’, Il Santo. Rivista francescana di storia, dottrina e arte 55 (2015), 317-334; Carlos M. Martínez Ruiz, ‘La figura de María en el ‘Arbor Vite Crucifixe Iesu‘ de Ubertino de Casale ’, Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 487-522; Alberto Forni & Paolo Vian, ‘Ubertino da Casala, Tedaldo della Casa e Ambrogio Massari da Cori. A proposito di un brano omesso e tagliato nel prologo della ‘Lectura super Apocalipsim’ di Pietro di Giovanni Olivi’, in: La lettera e lo spirito. Studi di cultura e vita religiosa (secc. XII-XV) per Edith Pasztor, ed. Marco Bartoli, Letizia Pellegrini & Daniele Solvi, Biblioteca di frate Francesco, 17 (Milan, 2016), 129-156; Felice Accrocca, 'Pietro di Giovanni Olivi, Ubertino da Casale, Angelo Clareno. Tre leader del movimento degli spirituali', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 325-346 [see also Felice Accrocca, 'Peter John Olivi, Ubertino da Casale, Angelo Clareno. Three Leaders of the Spiritual Movement', Spirit + Life. Journal of Franciscan Culture 123 (2018), 16-24]; Andrea Tabarroni, 'Per la regola (francescana), contro il diritto. L'altissima povertà secondo Ubertino da Casale', in: Uscire dalle regole: scritti per Umberto Sereni, ed. Paolo Ferrari & Bruno Figliuoli (Udine, 2018), 57-70; Paula Castillo, 'Las formas de la violencia entre frailes. El testimonio de Fray Ubertino de Casale', Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 3:33 (2020), 135-156; Daniele Solvi, 'Nuove evidenze sull'apocrifo francescano «Absorbeat» (con un censimento della tradizione manoscritta dell'«Arbor vite» di Ubertino da Casale)', Filologia mediolatina. Rivista della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini 27 (2020), 257-282.

Ubertino de Tornato

OM? Maybe this is Umberto di Romans O.P.? In any case the work ascribed to Ubertino de Tornato might be Humbert of Romans's sermon collection with the same title.

manuscripts

De Universo Statu Totius Mundi: Prague, Bibl. du Grand Prieuré de l'Ordre des Chevaliers de Malte à Prague R. 148 ff. 97a-102b (18th cent.) [=chapter 35]

Ulrich Beffenhuser (fl. later 15th cent.)

OFMConv. German friar. Lector in the Breisach convent. Compiled an interesting sermon/praedicabilia collection, in which also several books kept in the convents of Saarburg and Breisach are cited.

works

Sermones/Praedicabilia: MS Munich, Staatsbibliothek Clm 26840 ff. 188-221.

Sermones: MS Munich, Staatsbibliothek Clm 26840 ff. 240ss. [Sermons on Maria and the consecration of churches]

literature

Landmann, Franziskanische Studien 15 (1928), 107

Ulricus Horn (Ulrich Horn, fl. late fifteenth cent.)

OM. German friar. Active in Eichstatt c. 1490. Translated into German the rather well-known text De Adhaerendo Deo/De fine religiosae perfectionis (which in Ulrich’s time was attributed to Albertus Magnus, but seems to have been the work of Johann von Kastl) as well as a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century Latin Passion treatise, the text of which stands in the main stream of late medieval passion treatises and focusses on the origin of Christ’s sufferings, the way in which his suffering was accomplished, and the benefit of this suffering for mankind. The citations in the text (which amongst other authorities, refers to Marquard von Lindau) and the theological presentation of the passion give a sophisticated impression. Kurt Ruh therefore remarks: ‘Der Traktat als Ganzes bestätigt die theologisch-gelehrten Tendenzen, die die Zitation anzeigt. Die christologischen Aspekte, zumal die Satisfaktionslehre, kommen zur ausführlichen Behandlung. Daneben bleibt das affektiv-erbauliche Element schon durch den oben umschrieben Quellenbestand gewahrt.’ [K. Ruh, ‘Horn, Ulrich’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexiko, 2^nd ed. IV, 143.] Our Ulrich should probably not be identified with Ulricus Horn von Pollingen, who wrote in 1444 German History Bible (MS Gotha, Chart. A. 919).

works

De adhaerendo Deo [in German translation]: MS Nürnberg Germ. Nationalmuseum 18526 ff. 2r-52v [c. 1488/90] Cf. http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/katalogseiten/HSK0058_b076_JPG.htm

Betrachtung des Leidens Christi: MS Nürnberg Germ. Nationalmuseum 18526 ff. 52v-152r [according to a remark in the text, this translation dates from 1484]

literature

L. Kurras, Die Handschriften des Germ. Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. I. Band, 1. Teil (Nürnberg, 1974), 76f; K. Ruh, ‘Horn, Ulrich’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, 2^nd ed. IV, 141-143

Ulrich Macker (Ulricus Macherus/Ulrich de Delémont/Franz Konrad Josef, 1724-1804)

OFMCap. Swiss friar. Born on 10 November 1724 in Delsberg. He entered the Capuchin order in Altdorf. Following his noviciate and religious formation, he studied in England between 1648-1755. Back in Delsberg between 1755, he was in Rome between 1756-1761 as secretary of the General Procurator. Later guardian in Pruntrut between 1762-65, 1768-71, 1774-75, 1778-80 and 1784-87. When the monasteries of Wallis were integrated into the Swiss Capuchin province (under Pope Clement XIII), he also became guardian in Sitten. Finally, between 1775 and 1778, he was guardian in his home town in Delsberg.

literature

Christian Schweizer, ‘Macker [Macher], Ulrich de Delémont, cap. (1724-1804)’, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz 8 (2009), 190.

Urbanus de Fossa (Urbano Dalla Fosse/Bolziano, c. 1442-c. 1514)

OMConv. Italian humanist friar and author of the first Greek grammar published in Italy. Buried in the S. Niccolò friary. See the lentry on Urbanus Valerianus de Belluno below, as it is the same person.

Urbanus de Franchis

OFMCap. Neapolitan friar, member of the Naples province and professor of theology. Would have written several (unedited) tomes of philosophical and theological works.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 158.

Urbanus de Manfredonia (d. 1578)

OFMCap

literature

Luigi Cianilli, Sette stelle di prima grandezza nel Convento dei Cappuccini di Serracapriola (Foggia: Ed. Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, 2005).

Urbanus de Neapoli (Urbano da Napoli, d. 1611)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Official scriptor for his order province.

works

Historical and administrative notes on his order province. see the study of Alfredo di Landa, Studi e ricerche francescane 19 (1989), 129-163.

literature

Alfredo di Landa, ‘Il conventi di Sessa Vecchia in un inedito di Urbano da Napoli’, Studi e ricerche francescane 19 (1989), 129-163.

Urbanus de Roma (fl. late 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Philosopher and Theologian. Preacher in Rome during the pontificate of Clement VIII.

works

Volumina multa variae eruditionis: MSS Biblioteca Conv. S. Francesco Castel Gandolfo (Lazio)?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 691.

Urbanus de Valentia (Urbano de Valencia, fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Preacher and guardian.

works

Modus applicandi Sacrificium Missae (Valencia: Benedictus Maz, 1665). This work would have been issued in Castilian.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 158.

Urbanus Hydruntius (Hydruntinus/de Procopio, fl. first half 15th cent.)

OFM. Member of the San Niccolo province. Active as bishop of Castro (in the Salento peninsula) between 1429 and 1453. Would have written a Negotium de antichristo, de Nativitate, de anima immortalitate etc. against Manfredo da Vercelli, who had attacked several homiletic and eschatological positions of Bernardino da Siena.

works

De Antichristo

De Nativitate Domini

De Animae immortalitate

Negotium fidei

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 158; Albertus Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatis cum supplemento Christiani Schoettgenii, ed. Giovanni Domenico Mansi, 6 Vols. (Padua: Ex typographia Seminarii, 1754) VI, 308 [distinguising between two works, one called Negotium, and the other De antichristo, de Nativitate, de anima immortalitate etc.]; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 691.

Urbanus Messanensis (Urbano Rasia/Urbano de Messina, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Sicilian friar. Active as a preacher on Sicily, Bologna, Florence, Milan, and rome. Negociated on behalf of the town and Senate of Messina with King Philip IV, and preacher before the King. He would have died in 1665. Published works under pseudonym (with the anagrammatic name Messenius Bonarum).

works

Conciones variae de Sanctis?

Conciones variae quadragesimales: MS kept in the library of the Capuchin friary of Messina?

Fasciculus excellentiarum praecipuarum B. Michaelis Archangeli Ecclesiae Dei Principis (Palermo: Agostino Bossi, 1633/Madrid, 1650/Messina, 1655/Bologna, etc.).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 158; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 691; Caio Domenico Gallo, Gli annali della città di Messina. Nuova Edizione, ed. Andrea Vayola, 3 Vols. (Messina: Tipografía Filomena, 1881) III, 394; Bibliografia sicola sistematica III, 416.

Urbanus Politiensis (Urbanus Trabonis Politiensis, Urbanus de Politio, d. 1654)

OFMCap. Sicilian friar, member of the Palermo province. Doctor theologiae, provincial definitor and consultant for the inquisition in Sicily. Refused an appointment as bishop offered by Emperor Ferdinand II.

works

Oratio funebris in morte supremi Consiliarii Augustissimi Imperatoris?

Epigrammata varia acrostica, & anagrammata sacra (Venice, 1649/Palermo, 1652).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 158; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 691.

Urbanus Quillot (Urbain Quillot/Dom Cajot , ca. 1625-1693)

OFMRec. French friar from Verdun. Member of the Saint-Denis province. He made his profession in 1640 and died on 5 February 1693. Guardian (Saint-Germain en Laye (1654-1656) and later Paris (1660-1662)), provincial definitor (1663), and Cathedral preacher at the Cathedral of Verdun.

works

Sermon des graces que la glorieuse vierge Marie a fait à Verdun, et des secours qu'elle luy a donée, particulièrement contre les Heretiques. Prononcée par le R.P. Urbain Quillot, Gardien des Peres Recolets, le 3 septembre 1671, en la Procession générale, qu'on a fait à Verdun (Verdun: Jean Jacquet, 1671).

literature

Jean M. Beaupré, Nouvelles recherches de bibliographie lorraine, 1500-1700 (Nancy-Paris, 1856) Chapitre IV, 1635-1700, 32ff.; Fabienne Henryot, 'Portrait du récollet en écrivain au XVIIe siècle', in: Les récollets, en quête d’une identité franciscaine, actes du colloque de Paris, 1er-2 juin 2012, ed. C. Galland, F. Guilloux & P. Moracchini (Tours: PUFR, 2014), 225.

Urbanus Valerianus de Belluno (Urbanus Bolzanius/Urbano Bolzanio/Urbano dalle Fosse/Urbano Veleriani, c. 1443-1524)

OMConv. Italian friar. Son of the Belluno blacksmith (Belluno, near the Dolomites). Joined the Conventuals and studied in Treviso and Venice. There is some confusion about his name (Urbano delle Fosse, Bolzanius, Valeriani etc., and see for this the remarks in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 32 (1986): 'il nome Bolzanio, adottato dal celebre nipote Pierio Valeriano - Giovanni Pietro Dalle Fosse - e presente nelle edizioni della grammatica del D. a partire da quella apparsa a Venezia nel 1545, rimase ai discendenti come un vero cognome, prevalendo di fatto su quello autentico. Del tutto fantasioso invece il nome Valeriano, che il nipote Pierio attribuì a sé stesso e allo zio, nel tentativo di nobilitare la sua famiglia di origine artigiana.' Among his teacher was the humanist Rolandello. Became attached to the corn-merchant and future doge of Venice, Andrea Gritti.
Urbano was novice of the Conventual S. Pietro di Belluno friary in Spring 1450, where he also obtained his initial education in the arts and theology (at least until 1465. In 1466, he is found at Treviso, possibly for his theology studies. Seven years later, in 1472, he can be found in the S. Niccolò friary of Venice. Between 1473 and 1484 he embarked on a first series of extended travels. During this period, Urbano travelled extensively through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Aegaeian. He left an itinerary of this, which now is lost. Parts of this eventually were included in De litterarum infelicitate and the Antiquitates Bellinenses of his nephew Pierio. On the way back from his travels, Urbano studied in Messina (Sicily) at the Greek academy of Costantino Lascaris (in the Basilian convent of San Salvatore) and investigated the vulcanic activity of the Etna. Between 1484 and 1489, Urbano tutored Giovanni de’ Medici (future Pope leo X) in Florence. He settled in Venice in 1489/1490 and opened a private school for the study of Greek and humanist studies. Became involved with the humanist printing activities of Aldo Manutius and Manutius printed Urbano’s Institutiones Graecae Grammatices in 1497 or February 1498. It was one of the first Greek grammars geared to the needs of Latin readers. Had no less than three different editions (all of which controled by Urbano, although the final one appeared posthumously) and in total at least 23 imprints. Although this was a significant editorial success, it is clear that the grammar of Theodor Gaza (Gazae Introductivae grammatices libri quattuor) had an even larger success during the first half of the sixteenth century, also thanks to its translation by Erasmus and its raccommendation by Vives in volume III of his De tradendis disciplinis. In May 1503, Urbano left Venice to travel in the company of his protector Andra Gritti to Constantinople/Istanbul, where the latter was to become embassador, and where Urbano hoped to find classiscal works and Greek and Latin inscriptions. But by June 1504, both Gritti and Urbano were back in Italy. Urbano came back to Italy and helped helped Erasmus to prepare the Venetian edition of his Adagia in 1508. Still in Venice, Urbano prepared the second edition of his Greek grammar in 1512. Shortly therafter, Urbano visited Assisi, Florence and Rome, where he possibly visited his former pupil, now elected Pope, Leo X. Back in Venice, Urbano continued to teach Greek, and he continued to engage in smaller excursions, also to gather botanic materials alongside of antiquary materials for his own garden in Venice. In 1523, he prepared the third edition of his grammar, but he was unable to finish it. The finalization was left in the hands of his disciples Daniele Renier and Giovanni da Trino, and it was eventually issued in 1545, with the help of Tommaso Miliaro di Belluno and Pierio Valeriano. Urbino himself died at the end of April 1524. The funeral oration in the S. Niccolò convent was held by Alberto da Castelfranco, with the assistence of other pupils of Urbano. Urbano left his library to the same St. Niccolò monastery in Venice. Nothing is known of its actual whereabouts.

works

Latin translations of Greek texts: MS Biblioteca del Museo civico di Belluno, MS 430 (III 13) [cfr. Doglioni, Memorie, 43 & P.O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum II, 494]. This manuscript, once in the possession of the Bishop of Belluno, Luigi Lollini (1596-1625), contains the Fables of Aesopus (ff. 1-39), the letters of Pseudo Falarides (ff. 41-116), the pseudo-Socrates oration ad Demonicum (ff. 97-107), and the oration of Isocrates ad Nicoclem (ff. 116-125). These texts sere furnished by Urbino with a Latin translation, and the functioned as school texts in Humanist schools.

Institutiones Graecae Grammatices (Venice: Aldo Manutius, February 1498/Paris: in aedibus Aegidii Gourmontii, ca. 1514).

Institutiones Graecae Grammatices, 2nd Ed., 2 Vols. (Venice, sumptu et diligentia Ioannis de Tridino alias Tacuini, 1512/Basel: apud Valentinum Curionem, 1524/1530/Basel: ex. officina Ioannis Walder, 1535/Venice: apud Melchiorrem Sessam, 1537/ Basel: in off. Ioannis Walder 1539/Paris: Christiphorus Wechelius, 1543/Basel: Hieronymus Curiones, 1544/Venice: per Ioannem Antonium et Petrum fratres de Nicolinis Sabionenses, sumptu M. Sessae, 1544/Basel: ex off. Hieronymi Curionis, impensis Henrici Petri, 1548/Basel: ap. Hieronymum Curionem, 1554/ Basel: per Henricum Petrum, 1561).

Institutiones Graecae Grammatices, 3rd ed., 9 Vols. (Venice: apud haeredes Petri Rabani et socios, 1545/Venice: apud Petrum et Ioannem Mariam et nepotes de Nicolinis de Sabio, ad instantiam, 1549/ Venetiis, apud haeredes Petri Ravani et socios, 1550/1553/Venice: apud F. Rampazettum, 1557/Venice: apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f., 1559/1560/1566). This third edition more or less reprints the second edition.

literature

Alberti Castrifrancani Oratio habita in funere Urbani Bellunensis (Venice: per Bernardinuin Benalium, 1524); Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 157; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 690-691; L. Doglioni, Memorie di U. Bolzanio Bellunese dell'Ordine dei minori conventuali (Belluno 1784/ Belluno, 1884); G. Bustico, ‘Due umanisti veneti – Urbano Bolzanio e Piero Valeriani’, Civiltà moderna 4 (1932), 86-103; M.E. Cosenza, Biographical and bibliogr., Dictionary of the Italian Humanists, IV (Boston, 1972), 3541 s. (U. Valerianus); A. Pertusi, ‘Erotémata. Per la storia e le fonti delle prime grammatiche greche a stampa‘, Italia med. e uman. 5 (1962), 327, 343 ff., 349 f.; Ole Langwitz Smith, 'Urbano da Belluno, and Copenhagen GKS 1965, 4°', Scriptorium 32 (1978), 57-59; A. Pertusi, ‘L'umanesimo greco dalla fine del sec. XIV agli inizi del sec. XVI‘, in: Storia della cultura veneta, III: Dal Primo Quattrocento al concilio di Trento, ed/ G. Arnaldi & M. Pastore Stocchi (Vicenza, 1980), 242f.; M.J.C. Lowry, ‘Urbano Valeriani’, in: Contemporaries of Erasmus. A Biographical Register III, 370-371; Lucia Gualdo Rosa, 'Dalle Fosse, Urbano', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XXXII (1986).

Urbanus Venetus (fl. ca. 1550)

OFM. Italian friar.

works

De moribus, & factis B. Matthaei Bassii Ordinis Capuccinorum Institutoris (Venice, 1552).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 691.

Valentinus Alpoym (Alpoim)

TOR. Portuguese Franciscan tertiary. Mathematician and astrologer.

works

Summa Astrologiae Practicae ex probatissimorum AA. judiciis sumpta: MS Lisbon, Biblioteca Franciscana?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 132.

Valentinus Kisel (fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. German friar and Scotist theologian.

works

Homo microcosmus (Amberg, 1675).

Valentinus Mantuanus (Valentinus de Monte Ulmi/Valentino da Mantova, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the Sant'Antonio province. Homiletic author.

works

Gemma pretiosa, seu inaestimabilis margarita (Florence, 1615).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 132; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 682.

Valentinus Mareus (Valentin Marée, d. 1669)

OFMRec. Belgian friar. Novice master. Author of the Traicté des conformités du disciple avec son maistre. The work is inspired by De Conformitate of Bartholomaeus of Pisa.

works

Traicté des conformités du disciple avec son maistre, c’est-à-dire de S. François avec Jésus-Christ en tous les mystères de sa naissance, vie, passion, mort, etc. 3 Vols (Liège: Henri Tournay, 1656-1660). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (in any case volume 1).

literature

DSpir X, 327.

Valentinus Nannetensis, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from Brittany and member of the Tours province. Renowned preacher and homiletic author.

works

Conciones de tempore, & de sanctis, 6 Vols.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 132; Dionysio da Genova, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, 286; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 682.

Valentinus Servantius (Valentinus Astulphus/Valentino de San Severino, fl. later 16th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Active as secretary of Angelo Massarelli at the Council of Trent. Later several administrative functions in the emerging Riformati Branch of the Observants.

works

Diarium Concilii/Diario del Concilio di Trento del Servantia: MS Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Biblioteca barberiniana ? Mentioned by Sbaralea. The work would have been used in Pietro Sforza Pallavicino's Vera Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini Historia.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 682.

Valerianus Berna (Valeriano Berna/da Pinerolo/Pinarolo, d. 1617)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Pinerolo (Piemont). Entered the order in the Genoa province. Promotor of Capuchin expansion into the German lands. Provincial definitor and provincial minister of the Genoa province, as well as Commissary for the missions in the Piedmont mountain regions. Died at Genoa, in the Immaculate Conception convent. Wrote several volumes of sermons and a history of the Capuchin expansion.

works

Sermoni. Check!

Historia de Origine Institutione et Progressu Missionis Capuccinorum in Subalpinis: Check!

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 245; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 133-134; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 683; X. Molfino, Cappuccini liguri, scrittori ed artisti (Genoa, 1909), 13; I cappuccini Genovesi (Genoa, 1912) I, 87.

Valerianus Divionensis (Valeriand de Dijon, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar, active in the Lyon province, preacher. Translated into French the Clypeus patientiae of friar Jacob/Jacques Corenus OFM.

works

Bouclier sacré de patience (Lyon: Louis Muguet, 1631). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 132.

Valerianus Gutowski (Walerian Gutowski/Gutovski, 1629-1693)

OFMConv. Polish friar. Theologian (he apparently obtained a doctorate in theology), preacher and provincial minister. Together with Anton Rokoszowic, he was responsible for the reconstruction of the Franciscan church of Cracow (Krakau), which had burned down on 25 September 1655 during the Swedish invasion of Poland. In 1669, he preached at the occasion of the crowning festivities of the Polish King Michael Wisniowiecki. Walerian's most famous work is his Hartowna strzala nieuchronnym lubo smiertelnosci iadem napusczona (1661).

works

Hartowna strzala nieuchronnym lubo smiertelnosci iadem napuszczona do zamierzonego iednak celu wiekuistey niesmiertelnosci bez szwanku godzaca (Cracow: Franciszka Cezarego J.K.M. Typogr., 1661).

Panegiryczne niektóre Dyskvrsy dvchowne y rózne insze kazania, przy celnieyszym y obfitszym Audytorze, w kosciolach zwlaszczá Krákowskich pewnych czásow miáne (Cracow: Krzysztofa Schedla J.K.M. Typogr. roku Palskiego, 1675).

Quadrajezymal caly. Albo Kazania w polskim lezykv na ewangelie kazdodzienne, zvpelnego Postv Swietego (...), od Przewielebnego Oycá Waleryana Gvtowskiego Fránciszkáná, Náuk Wyzwolonych y Pismá S. Doktora, Prowincyey Polskiey Oyca (Cracow: Mikoaia Alexandra Schedla J.K.M. Ordynáreynego Typographá, 1688).

Wielki Franciszek Swilty w malvckozci swoiey, ná kázaniu przy obecnoi Naiasnieyszego Michaa nowo koronowánego Páná y Monárchy polskiego (Cracow: Krzysztofa Schedlá J.K.M. typ., 1669).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 557-560; Slownik polskich pisarzy franciszkalskich / Lexikon der polnischen Franziskaner-Schriftsteller (Warshaw, 1981), 168-169; T. Zielinski, ‘O perswazii w kazaniach siedemnastowiecznego franciszkanina Waleriana Gutowskiego’, in: Teatr wymowy. Formy I przemiany retoryki uzytkowej (Bialystok, 2004), 121-128. On the art of persuasion and rhetorics in the sermons of Valerianus Gutowski; Wieslaw Pawlak, ‘Praedicator urbanus – Walerian Gutowski OFMConv.’, in: Wielcy kaznodzieje Krakowa. Studia in honorem prof. Eduardi Staniek, ed. Kazimierza Panusia (Cracow: Wydawnictwo UNUM, 2006), 191-226.

Valerianus Magni (Valerian Magni/Walerian Magni/Valeriano Magno da Milano/‘the long monk', 1586-1661)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Milan on 11 October 1586 but raised in Prague as son of an immigrant Italian family (his father Constantino Magni had moved there early in Valerian's life. Valerian's mother was Ottavia Carcassola). Valerian joined the Capuchins in March 1602, much to the displeasure of his family. After his ordination and studies, he became lector for philosophy and theology for his order in Prague and Vienna. From this lectorate period stems the first version of his Synopsis doctrinae Aristotelis. Became active in diplomatical political missions within the Austrian lands for Polish and Austrian governments, and for the papal see, also in the context of the recatholization of Bohemia. During his various teaching assignments, Valerian became very interested in new developments in natural philosophy and in questions on scientific method, which enticed him to develop e philosophical system of his own, relatively independent from Aristotelianism. He performed vacuum experiments in the presence of the King and Queen of Poland in July 1647, inspired by Galileo's Discorsi i dimonstrazioni matematiche. The same year, Valerian published a study on the vacuum, entitled Demonstratio ocularis sine locato, corporis successive moti in vacuo, luminis nulli corpori inhaerentis a Valeriano Magno exhibita Serenissimis Principibus Vladislao IV. et Ludivicae Mariae Reginae Ploniae et Sveciae (Cracow, 1647). Later, people said he had plagiarized Torricelli yet Valerian maintained that he had come to his observations and conclusions independently. His reflections on philosophical method and scientific questions, which also touched on Descartes, and which also are reflected in his Principia et Specimen Philosophiae and, interestingly enough, also in his rethinking of Bonaventurean illuminism (see his De luce mentium et ejus imagine from 1642/6) set him somewhat apart from order members and also brought him into serious conflict with the Jesuits. They fought first over Valerian's scientific approach, which tried to come to terms with Cartesianism and new scientific insights, and later over the conversion of Count Ernst of Hesse (1652), in which Valerian played an important part. [Cf. Pascal, Provinciales XV]. Valerian spent some time in prison and died in Salzburg, when he was on its way to Rome to find support for his case. Valerian has left an interesting philosophical and theological corpus, which is relatively independent with regard to the dominant intellectual currents of his day. Forayed wide into Augustine, Bonaventure, Aristotle, Averoes, various Renaissance Platonists, Galileo, Mersenne and Descartes. 

works

Valeriani Magni Mediolanensis F. Ordinis Minorum Seraphici P. Francisci Nuncupatorum Capuccinnorum De Acatholicorum et Catholicorum Regula credendi (Prague: Paulus Sessius, 1628/Vienna, 1641). The 1628 and 1641 editions are available via Google Books. See also the response by 'Ulricus von Neufeld'/Joannis Amos: Judicium de Judicio Valeriani Magni Mediolanensis super catholicorum et acatholicorum credendi regula. Sive Absurditatum Echo (Amsterdam, 1644), which is also accessible via Google Books. In Reply, Valerianus wrote Echo absurditatum Joannis Amos Comens sub ficto nomine Uryci de Neuufeld latitantis

Valeriani Magni Iudicium de catholicorum regula credendi: ad studia universalia Biblistarum (Venice: Matthaeus Cosmerovius, 1641). Divided over 8 books. Acessible via Google Books.

Synopsis doctrinae Aristotelis. De libri II, in quorum prima totius fere doctrinae Aristotelis traditur synopsys, in altero vero auctoris de hac doctrina profertur sententia (Vienna, 1643).

De humani arbitrii libertate, ed. Jiri Benes & Stanislav Sousedík, in: Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis 19 (Prague, 1979), 71-88.

De luce mentium et eius imagine (Rome: Franciscus Caballus, 1642/Vienna, 1646/Bologna, 1886). The 1642 edition is available in digital format via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Soliloquia valeriana (Vienna, 1643).

Demonstratio ocularis. Loci sine locato, corporis successive moti in vacuo, luminis nulli corpori inhaerentis a Valeriano Magno Fratre Capuccino exhibita Serenissimis Principibus Vladislao IV. et Ludivicae Mariae Reginae Ploniae et Sveciae (Cracow: Benacci, 1647/1648). Several editions available via Google Books. The work drew out a reaction by Johann Elephantutius (Euersio demonstrationis ocularis loci sine locato (...) (Bologna, 1648)), which also is accessible via Google Books.

Principia et specimen Philosophiae (Cologne, 1652). Several editions available via Google Books.

Admiranda de Vacuo, scilicet, Valeriani Magni Demonstratio (Warshaw: Petrus Elert, 1647), also edited in: Monumenta Guerickiana 3 (1996), 61-72 & Monumenta Guerickiana 9-10 (2002), 101-122.

Valerii Magni Fratris Capuccini Tractatus De Syllogismo Demonstrativo

Experimenta de Incorruptibilitate Aquæ (1648).

Organum theologicum seu Regula argumentandi ex humano Testimonio (1643/Regensburg: Henricus Pigrinus, 1652). The 1642 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Methodus Revocandi Acatholicos Ad Ecclesiam Catholicam (...) (Regensburg: 1653). Accessible via Google Books.

Epistola Valeriani Magni, Fratris Capuccini ad R.P. Bonaventuram Ruthenum eiusdem Ordinis Concionatorem, De Quaestione utrum Primatus Rom. Pontificis super universam Ecclesiam probari possit ex Solo sacro textu (1653). Accessible via Google Books.

Concvssio Fvndamentorvm Ecclesiae Catholicae, Jactata Ab Hermanno Conringio Examinata, & retorta in Acatholicos a Valeriano Magno Fratre Capuccino (Strasbourg: Simon Gallus, 1654). Accessible via Google Books.

Commentarius de homine infami personato sub titulis M. Jocosi Severi Medii ad Rev. P. Samualem à Pilsenburg, ejusdem Ordinis Concionatorem, jam tertiò Ministrum Provincialem in Boëmia, & Austria (Vienna: Johann Jacob Kuerner, 1654/Revised edition Prague: Seminarium Sancti Norberti, 1655). Both these editions are accessible via Google Books.

Opus philosophicum Valeriani Magni Fratris Capuccini (Lithomisslij [Leitomischl]: Joannis Arnolti, 1660). Accessible via Google Books.

Apologia contra imposturas Jesuitarum: cui accessere eiusdem Epistolae IV (...) (1661). Available via Google Books. Valeriano issued a revised edition of this work during the same year. The work was also immediately issued in German as Verantwortung Valeriani Magni wider der Jesuiter Betriegereijen, zu Außbreitung Göttlicher Ehre (...) (1661). This is also accessible via Google Books.

Valeriani Magni Christiana et Catholica Defensio adversu Societacem Jesu Haeresi, vel Atheismo infectam (1661). Accessible via Google Books.

An anonymous Capuchin friar issued under the name of Prince Ernest, Landgrave of Hessen, a Responsio Apologetica Pro R.P. Valeriano Magno Mediolanensi, Missionario Apostolico, & Sociis ejus Capuccinis, ad libellum Anno 1661 (Munich, 1662). This is Accessible via Google Books. The same author would have written Narratio veridica de morte ejusdem P . Valeriani Magni Capuccini (Munich, 1662). Cf. Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 20.

For more information about his works, see in particular the various works of Cygan, and the 1982 work of Sousedik.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 132-133 [lists more works, but I have not been able to ascertain their existence]; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 682-683; Nicolaus de Lucca & Ludovicus de Salice, Leben und Taten des P. Valerian Magni OFM CAP., Provinzials und Apostolischen Missionars der Böhmisch-Österreichischen Provinz des Ordens der Minderbrüder Kapuziner: geb. 15.10.1586 in Mailand, gest. 29.7.1661 in Salzburg, trans. P. Egino Kraus (Würzburg, 1976); Agostin de Corniero, 'Capuchinos precursores del P. Bartolomé Barberis en el estudio de S. Buenaventura: P. Valeriano Magno de Milán (1585-1661)', Collectanea Franciscana 3 (1933), 67-80, 209-228, 347-385, 518-570; German Abgottspon, P. Valerianus Magni Kapuziner (1586-1661). Sein Leben im allgemeinen, seine apostolische Tätigkeit in Böhmen im besonderen. Ein Beiträg zur Geschichte der katholischen Restauration im 17. Jahrhundert (Olten-Freiburg i.B.: Walter, 1939); Mario da Guspini, ‘La conoscenza di Dio in Valeriano Magni: possibilità di una conoscenza intuitiva?’, Collectanea Francescana 30 (1960), 264-297; Marianus a Sobienie, ‘Cosmologia Valeriani Magni, OFMCap (1586-1661)’, Collectanea Francescana 31 (1961), 609-636; Georgyus/Jerzy Cygan, ‘Das Verhältnis Valerian Magnis zu Galileo Galilei und seinen wissenschaftlichen Ansichten’, Collectanea Franciscana 38 (1968), 135-166; Kreszens Braun, Die Philosophie des Varelian Magni OFM Cap (1586-1661) und die Bonaventura-Tradition des Kapuzinerordens im 17. Jahrhundert, Beilage Familien-Nachrichten, 52 (Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein: Rheinisch-Westfälische Kapuzinerprovinz, 1970); Georgyus Cygan, ‘Opera Valeriani Magni velut manuscripta tradita aut typis impressa’, Collectanea Franciscana 42 (1972), 119-178, 309-352; Georgyus Cygan, ‘Vita prima Valeriana Magni a Nicolao de Lucca et Ludovico de Salce descripta’, Collectanea Franciscana 45 (1975), 213-249; Cesare Vasoli, ‘Note sulle idee filosofiche di Valeriano Magni’, in Italia, Venezia e Polonia tra medio evo e età moderna (Florence: Olschki, 1980), 79-112; Georgyus Cygan, ‘Valeriani Magni und die Frage der Verständigung mit der orthodoxen Kirche’, Collectanea Franciscana 51 (1981), 333-368; Stanislav Sousedík, Valerian Magni 1586-1661. Versuch einer Erneurung der christlichen Philosophie im 17. Jahrhundert (Sankt Augustin: Richarz, 1982); Camille Bérubé, ‘Valérien Magni, héritier de Bonaventure, Henri de Gand et Jean Scot Erigène ou précurseur de E. Kant’, Cuadernos salmantinos de filosofía 11 (1984), 129-157; Georgyus/Jerzy Cygan, Valerianus Magni (1586-1661). ‘Vita prima’, operum recensio et bibliographia (Rome: Istituto storico degli cappuccini, 1989); Georgyus Cygan, ‘Valeriani Magni propositum ad ordinem capuccinorum reformandum’, Collectanea Franciscana 58 (1988), 45-59; C.M. Jerzy, ‘Walerian Magni OFMCap a ‘Colloquium caritativum w 1645 r.w. Toruniu’, Studia Franziskanskie 7 (1996), 241-254; Stanislav Sousedík, Filosofie v ceských zemích (Prague, 1997); Paul Richard Blum, Philosophen philosophie und Schulphilosophie. Typen des philosophierens in der Neuzeit (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998), 102-116 (‘Philosophie als Programm: Valerian Magni’); Jerzy Cygan, ‘Theologische Themen im Dialog von Johann Amos Comenius und Valerianus Magni’, in: Comenius als Theologe. Beiträge zur Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz ‘Comenius’ Erbe und die Erziehung des Menschen für das 21. Jahrhundert’ [Sektion VII] anläßlich des 400. Geburtstag von Jan Amos Comenius, ed. Vladimir J. Dvorak & Jan B. Lasek, Pontes Pragenses, band 1 (prague: Nadace Comenius, 1998),  184-203; Blanka Karlsson, ‘Die Finsponger Sammlungen in Norrköping’, in: Comenius als Theologe. Beiträge zur Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz ‘Comenius’ Erbe und die Erziehung des Menschen für das 21. Jahrhundert’ [Sektion VII] anläßlich des 400. Geburtstag von Jan Amos Comenius, ed. Vladimir J. Dvorak & Jan B. Lasek, Pontes Pragenses, band 1 (prague: Nadace Comenius, 1998), 244-262; Slawomir Koscielniak, ‘Walerian Magni, laucyn, uczony i diplomata, I jego zwiacki z Gdanskiem’, in: Jacuba w Gdansku: zarys historyczny, ed. Adam Szarswewski (Handlowa Mado, 1999), 260-280; Jerzy Cygan, ‘Walerian Magni (1586-1661): nowozytny filozof, ekumenista, rzecznik egzystencjalnej apologetyki I odnowy moralney’, in: Z problematiki pedagogiki porównawczej, ed. Wiktor Rabczuk (Warchaw: Instytut Badán Edukacyjnych, 1998), 179-192 [On Valerianus as a existential and moral philosopher]; Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XV, 911-915; Jerzy Cygan, ‘Der Streit Jan Brozeks, Professor der Krakauer Akademie, mit Valerian Magni, Kapuziner, zu der Möglichkeit des Daseins der Leere in der Natur’, Monumenta Guerickiana 9-10 (2002), 92-100; H. Louthan, ‘Mediating Confessions in Central Europe: The Ecumenical Activity of Valerian Magni, 1586-1661’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55 (2004), 681-699; V. Criscuolo, ‘Tre diplomatici al ‘Kurfürstentag’ di Regensburg 1636-1637: Valeriano Magni, Francesco Rozdrazweski e Diego de Quiroga’, Laurentianum 45 (2004), 59-107; Hans Joachim Müller, ‘Comenius’ Modell der Urteilsfindung in der Kontroverse mit dem Kapuzinermönch Valerian Magni’, in: Johann Amos Comenius – Vordenker eines kreativen Friendens, ed. Erwin Schadel, Schriften zur Traditik und Ontodynamik, 24 (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2005), 189-209; Jerzy Cygan, ‘Magni (Magno, magnus, de Magnis) Maksymilian [Walerian]’, Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii VI, 686-689; Alessandro Catalano, ‘La politica della curia romana in Boemia: dalla strategia del nunzio Carlo Carafa a quella del cappuccino Valeriano Magni’, in: Kaiserhof – Papsthof (16.-18. Jahrhundert), ed. Richard Bösel et al., Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim Österreichischen Kulturforum in Rom, Abhandlungen, 12 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006), 105-121; Jan Bernd Elpert, ‘Kein Bruder soll sich anmassen, ein eigentliches Studium zu verfolgen. Die Kapuziner und die Philosophie – ein Streifzug durch die intellektuelle, philosophische Entwicklung des Kapuzinerordens im 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhunderts’, in: Sol et homo. Mensch und Natur in der Renaissance. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag für Eckhard Keßler, 378-386; Jerzy Marian Cygan, ‘Magni Valeriano OFMCap’, Encyklopedia Katolicka XI, 806f; Alfredo Di Napoli, L’azione politica e missionaria di Valeriano Magni e le linee direttive della Curia romana in Boemia attraverso la corrispondenza della Congregazione de Propaganda Fide (1626-1651), PhD. Diss. (Rome: Gregorianum, 2009); Massimo Bucciantini, ‘La discussione sul vuoto in Italia: il caso di Valeriano Magni’, in: Discussioni sul nulla tra Medioevo et Età Moderna (Florence: Olschki, 2009), 285-301; Alfredo Di Napoli, Valeriano Magni da Milano e la riforma ecclesiastica in Boemia attraverso la corrispondenza della Congregazione de Propaganda Fide (1626-1651), Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi, nuova serie, 2 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2015) [Cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 784-787.

Valerius Bonus (Valerio Bona da Bressa, c. 1560–c. 1620)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual Franciscan and composer of the early Baroque period. Possibly a student of Costanzo Porta and active as chapel master in Milan and Verona, and also in the cathedral of Vercelli. Known for works on musical composition, such as Regole del contraponto and Essempi delli passaggi delle consonanze, et dissonanze, and for a series of masses, canzonas and related works.
For more biographical information, see Franco C. Ricci, 'Bona, Valerio', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 11 (1969), now accessible via: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/valerio-bona_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/

works

Regole del contraponto et compositione brevemente raccolte da diversi auttori (Casale: Appresso Bernardo Grasso, 1595). A German translation with a commentary of the work was made as a Ph.D. thesis by F. Reusch (Heidelberg, 1924). A digital version of the work can be found at: http://tmiweb.science.uu.nl/text/reading-edition/bonreg.html and also via Google Books.

Essempi delli passaggi delle consonanze, et dissonanze, et d'altre cose pertinenti al Compositore (Milan: Appresso li heredi di Francesco et Simon Tini, 1596). An extension of the previous work.

Litaniae et aliae Laudes B. M. Virginis, nec non divorum Francisci et Antonii patavini quator vocibus concinendae (Milan: Francesco Trin et eredi di Simon Tini, 1591).

Missa, et sacrae cantiones quae vulgo Motecta nuncupantur octonis vocibus concinendae (Milan: M. Trino, 1591).

Il secondo libro delle Canzonette a tre voci, con l'aggionta di dodeci Terchtti a note (Venice: R. Amadino, 1592).

Missa et Motecta ternis vocibus... quibus in fine accesserunt Magnificat sexti toni à 6 et Falsi Bordoni à 3 omnitonum (Milan: Eredi di Francesco e Simone Trini, 1594).

Il quarto libro delle Canzonette a tre voci (Milan: Erede di Simone Trini e Francesco Besozzi, 1599).

Psalmi omnes ad vesperum quatuor vocibus (Venice: R. Amadino, 1600).

Motectorum senis vocibus. Liber primus (Venice: R. Amadino, 1600).

Missarum et Motectorum duobus choris. Liber secundus (Venice: R. Amadino, 1600).

Madrigali, et Canzoni a cinque voci. Libro primo (Venice: A. Gardano, 1601). Accessible via Google Books.

Li dilettevoli Introiti della Messa a doi chori brevi, facili, & ariosi con il partito delli Bassi modernamente composti, per cantare, & sonare in concerto (Venice: G. Vincenti, 1611).

Messa e Vespro a quatro chori, con il partito delli bassi ridotti in un solo basso generale, & doi continuati, per il primo, & secondo, terzo, & quarto choro, op. 19 (Venice: G. Vincenti, 1611).

Sei Canzoni italiane da sonare concertate a doi chori in Echo, op. 21 (Venice: G. Vincenti, 1614).

Lamentazioni della Settimana Santa, op. 22 (Venice: G. Vincenti, 1616).

Otto ordini di Letanie della Madonna che si cantano ogni sabato nella Santa Casa di Loreto, concertate à doi chori per sonare et cantare (Venice: G. Vincenti, 1619).

literature

Giovanni da S. Antonio, Bibliotheca universa franciscana (Madrid, 1733) III, 134-135; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 683; A. Tessier, 'Del p. Valerio Bona o Buona e delle sue opere', Miscellanea francescana 5:2 (1890), 52-54; D. Sparacio, 'Musicisti minori conventuali', Miscellanea francescana 25:1 (1925), 21f; Franco C. Ricci, 'Bona, Valerio', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 11 (1969) [with additional biographical information!]; Josef-Horst Lederer, 'Bona, Valerio', in: Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online (Oxford University Press): http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/ [Accessed 25 November 2015]; Barocco padano e musici francescani: L’apporto dei maestri conventuali. Atti del XVI Convegno internazionale sul barocco padano (secoli XVII-XVIII), Padova 1-3 luglio 2013, ed. Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi & Maurizio Padoan, Barocco Padano, 8/Centro Studi Antoniani, 55 (Padua: Associazione Centro Studi Antoniani, 2014). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 352-354.

Valerius de Venetia (Valerius VenetusValerio da Venezia/Valerio Ballardini, d. 1618)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Published several spiritual works for a wider public.

works

Prato fiorito di varii essempi. Parte prima, divisa in cinque libri (Venice, 1605/1608/1615/1617/1647/1678/1680/1723/1750). The 1608, 1615, 1617/ 1647 and 1723 editions are accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona, and via Google Books.

Prato fiorito Parte Seconda divisa in sei libri (Venice, 1610/1614/etc.) The 1614 edition is accessible via Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

According to Sbaralea, several other editions of the Prato fiorito appeared as well (Venice: Giacomo Sarzina, 1620/Venice: Matteo Lenio, 1656/Francesco Groppo, 1695).

Brevi e divoti meditationi intorno ai principali misteri della vita di Giesù Cristo e meditatione de giudicio universale (Venice, 1610).

Romitorio sacro. Meditazioni et essercitii di contemplazioni ed amorose aspirazioni in Dio (…) (Venice: Floravanto Prato, 1610).

Vita della gloriosa santa Chiara vergine di Assisi composta da S. Bonaventura Cardinale e d’altri autori con le vite delle beate monache delle sua sancta regola e di quelle ancora de terzo ordine (…) (Venice: Floravanto Prato, 1610/1623) [contains biographies of c. 70 other Franciscan female saints. It was translated into German as: Sanctuarium Monacharum. Der Klosterfrauen Heiliggthumb (…) (Munich, 1623)]

Vita B. Joannae Valesiae Reginae Galliarum (...) (Venice: Floravanto Prato, 1620).

Vita BB. Margaritae Cortonensis, & Angelae Fulginatis (Venice: Floravanto Prato, 1620).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 134; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 684; Miscellanea Francescana IV (1889), 22ff; G. Crisostomo da Cittadella, Biblioteca dei Frati Minori Cappuccini della provincia di Venezia (Padua, 1944), 267-278; Lexicon Capuccinum (Rome, 1951), 1778; Collectanea Franciscana 58 (1988), 5-44; DSpir XVI, 164-165; Guido Dedrojetta, ‘Fuggire i vizi per perseguir virtú. I racconti moralizzanti del ‘Prato fiorito’ e il miracolo delle noci’, Messaggero Cap 46 (Bologna, marzo-aprile, 2002), 13-15.

Valerius Martellus (fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar.

works

Regula, Testamenta, Officium parvum Stigmatum S. Francisci, B. Mariae Virginis, S. Josephi., & alta pia opuscula (Venice: Marco Ginammo, 1621).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 134.

Valerius Polidori (Valerius Polidorus/Valerio Polidoro da Padova, fl. late 16th cent.

OFMConv. Italian friar. Theologian and professional exorcist (a former pupil of Cesare Lanza, the Franciscan who in 1580 was condemned for his necromantic practices). Polidoro was first and foremost known for his Practica exorcistarum.

works

Practica exorcistarum F. Valerii Polidori Patavini, Conventualis Francisc. Artium, & Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris, ad Daemones, et Maleficia de Christifidelibus expellendum (Padua: Padua: Apud Paulum Meietum, 1582/Padua: Apud Paulum Meietum, 1585/Venice, 1606/Venice: Moretus, 1607/Cologne, 1626). At least the oldest two editions are accessible via Google Books, the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and a number of other portals and libraries. The work was also included in the exorcism omnibus Thesaurus Exorcismorum atque Conjurationum Terribilium Potentissimorum (1608), together with exorcism treatises by Girolamo Mengi and others.

Dispersio daemonum quae secunda pars est practice exorcistarum (Padua: Apud Paulum Meietum, 1587).

Religiose memorie della Chiesa del Santo, cioè nostro gran Templo di Padova (Venice: Paolo Meietto, 1590)/Le Religiose Memorie scritte dal R. Padre Valerio Polidoro Padovano, Conventuale di San Francesco, Dottore della sacra Theologia, nelle quali si tratta della Chiesa del glorioso S. Antonio Confessore da Padova (Venice: Paolo Meietto, 1590). Dedicated to Pope Sixtus V. Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and via Google Books.

De Festis Diebus Christianorum, ac Judaeorum (Leipzig, 1597).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 560-561; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 134; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 683-684; Giovanni Romeo, Inquisitori, esorcisti e streghe nell’Italia della Controriforma (Florence: Sansoni Editore, 1990), 153 [On the connection between Polidoro and Lanza]; Bert Roest, ‘Demonic Possession and the Practice of Exorcism: An exploration of the Franciscan legacy’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 301-340.

Varona de Valdivielso (Varrona/Baraona de Valdivielso, d. after 1609)

OFM. Spanish friar. Born in Madrid. Studied theology and Bible Studies at Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares. Entered the Franciscan order in 1575 in Toledo (San Jean de los Reyes) in the Castilian province. Taught moral theology and biblical exegesis. Renowned preacher. Later found in la Salceda (where his brother was guardian) and as guardian in Oropesa.

works

De Arcano Verbo Sive de Vivo, Omniumque Factivo Sermone Dei: Atque de Concionatoribus Eiusdem, ad Sacri Textus Intelligentiam (Madrid, 1595/Salamanca, 1606) [treatise built around Hebr. 4, 12: vivus est sermo Dei]

In Psalmum Octuagesimum Sextum Literalis, Mystica, et Moralis Interpretatio Necnon Beatae Virginis Eiusque Immaculato Conceptui Adaptata, Atque per Dialogi Modum Digesta (Salamanca, 1590/Madrid, 1593/Toledo, 1593/Salamanca, 1596) [a fictive dialogue with a parish priest on the church, sainthood, saints, Christ, apostles, the Bible itself, etc.]

Tractado sobre el Ave Maria (Salamanca, 1584/Madrid, 1593/Salamanca, 1596)

Floretus Morum Sacrae Scripturae: MS Madrid Conv. Premonstratensiae C. 29

several smaller exegetical and mariological works

literature

Mariano Acebal Lujan, `Varona de Valdivielso', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 290-291.

Venantius A. Tyszkowski (Venantius Tyszkowski, fl. 18th cent.)

OFM. Polish friar. Provincial minister in the Russian province, general definitor, and court theologian.

literature

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

Venantius de Carcassonne (Venance Dougados/Jean-François Dougados, 1763 1794)

OFMCap. French friar from Carcassone (born 12 August 1763). Known for his poetry and for his humoristic account of his 'begging' tour in 1786 among the population of the Monts de Lacaune in Southern France, which also had attention for the picturestque in a pre-romantic fashion. It drew criticism from his superiors. He left the order around the start of the French revolution, first receiving as a benefactor the Polish Princess Luborniska. Later, around 1793 he posed as Professor of eloquence in Perpignan. Following a burlesque letter addressed at the local revolutionary government, he was incarcerated and condemned to death by a revolutionary tribunal in Paris and executed in December 1793.

works

La quête du blé ou Voyage d’un capucin dans les différentes parties des diocèses de Vabres, Castres et Saint-Pons, en prose et en verse, ed. Rémy Cazals, Collection textes littéraires 101 (University of Exeter Press, 1997). See also Oeuvres de Venance, ed. A. Labouisse

Élégie sur l'ennui (1788), cantiques and other poems: Edited in Oeuvres de Venance, ed. Auguste de Labouisse (Paris: Delaunay 1810). Accessible via Gallica, the British Library and via Google Books.

Letters. Edited in Oeuvres de Venance, ed. Auguste de Labouisse (Paris: Delaunay 1810). Accessible via Gallica, the British Library and via Google Books.

Venantius de Fabriano (Venanzio da Fabriano, 1434-1506)

OMObs. Italian friar. He would have died in Naples in 1506 at the age of 72. Several manuscripts of his works apparently can be found in the national library there (once belonging to the library of the local Franciscan Santa Maria Novella friary). Biographer of Giacomo della Marca.

works

T. Somigli, `Vita di S. Giac. della Marca scritta da fra Venanzio da Fabriano OMObs', AFH, 17 (1924), 378-414 (403ff.) ; M. Sgattoni, La vita di S. Giac. della Marca (...) per fra Venanzio da Fabriano (1434-1506) (Zara, 1940). See also the studies of Emore Paoli mentiond in the literature section of this entry.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 135; Emore Paoli, ‘Venanzio da Fabriano e la costruzione della memoria agiografica di Giacomo della Marca (…)’, in: Biografia e agiografia di san Giacomo della Marca. Atti del III Convegno internazionale di Studi (Monteprandone, 29 novembre 2008), ed. Fulvia Serpico, Quaderni di san Giacomo, 2 (Florence: SISMEL –Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009), 125-152; Emore Paoli, ‘Venanzio da Fabriano e la costruzione della memoria agiografica di Giacomo della Marca: una questione preliminare’, Franciscana 14 (2012), 151-186.

Venantius Kindlinger (Nikolaus Kindlinger, Bruder Venantius, 1749-1819)

OFM. German friar from Neudorf (Martinshal), who left the order; archivist and histiorian. Born on February 17, 1749. Studied liberal arts at the Jesuite college of Mainz, to enter the Franciscans in 1766. In acknowledgment of his historical interestes, he was given time to pursue his studies in this area, notably the institutional history of Germany, with recourse to solid archival work. In 1787, he was given permission to leave the order. Thereafter, he made his living as an archivist and historian for various noble families, the Cologne electorate, and the cathedral chapters of Muenster and Paderborn, until he became financially independent, due to an inheritance (1802). Between 1806 and 1816, he worked as the archivist of prince William of Orange at Fulda. He died at Mainz after an accident on 15 September 1819. Throughout his life, Kindlinger spent a lot of time and effort in copying archival collections, building himself therewith a document collection of more than 200 volumes, now kept in the State archives of Münster and Marburg. As many of the original documents on which his transcripts were based subsequently were lost in the Neapoleontic wars and later conflicts, Kindlinger’s source collection has become an indispensable instrument to gain access to the institutional history of Westphalen. On top of that, he also wrote more than 10 volumes of history on Germany and Westphalen. Whereas these books have not withstood the tooth of time, Kindlinger is generally considered as a landmark figure in the emergence of the modern archivist.

works

Geschichte der älteren Grafen bis zum 13. Jahrhundert, Münstersche Beiträge zur Geschichte Deutschlands, vorzüglich Westfalens I & II (Münster 1787-1790). Also published as a two-volume monograph: Nikolaus Kindlingers Geschichte der älteren Grafen bis zum 13. Jahrhundert (Münster, 1793).

Nähere Nachrichten von dem ältesten Gebrauche der Siegeloblaten und des Siegellacks im 16, und 17, Jahrhundert. (Dortmund-Essen, 1799).

Versuch einer Ableitung der Worte Herr, Herr, Herrgot und Frau und ihre urprünglichen Begriffe (Dortmund-Essen, 1799).

Versuch einer Erklärung dessen was Tacitus Germ. Cap. 24 und 25 von der Spielsucht der Deutschen, von ihren Knechten und Freigelassenen sagt (Dortmund-Essen, 1799).

Vermischte Aufsätze als Beiträge zur Geschichte, Diplomatik, Sprachkenntniss (Dortmund-Essen, 1799). This work includes Nähere Nachrichten von dem ältesten Gebrauche der Siegeloblaten und des Siegellacks im 16, und 17, Jahrhundert., Versuch einer Ableitung der Worte Herr, Herr, Herrgot und Frau und ihre urprünglichen Begriffe, Versuch einer Erklärung dessen was Tacitus Germ. Cap. 24 und 25 von der Spielsucht der Deutschen, von ihren Knechten und Freigelassenen sagt.

Geschichte der Familie und Herrschaft Volmestein, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Bauer- und Lehnwesens, 2 Vols. (Osnabrück, 1801).

Fragmente über den Bauernhof, die Hofesverfassung und das Bauernrecht, ed. A. Malonkrodt (Dordtmund, 1812).

Katalog und kurze Nachrichten von der ehemaligen, aus lauter Manuscripten bestehenden Bibliothek zu Fulda (Leipzig-Frankfurt, 1812).

Geschichte der deutschen Hörigkeit, insbesondere der sogenannten Leibeigenschaft (Berlin, 1818).

Nachricht von einigen noch unbekannten Holzschnitten, Kupferstichen und Steinabfrücken aus dem 15, Jahrhundert (Frankfurt, 1819).

Shorter historical and dialectological works, included for instance in Magazin für Westfalen (1798/1799/etc.); Allgemeine Literarische Anzeiger (1800/etc.).

literature

Neue Deutsche Biographie XI, 620-621; W. Gockaln, ‘J.N. Kindlinger, Sämmler, Archivar und Historiograph in der Nachfolge Justus Mösers’, Westfälische Zeitschrift 120 (1970), 11-201, 121 (1971), 37-40;

Vencesclas Vannucchius (Venceslao Vannucchi/Venceslao Vannucci da Prato, d. 1793)

OFM. Italian friar from the Tuscan San Bonaventura province. Lector jubilatus, guardian (of San Casciano), provincial definitor and preacher. Known for his stringent personal penitential practices. He died in Cassiano on 11 November 1793 at the age of 82..

works

Novene di varii santi, included in: Raccolta delle novene del P. V. Vannucchi, ed. Francesco Frediani (Prato: Pontecchi, 1841/Prato, 1864 [2nd extended edition]).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 844-845; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 7 (1914), 591-592.

Venustianus Hiebel (Venustian Hiebl, 1706-1769)

OFMRef. German friar from the Bavarian Sankt Antonius province. Member of the Straubing friary. Lector, provincial minister (1759) and general definitor (1765).

works

Justificatio parvuli sine martyrio, & Sacramento baptismi in re suscepto decedentis (Landshut, 1753). Issued when he was a baccalaureus theologiae. This work ended up on the index of forbidden books by a decree from 14 April 1755.

literature

Sebald Minderer, Supplementum Theologiae Moralis de indulgentiis in genere, et in specie, nec non de Jubilaeo, per modum conferentiarum casibus practicis Illustratum II (1763), 635; Vigilius Greiderer, Germania Franciscana II, 263, 421, 427; Catalogus Patrum et Fratrum Ordinis Minorum S. P. Francisci Reformatorum, 7; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 819.

Veranus Caballonensis (Véran de Cavaillon, 1582-1638)

OFMCap. French friar. Already priest when he took the habit in 1607 in Avignon, in the San Louis province. Master of the novices in 1615 (Carpentras) and in 1618 (Avignon). Guardian in Isle-sur-Sorgue in 1616 and in Sisteron in 1619. Once again guardian of Sisteron in 1625. Provincial secretary in Avignon in 1629. Active as helper of pestilents in Cavaillon in 1631. Superior of Jonquières in 1634. Around this time he started to edit and to publish his works. Coming back from a visit to his editor in Lyon, he drowned in the Rhône. Buried in Pont-Saint-Esprit on the second of February, 1638.

works

Le directeur spirituel (...) (Lyon, Jean Julliéron, 1638) [probably finished before 1634. This work, which is also known under the name Les fleurettes de dévotion, also contains the Traité de l'oraison]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 135; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 685; Willebrord-Christian van Dijk, `Véran de Cavaillon', Dict. de Spir, 16 (1994), 379-382.

Véronica Giuliani (Orsola Giuliani, 1660-1727), Sancta

OSCCap. Italian Capuchin Poor Clare. She took the habit at the age of 17 in 1677 in the Capuchin Città di Castello convent. Active as novice master. Beseeched by `demonic spirits’, and experiencing visions. She would have received the stigmata at the age of 37. In the wake of this, she came to the attention of the inquisition and for a while was forced to lay down her functions. Yet by 1717, her stigmatized condition and her visions began to receive official support. She became abbess of her community at the age of 45 (apparently against her will) and kept that position for nine years, until her death in 1727. When her body was prepared for burial, the figure of the Cross was supposedly found impressed upon her heart, and after that the incorrupt state of her body was being noted. Her remains became an object of veneration, and she was beatified by Pope Pius VII on 17 June 1804. This was followed by canonisation by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839. She left behind a letters, poems, and a lengthy diary, written at the request of her Ubaldo Antonio Cappelletti. See for more information the Franciscan Women Internet Database.

works

Diario. The work received several partial editions: Un tesoro nascosto, ossia Diario di S. Veronica Giuliani, religiosa cappuccina in Città di Castello (Prato, 1895-1905/1927-1928); Un tesoro nascosto, Diario e frammenti, ed. Oreste Fiorucci (Città di Castello, 1974); Diario della vita interiore, ed. Leone Veuthey & D. Alfonsi (Rome: Misc. Francescana, 2005). These ony provide selections of the diary, which is a truly massive work, counting about 22.000 pages in circa 44 manuscript volumes, kept in the female Capuchin nunnery of Città di Castello.

Lettere: For a selection, see the 1974 edition of the Diario. A number can also be found in: Lettere di Santa Veronica Giuliani, ed. O. Fiorucci (Città di Castello, Monastero delle Cappuccine, 1965).

Poesie: For a selection, see the 1974 edition of the Diario.

vitae

Giovanni Giacomo Romano, Vita della venerabile serva di Dio suor Veronica Giuliani cappuccina (Rome: Salomoni, 1776); Filippo Maria Salvatori, Vita di S. Veronica Giuliani, abbadessa delle Cappuccine in S. Chiara di Città di Castello (1803/Rome: Salviucoi, 1839); Filippo Maria Salvatori, The Lives of S. Veronica Giuliani, Capuchin Nun, and of the Blessed Battista Varani, of the Order of S. Clare (London: R. Washbourne, 1874).

literature

Désiré des Planches, Le journal de Sainte Véronique Giuliani, ou Flamme d’amour d’un Séraphin crucifié (Paris, 1931); Désiré des Planches, La Passione rinnovata, S. Veronica Giuliani (Siena, 1939); María Victoria Triviño, Castillo interior 'franciscano' de Santa Verónica Giuliani (Barcelona, 1985); Isabella Zucchi, La Scrittura di Santa Veronica Giuliani: Un segno per l'umanita (Urbania: Arti Grafiche Stibu, 1992); DSpir 16 (1994), 473-483; Remo Bistoni, Santa Veronica e i suoi fioretti (Cinisello Balsamo, 1999); Monique Courbat, ‘Veronica Giuliani: writing and rewriting’, Greyfriars Review 13 (1999), 297-317; Giovanni Battista Paniccià, Veronica Giuliani, Collana Teatro Sacro 3 (S. Maria degli Angeli-Assisi, 1999); Marisa Borchielli, Veronica Giuliani. La fiamma dell’amore, Le Colline della Speranza. Ininerari di santità femminile in Umbria (Città di Castello, 1999); Pacelli Millane, The fire of love in the writings of Veronica Giuliani’, The Cord 49 (1999), 188-195; Il ‘Sentimento’ tragico dell’esperienza religiosa. Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727), ed. Maria Duranti (Naples, 2000); Nicola Gori, 'L'inferno in santa Veronica Giuliani', Mediatrice del Perdono, Bollettino del Santuario S. Veronica Giuliani 35:1 (2000), 9-14; Massimo Lollini, Massimo. 'Obedient writing and Tridentine mysticism in Veronica Giuliani', Greyfriars Review 14 (2000), 21-41; Nicola Gori, ‘La scienza della salvezza e la grazia del purgatorio d’amore in una complessa esperienza di santa Veronica Giuliani’, Collectanea Franciscana 71,1-2 (2001), 171-207; Marco Ferrario, Magisterio formativo de Santa Verónica Giuliani. Pedagogía de la santidad (Buonos Aires: Misiones Franciscanas Conventuales, 2002); L. Iriarte, Beata Florida Cevoli, discipula de Santa Verónica Giuliani (1685-1767) (Pamplona: Curia Provincial de Capuchinos etc., 2002); Leonhard Lehmann, 'Veronika Giuliani (1660-1727). Die Liebe lässt sich finden', in: Franziskanische Stimmen. Zeugnisse aus acht Jahrhunderten, ed. Paul Zahner (Munich-St. Anna: Verlag Butzon & Bercker – Edition Coelde, 2002), 126-130; Nicola Gori, ‘L’‘annientamento’ di santa Veronica Giuliani e il ‘nulla’ di san Giovanni della Croce’, Collectanea Franciscana 73,1-2 (2003), 241-288; Valter Corelli & Nicola Giandomenico, Le colline della speranza. Itinerari di santità femminile in Umbria (Città di Castello: Elemond Edizioni, 2005); Soeur Chiara Giovanna Cremaschi, 'L'immacolata Concezione nell'Ordine di Santa Chiara con riferimento esplicito a santa Veronica Giuliani', in: Signum magnum apparuit in caelo. L'Immacolata, segno della bellezza e dell'amore di Dio, ed. Aristide M. Serra, Stefano M. Cecchin & Salvatore M. Perrella, Studi mariologici (Rome: Pontificia Academia Mariana, 2005), 327-341; Nicola Gori, 'S. Veronica e la gloria della Risurezione', Mediatrice del Perdono, Bollettino del Santuario S. Veronica Giuliani 41 (2006), 12-16; Enzo Mattesini, 'Dalla mistica del ‘patimento’ alla realtà del quotidiano. Appunti su lingua e lessico delle Lettere di Veronica Giuliani', in: Dire l’ineffabile. Caterina da Siena e il linguaggio della mistica, ed. Lino Leonardi & Pietro Trifone, La Mistica cristiana tra Oriente e Occidente, 5 (Tavarnuzze-Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006), 257-290; M.M. Francesca Perillo, 'S. Chiara d'Assisi e s. Veronica Giuliani. La donna nell'agiografia: originario epitalamio al Signore dell'universo', in: La donna e la salvezza. Maria e la vocazione femminile, Collana di Mariologia, 7 (Lugano: Eupress FTL, 2006), 133-196; Luigi Borriello, Maria R. Del Genio & Tomás Spidlík, La Mistica parola per parola (Milan: Ancora, 2007); Nicola Gori, 'La croce: gemma e porta per incontrare Dio', Mediatrice del Perdono, Bollettino del Santuario S. Veronica Giuliani 42 (2007), 1-6; M.M. Francesca Perillo, 'Maria corredentrice e l'Eucaristia nell'esperienza mistica di s. Veronica Giuliana', Annales Franciscani 3 (2008), 349-413; G.V. Tadolini, Introduzione ad un'analisi realistica della personalità di Veronica Giuliani, la Santa di Città di Castello (Venafro (IS): Edizioni Eva, 2008); Isabella Zucchi, 'La dimensione umana di santa Veronica dalla scrittura. Dall'analisi grafologica della scrittura di Veronica Giuliani un ritratto umano che si rivela un messaggio per tutti', Italia Francescana 88:1 (2013), 47-56; Francesco Asti, Francesco. 'Conoscenza di sé e conoscenza di Dio. Per una lettura antropologia del diario di Veronica Giuliani', Italia Francescana 88:1 (2013), 7-46; Leonhard Lehmann, 'Das Bild der hl. Klara im Tagabuch der hl. Veronika Giuliani (1660-1727)', in: Klara von Assisi - Gestalt und Geschichte: Beiträge auf der Tagung der Johannes-Duns-Skotus-Akademie, ed. Herbert Schneider, Veröffentlichungen der Johannes-Duns-Skotus-Akademie für franziskanische Geistesgeschichte und Spiri (Mönchengladbach: B. Kühlen Verlag, 2013), 265-278; M. Mazzeo, 'L'esperienza spirituale di Veronica alla luce della Bibbia: approccio canonico', Italia Francescana 88:1 (2013), 57-98.

Vespasianus Amphiaraeus (Vespasiano Amphiareo/Amfiareo/Alfonso Amfiareo da Ferrara/Alfonso Albertacci, fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Ferrara (born in 1501 as a member of the Albertacci family). He spent his early youth in Florence, but apparently from the age of 18 or thereabouts, he was active in and around Venice, possibly from the moment he entered the Franciscan Conventuals. He is predominantly known as a writing master, who after nearly 30 years of teaching wrote a very popular writing manual that saw at least nineteen editions between 1548 and 1620. The first edition appeared in 1548 in Venice with the title Un novo modo d'insegnar a scrivere. Later editions, from 1554 onwards, were issued under the title Opera di Frate Vespasiano Amphiareo. All of these editions are dedicated to Francesco Donato, the Doge of Venice. In this manual, Vespasiano promoted the so-called Cancellaresca, or the Roman chancery hand, first systhematized by Ludovico degli Arighi, Giovannantonio Tagliente and Giovanni Battista Palatino.

works

Un novo modo d'insegnar a scrivere (1548): Kept in a private collection in Cambridge, Mass.

Preces piae: MS Harvard College Library.

works

Un novo modo d'insegnar a scrivere (Venice, 1548).

Opera di F. Vespasiano Amfiareo da Ferrara, dell'Ordine minore conventuale, Nella quale s'insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, & massime una lettera bastarda, da lui novamente con sua industria ritrovata, laqual serue al Cancellaresco & Mercantesco; poi insegna a far l'inchiostro negrissimo con tanta facilità, che ciascuno per semplice che sia, lo sapra far da se. Anchora a macinar l'oro et scrivere con esso come si farà con l'inchiostro parimente a scriuere con l'azurro, & col Cinaprio (...) (Venice: Gabriel Giolito da Ferrara, 1554/Gio. Antonio Rampazetto, 1588). The 1554 edition received a 20th-century facsimile issue as: Das Schreibbuch des Vespasiano Amphiareo (1554): vollständige Nachbildung in voller Grösse, ed. Jan Tschichold (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Dr. Crantz'sche Druckerei, 1975).

Il perfetto modo d'imparare a scrivere tutte le sorte di lettere cancellaresche, corsive, e moderne col modo delle soprascrittioni di lettere missive ad ogni grado di gente (...) (Venice: Alessandro Vecchi, 1620).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 31; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 685; G. Medri, 'Le opere calligrafiche a stampa II: Frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara', All'Insegna del libro 1 (1928), 49-64.

Viator Bessoviensis (Philippus Piotrowski, 1769-1835)

OFMCap. Polish friar. Preacher (in many Polish regions and especially in Warshaw), popular missionary, lector and guardian, as well as provincial minister and provincial minister. He died on 7 October 1835.

works

A Polish funerary sermon for a certain canon. Issued in Lomza, 1815 (Typis Scholarum Piarum).

A Polish series of 'recollections' for Capuchin friar. Issued in Warsaw, 1823 (Stanislaus Dabrowski).

A Polish 'dissertation' on the beneficial impact of the Christian religion. Issued in Warshaw, 1825.

A bilingual Polish-French sermon to celebrate the translation of the heart of King John III of Poland. Issued in Warshaw, 1830.

Four volumes of Polish sermons for Sun- and Feast Days. Posthumously issued in Warshaw in 1840.

A range of unedited pieces. See literature below.

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), 40.

Viator de Cocaleo (Viatore da Coccaglio/Vincenzo Bianchi, 1706-1793)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Brescia region. Son of Giacomo and Maddalena Personelli and baptised Vincenzo Bianchi. He entered the Capuchin order at the age of 18, taking the name Viatore da Coccaglio. After studies of theology, he became active as lector, preacher guardian, provincial definitor, apostolic prefect for the missions in Zaire/West-Africa (Rezia), custos generalis and provincial minister of the Brescia province (1771-1774). He died in the friary of Cologne Bresciano on 18 January (or March?) 1793. In the course of his career, Viatore began to espouse Jansenist tendencies, supported in this by a group of Brescian intellectuals from a variety of religious orders and outside, supported by Count Gian Maria Mazzuchelli, who organized meetings to discuss theological issues. Among this group should also be counted his brother and fellow Capuchin friar Bonaventura da Coccaglio (Paolo Bianchi).

works

Esame sulle osservazioni critiche (Lucca, 1753). A stance in the polemic surrounding Fortunato da Brescia OFMRef's Cornelii Jansenii Yprensis episcopi Systema de medicinali gratia Christi redemptoris methodice expositum et theologice confutatum (Brescia: Rizzardi, 1751).

Storia e difesa delle due censure del novellista fiorentino (Lucca, 1757). Another stance in the ongoing polemic surrounding the positions of Fortunato da Brescia OFMRef and the re-emergence of Jansenism.

Ricerca sistematica sul testo, e sulla mente di S. Prospero d’Aquitania nel suo poema contro gli ingrati (Brescia: Rizzardi, 1756). A work written in the context of renewed Jansenist and radical augustinian thought in France and Italy.

Lo spirito filosofico-teologico-ascetico di San Prospero d’Aquitania ne’ suoi epigrammi (Brescia: Bossini, 1760). Using the works of Prosper of Aquitaine, a disciple of Augustin to defend an augustinian doctrine of grace against semi-pelagian tendencies.

Carteggio de' padri Viatore, e Bonaventura da Coccaglio fratelli cappuccini della Provincia di Brescia sopra un empio scritto intitolato Solenne concio-abbiura fatta nella chiesa della terra dominante di Poschiavo nella Rezia li 26 agosto 1759 (...) In Engadina Bassa da Giacomo n. Gadina (Brescia: Giambatisra Bossini, 1761).

Italus ad Febronium i[ur.] c[ons.] clar. de Statu Ecclesiae (Lucca, 1768/1770 [expanded]/Venice: Occhi, 1770/Frankfurt a.M.: Dureni, 1773/etc.). Directed against positions of Febronio, notably those exposed in his De Statu Ecclesiae et legitima potestate Romani pontificis (1763). This work drew out reactions by Febronio and others.

Tentamina theologico-scolastica, 6 Vols. (Bergamo: Francesco Locatelli, 1768-1771). A handbook of dogmatic theology for clerical students.

Tentamina theologico-moralia, 6 Vols. (Lucca: Giacomo Giusti [Vols. I-III] & Marescandoli [IV-VI] 1778-1780). Created at the request of the Genoan archbishop Giovanni Lercari.

Zoppiccamenti sulla lettura di un libro intitolato: Il falso discepolo ecc. (Bergamo: Locatelli, 1780). A belated polemic directed against the position of the Dominican Gian Vincenzo Patuzzi regarding the obedience to the papal bull Unigenitus (1713) and the encyclical Ex omnibus Christiani orbis (1756).

Tracce di tradizione sopra la regola de’ frati minori, notate da f. Viatore da Coccaglio cappuccino (Venice: Simone Occhi, 1780).

(attributed) Riflessioni sopra l’origine, la natura ed il fine della divozione al Sacro Cuore di Gesù (Napoli 1780). A polemical work against the 'new devotion' propagated by the Jesuits in particular.

Risposta sul dubbio, se la sola Messa basti a santificare le feste (Bologna, 1781).

La Bolla Unigenitus non annunziata mai dalla S. Sede regola di fede (Brescia: Vescovi, 1782). A belated polemic directed against the positions of the former Jesuits Luigi Mozzi and Francesco Antonio Zaccaria.

Tentaminum theologicorum in moralibus Synopsis, 2 Vols. (Venice, Occhi, 1791). An abbreviation of the six-volume work mentioned above.

Vita della venerabile Maria Maddalena Martinengo (Brescia: Vescovi, 1794). Probably a completion of a work left in part by his brother and fellow friar in religion Bonaventura da Coccaglio.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 812; 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), 41; Valdimiro da Bergamo, 'Biografia e bibliografia del P. Viatore Bianchi da Coccaglio', Miscellanea francescana 3 (1888), 139-143 [with additional info on (un)edited works]; A.C. Jemolo, Il giansenismo in Italia prima della Rivoluzione (Bari, 1928), 98, 103-115, 141-157, 165, 173, 213, 343; Ilarino da Milano, Biblioteca dei Frati minori cappuccini di Lombardia (1535-1900) (Florence, 1937), 291-299 [list of edited works]; E. Dammig, Il movimento giansenista a Roma nella seconda metà del secolo XVIII (Città del Vaticano, 1945), 61, 167, 180, 302, 309 f, 335f, 372; A. Vecchi, Correnti religiose nel Sei-Settecento veneto (Venice-Rome, 1962), 425, 442, 451-454, 473f, 480f, 519, 560; P. Stella, Il giansenismo in Italia, 3 Vols. (Rome, 2006) I, 293f, 304 & II, 16, 105, 109, 219, 225; 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; Mario Rosa, 'Viatore da Coccaglio', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 99 (2020) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/viatore-da-coccaglio_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ [last accessed 10 October 2021]

Victor Brunus (d. 1627)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Doctor of theology. Regent of the Gymnasium of Padua in the early 1620s. Later regent of the Bologna studium. He died rather unexpectedly in October 1627 in Modena at the age of 37.

works

Expositio in Prologum Magistri Sententiarum

Tractatus de Trinitate, de Angelis, & de Virtutibus

In logicam

In Physicam

In libros de anima

Breve Compendium 8. librorum Physicorum: MS Ferrara, Bibliotheca S. Francisci, ?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), no, 121,$8, no 295; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 586.

Victor Fernus (Victor Fernus de Grassana, fl. later 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar.

works

Vaga et fructura repraesentatio statuae Nabuchodonosoris diversis conceptibus scripturalibus adumbrata (Alexandria: Ercule Quinciano, 1597).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 136.

Victor Gelemus (Victor Gelen, 1590-1669)

OFMCap. German friar. Born in Trier. Would have joined the Capuchins in the Rhine province at the tender age of 8. Later, after his theological formation, he was novice master, guardian of the Trier friary and later provincial minister of the Rhine province. He died as provincial on 14 September 1669 in Trier. While working and teaching in Cologne, he issued in 1646 a Summa Practica Theologiae Mysticae, a work with quietist tendencies.

works

Summa Practica Theologiae Mysticae: In Omnes Ab Infimis Vsqe Ad Svpremos Divini Annimi Statvs, Operationes, et Dispositiones magis notabiles, ordine consecutivo Digesta, In Dvas Partes (Cologne: Jodocus Kalckhoven, 1646/1656). The 1646 edition is accessible via Google Books and the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 586; Heppe, Geschichte der quietistischen Mystik (Berlin, 1874), 102-104; Heppe, 'Gelen, Victor, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 8 (1878), 538 [Online-Version: URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd100347908.html#adbcontent ]

Victorin Aubertin (fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar from the Saint-Denis province. Mystical author, predominantly known for his Le Chrétien uni à Jésus Christ (1667).

works

Le Chrétien uni à Jésus-Christ au fond du cœur, pour l’y adorer en esprit de foi et d’amour (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1667).

Selections of his mystical works, such as his Le Chrétien uni à Jésus Christ (1667), have been included in La vie mystique chez les franciscains du dix-septième siècle. Tome I, ed. Dominique Tronc, Collection Sources mystiques (Mers-sur-Indre: Paroisse et Famille-Centre Saint-Jean-de-la-Croix, 2014), as well as in the study of Gobry (2013), 202ff [see below].

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 136; Ivan Gobry, Mystiques franciscains (Perpignan: Artège Editions, 2013), 202.