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Ubaldricus Gablinensis (Ubaldricus von Gablingen/Udalricus de Gablinga/Ulrich von Gablingen, 1722-1800)

Ubaldus Stoiber (fl. early 18th cent.)

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

Ubertino de Tornato

Udalricus de Gablinga, see: Ubaldricus Gablinensis

Ugo, see Hugo (letter H)

Ulrich Beffenhuser (fl. later 15th cent.)

Ulrich von Gablingen, see: Ubaldricus Gabliensis (1722-1800)

Ulrich Horn (fl. late fifteenth cent.)

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

Umile, see: Humilis (letter H)

Urbanus Bolzanius, see: Urbanus Valerianus de Belluno

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

Urbanus de Franchis

Urbanus de Manfredonia (d. 1578)

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

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

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

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

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

Urbanus Politiensis (Urbanus de Politio, d. 1654)

Urbanus Quillot (Urbain Quillot, fl. ca. 1670)

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

Urbanus Venetus (fl. ca. 1550)

Usualdus, see Oswaldus (letter O)

Valentinus Alpoym

Valentinus Kisel (fl. later 17th cent.)

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

Valentinus Nannetensis, fl. early 17th cent.)

Valentinus Mareus (Valentin Marée, d. 1669)

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

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

Valerianus de Belluno, see: Urbanus Valerians de Belluno

Valerianus de Pinerolo, see: Valerianus Berna

Valerianus Divionensis (fl. early 17th cent.)

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

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

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

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

Valerius Martellus (f. early 17th cent.

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

Vangelista Sartonio, see: Sartonius Evangelista (Letter S)

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

Venantius A. Tyszkowski

Venantius de Carcassonne (Venance Dougados, d. 1794)

Venantius da Fabriano (1434-1506)

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

Vencesclas Vannucchius (Venceslao Vannucchi, d. 1793)

Venustianus Hiebel (Venustian Hiebl, 1706-1769)

Veranus Caballonensis (Véran de Cavaillon, 1582-1638)

Véronica Giuliani (1660-1727) Sancta

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

Vervoort, see: Franciscus Vervoort

Viator Bessoviensis (Philippus Piotrowski, 1769-1835)

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

Vicente, see: Vincentius

Vicenzo, see: Vincenzo

Victor Brunus (d. 1627)

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

Victor Gelemus (fl. first half 17th cent.)

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

Victorinus Poulchetus (Victorin Poulioth/Poulihot, fl. later 16th cent.)

Victorinus Tarneaus (Victorin Tarneau, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Victorius de Palermo/Victorinus Panormitanus (Vittorio de Palermo, d. after 1636)

Victorius Weber (Vittorio Weber da Cavalese, d. 1760)

Victorius Wintricus (Victor Wintrich, fl. 17th cent.)

Vigilius Greiderer (10, 12, 1715, Kufstein - 26, 12, 1780, Schwaz, Tirol)

Vilém Anton Brauczek (fl. seventeenth cent.)

Vincenzo Berdini (Vincenzo Berdino, fl. early seventeenth cent.)

Vincenzo Ciorla (Vincentius Ciorla Neapolitanus/Vicenzo Ciorla da Scanno, fl. seventeenth cent.)

Vincentius Aquilanus (fl. 16th cent.)

Vincentius Aurelianensis (fl. 17th cent.)

Vincentius Bertini, see: Vincenzo Berdini

Vincentius Burgensis (Vicente de Burgos), see under the translations of De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus (letter B)

Vincentius Capra (Vincenzo Capra da Borgo Valsugana, d. 1733)

Vincentius Ciorla, see Vincenzo Ciorla further up in the list

Vincentius Conventrensis (Vincent of Coventry, fl. first half 13th cent.)

Vincentius Coronelli (Vincenzo Coronelli, d. 1718)

Vincentius Cuenca (Vicente Cuenca Pardo, 1767-1845)

Vincentius de Bassiano (Vincenzo di Bassiano/Vincenzo Pietrosanti, d. 1694)

Vincentius de Carravaggio (fl. ca. 1600)

Vincentius de Catacio (Vincenzo da Catanzaro/Vincenzo Maria da Catanzaro, fl. second half 18th cent.)

Vincentius de Monte (Vincentius vom Berg, fl. early 18th cent.)

Vincentius de Monte Regali (fl. mid 17th cent.)

Vincentius de Nancy (Vincent de Nancy, fl. ca. 1700)

Vincentius de Orleans (d. after 1674)

Vincentius de Plagis, see: Vincentius Lusitanus

Vincentius de Rouen (Vincentius Rotomagensis, d. 1658)

Vincentius de Salvador

Vincentius de Sancta Maria (Vicente de Santa María, fl. c. 18th cent.)

Vincentius de Sancto Angelo (Vincenzo di Santo Angelo, fl. late 17th cent.)

Vincentius de Sancto Heraclio (Vincenzo di Santo Eracleo, fl. mid 18th cent.)

Vincentius Gallus (Vincenzo Gallo da Alcará, fl. ca. 1600)

Vincentius Gargam (fl. 17th cent.)

Vincentius Garzia de Laza (Vicente Garcia de Laza, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Vincentius Glock (Vincentius Glock von Ebern, fl. ca. 1800)

Vincentius Ingles (Vincente Inglés, fl. c. 1720)

Vincentius Johannes Bapista Canes (Vincent Canes/Jean-Baptiste, d. 1672)

Vincentius Lucitanus (Vincentius de/a Plagis)

Vincentius Lunellus (Vicente Lunel, fl. first half 16th cent.)

Vincentius Lupi (Vincenzo Lupi da Canali/Vincenzo Lupi di Ragusa, d. 1710)

Vincentius Maria de Catacio (Vincenzo Maria da Catanzaro), see: Vincentius de Catacio

Vincentius Mazuelo (Vincente de Burgos/Vincente Mazuelo, fl. 15th cent.)

Vincentius Manuelus Castano (Vicente Manuel Castaño, fl. late 18th cent.)

Vincentius Maria Carminati (fl. late 17th cent.)

Vincentius Maria de Merzana (fl. late 18th cent.)

Vincentius Montorselli (Vincenzo Montorselli da Monte Reale, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Vincentius Morawski (Moravuski, fl. early 17th cent.)

Vincentius Moretus (Vincent Moret, fl. 17th cent.)

Vincentius Mussartus (Vincent Mussart, fl. 17th cent.)

Vincentius Pastor Fernandez (fl. late 17th cent.)

Vincentius Ragusa (Vincenzo di Ragusa, d. 1703)

Vincentius Riccius (Vincenzo Riccio, fl. first half 17th cent.)

Vincentius Rotomagensis, see: Vincentius de Rouen

Vincentius Rufus (Rufinus/Vincenzo Rosso da Savona)

Vincentius Sapera (Vicente Sapera, fl. 17th cent.)

Vincentius Scapitta (Vincenzo Scapita/Scapitta, fl first half 17th cent.)

Vincentius Siculus (Vincenzo da Sicilia, fl late 16th cent.)

Vincentius Venantius (Vincenzo Venanzio da Ancona, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Virgilius, see also: Vigilius.

Vitalis Adriasus de Ragusio

Vitalis Algezira (Alcira/Vitalis Algezira/Alzzora, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Vitalis de Furno (Vitalis e Furno/Joannes Vitalis/Vital du Four, ca. 1260-1327)

Vitalis de Vitalibus (Vitalis da Monteregali, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Vitalis Valentius (fl. early 14th cent.)

Vita Lucanus (Vita di Lucca, fl. first half 13th cent.)

Vito da Cortona, see: Vitus Cortonensis

Vitus Claramontensis (Vitus Piza/Vito Pizza da Chiaramonte, fl. mid to later 16th cent.)

Vitus Cortonensis (Vitus/Vito de Cortona, fl. 13th cent.)

Vitus Lepori (Vito Lepori da Gorizia, fl. 17th cent.)

Vitus Piza, see: Vitus Claramontensis

Volmar (Bruoder Volmar, fl. c. 1390)

Vulcanus de Padula, see: Ludovicus Vulcanus (Letter L)

Walerian, see: Valerianus

Wager Lewis (d. 1562)

Walram von Siegburg

Walther, see: Galterus (Letter G)

Wawrzyniec Ignacy Bonawentura Bodoch (1607-1691)

Wernerus Ratisbonensis (Wernherus/Bernherus/Wirnherus/Werner von Regensburg, d. after 1290)

Werner Saulheimensis (Werner von Saulheim)

Werner Vermann (second half 15th century)

Wiger Trajectensis (Wiger van Utrecht, fl. c. 1230)

Willelmus, William, see: Guilelmus (letter G)

Wistasses (Buisine, fl. ca. 1268)

Wojciech Debolecki (1585–1646)

Wolfgang Boxberger (fl. early 18th cent.)

Wolfgang Hoegner (Wolfgang Högner, fl. mid. 17th cent.)

Wolfgang Schmitt (d. 1779)

Wolfhart (pruder Wolfhart minner prüder, fl. early fifteenth cent.)

Wunibald Bergleitner (1638-1693)

Wunibald Reichenberger (fl. first half 18th cent.)

Ynigus, see Enecus (Letter E)

Yvo Antonio Turpin (fl. mid 17th cent.)

Yvo Bisschoffs (Ivo Bisschoffs, fl. ca. 1700)

Yvo de Mediolano Aulercorum (Yves'd’Evreux/Simon Michellet, fl. 17th cent.)

Yvo Magistri (Yves Magistri/Yves Le Maître, fl. late 16th cent.)

Yvo Parisiensis (Yves de Paris/Charles de la Rue/Franciscus Allaeus, 1588-1678)

Yvo Trecorensis (Yves de Tréguier, 17th cent.)

Zacharias Barberius (Zaccaria Barberio di Bologna, fl. later 17th cent.)

Zaccharias Berta (Padre Zaccaria, see: Carlo Francesco Berta, letter C)

Zacharias Boccardus (Zaccharia Boccardi di Sicignano, 1760-1833)

Zaccaria Boverio/Zacharias Boverius, see: Zacharias de Saluzzo

Zacharias Castiglione (Zaccaria Castiglione da Milano, fl. mid 17th cent.)

Zacharias de Janico (Zaccaria da Gianico, fl. second half 18th cent.)

Zacharias de Salò (d. 1705)

Zacharias de Saluzzo (Zacharias Boverius/Zaccaria Boverio, d. 1638)

Zacharias de Vitré (Zacharie de Vitré, fl. 17th cent.)

Zacharias Firminus (fl. mid 17th cent.)

Zacharias Kirchgesser (fl. first half 17th cent.)

Zacharias La Selve (Zacharie Laselve, fl. early 18th cent.)

Zacharia Lexoviensis (Zacharie de Lisieux/Ange Lambert/Petrus Firmianus (pseudonym)/Louis Fontaines/Louys Fontaines, sieur de Saint Marcel (pseudonym), 1596-1661)

Zacharias Lisbonensis, see: Zacharias Ulyssiponensis

Zacharias Mediolanensis (Castilioni, d. 1675)

Zacharias Rhendanius (Rhendana, fl. 17th cent.)

Zacharias Salodiensis, see: Zacharia de Salò

Zacharias Tevo (1651-1711)

Zacharias Ulyssiponensis (Zacharia de Lisbon, d. 1604)

Zacharias Urceolus (Zaccaria di Ravenna, fl. later 16th cent.)

ZachariasVitraeus, see: Zacharias de Vitré

Zapata de Cárdenas (ca. 1510-1590)

Zegers (Nikolaas Tacitus/Tacitus Nicolaus Zegers, ca. 1495-1559)

Zeno Athensis (fl. later 17th cent.)

Zeno Bergomensis (Zeno da Bergamo, 1574-1624)

Zenobius Bocchi (Zenobio Bocchi, fl. early 17th cent.)

Zenobius Florentinus (Zenobius da Firenze, fl. second half 16th cent.)

Zosimus Linguardensis (d. 1803)

Zuallart (d. 1672), see Aegidius Zuallart (Letter A)

Zumárraga, Juan de, see: Joannes de Zumárraga (Letter J)

   



 

 

 

 

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 IV2, 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, 4th 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, 2nd 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, 2nd 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.

 

 

 

 

Victorius de Palermo/Victorinus Panormitanus (Vittorio de Palermo, d. after 1636)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) friar. Lector of philosophy and theology at the University of Palermo and the Franciscan friary/studium. Llull scholar.

works

Brevis ac etiam dilucida in Artem brevem Raymundi Lulli martirys subtilis declaratio’ di fra’ Vittorio da Palermo, ed. Marta M.M. Romano, Schede Medievali 43 (2005), 259-264. The work was originally issued in Venice in 1636.

According to Juan de San Antonio, he would have written several other theological and philosophical works, but it is unclear as to whether these were ever printed. Check the 2008 work of Romano.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 136-137; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 686; Marta M.M. Romano, 'Vittorio da Palermo commentatore di Lullo: un link tra Sicilia e Catalogna (con note sul fondo lulliano della Biblioteca Centrale della Regione Siciliana)', in: Il mediterraneo del'300: Raimondo Lullo e Federico III d'Aragona, re di Sicilia, Omaggio a Fernando Domínguez Reboiras, ed. Alessandro Musco & Marta M.M. Romano, Subsidia Lulliana, 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 467-484.

 

 

 

 

Victorinus Poulchetus (Victorin Poulioth/Poulihot, fl. later 16th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Member of the Aquitaine Immaculate Conception province. Anti-Calvinist controversialist and preacher.

works

Conciones variae variis de rebus, praesertim contra haereticos, never published?

Memoriale controversiarum cum Calvinistispublished according to Sbaralea, yet I have not yet been able to find this work.

Expositio in Regulam Minorum (1625).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 136; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 686;Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 434.

 

 

 

 

Victorinus Tarneaus (Victorin Tarneau, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Member of the Saint-Sacrament province (Toulouse). Provincial.

works

Le Calvinisme confondu dans le Jansénisme et tous deux destruits par leurs propres Principes (...), 2nd Ed. (Toulouse: Jean Boude, 1662). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Fabienne Henryot, 'Portrait du récollet en écrivain au XVIIe siècle', in: Les récollets, en quête d’une identité franciscaine, actes du colloque de Paris, 1er-2 juin 2012, ed. C. Galland, F. Guilloux & P. Moracchini (Tours: PUFR, 2014), 228.

 

 

 

 

Victorius Weber (Victorius Cavalesio/Vittorio Weber da Cavalese/Paolo Antonio Weber, 1706-1760)

OFMRef. Italian friar and member of the Riformati province of Trento. Lector in the Trento friary. Became official historian of the principality of Salzburg. Wrote several works, also under the pseudonym Gaius Octavius Valerius.

works

De superstitiosa timiditate vitanda, sive vindiciae voti, quod vocant, sanguinarii, pro tutela immaculatae concepotionis Deiparae suscepti (...) tocedunt epistolae quinque hac ipsa de re, nunc primum editae (Trento: Monauniana, 1751). Hence a work on the immaculate conception. Accessible via the Austrian National Library in Vienna and via Google Books.

To be continued...

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 809.

 

 

 

 

Victor Wintricus (Victor Wintrich, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRef. German friar and member of the Cologne province. Respected preacher.

works

Afflictio consolans, seu Succincta non minus ac clara Methodus, Qua quilibet Christi fidelis aerumnoso hoc tempore, è summis suis miseriis maximam haurire valeat consolationem. Cum aliquot Discursibus politico-mysticis, Quibus Benedictio & Pax Regibus & Principibus offertur (Cologne: Johannes Hennig, 1644/Constance: Joannes Christophorus Bauerleun, 1728). Both editions seem to be accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

literature

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

 

 

 

 

Vigilius Greiderer (1715-1780)

OFMRef. Austrian friar. Born in Kufstein on 10 December 1715. Member of the Franciscan order since 1735, after studies in Hall and Innsbruck. Priest since 1740. Fulfilled functions as lector, guardian and provincial minister. Since 1750 active in producing the Germania Franciscana, an encompassing history of the Franciscan order in the German lands, ordered by province. The first volume appeared in 1777, the second one posthumously in 1781. Volume three remained unpublished until parts of it were published in 1964. Vigilius died on 26 December 1780 in Schwaz, Tyrol.

works

Germania Franciscana, seu Chronicon Geographo-Historicum Ordinis S.P. Francisci in Germania, Vol. 1 (Augsburg: Johann Thomas Nobel, 1777) & Vol 2 (1781); For volume three see. G. Fußenegger (ed.), Alemania Franciscana Antiqua XI. The 1777 and 1781 volumes are now accessible on a variety of digital portals, such as the portal of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, of the Narodni Knihovna National library in Prague, and Google Books (check also the university library of Lausanne and the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona).

Chronica ref. provinciae S. Leopoldi Tyrolensis: Ex opere Germania Franciscana P. Vigilii Greiderer O.M.S. Franc. Denuo Edita (Ad Claras Aquas: Typ. Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 1894).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 844; G. Fussenegger, ‘P. Vigilius Greiderer und sein Werk’, in: Alemania Franciscana Antiqua XI, 7-8; Karlo Suso Frank, `Greiderer', LThK³, 3 (1995), 1038; DHGE XXII, 96

 

 

 

 

Vilém Anton Brauczek (fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFMRef. Czech Scotist philosopher, active in Prague.

works

Domus sapientiae Doctoris Subtilis I. D. Scoti erecta in tres partes logicam, physicam et metaphysicam (Prague, 1663).

 

 

 

 

Vincenzo Berdini (Vincentius Berdini/Bertini/Vincenzo Berdino, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Sarteano (near Siena). Member of the Tuscany province. Theologian and predicator generalis. Travelled for his order to Palestine, as the general commissioner of the Holy Places in the Franciscan Holy Land custody (1615). Wrote, among other things, a history of the Holy Land province (Historia dell'antica e moderna Palestina), while he was active over there as Commissary General. Later minister general of the order. He would have died in 1643.

works

Vita S. Bernardini?

Theatrum Sapientiae, 3 Vols.?

Concio doctissima de Immaculata Conceptione Deiparae Virginis/Turris Davidica (Naples, 1625). Edited?

Antitodo Spirituale Contro la Peste, e flagelli mandati da Dio, diuiso in tre parte. 1 Nell'esercitij spirituali, per ciaschedun giorno della settimana, 2 Nella meditazione del Santiss. Nome di Giesu 3 Nella meditazione del Gloriosiss. Rosario De'dolori, e passione di Cristo Signo nostro, inventati da S. Bernardino di Siena (...) (Siena: Bonetti, 1630). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. Check also http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR

Historia dell’antica e moderna Palestina nella quale si ha particolare descrittione dei luoghi ecclesiastici (Siena, 1633)/La Palestina Antica e Moderna. Esser Giuridicamente Posseduta da'Padri Minori Osservanti (...) Descritta in Tre Parti, 3 Vols. (Venice: Battista Suriano, 1642). The first part contains 57 chapters on the greatness and wonders of Palestine. The second part contains 64 chapters on the mysteries operated by Jesus Christ from the incarnation to final judgment. The third part, containing eleven chapters, dwells on the fact that Palestine, old and new belongs by right to the Observant Franciscans and also discusses other Christian communities there. Each volume starts with a lengthy list of sources used, presenting his work as the result of careful research and personal experience. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. Check also http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR

Centuria Terza de'Casi Seguiti intorno a'Precetti Politici, e Militari Appartenenti al Prencipe Guerriero, Capitano Generaloi, e Soldatesca, Cavati dalla Scrittura Sacra (Siena: Bonetti, 1634). A handbook for secular rulers and military leaders. Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. Check also http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR

Centuria Prima libro primo delle questioni politiche, e morali (...) (Siena: Bonetti, 1637).

Centuria Prima libro secondo delle questioni politiche, e morali. Con gl'Oracoli della Scrittura Sacra (...) (Siena: Bonetti, 1638). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. Check also http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR

Centuria Prima libro terzo delle questioni politiche, e morali, Con gl'Oracoli della Scrittura Sacra (...) Al Sereniss. Gran Duca di Toscana Ferdinando Secondo (Siena: Bonetti, 1639). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. Check also http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR

Centuria Prima libro quarto. E fine delle Cento Questioni Politiche, e Morali, e molto più curiose dell'altre, del Primo del Secondo, e Terzo Libro (...) Al Sereniss. Gran Duca di Toscana Ferdinando Secondo (Siena: Bonetti, 1640). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. Check also http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Berdini%2C+Vincenzo%3Cm.+1643%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR

Centuria secunda de Praeceptis Christianis (Siena, 1642).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 137; G. M. Mazzuchelli, Gli Scrittori d'Italia (Brescia, 1760) II/2, 915, 1059; Sigismondo di Venezia, Biografia serafica (Venice, 1846), 611; T. Tobler, Bibliographia geographica Palaestinae (Leipzig, 1867), 24; Tobler, Bibliografia Geographica Palestinae (Leipzig, 1867), 24; C. da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 40-41; Amat di S. Filippo, Biografia dei viaggiatori italiani (Rome, 1882), 411; Angela Codazzi, 'Berdini, Vincenzo', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 8 (1966) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-berdini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ]; Marianne Petra Ritsema van Eck, Custodians of Sacred Space: Constructing the Franciscan Holy Land through texts and sacri monti (ca. 1480-1650), PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2017), passim; Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche Edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d’Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 128.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Aurelianensis (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French Friar from Brittany. Known for his anti-Protestant writings.

works

Ecclesia unica, ac necessaria, contra Haereticos, & Indifferentes.

Amor purus, seu solida devotio.

Triumphus altaris zelo Ludovici XIV Galliarum Constantini.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 137.

 

 

 

 

Vincenzo Ciorla (Vincentius Ciorla Neapolitensis/Vicenzo Ciorla da Scanno, fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Scotist theologian. Regent lector of the Franciscan studia of Lanciano, Benevento and L'Aquila. Provincial minister of the Abruzzo province (1640-1643). He apparently died in 1655 in Sulmona at the age of 56.

works

De visione, & praedestinatione.

De Angelis, & de Incarnatione.

De fide, spe, & charitate.

Summa Theologiae Moralis.

Disputationes logicales collectae ex doctrina Scoti (Rome: Ludovici Grignani, 1646).

Disputationes physicales complectentes libros physicorum, de coelo et mundo et de meteoris, collectae ex doctrina Scoti (Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1649).

Disputationes in libros de generatione et corruptione, de anima et metaphysica (Naples: Francesco Savio, 1651).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 137; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Aquilanus (Vincenzo Dell'Aquila, fl. 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the San Bernardino province. Master of theology and regent lector of the Bologna studium, when he published his Tractatus de Dei, hominisque operibus.

works

Tractatus de Dei, hominisque operibus ad Franciscum Columnan Archiepiscopum Tarentinum (Venice, 1554).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 686; Alvaro Cacciotti & Maria Melli, Beati aquilani dell'osservanza: Bernardino da Fossa, Vincenzo Dell'Aquila, Timoteo da Monticchio (Editrici francescane, 2007) [is this about the same friar? According to Sbaralea, our author was a Conventual].

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Capra (Vincenzo Capra da Borgo Valsugana, d. 1733)

OFMRif. Italian friar. Member of the Riformati province of Trento. Wrote several works that never reached the printing press.

works

Quaestiones theologicae de Lib. in IV Sent.: MS?

Miscellanea Quaestiones in ordine alphabetico: MS?

Consultationes theologicae: MS?

Poemata: MS? One of these would have dealt with the siege of Trento by French troops in 1703.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846),779.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Conventrensis (Vincent of Coventry, fl. first half 13th cent.)

OM. English friar. Would have been active at Oxford and the first public Franciscan lector at Cambridge.

works

Expositorium missae?

Repetitiones lectionum?

literature

Eccleston!; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 138; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Coronelli (Vincenzo Coronelli/Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1650-1718)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Son of Maffio and Catarina Coronelli. He joined the Franciscan Conventuals in 1655 and embarked on theological studies, culminating in a doctorate in theology at Rome in 1674. Already before his entry into the order, Vincenzo had displayed an interest in maps, and he became a proficient map and globe maker, building a first set of full-scale globes for the Duke of Parma in or around 1678. These globes were admired by visited to the court of Parma, among was César Cardinal d’Estrées, the French ambassador to the Holy See. With the help of the contacts of the latter, Vincenzo Coronelli was invited to Paris in 1681, where he spent two years building both a terrestrial and a celestial globe or giantesk proportions for King Louis XIV of France. With a diameter of c. 3.90 meters and a weight of approximately 2 tons each, these globed surpassed all other globes in size and ornamentation until the early twentieth century. They can now be seen at the Bibliothèque nationale François Mitterrand in Paris. After three years, Vincenzo returned to Venice (1684), where he founded the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, commonly thought to be the first geographical society. Soon afterwards, Vincenzo Coronelli was appointed official cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. With the stipend from this position, Vincenze was able to start working on two large atlases, the so-called Atlante veneto and the Isolario. For these works, Vincenzo made a lot of exploratory travels through Europe, establishing himself as a geographical engineer. Vincenzo had more or less to give up his scientific pursuits in 1701, when he was elected minister-general of the Conventual branch of the Franciscan order. After a regular stint of three years, Vincenzo returned to Venice in 1705. Except for a trip to Vienna, where he as consulted for measures to regulate the flow of the Danube, he stayed until his death in the Venetian friary. Vincenzo Coronelli left behind more than 100 globes, many more maps, atlasses and atlas designs, as well as seven volumes of a projected 45-volume, alphabetically organised encyclopedia in the Italian vernacular, the so-called Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana, which might have been the first of its kind (as a fully alphabetically organized work).

works

Globi di Coronelli, 1681-1683. See also: Il libro dei globi di Vincenzo Coronelli, ed. Nicolangelo Scianna & introd. Franco Farinelli (Dolmas, 1999).

Morea, Negroponte e Adiacenze (Venice: Pietro Foscarini, 1686).

CONQUISTE DELLA SER. REPUBLICA DI VENEZIA Nella Dalmazia, Epiro, e Morea Durante la Guerra intrapresa Contro MEEMET IV IMPER: DE TURCHI Negli due anni primi (...) (Venice, 1686). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Memorie Istoriogeografiche della Morea riacquistata dall'Armi Venete, del Regno di Negroponte, & altri luoghi coronvicini, e di quelli c'hanno sottomesso nella Dalmacia, e nell'Epiro (...) (Venice: Pietro Foscarini, 1687). Available via Google Books.

Roma festeggiante nel monte Pincio negli applausi alle glorie della pietà del cristianissimo Lodovico il grande, in occasione della da lui estirpata eresia, mediante l'editto di Fontanblò 1685, e della ricuperata sua salute, (...) Publicati dal padre maestro Coronelli, cosmografo della Serenissima Republica di Venetia (1687). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books. See also: Rome triomphante, sur le mont Pincius dans les applaudissemens à la gloire, & à la pietè du roy tres chrestien Louis le grand (...) (1687). Likewise accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Isola di Rodi geografica-storica, antica, e moderna, coll'altre adiacenti già possedute da caualieri hospitalieri di S. Giouanni di Gerusalemme. Opera de padri maestri Coronelli cosmografo della Serenissima Republica di Venetia, e Parisotti storiografo dell'Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti (Venice: alla libraria della geografia, sopra il ponte di Rialto, 1688). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome and via Google Books.

Historia del Regno di Siam figurata (...) (1689).

Atlante Veneto. Descrizione Geografica, Historica, Sacra, Profana, e Politica de'Stati dell'Universo, aggionte tutte le nuove scoperte (...) (Venice, 1691-1696).

Città e fortezze dello stato di Milano e confinanti (...) (1693).

Historia del regno di Negroponte, e sue isole adiacenti (Venice, 1695). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Isolario (Venice, 1696–1698).

Epitome Cosmografica, ò compendiosa introduzione all'Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia per l'uso, dilucidazione, e fabrica delle sfere, globi, planisferi, astrolabi &c (Paris, 1692/Cologne, 1693). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Ritratti de celebri Personaggi (1697).

Città e Fortezze dello stato di Milano e Confinanti (1693).

Viaggi del P. Coronelli (...), 2 Vols. (Venice: Giovanni Battista Tramontino, 1697). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona and via Google Books.

Lo Specchio del Mare (1698)

Imago Mundi, edited as: Vincenzo Coronelli e l’Imago Mundi, ed. D. Domini & M. Milanese, Interventi Classensi 18 (Ravenna, 1998).

Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, 7 vols. (Venice, 1701–1706). A universal encyclopedia, which was intended to contain 300.000 entries. It was one of the first vernacular encyclopedias and organised in alphabetical order. The seven volumes that appeared included information from 'A' to 'Caque'. The work was incredibly modern in its setup, not only with regard to its alphabetical structure, byt also for its numbering of articles, its numerical subdivisions of columns, and indexes in each volume. The volumes 41 and 42 were meant to contain additions and corrections, whereas volumes 43-45 were meant to contain encompassing indexes and cross-reference systems. Coronelli was also innovative in cursifying the titles of the volumes, which later became common practice for book titles. The Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris has all seven volumes that appeared between 1701 and 1707. Several volumes can also be downloaded via Google Books.
The individual volumes that appeared have the following titles:
Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna, in cui si spiega con ordine alfabetico ogni voce, anco straniera, che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a' qualunque materia.Tomo primo A - AE. Autore Fra' Vincenzo Coronelli minor conventuale di San Francesco Cosmografo della Serenissima Repubblica (Venice: A spese di Antonio Tivani, 1701).
Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna, in cui si spiega con ordine alfabetico ogni voce, anco straniera, che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a' qualunque materia. Tomo secondo AF - AL. Autore Fra' Vincenzo Coronelli Ministro Generale LXXVIII doppo 'l P. San Francesco di tutto 'l serafico suo Ordine de minori conv. Cosmografo della Serenissima Republica (Venice: A spese di Antonio Tivani, 1702).
Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna, in cui si spiega con ordine alfabetico ogni voce, anco straniera, che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a' qualunque materia. Tomo terzo AM - AO. Autore Fra' Vincenzo Coronelli Ministro Generale LXXVIII doppo 'l P. San Francesco di tutto 'l serafico suo Ordine de minori conv. Cosmografo della Serenissima Republica (Venice: A spese di Antonio Tivani, 1703).
Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna, in cui si spiega con ordine alfabetico ogni voce, anco straniera, che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a' qualunque materia. Tomo quarto AP - AZ. Autore Fra' Vincenzo Coronelli Ministro Generale LXXVIII doppo 'l P. San Francesco di tutto 'l serafico suo Ordine de minori conv. Cosmografo della Serenissima Republica (Venice: A spese di Antonio Tivani, 1703).
Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna, in cui si spiega con ordine alfabetico ogni voce, anco straniera, che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a' qualunque materia. Tomo quinto BA - BH. Autore Fra' Vincenzo Coronelli Ministro Generale LXXVIII doppo 'l P. San Francesco di tutto 'l serafico suo Ordine de minori conv. Cosmografo della Serenissima Republica (Venice: A spese di Antonio Tivani, 1704).
Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna, in cui si spiega con ordine alfabetico ogni voce, anco straniera, che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a' qualunque materia. Tomo Sesto BI - BZ. Dedicato alla Serenissima Repubblica di Genova dall'autore Fra' Vincenzo Coronelli, Ministro Generale LXXVIII dopo 'l Padre San Francesco di tutto 'l serafico suo Ordine de' minori conv. Cosmografo Pubblico (Venice: A spese dell'Accademia degli Argonauti, Stampato da Gio. Battista Tramontin a San Rocco, 1706).
Biblioteca universale, sacro-profana, antico-moderna, o sia Gran Dizzionario, diviso in tomi quarantacinque, ne' quali spiegasi con ordine alfabetico ogni voce anche straniera che può avere significato nel nostro idioma italiano, appartenente a qualunque materia. Tomo settimo. Coll'aggionta d'altri X tomi figurati, già pubblicati, parimente in ugual foglio, rappresentanti in stampe di rame le singolarità, descritte nella stessa Biblioteca, che distribuisconsi uniti, o separati, a piacimento d'ogn'uno. Autore il P. Cosmografo Coronelli, ex-Generale LXXVIII della serafica sua Religione de' minori c. dopo S. Francesco (Venice, 1707).

Cronologia universale, che facilita lo studio di qualumque storia e particolarmente serve di prodromo alli 45. volumi della biblioteca, consecrata all'eminentissimo prencipe fra Vincenzo Maria Orsini (...) da fra Vincenzo Coronelli minor conventuale ad uso dell'Accademia cosmografica degli Argonauti (1707). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and via Google Books.

Lombardia ch'abbracia gli Stati de'Duchi di Savoja, Mantova, Parma (Turin, 1706). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Roma antico-moderna (1716).

Singolarita di Venezia (1708-1709).

To be continued...

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 562-566, 602; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 139-141; Pietro Rigobon, ‘Biografia e studi del P. Vincenzo Coronelli’, Archivio veneto 3:1 (1872), 267–271; N. Scianna, ‘Due rari di Vincenzo Coronelli nella Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio’, L’Archiginnasio 89 (1904), 279-293; Ermano Armao, Vincenzo Coronelli, cenni sull'uomo e la sua vita, catalogo ragionato delle sue opere, lettere, fonti bibliografiche (Florence: Bibliopolis, 1944); Loredana Franco, ‘The life and works of Vincenzo Coronelli: the results to date’, Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science 9:2 (1994), 517-541; Roberto Almagia, ‘Vincenzo Coronelli’, Der Globusfreund 1:1 (1952), 13–27; Catalogo dei globi antichi conservati in Italia, I: I globi di Vincenzo Coronelli, ed. Maria Luisa Bonelli (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1960); O.-G. Saarmann Muris, Der Globus im Wandel der Zeiten (Berlin-Stuttgart, 1961), 167–173; Isodoro Liberale Gatti, Il P. Vincenzo Coronelli dei Frati minori conventuali negli anni del generalato (1701-1707), Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana-Miscellanea Historiae Pontifica, 41, 2 Vols. (Rome: Universita Gregoriana. 1976); Monique Pelletier, ‘Les Globes de Louis XIV: les Sources françaises de l’oeuvre de Coronelli’, Imago Mundi 34 (1982); James Lawrence Fuchs, Vincenzo Coronelli and the Organization of Knowledge: The Twilight of Seventeenth-Century Encyclopedism. Ph.D. Diss (University of Chicago, 1983); Nicolangelo Scianna, ‘The Coronellis three and half foot globes. Building and engraving of the first terrestial globes’, Der Globesfreund. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde 43/44 (Vienna, 1995), 171-188; Antonella Barzazi, 'Enciclopedismo e Ordini religiosi tra Sei e Settecento: La Biblioteca universale di Vicenzo Coronelli', in: L’enciclopedismo in Italia nel XVIII secolo, ed. G. Abbattista (Naples: Bibliopolis, 1996), 65-66, 69-70; Nicolangelo Scianna, ‘Indagine sui grandi globi a stampa di Vincenzo Coronelli’, Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza 13:1 (1998), 151-168; Vincenzo Coronelli e l’‘Imago Mundi’, ed. Donatino Domini & Marica Milanesi, Interventi classensi, 18 (Ravenna: Longo Angelo Ed.-Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio,  1998); [important essay collection. See the reviews in Collectanea Franciscana 70 (2000), 647f & Miscellanea Francescana 99 (1999), 404-406; Massimo Donattini, Vincenzo Coronelli e l’immagine del mondo fra isolari e atlanti (Ravenna, 1999); Un intellettuale europeo e il suo universo. Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), ed. Maria Gioia Tavoni (Bologna: Studio Costa, 1999); Il libro dei globi di Vincenzo Coronelli, ed. Nicolangelo Scianna (Forlì: Dolmas, 1999); Nicolangelo Scianna, ‘Indagine sui grandi globi a stampa di Vincenzo Coronelli. Seconda parte: Il globo celeste’, Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza 15: (2000), 235-257; Riccardo Vianello, ‘Precisazioni biografiche sul frate Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (Ravenna 1650-Venice 1718)’, Chioggia. Rivista di Studi e Ricerche 18 (June 2001); Franca Nicolini Di Marzio, Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-Venezia-1718): epitome storica veneziana nel culto ambivalente della loro identità: memorie e risonanze (Naples: Accademia Pontiniana. 2005); Nicolangelo Scianna, Restaurare il cielo: il restauro del globo celeste faentino di Vincenzo Coronelli (Bologna : Clueb Editrice, 2007); George Kish, ‘Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria’, in: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (2008). Available on Encyclopedia.com. (, accessed on 2 Feb. 2012); Gene Rhea Tucker, ‘Coronelli’s Texan Mississippi: A Reinterpretation of the America Settentrionale of 1688’, Terrae Incognitae 40 (2008), 82–101; Nicolangelo Scianna, ‘Sfere di carta. Il Libro dei Globi di Vincenzo Coronelli’, Charta 96 (2008), 82-87; Nicolangelo Scianna, ‘La venezianità di P. Vincenzo Coronelli ofmconv (1650-1718)’, Il Santo 48 (2008), 592f. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Coronelli (visited on Febr. 2, 2012) & http://www.atlascoelestis.com/Cor%201689%20Pagina%20base.htm (visited on Febr. 2, 2012); Marica Milanesi Grendi, Vincenzo Coronelli Cosmographer (1650-1718), Terrarum Orbis, 13 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016).

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Cuenca (Vicente Cuenca Pardo, 1767-1845)

OFM. Spanish Franciscan architect from Játiva. Born on 27 April 1767 as son of Francisco Cuenca, himself an architect, and Rosa Pardo from Énguera. He joined the Franiscans in the Sant Francesc de Xàtiva friary in 1783, making his final vows in Valencia in 1784. He was from the outset active as an architect himself, in part in collaboration with the architectural office of his father, designing a new portal for the church of the Sant Francesc de Xàtiva friary (1786), parts of the friaries of Sueca (1787) and Xixona (1795), and the church Utiel (1795). He was also involved with the architectoral development of urbanization projects. His reputation grew, leading to obtaining the title of Architect of the Reial Acadèmia de Sant Ferran (1801). Most of his designs/projects were executed in Játiva (Xàtiva), but he was also active elsewhere. He died on 11 May 1845 at the age of 79. Alongside of his architectural works, he is also known for his autobiography.

works

Architectural designs and realisations (religious buildings, other urban buildings).

Notes autògrafes. See: Archivo Ibero-Americano 17 (1922), 280-283.

literature

Archivo Ibero-Americano 17 (1922), 280-283.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Bassiano (Vincenzo di Bassiano/Vincenzo Pietrosanti, 1631-1694)

OFMRef. Italian friar from Bassiano (in the Monti Lipini). Took the habit in 1646 in the SS. Trinità friary of Orvieto. Active as guardian and provincial minister (1674-1677 and 1683-1686). He was himself known to be a talented wood sculptor (known for his crucifixes and other religious art that involved wood carving). He died in the Aracoeli friary in Rome.

works

Istruttioni per la vita religiosa de’ Frati Minori Osservanti, nelli conventi della Santa Recollettione, compilate per la Provincia Osservante Romana. Con l’aggiunta per il Convento del Santo Ritiro di S. Francesco di Civitella (Roma, Per Paolo Moneta, 1684)/ A facsimile edition, edited by Luigi Sergio Mecocci appeared at Comune di Bassiano (Latina) 2000.

Religious wood sculptures, especially crucifixes (For instance in the Convento di Santa Maria della Consolazione of Caprarola (Viterbo), produced in 1662; in the Santuario del Santissimo Crocifisso at Nemi (Rome), finished before 19 May 1669; in the church of Sant'Agata Vergine e Martire in Ferentino (Frosinone), ca. 1669; in the Santuario del Crocifisso near Bassiano, made in 1673; in the monastery of San Rocco in Farnese (Viterbo), 1684; in the Santuario del Sacro Ritiro di San Francesco near Bellegra (Rome); in the Santa Maria in Aracoeli of Rome (Cappella del Crocifisso; etc.). See the study of Neri, as well as https://www.parrocchiasantagata.com/index.php/rubriche/crocifisso/386-fra-vincenzo-da-bassiano-scultore-e-santo-di-emanuele-romanelli-o-f-m

literature

P. Damiano Neri, Scultori Francescani del Seicento in Italia (Pistoia, 1952), passim; Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 97 (2004), 529.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Carravaggio (Vincenzo da Carravaggio, fl. ca. 1600)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Bressanone province.

works

Officium parvum S.P.N. Francisci, additis aliis devotissimis precibus, & orationibus (Rome, 1615).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 137; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Catacio (Vincenzo da Catanzaro/Vincenzo Maria da Catanzaro, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Reggio Calabria province. Preacher and provincial minister.

works

Esercizi letterari di Fr. Vincenzo M. da Catanzaro concernenti al B. Lorenzo da Brindisi (Rome, 1794).

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), 41.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Monte (Vincentius vom Berg, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMConv. German friar. Author of two major instruction manuals for young clerical Franciscan friars.

works

Vincentius von Berg, Ratiocinium juventutis Franciscanae: sive Disquisitiones historico-theologicae super Regulam, Constitutiones & statum Ordinis nostri Seraphici Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Conventualium cum inserta brevi chronologia Generalium ordinis nec non Provincialium almae hujus Provinciae Coloniensis (Cologne: apud Jacobum Meyner Bibliopolam, 1740). Accessible via Google Books.

Enchiridium Quadripartitum P. Vincentii von Berg Franciscani Conventualis (...) (Cologne: Johann Conrad Gussen, 1643). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Bert Roest, ‘Demonic Possession and the Practice of Exorcism: An exploration of the Franciscan Legacy’, Franciscan Studies 76 (2018), 301-340 [337.]

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Monte Regali (fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar, doctor of theology and public lector of moral theology 'apud Basilicam Sanctorum duodecim Apostolorum' in Rome.

works

Mons regalis. Hoc est. Ad casus conscientiae, & Animarum Regimen Institutio Moralis Theolog. vere Regia, & Utilissima (...) (Florence: Amator Massa & Lorenzo da Lando, 1641). Accessible via Google Books.

Selecta moralia siue De animae morbis, & medicamine breuis, & selecta tractatio (Florence: Amator Massa & Lorenzo da Lando, 1655).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 141.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Nancy (Vincent de Nancy, fl. ca. 1700)

TOR. French Franciscan regular tertiary

works

Histoire fidelle de S. Sigisbert, XII Roy d'Austrasie et III du nom. Avec un abrégé de la vie du Roy Dagobert son fils (...) (Nancy: Charlot & Pierre Deschamps, 1702). Accessible via the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 141-142

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Orleans (Vincent d'Orléans, d. after 1674)

OFMCap. French friar. Entered the order as a novice in 1633. Guardian of Blois and provincial definitor in Blois in september 1643. Preacher, also active against Jansenism.

works

L'église de Jésus-Christ ou la communion de Rome toujours victorieuse de ses ennemis (Poitiers, 1659)

La religion chrétienne unique et nécessaire. Contre les indifférents et les hérétiques, I (Paris, 1666) [volume II apparently never appeared]

Triomphe de l'autel dû au zèle de Louis XIV, le Constantin françois did this work survive?

Le pur amour ou la dévotion solide et nécessaire (Nantes, 1674).

literature

W.-Chr. van Dijk, `Vincent d'Orleans', Dict. de Spir, 16 (1994), 832-834.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Rouen (Vincentius Rotomagensis/Le P. Vincent, d. 1658)

TOR. Franciscan regular tertiary. Active in Rouen, apparently also as preacher since ca. 1612. Provincial of the tertiary province of St. Louis or Lyon between 1634-37. Died as provincial of the province of St. Francis or Paris on 31 may 1658. Wrote several spiritual works.

works

L'heureuse rencontre du ciel et de la terre en l'invention miraculeuse de l'image de la Mère de Dieu honoréee sous le titre de Notre Dame de Bonencontre (Tours, 1642).

Discours funèbre sur la mort de l'éminentisse cardinal Louys de La Valete (...) (Toulouse: Arnaud Colomiez, 1643). Accessible via Google Books.

Exercise de l'homme intérieure en la connaissance de Dieu et de soy-mesme (Paris: Georges Josse, 1650). Accessible via Google Books.

Juan de San Antonio mentions other works (meditations on Jeremiah, sermons on the body of Christ, meditations on the divine mystery of the life and death of Christ, a work on the spoils of Egypt) that I have not yet been able to trace.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 142-143; Sbaralea, Suppl., III, 157-58; André Derville, `Vincent de Rouen', Dict Spir, 16 (1994), 863-865.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Salvador (Vincente do Salvador, d. 1639)

OFMDisc. Portuguese friar. Missionary in Brazil. Historian.

literature

V. Willeke, ‘Vincente do Salvador, OFM, ‘Vater der brasilianischen Geschichtsschreibung”, Franziskanische Studien 43 (1961), 75-84. See also Collectanea Franciscana, Bibliographia franciscana XII (1958-1963), 564 (no. 2353).

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Sancta Maria (Vicente de Santa María, 1742-1806)

OFM. Spanish friar from Aras (Navarra, Calahorra diocese). Joined the Franciscans at San Francisco de Estella on 17 October 1759 Missionary in California, traveling from Cádiz to the New World in 1769. In Mexico, he attended the College of San Fernando. In the mid 1770s, he accompanied the explorer Juan de Ayala as a diarist for an exploratory journey along the American West Coast north of Mexico. Vicente wrote a detailed account of his journey on the ship San Carlos and exploration of the Californian San Francisco area. He became involved there in the missionas of San Francisco and San Buenaventura (Ventura).

works

Diario. See the studies of Geiger and Torre Villar.

Cartas See the studies of Geiger and Torre Villar.

literature

Maynard J. Geiger, Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848: A Biographical Dictionary (Huntington Library, 1969), 91f.; Southern California Quarterly 54 (1972), 86; Ernesto de la Torre Villar, ‘Fray Vicente de Santa María (…)’, in: Actas del IV Congreso Internacional sobre Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVIII), Cholula-Puebla del 22 al 27 de julio de 1991 (Madrid: DEIMOS, 1992), 849-852.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Sancto Angelo (Vincenzo di Santo Angelo, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian (Sicilian) friar. Preacher and poet.

works

Visione trionfante (...) canzoni spirituali sul hymno Veni Creator Spiritus (...) carmina (Palermo: Giovanni Antonio Francesco, 1699).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 137.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius de Sancto Heraclio (Vincenzo da Sant'Eraclio, fl. mid 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Umbrian province. Productive author.

works

Divoto esercizio di nove giorni in onore del martire sant'Eraclio proposto al popolo del castello che porta il nome di detto santo per disporlo a celebrarne con divozione maggiore la festa (1739).

La mistica Sulamitide, o sia Il celeste epitalamio dell'anima con Cristo nel libro della Cantica: dramma sacro parafrasato in versi italiani (...) da Clarione Nestorideo (Milan: Giuseppe Cairoli, 1743/Milan: Giuseppe Cairoli, 1763). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

L'Ester italiana o sia Il libro di Ester tradotto in verso italiano coll'annotazioni in prosa che spiegano, e illustrano questa sacra storia. Dedicato a s.e. il sig. cardinale Prospero Colonna di Sciarra da Clarione Nestorideo (...) (Venice: Simone Occhi, 1746). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

I dodici profeti minori parafrasati in verso italiano, colle annotazioni, che spiegano, e moralizzano i loro versetti (...) Da Clarione Nestorideo, 2 Vols. (Foligno: Pompeo, 1749). Accessible via the University Library of Turin, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books (creative search for both volumes).

Maria, parafrasi del Cantico di Salomone in versi italiani, colle annotazioni, che scuoprono le perfezioni della ss. Vergine, opera del p. Vincenzo da S. Eraclio, predicator cappuccino (...) (Foligno: Stamperia Vescovile, 1750). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, and via Google Books.

Orazioni sacre composte, e recitate dal padre Vincenzo da Sant'Eraclio capuccino (...) (Venice: Tommaso Bettinelli, 1754). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona and via Google Books.

Lettera apologetico-critica di Linfarco Clitoniese a Dioneo Sardico contro quanto dice il M.R.P. Zacheria gesuita nella sua Storia letteraria (...) sopra la parafrasi della cantica di Salomone intitolata la Maria fatta dal P. Vincenzo da S. Eraclio (...) (1754).

Considerazioni critiche di Damasifro Aptesto sopra le Lettere critiche, giocose, morali, scientifiche, alla moda (...)del conte Agostino Santi Pupieni o sia dell'avvocato Giuseppe Antonio Costantini. Accresciute dall'autore di molte aggiunte (...) (1755).

Pastorale anacreontica per l'esaltazione di sua eccellenza reverendissima monsignor Francesco Felice conte degli Alberti di Enno vescovo di Melitopoli intimo attuale consigliere di stato delle loro cesaree maestà imperiali coadiutore con futura successione ed amministratore plenipotenziario del vescovato e principato di Trento (1757).

La sacra storia di Giuditta parafrasata in verso italiano, colle annotazioni, che spiegano e talor moralizzano i suoi versetti (...) dal padre fra' Vincenzo da sant'Eraclio (...) (1759).

Esame teologico-fisico del sistema di chi sostiene abitati da ragionevoli creature i pianeti. Per intendere se oppongasi alla cattolica religione. Opera di Giuseppe Arcangelo Nifa (Lucca: Giuseppe Rocchi, 1760). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Copia di una lettera scritta dal P. Vincenzo da Sant'Eraclio, predicatore Cappuccino, ad un M. R. P., ove gli dâ relazione di quanto gli è accaduto in questo anno 1760, nel convento di Venezia, col M. R. P. Gian-Battista da Nimis, deffinitore, ed ivi guardiano, coll'occasione ch'esso P. Vincenzo si era colà portato, affine di stampare la sua opera, degli studi apparenti a'regolari di rigido instituto (1760). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

I proverbj di Salomone recati in verso italiano e arrichiti d'annotazioni dal P. Vincenzo da S. Eraclio (...) (Bologna: Stamperia di S. Tommaso d'Aquini, 1760). Accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and via Google Books.

Degli studj, ne' quali principalmente impiegare si debbono i regolari di rigido istituto. Opera del padre f. Vincenzo da s. Eraclio, predicator cappuccino (...), 2 Vols. (Bologna: Gaspare de'Franceschi, 1760). Accessible via the Biblioteca Comunale of Cremona and via Google Books.

Per le nozze delle reali altezze dell'arciduca d'Austria, e dell'infanta di Parma celebrate in tempo di guerra l'anno 1760. Sogno poetico in lode di sua maesta' apostolica l'imperadrice, e reina d'Ungheria, e di Boemia (...) (Roveredo: Francescantonio Marchesanti, 1760). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome and via Google Books.

Dialogo-critico di Teofilo ed Atiasto sopra la verità della religione cattolica dimostrata con ragioni naturali, storiche e teologiche diviso in quattro parti (1761).

(as translator) Della discrezione, o sia Conoscimento degli spiriti libro uno. Opera di Giovanni Bona prete cardinale (...) Dalla latina nella italiana favella portata, con avervi delle note aggiunte, dal padre f. Vincenzo da Sant'Eraclio predicator cappuccino (...) (Rome: Francesco Bizzarrini Komarek, 1765). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 41

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Gallus (Vincenzo Gallo da Alcará, fl. ca. 1600)

OFMConv. Italian (Sicilian) friar. Composer. Lived and worked for a while in the friary of SS. Annnunziata in Porta Montalto, where he was involved with the creation of a proper cloister and other buildings.

works

Libro primo dei madrigali a cinque voci (Palermo: Giovanni Francesco Carrara, 1589).

Messa prima cantata a due cori con otto voci. Messa seconda a dodici voci con tre cori (Rome: Nicolò Muzio, 1596).

Other works by him are included in: Infidi lumi, madrigali a cinque voci di diversi autori siciliani (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo, 1603).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 138; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687; Philippo Cagliola, Almae Siciliensis Provinciae Ordinis Minorvm Conventualium S. Francisci Manifestationes Novissimae (...) (Venice: Pietro Turini, 1644), 104; F. Rotolo, 'La vicenda culturale nel Convento di S. Francesco di Palermo', in: La Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo, ed. D. Ciccarelli (Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo-Officina di Studi Medievali, 1995), 103-104.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Gargam (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar, member of the St. Denis province. Provincial definitor.

works

Summorum Pontificum Chronologia una cum Virorum Illustrium gestis, ac Historia Anglica, Politica, & Ecclesiastica.

Vita S. Petri Alcantarensis.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 139.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Garzia de Laza (Vicente Garcia de Laza/Loza, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar. Born in Alicante. Provincial minister of the Valencia province.

works

Tratado de la Reliquia de la Santa Faz de Christo, custodia en su Convento de la Veronica de Religiosas Franciscanas de la Ciudad de Alicante: MS Alicante Archive?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 139; Vicente Ximeno, Escritores del Reyno de Valencia: Chronologicamente Ordenados, 2 Vols. (Valencia: Joseph Estevan Dolz, 1749) II, 5.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Glock (Vincentius Glock von Ebern, fl. ca. 1800)

OFMCap. German friar from the Franconia province. Preacher in Würzburg Cathedral.

works

Predigten auf die Feste des Herrn, der seligsten Jungfrau und einiger Heiligen, in dreyen Theilen, 3 Vols. (Würzburg: Johann Jakob Stahel sel. Wittwe und Sohn, 1799 [2nd extended ed.]/1795/1806).

Neue Festreden auf die Gedächtnisstäge Mariens für drey Jahre (Würzburg: Gebr. Stahel, 1802).

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), 41; Analecta ordinis minorum Capuccinorum 25 (1909), 220.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Ingles (Vincente Inglés, fl. c. 1720)

OFM. Spanish friar. Active in the San Gregorio de Filipinas province, where he also became provincial minister.

literature

AIA 33 (1930), 58-59; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 130 (no. 435)

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Johannes Bapista Canes (Vincent Canes/Jean-Baptiste/John Vincent Canes/Thomas Bodwill, 1608-1672)

OFM. Friar of English descent. Born on the border of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire in an Anglican milieu, he studied at Cambridge. After two years of studies, he moved to London, and then traveled through the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Flanders, during which period he might have converted to Catholicism. He left England again during the period of the English civil war, joining the Franciscans at Douai, taking the name Jean-Baptiste. At first, he taught philosophy and theology within the Franciscan school network in France. Then he returned to London, to work as a missionary (under the name of Thomas Bodwill). In London, albeit rather eirenic and accommodating in his doctrinal views, he became involved in polemics with the Protestant authors Stillingfleet, John Owen, Daniel Whitby, and others, which brought our Franciscan to publish of several books, published in London under his initials J.V.C. He died on 21 June 1672 in London

works

The Reclaimed Papist: Or a dialogue between a papist knight, a protestant lady, a parson and his wife (London, 1655). Accessible via Google Books.

Fiat Lux: Or a general conduct to a right understanding and charity in the great combustions and broils about religion here in England, between papist and protestant presbyterian and independent (London, 1661/1662/enlarged edition in 1665). The first edition of this work drew out reactions by Stillingfleet, Owen etc.

An Epistle to the Author of the Animadversions upon Fiat Lux (London, 1663).

Diaphanta, or three attendants on Fiat Lux. Wherin Catholik Religion is further excused against the opposition of severall Adversaries (1665). This also included the Epistle to the Author of the Animadversions upon Fiat Lux. Accessible via The British Library and via Google Books.

Infallibility (London, 1665).

Three Letters declaring the strange, odd Proceedings of Protestant Divines when they write against Catholics, etc. (1671).

TOO KATHOLICOO Stillingfleeton, or, An account given to a Catholick friend of Dr. Stillingfleet's late book against the Roman church, together with a short postil upon his text, in three letters by I. V. C. (1672) (Bruges, 1672).

literature

Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England, 1600-1850 (London, 1898), 109-110; The English Franciscan nuns, 1619–1821, and the Friars Minor of the same province, 1618–1761, ed. R. Trappes-Lomax, Catholic Recusant Society, 24 (1922), 259-314; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Canes’, DHGE XI, 740; Patricia C. Brückmann, ‘Canes, Vincent (1608–1672)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4549, accessed 3 Dec 2014).

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Lucitanus (Vincentius de/a Plagis)

OFMDisc. Theologian and consultant for the Inquisition. Examiner/visitator of military orders and provincial order historian.

works

Pars prima Chronicorum Provinciae S. Antonii?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 142.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Lunellus (Vicente Lunel, 1480-1550)

OFM. Spanish friar. Minister general between 1535 and 1541. Born in Barbastro (Huesca), Aragon. Following his initial schooling he joined the Franciscans in the Recollect friary of Nuestra Signora la Real de las Huertas (Lorca/Murcia). He was ordained priest at the age of 25, and after completing his theology studies he taught arts and theology in his order province. He was also elected custos and in that capacity he took part in the General Chapter of Toulouse (1532). There he was elected to the position of general commissary for his order at the papal curia. He kept this position until the next general chapter, held at Nice in 1535, when he was elected minister general. During his generalate he visited many order provinces and tried to deal with several pressing issues, such as the split-off of the Capuchins, the closure of monasteries in England and the development of Lutheranism and the loss of friaries in the German Empire crisis. In his position, he also engaged in diplomatic missions for pope Paul III and the emperor Charles V. To promote observance in the order and to accommodate criticism from inside and from outside (the Capuchins), he ordered the erection in each order province of a house devoted to eremitical retreat. He also actively supported the expansion of Franciscan mission to the New World. After he laid down his office at the general chapter of Mantua (1541), and the election of his successor Juan de Calvi, Lunel retreated to the friary of Lorca, where he engaged in menial tasks and contemplation, until he was approached in 1545 by Charles V to take part as theologian in the Council of Trent. Lunel also took part in the general chapter of Assisi in 1547 and was elected general definitor. He died in the San Bernardino friary in Trent in 1550. Aside from a number of letters, several writings connected with issues discussed during the first sessions of the council (on Scriptural access, translations and status, on justification and grace etc.) have survived. See on these the study of Sánchez Gil.

works

Letters issued as minister general. See the study of Sánchez Gil.

Theological statements at the council of Trent (on Scriptural access, translations and status, on justification and grace etc.). See the study of Sánchez Gil.

literature

V. Sánchez Gil, Vicente Lunel, ministro general OFM, teólogo en el Concilio de Trento, Publicaciones Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1975).

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Lupi (Vincenzo Lupi da Canali/Vincenzo Lupi di Ragusa, 1709)

OFM. Croatian Observant friar from the Ragusa province. Lector of theology and preacher. Court theologian for the Duke of Mantua, and guardian of the local Franciscan friary. Elected bishop of Stagno (Ston, Croatia) in 1703. Known for a polemical work on the 'errors' of the Jews, kept in the Biblioteca Comunale of Mantua. He died in Stagna on 3 November 1709.

works

Campo di Battaglia: MS Biblioteca Comunale of Mantua. Check! It amounts to a polemical work on the 'errors' of the Jews.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri, 752; Cenni storici siu minori osservanti di Ragusa raccolti dal p. Giovanni Evangelista Cusmich (Trieste: Lloyd Austriaco, 1864), 49.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Mazuelo (Vincente de Burgos/Vincente Mazuelo, fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Spanish friar from Burgos. Entered the Franciscan order in the Concepcion province. Went to Paris for his education. After his return to Spain, he taught and engaged in translation activities. He is first and foremost known for his Castilian translation of the De Proprietatibus Rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus and the Pèlerinage de la vie humaine by Guillaume de Guilleville.

works

El libro de proprietatibus rerum en romance. Historia natural: do se tratan las propriedades de todas las cosas (Tolosa: Henricus Meyer de Alemania, 1494 & Toledo: Gaspar de Avila, 1529). Richly illustrated works. The 1529 edition is accessible via a number of digital portals.

El pelegrino de la vida humana (Tolosa, Henricus Meyer de Alemannia, 1490).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Salamanca, 1738) III, 137; B.-J. Gallardo, Ensayo de una biblioteca española de libros raros y curiosos (Madrid, 1866) II, 154-156; M. Martínez Añibarro, Intento abbreviado de autores de la provincia de Burgos (Madrid, 1889), 74-76, 352-353; F. Vera, La cultura española medieval (Madrid, 1933) I, 199-202; M. Alamo, ‘Burgos’, DHGE X, 1360-1361.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Manuelus Castano (Vicente Manuel Castaño, fl. late 18th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Castilian province in 1790.

literature

AIA 25 (1926), 190-192; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 100 (no. 212).

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Maria Carminati (Vincenzo Maria Carminati, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar, active as collegiatus in the Bologna province.

works

Vita, morte, e miracoli del glorioso padre de' poueri S. Giovanni de Dio: fondatore del Sagro Ordine della Spedalità (Bologna: Eredi del Sarti, 1691).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 139.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Maria de Merzana (fl. late 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the San Giuseppe da Leonessa province.

works

Praxis Sacramenti Poenitentiae (Turin, 1792).

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), 41.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Montorselli de Monte Regali (Vincenzo Montorselli da Monte Reale, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the San Francesco province. Lector of moral philosophy in L'Aquila and Rome (SS. XII Apostoli friary). He died in Rome in 1656.

works

Mons Regalis. Hoc est ad casus conscientiae, & animarum regimen institutio moralis theolog. verè Regia, & Utilissima (Florence: Amator Massa & Lorenzo dei Landi, 1641). Accessible via Google Books.

Selecta moralia siue De animae morbis, & medicamine breuis, & selecta tractatio (Florence: Amator Massa & Lorenzo dei Landi, 1655).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 566; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687; Nicola Petrone, Francescanesimo in Abruzzo: dalle origini ai nostri giorni (Biblioteca Tommasiana, 2000), 313.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Morawski (Moravuski, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Polish Observant friar, theology lector and preacher (obtained the status of concionator generalis), as well as provincial definitor and procurator on behalf of his order for the canonization proceedings of Ladislaus Gielniow.

works

Lucerna perfectionis christianae, sive vita B. Ladislai Gielnovii, Eximia sanctitate Viri illustris (...) (Warshaw: Joannis Rossowski, 1633). Accessible via Google Books. A Polish version of this work would already have appeared in 1612 and again in 1633. The Acta Sanctorum mentions other publication years.

Topografia Monasteriorum provinciae Poloniae Ordinis Minorum?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 141; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687; Acta Sanctorum Maii Tomus Primus (ed. 1866), 566b & d.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Moretus (Vincent Moret, fl. 17th cent.)

ORMRec. French friar, member of the St. Denis province.

works

La simplicité chrétienne (Paris, 1656).

La Prudence chrétienne contre les finesses du monde (Paris: E. Couterot, 1664).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 141; 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), 225-6

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Mussartus (Vincent Mussart, fl. 17th cent.)

TOR. French Franciscan tertiary. Heavily informed with religious reform among the French tertiaries with support of part of the French Franciscan authorities and with King Henry IV of France (who saw it as an opportunity to weed out 'foreign' influences). Author. He died on 10 August 1637?

works

Tertii Ordinis Strict. Observantiae in Gallia Statuta, Constitutiones, & Decreta Generalia (Lyon: Claude Morillon, 1614).

Le fouet des jureurs et blasphémateurs du nom de Dieu (Troyes: Nicolas Oudot, 1614/Paris: Parre Piot, 1622).

Apologia in gratiam Begnigni a Genua Ministri Generalis totius Ordinis S. Francisci pro stabilimento reformationis in Gallia (Paris, 1622). Did this work appear in French?

Theologia Mystica per modum meditationis super Evangelia pro omnibus Dominicis festis, & diebus anni (Lyon, 1629).

Bullae, aliaeque litterae ad Tertiarios Galliae spectantes (Paris, 1644).

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

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 141; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 687-688; René Tiron, Histoire et costumes des ordres religieux, civils et militaires, 2 Vols. (Brussels: Librairie Historique-Artistique, 1843-1845) I, 184f.; Barbara Diefendorf, 'Henri IV, the Dévots and the Making of a French Catholic Reformation', in: Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France, ed. A. Forrestal & E. Nelson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 171ff.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Pastor Fernandez (fl. late 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar.

works

Geneologia e Catalogo de reys de Hispania (Valencia, 1699).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 142.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Ragusa (Vincenzo di Ragusa, 1630-1703)

OFM. Italian (Sicilian) lector, guardian, provincial definitor, custos, provincial minister and concionator apostolicus. He would have died on 24 May 1703.

works

Modo di recitare il Rosario per l'anima del Purgatorio (Palermo: Pietro de Isola, 1675).

Tesoro Spirituale (Palermo: Bossio, 1676). Also later revised editions. It was also included in a revised form in the 1700 edition of the Arte della Salute Spirituale.

Arte della Salute Spirituale, nella quale s'insegnano al Cristiano le regole, ed i precetti d'incamminarsi nella via Purgativa, Illuminativa, ed Unitiva. Tradotta da latino in volgare, ed ampliata. Con una operetta intitolata Tesoro Spirituale, ampliata (Palermo: Felice Marino, 1700).

Other spiritual and philosophical works by him (Silva Major/Silva minor/Septem Ave Angeli Custodis/Septem gaudia & dolores S. Josephi/Devotiones variae ex D. Bonaventura variisque auctoribus exerpta/Officium B. Bonaventurae/De sacramentis, as well as works on logic, physics, De anima etc.), alluded to by Juan de San Antonio and in the Bibliotheca Sicula, were apparently not printed but kept in Sicilian friaries and possibly in the Biblioteca Comunale of Palermo.

A biography of Vinzenso was apparently written by Girolamo Renda and issued in Palermo in 1705.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 142; Bibliotheca Sicula, siue De scriptoribus Siculis, qui tum vetera, tum recentiora saecula illustrarunt (...), II, 293-294 [with detailed biographical info]

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Riccius (Vincenzo Riccio di San Severo, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Member of the S. Angelo province. Professor of theology.

works

Hieroglyphica Moralia, in quibus virtutes prosequendas, & vitia fugienda esse demonstratur (Naples: Giovanni Domenico Roncaglio, 1626). Issued in Italian?

Emblemmata Sacra, & singillatim de Excellentiis Beatissimae Virginis, S. Joannis Evangelistae, S. Petri Apostoli, ac Christi Domini (Venice, 1654). This book in reality was issued in Italian ( Impresse sacre (...)), but we have not yet found the complete proper title.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 142; Sbaralea, Supplementum, 688.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Rufus (Rufinus/Vincenzo Rosso da Savona)

OFM. Italian friar.

works

Compendio di teologia mistica, 5 Vols. Was this ever printed?

Compendio delle meditazione?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 688.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Sapera (Vicente Sapera, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Mystical/devotional author.

works

Monilia animarum devotarum (Barcelona, 1667/1705). This work was issued in the Catalan vernacular?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Scapitta (Vincenzo Scapita/Scapitta, 1593-1656)

OFM. Italian friar. Born in Valenza (Po area). Initially a member of the Genoa province (Monferrato custody). Well-educated in the liberal arts and especially in music. Court chaplain and leading singer at the court of Archduke Leopold V of Tyrol beyween 1621 and 1623. Later in Olomuc/Olmütz active at the episcopal court of Cardinal Bishop Franz Dietrichstein (until 1636). Then chaplain and leading singer in the court chapel of the Polish king. In 1645 he founded a Franciscan monastery there. In 1555, he had to flee for Swedish forces to Vienna. He died on the first of August 1656.

works

Vaghi fiori di Maria Vergine, cioè le quatro antifone che si cantano da Santa Chiesa [...] Opera seconda (1628). This is a collection of songs for two to four voices. Accessible via IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, on the url https://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP109218-Scapitta_VaghiFiori.pdf

Missae op. 3 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1629).

Digital versions of these editions can be accessed via IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Missae%2C_Op.3_(Scapitta%2C_Vincenzo)

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 688; Alexander Rausch, Art. 'Scapitta (Scapita), Vincenzo OFM', in: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, Zugriff: 22.11.2018 (https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_S/Scapitta_Vincenzo.xml); IMSLP [https://imslp.org/wiki/Vaghi_fiori_di_Maria_Vergine_(Scapitta%2C_Vincenzo) ]

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Siculus (Vincenzo da Sicilia, fl late 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Professor of Roman law.

works

Senatus, Populique Romani epitaphia in Sereniss. Ducem Alexandrum Farnesium Principem amplissimum (Rome: Guilelmo Faccioto, 1593). Accessible via Google Books (there ascribed to Vincentius Longinus).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 688.

 

 

 

 

Vincentius Venantius (Vincenzo Venanzi/Vincenzo Venanzio da Ancona, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the Picena province. Finished his theology studies at the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1625. Lector of metaphysics in Florence and regent lector in Rimini and Venice. In 1640 elected provincial minister. Thereafter he retired to Ancona and wrote a number of works.

works

Oratio de laudibus sacrorum stigmatum S. Francisci Bononia die 17. Deptembris declamata (Bologna: Nicola Tebaldini, 1622). [according to Sbaralea]

Trattenimenti civili (Rome: Eredi Corbelletti, 1657). Accessible via Google Books.

Disputationes Theologica de Dei essentia, relationibus, & attributis, & de dispositione ad unionem hypostaticam, in via Sancti Bonaventurae (Ancona: Typis Salvioneis, 1660).

Academia sacra, discorsi academici diversi di materie sacre, con in fine quatro elogi a quatro Pontefici Francescani Conventuali, Niccolò IV, Alessandro V, Sisto IV, Sisto V. Was this work ever printed?

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 567.

 

 

 

 

Vitalis Adriasus de Ragusio

OFM. Italian friar.

works

Arbor, ac relatio provinciae Rugusinae? Whereabouts unknown.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143.

 

 

 

 

Vitalis Algezira (Alcira/Vitalis Algezira/Alzora/Algeizira, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar, member of the Valencia province. Order historian.

works

Epilogus totius ordinis seraphici P.S. Francisci (Antwerp, 1626/Bordeaux, 1640/Rome, 1643). This amounted to a a large printed image of a Franciscan family tree composed of 12 plates (c. 184 x 126 cm), first printed in Antwerp in 1626. A much expanded Epilogus was issued in Antwerp in 1650 (see Gieben and Ritsema van Eck).

Arbor originis, & progressus Minorum Capuccinorum (Valencia: Juan Felipe Janenio, 1662).

Historia Chronographia, in qua per extensum exponit, quod in Epilogu totius ordinis seraphici P.S. Francisci continetur?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 688; Servus Gieben, L’Albero Serafico e Carlo de Arenberg. Il Modello di Vitale di Alcira e il Progetto di Giovanni de Montoya (Rome: Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, 2008); Marianne Ritsema van Eck, 'Geneaology as a Heuristic Device for Franciscan Order History in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Texts and Trees', Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 135-170 (157).

 

 

 

 

Vitalis de Furno (Vitalis e Furno/Joannes Vitalis/Vital du Four, ca. 1260-1327)

OM. French friar from Bazas (Gascony). Followed the lectorate program at Paris (1292-1294). Subsequently lector at the Studium Generale in Montpellier (1295, where Louis of Anjou, just released from hostage, took part in a disputation organised by Vital, and where Joannes de Fonte acted as reportator of Vitalis’ Sentences lectures) and Toulouse (ca. 1300). Thereafter, he read the Sentences at Paris (yet it is not certain that he did this ‘pro gradu'. See on this the 2006 essay of Piron). Vital probably obtained his theology degree by papal bull in 1307 or thereabouts from Clement VII, before being appointed provincial minister of Aquitaine (1307). He was made Cardinal Priest of S. Martino ai Monti by Clement in 1312 and promoted to the position of Cardinal Bishop of Albano in 1320 by Pope John XXII. Died in 1327. Already at Montpellier, Vitalis attacked some theological viewpoints of Olivi. Shortly thereafter (1298), he took an active part in the debates concerning the works and memory of Olivi, and he took part in the committee that responded to the Rotulus of Ubertino da Casale (1311). Vitalis was strongly opposed to the spirituals, yet defended the doctrine of absolute poverty against John XXII. This notwithstanding, his relationship with the pope remained sufficiently cordial to be asked for advistory statements on other issues of moral theology.
Vital has written a large number of works. Aside from his Sentences commentary and a large number of Quaestiones on doctrinal and philosophical subjects, he also wrote a Speculum Morale totius Sacrae Scripturae (a kind of dictionnary of the OT and NT, ca. 1305), sermons, and biblical commentaries, among which we can signal for instance a Commentaria in Apocalypsim, which was printed repeatedly under the name of Bonaventura and Alexander van Hales, and some manuscript witnesses of which are ascribed to John of Wales or contain a text that resembles the commentary of the latter (V. Doucet has established that a number of mss of this commentary assigned to Vitalis (such as mss. Assisi Bibl. Comm. 50, 71, 66) resemble the Postilla assigned by P. Glorieux to John of Wales/Joannes Wallensis (o.a. mss Bratislava UB 78; Todi, Bibl. Communale ms 68)).

works

In IV Sent. (Secunda Lectura): Rome, Vat.Lat. 1095 ff. 1-67 [written or finished in Montpellier. Goes against the Olivian theory of the union of the intellective faculties of the soul with the body]
For partial editions, see: In IV. Librum Sententiarum, Dist. 24 pars 2 (Cod. Vat. Lat. 1095, fol. 32vb-34vb), ed. L. Hödl, in: Lex et Sacramentum im Mittelalter, ed. P. Wilpert & R. Hoffmann, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 6 (Berlin, 1969), 19-30.

Memorialia Quaestionum: Todi, 95 ff. 8a-13d [contains also the Memoralia of Joannes de Persona]. Sylvain Piron suggests that this is an abbreviation of his Quodlibet, and could have been disputed in Paris around 1292. Whether this coheres with the fact that Vitalis at that time was in his lectorate program needs further research.

Quodlibeta: Todi 95 ff. 12d-18a; Todi, 95 ff. 51b-58b ()Quodlibet II); Quaestiones de Cognitione (8 quaestiones): Todi, 95 ff. 58b-89a; Tertium Quolibet (15 quaestiones) ff. 89b-104d
For editions, see: Quodlibeta tria, ed. F. Delorme, Spicilegium Pontificii Athenaei Antoniani, 5 (Rome, 1947) (with the Memorialia Quaestionum in the appendix on pp. 221-229); La France Franciscaine, 9 (1926), 452-471;

F. Delorme (ed.), `Le Quodlibet I du cardinal Vital du Four', La France Franciscaine 2, 18, 1 (1935), 108-9; See on these works and on the chronology of Vital du Four’s career in this context the remarks of Piron (2006); Quaestio V of Quodlibet de Cognitione/ Quaestio 12 of Quodl. II de Christo et de BMV/Quaestio IV of Quodlibet II de Anima: see F. Delorme, `L'Oeuvre scolastique...', La France franciscaine 9 (1926), 421-471.

Quaestiones de principio rerum: Todi, 95 ff. 18a-22a
For an edition, see: Quaestiones Breves de Rerum Principio, ed. F. Delorme, Sophia, 10 (1942), 290-327

Quaestiones Disputatae (8 quaestiones) Todi, 95 ff. 24b-51b; etc.
For an edition, see: F. Delorme (ed.), `Huit Questions disputées sur le problème de la connaissance', Ad'HDLMA 2 (1927), 155-336.

Super Psalmos 51, 67 & 114: MS?

Speculum morale totius Sacrae Scripturae, ed. Joannes Moylin (Lyon, 1513 & 1568; B. Junta (ed.) Venetië, 1594 (Vaticana, Barb. V. VI. 26), 1600 en 1603). Cf. Zawart, 363 & Cuneo, 72.

Commentario super Apocalypsim (Venice, 1600); Joannes de la Haye (ed.) Alexander Halensis, Commentario in Apocalypsim (Paris, 1647); Benoît Bonnelli (ed.) Expositio in Apocalypsim. in: Supplementum operum omnium S. Bonaventurae. II, 5 (Trent, 1773) 5-1035.

Quaestio de Paupertate: a.o. MS Madrid Nac. 4165 [ms also contains materials of Ubertino and contemporaries]

Sermones in diebus solemnibus habitis: MS?

Comm. super Librum de Sex Principiis, ed. A.J. Gondras, Ad'HLMA, 42 (1975), 196-317.

Tractatus de Primo Rerum Omnium Principio, ed. L. Wadding, in: Ioh. Duns Scoti Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1639), t. III & Ioh. Duns Scoti Opera Omnia, ed. Vives (Paris, 1891), t. VI, 721-799.

Quaestio de Paupertate: Hist. Lit. de la France, 36, pp. 295-305. The text was also included in F. Tocco, La questione della povertà nel sec. XIV (Naoles, 1910), 51-57, 77-84.

Sermo de Conceptione B.V. Maria, in: Jean Gerson, Opera Omnia (Basel, 1494), f. 47 & Petrus de Alvay Astorga (ed.), Monumenta pro Immaculata Conceptione (Louvain, 1665), 87-191 [?]/Zawart, 298; Franz. Stud., 8 (1921), 283-292; AFH, 16 (1924), 300

Marriage ‘consilium' for John XXII, edited by Patrick Nold in his study Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve, Medieval Law and its Practice, 3 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009), passim (with a critical edition of the text on pp. 3-22). With thanks to Patrick Nold, who was so kind to provide me with a copy of this book.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores. 220; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 230-231; Sbaralea, Supplementum. III. 159-161; G. Mazzatinti, Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia IV (Forli, 1895), 31, 33-34; P. Glorieux, ‘D'Alexandre de Hales à Pierre Auriol. La suite des maîtres franciscains de Paris au xiiie siècle.' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum. 26 (1933); V. Doucet, ‘Maîtres franciscains de Paris. Supplément.' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 27 (1934), 553 ff; Auguste Pisvin, ‘Die Intuitio und ihr metaphysischer Wert nach Vitalis de Furno († 1327) und Gonsalvus Hispanus († 1313)’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 12 (1949), 147-162; P. Godefroy, ‘Vital du Four.' Dict. de Théologie Catholique XV (Paris, 1950), 3102-3115; Stegmüller, RB. V. no. 8309-8312; V. Heynck, `Zur Bußlehre des Vitalis de Furno. Die Wirkkraft der priestlichen Absolution', Franz. Stud., 41 (1959), 163-212; L. von Untervintl, `Die Intuitionslehre bei Vitalis de Furno, OM (d. 1327)', Coll. Franc. 25 (1955), 53-113, 225-258; John E. Lynch, The Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1972); C. Cenci (ed.), Bibliotheca manuscripta ad sacrum conventum assisiensum, I, Assisi 1981, 197, no. 263; S.D. Dumont, ‘Giles of Rome and the ‘De rerum principio’ attributed to Vital du Four’, AFH 77 (1984), 81-109; L. Duval-Arnould, ‘L'élaboration d'un document pontifical: Les travaux préparatoires à la constitution apostolique Cum inter nonnullos (12 Novembre 1323)', in: Aux origines de l'État moderne: Le foncionnement administratif de la papauté d'Avignon. Actes de la table ronde d'Avignon (23-24 janvier 1988), Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 138 (Rome, 1990), 385-409; François-Xavier Putallaz, `La connaissance de soi au Moyen Age. Vital du Four', Coll. Franc., 60 (1990), 505-537; V. Mauro, ‘La disputata de anima tra Vitale du Four e Pietro di Giovanni Olivi’, Studi Medievali 38 (1997), 89-139; C. Valsecchi, Oldrado da Ponte e i suoi Consilia: Un' auctoritas del primo trecento (Milan, 2000), 169, note 154 (with a reference to Vital's supposed position as ‘auditor sacri palatii'; A.G. Traver, ‘Vital du Four’, in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, 24 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 670-671; David Burr, ‘The Antichrist and the Jews in four thirteenth-century Apocalypse commentaries’, in: Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Susan E. Myers, The Medieval Franciscans, 2 (Leiden-Boston, 2004), 23-38; Sylvain Piron, ‘Franciscan Quodlibeta in Southern Studia and at Paris, 1280-1300’, in: Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages. The Thirteenth Century, ed. Chris Schabel (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006), 403-438; 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, 401-403; Stephen F. Brown, ‘Vitalis de Furno (Vital du Four) (ca. 1260-1327)’, in: Historical Dictionary of Medieval Philosophy and Theology, ed. Stephen F. Brown & Juan Carlos Flores (Lanham, Md., 2007), 291; Patrick Nold, Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve, Medieval Law and its Practice, 3 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009), passim; Timothy B. Noone, ‘The Problem of the Knowability of Substance: The Discussion from Eustachius of Arras to Vital du Four’, in: Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, ed. Kent Emery jr., Russell L. Friedman, Andreas Speer & Maxime Mauriège (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 63-90; Roberto Plevano, ‘Vital du Four’, in: Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, 2 Vols. (Dordrecht: KLuwer, 2011) II, 1369-1372.

 

 

 

 

Vitalis de Vitalibus (Vitalis da Monteregali, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Monte Regali in Piemont, known for his piety and his religious knowledge. Author of several works, none of which seem to have reached the printing press.

works

Mundi creatio in octo imaginibus?

Flores vidirarii?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 690; Basilo Sebastian Castellanos de Losada, Biografía eclesiástica completa XXX (ed. 1868), 378.

 

 

 

 

Vitalis Valentius (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. French friar and member of the Provence province. Magister theologiae and renowned preacher. Took part in the council of Pisa in 1409. And subsequenly appointed bishop of Narbonne in 1411. He also took part in the council of Constance and on 4 May 1415 held a sermon at the council with the theme Spiritus veritatis docebit vos &c.. After the recapture of (anti-)Pope John XXIII, who had fled from the council of Constance in 1414, Vitalis would have been his spiritual guidesman.

works

Conciones/Sermones?

Vitalis Torcellanus Episcopus pro Concilio Pisano: MS Vatican City, BAV 4130, p. 120 & 4152, p. 138.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 689-690.

 

 

 

 

Vita Lucanus (Vita di Lucca, fl. first half 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar, poet and musician. Singing teacher of Salimbene of Parma during the latter's sejourn in Lucca in 1239 and 1240.

works

Cantinela/Ave mundi spes Maria, etc. See the remarks in the chronicle of Salimbene.

literature

Salimbene, Cronica, check!; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 688.

 

 

 

 

Vitus Claramontensis (Vitus Piza//Pisa/Vito Pizza da Chiaramonte, fl. late 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian (Sicilian) friar. Baccalaureus of the Padua Gymnasium in 1553. Doctor in philosophy and theology (reached the magisterium theologiae on 2 January 1570). Active in the order schools of Padua and elsewhere. One of his socii would have been Felice Pereti, the later Pope Sixtus V.

works

Opusculum an compositum sua forma sit praestantius: MS Ferrara, Biblioteca S. Francesco, ?

De ente, & essentia tractatus?

De Divino, & humano intellectu, et de hominis sensu, ex Peripatheticis tractatus, in cuius fine quaesitum illud, an compositum sua forma sit praestantiùs nobiliusque collocatur(Padua: Giovanni Battista Amyco, 1553).

Sermoni predicabili sopra il celebre salmo del profeta David: Miserere mei Deus, devotissimi et al Christiano utilissimi con una meditatione nel fine di ciascun di quelli, fatta a Christo crucifisso, et nel fine posto un fruttuoso sermone della Misericordia divina (...) (Messina: Fausto Bufalini, 1589/Reprinted in 1595 and 1597). Accessible via the Bibliotec Comunale of Cremona and via Google Books (creative search via author's name, otherwise it might not show up).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 573;

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 690; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 144; Filippo Evola, Storia tipografico-letteraria de secolo xvi in Sicilia, con un catalogo regionato (Palermo: Stabilimento Tipografico Lao, 1878), 293-294; Francescanesimo e cultura negli Iblei: atti del convegno di studio, ed. Carolina Miceli & Diego Ciccarelli (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2006), 21ff.

 

 

 

 

Vitus Cortonensis (Vitus de Cortona/Vito da Cortona, fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Member and provincial minister of the Roman province. Compiler of the vita of Umiliana dei Cerchi.

works

Vita B. Umilianae: MS FLorence, Biblioteca Laurenziana MS Plut. xxvii. destro, Cod. XI. Formerly kept in the library of the Santa Croce friary.
For an edition, see: Leggenda della beata Umiliana De' Cerchi testo inedito, ed. Domenico Moreni (Florence: Tamperia Magheri, 1827). This edition is accessible via Google Books. See also Acta Sanctorum, ed. J. Bollandus et al., 70 Vols. (Antwerp, 1643-1940/Reprint [Vols. 1-61] Brussels, 1965-1970), Maii IV, 385-418.

vitae

Franciscus de Equis, Vita B. Guidoni Cortonensis (1598). Never printed?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 143; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 690; 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, 404; Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer(Aldershot-Burlington: Ashgate, 2005), 32ff.

 

 

 

 

Vitus Lepori de Goritia Veneti (Vito Lepori da Gorizia, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Entered the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in 1652. After completing his three-year advanced theology education, he first became magister studium in Bologna and later regent lector in the studium of Graz (Styria province). He developed into a celebrated preacher, who preached in many of the largest Italian cities, both during the Lenten season and at other occasions. Due to his homiletic reputation, he was asked to become court preacher at the imperial court of Vienna [did this ever come to pass? check!]. Also high offices within the Conventual branch (general visitator of the Styrian, Austrian, Bohemian, Carinthian, Cologne and Westphalia provinces, guardian of the Venice friary). he died on 26 May 1691.

works

Relazione della solennità (...) (1652).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 567-573.

 

 

 

 

Volmar (Bruoder Volmar, fl. c. 1390)

OM. German of Swiss friar (either from Southern Germany or from the German areas of Switzerland). Probably active as confessor of a female convent or monastery near St. Gallen. To him probably can be ascribed two mystical religious sayings, as well as a sermon on the nine different kinds of angels.

works

Predigt von den Engeln: MS St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 967 pp. 261-263. This sermon was probably preached in the closing decade of the fourteenth century, on Michaelsday. The manuscript, in which the sermon has survived, and which itself dates from c. 1430-1437, is largely written by Friedrich Kölner, himself confessor of the female monastery of St. George, near St. Gallen.

Geistliche Sprüche [ca. 1391, by Bruoder Volmar ein barfuoze]: MS Berlin, mgq 191 ff. 387v-388v
For an edition, see: Geistliche Sprüche, ed. in: F. Pfeiffer, ‘Sprüche deutscher Mystiker’, Germania 3 (1858), 232-235.

literature

Peter Ochsenbein, ‘Volmar OFM’, VL² X, 500-501.

 

 

 

 

Wager Lewis (d. 1562)

OFM. English Franciscan friar and later Anglican/Protestant playwright. Active in the London friary by the early 1520s. He is known to have become a subdeacon on 21 July 1521. When the situation for the friars became problematical, Wager Lewis gradually took his leave from the order. On 24 March 1536 he received permisison from the bishop to wear his Franciscan habit beneath the robes of a secular priest. Several years later, he was a married Protestant vicar. He might even be the father of the English clergyman and playwright William Wager (1537/8?–1591). He survived the Mary Tudor interlude, and in April 1560 he became parish priest of St James Garlickhythe, in London. He died over two years later, leaving behind his widow Elenore. During his Protestant years, Wager Lewis wrote A new enterlude … of the life and repentaunce of Marie Magdalene, not onlie godlie, learned and fruitefull, but also well furnished with pleasaunt myrth and pastime, very delectable for those which shall hear or reade the same. This work was printed by John Charlewood in 1566/1567. The play combined later medieval theatrical influences with John Calvin’s Institutes. The surviving fragment of yet another play, entitled The Cruel Debtor, might be his work as well, although the work is also ascribed to William Wager, who is considered to be Wager Lewis’s son.

works

The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, by Lewis Wager. A Morality Play reprinted from the Original Edition of 1566-67, ed. Frederic Ives Carpenter, Decennial Publications of the University of Chicago, Second Series, I (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1902). Apparently available via https://archive.org. See also the review in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 5:2 (December 1903), 225-238. A new edition has been provided in Paul Whitfield White, Reformation biblical drama in England: The Life and Repentaunce of Mary Magdalene, The History of Iacob and Esau (New York: Garland, 1992).

literature

W.H. Phelps, ‘The date of Lewis Wager's death’, Notes and Queries 223 (1978), 420-421; Paul Whitfield White, ‘Lewis Wager's The life and repentaunce of Marie Magdalene and John Calvin’, Notes and Queries 226 (1981), 508-512; Mark Eccles, Brief lives: Tudor and Stuart authors (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 123-124; Peter Happé, ‘The protestant adaptation of the saint play’, in: The saint play in medieval Europe, ed. Clifford Davidson, Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 8 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1986), 205-240; Paul Whitfield White, Reformation biblical drama in England: The Life and Repentaunce of Mary Magdalene, The History of Iacob and Esau (New York: Garland, 1992), passim; Patricia Badir, ‘'To allure vnto their loue': Iconoclasm and Striptease in Lewis Wager's The Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene’, Theatre Journal 51:1 (1999) 1-20; Peter Happé, ‘Wager, Lewis (d. 1562)’, in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 /digitally accessible via http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28394); The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature, ed. Lieke Stelling, Harald Hendrix, and Todd Richardson (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 63, 65-66, 76-77.

 

 

 

 

Walram von Siegburg (fl. c. 1440)

OM. German friar, who entered the theology degree program at Cologne university in 1430, and became magister regens in 1435. Remained active as theology professor until 1443, and was Dean of the theology faculty between 1435 and 1439. We still have the autograph of his graduate student note book, which not only gives detailed information on the courses and (extra)curricular activities he had to fulfill for his graduation as bachelor and master at Cologne university, replete with themes/titles and texts of disputations, principia and the ceremonial acts for the promotion (including his Vesperiae, Collatio, Disputatio in Aula, and the Resumpta on the day of his promotion), but also informs us about his promotores, the official opponents during his doctorate defense, related officials, and fellow students (such as Heinrich von Werl). Most relevant passages of this graduate student note book have been edited by Clasen.

works

Graduate student note book: MS Cologne, Historisches Archiv der Stadt GB f° 175 ff. 1r-32v [= Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, MS Best. 7002]
For an edition/study, see: S. Clasen, ‘Walram von Siegburg O.F.M. und seine Doktorpromotion an der Kölner Universität’, AFH 45 (1952), 323-396.This edition includes the text of Walram’s Principium super Primum Sententiarum (his actual Sentences lectures do not seem to have survived).

literature

S. Clasen, ‘Walram von Siegburg O.F.M. und seine Doktorpromotion an der Kölner Universität’, AFH 44 (1951), 257-317; AFH 45 (1952), 72-126, 323-396; J. Vennebusch, Die theologische Handschriften des Stadtarchivs Köln, Teil I, Mitteilungen aus dem Stadtarchiv von Köln, Sonderreihe Heft 1, Teil 1(Cologne, 1976), 151-158.

 

 

 

 

Wawrzyniec Ignacy Bonawentura Bodoch (1607-1691)

OFMRef. Polish friar.

literature

Miroslawa Dopierala-Molotkin, ‘Bodoch (Bodock, Bodocki) Wawrzyniec Ignacy Bonawentura’, in: Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji I (2003), 228.

 

 

 

 

Wernerus Ratisbonensis (Wernherus/Bernherus/Wirnherus/Werner von Regensburg, d. after 1290)

OM. German friar. Lector of the convent of Regensburg and in 1266 custos of Bavaria. In 1278 he was arbiter in a conflict between the monastery of St. Emmeran and the bishop of Regensburg. After 1290, when he is mentioned as a friar from Regensburg in a document referring to the death of Duke Henry of Bavaria, Werner disappears from view. Werner is mostly known for his concise and well-written Soliloquia (Liber Soliloquorum). This work reaches back to Augustine and other authors who compiled comparable Soliloquia and Meditationes (John of Fécamp, Anselm, Hugh of St. Victor etc.). But the work of Werner also contains personal reflections. The existing edition divides the work into 11 chapters (1. An invitation to find and look for God (heavily dependent on Anselm of Canterbury’s prayer ‘Eia nunc homuncio’); 2. The Trinity (heavily dependent on Anselm’s Monologion 39-40, works of Hilary of Poitiers, and Augustine’s De Trinitate); 3. The Holy Gost; 4. God is everywhere and invisible (referring to the Proslogion and the Confessiones); 5. The nature of angels (the nine choirs of angels and their repective roles and qualities); 6. The marvels surrounding the creation of the first man (in any case partly based on Bonaventure’s Breviloquium II, 9-11, and providing a rather positive interpretation of Eve’s creation as man’s equal: ‘nec dominam nec ancillam parasti sed sociam.’); 7. The great deeds performed by God before the coming of Christ (some references to the patriarchs, kings, and prophets, but heavy emphasis on Mary, using Anselm’s Oratio ad S. Mariam); 8. The great deeds of redemption that Christ and his body performed; 9. The wonders of the Eucharist (heavy emphasis on the transsubstaantiation doctrine); 10. The final judgment (strong affirmation of the resurrection doctrine, based on I Cor. 15), and describing the qualities of the resurrected body of the blessed and the ‘corpora mortaliter viva, quae sic moriuntur ut numquam permoriantur’ of the damned); 11. The presence of God in man's memory (based almost completely in on Augustine's last chapter of the Confessions [compare Dante]. Werner ends with the supplication ‘Sit interim in te mihi quies per gratiam, donec intrem in gaudium Domini mei, beatorum participaturus gloriam, ubi es tu Deus cordis mei et pars mea Deus in aeternum. Hoc per te mihi detur, qui in Trinitate perfecta cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto unus Deus vivis in secula seculorum. Amen.’).

works

Soliloquia: MS Regensburg cod. 731, ff. 49-62; MS Munich CLM 13102 (14th cent., from the Prüfening monastery); MS Munich CLM 8496 (15th cent.), MS Regensburg Collégiale U.L. Frau (an. 1475, copy by Johannes Weissenbergen). Pez mentiones an additional manuscript that apparently is lost.
For an edition, see: Liber Soliloquiorum, ed. B. Pez, Bibliotheca Ascetica Antiquonova, 4 (Regensburg, 1724).

literature

O. Bonmann, `Werner von Regensburg und sein Liber Soliloquorum', Zeitschrift für Aszese und Mystik, 12 (Innsbruck, 1937), 294-05[?]; A. Solignac, `Werner de Ratisbonne (Wernherus, Wirnherus, Bernherus)', Dict. De Spir, 16 (1994), 1369-71; Johannes Schlageter, `Werner von Regensburg, Franziskanertheologe († nach 1290)', Lexikon des Mittelalters IX (1998), 7-8.

 

 

 

 

Werner Vermann (second half 15th century)

OM. German friar. Student and teacher at Erfurt and Greifswald, known for his openings sermon of Greifswald University.

literature

Meier, `De Schola Franciscana Erfordiensi Saeculi XV', Antonianum, 5 (1930), p. 342.

 

 

 

 

Werner Saulheimensis (Werner von Saulheim, fl. 14th cent.)

OM. German friar.

works

Chronicle of the Franciscan friar Werner of Saulheim, printed in: Johann Martin Kremer, Origines Nassoicae, Teil II: Diplomatica (Wiesbaden, 1779).

literature

Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum, XI Vols (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-2007) XI/3-4,445f.

 

 

 

 

Wiger Trajectensis (Wiger Trajectensis/Frater Wygerus Alemannus/Wiger van Utrecht, fl. c. 1230)

OM. Dutch prelate and compiler of an exempla collection. He was a well-educated cleric, who probably had received a theological education in one of the Parisian schools, possibly all the way up to the magisterium, was known for his knowledge of canon law, and later taught in the diocesan or capitular schools of the Utrecht diocese, as canon of St. Peter and as as Dean of St Peter (between 1213-and ca. 1220) and subsequently became a well- connected provost of of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Utrecht - and hence in close contact with many leading prelates and secular rulers of the region - before he joined the Franciscans after April 1228. He corresponded with churchmen such as Caesarius of Heisterbach (who in his Libri octo miraculorum says that a certain exemplum had been given to him by Wiger and mentions in passing that the Provost of St. Peter had recently become a Friar Minor ['Detulit michi magister Wigerus, prepositus in ecclesia Traiectenti, nunc in ordine fratrum Minorum conversus, quod dicturus sum', Die Wundergeschichten des Caesarius, ed. Hilke, 101]), Olivier of Paderborn and possibly also with Jacques de Vitry, and he also was on friendly terms with Elias of Cortuna during the latter's generalate. Chapter 8 of Eccleston's chronicle mentions that Wiger was sent on a visitation mission to the Franciscan English province at the request of Elias [calling Wiger 'valde famosus in peritia iuris'/'in omni honestate conspicuus', but also indicating that the visitation itself was a disaster]. David Ross Winter suggests that Wiger has suffered from a condemnatio memoriae in the order after the deposition of Elias, and that this is in part behind the fact that he is nearly completely ignored as an important author of a substantial exempla collection, and as an important learned friar during the early history of the Franciscan order. David Ross Winter even speculates about the possibility that Wiger joined Elias in exile to the court of Frederick II after the deposition of Elias at the Franciscan general chapter of 1239, but also indicates that this is mere conjecture, and that it is also possible that he ended his life as a clerical friar in the german order province. Whatever the validity of this, it is in any case certain that he became a friar when the Franciscan order was expanding into the German world, a process that had started with the decisions of the Bologna general chapter of 1221, and that had quite quickly progressed with the erection of friaries in Mainz, Speyer, Worms, Strasbourg and Cologne before 1225. As the Friars Minor were not yet established in the Low Countries as such, it is possible that Wiger relocated to Cologne to make his profession. In any case, the first recorded presence of a Minorite house in Utrecht dates from the 1240s. This is of course not to say that the Franciscans might not have been present there before.

works

Liber exemplorum sub titulis redactorum/Summa Wigeri: MSS Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 32, ff. 12vb-49va; Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, 1548, ff. 99va-158v. His exempla also indicate that Wiger was well informed about recent political and ecclesiastical affairs far beyond the boundaries of the Utrecht diocese.

literature

David Ross Winter, ‘The Life and Career of Master Wiger of Utrecht (fl. 1209-1237): An early convert to the Order of Friars Minor’, Journal of Medieval History 31 (2005), 71-126.

 

 

 

 

Wistasses (Buisine, fl. ca. 1268)

OM. French friar ?

works

Sermones (ca. 1260): Paris, BN Lat. 15956

Sermones (ca. 1268): Paris, BN Lat. 16499

literature

Zawart, 300

 

 

 

 

Wojciech Debolecki (Wojciech Dembolecki/Debolencki/Dembolensius, 1585–1646)

OFM. Polish Franciscan friar, composer, poet and author of peculiar works on the origin of languages. Born in the Szlachta family (father Jakub Konokadzki and mother Barbara Decjusz). Following an initial education he joined the order in 1603 (Cracow). He received his clerical formation in Opole and subsequently became active as a preacher and chapel master (for instance in Kalisz and Chelmo, 1615-1617). Late 1617, went to Italy (Venice and Rome) for additional studies. On his way back to Poland, in 1620, he created in Olomouc the Association of Christian Soldiers, meant to buy back Christian prisoners in Muslim confinement. For two years (1621-1622), he served as a military chaplain and diarist for the Lisowczycy mercenaries, a renowned but rather bloodthirsty light cavalry unit, which at that time fought for the Holy Roman Emperor during the Thirty Years' War. Debolecki traveled with them on their military campaigns in Hungary. In 1623, he went back to Rome for his doctorate in theology, which he obtained in 1625. Back in Poland, Debolecki worked from Kamieniec Podolski, where he was for a short time provincial minister and, among other things, was active as general commissary for the organisation of ransoms to free for prisoners in Muslim hands, continuing the work initiated in 1620, and he also fulfilled a stint as guardian in Kamjanez-Podilskyj. Following an additional sojourn in Rome, allegedly to clear up some accusations about his ideas and practices, he ended up in Lwów (Lemberg), where he spent the remainder of his life. As a composer, he was apparently rather innovative. He was, for instance one of the first to integrate the basso continuo in his compository structure. In his poetry and prose, he touched on the main themes of Polish Sarmatism (also critical), a cultural movement/ideology among the Polish nobility with specific claims on the origin and uniqueness of Poland, Polish culture, and the Polish language. He maintained that Poland enjoying the special benevolene of Providence, and paid with the nation's blood in its heroic role in defending the entire Christian world (a bit unclear to what extent his message was ironical or not. Check on this also the 2013 study by Sztyber).

works

Musical compositions: Check!

Przewagi Elearów polskich co ich niegdy Lisowczykami zwano (Warchaw, 1619-1623/Pulawy: Drukarnia Biblioteczna, 1830/Cracow, 1859). Anti-heretical work.

Wywod Iedynowlasnego Panstwa Swiata, W Ktorym Pokázuie X.W. Debolecki (...) Ze Nastárodawnieysze W Europie Krolestwo Polskie, Lubo Scythyckie (...) (Warchaw: J. Rossowski, 1633). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

O tym, ze najdawniejsze w Europie jest Krolestwo Polskie, a jezyk slowienski pierwotnym jezykiem swiata (Warchaw, 1633). Re-issued in Lignum Vitae 8 (2007), 273-294. A work in which Wojciecj argued (ironically?) that the Polish Kingdom was the oldest kingdom of Europe, and the Slavic language the oldest language of the world.

literature

Radoslaw Sztyber, Piórem, kropidlem i szabla. Wojciecha Demboleckiego pisarska i kapelanska przygoda z lisowczykami (1619–1623) (Zielona Góra: Studia i szkice, 2005); Radoslaw Sztyber, 'O Polsce z perspektywy XVII wieku w proroczych wizjach Wojciecha Demboleckiego', Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica 1 (2013), 15-30 [accessible via http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-66dd7a10-23b8-4420-b8aa-09a380279c37]. Check also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_D%C4%99bo%C5%82%C4%99cki and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Dembo%C5%82%C4%99cki

 

 

 

 

Wolfgang Boxberger (fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRec. Hungarian friar. Lector and provincial of the Thuringian Sankt Elizabeth province. Preacher.

works

Stadium, et studium virtutis, et salutis per discursus morales ex proverbiis Salomoniis aliisque sacris paginis, ss. patribus, theologis, historicis, et probatis auctoribus pie confectum et erectum (Würzburg [Herbipolis]: Marcus Antonius Engmann, 1727). Accessible via Google Books.

Viva et vera hujus mundi idea, seu discursus morales de vanitatibus mundi (Cologne: Thomas von Cöllen u. Cie, 1731). Accessible via the University Library of Erfurt and the University library of Strasbourg.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 159.

 

 

 

 

Wolfgang Hoegner (Wolfgang Högner, fl. mid. 17th cent.)

OFM. German friar and sometime provincial of the strict Obervant Strasbourg province, and in the 1620s also guardian of Augsburg. Known for his German translation of the Martyrologium Franciscanum, anti-Lutheran sermons and devotional works for Franciscan confraternities.

works

Amussis Chordigerorum, Daß ist Geistliche Richtschnur, Für die einverleibte Brueder, und Schwestern, der Seraphischen Cordel Bruederschafft, deß Heyligen Vatters Francisci (Passau: Frosch, 1640). Accessible via Google Books.

Christ Catholische Prödig: Darin[n]en auß heiliger Schrifft, und den orthodoxischen Vaeteren der Kirchen gruendlich erwisen wordt, das der Catholische Roemische Glaub der rechte, waher, seeligmachende, der Lutherisch dargiegen der unrechte Glaub sene, Gehalten den 28. Februarii, Anno 1627 (Ingolstatt: Gregorius Haenlin, 1627). Accessible via Google Books.

Franziskanerisches Martyrologium (...) (Strasbourg, 1644/Strasbourg, 1658/Augsburg: Andreas Gruber, 1703). The 1703 edition is accessible via Google Books.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 692.

 

 

 

 

Wolfgang Schmitt (1734-1779)

OFM. German friar. Canonist. Lector at the Fulda study house (Kloster Frauenberg).

works

Institutiones juris ecclesiastici universalis ad statum Germaniæ catholicum accommodatæ, ac in V. libros ad faciliorem juris canonici candidatorum usum distributæ et expositæ, 5 Vols. (Fulda: Johann Stahel, 1768-1772/Frankfurt-Leipzig, Johann Jacob Stahel, 1774). Accessible via a range of digital portals.

Disquisitio canonico-publica de eo, quod circa reservationes pontificias ex concordatis Germaniae generatim iustum est (...) Praeside P.F. Wolffgango Schmitt (...) publicae disputationi submittit Religiosus Pater F. Joann. Nepomucen. Grosmann (...) (Fulda, 1773). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

literature

A. García y García, `textos jurídicos de autores franciscanos (...)', in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo (Rome, 1997), 315.

 

 

 

 

Wolfhart (pruder Wolfhart minner prüder, fl. early fifteenth cent.)

OM. Friar from Bavaria or Austria. Maybe member of the Vienna friary (although he does not appear in any of the known sources related to this Franciscan settlement). Known for his corrections and annotations on a manuscript with sermons by Berthold of Regensburg (MS Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale cod. 11083-11084[a] (early 15th cent.). The identification is made on f. 173vb: pruder Wolfhart minner prüder Orden Corrigirer dicz Püchs). These corrections and annotations - many of which are marginal glosses with additional information and citations - show that Wolfhart was very well-versed in canon law, biblical and doctrinal theology, as well as natural and classical lore. Wolfart probably should be identified with the minorite friar who was forced to apologize by legates of the Basel council to a secular cleric of the Viennese St. Stephan church. This Wolfart had attacked the secular cleric on the question whether one could consume, for medicinal purposes, wine in which a part of the cross of Christ had been dipped (Wolfart apparently was in favour of such usage of wine). This (German) apology (and retraction) has survived, as well as a Latin sermon on this subject by another cleric (Johan Geuß).

works

Corrections and annotations on a manuscript with sermons by Berthold of Regensburg (MS Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale cod. 11083-11084[a] (early 15th cent.). Wolfart’s corrections and annotations are included in the critical apparatus of Berthold von Regensburg, Predigten, ed. F. Pfeiffer & J. Strobl, 2 Bände (Vienna, 1862-1880/Second edition, Vienna, 1965)

German apology and retraction: Seitenstetten, Stiftsbibliothek CCXXI ff. 192-204 [among the Eucharist sermons of Johan Geuß]; Vienna, 5253 ff. 53r-54v; Vorau, Stiftsbibliothek 361 ff. 148v-149r. Partial editions of the text can be found in Richter (1969), 15; Franz (1960), 471, note 1. More complete edition in: Codices Manuscripti Bibliothecae Seitenstettensis II, 49-50.

literature

A. Franz, Die kirchlichen Benediktionen im Mittelalter, 2 Bände (Neudruck, Graz, 1960), 470-473; D. Richter, Die deutsche Überlieferung der Predigten Bertholds von Regensburg, MTU 21 (Munich, 1969), 10-16; Monika Costard, ‘Bruder Wolfhart OFM’, VL² X, 1363-1364.

 

 

 

 

Wunibald Bergleitner (1638-1693)

OFMCap. Austrian friar from Tyrol. Entered the order in June 1657. Preacher and anti-Protestant polemicist. Died at Salzburg, on 13 February 1693.

works

Kurtz und Gut, das ist: wahrer und klarer Unterricht den catholischen Glauben zu vertheidigen; Nothwendiger Bericht und Unterricht auss der H. Bibel auff die Frag ‘wo stehts geschrieben?; Einfaltiger catholischer Discurs von dem Hochwürdig Sacrament unter einerley Gestalt (Salzburg, 1686).

literature

C. Neuner, Literarische Tätigkeit in der nordtiroler Kapuzinerprovinz (Innsbruck, 1929), 148; A. Teetaert, ‘Bergleitner’, DHGE VIII, 472.

 

 

 

 

Wunibald Reichenberger (fl. 18th cent.)

OFMRec. German friar the Strasbourg province. Novice master, preacher and spiritual author. There seems to be a confusion between him and a Benedictine namesake from more or less the same period.

works

Wolrüchende Hyacinthen-Blum: das ist: wunderwürdiges Tugend-Leben der seeligen Hyacinthae Mariscotti, in dem blumenreich-geistlichen Garten deß dritten Ordens deß Heiligen Vatters Francisci gefunden und abgebrochen. Allen geist- und weltlich-andächtigen Persohnen absonderlich dises Dritten Ordens Schwestern an solcher wohl zu rüchen, durch einen geistreichen Discurs dargebotten (Salzburg: Johann Joseph Mayer, 1727). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Anred Deß Himmlischen Vatters Zu den Menschlichen Hertzen, Das ist: Geistreiche Betrachtungen ueber dise Wort, zu dreytägiger geistlicher Einöde eingerichtet: Vor Allerhand geist- und weltlichen Stands-Persohnen, welche eintweders zur Zeit eines Jubilaei, Fasten-Zeit, oder sonsten, mit GOTT ernstlich, durch ein general-Beicht, in der Einsamkeit, sich zu versöhnen, und den innerlichen Menschen zur Frommkeit einzurichten, begehren (Augsburg: Matthias Wolff, 1728). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Paradeys, oder ware Glückseligkeit aud Erden. D.i. geistl. Traktätlein von der Glückseligkeit eine von allen Aembtern befreyten Ordensseel (Augsburg, 1738). Work by his Benedictine Namesake?

Geistlicher Himmelsthau (Augsburg, 1739). Work by his Benedictine namesake

Ausgang aus Egypten in das versprochene Land durch acht Tag = Reisen der Geistlichen Einöde, oder Geistlichen Übungen (Kempten: Andreas Stadtler, 1741). Accessible via Google Books.

Betrachtungen über das Leiden Christi auf jeden Tag eines Monaths (Brixen, 1742). Translation from a French original. Work by his Benedictine namesake?

Sittliche Diskurs und anmuthige Betrachtungen vom Leiden Christi (Linz, 1743). Translation of an Italian work by P. Paciuchelli, OP. Work by his Benedictine namesake?

Theophilus Contemplans, Das ist: der beschauende Theophilus, oder Gott-liebende Zeel, Unsers in blutigen Streit gehenden leijd- und sterbenden Koenigs und Seeligmachers Jesu Christi (...) zu mitleidigister Beschauung, auf alle Tag der H. Fasten-Zeit (...) (Augsburg-Insbruck: Joseph Wolff, 1749). A passion devotion treatise. Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

To be continued...

literature

Benedikt Mertens, Check!

 

 

 

 

Yvo de Mediolano Aulercorum (Yves'd’Evreux/Simon Michellet, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French (Norman) friar. Member of the Normandy province. Missionary in South America (Brasil) with tumultuous experiences among the Tapinambos, and author of a history of the French Capuchin mission. After his return to France, he wrote an account of these activities, intended as a continuation of Claude d'Abbeville's Histoire de la mission des pères Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan (1614).

works

Suitte de l'histoire des choses plvs memorables aduenuës en Maragan, és annees 1613. & 1614 (Paris: F. Huby, 1615) [almost immediately suppressed for political/dynastic reasons in France]; Voyage dans le Nord du Brésil fait durant les années 1613 et 1614 par le père Yves d'Évreux. Publié d'après l'exemplaire unique conservé à la Bibliothèque Impériale de Paris, ed. Ferdinand Denis (Leipzig-Paris: A. Franck, 1864) [accessible via https://archive.org/details/voyagedanslenord00yves]; Voyage au nord du Brésil fait en 1613 et 1614, ed. Hélène Clastres (Paris: Payot, 1985).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 263; René Semelaigne, Yves d'Évreux ou Essai de colonisation au Brésil chez les Tapinambos (Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1887); Franz Obermeier, ‘Documentos inéditos para a história do Maranhão e do Nordeste na obra do capuchinho francês Yves d’Evreux Suitte de l’histoire (1615)’, Boletim do Museo Paranense Emílio Goeldi 1 (2005), 195-251. [On Capuchin missions in the North of Brazil and the Suitte de l’Histoire de la mission advenues en Maragnan, és années 1613-1614]. See also: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_d'Évreux

 

 

 

 

Yvo Magistri (Yves Magistri/Yves Le Maître, fl. late 16th cent.)

OFM. French friar. Confessor of the Annonciade nuns of Bourges.

works

Ocularia et Manipulus fratrum Minorum, licentia G.M.R.P.F. Francisci Gonzaga excerptus, & in lucem mussus sub tutamine Sereniss. Principis ac Illustr. D.D. Ferdinandi Medices tituli S. Mariae in Dominica diaconi Cardinalis necnon protectoris meritissimi praedicti instituti (Paris: Michel Son [Sonnius vecchius], 1582). Accessible via the Biblioteca Alessandrina in Rome, and via Google Books.

A Letter to Martin Boëri, gardian of the Recollects of Paris, the theology lector François Juhée and the novice master Mathurin Calliou (1582). Cf. La France Franciscaine 4 (1921), 345.

Miroyers et guides fort propres pour les dames et demoiselles de France qui seront de bonne volonté envers Dieu et leur salut, Reprint edition Bourges 1585, Instrumenta Franciscana 10 (Sint Truiden, 1996).

Baston de deffence et mirouer des professeurs de la vie régullière de l'abbaye & ordre de Fontevrault (…) (Par Antoine Hernault, 1586).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 179/263.

 

 

 

 

Yvo Antonio Turpin (fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Alleged author of Cosmographia Seraphica (Rome, 1651). It would seem that this is the work of Antonius de Liburno. See there.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 263.

 

 

 

 

Yvo Bisschoffs (Ivo Bisschoffs, fl. ca. 1700)

OFMRec. German friar from the Cologne province. Lector, provincial definitor and novice master.

works

Spiritus Seraphicus, id est: Spiritus devotionis Seraphici P. Francisci ex opusculis ejusdem patris (...) (Cologne: S. Noethen, 1703). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

 

 

 

 

Yvo Parisiensis (Yves de Paris/Charles de la Rue/Franciscus Allaeus, 1588-1678)

OFMCap. French friar. Born in Paris. Studied in Italy (Ficino and Platonism, as well as Lullist influences). Further studies of law at Orléans. Advocate at the Parliament of Paris (1610-19). After the death of his father and the apparent ruin of his family, he retired in a Capuchin convent in 1619, taking Yves as his order name. Became priest in 1632. Prolific author on a range of topics, including natural theology, and spiritual works. His first book issued after his profession, entitled Les heureux succès de la piété (Paris, 1632), which reacted against the book Le Directeur spirituel désinteréssé of Jean-Pierre Camus, secretary of Francis of Sales, drew a huge controversy. Yves attacked Camus's thesis that secular clerics made better spiritual guides than regular clerics. Eventually, Camus was able to have the book condemned by the University of Paris. But after Camus became bishop of Belley, he wrote an apology concerning the matter to the Capuchin leaer Joseph du Tremblay. In 1633, Yves wrote his major work, the La théologue naturelle ou les premières véritez de la foy sont éclaircies par raisons sensibles et moralles, which was directed against sceptic tendencies in France. Opposed to the Augustinians of Port Royal and other forms of Jansenism. After 1646, Yves transferred to the monastery of Meudon (where he worked on his Digestum sapientiae), and after 1649, due to political unrest, Yves transferred to Croisie near St. Lazaire, where he remained until 1657 (continuing his work on the Digestum sapientiae, writing the Traité de la necessité, Conduite du religieux, two astrological works (published under the pseudonym of Franciscus Allaeus), namely Astrologia nova methodus and Mi>Fatum Universi, as well as the L'agent de Dieu dans le monde and Ius naturale rebus creatis a Deo constitutum). Back in Paris after 1567, he continued working on his Digestum. In Paris, he wrote his last worksLes vaines ecuses des pécheurs, Les fausses opinions du monde, ou le monde combatu dans ses maxcimes criminelles, Le gentil-homme chrestien, Le magistrat chrestien and, near the end of his life, he also oversaw the publication of the first volume of Les oeuvres françoises du P. Yves de Paris He died in Paris after a long proces of dementia in 1678, at the age of 90. Somehow, the order rather quickly after this death began to ignore his literary legacy.

works

Les heureux succès de la piété, 2 Vols. (Paris: veuve Nicolas Buon, 1632-1634 /and later editions). In part or completely accessible via Google Books and Gallica.

La théologie naturelle, 4 Vols. (Paris, 1633-1637); La théologue naturelle ou les premières véritez de la foy sont éclaircies par raisons sensibles et moralles (Paris, 1633); La théologie naturelle. Tome second. De l'immortalité de l'âme, des anges et démons (Paris, 1634);La théologie naturelle. Tome troisiesme. Des perfections de Dieu, de sa Providence, de sa Iustice (Paris, 1635); La théologie naturelle. Tome quatriesme. De la Religion. Que la religion chrestienne est la vraye (Paris, 1637). There are also a number of later editions, several of which can now be accessed via Gallica and Google Books. This work deals in a rather roundabout, eclectic and essayistic way with the existence of God, the created nature of the world, and with a host of other themes to proof the truth and the wisdom of Christian faith. Due to its style, it was rather successful.

Les morales chrétiennes, 4 Vols. (Paris, 1638-1642). This book was translated into German as Die Tugend-Schule der Christen: Worinnen ein jeder Mensch aufferbaulich unterwiesen wird wie er pflichtmässig sein Leben anstellen solle (Prague, 1715).

Traité de l'indifférence (Paris, 1638). A study in human anthropology.

Les progrès de l'amour divin, 4 Vols. (Paris: Thierry, 1642-1644).

Très humble remonstrance faite à la reyne (Paris, 1645). Against Jansenism.

Les misericordes de Dieu dans la conduite de l'homme (Paris, 1645). Against Jansenism.

Le souverein pontife, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1643-1645). Against Jansenism.

Digestum sapientiae, in quo habetur scientiarum omnium rerum divinarum atque humanarum nexus, et ad prima principia reductio, 4 Vols. (Paris, 1647-1672). A huge scholastic work of more than 4000 pages and an attempt to connect all sciences from a leading Christian principles, partly inspired by the Bonaventurean theme of reductio artium ad theologiam. Several volumes are accessible via Gallica and Google Books.

Traité de la necessité

Conduite du religieux

Astrologiae nova methodus Francisci Allaei Arabis christiani (Paris, 1659), issued under the name of Franciscus Allaeus, with his friend the Margrave of Asserac. Accessibla via Google Books.

Ad illustrissimos viros amplissimi senatus Armorici. In Librum de Fato Vniuersi nuper editum (Paris, 1645), issued under the name of Franciscus Allaeus with his friend the Margrave of Asserac. Accessible via Google Books.

L'agent de Dieu dans le monde (Paris, 1646/1655).

Ius naturale rebus creatis a Deo constitutum (Paris: Denis Thierry, 1656/1558). The 1658 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Les vaines excuses des pécheurs (Paris, 1661).

Les fausses opinions du monde, ou le monde combatu dans ses maxcimes criminelles (Paris, 1688). Published after his death.

Le gentil-homme chrestien (Paris, 1666).

Le magistrat chrestien (Paris, 1688). Published after his death.

Les oeuvres françoises du P. Yves de Paris (Paris, 1675); Les oeuvres françoises du P. Yves de Paris, II, ed. Alphonse de Chartres OFMCap (Paris, 1680). A third, announced volume never appeared.

See also: Julien-Eymard d'Angers, Yves de Paris: introduction et choix de textes (Paris, 1965).

To be continued. This list is not complete.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 263-264; Julien-Eymard d'Angers, `Le P. Yves de Paris et le sentiment de Dieu', Études Franciscaines, 49 (1937), 582-631; Idem, ‘Un livre curieux de la bibliothèque Municipale de Rennes. L'Astrologiae Nova Methodus du P. Yves de Paris (1593-1678)’, Annales de Bretagne 44 (1937), 46-57; Idem, Le P. Yves de Paris et son temps (1590-1618), 2 Vols. (Paris, 1946); L. Thorndike, ‘Newness and Craving for Novelty in Seventeenth-Century Science and Medicine’, Journal of the History of Ideas 12 (1951), 584-598; Julien-Eymard d'Angers, ‘Les trente dernières années d'une vie laborieuse: le P. Ives de Paris’, Amis St-Franc 8 (1967), 63-74; Idem, L'humanisme chrétien au XVIIe siècle: Saint François de Sales et Yves de Paris (Den Haag, 1970); Idem, ‘Yves de Paris et les Provinciales’, Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 4th ser. 1 (1971), 103-110; Cesare Vasoli, ‘Il ‘Digestum sapientiae’ di Yves di Parigi’, Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 70 (1978), 245-265; R.L. Fastigi, The Natural Awareness of God According to `La théologie naturelle' of Yves de Paris, Ph.D. Fordham Univ. (Fordham, 1986); Robert L. Fastigi, The Natural Theology of Yves de Paris (Atlanta, 1991); B. Chédozeau, `Yves de Paris', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1566-1576; C. Bérubé, L’amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfiel et les Capucins, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997); J. Halbronn, Ives de Paris., un capucin astrologue, http://cura.free.fr/xx/17halb10.html [consulted on 09 January 2008]; 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, ed. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Helga Pirner-Pareschi & Thomas Ricklin (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2008), 349-393 (esp. 366-378); Jan Bernd Elpert, ‘Die Schöpfung ist schön. Yves de Paris (1588-1678) der vergessene Bewunderer des Universums’, Wissenschaft & Weisheit 74 (2011), 105-134.

 

 

 

 

Yvo Trecorensis (Yves de Tréguier, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from Brittany. Active in Syria and Palestine as apostolic missionary. Specialist in Arabic and author of a large number of works in that languages, including a range of catechetical texts, other texts of religious instruction, sermons and a apologetic and missionary historical works to prove the truth of Christianity.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 264-265.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Barberius (Zaccaria Barberio di Bologna, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Bologna province. Respected preacher and one-time socius of the Capuchin minister general Fortunato di Cadero.

works

Via, & gesta Patris Antonii Montecucoli Mutinensis Ministri Generalis (Rome: Filippo Mancini, 1661).

Vita, & gesta P. Innocentii a Calatajerone Ministri generalis

Meditazioni

Composizioni

Trattato dell'annegazione interiore

Memorie

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 160; Cimarosto Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che forirono nel francescano istituto per santita, dottrina e diguita fino a nostri giorni (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 712.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Boccardi (Zaccharia Boccardi di Sicignano, 1760-1833)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Joined the order in the Salerno province in 1776. Active as lector, provincial minister, general definitor (1824) and general procurator (1825). Appointed bishop of Crotone in May 1829, yet he was unable to take his see due to illness. He died in Salerno on April 7, 1833. Known to have written a preaching handbook and other works.

works

Opera didascalica proposta a giovanni che applicar si vogliono allo studio della Sacra Teologia (...). Check!

Metodo teorico-pratico di comporre Prediche secondo le regole della vera Eloquenza (Naples, 1802).

Direzione data a'suoi studenti intorno al modo di predicare, Check!

Compendio della vita del B. Angelo d'Acri. Check!

Compendio della vita di Monsignor Molinari. Check!

Theologia Mystica. Never published?

Tredici lettere encicliche dirette ai religiosi da provinciale. Never published?

Dizionario alfabetico circa la virtù delle erbe in ordine alla medicina. Never published?

literature

Bullarium OFMCap IX, 382, 384 & X, 6; Ritratti dei Cappuccini Illustri II, 59; 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), 42; Dizionario degli illustri Salernitani (1937), 125; DHGE IX, 305; Lexicon Capuccinum 232, 533.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias La Selve (Zacharie Laselve, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar. Member of the province du Saint-Sacrement. Lector of theology. Proficient homiletic author, who issued a large number of multi-volume sermon collections for the complete liturgical year.

works

Annus apostolicus Tomus primus. Continens Conciones pro toto Adventu et Quadragesimae tempore (Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1696).

Annus apostolicus. Continens Conciones pro toto Adventu 3 Vols. (Paris, 1708/Paris 1711). The first volume of the 1708 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Annus Apostolicus, Continens Conciones Pro Omnibus Et Singulis Totius Anni Diebus Dominicis, 4 Vols. (Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1707-1711). In part accessible via the digital collections of Ghent University Library and Google Books.

Annus Apostolicus, seu Conciones toto anni decursu praedicabiles, stilo perspicuo elaboratae (...) Tomus secundus. De Sanctis (Paris: Edmund Couterot, 1708). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Annus Apostolicus, seu Conciones toto Adventu Praedicabiles (...) (Liège: Guilelmus Broncart, 1727). Accessible via the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague, and via Google Books.

Annus Apostolicus, Continens Conciones Omnibus & singulis totius Anni diebus Festivis Praedicabiles; stilo perspicuo elaboratas, claraque methodo concinnatas (...), 2 Vols. (Bassano-Venice: Remondini, 1728/Venice: Typographia Balleoniana, 1729/Venice: Typographia Balleoniana, 1794). Both volumes of the 1729 edition and at least the second volume of the 1794 edition are accessible via Google Books.

Annus Apostolicus, Continens Conciones - I. Toto Adventu, II. Tempore Quadragesimae, III. Omnibus & singulis Anni diebus Dominicis -, praedicabiles, stilo perspicuo elaboratas, claraque methodo concinnatas (...), 4 Vols. (Venice: Typographia Balleoniana, 1733). At least the first volume of this series is accessible via the Austrian National Library in Vienna and via Google Books.

The complete edition history of these cycles is complex, and we probably have missed some editions and misunderstood the exact number of volumes in some of them. See also the volume of Collectanea Hibernica mentioned below, as well as https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00911939

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162 [with some other edition years]; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 770-771; Collectanea Hibernica 44-45 (2003), 154 [with a more complete listing of all the volumes of the Annus Apostolicus series]; Fabienne Henryot, 'Portrait du récollet en écrivain au XVIIe siècle', in: Les récollets, en quête d’une identité franciscaine, actes du colloque de Paris, 1er-2 juin 2012, ed. C. Galland, F. Guilloux & P. Moracchini (Tours: PUFR, 2014), 228.

 

 

 

 

Zacharia Lexoviensis (Zacharie de Lisieux/Ange Lambert/Petrus Firmianus (pseudonym)/Louis Fontaines/Louys Fontaines, sieur de Saint Marcel (pseudonym), 1596-1661)

OFMCap. French (Norman) friar. Born as Ange Lambert in a well-to-to family in Normandy, he joined the Capuchin order in 1612 and became a renowned preacher, who even preached before Louis XIII. Also spent nearly 20 years as a (clandestine) missionary in England in the 1630s and 1640s. he died in Evreux on November 10, 1661. He was a rather prolific writer, sometimes publishing under pseudonym (Pierre Firmian/Petrus Firmianus/Louis Fontaines/Louys Fontaines, sieur de Saint Marcel). His most famous work is probably the Relation du pays de Jansénie from 1664. He was a friend of Yves de Paris and like him an adversary of Jansenism, albeit with a more satyrical tone.

works

De la Monarchie du Verbe incarné, ou de l'Immense pouvoir du plus grand des Roys, des hautes maximes politiques et du merveilleux ordre qu'il observe dans le gouvernement de son Estat, par le R. P. Zacharie de Lyzieux, prédicateur capucin (Paris: Chez la Veusve Nicolas Buon, 1639/1642/1649). The 1639 edition is available in digital format via the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The 1642 edition is accessible via Google Books.

La Philosophie chrestienne, ou Persuasions puissantes au mespris de la vie, par le P. Zacharie de Lyzieux, prédicateur capucin (Paris: Chez la Veusve Nicolas Bvon, 1639/1644). Does a 1632 edition also exist, as suggested in the Lexicon Capuccinum?

Saeculi genius Petro Firmian authore (Paris: s.n., 1653/Paris: apud viduam et D. Thierry, 1659/ 1663). This work was issued under the pseudonym Pierre Firmian.

Somnia Sapientis, Petro Firmiano authore (Paris: D. Thierry, 1659). Translated as: Les Songes du Sage, de P. Firmian. Traduits par le P. Antoine de Paris, prédicateur capucin (Paris: Chez la Veuue Denis Thierry ruë Saint Iacques, à l'enseigne S. Denis, pres Saint Yues, 1664).

Gyges Gallus. Petro Firmiano authore. Accessere Somnia sapientis. (Paris: apud viduam & Dionysium Thierry, 1658/1659/1660/1663/1671/Regensburg: Lentz, 1736). A French edition appeared as: Le Gyges gallus de P. Firmian, traduit par le P. Antoine de Paris (Paris : D. Thierry, 1663).

Petri Firmiani Opuscula, quibus continentur Gyges Gallus, Somnia sapientis, & Sæculi genius. Accessere indices rerum copiosissimi. Editio correctissima. Iuxta exemplar parisinum (Paris: Gedani, 1686).

Relation du pays de Jansénie, où il est traitté des singularitez qui s'y trouvent, des coustumes, mœurs et religion de ses habitans, par Louys Fontaines, sieur de Saint Marcel (Paris: Chez la Veusue & Denys Thierry ... et au Palais, chez Claude Barbin, 1660/1664/1665/1688). Both the 1660 and the 1665 edition are available via Google Books, and at least one of them is accessible via the databases of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A new edition, revised and augmented by Jesuits, it would seem, and issued in 1688, is called L'Anti-phantome du jansénisme, ou la Nouvelle description du païs de Jansénie avec ses confins, la Calvinie, la Libertinie, la Désespérie et la mer Prolyse ou Mer de Présomption, le tout représenté dans une carte générale de ces quatre provinces avec son explication, où il est traitté des singularitez qui s'y trouvent, des coutumes, mœurs et de la religion des habitans (Paris: chez A. Novateur, 1688). The Relation was also quickly translated into English, see: A Relation of the Country of Jansenia: Wherein is Treated of the Singularities Founded Therein, the Customes, Manners, and Religion of It's Inhabitants. With a Map of the Countrey (London: Printed for the author, & are sold by A. Banks and C. Harper, 1668).

Tota Pauli scientia, Christus patiens, contemplationis christianae novum opus et ad gustum concionum. Accessit Sylva sacrorum, varii argumenti multiplicem theologiam continens, authore Patre Zacharia Lexoviensi (1662/Venice: Aloysius Pavinus/Luigi Pavini, 1696/Augsburg: Georg Schlüter & Martin Happach, 1716). This work was re-issued as Tota Pauli Scientia, Christus Patiens: Contemplationis Christianae Novum Opus, Et Ad Gustum Concionum. Accessit Sylva Sacrorum, Varii Argumenti Multiplicem Theologiam Continens (Nabu Press, May 13 2012).

Sylva sacrorum, varii argumenti multicplicem Theologiam continens (Paris, 1662/Venice, 1696).

See also: Zacharie de Lisieux & Johann Georg Rinck, Neu entdeckte frantzösische Staats-Larve: bestehend in allerhand schönen Reden, Sinnreichen, Spruchen und curiösen Historien (Leipzig: Gedruckt bey Johann Wilhelm Krügern, 1698); Der französische Gyges Oder Unsichtbare Charmion, Das ist Uberauß selzame und anmuhtige in Franckreich sich zugetragene Begebenheiten: Bestehend In allerhand Sinnreichen Bildern, holdseeligen Discursen, schönen politischen Erinnerungen, und andern erbaulichen Materien (Cosmopoli, 1687).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 161-162; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 693; Édouard d’Alençon, Les Capucins de Rouens (Paris, 1890), 47-53; Ch. Guery, Les oeuvres satiriques du P. Zacharie de Lisieux (Évreux, 1911); Julien-Eymard d’Angers, ‘Sénèque et le stoïcisme chez les Capucins français du XVIIe siècle’, Études Franciscaines n.s. 1 (1950), 337-353; Lexicon Capuccinum (Rome, 1951), 1852-1853; W.-Ch. van Dijk, ‘Zacharie de Lisieux’, DSpir XVI, 1583-1586.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Castiglione (Zaccaria Castiglione da Milano, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Sermoni divoti, ed affettuosi per l'oratione delle quarant'hore sopra i treni di Geremia. Colle Istruttioni necessarie per celebrarla (Milan: Stampatore Archiepiscopale, 1653). Accessible via Google Books.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias de Janico (Zaccaria da Gianico, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Brescia province. Preacher, devotional author and chronicler. There also seems to have existed a 17th-century namesake. See: Memorie del P.Fr. Zaccaria da Gianico, Min. Oss. Riformato (...) (Venice, 1684).

works

Disegni di piu sermoni sul Vangelo di ciascuna domenica dell'anno divisi in tre parti proposti a' parrochi, e ad altri sagri ministri, dal p. Zaccaria da Gianico lettore di sagra teologia della Riformata Provincia di Brescia, 3 [4] Vols. (Giambattista Bossini, 1773/Torchi di Pasquale Ostinelli, 1823/Milan: Angelo Bonfanti, 1843/Borroni e Scotti, 1853). Several editions now accessible via various digital portals.

Metodo breve e facile di praticare con frutto l'Eserzicio della Via Crucis (Brescia: Vendramino 1750/ Rizzardi & Bossini 1786).

Ristretto cronologico dei papi, degli imperatori, de'concilii principali, degli eretici e degli scrittori. Check!

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 826; Miscellanea Francescana 8:1 (1901), 10-11.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias de Salò (Zacharias Salodiensis, d. 1705)

OFMCap. Italian friar from the Bressanone (Brescia?) province. Preacher and apostolic missionary in the Valla Reatina region.

works

La lucerna sopra il candelliere accesa. Trattati dodici. Con li quali chiaramente, e sinceramente si mostra alle eccelse leghe de'signori Grigioni nella Rhetia la continua, e non mai interrotta serie della fede cattolica (...) Opera sommamente gioueuole (...) Composta dal P.F. Zaccaria da Salo sacerdote capuccino. Gia missionario apostolico nella medesima Rhetia, 2 Vols. (Venice: appresso Benedetto Miloco, 1679-1690). At least the first volume of the work also appeared in Raeto-Romance as La glisch sin il candelier invidada (Squicciau de Gion Gieri Barbisch, 1685).

Spieghel de devotioun diviis enten siis partz: cavaus ordt divers cudeschs spirituals et mess giù enten il lungaig ramonsch della Lija Grischa, 2nd Ed. (Bolzano: Per Paulo Fierer, 1676). An Italian version of this work apparently appeared in Verona in 1665, yet I have not yet been able to trace down that work.

Cevociusas canzuns... (Combel, 1695).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162; 'Eine Sammlung religiöser Volkslieder durch einen Kapuziner der rätischen Mission', Sankt Fidelis 29 (1942), 24-25; Lexicon Capuccinum (Rome, 1951), 1854; I. de Villapadierna, `Zacharie de Salò', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1586-7

 

 

 

 

Zacharias de Saluzzo (Zacharias Boverius/Zaccaria Boverio/Zacharias a Saluzzo, d. 1638)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born at Saluzzo (Piedmont) in 1568. Trained in Latin and Greek, as well as in Law. He entered the Capuchin order in the Alexandria convent in 1590 after obtaining the doctorate in Law. He took his profession on 9 June 1591. After his ordination he became active as an anti-Protestant missionary (esp. 1601-1603). In 1619, he became a member of the Piedmonte province. Provincial definitor and guardian of the Mondovi convent in 1621. That same year, Zaccaria became a consultant for the minister general Clement de Noto, following the latter to Rome and to Spain. At Madrid, Zaccaria was involved with the conversion process of the future King of England, Charles I. In 1624, Zaccaria took on work for the Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei, and later in life he would act as consultant for the Roman inquisition. In 1625-1626, he was a counsellor for cardinal Francesco Barberini (travelling to France and Spain), and in 1627 he was asked to become the official chronicler of the Capuchin order. In 1637, he was made general definitor. In the course of his life, Zaccaria wrote a substantial number of works. Most famous nowadays are his Annales, which try to prove, over against the Observants, that the Capuchins were the ‘true sons’ of Francis of Assisi. This lead to Observant reactions. For his own Annales, the first volume of which appeared in 1632, Zaccaria made abundant use of the (partly unedited) chronicles and annals by Mario da Mercato Saraceno, Bernardino da Colpetrazzo, Mattia Bellintani and Paolo da Foligno. He died on 21 March 1638.

works

Responsio ad Quatuor Controversias super Rebus Fidei ab Anglis Propositas: Turin, Archivio Nazionale, Check!

Demonstrationes Symbolorum Verae et Falsae Religionis, Adversus Praecipuos ac Vigentes Catholicae Religionis, Hostes, Atheistas, Judaeos, Haereticos, Praesertim Lutheranos et Calvinistas, 2 Vols. (Lyon, 1617). Partly reprinted in Roccaberti’s Bibliotheca Maxima Pontificia, XX (Rome, 1699), 478-597.

Paraenesis Catholica ad Marcam Antonium de Dominis, Olim Archiepiscopum Spalatensem (…) in Qua Examinantur et Refelluntur Quatuor Libri ab Eodem Auctore Evulgati, Qui ‘De Republica Ecclesiastica’ Inscribuntur (Lyon, 1618). This work was re-edited three years later in an enlarged form as: Censura Paraenetica in Quatuor Libros ‘De Republica Ecclesiastica’ M. A. de Dominis (Milan, 1621), which included also the Censura in Tractatum de Legitima Cardinalium Creatione Dominici Veneti Episcopi Torcellani Nomine Inscriptum, sed ab Eodem Marco Antonio de Dominis in Lucem Editum, which was also edited separately in 1622.

Orthodoxia Consultatio de Ratione Verae Fidei et Religionis Amplectendae, ad Ser. Carolum Walliae Principem, Jacobi I Magnae Britanniae Regis Filium ac Regni Successorem Iuratum in Suo in Hispanias Adventu (Madrid, 1623/Cologne , 1626/Rome, 1635). Cf. G. Albion, Charles Ist and the Court of Rome (Louvain, 1925), esp. 1-35.

Directorium Fori Iudicalis pro Regularibus Usui Fratrum Minorum qui vulgo Capuccini Nuncupantur (Turin, 1624).

De Sacris Ritibus Iuxta Romanam Regulam Usui Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci, qui vulgo Capucini nuncupantur, accommodatis libri tres (Naples, 1626).

Demonstrationes XI. De vera habitus forma a Seraphico B.P. Francisco instituta (Lyon: Landry, 1632/Lyon: Corneille Egmond, 1655). Hence a new edition after he work was placed on the index in 1652? See on this work the 2017 study of Alejandra Concha Sahli mentioned below.

Annales: Annalium seu sacrarum historiarum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci qui capuccini nuncupantur tomus primus, in quo universa quae ed ejusdem Ordinis ortum et progressum usque ad annum 1580 fidelissime traduntur (Lyon, 1632).
Annalium seu sacrarum historiarum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci qui capuccini nuncupantur tomus secundus, in quo universa, quae ad eiusdem ordinis progressum usque ad annum 1612 spectant, fidelissime traduntur (Lyon, 1639).
Boverio’s Annales soon received Italian, French and Spanish translations. The first Italian translation appeared as: Annali de’ Frati Minori Cappuccini composti dal M.R.P. Zaccaria Boerio da Saluzzo, trans. Benedetto Senbenedetti da Milano, 2 Vols. (Turin, 1641/Venice, 1643-1645). French and Spanish translations were made by Antoine Caluze (1675) and Gabriele de Moncada (3 Vols., Madrid, 1644). Subsequent Capuchin authors provided continuations of Zaccaria’s Annales (a.o. Marcellino da Pisa). The Observants reacted against Zaccaria’s works with J. De Riddere’s Speculum Fratrum Minorum Ordinis S. Francisci (Antwerp, 1640 & 1653), which in turn gave rise to Capuchin defenses: Carolus Arenbergensis, Clypeus Seraphicus sive Scutum Veritatis in Defensionem Annalium (Cologne, 1643) and Marco Antonio Galizio, Dilucidatio Speculi Apologetici sive Propugnaculum Historiae Annalium P.Z. Boverii (Antwerp, 1653).

literature

Francesco da Sestri, Vita del P. Zaccaria Boverio (Genoa, 1664); Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 160-161; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 248-250; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 692-693; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 6 (1890), 68, 101, 136, 166, 9 (1893), 362, 10 (1894), 283-288; F.-X. Molfino, I cappuccini Genovesi, I: Note biografiche (Genoa, 1912), 90-93, 312, 409-414, 478-479; Cuthbert, The Capuchins. A contribution to the history of the Counter-Reformation (London, 1928) II, 431-433; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘Boverius’, DThCat II, 1119-1121; A. Teetaert, ‘Boverio’, DHGE X, 292-294; Melchior a Pobladura, Historia generalis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum. Pars Secunda (1619-1761) (Rome, 1948) I, 433-440; Lexicon Capuccinum (Rome, 1951), 1851-1852; Melchior a Pobladura, ‘De cooperatoribus in compositione Annalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum’, Collectanea Franciscana 26 (1956), 9-47; Melchior a Pobladura, ‘De prima versione italica ‘Annalium’ Zachariae Boverii Salutiensis hucusque inedita’, Collectanea Franciscana 25 (1955), 305-312; Mariano D’Alatri, ‘San Francesco negli Annali del Boverio’, in: Francesco nella Storia, ed. S. Gieben (Assisi, 1982), II, 135-147; C. Pantanella, ‘Notizie di alcune antiche immagini francescane italiane da un trattato del frate minore cappuccino Zaccaria Boverio’, in: Bilanzio e l’Occidente: arte, archeologia, storia. Studi in onore di Fernando de’ Maffei (Rome: Viella, 1996); Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Zacharias v. Saluzzo’, LThK3 X, 1362f; Johannes Madez, ‘Zacharias Boverius von Saluzzo’ [cap. † 1638], in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XVII, 1579f.; Policarpo Felipe Alonso, ‘La identidad capuchina en los Anales de Zacarías Boverio (1524-1556, I parte)’, Naturaleza y Gracia 49 (2002), 7-126, 199-264; Gianluca Crudo, 'Padre Zaccaria Boverio da Saluzzo e le sue Annotazioni sui Frati Cappuccini della Calabria [1525-1612]', Italia Francescana 85 (2010), 499-530; Alejandra Concha Sahli, 'The True Habit of St. Francis: The Capuchins and the Construction of a New Franciscan Identity', Collectanea Francescana 87 (2017), 513-552.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Firminus (fl. mid 17th cent., or mid mid 16th cent.?)

OFM. French friar.

works

Antiquitates Franciscanae a Novatorum erroribus, & commentis expurgatae, & vindicatae (Saint-Paulien [Ruessium]; Haeredes Stephani Andreae, 1647)

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1650), 332; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 161; Dictionnaire de Bibliographie Catholique XLI, 738.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias de Vitré (Zacharie de Vitré, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRec. French friar.

works

Essays de meditations poetiques sur la Passion Mort et Resurection de Nostre Seigneur Iesus Christ (Paris: François Muguet, 1659). Accessible via the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon and via Google Books. A modern reprint with introduction was issued as Les Essais de méditations poétiques sur la passion, mort et résurrection de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, ed. Lance Donaldson-Evans, Seventeenth-Century Library, 22/ Voix poétiques, 5 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015). It amounts to a collection of sonnets and poems on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ.

literature

Fabienne Henryot, 'Portrait du récollet en écrivain au XVIIe siècle', in: Les récollets, en quête d’une identité franciscaine, actes du colloque de Paris, 1er-2 juin 2012, ed. C. Galland, F. Guilloux & P. Moracchini (Tours: PUFR, 2014), passim.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Kirchgesser (1605–1645)

OFM. German Observant friar active in the Münster area during the 30 years war. Born around 1600 in Klingenberg am Main. Guardian in Münster and Hildesheim, preacher and author. He died in 1645 in the odor of Sanctity.

works

Christliches Mitleyden oder vier trewhertzige kurtze Erinnerungen von jetziher grawsamer Veränderung in Teutchland and other sermons. Edited in the 2002 study of Becker-Huberti mentioned below.
See now also: Das Grewliche Unthier der ketzerey. Vier Münsterander Franziskanerpredigten aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg und eine fiktive Fürstenpredigt für kaiser Karl V, ed. Manfred Becker-Hubert, Westfalia Sacra, 19 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2020). Based in part on four sermons issued for the first time in munster in 1635.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 161; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 693; Manfred Becker-Huberti, Die Tridentinische Reform im Bistum Münster unter Fürstbischof Christoph Bernhard v. Galen: 1650 bis 1678: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der katholischen Reform (Münster; Aschendorff, 1978), 149-151; Manfred Becker-Huberti, ‘‘Von jetziger grausamer Veränderung in Deutschland’. Vier Münsteraner Barockpredigten des Minoriten P. Zacharias Kirchesser aus der Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges und ein ‘Fürstenspiegel’ von Antonius de Guevara’, in: Kirche und Frömmigkeit in Westfalen. Gedenkschrift für Alois Schöer, ed. Reimund Haas & Bernhard Jüstel, Westfalia Sacra, 12 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2002), 51-83.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Mediolanensis (Castilioni, d. 1675)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Active in Milan as preacher, guardian, master of the novices and several times also as provincial definitor.

works

Sermoni 42 sui Lamentazioni di Geremia per le quarantore(...) (Milan, 1653).

Il giovane cappuccino brievemente instrutto con alcuni ammaestramenti utilissimi ed importantissimi Avvisi (...) (Milan: Lodovico Monza, 1646). Accessible via Google Books.

Trè utili instruttioni per expoliare il vecchio uomo (Milan: Lodovico Monza, 1647).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 693; I.de Villapadierna, `Zacharie de Milan', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1586.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Rhendanius (Rhendana, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Brescia province, and missionary among Protestant groups.

works

Geistliche Uebungen (Bressanone, 1665).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Tevo (Zaccaria Tevo, 1651-1711)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Born in Piove di Sacco. Like his older brother Ignazio Tevo, he joined the order. Zaccaria took the habit in 1665 in the San Francesco di Treviso friary. He studied theology in Fermo, Macerata, Pavia and Venice. In the course of these studies, he also dedicated himself to the study of music, inspired to do so after reading a musical text on counterpoint by P. Francesco Maria Angeli. Following his studies, he became organist in the Treviso friary. Although he spent time in other friaries, he also returned to Treviso and died there in 1711 or thereabouts. He is especially known for Il musico testore, a handbook on music as a disciplin, chords, harmonies, counterpoint, etc.

works

Compieta a otto voci piena (Venezia, 1687).

Il musico testore (1700): MS Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, 1165, ff. 1-485. The work was printed for the first time some 6-7 years later: Il musico testore (Venice: Antonio Bortoli, 1706). Available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Public Library Lyon (check Numelyo), and via Google Books. It is a handbook on music as a disciplin, on chords, harmonies, counterpoint, etc.

literature

F.A. Gallo, 'Il Musico Testore di Zaccaria Tevo', Quadrivium 8 (1967), 101-111; 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.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Ulyssiponensis (Zacharias de Lisboa/de Lisbon, d. 1604)

OFMCap. Portuguese friar from Lisbon. Became a member of the Bologna province. Several times provincial definitor.

works

Catholica consolatio ad cives Parmenses, & Placentinos pro obitu Sereniss. Alexandri Farnesii eorum Ducis, & Principis (Rome: Erasmo Viotto, 1594).

Zacharias is also known for the Italian translation and reworking of spiritual sermons by the Portuguese Hierolymite friar Hector Pintus on friendship, justice, solitary life, mental tranquility, the true good, religon etc., which Zacharias was able to get published in Venice in 1594.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 693.

 

 

 

 

Zacharias Urceolus (Zaccaria di Ravenna, fl. later 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Member of the Bologna province. Obtained the magisterium theologiae. Would have been regent lector in Padua in 1585 and a celebrated preacher. Also taught and preached elsewhere in the Italian peninsula. Provincial minister between 1591 and 1594. Inquisitor in Padua between ca. 1594 and 1614, the year of his death.

works

Conciones, & de variis rebus opuscula. Nothing known about their whereabouts.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 599 (Appendix); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 693-694.

 

 

 

 

Zapata de Cárdenas (ca. 1510-1590)

OFM. Spanish friar.

literature

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XV, 1555.

 

 

 

 

Zegers (Nikolaas Tacitus Zegers/Claes Zegers, ca. 1495-1559)

OFM. Belgian friar. Born in Brussels around 1495. Studied at the University of Louvain (matriculation in 1512). Entered the Observant branch of the Franciscan order in 1520, in the Germania Inferior province. Between 1536/1537 and 1548, he taught Sacred Scripture as regent master of the Franciscan Studium Theologicum at Louvain (succeeding Franciscus Titelmans). After 1548, when Adam Sasbout took over the lectorate position in Louvain, Nicholas Zegers subsequently lived (frequently as guardian or vicarius, his apparently precaious health notwithstanding) in the convents of Mechelen (Malines), Tienen (Tirlemont, 1550-1551), Diest (1553-1554), Amsterdam (1555-1556), Boetendaal near Brussels (1557), Brussels (1557), and Louvain (1558-1559, where his brother Egidius was guardian at the time), where he died on 27 August 1559. He is the author of a varied oeuvre, mopstly completed after his lectorate years. Between 1555 and his death, Nicholas published several works on the New Testament (Scholia and Epanorthotes). In these works, he defended the Latin Vulgate against some of the new translations (of Erasmus and others), yet did propose textual corrections in orer to arrive at a more or less definite Latin New Testament. Beside these theological works, Nicholas Zegers published since 1548 a range of editions and translations of important spiritual and catechetical works. He also published a biblical concordance. On top of these biblical works, which eventually were also used by Protestants and as such were included in the famous Protestant Critici Sacri collections of 1660 and 1698, he published two volumes of edifying proverbs, namely the Proverbia Teutonica Latinitate Donata (Antwerp, 1550), and the Proverbia Gallicana (Antwerp, 1554), and he translated (into Latin and into Dutch) important devotional works.

works

Via Vitae (Antwerp: Joannes Loëus, 1551/Antwerp: Joannes Loëus, 1556). It is a Latin translation of Florenius of Haarlem (Cartusian)'s, Wech des Levens, ed. & trans. Niklaas van Winghe (Antwerp, 1442/Antwerp, 1544Antwerp, 1547/Antwerp. 1552/Antwerp, 1564). The original work had been written for female religious. Zegers changed the style and also several of the prayers (not including many specific monastic prayers) to make it suitable for a well-educated international Latin reading public].

Christianae Vitae Speculum (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1549-1550/Cologne: Arnold Birckmann, 1555). It is a Latin translation of the Speghel des kersten Levens of Thomas of Herenthals (d. 1530).

Proverbia Teutonica Latinitate Donata, collectore et interprete T. Nicolao Zegero (Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1551/ Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1553/ Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1554/ Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1558/ Antwerp: J. Loëus,1563/Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1571). [Collection of ca. 700 proverbs, with their Latin and Greek pendants, possibly written to provide an alternative to Erasmus's Adagia. Between the Praefatio and the proverbs properly speaking can be found a Proverbiorum commendatio and a Proverbiis quatenus sit utendum, which clearly show an Erasmian inspiration. Editions from 1558 onwards have proper editions and additional laudatory poems by the Luxemburg humanist Nicolaes Mameranus and Antonius Hovaeus (abbot of Egmond Abbey)]

Den Beuckelere des Gheloofs (Louvain: Anthonis Maria Bergaigne voor Jan Waen, 1551/Antwerp: Pieter van Keerberghen, 1566/Antwerp: Pieter van Keerberghen, 1568/Antwerp: Mathias Rodius voor Hendrik Wouters, 1581). It is a Dutch translation of the Bouclier de la Foy (1548) of Nicole Grenier (Victorine). It amounts to a treatise on the doctrines and the practices of a good religious life, put forward in a dialogue between ‘die rechte wandelere’ and the ‘dolende.’]

Proverbia Gallicana, una cum interpretatione Teutonica tum Latina (Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1554) [Comparison of Dutch and French proverbs. Predominantly meant for language study.]

Die Collegie der Wijsheyt, ghefundeert ende ghesticht in die universiteyt der deuchden (Amsterdam: Simon Cock, 1556). It is a Dutch translation of the Collège de Sapience (1539) of Pierre Doré OP. Zegers devoted the book on October 7, 1555 to abbes Maria van Linghen (abbess of Ter Kameren in Brussels and sister of Jan van Linghen, Count of Arenberg).

Het Sweert des Gheloofs, om te beschermen die Christen Kercke teghen die vyanden des waerheyts, ghetogen uut die heylige scrifture, uut die heylige Concilien ende uut die alderoutste Vaders ende Doctoren der heiliger Kercken, Gemaect in Fransoysce tale van B. Nicolaes Grenier, Religioos van S. Victors. Ende overgestelt in duytsce, nu int licht ghebrocht doer B. Henrick Pippinck Minister Provinciael der Nederduyts landen. Ghededicteert aen de Vrome heeren ende ghemeynte der Stadt van Antwerpen uut liefde (Antwerp, 1558/Antwerp: Jan van Ghelen, 1568). It is a Dutch translation of the L’espée de la Foy (1557) of Nicole Grenier (Victorine). It amounts to a catholic apology. Although the title mentions Henrick Pippinck, the introductory words of the latter indicate that the translation was done by another, deceased friar, and this translator should be identified with Zegers.

Catechismus, dat is die Somme der christelijcker onderwijsinghen (Antwerp: Pieter van Keerberghen, 1558/Antwerpen: J. Verwithagen, 1565). It is a Dutch translation of the Catechism/Summa doctrinae christianae per quaestiones traditae of Petrus Canisius. This translation, which Zegers finished in Boetendaal, was not the first translator of Canisius’ Summa Doctrinae Christianae per Quaestiones Traditae. The first Dutch translation (by Jan van Hemert), appeared in Antwerp by Verwithagen & Simon Cock in 1557.]

Scholion in Omnes Novi Testamenti Libros, III Vols. (Cologne: Heredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1553/etc.). At least the third volume is accessible via Google Books. This work, a commentary on difficult places in the New Testament, was later incorporated in the Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. John Pearson et al., 9 Vols. (London: Jac. Flesher, 1660), Vols. VI-VII & Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. Henricus et Vidua Theodori Boom, 9 Vols. (Amsterdam: J. Boom, 1698), Vols. VI, VII & VIII.

Epanorthotes. Castigationes in Novum Testamentum, in quibus depravata restituuntur, adiecta resecantur et sublata addiciuntur (Cologne: Heredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1553/1555). The 1555 edition is accessible via Google Books. This work, Zegers's attempt at creating a more or less 'definite' correction of the Latin NT text, based on proper philological studies of old sources and comparisons with the works of Valla, Erasmus and Titelmans. It was later incorporated in the Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. John Pearson et al., 9 Vols. (London: Jac. Flesher, 1660), Vols. VI-VII & Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. Henricus et Vidua Theodori Boom, 9 Vols. (Amsterdam: J. Boom, 1698), Vols. VI, VII & VIII.

Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum juxta veterem Ecclesiae editionem, ex probatissimis eisdem vetustissimis tum Scriptoribus tum exemplaribus priscae suae fidei integrati restututum, brevibusque illustratum Adnotationibus, 2 Vols. (Louvain: Stephanus Valerius, 1559). Building on the Epanorthotes, this was Zegers's attempt at creating a more or less final NT text in answer to Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum. Zegares had sent a manuscript version of the work to Pope Julius III and even suggested in his address to the pope (Julius III or his successor Paul IV) to make his NT version the only accepted version in the Church. What the impact of Zegers's work was on further Catholic Vulgate editions needs further research.

Inventarium in Novum Testamentum (Antwerp: Joannes Latius, 1557/1558/Antwerp: Joannes Bellerius, 1566). This is a biblical concordance for preachers and theologians, finished by Zegers in Amsterdam on August 6, 1556, possibly to replace Anthony of Koenigsteyn's concordance, and informed by Zegers's own scriptural research.

Versus memoriales in IVuor Christi Evangelia: MS Mons, Bibliothèque Publique, 403. The seventeenth-century manuscript copy of the work shows it amounts to a mnemotechnic aid to learn by heart the chapter order of the four Gospels.

In 1554, Zegers also helped to publish a new vernacular edition of Thomas Herentals’ Speghel des Kersten Leven. This edition went in press with the title Den Spieghel des Christen Levens (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1554), and was reprinted the same year and in 1569 (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1554/Antwerp: Willem van Parijs, 1569). Zegers added several appendices (indices etc.) as well as a short treatise on the Ten Commandments, sin, confession, prayer, the ave maria prayer, the ceremonies and parts of the eucharist, and with additional prayers. See also under Thomas Herentals.

For more information on all these works, see also the studies of Benjamin De Troeyer mentioned below.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 110; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire des Frères Mineurs des Pays Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 81-84; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 104-105, 111, 113; P.J.M. Van Gils, ‘Proverbia teutonica Latinitate Donata, een spreekwoordenboekje van T. Nicolaas Zegers’, Tijdschrift voor Taal en Letteren (1941), 137-142; Benjamin De Troeyer, ‘De minderbroeder Nikolaas Zegers’, Franciscana 18 (1963), 8-29; Benjamin De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI (Nieuwkoop, 1969-1970), I, 192-203 & II, 407-422; André Derville, `Zegers', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1611-1612.

 

 

 

 

Zenobius Bocchi (Zenobio Bocchi, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the Florence region, Zenobio Bocchi became both a preacher and a botanical and medical specialist, focusing on the properties of medical plants. He studied under Francesco Malocchi, prefect of the botanic gardens of Pisa. Zenobio was involved with the lay-out of the Boboli gardens of Florence and with the botanical gardens in Pisa. Together with his former master Malocchi, he entered into the service of the Mantuan Gonzaga family, also at the recommendation of the painter Jacopo Ligozzi. In the gardens of the ducal palace, Zenobio Bocchi developed a special medical garden, the so-called garden dei semplici (a plan of which, including its underlying astrological principles, he published in 1603). On 6 June, 1611, Zenobio Bocchi was made ‘Soprain tendente generale a tutti li giardini ducali’.

works

Plan of the 'Giardino de' semplici in Mantova' (1603). See the studies by Zanca, Finucci etc. in the literature section of this entry.

literature

Rimando A. Zanca, ‘Giardino de' semplici in Mantova" di Zenobio Bocchi’, Quadrante Padano 2 (1981), 32-37; Rimando A. Zanca, ‘Un monogramma geometrico di Zenobio Bocchi, naturalista al servizio dei Gonzaga’, Civiltà Mantovana terza series 25:2 (??), 31-35; Raffaella Morselli, La Collezioni Gonzaga: l'elenco dei beni del 1626-1627 (Silvana Editoriale, 2000), passim; Barbara Furlotti & Guido Rebecchini, The Art of Mantua: Power and Patronage in the Renaissance (Getty Publications, 2008), passim; Valeria Finucci, The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (2015), 134; I giardini dei Gonzaga. Un atlante per la storia del territorio (Del Gallo Editori, 2018).

 

 

 

 

Zeno Athensis (fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German friar and member of the Austria province. Preacher. Known for his translation into German of the Vita S. Zenonis Episcopi Veronensis (1689?).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum Ordinis minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum Retexta & Extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 251; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162.

 

 

 

 

Zeno Bergomensis (Zeno da Bergamo, 1574-1624)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Tyrol province. Provincial minister and spiritual author

works

Methodus meditandi passionem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (Munich, 1609/1625).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 162-163; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 694; Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1627-8; Vincenzo Criscuolo, I Cappuccini e la Congregazione Romana: 1616-1619 (Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 1995), passim

 

 

 

 

Zenobius Florentinus (Zenobio da Firenze, fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Member of the Tuscany province. Cantor and composer of choral works. According to Juan de San Antonio, he died in 1568.

works

Would have issued several works on musical practice and would have left behind compositions.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 163; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 694.

 

 

 

 

Zosimus Linguardensis (d. 1803)

OFMCap. Hungarian friar and member of the Austrian-Hungarian Capuchin order province. Preacher.

works

Six volumes of sermons in German and Hungarian, issued in Bratislava/Pressburg, 1794 (Franciscus Patzko).

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), 42.