Basilius de Salon (Basile de Salon, d. 1625)

OFMCap. Famous preacher in the Marseille region, where he toured around, preaching in towns and villages, exhorting his audience to make public repentance for their sins. In the early 1610s, he was elected guardian of Pont-Saint-Esprit. The 1615 chapter of Aix appointed him guardian of Cavaillon. He died during a trip (administrative or homiletic?) to Italy. Unknown whether his sermons do survive.

literature

Henry de Grèzes, Archives capucines, province de Provence (Bar-le-Duc, 1892), 35-36 (couvent de Tarascon), 259 (couvent de Cavaillon); P. Calendini, ‘Basile de Salon’, DHGE VI, 1155-1156.

Basilius de San-Severino (Basilio di San-Severino, d. 1641)

OFMCap. Member of the Salerno province. Professor of theology and preacher. Produced two series of Conciones de Tempore and a Breviarium Theologicum. Neither of these works saw the printing press. Died at Bologna, in 1641, during a stint as the provincial minister for the Bologna province.

manuscripts

Conciones de Tempore:>>>

Breviarium Theologicum:>>>

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 38; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 127; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de San-Severino’, DHGE VI, 1156.

Basilius de Soissons (Basile de Soissons, d. 1698)

OFMCap. Entered the the Capuchin convent of Faubourg Saint-Jacques (Paris) on April 20, 1635. Member of the apostolic mission council for England, established at Paris under the protection of Henriette-Marie, the sister of Louis XIII. Devoted much of his time to the writing of anti-protestant treatises, defending elements of Catholic doctrine and tradition. In addition, he published a few works of asceticism and moral theology.

editions

Defense invincible de la vérité orthodoxe de la présence réelle de Jésus-Christ en l’Eucharistie, où elle est prouvée par près de trois cents arguments, dont toutes les majeures sont prises dans l’Écriture (Paris, 1676). This work saw eight editions until 1682.

Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie et du saint sacrifice de la messe, tous deux clairement expliqués (Paris, 1682). A revised and enlarged version of the previous work. It also saw a range of editions.

La vraye religion clairement démonstrée et la fausseté des nouvelles sectes entièrement détruite avec la condemnation des novateurs par leu propre bouche, dans tous les points controversez entre eux et les catholiques romains (Paris, 1676). This work went through at least five editions and sometimes is also included in later editions of the Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie. In those instances La vraye religion is presented as the complementary second part to the Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie.

La condemnation de tous les protestants de l’Europe. This work is included in some editions of La vraye religion, replete with its own preface and independent page numbering.

Fondement inébranlable de la doctrine chrétienne où les principaux points de la foy sont clairement expliquez et prouvez par la parole de Dieu ecrite , 4 Vols. (Paris, 1680-1683). It saw its 13th edition in 1693. Some bibliographers, such as Bernardo di Bologna treat the four volumes of the work as independent treatises on the Credo (first volume), the sacraments (second volume), the commandments (third volume) and prayer (fourth volume) respectively.

Abrégé très clair de la doctrine chrétienne, avec les preuves de l’Écriture sainte, utile et nécessaire à tous ceux qui désirent être instruits parfaitement des mystères de notre religion (Paris, 1678). This is a condensation of the Fondement inébranlable and went itself through 20 editions until 1693.

La véritable décision de toutes les controverses par la résolution d’une seule question: Quel doit être le juge des controverses (Paris, 1685).

Les rapports admirables de l’institution de la sainte Eucharistie avec les six jours de la création du monde (Paris, 1686).

Reflexions morales sur ce passage de l’Écriture sainte: Utinam saperent et intelligerent et novissima providerent (Paris, 1686).

La science de bien mourir (Paris, 1686 & 1688).

La conduite du chrétien pour aller au ciel, 2 Vols. (Paris, 1686/Paris, 1689).

Explications morales et édifiantes de divers textes de l’Écriture sainte, tant de l’Ancien que du Nouveau Testament, 8 Vols. (Paris, 1689-1696).

Traité de l’existence de Dieu, où il est prouvé qu’il y a un Dieu ou qu’il n’y a rien du tout. This is a condensation of the teachings found in the first part of the Fondement inébranlable de la doctrine chrétienne and can sometimes be found independently. As yet not much information concernin its printed editions is available.

Explication du saint sacrifice de la messe. This appeared as an independent attachment to the 1682 augmented edition of the Défense invincible de l’Eucharistie.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 38; A. Rébelliau, Bossuet historien du protestantisme (Paris, 1909), 63; H. Hurter, Nomenclator literarius, 3rd. ed. (Innsbruck, 1910) IV, 435-436; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Soissons’, DHGE VI, 1157-1158.

Basilius de Sorrente (Basilio di Sorento, d. May 1678)

OFMCap. A descendant of the neapolitan Donnerso family, he entered the Capuchin order at Naples at the age of 18, taking his vows of profession on April 23, 1626. Went through the order’s school programme and himself became a teacher of thology and philosophy within the Capuchin school network. Subsequently, he also took on the charges of guardian, definitor and provincial of the Naples province (1672-1674). He died at the Cava convent, at the age of 69.

manuscripts

Cursus integer philosophicus, 2 Vols (manuscript)

Cursus integer theologicus, 3 Vols (manuscript.

The whereabouts of these manuscripts, mentioned in the works of Bernardo di Bologna and Apollinaris de Valencia, are as yet unknown.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 37; Apollinaris de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 48; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Sorrente’, DHGE VI, 1158.

Basilius de Teruel (Basile de Téruel, d. after 1679)

OFMCap. Friar from the Valencian province, where he acted as a definitor and a provincial. In between his administrative assignments, he wrote a number of works.

editions

Collectanea Sacra (Madrid, 1658). [Sermon outlines]

Sumario de las indulgencias concedidas al orden del Padre S. Francisco, printed with the 1658 Madrid edition of the rule of Francis used by the Spanish Capuchins.

La vida del Padre Arángel Scoti, capuchino (Madrid, 1659).

Discurso historial, en que se prueba que el Padre S. Francisco no fue religioso, ni professo la regla del sagrado doctor S. Agustin, aquellos dos años que hizo vida heremetica, antes de fundar su religion de frayles menores (Naples, 1660).

Libro para ayudar a bien morir (Valencia, 1669).

Tratado de la tercera orden: >>>>

Suma o Compendio sobre la regla de los frayles menores, recopilada de la exposicion, que sobre ella hizo el R. P. Fr. Pedro Navarro (Valencia, 1679).

Notas que se deven guardar en leer el martirologio, segun su rubrica 4: >>>>>.

literature

F. Rattariazi, Apologema, espeio y excelencias de la serafica religion de menores capuchinos (Turin, 1673), 227-228; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 38; A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Téruel’, DHGE VI, 1159-1160.

Basilius de Zamora (d. August 9, 1696)

OFMCap. Castilian friar. Took up several educational and administrative positions: lector, guardian, custos, definitor and provincial, as well as visitator of other Capuchin provinces in Spain. King Philip IV made him a court preacher, and had him appointed counsellor and judge of the inquisition tribunal. Basilius also obtained a position the University of Salamanca, and acted as the confessor of the Duke of Medina Celi. Basilius died at Naples during a trip with the latter to Italy. He wrote a variety of works, all of which seem to be connected with his work at Salamanca, and all of them have escaped the printing press.

manuscripts

Geografica descripción del mundo, en que se trata del mundo, cielos y elementos in genere y in specie, se explica sucintamente la esphera; despues se trata de los tres continentes (antiguo, novo e incognito) en que se divide la tierra del Africa, Asia, Europa y America, de los Chersonesos, siete maravillas del mundo, del paraiso terrenal, y del fluxo y refluxo del oceano, de los ritos y costumbres de todas las naciones del Orbe, de las particularidades y cosas raras que se han hallado en el mundo, de las singularidades de todos los elementos con otras muchas cosas: MS?

Breve epilogo de theologia moral: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.C.77, ff. >>>

Paracer del R.P. Basilio da Zamora: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.C.77, ff.>>>

Censura y paracer. A cerca de los proposiciones que salieron en Francia unas de la Sorbona año de 1663, y odras de la Assemblea de los obispos año de 1682: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.C.77, ff.>>>

Manual de advertencias y devotas aspiraciones mui provechosas para el articulo de la morte, recopilados de muchas auctores que de esta materia an escrito: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 1-69.

Christiano recuerdo para moverse el alma a contricion de sus culpas: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 70-81.

Sermon en que se trata del antechristo: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 83-89.

Sermon del dia del juicio en la 1a dominica de Adviento: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 90-96.

Sermon de la quarta dominica de Adviento: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 96-101.

Miercoles de Ceniça: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 ff. 103-110.

Primer Viernes de Quaresma: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71 f. 201.

Audistis quia dictum est antiquis: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.E.71, appendix

literature

F. Rattariazi, Apologema, espeio y excelencias de la serafica religion de menores capuchinos (Turin, 1673), 209-210; Apollinaris a Valentia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome, 1886), 48-50: A. Teetaert, ‘Basile de Zamora’, DHGE VI, 1163-1164.

Basilius Iturri (Basilio Iturri del Roncal, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher in the Aragon province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 321-322; AIA 22 (1962), 373; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 131 (no. 440).

Basinus de Parma (Franciscan friar?)

Hesperides, MS Oxford, Canon, Class. Lat. 81

B. Combasson (17th cent.)

OFMConv. Historian.

editions

Vera e Dilucida Explicatio Praesentis Status Totius Seraphicae Fratrum Minorum Religionis, ed. in: I Frati Cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze (Rome-Perugia, 1988), I, 1240.

Beatrice de la Concepción (d. 1646)

Poor Clare. Mystic and spiritual author…

literature

DSpir I, 1310.

Beatrice de Silva Menezes (c. 1424-1490)

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literature

Mistici Francescani. Secolo XV, 837-844.

Beda de Soyen (Beda Von Soyen, 1663-1724)

OFMCap. Bavarian friar. Entered the order on October 9, 1685. Active as a novice master, guardian and definitor. Wrote a ceremoniale for his Bavarian province.

editions

Ceremoniale Fratrum Minorm Capuccinorum Provinciae Bavaricae (Munich, 1720).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (venice, 1747), 39; A. Eberl, Geschichte der bayrischen Kapuziner-Ordensprovinz (1593-1902) (Freiburg in Breisgau, 1902), 281, 293.

Benedictus Aegidius Becerra (Benito Gil Becerra, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar and spiritual author.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 238-239; DSpir VI, 366-367; AIA 26 (1966), 82-87; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 121 (no. 359).

Benedictus Antonius Ortega (Benito Antonio Ortega, fl. ca. 1750)

OFM. Acting provincial of the Cartagena province by 1750

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 100-102; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 156 (no. 637).

Benedictus de Alignan († 11, 07, 1268)

Friar of noble descent, who entered the order after he had been a Benedictine for many years (Abbot of the benedictine house of Grasse in 1224, Bishop of Marseille in 1229?). Travelled with the army of Thibauld IV of Champagne to the Holy Land in 1239, and later as a pilgrim in 1260. Propagated the re-inforcement of the Templar fortifications of Safad (1241). Resigned his positions (including the episcopal see) and entered the Franciscan order in 1267. Protector of the `friars of the holy virgin', an order which was already abolished at the council of Lyon in 1274. His major work is known as De Summa Trinitate et Fide Catholica in Decretalibus

manuscripts and editions

De Summa Trinitate et Fide catholica [=Tractatus Fidei contra Diversos Errores, ca. 1260] 18 manoscripts in all, among which Paris BN Fonds Latin 4224 ff. 389v-392ra; Rome, Bibl. Alessandria Universitaria. 141 ff. 306va-307vb; Eichstätt, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. St. 221 (14° s.) ff. 5ra-290vb; Chartres, Bibliothèques Municipale 341 ff. 1v-21v; British Library, Arundel 458 ff. 109-230 (15^th cent.). [See for a complete survey: Grabmann, Der Franziskanerbisschof 51-53; Jensen, War against the Muslims 189, n. 15.] The work received a partial edition by Kurt Villads Jensen, AFH 89 (1996) 181-195. A full edition by Alfredo Cocci is in progress.

Compendium [abbeviation of the former work by the author himself.]: MS Paris BN Lat. 4224 ff. 425-436 [See: Golubovich, Biblioteca I, 245]

Epistolae [See in general: Histoire littéraire de la France XIX.87-91; P.-A. Armargier, Benoît d'Alignan, évêque de Marseille (1229-1268). Le contexte et l'esprit d'une théologie. Le Moyen Age. Revue d'histoire et de philologie 72 (1966) 443-462.]

1. Epistola ad Innocentium Papam IV [1249], edited by Luc d'Achery, Spicilegium Veterum Aliquot Scriptorum qui in Galiae Bibliothecis Latuerant, XIII Vol. (Paris, 1655-1677) [whioch volume? Check!].

2. Epistolae Variae, edited by Baluze, Miscellanea II². 242, and also (some dedicatory letter) in Histoire littéraire de la France XIX.89-90; Golubovich, Bibliotheca I, 236-253; Gallia Christiana Novissima (Paris, 1715), I.no. 246, 247, 253, 254 & 266

Expositiones [on the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria]: MS: Paris, BN, Lat. 4224 ff. 436-467. [See: Golubovich, Bibliotheca I. 244-245]

Sententia Lata in Synodo super Decimas [24 october, 1263], edited in Baluze, Miscellanea II².244 & Gallia Christiana Novissima, (Paris, 1715), I, 651s. & VI, 947 [See: Golubovich, Bibliotheca I, 244-245

(?) De Constructione Castri Saphet [incertain attribution], edited in Golubovich, Bibliotheca I.246-53; R.B.C. Huygens, Un nouveau texte du traité `De constructione castri Saphet'. Studi Medievali, 3. ser. 6/1 (1965) 378-87; Itinera Hierosolymitana Crucesignatorum (Saec. XII-XIII), cur. S. de Sandalo, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Collectio Major, 24 (Jerusalem, 1984), IV,11-13. [see: C. Huygens, Un nouveau texte du traité `De constructione castri Saphet'. Studi Medievali, 3. ser. 6/1 (1965), 355-377.]

literature:

M. Grabmann, `der Franziskanerbishof B. de Alignano († 1268) und seine Summa...', in: Festschrift P. Michael Bihl OFM, ed. I.-M. Freudenreich (Colmar, 1941), 50-64; P.-A. Amargier, ‘Benoît d’Alignan (…)’, Le Moyen Age 72 (1966), 443-462; K. Villads Jensen, ‘War against the Muslims according to B. of A.’, AFH 89 (1996), 181-195 [contains a partial edition of the Summa de Trinitate]; Alfredo Cocci, `Notizie su Benoît d'Alignan (d. 1268) ed il suo Tractatus Fidei contro Diversos Errores' in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo (Rome, 1997), 317-331 (info on editions and studies)

Benedictus Benkovi_ (ca. 1460, Zadar - 1522, Judenburg)

Studied in Zadar and Rome. Taught in Rome and acquired a reputation of learning and expertise in scotism. Became definitor in 1520. mediated in the conflict between the Observantists and the Reformers in Breslau (1522). Wrote a course book on Scotean logic, the Scoticae Subtilitatis Epidiction, and works on the virgin Mary.

editions:

Navigium Divae Mariae Virginis (Lyon, 1498); Stella Clericorum (Lyon, 1538); Scoticae Subtilitatis Epidicton (Pavia, 1520)

literature:

F. Doelle, Die Observanzbewegung der Sächsischen OFM-Provinz (Munich, 1918).

Benedictus Bernal (Benito Bernal de Pinós, fl. c. 1760)

OFM. Preacher in the Aragon province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 240.

Benedictus Bonelli (Benedetto Bonelli, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMRif. Born at Cavalesio (Tirol), on 26 December 1704. Became lector of philosophy and theology and thereafter general definitor and visitator of the Milan province for the Franciscan order. Later in his career, he became diocesan visitator of Trent. He died on 28 October 1773. Aside from writing several works of his own, he was asked by the Franciscan order leadership to publish an opera omnia edition of the works of Bonaventura da Bagnoreggio. He came to an inventarisation, which he published as the Prodromus ad Opera Omnia Sancti Bonaventurae, and an additional three volumes.

editions

Epitome qua Theoria Praxisque Exhibetur Sanioris Morum Doctrina (Trent, 1737).

Dissertazione apologetica sul martirio del beato Simone a Trento nell’anno 1475 (Trent, 1747).

Dissertazione intorno alla santità e martirio del beato Adelpreto (Trent, 1755).

Condemnatio Theologiae Moralis a P. Busenbaum et Lacroix Editae Anno 1757 (Trent, 1758/Venice, 1760).

Breves Notitiae ad Bonam Directionem Animae et Salutarem Instructionem Studiorum Morali Doctrinae Addictorum (Trent, 1758/Naples, 1762).

Dissertatio Adversus Sententiam de Sufficientia Servilis Attritionis (Venice, 1759).

Notizie istorico-antiche della Chiesa di Trento, 3 Vols. (Trent, 1762).

Prodromus ad Opera Omnia Sancti Bonaveturae (Bassano, 1767).

Sancti Bonaventura (…) Operum Omnium Supplementum, 3 Vols. (Trent, 1772-1774).

literature

Giovanni Crisostomo Tovazzi, Elenco delle epoche della vita e degli scritti del Padre Benedetto Bonelli da Cavallese, Francescano Riformato, ed. Fortunato Mandelli, in: Nuova raccolta di opuscoli scientifici e filologici, Vol. XLI (Venice, 1785), 1-52; Hurter, Nomenclator (ed. Innsbruck, 1911), 117-118; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 193-197; N. Tonneatti, Cenni intorno alla vita e scritti del P. B. Bonelli (Trento, 1861); Contributi alla storia dei Frati Minori della provincia di Trento (Trento, 1926), 67-93, 135-143, 153-162, 182-184.

Benedictus de Canfield (Benedict the Englishman/William Fitch/Filch, 1561-1610)

OFMCap. Born at Canfield (Essex), in a Puritan family. In 1585 he converted to Catolicism, and in 1587 entered the Capuchins, taking the name of Benedict. Studied theology and embarked on a career in the French Capuchin provinces as a preacher, novice master, guardian (a.o. of the Saint-Honoré convent) and definitor. Involved with the reform of the Benedictines of Montmartre. In 1599, he travelled back to England, in an attempt to convert people from his native land to Catholicism. He was apprehended shortly after his arrival. After two years in prison, he was sent back to France, where he again took up several charges in the order (guardian, novice master and definitor), to die on 21 November 1610.

manuscripts/editions

Le chevalier chrestien (1600-1609):>>>>

Règle de perfection contenant un bref et lucide abrégé de toute la vie spirituelle réduite à ce seul point de la volonté de Dieu, divisé en trois parties (1609)>>>. A Latin version of this large work apparently appeared before 1610, and was reprinted several times in different languages between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, although it was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1689 because of its alleged quietist tendencies.

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vitae

Sieur de Nantilly, Véritable et miraculeuse conversion du R.P. Benoist de Canfeld (Paris, 1622).

literature

Zacharia Boverio, Annales (Lyon, 1639) II, 843-862; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 39-40; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. ed. Rome, 1908) I, 128-129; DThCat II, 718-719; Ubald d’Alençon & Marie Benoît du Bourg d’Iré, ‘Le P. Benoît de Canfield’, Études franciscaines 42 (1930), 688-707; P. Hildebrand, ‘Benoit de Canfeld’, DHGE VIII, 196-198; DSpir I, 1446-1452; Optat de Veghel, Benoît de Canfield (1562-1610). Sa  vie, sa doctrine et son influence (Rome, 1949); Sabrina Stroppia, ‘Riletture secentesche di Canfeld (etc.)…’, Arch. Ital. Storia Pietà 9 (1996), 177-279; Camille Bérubé, ‘L’amour de Dieu chez Benoît de Canfield’, in: Idem, L’amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfield et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997), 109-143; Jean Orcibal, ‘La divinisation selon Benoît de Canfield (1562-1610)’, in: Idem, Etudes d’histoire et de littérature religieuses (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), ed. Jacques Le Brun & Jean Lesaulnier (Paris, 1997), 409-418.

Benedictus de Haarlem (Franciscus van der Plasse, d. 1651)

OFMCap. Dutch or Belgian friar. Entered the order at Brussels in 1609. He was guardian of the Hasselt friary before he became a missionary in the Protestant part of The Netherlands (the Dutch Republic). Was active as a missionary priest in Nijmegen for two years, as well as in Eemnes in 1629. That same year, he became involved in local political struggles and had to leave. He was forbidden to return to active missionary duty by the apostolic apostolic vicar for the Dutch mission (Philippus Rovenius). Thereafter, Benedictus became guardian at Furness and Dunkirck. He died in Mechelen (Malines) on 27 June 1651. Author?

literature

Archief van het Aartsbisdom Utrecht 27 (1901), 335, 341, 1 (1906), 333, 336, 350; J.D.M. Cornelissen, Romeinsche Bronnen voor den Kerkelijken Toestand der Nederlanden onder Apostolisch Vicarissen 1592-1727, deel I, Rijks Gesch. Publ. no. 77 (Den Haag, 1932) I, 370-372, 403, 414, 416, 419-423, 428, 534-536; P. Hildebrand, ‘Benoit de Harlem’, DHGE VIII, 211. With thanks to Dr. Jan Out for the information concerning Benedictus' activities in Eemnes.

Benedictus de Liège (d. 1660)

OFMCap. Provincial of the Rhine province (1632-1635, 1649-1652, 1655-1658). Confessor of Maria de Medici, Queen of France. Latin poet. During a stay at Rome, in 1633, pope Urban VIII asked him to function as an ambassador for missions to the King of France and the Archbishops of Mainz, Cologne, Trier and Worms. Later, in 1649, he acted in Rome as the negotiator for the interests of the prince-elect of Mainz. In 1660, when visiting the Swiss Capuchin provice, he died at Luzern.

literature  

Bullarium Capuccinorum, ed. Michael Tugiensis (Rome, 1746) IV, 113-117, 331; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40; Rocco da Cesinale, Storia delle missioni (Rome, 1872) II, 520, 654-655, 657; Analecta Capuccinorum 16 (1900), 187-188 & 17 (1901), 611-62, 151, 154; P. Hildebrand, ‘Benot de Liège’, DHGE VIII, 218.

Benedictus de Locarno (16th century?)

Magister theologiae, lector in Bologna

literature:

Piana, Chartularium, 61

Benedictus de Lohr (Benedikt von Lohr, d. 1719)

OFMCap. Friar from the Rhine province; guardian of the convent of Mainz. He died there on April 10, 1719. Author.

manuscripts

Breviarium Chronologicum de Institutione, Destitutione et Restitutione Ordinis Fratrum Minorum: MS>>>

Legalia et Judicalia Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Statui Accommodata ex Recentissimis et Probatissimis Auctoribus: MS>>>

Regularia Fratres Minores Concernantia ex Actis, Statutis, Decretis, Ordinationibus, Declarationibus Capitulorum Generalium ex Archivo Nostro Romano Aliisque Manuscriptis et Probatis Regulae Expositoribus Collecta: MS>>>

Forma Regendi Fratres Minores Capuccinos ex Actis, Statutis, Decretis, Declarationibus et Ordinationibus Capitulorum Generalium a Principio Ejusdem Ordinis Usque ad Annum 1702: MS>>>

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 42; A. Zawart, ‘The history of franciscan preaching and of franciscan preachers (1209-1927), The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 9 (1927), 541; A. Teetaert, ‘Bénigne de Lohr’, DHGE VII, 1325-1326. 

Benedictus de Montesarchia (Benedetto da Montesarchia, d. 1671)

OFMCap. Friar in the Naples province. Took his profession on 18 October 1621. Guardian of several convents. Died on 25 December 1671. Biographer.

editions

L’angelo della pace (Naples, 1666). It is a biography of the Capuchin friar Ange de Joyeuse.

literature

Apollinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 50-51; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Montesarchia’, DHGE VIII, 243-244.

Benedictus de Scandriglia (Benedetto da Scandriglia/Benedetto Palocci, d. 1659)

OFMCap. Friar from the Roman province. Lector, as well as guardian and definitor. Author of historical and ascetical works.

editions

Frutti serafici, ovvero laconismo delle vite dell’huomini piu illustri in santita e dottrina de’frati minori cappuccini dall’anno 1525 fin all’anno 1612 (Rome, 1656). It is an abbreviation/reworking of the annals written by Zacharia Boverio.

Apparizioni della Vergine santissima all’huomini illustri in santita della religione cappuccina (Rome, 1656).

Catalogo dell’huomini illustri in dottrina della religione de frati minori cappuccini (Rome, 1656).

Casi piu memorabili occorsi nella religione de’frati minori cappuccini (Rome, 1656).

Ordinazioni degli antichi Padri nella religione de’ frati minori, particolarmente del Dottore serafico S. Bonaventura circa la composizione dell’uomo esteriore (Viterbo, 1659).

Meditationi sopra la vita di N. Sig. Giesu Cristo, passione, morte, resurrettione et ascensione al cielo e venuta dello Spirito santo (Viterbo, 1661).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 129; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Scandriglia’, DHGE VIII, 260.

Benedictus de Seminara (Benedetto da Seminari/Benedetto Leoni, 1564-1627)

OFMCap. Born at Seminara (Reggio Calabria) as a member of the noble Leoni family. At the age of 18, he went to Naples, to study law. There he came under the influence of the Capuchins. He was received into the order by the provincial minister Basilio da Napoli. After his noviciate at Caserta (completed in March 1586), and after leaving all his worldly possessions to the establishment of a mons pietatis in his home region, he received a homiletic and theological training. Very successful preacher (earned the nickname apostle of Calabria). Around 1600, the minister general (Girolamo da Sorbo) asked him to work against Calvinist tendencies in Southern France. Yet he had only travelled as far as Brescia (where he apparently was to learn the French language), when this mission was aborted, due to plague epidemics in France. After his return to Calabria, he taught philosophy and theology and fulfilled several administrative functions (guardian, definitor, and provincial). He died at the age of 63 in his home town Seminara on 14 march 1627, during a Lent preaching tour.

manuscripts/editions

Dottrina Christiana/Catechismus in Commodum Parochorum pro Erudiendo Populo

Prediche quaresimali

Sermoni

These works apparently used to be present in the Capuchin della Concezione convent at Napoli (see Teetaert)

literature

G.-C. Scarfo, Elogio del P. Benedetto Leoni de Seminara (Naples, 1714); Bernardo da Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40-41; Apollinaro da Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Rome-Naples, 1886), 51-52; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 13-16; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Seminara’, DHGE VIII, 261.

Benedictus de Urbino (Benedetto da Urbino, 1560-1625) beatus

OFMCap. Friar from the Marches of Ancona. After studies of law at Padua, leading to the doctorat in civil and canon law, he entered the Capuchin order in May 1584 at Fano. After his noviciate and theological and pastoral studies, he was appointed preacher by the Capuchin minister general Girolamo da Polizzi (1592). Became a renowned preacher and receive the consignment to preach against Protestantism in Bohemia. He departed on this mission after Easter 1600.. After two years, he is back in Italy (1602), probably travelling and working together with Lorenzo da Brindisi. Benedetto died at the Urbino convent on 29 April 1625. He was officially beatified by Pius IX on February 10, 1867. Several of Benedetto’s works still survive.

manuscripts

Tractatus de Paupertate Fratrum Minorum Secundum mentem Beati Patris Nostri Francisci

Lettere consolitaria alla cognata Eleonora afflitta per la sua sterilità

Inni, sonetti e lettere varie

De Libero Arbitrio S. Augustini, traduzzione italiana con lettera di accompagno

All these texts apparently can be found in: Fossombrone, Biblioteca Passionei.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41-42; Lorenzo da Brindisi (Laurentius de Brundusio), De Rebus Austriae et Bohemiae Commentariolum, edited in: Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 25 (1909), 79-86, 136-141, 187-190; Eugenio da Potenza, Vita del beato Benedetto da Urbino (Castelplanio, 1920); Giusepe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini della Marche (Jesi, 1928), 15; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit d’Urbino’, DHGE VIII, 269-270; LexCap>>> ; Giovanni Leonardi, ‘Bienheureux Benoît d’Urbino, champion du renoncement et du service’, in : Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 139-153.

Benedictus of Löwenberg (ca. 1450 - 1543)

Franciscan who became supportive of the Lutheran cause, following in this the lead of his provincial minister Petrus Fontinus??

editions:

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literature:

Franciscan Studies, 19 (1923), 279-307; Wilhelm Forster, `Benedikt v. Löwenberg', LThK, 2 (1994), 203.

Benedictus Mediolanensis (Benedetto da Milano/Sanbenedetti, 1605-1679)

OFMCap. Friar from the Milan province. For a long time, he kept a low profile in the order. Yet in 1643 his former lector Simplizio Visconti, at that time general procurator and commissioner for the Capuchins at Rome, made him his personal secretary. After Simplizio had become minister general, he made Benedetto his counsellor and charged him with visiting Capuchin provinces and provincial chapter meetings. The next Capuchin minister general, Marco-Antonio da Carpenedolo, made him a general commissioner and visitator of the Milan province. In 1666, Benedetto left his charges, retreating to the Milan Conception convent. He died there on 30 november 1679. Over the years, Benedetto unfolded historiographical and hagiographical activities. In addition, he edited and published a cycle of quaresimal sermons by Emanuele Orchi da Como: Quaresimale (Milan-Venice, 1650).

editions

Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini, 4 Vols. (Turin-Venice, 1641-1645). An Italian translation and correction of the latin annals produced by Zacharia Boverio.

Vita del venerabile servo di Dio fra Bernardo da Corleone siciliano religioso laico dell’ordine dei cappuccini della provincia di Palermo (Palermo, 1680/Genoa-Milan, 1683/Palermo, 1725 & 1737).

Vita e gesti di Maria Longa fondatrice dell’hospitale degli incurabili e delle cappuccine di S. Maria in Gerusalemme di Napoli (Naples, 1683/Naples, 1736/ Naples, 1834). This is an Italian translation of the Vita Beatae Mariae Longae written by Boverio.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 40; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 130; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali Cappuccini (Milan, 1884) III, 284; V. Bonari, I cappuccini della provincia Milanese, I: Biografia dei piu distinti nei secoli XVI e XVII (Cremona, 1898), 106-109; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Milan’, DHGE VIII, 223-224; LexCap>>>>

Benedictus Niger (Benedictis a Sancto Philadelphio/Benedetto Niger/Moro, d. 1589)

OFMRif

G. Fiume, ‘Antonio Etiope e Benedetto il Moro: il Santo scavuzzo e il Nigro eremita’, in: Francescanesimo e cultura a Noto. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, ed. Diego Ciccareli & Simona Sarzana, Francisana, 12 (Palermo: Biblioteca francescana, Officina di studi medievali, 2005), 67-100.

Benedictus Parisiensis (Benoît de Paris/Benoît Laugeois, 1689)

OFMCap. Friar from the Parisian province. Author

manuscripts/editions

Spiritus veteris ac Novi Testamenti >>>>

De Politica Christiana Contra Machiavellum >>>>

L’exposition littérale de toute la Bible (Paris, 1675).

Scientia Universalis Scripturae Sacrae seu Explicatio Litteralis Veteris ac Novi Testamenti Secundum Methodum Jesu Christi, Lucae, c. xxiv, v. 44 et Omnium SS. Patrum Doctrinam, 3 Vols. (Paris, 1685).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40; B. Cuneo, ‘Biblical scholars in the Franciscan order’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 7 (1925), 108.

Benedictus de Toul (Benoît de Toul/Benoît Picart, 1663-1720)

OFMCap. Lector and guardian (of the Saint-Mansuy-les-Toul convent, 1705-1710/11), as well as general commissioner for the Capuchin convents of France and Lorraine (1712-1713). Provincial definitor thereafter. Died suddenly in January 1720. Active and productive historian, working on the history of the order and on regional history, concentrating especially on the diocese of Toul (on request of the bishop of Toul, Henri de Thiard de Bissy, who wanted to prove that the Saint-Dié chapter and the abbeys of the Vosges were not independent but dependent upon episcopal authority) and the Lorraine and Bar regions.

manuscripts/editions

a. works pertaining to the history of the Franciscan order:

Apologie de l’histoire de l’indulgence de Portioncule (Toul, 1714).

Réponse aux Lettres critiques sur l’apologie de l’histoire de l’indulgence de Portioncule (Toul, 1716). A reaction to criticisms raised by J.-J. Petitdier against Benoît’s Apologie.

Illustratio Sigilli et Contrasigilli Conradi, Cognomine Probi, Ordinis Sancti Francisci, Sacri Romani Imperii Principis et Episcopi Civitatis Leucorum>>>. A.o. dealing with the cap of the original franciscan habit.

Dissertatio Apologetica seu Vindiciae Conradi Minoritae et Episcopi Tullensis ab Injuriis Male in Eum Impactis, contra Eventinum et Centuriatores Magdeburgenses>>>>

Synopsis Historica Primae, Apud Leucos Eorumque Confines, Ordinis Sancti Francisci Institutionis ac Illius Progressus>>

b. works pertaining to the history of Toul, Lorraine and Bar

La vie de saint Gérard, évêque de Toul, avec des notes pour servir à l’histoire du pays (Toul, 1700). This is partly a translation/reworking of the Latin biography on this saint made by Widric, abbot of Saint-Épure.

Dissertation critique pour prouver que la ville de Toul était la capitale et le siège épiscopal des Leuquois, que Grand n’a pas été la capitale des Leuquois ni le siège épiscopal de saint Eucaire et que ce saint n’a pas été évêque des Leuquois. Contre le ‘Système chronologique des évêques de Toul’ et contre la préface mise en tête de ce livre (Toul, 1702). Directed against the Système chronologique written by Fr. de Riguet (and published by the Premonstratensian Louis Hugo at Nancy in 1701).

Défense de l’antiquité de la ville de Toul, contre la préface d’un livre qui a pour titre ‘Système chronologique et historique des évêques de Toul' (Paris, 1702).

Lettre écrite à Monsieur **** sur l’Histoire de saint Sigebert III, roi d’Austrasie (Toul, 1702). Ripping apart Vincent de Nancy’s Histoire fidèle de Saint Sigebert, XIIe roy d’Austrasie et IIIe du nom (Nancy, 1702), a work that had the support of Louis Hugo.

Lettre à Monsieur l’abbé XXX, sur l’‘Histoire de saint Sigebert, XIIe roi d’Austrasie’; Réplique à la réponse aux deux lettres écrites sur l’ ‘Histoire de saint Sigebert, IIIe du nom; Réponse aux observations sur la réplique de l’auteur anonime à la réponse aux deux lettres critiques contre l’ ‘Histoire de saint Sigebert, IIIe du nom, XIIe roi d’Austrasie’ (Toul, 1704). Cf. MS nancy, Bibliothèque municipale 468.

L’origine de la très illustre maison de Lorraine avec un abrégé de l’histoire de ses princes (Toul, 1704).

Histoire ecclésiastique et politique de la ville et du diocèse de Toul (Toul, 1707).

Pouillé ecclésiastique et civil du diocèse de Toul, 2 Vols. (Toul, 1711). As it did not suit the taste and policies of the living Duke of Lorraine, the latter obtained a royal decree forbidding the sale of the work in the Duchies of Lorraine and Bar. Already before that, the Duke of Lorraine had commissioned Louis Hugo to write a more favorable history of the Dukes of Lorraine, to counter the picture rising up from earlier works by Benoît.

Supplément à l’histoire de la maison de Lorraine et remarques sur le traité historique et critique de l’origine de la généalogie de la maison de Lorraine (Berlin, 1711). Disqualifying Hugo’s Traité historique et critique de l’origine de la généalogie de la maison de Lorraine.

Réplique aux deux lettres qui servent d’apologie du traité historique sur l’origine de la maison de Lorraine, avec la suite des remarques critiques sur le même traité (Toul, 1713). Yet another episode in the conflict between our Franciscan and Louis Hugo. In the end, the Duke of Lorraine dismissed Hugo as the official historian for his Duchy.

Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de la ville et du diocèse de Metz (1716)>>>>.

Histoire du diocèse de Verdun (incomplete)>>>>

Recueil des hommes illustres du diocèse de Toul (incomplete)>>>>

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 41; E. Martin, ‘Le P. Benoît de Toul’, Études franciscaines 41 (1929), 270-293, 392-415; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit de Toul’, DHGE VIII, 265-269. 

Benedictus Gaeta (Benedetto Gaeta, ca. 1559-15 March 1630)

OFMRif. Friar of the Sicilian province. Born at Francroforte (Syracuse Diocese). Was already a secular priest when he decided to join the Riformati at the San Francesco friary of Agrigento. Took his profession on 27 November 1589. Novice master for ca. 38 years, as well as confessor of the Poor Clares of the royal Poor Clare monastery at Naples for more than three years. Productive spiritual author, yet none of his works seem to have been edited.

literature

DSpir VI, 30; >>>>

Benedictus Gualdinus (Benedict Kelsternbasset, 1625-1698)

OFMCap. Of English descent, he entered the order in the Normandy province. After a career in various French provinces, he died at Alençon on 28 May 1698. Author.

manuscripts/editions

Homo Sensatus, Secundum Illa Verba: ‘Homo Sensatus Credit Legi Dei et Lex Illi Fidelis’>>>>

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 40; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1884) III, 562-564; A. Teetaert, ‘Benoit Gualdinus’, DHGE VIII, 210-211; >>>>>

Benedictus Genuensis (Benedetto de’Barbieri, d. 1795)

OFMCap. Friar from the Genoa province. Author.

manuscripts/editions

Raccolta di alcune orazioni panegiriche (Genoa, 1787).

Triennium Philosophicum, 2 Vols.: MS Voltri, Biblioteca dei Cappuccini (unnumbered manuscript? Apparently only containing the first volume).

Orazioni panegiriche (Genoa, s.a.). This work can also be found in the 1787 editon of the Raccolta.

literature

Johannes Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 15; F. Molfino, Cappuccini liguri (Genoa, 1909), 32; Francesco Zaverio, I cappuccini Genovesi, I: Note biografiche (Genoa, 11912), 24; A. Teetaert, ‘Bénigne de Gênes’, DHGE VII, 1325.  

Benedictus Polonus (mid 13th cent.)

Travel companion of Giovanni di PianCarpine (Johannes de Plano Carpini) on the journey to Mongolia in 1245. Like Giovanni, Benedict produced an itinerary/history of his adventures. This work itself seemingly has not survived. An anonymous scribe from near Cologne reworked Bendicts’ account into a concise Relatio (1247).

editions

Relation des mongols ou tartares par Jean du Plan de Carpin. Première édition complète publiée d'Après les manuscrits de Leyde, de Paris, et de Londres, cur. M. d'Avezac (Paris, 1838), Appendix: De Itinere Fratrum Minorum ad Tartaros quae frater Benedictus Polonus viva voce retulit; Sinica Franciscana, cur, A. van den Wyngaert, I. (Florence/Quarracchi, 1929), 131-143.

literature

Pullé, Historia Mongolorum (Florence, 1913), 121-124; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Benoit de Pologne’, DHGE VIII, 250; B.Roest, Reading the Book of History. Intellecual contexts and educational functions of franciscan historiography (1226-ca. 1350) (Groningen, 1996), 114-115, 121.

Benedictus Sinigardi (Benedetto Sinigardi Aretino)

First provincial minister of the Holy Land province

literature 

Jeryldine M. Wood, ‘Piero’s Legend of the True Cross and the friars of San Francesco [Sansepolcro]’, in: The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca, 51-65, 205-214.

Benedictus Sigl (d. 1764)

OFMConv. Novice master in Luzern. Author of confession manuals, novice training treatises and related works, as well as polemical historical works.

literature

DSpir XIV, 827.

Benignus Fremaldus (Bénigne Fremaut, 1654-1723)

OFMRec. Belgian friar, spiritual reformer, hagiographer and historian. Entered the religious life as a Franciscan novice at Ypres (Ieper) in 1670 in Flanders. In 11680, the general of the order Joseph Ximenes Samaniego asked for several friars from Flanders to introduce Recollect reforms in Naples. Benignus was enthrusted with the coordination of this endeavour, which apparently did not succeed. After his fellow flemish friars had returned to Belgium, Benignus stayed for two years in Italy, working with the successor of Wadding, father Harold, and doing research in a number of Italian friaries. After his return to Belgium, Benignus began to write a number of works based on his research. His main publication is De geestelijke palmboom, 12 Vols. (Bruges (?), 1693-1720). Benignus also fulfilled several administratiev and spiritual charges. He was, for instance, vicar at Eeklo and Diksmuiden (Dixmude), spiritual director and confessor (a.o. for the Urbanist Poor Clares of Ghent and tertiary sisters) etc.

editions

De geestelijke palmboom, 12 Vols. (Bruges (?), 1693-1720). This work was re-edited between 1859-1871 by Ladislaus van den Berk and also appeared in a number of Italian and French adaptations. See for instance Paul Guérin, Le palmier séraphique (Malvoisin-Bar-le-Duc, 1872); Léon de Clary, L’auréole séraphique, 4 Vols. (1883-1884), itself translated into Italian as the L’aureola serafica, and first of all Mazzara’s Leggendario franciscano (1721).

literature

DHGE XVIII, 1240f

Benignus Maria a. S. Alosio>>?

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manuscripts

Theologiae Scholastico-Dogmaticae Praelectiones: Naples, Naz. VII.B.66 (sec. XVIII).

Benignus de Condom (Bénigne de Condom, d. 1697)

OFMCap. Friar from the Aquitanian province. Historian. His works, the Annales du couvent d’Auch, and the Registre des miracles de Notre-Dame de Médoux, seemingly are lost.

literature

Apollinaro di Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Occitaniae et Aquitaniae (Nemours, 1894), 44; Eduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca Mariana Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 10; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capuchins de la province de Toulouse (1582-1928) (Toulouse, 1928), 7; A. Teetaert, ‘Bénigne de Condom’, DHGE VII, 1321-1322.

Benjamin de Carcassonne (d. 1708)

OFMCap. Provincial of the Toulouse province. Historian.

editions

Histoire de l’église de Notre-Dame de Saint Sauveur, en laquelle fut fondé et establi le couvent des Pères capucins, l’an 1592. Mémoire historique de la fondation du couvent de Carcassonne depuis l’an 1592 jusqu’en l’an 1689, ed. D. Mahul, in: Cartulaire et archives des communes de l’ancien diocèse et de l’arrondissement de Carcassonne, Vols. V-VI (Paris, 1871).

literature

Apollinaro de Valencia, Bibliotheca fratrum minorum capuccinorum provinciae Occitaniae et Aquitaniae (Nemours, 1894), 44-45; Eduard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis fratrum minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 10; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capuchins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1928), 8; A. Teetaert, ‘Benjamin de Carcassonne’, DHGE VII, 1343.

Benno de Stans (Benno von Stans/Benno Lussi, 1679-1755)

OFMCap. Swiss friar. Made a career as a lector, guardian, definitor, custos and provincial. Known for his commentary on the Third order rule and for his hagiographical biography of the Unterwalden hermit Nikolaus von Flue.

editions 

Wunder- und Tugendt-Stern, der in dem schweizerischen Alp-Gebürg entstanden, von sonderen göttlichen Gnadenstrahlen erleuchtet, mit Glantz sonderer Heiligkeit geschinen, dass ist Übernatürliches Leben, heiligster Wandel und grosse Wunder-Werck des Villseeligen Bruder Clausen von Unterwalden (Lucerna, 1732) 

Regelbüchlein des dritten Ordens (Stans, 1730 & 1734).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 42; L. Signer, ‘Pflege des Schrifttums in der Schweizer Provinz’, in: Die schweizerische Kapuzinerprovinz (Einsiedeln, 1928), 345-347.

Benno Mayr (fl. seventeenth century)

OFM. German friar and Scotist theologian

editions

Quaestiones Selectae ex Libro I Sententiarum de Scientia Dei ad Mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Ingolstadt, 1680).

Bentivenga de Bentivenghi (Bentivenga da Bentivengis, d. 1289/90)

Born in Aquasparta. Became in 1276 bishop of Todi and in 1278 cardinal-archbishop of Albano and papal penitentiary. He was a prolific preacher and was involved with the redaction of the papal decree Exiit qui seminat of Nicholas III. No works seem to have survived, although he is mentioned as the author of a sermon collection and a Veritatis Theologicae Volumen.

literature

Salimbene, Cronica, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII, 498; Wadding, Scriptores, 53 [check!]; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 125 (ed. 1806, p. 131); Der Registerband des Cardinal-Grosspänitentiars Bentivenga (Mainz, 1890); AF II, 91-92 105-106; AF III, 300-309-420; Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, 9, 54; Zawart, 286; AFH, 2 (1909), 461 & 6 (1913), 10; A. Teetaert, ‘Bentivenga de Bentivengis’, DHGE VIII, 281; Schneyer, I, 39.

Benvenuto Silvola da Milano (d. 1778)

Chronicler

literature

Anacleto Mosconi, `I cronisti delle provincie Osservante e Riformata di Milano: P. Bernardino Burocco da Monza (d. 1746) e P. Benvenuto Silvola da Milano (d. 1778)', AFH, 71 (1978), 130-149. (esp. 127-49); Anacleto Mosconi, ‘Un curioso cronista milanese del Settecento. Il francescano Benvenuto Silvola’, Civiltà Ambrosiana 15 (1998), 444-447.

Berard Müller

Historian of the Upper Germany province.

editions

De ortu et progressu Provinciae Argentinensis, ed. M. Sehi, in: Alemania Franciscana Antiqua XII (1964).

Berengarius de Bardaxi (Berenguer de Bardaxi, d. 1616)

OFM. Observant friar from Saragossa. Taught theology at the Sta Maria and San Francisco convents in his home town, before he became provincial of Aragon. King Philip III commended him for the episcopal see of Huesca, a position he obtained in 13 April 1608. Obtained great wealth for his diocese, combing this with great personal austerity. Organised a synod in 1611 and performed as the orator at the provincial council of Saragossa in 1614. He died on December 20, 1615.

editions

Proprium Sanctorum Diocesis Oscensis, Apostolicae Sedis Auctoritate (…) (Saragossa, 1610?). Later editions followed.

Diferentes oraciones sagrades (Huesca, 1608).

Sermones (Huesca, 1614).

literature 

F. de Latassa, Biblioteca nueva de los escritos aragoneses (Pamplona, 1789) II, 200-202; J. Coignet, ‘Bardaxi’, DHGE VI, 762. 

Berengarius de Malabosco (late thirteenth-early fourteenth cent.)

Custos of the Franciscan custody of Toulouse, canonist

manuscripts

Summa super Titulo de Actionibus (?): Seo de Urgel, Biblioteca Capitular 2042 ff. 125ra-135va (ca. 1300)

literature

AFH, 17 (1924), 335> check!

Bernardettus Vercellensis (late 15th cent.)

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manuscripts

Sermo de Bonaventura: MS Napoli, Biblioteca Naz. VIII.AA.30, ff. 112a-114c (dopo 1450) [Inc.: Volavit ad me unus de seraphim. Scribuntur hec verba Isaye 4c. Iesus Nazarenus crucifixus rex Iudeorum fratres carissimi…; Expl.: In hac vita gratiam et fidem. Amen.]

literature

Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. C. Cenci (Napoli 1971), II, 774

Bernardinus Catastini (1636-1718)

OFMCap>>

literature

Giacomo Carlini, Bernardino Catastini (1636-1718). Un frate aretino tra papi, re e principi d'Europa (Florence, 1998). Cf. short review in AFH 96 (2003), 272.

Bernardinus d’Alento (Bernardino Cilento/d’Alento , 1513-1576)

OFMCap. Neapolitan friar. Guardian, definitor and several times provincial of his province. He died at Naples in or around 1576. Wrote several works, all of which seem to have remained unedited.

manuscripts/editions

Ascetiche operette

Opere attenenti alle virtu dello stato de’ religioso

Enchiridion della religiosa perfezione, ossia delle virtu competenti ai religiosi

Vari sermoni/Panegirici

Quaresimale

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1639) II, 238; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Apolinaro di Valencia, Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Provinciae Neapolitanae (Naples, 1886), 52-53; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Alento’, DHGE VIII, 782; DBI>>>  

Bernardinus d’Alhama (Bernardino d’Alhalma, d. 1593)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Travelled to Italy after his training in the liberal arts and the studia humanitatis. In Italy, he joined the Capuchins (Roman province). In 1578, Bernardino and several other friars were sent to Barcelona, to build up the Catelan Capuchin province (the first Capuchin province in Spain). Bernardino is known to have fulfilled the charges of novice master, guardian and provincial vicar (1582-1584, 1590-1592). He was fundamental in training the first generation of Spanish Capuchins. He also impressed his contemporaries with his service to the sufferers of the plague in Barcelona, in 1589. In 1592, Bernardino returned to Rome, to help prepare, as a general custos, the Capuchin general chapter. He fell ill and died on January 14, 1593. Works?

literature

Michel de Valladolid, Cronica de los Capuchinos de Cataluña, MS Barcelona, Biblioteca Universitaria 16.1.2 (16.1.4.); Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1639) II, 516; Biographia hispano-capuchina (Barcelona, 1891), 61-67; Martin de Barcelona, ‘Bernardin d’Alhama’, DHGE VIII, 782.

Bernardinus d’Arezzo (Bernardino d’Arezzo 1632-1718)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Terra del Sole (Forli). Born on 8 January 1632 (?). Entered the Capuchins in the Tuscan province, in Cortona (26 May 1652). For some time lector and novice master/magister iuvenum. Provincial minister in 1671, 1678 and 1684. General definitor in 1685 and minister general in 1691. Was able to expand the order into Poland. Travelled around in the Capuchin order provinces. An account of his visitations was made by his secretary Filippo Bernardi da Firenze (Relazione del viaggio fatto dal P. Bernardino d’Arezzo e suoi compagni in occasione di visitare la religione dei cappuccini divisa in quatro parti: Spagna, Francia, Fiandra e Germania, Italia. This work apparently is to be found in the provincial archives of the Florentine Capuchins). Bernardino handed over his charge in 1687, after which pope Clement XI made him a consultant for the Congregatio Ritae and for the committee in charge of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Bernardino eventually retired in the Arezzo convent, where he died on 11 March 1718. He left at least one work behind.

editions

Il systema o consistente governo delle repubbliche christiane (Lucca, 1672).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 42-43; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1884), 441-446; Sisto da Pisa, Storia dei cappuccuni toscani (Florence, 1906-1909) I, 452, 504, 508, 527, 552, 564, 575, 584, 617, 619, 625, II, 12, 44, 53, 67, 72, 85, 90, 103, 127, 144, 198, 215, 222, 287, 299, 301, 329-331, 349; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Arezzo’, DHGE VIII, 783; DBI>>>>

Bernardino de Cárdenas (1579, La Paz-1668, Santa Cruz, Bolivia)

OFM. Born at Paz, near Arequipa (Peru). Took the Franciscan habit at an early age at Lima. Lector of philosophy and theology. Subsequently provincial definitor, and visitator of the Franciscan Los Charcas province. From 1620 onwards, he embarked on a missionary career, showing a keen interest in the needs of the indigenous populations. Active in Peru, the Chaco area, Tucuman and Paraguay. The Spanish king appointed him bishop of l’Assuncion, an appointment that only reached him in 1641. Due to troubles with the Jesuites and European settlers, Bernardino was chased from his diocese. He received another episcopal charge, that of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Colombia) in 1668, where he died shortly thereafter.

manucripts

Provisión sobre no vender vino ni chicha a los indios: Madrid, Nac., 3042 [Castro, Madrid, 179]

Memorial de Cosas del Perú: Madrid, Nac., 3198 [Castro, Madrid, no.90]

editions

Provisión, in: Collección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento (...) de América y Oceanía, I Serie, VII (Madrid, 1867), 496-574.

Dictamen de Fr. Bernardin de Cardenas sobre que no se venda chicha ne vino á los Indios (1 October October 1639), edited in: Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento (...) de América y Oceanía, I Serie, VIII (Madrid, 1867), 496-514.

Memorial y relación verdadera para el rey nostro señor y su real consejo de Indias de cosas de reyno de Perú (ed. Madrid, 1634).

Testimonio laudatorio dell’Illmo Cárdenas en favor de los misioneros, edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 708.

Grandes alabanzes que á las doctrines da el Illmo. Sr. Cárdenas, obispo de Paraguay en carta a P. José Cataldino, edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 709.

Juicio muy favorable del Illmo. Sr. Cárdenas, depues de visitar la recucción de los jesuitas llamada San Ignacio del Paraguay, edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 710.

Carta del Illmo. Sr. Cárdenas, obispo de Paraguay, en abono de las doctrinas y de todos los ministerios de los jesuitas en su obispado (May 6, 1644), edited in: Hernandez, Organización social de las doctrinas guarantes, II (Barcelona, 1913), 711-713 & also edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 87-88.

Carta de fray Bernardino de Cárdenas, dirigida a los PP. Adriano Silverio y Lúis y al superior de las misiones del Paraguay, edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 80.

Defensa que hace el Sr. Obispo Fr. Bernardino de Cárdemas al gobernador D. Jacinto de Laris, edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 168-169, 171.

Carta del obispo del Paraguay D. Fray Bernardino de Cárdenas al Virrei Conde de Salvatierra, edited in: Pastells, Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, II (Madrid, 1915), 269-272.

literature:

Collección general de documentos tocantes a la persecucion que los regulares de la Compañia suscitaron y seguiron tenazmente por medio de sus jueces conservadores, y ganando algunos ministros seculares desde 1644 hasta 1660, contra el Illmo. y redmo. Sr. Fr. D. Bernardino de Cardenas, 4 Vols. (Madrid, 1768-1770); Juan de San Diego y Villaron, Discorso de la vida meritos y trabajos del Illmo. Sr. Obispo del Paraguay y verdaderas desnudas con las quales si prueva quan inocentemente ha padecido en defensa de la dignidad episcopal desde el año 1644 en lo que hecharon de su dioecesis hasta el de 1657 en que se halla fuera de ella (s.l. & s.a (Madrid, ca, 1700); Pedro Gual, Cuestion canonica entre el Ilmo senor obispo del Paraguay y los RR.PP. jesuitas (Lima, 1879); M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane VII, 2nd part, 138-153; M. da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana, 81-82, n. 118, 541, 657; Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen, 317-318, 330-331; AIA, 33 (1930), 332; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin de Cardenas’, DHGE VIII, 801-802; Fidel de Lejarza, ‘Las borracheras y el problema de las conversiones en India’, AIA, 1 (1941), 131-42, 229-50; LthK, 2 (1994), 943; Wolfgang Priewasser, El Il.mo Don fray Bernardino de Cárdenas (Asunción, Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artyes – Academia Paraguaya de la Historia, 2000).

Bernardinus de Capurso (fl. ca. 1650)

OFMCap. Friar from the Bari province. Elected provincial minister in 1650. Known for several letters and for a work on the spiritual affiliation of the various orders of Friars Minor, replete with lists of provincials and definitors.

manuscripts/editions

Epistolae/lettere: to be found in the Archives of the Capuchins at Rome

La figliuolanza spirituale della religione minoritica di san Francesco d’Assisi (Naples, 1644).

literature

Salvatore di Valenzano, I cappuccini nelle Puglie (Bari, 1926), 297-298; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Capurso’, DHGE VIII, 786; LexCap>>>; DBI>>>

Bernardinus de Carpentras (Bernardin de Carpentras, d. 1714)

OFMCap. Friar from the Vaucluse area and member of the Provence province. Atcive as a lector of philosophy and as definitor for his province.

editions

Antiqua Priscorum Hominum Philosophia Evidentibus Demonstrationibus cum Vera Scientiae Methodo Restituta, 4 Vols. (Lyon, 1694)

Fysica>>>>

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Pellegrino da Forli, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini (Milan, 1885) IV, 371-373; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Carpentras’, DHGE VIII, 786-787; LexCap>>>; DBI>>>

Bernardino della Chiesa (1644, Venice - 1721, Linqing)

OFM. Born on 8 May 1644 at Venice. Took the habit at Assisi in 1663. For some time guardian at Orvieto (1674-1680). Thereafter he departed for China to work as a missionary. Long and eventful missionary career. Author?

literature

M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane VII, 3rd part, 61 ff; Acta Ordinis Minorum (Rome, 1921), 132-138 & Acta Ordinis Minorum (Rome, 1925), 283-285; Heeren, ‘Bishop della Chiesa and the story of his lost grave’, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (The North China Branch) (1923), 182-199; Idem, ‘Some new light on the life and times of Bishop della Chiesa’, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (The North China Branch) (1925), 87-109; L. Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen (Munster, 1929), 129-134; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin della Chiesa’, DHGE VIII, 787-788; A. van den Wyngaert, AFH 31 (1938), 17-47; 35 (1942), 3-34; 38 (1945), 82-108; Antonianum, 22 (1947), 65-91.

Bernardinus Aquilanus (Bernardino di Fossa/Bernardino Amici, 1420-1503), beatus>>

OMObs. Born in Fossa, Italy. Studied law at Perugia. One day, he had a conversion experience after hearing a sermon by Giacomo della Marca. Joined the Observants in 1445. Spent most of his life in and near Aquila, where he died in 1503. Renowned preacher and historiographer. Received the position of apostolic preacher, was provincial vicar of the Observants of his province for 10 years (1460s), in which capacity he issued new provincial constitutions, and also general procurator of the Observants (1467). More than 300 of his sermons are extant, as well as several chronicles, quaestiones, and hagiographical works. In his Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, written ca. 1480, he sketches the origin and development of the Observant movement, tracing it back to the activities of Angelo Clareno and Paoluccio Trinci.

manuscripts

Centurio(Sermones): Venice, Marciana Z.L. LXXXIX Bess (autograph) ff. I-IX & 1-350 [Proemium, Inc: Centurio autem et qui cum eo erant custodientes Jesum viso terraemotu et his, quae fiebant, timmuerunt valde dicentes: vere filius Dei erat iste [Math. 28, 54] (…) Centurio a centenerio dicitur, et quia hoc volumen centenarios sermonum continet, merito centurio vocari potest et, ut vocetur, decerno.' ]

De Quolibet Statu Fidelium: Venice, Marciana Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 1-216 [Deals with the life of the believer in his different states: The first part is called de statu fidelium laborioso. This part consists of the work consists of 52 sermones de tempore (a dominica septuagesimae usque ad feriam tertiam resurrectionis [Quadragesimale] (ff. 1-103). The second part, de statu fidelium periculoso, deals with the moment of death. This part consists of 40 Sermones de mortuis (ff. 104-126). It ends with the statement: `Cum plerique fratres minores me saepius incitaverint, ut pro praedicatione ad funera sermones aliquos ordinarem, eo maxime, quia in nostra civitate Aquilae saepissime ad ea praedicare contingit, eorum inclinatus sum precibus rem ipsam aggredi.' [This part was printed in 1572 as the Funerale] The third part, de statu fidelium glorioso (ff. 128-216) contains 53 sermones de sanctis. The last one deals with S. Bernardinus of Siena.

Questiones Duae [ff. 229-230: Quomodo liceat procuratori fratrum minorum recipere pecunias quae offeruntur in sepultura, ubi corpus S. bernardini requiescit, et in utilitate fratrum vel aliorum expendere? Inc.: Casus talis est. Corpus S. bernardinis ordinis minorum requiescit in sepultura per crates ferreas undique clausa (…) Expl. Praedicta scripsi ad hoc, ut conscientiae nostrae in bona pace remaneant & ff. 230-231: Utrum fratres eremitani S. Augustini sint fratribus minoribus praeferendi vel e contra? Inc: Primo videtur, quod nomen debet esse conveniens rei (…) Expl.: Haec scripsi , quia quandoque reperi me in talis contentionibus, plerique vero in hoc puncto claudicant.] Venice, Marciana Z.L. CXLIII Bess ff. 229-231.

Tractatus Praedicabilis Intitulatus de Floribus: Venice, Marciana Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 218-223 [three sermons, two about good works and the third on the love for one's enemies]

Sermones Diversi: L'Aquila Archivio di Stato 11 (Autograph). [f. Vv:`Perlegi ego Antonius u.j.d. minimus de Fossa hujus beati patris Bernardini de Fossa itidem ex fratre pronepos opus hoc et pluries suspiravi et nonnullas lacrimas effudi, cum tot bona et sancta dicta hic considerarem annotata, quae jam conscripta et exemplata perfecta erant et ordinatissime in alio libro, dicto nempe Quodlibetum vel Centurio (…).' The manuscript contains 154 sermons/sermon outlines with praedicable materials `de Virgine gloriosa secundum dicta Dantis; de verbo Dei; de impedimentis omnium bonorum; de jejunio; de ludo; de peccato in communi; de honore parentum; de pace; de passione Domini; de resurrectione Domini; de quocumque sancto; de abdicatione saeculi; de obedientia; de oratione etc. The first sermon of this collection was edited twice: Un sermone del B. Bernardino Amici da fossa sulla Vergine Gloriosa, ed. Leosini (Aquila, 1865) & Beati Bernardini de Fossa super Laude ad Beatam Virginem in 33. Cantico Paradisi Dantis Alighieri (Florence, 1896).

De Conventu S. Angeli de Ocra: Venice, Marc. Z.L. CXLIII Bess. ff. 233-236. [Short work, written in the Italian

vernacular, about the way in which the convent s. Angelus de Ocra became observant in 1481.]

Chronica Fratrum Minorum de Observantia [written ca. 1480]: Naples, Naz. VIII.C.12

Modus Vivendi cum Conventualibus: Naples, Naz. XII.G.5 ff. 280-2; I.H.43 ff. 292-3.

(?) Vita B. Bernardini Senensis>> probably spurious.

editions

Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens, Fragmenta Franciscana (Rome, 1902)

Provinciae B. Bernardini Coenobia. Printed as an appendix of the Peregrinus, ed. Antonius Amicius (Venice, 1572 & 1612); Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. L. Lemmens, Fragmenta Franciscana (Rome, 1902), 115-126

Admonitioni del beato Bernardino Aquilano da Fossa nell'anno 1491 composte, ed. Antonio D'Amici (Venice, Jacomo di Vidali et compagni, 1572) [A short cathechism, written in the Italian vernacular, concerning the articles of faith the Pater Noster, divine and ecclesiastical precepts and confession.]

Funerale B. Bernardini Aquilanae de Fossa (Venice, 1572) [=second part of De Quolibet Statu Fidelium]

Peregrinus, ed. Antonius Amicius (Venice, 1572). Treatise of sermons> 25 short sermons (sermones diaetae), dealing with different topics (starting with peregrinus and ending with ingratitudino). Work written by Bernardinus in 1498. On f. 1 of the edition, we find: `Cum diu desideraverim habere tractatulum unum de sermonibus brevibus et compendiosis, qui esset meus familiaris et socius, cogitavi imponere nomen peregrinus.']

Sermones Amici Dicti (Basel, 1495 & 1501/Lyon, 1503) [??]

Tractatus de Nubere Volentium Doctrina[= three sermons from the Centurio collection, see MS ff. 46, 102, 103] in: Tractatus Universi Juris Illustrium in utraque tum Pontificii, tum Caesarei Juris Facultate Jureconsultorum de Matrimonio et Dote, IX, ed. Antonius Amucius (Venice, 1584), ff. 113r-v

Vita S. Bernardini Senensis, ed. Carolus de Darleriis in: Carolum de Darleriis Breviario Romano (Cremona, 1499)

Vita del venerabile p. fr. Filippo dell'Aquila (Rome, 1572); Vita del venerabile p. fr. Filippo dell'Aquila scritta nell'anno 1456 dal beato Bernardino da Fossa, ed. Ugo da Pescocostanzo (Rome, 1870). [Work written in the Italian vernacular]

literature

Mariano da Firenze, Compendium Chronicarum, AFH 4 (1911), 334; Wadding, Scriptores, 40-1; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 131f.; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana [BUF], I. (Madrid, 1732); Ugo da Pescocostanza, Vita del beato Bernardino da Fossa (Naples, 1872); Coletti, Monografia del B. Bernardino da Fossa (Torino, 1909); Zawart, 317-8; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin de Fossa’, DHGE VIII, 792; DBI, II, 778-780; ECATT II, 1404f; DictSpir, I, 1514; A. de Amicis, L'Araldo dell'amore. Bernardino da Fossa (Benevagienna, 1951); S. da Campagnola, Le origini francescane come problema storiografico (Perugia, 1974), 89ff; LMA, I, 973; LThK, II³, 278; G.G. Merlo, `Dal deserto alla folla: persistenti tensioni del francescanesimo', in: Predicazione francescana e società veneta nel Quattrocento: committenza, ascolto, ricezione, Atti del II Convegno internazionale di studi francescani, Padova, 26-27-28 Marzo 1987 (Padua, 1995²), 55-69; Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Bernardino da Fossa (1421-1503)’, in: Mistici francescani. Secolo XV, 845-848; Santa Casciani, ‘La ‘Passione’ del beato Bernardino da Fossa e il ‘topos’ del Christus patiens’, Bollettino Dep. Abruz. Storia Patria 87 (1997), 95-137.

Bernardinus de Arevalo (Bernardino de Arevallo, 1492-1553)

Spanish friar. Born in Valladolid. Took profession among the Franciscan friars of the Villacrecian reform in the Abrojo custody. Later, he could be found among the strict Recollect reform. Provincial minister of the Concepción province and superior of the Franciscan missions to Spanish America (West India). Renowned preacher. Left behind a sermon collection, as well as other works.

manuscripts and editions

Decisiones/Comiénzanse ciertas decisiones con sus probaciones acerca del estado y manera de vivir de los frailes Menores, compuestas por estilo de conclusiones por el muy reverendo y aprobado padre fray Bernardino de Arévalo, de esta provincia de la Concepción de nuestra Señora, y morador de la casa del Abrojo; y puestas por estilo de cuestiones por el padre fray Alonso de Covarrubias y romanzadas por el sobredicho padre que compuso el ‘Manual’ [namely the Manual per declarar la Regle en solos los preceptos obligatorios/Compendium de observantia Regulae Minorum, written around 1550 by García del Castillo, provincial minister of the Concepción province 1548-1551 and editor of several of Bernardino de Arévalo’s works. This Manual can be found in Burdeos, Biblioteca prov. 797 ff. 111r-433r, and some fragments have been edited in Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Conciencia eclesial e interpretación de la Regla Franciscana. Textos originales del siglo XVI. Introducción y edición’, Antonianum 57 (1982), 347-605: 593-604]; MS Burdeos, Biblioteca Prov. 797 ff. 436r-517r. Some fragments edited in Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Conciencia eclesial e interpretación de la Regla Franciscana. Textos originales del siglo XVI. Introducción y edición’, Antonianum 57 (1982), 347-605: 573-578. [a series of clarifications concerning the Franciscan made by Bernardino on the general chapter of Burgos (1523) on behalf of the Recollects of the Immaculada Concepción province]

Tratado muy provechoso/Síguese un tratado muy provechoso de muchos avisos que tocan a nuestra Regla y estado, el cual compuso el muy Dro. Padre fray Bernardino de Arévalo, de la Orden de nuestro seráfico padre san Francisco: MS Sevilla, Archivo del convento de San Buenaventura, sign. 122 2a pieza (Preámbulo ff. 1-3r; De la obediencia ff. 3r-6r; De la pobreza ff. 6r-24r; De la conversación externa ff. 24r-26r; De las monjas ff. 26r-28v; De andar a pie ff. 28v-31r; De spirituali observantia ff. 31r-33v; De la pobreza ff. 33v-36v). Some fragments edited in Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Conciencia eclesial e interpretación de la Regla Franciscana. Textos originales del siglo XVI. Introducción y edición’, Antonianum 57 (1982), 347-605: 585-592.

De Correptione Fraterna (Methymnae Campi, 1557 & 1571)

Expositio Regulae Seraphicae

De Perfecto Statu Paupertatis Religiosae Fr. Min. (Hispali, 1575)

De Libertate Indorum>>

Decisiones Dubiorum 18 circa Statum Fr. Minorum>>

Sermones>>

De Libertate Indiorum>>>?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum IX (ad ann. 1415, n. xxxix) & XVI (ad ann, 1528, n. vi); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 132; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I,>>>>; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin d’Arevallo’, DHGE VIII, 782; DSpir I, 1514-15; AIA 29 (1928), 243-244; AIA ns 33 (1973), 40-41; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 88 (no. 122).

Bernardinus de Avolio (Bernardino d’Avolio, 1758-1821)

OFMCap. Entered the order in December 1774 (in the Foggia). Studied at Naples, and thereafter fulfilled positions in the Naples province as a vicar, guardian, lector, novice master, definitor and provincial (1816-1819). On December 8, 1819, he was appointed bishop of Trivento. He died on 18 July 1821. No works extant?

literature

B. Latiano, Memorie storiche dei conventi e dei cappuccini della monastica provincia di S. Angelo (Benevento, 1906), 347-350; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Avolio’, DHGE VIII, 806. 

Bernardinus d'Asti (Bernardinus Palladius; Bernardinus Palli; Bernardinus Pallido, 1483, Rinco d'Asti - 12, 05, 1557, Rome)

OFMObs (1500), later OFMCap (1533). Born near Asti in the castle of Rinco. Very devoted to humanist studies in his youth. Was sent to Rome for further studies at the age of fifteen. There he opted for a religious life and joined the Observants in 1499. He studied theology, and became well-known as an expositor of Scotist philosophy. Provincial minister, and later procurator of the order. End 1533, he switched to the Cappucin branch. There he became an important organiser or the young OFMCap branch as general vicar/minister general (1535-38, 1546-52) and as general procurator (1538-1546, 1552-1554). Responsible for a series of new constitutions. (1536). Tried to establish a studium generale in Milan for the OFMCap, yet this initative did not succeed. The last years of his life, he taught theology at Rome (1555-1557)

editions

Orationum Spiritualium (…) (Milan, 1535);Orazione devote, edited in AO 94 (1978), 380-383 and in I frati cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, parte terza: Santitá e apostolato, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991), 40-43, >>. [According to early Capuchin historiographical tradition, these were àlcune divote orationi per instruttione de’ frati, le quali egli usva e nelle quali si contengono alcuni essercitij i quali orando mentalmente egli era usato a fare…’, MOHC VI, 22. C. Cargnoni, 41 (Introduzione): ‘Il tema fondamentale di queste preghiere è infatti l’amore colto nella sua dimensione trinitaria, cristologica, mariana ed ecclesiale. In esso si risolve il significato profondo di ‘devozione’. Goal of this cultivation of spiritual love is a programme of interior reform and apostolic ‘elan’. Hence this differs from the mystical love of late medieval mystics, which is a programme towards mystical union for the elect,. C. Cargnoni, 42 (Introduzione): ‘Bernardino d’Asti manifesta in queste ‘orazioni devote’ sopratutto una vita ed esperienza di preghiera, ma non è difficile ravvisare, al di là delle diverse espressioni affettive, una vera dottrina, una ‘teoria’ di vita spirituale centrata ‘nel foco del divino amore’, nell’‘eccellentissimo sacramento’ dell’Eucaristia, e alimentata da un profondo sentimento di umiltà e di compunzione, dalla contemplazione dei misteri di Cristo e dei benefici di Dio e dalla devozione alla Vergine, agli angeli e ai santi, aperta ad una dimensione cattolica e apostolica, sempre in lotta contro ‘ogni vizioso amore di me medesimo, del mondo e della carne e de tutte le sue delettazioni e vanità’, in continuo esercizio delle virtù e della preghiera di lode nelle sue diverse sfumature.’

Litterae P. Bernardini Astensis Generalis Ordinis Nostri ad Fratres Provinciae Sancti Angeli, in: Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, XXIV, 1 (1908), 20-21.

Epistola de Peculiaribus Fratris Minoris Capuccini Virtutibus Caritate Scilicet et Paupertate (6 June, 1548), edited in: Litterae Circulares Superiorum Generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (1548-1803), ed. Melchior a Pobladura, Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum VIII (Rome, 1960), 3-10. [General letter in Italian to friars of the Capuchin order, sent from the Capuchin convent at Castrogiovanni (Sicily), in which Bernardino discusses charity and poverty as the most beautiful adornments of the Capuchin religious life.]

Lettere de electione e de la reprensione, edited in: I frati cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, parte terza: Santitá e apostolato, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991), 44-45.[two ‘lettere circolare’ concerning the election of Capuchin superiors and their correction. These letters are found in the Biblioteca Provinciale de l’Aquila, Cod. 203, a manuscript that also contains Capuchin rule commentaries, general chapter ordinations, obedience formularies and related materials useful for provincial superiors

Iudicium de Minoritani Pallii Usu (Rome, 1550)

For more information, see also the literature below

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 41; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 132; Bernardo di Bologna, Historia Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Cappucinorum (1525-1593), ed. C. di Melchiorre da Pobladura, in: Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, III (Assisi, 1940), 180-194; Matteo da Salò, Historia Capuccina, ed. C. di Melchiorre da Pobladura (Rome. 1950), VI, 6-32; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Min. S. Francisci Capuccininorum (Venice, 1747), 45-46; Z. Boverio, Annalium seu Sacrarum Historiarum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci qui Capuccini Nuncupantur (…) I (Lyon, 1632), 202-220, 235-237, 272, 379-380, 426-428, 510-526; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Asti’, DHGE VIII, 783-785; Diz. Biogr. Ital., 15, 197-198; M. da Pobladura, Historia Generalis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (…) I (Rome, 1947), 41-48, 51-52, 214-222; M. D'Alatri, Bartolomeo d'Asti, padre della riforma cappuccina>>>; L. Iriarte, Der Franziskusorden (Altötting, 1984), 157ff; LThK, II³, 277;>>to be continued.

Bernardinus de Balbano (Bernardino da Balvano d. ca. 1569)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Balvano (Potenza). Active as (anti-heretical) preacher, especially in Apulia, Sicily and Calabria. During one of his anti-heretical campains, he suffered physical assault (1553, Lecce) Prolific author in Latin and Italian, esp. of mystical and devotional works. In 1543, he was elected provincial minister of the St. Jerome province. Guardian of the Potenza convent in 1554. Allegedly he was chosen provincial minister of the new Basilicata province in 1560 (until 1562 and again elected in 1568). Died in the odour of sanctity.

editions

Meditationes de Vita Christi et Eius Matris Virginis Mariae, 2 Vols. >>

Il mistero della flagellazione di N.S. Gesù Cristo ridotto in forma di meditazione per tutti i giorni della settimana (Venice, 1537, 1559 & 1589) [French version published in Paris, 1601/ Douai, 1605/Rouen, 1618; German version published in Trèves, 1618; Latin version Mysterium Flagellationis D.N.J.C. Pro Singulis Diebus Hebdomadae published in Cologna, 1625]

De Novem Effusionibus Sanguinis D.N.J.C. (Venice, 1559/Paris, 1601)

De Septem Regulis Bene Vivendi/Le sette regole di ben vivere, found as an attachment in several old editions of the Specchio d’Orazione. Amounts to a short guidebook for devout Christian life.

Tractatus de Gloria Paradisi/Trattao sulla Gloria del Paradiso>>>

Tractatus de Praedestinatione et Libero Hominis Arbitrio (Venice, 1593).

Operetta nuova, nella quale si contengono otto prediche dela predestinatione et una della conceptione della Vergine (Messina, 1561). [same work as the previous one?]

Specchio d'Orazione, nel quale con brevità si contengono la necessità, e i frutti di quella/Specchio di oratione nel quale con brevità si contiene d’essa sacrosanta oratione la necessità e utilità con l’ordine e regole si ha d’essercitare e gli suoi frutti, utile e necessario a tutti i fideli cristiani (Messina: per Pietro Spira, 1553 & 1573/Rome, 1556 & 1566/Parma, 1556 & 1566/Venice, 1564, 1566 & 1593/Carmagnola, 1581/Bologna, 1605). A corrected partial reprint of the 1553 Medina edition can be found in: I Frati Cappuccini. Documenti e testimoninze del primo secolo, III/1: Santità e apostolato, ed. C. Cargnoni (Rome, 1991), 555-636 [Also a Spanish translation, that came out in Zaragosa, 1604, a French translation in Paris, 1601, and a Latin translation, made by a Cartusian from Brescia (Monachii, 1627). Bernardino unfolded his treatise on prayer in the course of a quaresimal preaching tour at Messina in 1553. On request of his audience, it soon was printed by the local printing press of Pietro Spira, after which several other Italian editions folowed, making it one of the more succesful works of spiritual edification from the mid sixteenth century. It stands in the venerable late medieval tradition of Speculum literature. The work is meant to function as a mirror reflecting the light of prayer, as it shines in the word of God (the Bible). In its 33 short chapters the work unites and elucidates in an accessible fashion all biblical materials of interest for all those (lay and clerics alike) who want to engage in serious (mental or interior) prayer that moves from devout reading of the biblical text to meditation and to prayer in the strict sense of the word, opening the mind to a true contemplation of the biblical truths and the mysteries of Christ. Therewith the devout Christian has at his/hers disposal a complete and precise grasp of the activity of prayer, its various modes, preparations and conditions, as well as its necessity and usefulness according to the commands and the rules provided by the biblical text. Hence the introductory letter of Bernardino addressed at Vincenzo Gaza, inserted in I Frati Cappuccini. Documenti e testimoninze del primo secolo, III/1: Santità e apostolato, ed. C. Cargnoni (Rome, 1991), 103-104 states: ‘Sancta ex pagina quidquid fere quod orantis est sparsim insertum in unum redegi, veluti in speculum, in quo quidem qui prius tenebrarum caligine abtecti fuerunt, luce clarius speculari possint, quid sit oratio ipsa, quot eius species preparationesque ipsius et conditiones, quamve necessaria et utilis. Orandi etiam videtur et modus. Eodem insuper et ad Deum et ad sanctos qualiter orationes offerant, lucidissime cernitur. Unde et poterint oratores et imitari quod cupiant et fugere quod oportet.’ Clear that for Bernardino the Bible is the ultimate prayerbook and that the fundamental object of prayer are the mysteries of Christ suffering, Christ victorious and Christ divine.]

literature

Diz. Biogr. Ital., XV, 198-200; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Balbano’, DHGE VIII, 785-786; Dict.Spir, I, 1515; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 41; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 132; Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum s.P. Francisci Capucinorum, III (Rome, 1745), 48ff.; Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum/Annalium seu Sacrarum Historiarum Ordinis Minorum s. Francisci qui Capuccini Nuncupantur, I (Lyon, 1632), 553f.; Frutti Serafici, Overo Laconismo delle Vite dell'Huomini più Illustri in Sanctità e Dottrina de' Frati Minori Capuccini (Rome, 1656), 59f.; Dionigi da Genova, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum (Genua, 1691), 56f, 239; Bernardo da Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 43ff., 185; Francesco da Vicenza, Appendice a gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Umbertide, 1916), 5-9; Lexicon Capuccinorum (Rome, 1951), col. 201; Ottaviano Schmucki, ‘Lo ‘Specchio di oratione’ del P. Bernardino da Balvano, OFMCap.’, Italia Francescana 65 (1990), 5-32.

Bernardinus de Barducis (Bernardinus de Florentia, fl. late fifteenth cent.)

Regent lector of the St. Croce convent in Florence in 1473.

manuscripts/editions

Dialogus de Laudibus Castitatis et Virginitatis (1471)

Commentary on the Epistolae of Basil.

literature

Franciscan Studies, 23 (1963), 143ff.

Bernardinus de Busti († 8, 05, 1513, Mallegnano)

OFMObs. Born in Milan (member of the important de Busti family). Entered the order in 1475, after receiving a profound education. Trained in homiletic techniques by Michele da Carcano. Important preacher, ascetical and homiletical author. Wrote an influential Mariale (63 sermons) with specific Franciscan mariologist positions. Defender of the so-called Montes Pietatis. Promoted the tertiary order and the veneration of St. Joseph.

manuscripts and editions

Sermo: Ansbach, Staatliche Bibl. Lat. 9 (ca. 1504) ff. 123-126v.

Mariala: a.o MS: Oldenburg, Landesbibliothek Cim I 25 (ini. 16c.) ff. 2-69v; Olomouc SVK MI 406/a (15^th cent.) ff. 218v-223; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Lat. 14053 (15^th cent.) ff. 69ra-73va [many more mss]

Officium Immaculatae Conceptionis Gloriosae Virginis Mariae: Olomouc SVK MI 406/a (15^th cent.) ff. 146-158.

Rosarium Sermonum Praedicabilium: a.o. MS: Osnabrück, Gymnasium Carolinum, 22 (fine 15c.)

Mariale de Singulis Festivitatibus B.V.M [63 treatises/sermons, amounting to a mariological treatise] See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, V. no. 5802-5813. Edited as Mariale (Milano: U. Scinzenzeler, 1492) [only the first part of the work] Later editions: Milano: L. Pachel, 1493; Strasbourg: M. Flach, 1496 & 1498. Final edition: Cologne, 1607. See also: Bernardino de Busti e il Mariala, Busto, 1982.

Rosarium Sermonum Praedicabilium ad faciliorem predicantium commoditatem noviter compilatum (Venice: G. Arrivabene, 1498 & Lyon, 1502/1507/1513/1525/1625 & Brixiae, 1588 & Cologne, 1607). See: Catalogo degli incunaboli della biblioteca comunale di Assisi, cur. G. Zaccaria, Biblioteca di bibliografia Italia, XXXVIII (Florence, 1961), no. 119-122. [80 sermons for the quaresimal period and other days of the liturgical year, presented in a handy compilatory format (also indicated in the title: a real florilegium!), and furnished with three indices: one referring to the rubrics, one alphabetical index, and a table following the liturgical year. It has been remarked that Bernardino’s sermons develop their theme with recourse to rationes, auctoritates and exempla (in agreement with the exhortations found in the later medieval Artes praedicandi), and that the auctoritates in particular were favoured: not only patristic authors, medieval theologians, canonist materials, and medieval non-religous literature (Walter of Châtillon and Matthew of Vendôme) but also a wide range of literary and philosophical authoritates from (pagan) Antiquity, predominantly gathered via the Speculum Doctrinale of Vincent of Beauvais, and other popular compilations. One of the sermons, namely sermo 27: De imitatione Christi per assumptionem status tertii ordinis has also been published in Antonius de Sillis, Studia, originem, provectum atque complementum Tertii Ordinis de Poenitentia S. Francisci concernentia (Naples, 1621/reprint Rome, 1997), 68-85.]

Thesauro Spirituale. Corona della beatissima Vergine Maria (Milan: G.A. de Honate, 1488 & 1489; Milan: Ulderico Scinzenzeler, 1492; Brescia 1588 & Cologne 1588) [in last mentioned edition published as Opera Omnia Bernardini de Bustis] [The Thesauro consists of liturgical treatises on the Virgin and Christ, consisting of four liturgical works and in addition a series of 63 sermons or chapters, which als are sometimes found separately under the name Corona]

1. Officium et Missa Gloriosissimi Nominis Iesu Officium et Missa Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis [received papal approbation by Sixtus IV, 4 October 1480]

2. Officium et Missa de Gaudiis Beatae Mariae Virginis

3. Officium et Missa Sanctae Crucis et Passionis Domini

4. Officium de Planctu Beatae Mariae Virginis.

See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, V. no. 5802-5813

The Officium et Missa Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis has also been published in old editions of the Mariala (but non in the 1607 edition). [See also: G. Galli, Due ignote edizioni quattrocentine della `Corona della beatissima Vergine Maria' di fra' B. de Busti. in: Misc. Bibliografica in Mem. Don T. Accurti. cur. L. Donati (Rome, 1947), 103-124.

Defensorium Montis Pietatis Contra Figmenta Omnia Aemulae Falsitatis (Milano: Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 1497/Lyon, 1518) Several subsequent editions. [See: Catalogo degli incunaboli della biblioteca comunale di Assisi. cur. G. Zaccaria, Biblioteca di bibliografia Italia, XXXVIII, Firenze 1961, no. 117; Anna A. Villa, Bernardino de Busti e la polemica antiebreica. in: Il franciscanesimo in Lombardia (Milano, 1983), 49-52.]

Tractatus de Imitatione Christi (Napoli, 1621) [treatise on the excellence of the third order. Cf also his Rosarium sermonum, sermo 27: De imitatione Christi per assumptionem status tertii ordinis.]

(?) Consilium de Retrovendendo et de Pacto Retrovendendi. [mentioned in several old catalogues, such as Sbaralea, Supplementum I.133. It probably is a precursor of the Defensorium or the same work]

literature

E. Sedulio, Historia Seraphica, Antwerpen 1613, 115; Glassberger, Chronica, AF II.396f; Wadding, Scriptores, 38ff, 55; Wadding, Annales Minorum, XIII³.508; XIV³.107, 293; XV³.261s; Gubernatis, Orbis Seraphicus (Rome-Lyon, 1682-1685) III, 77; Sbaraglia, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I,133-134; Anscar Zawart, The History of Franciscan Preaching and of Franciscan Preachers (1209-1927), A Bio-bibliographical Study [= Franciscan Studies, 7] (New York, 1928), 318; P.M Sevesi, S. Maria della Misericordia in Melegnano, Melegnano 1932, 57-66; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, no. 5803-5806; F. Cucchi, La meditazione universale della Sanctissima Vergine negli scritti di Bernardino de Busti (Milan 1945); J. Goyens, ‘Bernardin de’Busti’, DHGE VIII, 786; Dict.Spir, I, 1515 & V, 1346; ECatt.II.1405s; LThK II², 251 & LThK II³. 278; LMA I.1972; Bibliotheca Sanctorum III.616-618; A. Emmen, Einführung in die Mariologie der Oxforder Franziskanerschule. Franz. Stud. 39 (1957) 116s, 120, 146, 196s, 202s; K. Balic, Die Corredemptrixfrage innerhalb der Franzisk. Theologie. Franz. Stud. 39 (1957) 219, 238-44, 255, 262, 265; M, Mückshoff, Die mariologische Prädestination im Denken der franzisk. Theologie. Franz. Stud. 39 (1957) 449s; M. Petrocchi, La devozione all Vergine negli scritti di pietà del cinquecento italiano. in: Problemi di vita relig. in Italia nel Cinquecento (Padua, 1960), 281s; DBI XV.593-595; R. Rusconi, ‘La predicazione francescana sulla penitenza alla fine del Quattrocento nel `Rosarium Sermonum' di Bernardino Busti’, Studia Patavina 22 (1975), 68-95; Bernardino de Busti e il Mariala (Busto, 1982); Anna A. Villa, `Bernardino de Busti e la polemica antiebreica', in: Il franciscanesimo in Lombardia (Milan, 1983), 49-52; H.-M. Kirn, ‘Antijudaismus und spätmittelalerliche Bussfrömmigkeit: die Predigten des Franziskaners Bernhardin von Busti’, Zeitschrift für Kirchengschichte 108 (1997), 147-175; María Elisa Lage Cotos, ‘‘Auctoritates’ clásicas para la salvación humana: el ‘Rosarium sermonum’ de Bernardino de Bustis’, Euphrosyne 27 (1999), 165-177; Costanzo Cargnoni, ‘Frati minori osservanti e letteratura spirituale nel ’400 e primo `500. Fra pietà e devozione’, in: Il beato Antonio da Stroncone. III Atti delle giornate di studio. Stroncone, 4 maggio 1996 e 29 novembre 1997, ed. Mario Sensi (Perugia, Ed. Porziuncola 1999); Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Bernardino de Bustis’, in: Mistici francescani. Secolo XV, 849-852; Roberto Ferrari, L’azione dei Minori Osservanti nei Monti di Pietà. Il “Defensorium” di Bernardino de Bustis, Diss. (Roma, Alfonsiana, 2000/1); María Elisa Lage Cotos, Poesía y predicación, latín y vulgar en el ‘Rosarium sermonum’ de Bernardino de Bustis’, in: Poesía latina medieval, 369-384 [cf. Medioevo Latino 27 (2006), 100 (no. 692]

Bernardinus Caimi da Milano (Bernardino Caimi da Milano, fl. ca. 1470, beatus)

OMObs. Brother of friar Bartolomeo Caimi. Active in Milan in 1474. Guardian of the Lodi convent in 1475 and custos of the Holy Land in 1478. Later he apparently is guardian of the Milan S. Angelo convent (ca. 1479-81). In 1483 he was appointed crusade preacher against the Turcs by Angelo Carletti da Chivasso, with the authorisation of pope Sixtus IV. Later that yar, the same pope appointed him to the position of papal nuntius in Spain (Castille), and in 1483-4 he is found as the provincial vicar of the Observants in Milan, and as commissioner in Calabria to solve poblems resulting from the ambitions of Francesco da Filocastri, the viar of the Calabrian province. Once more custos of the Holy Land in 1487-9. Chosen as definitor general of the Observants at the general chapter of 1490, and provincial vicar of the Observants of Milan between 1490-3. Established the convent S. Maria delle Grazie (Sacro Monte di Varallo), where he erected a reproduction of the Holy Land Passion sanctuary, to commemorate the passion of Christ (cf. the study of Galloni mentioned below). Again definitor general in 1495 and guardian of S. Angelo in Milan in 1497. Again provincial vicar in 1498-1499. In his sermons, he is heavily dependent upon Bernardino da Siena (See for his reception of the Franciscan tradition the article of Piana).

manuscripts

Sermones de Tempore [109 sermons for the sundays and principal feast days of the liturgical year]: MS Como, Biblioteca Comunale cod. I.3.17, prima parte del manoscritto ff. 1r-266a (missing ff. 2231-240) [Inc: Voca operarios et redde illis mercedem; expl.: Deum videre et Deum habere in eternum [et]ultra. Quod nobis concedat ipse benedictus [Deus] qui vivit. See for an in-depth description C. Piana, 1971, 307-310, 312ff. Interesting in particular are some of his sermons for Passion Sunday (Sermo de Morte (f. 71d) and Sermo de octo remediis contra mortem (ff. 77a)), a sermon held on Palm Sunday (Sermo de pace et remissione iniuriarum, f. 96d), and a Sermo de preparatione ad suscipiendum comunionem sacratissimam (f. 113c) meant for the feria quinta]

Quadragesimale de articulis fidei [79 sermons, produced ca. 1488]: MS Como, Bibl. Comunale I.3.17. seconda parte del manoscritto ff. 1r-224d [inc.: Incipit XL.le de articulis fidei et primo de fide…; expl.: Et per exemplum quod habes in vita S. Francisci […] de latrone illo. Finis. Frater Bernardinus de Mediolano de Caymis. See: Piana, 1971, 307, 309, 310ff. These 79 sermons together can be divided in i.) twelve catechistic sermons on Christian faith, and ii.) a series of sermons explaining the Credo according to its twelve articles, interspersed with sermons with more moral instruction. The sermons were clearly written by Bernardino to help him with his preaching activities, and draw on a wealth of sources. Strong influence of Bernardino da Siena’s Sermones de Christianae Religione (cf. Piana, 1971, 316ff. ]

Responsio Facta per fr. Bernardinum de Caymis:MS Milano, Archivio dell'E.C.A., cartella di Giovanni Rottole [See: C. Piana, 307; G. Barbieri, Origini del capitalismo Lombardo. Studi e documenti sull'economia Milanese del periodo ducale (Milano, 1961), 184 & tav. 44 [photographical reproduction of the Responsio]

literature

Petrus Rodulphius Tossianensis, Historiarum Seraphicae Religionis Libri Tres (Venezia, 1586), 311; Wadding, Scriptores, 42a; Ioannes a S. Antonio, BUF, I, 209; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (Roma, 1908), 134; E. Motta, Il B. Bernardino Caimi predicatore. Documenti e lettere inedite (Milano, 1891)[parecche lettere Italiane]; E. Motta, Il beato Bernardino Caimi, fondatore del santuario di Varallo (Milan, 1891); P. Galloni, Sacro Monte di Varallo. Origine e svolgimento delle opere d’arte (Varallo, 1914); P.M. Sevesi, `Il B. Bernardino Caimi da Milano predicatore della Crociata', AFH, 19 (1926), 300; A. Salsa, Biografia del B. Bernardino Caimi (Varallo Sesia, 1928); J. Goyens, ‘Bernardin de Chaimis’, DHGE VIII, 787; P.M. Sevesi, ‘Il B. Michele Carcano e il Consorzio della Carità di Milano’, AFH 46 (1953), 270; C. Piana, ‘Il Beato Bernardino Caimi da Milano. Un epigono della predicazione Bernardiniana nell'ultimo Quattrocento’, AFH 64 (1971), 303-336; Luisa Gatti-Perer, ‘Gli studi sulle origini del Sacro Monte di Varallo e sulla personalità di Bernardino Caimi’, in: Arte, religione, comunità nell’Italia rinascimentale e barocca. Atti del Convegno di studi in occasione del V centenario di fondazione del santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli di Saronno (1498-1998) (Saronno, 9 maggio 1998), ed. Lucia Saccardo & Danilo Zardin (Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2000), 95-119; Pier Giorgio Longo, ‘Bernardino Caimi, francescano osservante: tra ‘eremitorio’ e città’, Novarien 29 (2000), 9-26.

Bernardinus de Colpatrazzo (Bernardinus Cioli de Colpetrazzo/Bernardino Croli da Colpetrazzo: 25, 11, 1514 - 1594, Aquasparta)

OFMObs (1532), OFMCap (1534). Born at 25 November 1514. Entered the Observants in the Umbrian province. After he made his profession, he soon switched to the Capuchins. Several times guardian and novice master. Provincial minister between 1558-1561. Promoted the establishment of a ‘Monte frumentario’ (1570-5) in Colpetrazzo, to help poor citizens. Preacher, as well as historian of the order, after he wrote the Vita di alcuni santi frati cappuccini (1580). His main work is the Semplice et divota historia dell'origine della Congregazione de'Frati Cappuccini (1525-1593), a rather objective form of contemporary historiography, which he wrote on request of cardinal protector Giulio Antonio Sartori after 1578. There are several versions/reworkings of this work, in several manuscript copies (see DBI, IX, 204). In 1585, the general vicar Girolamo di Mercato Saraceno asked Bernardino and Mario da Mercato Saraceno to revise their various historical works for publication. After the death of Mario, the general chapter and Girolamo’s successor (Apollonio da Brescia) were less impressed with Bernardino’s work(not eulogical enough towards the order). They wanted him to stop and to have everything reworked by Matteo Bellintani di Salo (who around 1787 was asked to write a completely new work). Yet on request of Federico Cesi , the duke of Aquasparta, Bernardino nevertheless finished his chronicle in 1594, and dedicated it to Federico Cesi. It was edited and published in 1939-41

editions:

Semplice e divota historia dell'origine della Congregazione de'Frati Cappuccini (1525-1593), ed. Melchior de Pobladura/ Historia Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Cappuccinorum (1525-1593), ed. Melchior de Pobladura, 3 Vols., Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 2-4 (Assisi-Rome, 1939/1941).

Vita di alcuni santi frati cappuccini, see: Liber memorialis Ordinis Frarum Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum quarto jam pleno saeculo ab Ordine condito (1528-1928), Analecta Ordinis XLIV Supplementum (Rome, 1928), 131-173. It was the vicar general Girolamo di Montefiori, who asked Bernardino in 1575 to compile edificatory lives of important Capuchins. This resulted in the Raccolta, which eventually was amplified and complete by Girolamo himself (adding 24 biographical lemmata after 1581).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 134; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 44; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della provincia serafica (Foligno, 1922), 27-36; Francesco da Vicenza, `Il P. Bernardino da Colpetrazzo e i Monti Frumentari', L'Italia Francescana, II,2 (1927), 131-137; Frédégand d’Anvers, ‘La vita dei primi frati minori cappuccini secondo la cronica di Bernardino da Colpetrazzo’, in: Liber Memorialis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1928), 131-136; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Colpetrazzo’, DHGE VIII, 788-789; Melchior de Pobladura, ‘Disquisitio critica de vita et scriptis P. Bernardini a Colpetrazzo’, Collectanea Franciscana 9, 1 (1939), 34-72 [See also his prolegomena in the edition of the Semplice e divota historia]; L. Perni, ‘Bernardino da Colpetrazzo’, Diz. Biogr. Ital., IX, 203-4; M. D’Alatri, ‘La riforma cappuccina vista da due cronisti del Cinquecento’, Collectanea Franciscana 48 (1978), 399-411; C. Cargnoni, ‘Sviluppo della riforma cappuccina nella storiografia dei primi cronisti’, L’Italia francescana 54 (1979), 389-408; LThK, II³, 278.; Christopher John Popravak, Desire extinguished, desire enflamed. Axcetical construction of a capuchin subjectivity (1552-1628), Phil. Diss. (Michigan, 1998).

Bernardinus de Condom (Bernardin de Condom, d. 1651)

OFMCap. Member of the Aquitaine province. Was asked by his provincial (Simon de Mont-de-Marsan) in 1645 to write the Annales or Memorabilia of the Capuchin Aquitaine province. The result was quite a solid work of chronography, which later found some continuations of lesser caliber.

editions

Annales/Memorabilia

literature

Apolinaro de Valencia, Histoire des capucins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1897) II, 321; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capucins de la province de Toulouse (1582-1928) (Toulouse, 1928), 8; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Condom’, DHGE VIII, 789.

Bernardinus de Corbera (1581-1652)

OFM. Born in Marón and friar of the Andalusian province. Guardian of the Mt. Calvary convent near Osuna. Died in Sevilla. Spiritual author and popular confessor. Died on 16 November 1652.

editions

Espejo de perfectiòn y ejercicios de virtud para Religiosas y Esposas de Jesucristo (Sevilla, 1647).

literature

AIA, 5 (1916), 44-45; AIA 21 (1924), 330-331; Dict.Spir, I, 1515-1516; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IX, no. 923; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 105 (no. 248).

Bernardinus de Cuneo (Bernardino da Cuneo, d. 1823)

OFMCap. Friar from the Piemont area. Taught philosophy and theology in the order. Also active as a preacher. Author.

editions

Istruzioni oratorie ovvero conferenze intorno all’arte rettorica (Florence, 1808).

Riflessioni cristiane intorno alla divina Provvidenza (Cuneo, 1805 & 1815).

Orazioni sacre disposte in decadi, 2 Vols. (Cuneo, 1817) [includes at the end the Ottavario di discorsi per i morti, sermoni di professione religiosa e di altre occorrenze]

Prediche quaresimali con parecchi esordi suppletivi ad altre solennità dell’anno, 2 Vols. (Cuneo, 1817).

Dissertatio Historico-Scholastico-Dogmatica, in Qua Libertas Humanae Mentis a Triplici Errore, Triplici Propositione Vindicatur, Adduntur Quaestiones Adiaphorae de Regimine Ecclesiae, de Intentione Ministri Sacramentorum Aliaque (Cuneo, 1821).

literature 

Johann von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 15-16; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Cuneo’, DHGE VIII, 789-790. 

Bernardinus de Feltre (Martino Tomitano/Bernardinus Feltrensis; 1439 Feltre - 1494, Pavia) beatus

(feast 28 september)

OMObs. Born in Feltre. In 1456, at the age of 17, when student of law at the university of Padua, he was converted to the religious life, after hearning a sermon by Giovanni della Marca. Entered the Observants in the Venetian province, taking on the name Bernardino. Ordained priest in 1463. At first foremost active as a convent lector. On 19 May 1469, he received the nomination to preach (during the Chapter of Verona). To overcome his reluctance to preach publicly, he immediately was asked to preach publicly on the Feast day of Bernardino da Siena. After this, Bernardino da Feltre developed into a renowned Lent preacher and popular missionary, working in nearly all the important urban centres of Italy. Received the title of ‘apostolic preacher’ in 1481. Preached against usury and involved in the foundation of Montes Pietatis. Through his sermons (‘sermoni mescidati’) and exhortations, he became an important promotor of Eucharist devotions, the devotion towards the holy name of Jesus, the immaculate conception of Mary, and the cult of St. Joseph. Like his fellow Franciscan Observant colleagues, but more harsh than some of them, strong emphasis on social themes (celibacy, matrimony (fighting the ‘mortal sin’ of extra-marital fornication), family life (hierarchical relation man-woman-children), behaviour and obligations of women as maidens, wives, mothers and widows (stong misogynist streaks), the moral and religious education of children inside and outside the family, damnation of games, plays and other forms of entertainment, the responsibility of urban authorities for social and religious ‘peace and justice’ [cf. Semo de Re Publica per feria sexta post Pascha in Pavia, Sermoni II, 147-163]). Also expressed a vehement hatred towards the Jews and repeatedly roused his public to take action against them (to such an extent that local authorities saw themselves forced to appeal to Bernardino's superiors, in order to keep him in check. Cf. Vian (1970), 196f). Bernardino da Feltre died in Pavia, on 28 September 1494. His local cult in the dioceses of Feltre and Pavia and in the Franciscan order was approved by Innocent X (1654). Officially beatifed by Benedict XIII (1728). Although Bernardino’s preaching was renowned (and depicted in various cities (Cf. Vian (1970), 201)), most of his sermons for a long time seemed lost. In 1937, Carlo Varischi da Milano unearthed two full sermon cycles (with additional sermons): a Quadragesimale based on Bernardino’s preaching in Pavia (1493) and an Advent cycle based on Bernardino’s preaching in Brescia (1493). The scriptor of these manuscripts, which formed the basis of the editions mentioned below, was friar minor Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia. The scholarly of work of Meneghin (1964 & 1966) has established that Bernardino Bulgarino cannot in all instances be seen as the direct witness of the sermons he copied down, but probably also worked on the basis of older manuscript copies that represented reportations of the actual sermons. These reportations might have been the work of the Franciscan preacher and copyist Giacomo da Grumello.

manuscripts and editions of Latin works

Sermones Quadragesimales quos predicavit in Civitatem Papie anno Domini MCCCCLXXXXIII [78 sermons] Edited in: Sermoni del beato Bernardino Tomitano da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante. Il Quaresimale di Pavia del 1493, cur. Carlo Varischi da Milano, I (Milano, 1940) [27 sermons, from Domenica in Quinquagesima to Sabbato post tertiam dominicam Quadragesime] & Sermoni del beato Bernardinus Tomatino da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. Carlo Varischi (Milan, 1964), Vol. I & II, 7-460 [Based on the manuscript produced by Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia from earlier reportationes. See for manuscript variants and their edition also V. Meneghin, `Due sermoni inediti del B. Bernardino da Feltre', Studi Francescani, 61 (1964), 212-261. Cf. V. Meneghin, `I Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; P. de Alcántara Martinez, `Dos sermones inéditos sobre S. José del beato Bernardino de Feltre', AFH, 71 (1978), 65-111 (Studio ed edizione dei Sermones de S. Joseph, trovati nella bibioteca Naz di Napoli, V.H. 125 ff. 14r-21v); F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Riv. Storia Chiesa Italia, 24 (1970), 193-203. It is clear that many of Bernardino’s sermons deal with issues of confession and preparation towards it.]

Sermoni varii [8 sermons] Edited as: Sermoni del beato bernardinus Tomatino da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. C. Varischi (Milan, 1964), Vol.II, 461-537 [See: F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Riv. Storia Chiesa Italia, 24 (1970), 193-203.]

Notae variae Edited as: Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. C. Varischi (Milan, 1964), Vol.II, 539-548.

Sermones de Adventu [33 sermons, Brescia, 1493] Edited as: Sermoni del beato bernardinus Tomatino da Feltre nella redazione di fra Bernardino Bulgarino da Brescia, minore osservante, 3 Vols, ed. C. Varischi (Milan, 1964), III. [See: F. Casolini, `Sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella monumentale edizione milanese', Frate Francescano, 32 (1965), 82-84; V. Meneghin, `I sermoni del B. Bernardino da Feltre nella loro recente edizione', AFH, 59 (1966), 141-157; N. Vian, `Il beato bernardino da Feltre in edizione e studi recenti', Riv. Storia Chiesa Italia, 24 (1970), 193-203.

Sermo ‘Fulcite me Floribus’ Edited as: Cinque prediche a monache di due celebri Francescani del sec. XV (Prato,. 1881)

Sermo de sacratissima Virgine Dei Genetrice Maria: MS Pavia, Bib. Univ., 2094 f. 235r [Prologus] [See: V. Doucet, ‘De operibus manuscriptis fr. Petri Joan. Olivi in Bibliotheca Universitatis Patavinae Asservatis’, AFH, 28 (1935), 181.]

Eulogical sermon on Bernardino da Siena, edited in Carlo da Milano, ‘Panegirico inedito in onore di S. Bernardino tenuto a Firenze il 21 maggio 1493 dal B. Bernardino da Feltre’, Bulletino di studi bernardiniani 3 (1937), 99-118.

Sermones de seraphico P.N. Francisco [2 sermons]: MS: Pavia, Bib. Univ., 2094 ff, 342r-3r & 343v-4v [See: V. Doucet, ‘De operibus manuscriptis fr. Petri Joan. Olivi in Bibliotheca Universitatis Patavinae Asservatis’, AFH, 28 (1935), 181.

Litterae

1. 5 letters to the ruling council of Reggio, 1487-1492. Edited in: G. Saccani,`La predicazione del B. Bernardino da Feltre in Reggio Emilia', AFH, 19 (1926), 226-246. [ed. 230-246.]

2. 3 autograph letters, edited in: Miscellanea Francescana (1910), 96

? De perfectione Christiana (Venice, 1533)

? De Expugnatione Paradisi (Venice, 1554)

non latin works

(?) Predica alle persone che desiderano imparara la via del Paradiso: MS Roma Biblioteca Vallicelliana E.I.3, 4 & edited in: Predica devotissima del B. Bernardino Tomatino da Feltre (Venezia, 1557)

Sermo [volgare]: MS: Bologna, Archivio arcivescovile>> [See: C. Piana, `Un sermone sconosciuto del B. Bernardino da Feltre, tenuto a religiose' Studi francescani, 12/37 (1940), 53-71.

Confessione generale del beato Bernardino da Feltre molto utílissima (a.o. Milan, 1510/Venice, 1520) [Widely distributed confession manual for use by penitents. The first lines of the proemium give the aim of the work: ‘Considerando molte volte quanto la humana fragilitate sia facile al peccare & quanti errori per ignorantia commettono: deliberai ordinare questa breve & utile forma di confessione: accio che lo indotto peccatore legendola cognosca & so aricordi piu aptamente li suoi peccati & possa redurseli a memoria: & de quelli dolendose possa meglio a Dio satisfar: confessarsi ordinamente & con divotione secondo che in questo libreto scripto trovarai.’/Tractatus de Modo Confitendi (Brescia, 1642 & Pavia, 1603). Also edited as Tractatus de Modo Confitendi (Brescia, 1542). Work also gives interesting list of possible sins in different ‘states’ of life: religious people, teachers, judges, lawyers, notaries, doctors, merchants etc.>> coheres with the new ‘ad status’ approach of the Observant preachers and educators, who wanted to arrive at an encompassing moral guide for all people in all walks of life in the community. This is also visible in sermons of Bernardino da Siena, in the Rosarium Sermonum of the Observant friar Bernardino Busti da Milano, and in the treatises of Cherubino da Spoleto]

(?) Discorsi della Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo: MS: Padova, Biblioteca del Museo Civico G.M. 448. Edited in : Vittorino da Feltre ed. A. dal Zotto (Feltre, 1898).

Bernardinus de Flandria (Bernardin de Flandre, d. 1621)

OFMCap. First a member of the Roman province. In 1584, he was sent to the new Toulouse province, and had an important role in etablishing the Capuchin network there, helping to found convents, and active as a definitor and a guardian for various different houses. In or after 1612, he was asked to start the Chronique de la province de Toulouse. This work, which found a continuation by Onophre de Bonnes (d. 1659) apparently has been lost around 1800, but before was an important source for other seventeenth century Capuchin chronicles.

literature

Apollinaire de Valence, Histoire des capuchins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1897) I, 33, 41, 48, 50, 57, 171, II, 212-214, III, 152, 155; Irénée d’Aulon, Bibliographie des frères mineurs capucins de la province de Toulouse (Toulouse, 1928), 8; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Flandre’, DHGE VIII, 791; >>> 

Bernardinus de Foligno d. 1515

OMObs>>

manuscripts/editions

Sermonarium>>?

literature

Zawart, 318-9.

Bernardinus de Fondagno (Bernardino di Fondagno, d. 1704)

OFMCap. Tuscan friar. Thomist theologian and order historian. Taught philosophy and theology in various Capuchin houses, to die at Lucca, on 11 October 1704. Wrote historical, and theological (mariological) works.

manuscripts/editions

Vita di Giovanni-Francesco Torre di Lucca: MS Florence, Archivo dei Cappuccini>>>>

Cronaca: MS Milan, Archivo di Stato Fondo religione, conventi cappuccini, atti storico religiosi, busta 22. [check!]. Bernardino took on this work during a stint as the provincial archivist and secretary.

Il tesoro di gratia di Maria vergine acquistato da lei con atti meritorii, si dimostra esser trascendente ogni peso, numero, misura e stima di qualunque creato naturale intendimento (Lucca, 1694). An appendix to this work is the Galeria spirituale di Maria Madre vergine. The Tesoro is a peculiar mix of theological and analoguous mathematical reasoning.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 444; Sisto da Pisa Storia dei cappuccini toscani (Florence, 1909) II, 239-241; Édouard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 11; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Fondagno’, DHGE VIII, 791.

Bernardinus de Hungaria (Bernardino di Ungaro, d. 1664)

OFMCap. Member of the Roman province. Active as a missionary in the Loango kingdom (Africa). Died there on June 18, 1664. A history of his work and missionary letters survive.

manuscripts/editions

Ausszug eines Missive oder Sendschreiben dess P. Bernardini von Ungaro Capucciner Ordens Missionarii in Bekehrung des Konigs von Loango und seiner Aethiopischen unglaubigen Mohren an die Capucciner zu Lyon in Frankreich, auss der Frantsosischen in die Teutsche Sprache Uebersetzt, edited in: Die Missionen des Franziskanerordens (Aschaffenburg, 1667), 93-98.

Historia Peregrinationis et Missionis P. Bernardini Hungari, addita relatione de moribus incolarum regni Loangi.>>>?

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 45; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Hongrie’, DHGE VIII, 793; LexCap>>>

Bernardinus de Inurrigarro (Bernardino de Inurrigarro, fl. c. 1660)

OFM. Member of the Cantabria province

literature

AIA 27 (1927), 50; AIA 15 (1955), 319-320; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 130 (no. 436).

Bernardinus de Jesi (Bernardino da Jesi, d. 1726)

OFMCap. Friar from the Marches. Entered the order on January 11, 1660. Active as provincial secretary/archivist and eulogic church historian.

manuscripts

Annali della provincia della Marca del sagro giardino religiosamente fiorito di virtu religiose raccolte e descritte, incominciando dall’anno di Cristo 1710 fino al 1715: MS Ascoli Piceno, Biblioteca Comunale>>

Serie cronologia di molte tra le altre azione fatte dagli imperatori e re di Francia, massime di quelli della rale stirpe dei Borboni con l’aggiunta dei soccorsi dei medesimi dati alla santa Chiesa, dei pontifici rifugiati in Francia e dei privilegi che godono i re di Francia: MS Jesi, Biblioteca Comunale, >>

I gigli triomfanti nelli croci segnati di Gerosolima, ovvero le sacre historie delle crociate e lega delle milizie cristiane delli croci segnati per la liberazione del Santo Sepolcro: MS Jesi, Biblioteca Comunale, >>

literature

Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 17; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Jési’, DHGE VIII, 793; LexCap>>>

Bernardinus de Laredo (Bernardino de Laredo, 1482, Sevilla - 1540, Sevilla)

Friar from the Los Angeles province. Born at Sevilla in 1482 in a family of (low) noble descent. Studied (from c. 1495) Latin, the liberal arts, medicine and theology. Entered the order in 1510 as lay conversus. Spent large part of his religious life in the convent of San Franciso del Monte (Villaverde, ca. 30 km to the north of Sevilla). Functioned as medical consultant for the Franciscan convents in the province and cared for the sick in Andalusia. In the course of these activities, he composed two works of medicine (Metaphora Medicinae & Modus Faciendi Cum Ordine Medicandi, partly in Latin, partly in Castilian) that had considerable success. Due to his medical reputation, he also was called to the Portuguese royal court, where he treated in particular queen Catherina (sister of king/emperor Charles V, and wife of Juan III of Portugal). Aside from his medical works, Bernardino also composed several more spiritual works, notably the Subida del Monte Sion (two editions: 1535, 1538), and the Josephina. It seems that these spiritual works (both the Josephina and the second edition of the Subida del Monte Sion) had considerable impact on the spirituality of Theresa of Avila and John of the cross.

editions:

Metaphora Medicinae (Sevilla, 1522, 1536)

Modus Faciendi cum ordine Medicandi (Sevilla, 1527, 1534, 1542/Alcalá, 1627)

Josephina. Was published as an appendix to sixteenth-century editions of the Subida. For a French translation of the work, see Josephina, trans. Michelangelo de Narbonne (Toulouse, 1925) [The work presents Joseph as the greatest saint after Mary and a most powerful intercessor. It reacts against the dominant idea that Saint Joseph was an old man. The work is much influenced by ideas derived from Gerson and Pelbartus de Temesvar OFM (d. 1504)]

Subida del Monte Sión (two main redactions: Sevilla, 1535 [first edition]; Sevilla,1538 [second edition]/Medina del Campo, 1542/Valencia: F. Mey, 1590/Alcalá de Henares, 1617). Modern re-issue of the second edition in: Misticos Franciscanos Tomo II, Biblioteca Autores Cristianos 44 (Madrid, 1948), 15-443 [does not contain the Josephina], in: Via Spiritus, edited in: Bernabé de Palma, Via Spiritus - Bernardino de Laredo, Subida del Monte Sión, ed. Teodoro H. Martín, Clasicos de Espiritualidad (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1998), and in Bernardino de Laredo, Subida del Monte Sión, ed. Alegría Alonso González, Mercedes García Trascasas & Bertha Gutiérrez Rodilla, Colección Espirituales Españoles. Serie Mayor, 3 - Textos, 51 (Madrid, Fundación Universitaria Española - Salamanca, Universidad Pontificia, 2000). The second edition of the Subida (which presents more a mysticism of love (downplaying the intellectual faculties) than the first version, shows more terminological innovation, with the help of concepts from the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition, from Hugh of Balma, Hendrik Herp, and Francisco de Osuna) consists of three books, each of which elaborates an aspect of the exhortation of Christ: ‘Qui vult venire post me, abneget semetipsum, tollat crucem suam et sequatur me.’ [cf. Matthew 16, 24] Each book is divided in three weeks, with series of appropriate meditations. Book one focuses on self-knowledge. Book two centres on the humanity of Christ (and especially the mysteries of the Nativity, the Passion, and Christ’s glorification). Book three deals with the perfect kind of contemplation leading to unification with God. One could argue that Bernardino therewith follows the Bonaventurean division of the mystical ascent (cf. De Triplica Via) into the purgative, illuminative, and unifying way, and comes close to the mysticism put forward by Francisco de Osuna. Some scholars (notably Ros (1936-1937) & Ros (1948)) see in this kind of mysticism a typical Spanish Franciscan school of mystical thought (with as main protagonists Bernardino Laredo, Francisco de Osuna, Pedro de Alcantara, and Francisco Ortiz).

literature

B. Foronda, ‘Fray Bernardino de Laredo: su vida, sus escritos y su doctrina teológica ascético mística’, AIA 33 (1930), 213-250, 497-526; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bernardin de Laredo’, DHGE VIII, 794-795; F. de Ros, Le Père François d’Osuna (Paris, 1936-1937); Fidele de Ros, ‘Harpius et Laredo’, Revue d’Ascétique et de Mystique 20 (1939), 265-285; F. de Ros, Un inspirateur de S. Thérèse, le frère Bernardin de Laredo (Paris, 1948); R. Hoornaert, ‘Bernardin de Laredo et la Subida del Monte Sion’, Les Lettres Romanes 6 (1952), 233-239; R. Ricard & F. de Ros, ‘‘La Fonte’ de saint Jean de la Croix et un chapitre de Laredo’, Bulletin hispanique 58 (1956), 265-274; Santiago Alcaida, ‘La espiritualidad franciscana en fray Bernardino de Laredo’, Bol. Socied. Esp. Farmacia 7/25-26 (Madrid, 1956), 32*, 33*-40*; Sebastián Folch Jou, ‘Fr. Bernardino de Laredo a través de sus obras científicas’, Boletín de la sociedad española de historia de la farmacia 7 (1956), 21-31; I. Behn, Spanische Mystik. Darstellung und Deutung (Düsseldorf, 1957), 125-160; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 508-509; Cristóbal Cuevas Garcia, La prosa métrica, Teoria, Fray Bernardino de Laredo (Granada, 1972); Diego Gracia y Guillén, ‘La fisiología escolástica de Fr. Bernardino de Laredo’, Cuadernos de historia de la medicina española 12 (1973), 125-192; T.M. Hernández, Enrique Herp (Harpius) en las letras españolas (Avila, 1973), 65-81 & passim; DSpir IX, 277-281; LThK, II³, 278-9; José Damián Badia Pérez, Jesucristo en la vida y obra de Bernardino de Laredo, Diss. (Pamplona, 1998); Francisco de Asís Chavero Blanco, ‘Fray Bernardino de Laredo y su Subida al Monte Sión. Una visión cristiana del hombre’, in: El Franciscanismo en Andalucía. Conferencias del IV Curso de Verano. San Francisco en la cultura Andaluza e Hispano Americana. Priego de Córdoba, 30 de Julio a 8 de agosto de 1998, ed. M. Peláez del Rosal (Córdoba, Caja Sur. Obra Social y Cultural, 2000), 585-618; Enrique Llamas, ‘El siglo XVII, Siglo de Oro de la Corredención Mariana’, Salmanticensis 52 (2005), 213-253.

Bernardinus de Madrid (Bernardino de Madrid, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Castilian friar. Preacher at the Spanish Royal court. Also active as a guardian, definitor and provincial (1691-1695) of the Castilian order province. Three of his funerary sermons held at the funeral of Charles II of Spain apparently were printed at Madrid in 1700.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 45; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Madrid’, DHGE VIII, 795-796; LexCap>>> 

Bernardinus de Manlleu (Bernardino de Manlleu, 1585-1645)

OFMCap. Catelan friar. Entered the order at Barcelona (Sarrià convent), on 25 September 1605. Guardian, definitor and custodian of this recently erected Capuchin province. Involved as a negociator between the council of Barcelona and the Spanish king Filip IV (and his main representant, the Duke of Olivares) during the Catelan revolt of 1640-1642. A part of Bernardino’s diplomatic correspondence has been published. A number of his letters survived in manuscript format as well.

manuscripts/editions

Cartas diplomaticas, in: Coroleu, Claris y son temps (Barcelona, 1880) & in: Miguel de Parets, Memorial histórico español (Madrid, 1888) Vols. XX-XXI.

Cartas: MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Esp. & Port>>> Cf. Les manuscrits espagnols et portugais à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris (Paris, 1892), 108.

literature

Miguel de Valladolid, Chronica de los capuchinos de Cataluña, MS Barcelona, Biblioteca universitaria cod. 16.1.4 ff.>>; Les manuscrits espagnols et portugais a la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris (Paris, 1892), 108; F. de Sagarra y Siscar, Sant Vicens de Sarrià (Barcelona, 1921), 191-192; Martin de Barcelona, ‘Bernardin de Manlleu’, DHGE VIII, 795-796.

Bernardinus de Montolmo (Bernardino Ducaina da Montolmo, 1492-1565)

OFMConv & OFMCap. Renowned Scotist theologian as a conventual friar (nicknamed oculus Scoti). Experienced a spiritual crisis when reading the Liber de Conformitate during a sojourn at Pisa. After a spiritual retreat among reformist Conventuals in the hermitage S.Angelo in Vado, Bernardino entered the Capuchin order in 1534/5. Took part in the Capuchin general chapter of 1536, where he was elected general definitor. He was re-confirmed in this position in 1536, 1546, 1549, 1552, 1555. He also was active as a novice master and teacher of new Capuchin friars (a.o. the teacher of Mario da Mercato Saraceno and Bernardino da Colpetrazzo), and in 1540 he was appointed provincial vicar of the new Naples province. Both in his administrative charges and in other contexts, Bernardino lived and propagated an ascetical life of prayer with anti-intellectual overtones. He died at Macerata, around 1565. As a Capuchin, Bernardino produced a concise Meditazione della Passione, meditating in 50 little ‘contemplazioni’ on episodes from the Passion, calling up the reader to combine each meditation with a small but intensive affective prayer. In this way, Bernardino provides an itinerary towards a conformity with the crucified Christ, starting in the introduction with the interior and exterior conditions conducive to meditating the Passion. Cargnoni, I fratri cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991) III, 531 suggests that the spirituality of the work is related to that found in Corona del Nome di Iesú of Molfetta, the meditations on the mysteries of Christ found in Bernardino da Balvano, Paolo Manassei and the Corone spirituali of Mattia Bellintani da Salò.

editions

Commentaria super IV Libros Sententiarum Juxta Mentem Scoti >>>>

Meditazione della Passione del nostro Signor Iesu Cristo, edited in: I fratri cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. Costanzo Cargnoni (Perugia, 1991) III, 532-540.

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1632) I, 625-635; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 5 (1889), 57, 73-77; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 43 (1927), 282-286; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 15-16; Hilarin von Luzern, ‘Die Studien im I. Jahrhundert des Kapuzinerordens’, Liber Memorialis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1928), 93; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Montolmo’, DHGE VIII, 796; LexCap. 204; C. Cargnoni, Bernardino da Montolmo’, DBI, IX (Rome, 1966), 208-9; C. Cargnoni, ‘Fonti, tendenze e sviluppi (…)’, Collectanea Franciscana 48 (1978), 325f;

Bernardinus de Nuceria (Bernardino da Nocera, d. 1635)

OFMCap. Umbrian friar. Active as a lector of philosophy and theology, preacher, and administrator (guardian, definitor). He died at the Bevagna convent, in July 1635.

manuscripts

Commentaria in Logicam Aristotelis, ex Toleto Praecipue necnon ex Aliis Auctoribus Collecta

Commentaria in Summulis

Commentaria in Aristotelis Philosophiam

Commentaria in Libros de Anima

Explanatio in D. Bonaventuram Doctorem Seraphicum super I-IV Sententiarum Librum

Tractatus Theologicus de Passione Christi et de Beata Virgine

Epistola de Immaculata B.V. Mariae Conceptione: MS BAV Barber. Lat. 1043 ff. 218-231. This letter, dated 26 May 1619, is adressed at Giovanni Rosa Davila, the prior of the regular canons at the monastery of San Giovani da Cavero.

Discorsi XL per le quarant’ore/Pro Oratione Quadraginta Horarum Fr. Bernardini de Nuceria: MS Assisi Archivo Provinziale dei Cappuccini>>

Angeleida, ovvero combattimento angelico, principiato in celo e proseguito in terra, dove, si spiegano con metodo oratorio tutte le materie che da sacri teologi e autori si disputano degli angeli, provati con esempi, scritture e sentenze de’Patri, 5 Vols.>>>

literature 

É. d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 11; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della provincia serafica (Foligno, 1922), 96-99; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Nocera’, DHGE VIII, 796-797; LexCap>>>

Bernardinus de Orciano (d. 1622)

OFMCap. Italian friars from the Marches. Entered the order at Camerino on May 20, 1588. He was engaged in several hagiographical and historical efforts. He died at Lorette in December 1622.

manuscripts

Vita e gesta dei frati morti in concetto di santità e delle cose piu rimarchevoli succeduta in provincia delle Marche dopo la morte del Padre Girolamo da Montefiore ultimo scrittore.>>>

Alcuni documenti relativi alla storia dell’ordine dei cappuccini, cioè lettere dirette al Padre Girolamo da Salo.>>>

Vita e gesta di S. Serafino da Montegranaro, laico cappuccino.>>>

Bernardino da Orciano, Chroniche. “Biografie” di cappuccini delle Marche nel primo secolo della Riforma, ed. Renato Raffaele Lupi, Miscellanea di Testi Cappuccini, 4 (Rome, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2004).

literature

Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 16; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin d’Orciano’, DHGE VIII, 797.

Bernardinus de Paris (ca. 1605-1685, S. Jacques de Paris)

OFMCap. French friar from the Parisian province.. Entered the order in 1622 at Paris. Theologian. After his profession and his priest training, he was for a while involved in visiting prisoners. He also became active as a novice master during a large part of his religious life in several convents of his province, as well as a spiritual guidesman of several female religious communities. In 1640, he became guardian of the Étampes convent, a function that he kept for ca. 30 years. In the course of his life, he faught Jansenist tendencies.

manuscripts and editions

La Communion de Jésus-Christ au Cénacle, prenant son propre Corps avec ses Apostres, pour servir de modelle à la Communion des fidèles (Paris: Thierry, 1658)

Le céleste amour de Marie (Paris: Thierry, 1659)

Les entretiens intérieurs du Fils du Dieu au sein de sa Mère>>??

Le Pur esprit du Christianisme renouvelé en saint François d'Assise/L'esprit de S. François formé sur celuy de Jésus-Christ où ses Enfants sont instruicts des voyes qu'ils doivent tenir pour concevoir le premier esprit de leur saint Père (…) (Paris: Thierry, 1660 & 1662) New edition in two volumes by Apollinaire de Valence, in 1888.

Le journée intérieure du religieux (Paris: Thierry, 1661/1663).

L'esprit de la mendicité évangélique, ou les entretiens célestes et familiers des Enfans de saint François, avec une conduite pour la confession et la communion (Paris: Thierry, 1662).

L'Intérieur de Jésus-Christ en l'Eucharistie (…) 52 méditations (Paris: Thierry, 1671)

La communion de la Mère de Dieu Marie Vierge recevant le corps de son Fils en l'eucharistie, dédiée à la Reyne de France (Paris: Thierry, 1672); La Communion de Marie, ed. Théodose de Massat, Voix Franciscaines (Toulouse, 1914).

Le parfait novice instruit des voyes qu’il doit tenir pour arriver à la perfection de son estat (Paris: Thierry, 1668).

La sainteté de Dieu exprimée en Jésus-Christ, pour servir d’exemplaire à la sainteté de tous les états que les fidèles peuvent porter dans le Christ (Paris, 1674).

De Sanctitate Sacerdotum (paris: Thierry, 1675)

De Vita Interiori Filiorum s. François (Paris: Thierry, 1677).

Le religieux ou le chrétien en solitude (Paris, 1677).

Instructiones pro Missionariis (Paris: Thierry, 1677).

Regulae Interiores (Paris: Thierry, 1677).

La Réligieuse en son cloître (Paris:Thierry, 1677).

Vita Poenitens D.N.J.C. (Paris: Thierry, 1679).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46; Édouard d’Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 12; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘La spiritualité franciscaine’, Études franciscaines 39 (1927), 468-469; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Paris’, DHGE VIII, 797-798; DictSpir, I, 1516-1517; C. Bérubé, L'amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfiel et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997).

Bernardinus de Picquigny (Bernardin de Picquigny, 1633-1709)

OFMCap. Friar from the Parisian province. Fulfilled several functions in the order (lector, guardian, provincial definitor). Spent the last years of his life in the city of Paris. Wrote several exegetical, spiritual and ascetical works.

editions

Epistolarum Pauli Triplex Expositio (Paris, 1703). This is Bernardin’s main work. It was reprinted several times. Bernardin also compiled an abbreviated French version: Explication des épîtres de saint Paul, 3 Vols (Paris, 1707). This abbreviation again appeared more than once. [Hildebrand remarks that his fellow friar Georges Godier d’Amiens had published a comparable work between 1659 and 1664]

Triplex Expositio in Sacrosancta D.N.J.C. Evangelia (Paris , 1726). He wrote this work on request of the pope. It was published posthumously.

>>>various spiritual and ascetical works

Opera Omnia, ed. Vivès, 5 Vols. (Paris, 1870-1872). This contains the Epistolarum Pauli Triplex Expositio, the Triplex Expositio in Sacrosancta D.N.J.C. Evangelia, and several ascetical texts, but not the French Explication des épîtres de saint Paul.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46; P. Hildebrand, ‘Bernardin de Picquigny’, DHGE VIII, 798; DSpir I, 1517-1518.

Bernardinus de Poitiers (Bernardin de Poitiers, fl. mid 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Friar from the Tours province. Engaged in anti-Protestant polemics.

editions

Thèses royales adressées aux messieurs de la religion prétendue réformée (Poitiers, 1660).

literature 

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Poitiers’, DHGE VIII, 798; LexCap>>>

Bernardinus de Pontremoli (Bernardino Campi/Bernardino da Pontremoli, d. 1716)

OFMCap. Friar from the Genoa province. Historian.

manuscripts

Successi memorabili della Lunigiana: MS Genoa, Biblioteca Comunale 31-2-43, cod. 228. It amounts to a history of the Lunigiana region (between Liguria and Tuscany), replete with lists of important religious people originating from there.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 46-47; Fr. Molfino, Cappuccini liguri (Genoa, 1909), 2; I cappuccini genovesi (genoa, 1912) I, 24-25; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Pontremoli’, DHGE VIII, 798; LexCap>>>

Bernardinus de Rechanato (late fifteenth century)

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editions

Aflaatbrief voor de leden van de broederschap van de heilige Franciscus en Anthonius van Padua verbonden aan de Franciscaanse kerk te Parijs ten gunste van het college voor ordestudenten (Gouda, ca. 1490 [single printed leaf]

Bernardinus de Reggio (`Giorgio', ca. 1476-1535)

OMObs & OFMCap. Italian friar from Calabria. Entered the Observant branch of the order together with Luigi Comi da Reggio, who was to become a close friend and companion. After studies at the order studium of Brescia under Francesco Lycheto, an exponent of late medieval Scotism (and later minister general), Bernardino was sent to Paris, to continue his studies. Became doctor of theology and returned to Italy to teach, earning the nickname ‘Giorgio’, an allusion to Francesco Giorgio Zorsi, a learned Franciscan friar renowned for his learning. Together with Luigi and other friars, Bernardino began to push for a more austere lifestyle, in accordance with the Rule of Francis. Due to opposition from his Observant order superiors, Bernardino, Luigi and ca. 30 other Calabrian friars eventually opted for the Capuchins (1532). The Capuchin vicar general Luigi da Fossombrone made first Luigi and after him Bernardino provincial vicar of the Capuchin Calabrian province. Bernardino died on 21 December 1536.

editions

Commentaria in Librum Primum Scripti Oxoniensis Joannis Duns Scoti, 3 Vols>>

Adnotationes in Sacram Divinam Scripturam>>

Conceptus Quadragesimalis>>

Chronicon Rhegii>>

Vita S. Eliae Abbatis Bozzettae (a translation from Greek into Latin)

literature

Z. Boverio, Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Lyon, 1632) I, 132-135, 178-179, 183-184, 226-232; L. Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906) 43; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 136; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 47; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini calabresi (Catanzaro, 1914), 17-19; Dominique de Caylus, ‘ce que les capucins doivent au bienh. Matthieu de Basci et au P. Ludovic de Fossombrone’, Études franciscaines 38 (1926), 600-608; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘De capitulo generali O.M.Cap. 1535 celebrato et anno subsequente renovato nova et vetera’, Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 43 (1927), 286, n. 1; A. Teetaert, ‘Bernardin de Reggio’, DHGE VIII, 799; DBI XV, 213-215

Bernardinus de Sahagún (1499, Sahagún - 1590, Mexico)

OFMObs. Spanish friar. Born in Sahagun (Leon). Studied at Salamanca University (1512-1514) and entered the Franciscan order in the local San Francisco Convent (Santiago province). Travelled to Nueva España in 1529, in a group of 30 friars led by Antonio de Ciudad Rodrigo. Became teacher at the Santa Cruz collegium in Tlatelolco (near Mexico), founded for the sons of Aztek nobles (1536). Became one of the first experts in Old Mexican languages and history. Died on 23 October 1590 in Mexico. His main work is the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, an encyclopaedia of indigenous cultures and their history. His allegedly objective stance as a historian and ethnorapher/linguist caused problems with his own order, as well as with Spanish conquistadores and the King of Spain. His Historia was confiscated in 1577. With the Psalmodia Cristiana (Mexico, 1583) as the major exception, most of his works - several of which apparently still are available in manuscript format, whereas others were lost over the centuries - have been published for the first time in the nineteenth century and after.

editions:

Evangelium, Epistolarium et Lectionarium Aztecum, sive Mexicanum, ex Antiquo Codice Mexiacno nuper Reperto Desumptum, cum Interpretatione Adnotationibus Glossario, ed. Bernardinus Bionelli (Milan: Jos. Bernardini Qm. Johannis, 1858).

Vida de San Bernardino de Sena (A Nahuatl translation of the Vita Bernardini Senensis, written by Marcus of Lisbon). This translation received its first edition by L. Oliger, in: Bulletino di Studi Bernardiniani 2 (1936), 207-212.

Psalmodia Christiana y Sermonario de los Sanctos del Año, en Lengua Mexican (…) Ordenada en Cantares o Psalmos para que canten los Indios en los Areitos que hacen en las Iglesias (Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1583).

Catecismo de la Doctrina Cristiana, en Lengua Mejicana (Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1583)?

Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Carlos Bustamente, 4 Vols. (Mexico, 1829/1830); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, Mexican Antiquities, 7 Vols. (London, 1841-1848); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Ireneo Paz, 4 Vols. [=reproduction with annotation of the 1829/1830 edition] (Mexico, 1890-1895); Códice florentino de la ‘Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España’, ed. Giunti Barbèra, 3 Vols. (Florence, 1979); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, 6 Vols. (Mexico, 1981); Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Wigberto Jimenez Moreno, 2 Vols. (Mexico, 1938/Madrid, 1988); General History of the Things of New Spain: The Florentine Codex, transl. Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles E. Dribble (Santa Fe, 1950); Cinzia Lodi, L’aparato illustrativo del Codice Fiorentino della ‘Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España de fra Bernardino de Sahagún, Diss University of Florence (Florence, 1995).

Breve Compendio de los Ritos Idolátricos de Nueva España, ed. L. Oliger, in: Antonianum, 17 (1942), 3-38, 133-174; Ritos y Costumbres Aztecas (Madrid, 1944); Sterbende Götter und Christliche Heilsbotschaft, ed. W. Lehmann (1949).

Cantares Mejicanos y Otros Opúscolos. Facsimile edition in: Cantares en idioma mexicano. Reproducción facsímile del manoscrito original existente en la Biblioteca Nacional, que se imprime por acuerdo del M. González Cosío, Secretario de Fomento, en el taller de fotolipia del mismo Ministerio bajo la dirección de A. Peñafiel (Mexico, 1904-1906).

Libro de la Venida de los Primeros Padres, y las Pláticas que Tuvieron con los Sacerdotes de los Indios, en Español y Mejicano, ed. José M. Pou y Martí, Miscellanea Francesco Ehrle (Rome, 1924) III, 281-333. Re-edited separately as El Libro Perdido de las Pláticas o Coloquios de los Doce Primeros Misioneros de México (Mexico, 1944/Rome, 1962); Coloquios y Doctrina Cristiana, facsimile edition, introd. & annotation Miguel León-Portilla (Rome, 1924/Mexico, 1986); Christian Duverger, La conversión de los Indios de Nueva España con el texto de los ‘Coloquios de los Doce’ de Bernardino de Sahagún (1564) (Mexico, 1993)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, adiciones, apéndices a la postilla y ejercicio de lo cotidiano, ed. A.J.O. Anderson, Colección Facsímiles de lingüística y filología nahuas, 6 (México, 1993).

Primeros Memoriales, trans. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

Calendario Majicano, Latino y Castellano:>> no edition available

Vocabulario Trilingüe Castellano, Latino y Mejicano:>> no edition available

Doctrina Cristiana, en Mejicano:>> no edition available

Arte Divinatoria:>> no edition available

Sermones Dominicales y de Santos, en Lengua Mejicana:>> no edition available

Sermones de Adviento, Navididad, Cuaresma y Resurrección:>> no edition available

Ejercicios Cuotidianos, en Lengua Mejicana:>> no edition available

Manual del Cristiano:>> no edition available

Libro de Oro y Tesoro Índico:>> no edition available

Leche Espiritual:>> no edition available

Espiritual Manjar Sólido:>> no edition available

Vida de Jesucristo en Verso Mejicano:>> no edition available

Calepino o Diccionario Mejicano:>> no edition available

Regla de los Casados:>> no edition available

Declaración del Símbolo por Manera de Diálogo:>> no edition available

Tratado de las Virtudes Teologales, en Mejicano:>> no edition available

Lumbre Espiritual:>> no edition available

Los Mandamientos de los Casados:>> no edition available

Impedimentos del Matrimonio:>> no edition available

Doctrina Cristiana:>> no edition available?

Declaración Parafrástica y Símbolo ‘Quicumque Vult’:>> no edition available

Arte de la Lengua Mejicana:>> no edition available

Fruta Espiritual:>> no edition available

Regla de los Casados:>> no edition available

Pláticas para Después del Bautismo de los Niños: MS Viñaza, 256. >> no edition available

Bordón Espiritual:>> no edition available

Escalera Espiritual:>> no edition available

Espejo Espiritual:>> no edition available

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 137; J. Garcia Icazbalceta, Bibliografia mexicana del siglo XVI (Mexico, 1886), 247-322; J. Bauman, ‘Bernardino de Sahagun (d. 1590) en zijn wetenschappelijke missie-arbeid onder de Azteken’, Collectanea Franciscana Neerlandica 1 (1927), 241-266 [check: 3 (1929)?]; José M. Pou y Martí, ‘El libro perdido de las pláticas y coloquios de los doce primeros misioneros en Méjico’, in: Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle (Rome, 1924) III, 281-333; J. Goyens, ‘Bernardin de Sahagun’, DHGE VIII, 799-800; Livario Oliger, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún e una vita di s. Bernardino in lingue nathuatl’, Bolletino di studi Bernardiniani 2 (1936), 3-8; Wigberto Jiménez Moreno, Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún y su obra (Mexico: Porrúa e Hijos, 1938); Livario Oliger, ‘Breve compendio de los ritos idolátricos de Nueva España, auctore Bernardino de  Sahagún, OFM, Pio V dicatum’, Antonianum 17 (1942), 3-38, 133-174; Conde de Castillo-Fiel, ‘La civilización azteca, según el franciscano Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún’, Verdad y Vida 2 (1944), 758-779 & 3 (1945), 596-619; Leonardo Gutiérrez-Colomer, Contribución al estudio fármaco-botánico de la flora de México que describe Sahagún en el siglo XVI (Madrid, 1948); Sterbende Gotter und christliche Heilsbotschaft: Wechselreden indianischer Vornehmer und spanischer Glaubensapostel in Mexiko 1524, ed. G. Kutscher, Spanischer und mexikanischer Text mit deutscher Übersetzung von Walter Lehmann, Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen, III (Stuttgart, 1949); Luis Nicolau d’Olwer, Historiadores de América. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. Comisión de Historia, 40, Historiadores de América, IX (Mexico: D.F. Editorial Cultura, 1952); Angel Maria Garibay K., Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún. Relación de los textos que no aprovechó en su obra. Su método de investigación, Aportaciones a la investigación folklórica de Méjico (Mexico: Sociedad Folklórica de Méjico, 1953); Luis M. Diéguez, ‘Nuevos estudios sobre Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún’, Liceo franciscano 8 (1955), 99-107; Miguel León-Portilla, ‘Los huaxtecos, según los informantes de Sahagún’, Estudios de cultura nahuatl 5 (Mexico, 1965), 15-29; M. León-Portilla, Significado de la obra de Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, alumno de Salamanca, ‘Padre de la antropología en el Nuevo Mundo’ (Salamanca: U of Salamanca Press, 1966); Francisco Jordá Cerdá, ‘Homenaje a Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún’, Zephyrus 17 (Salamanca, 1966), 131-133; Luis Rubluo, Sahagún y los refranes de los antiguos mejicanos (S.L.: Dirección general de Prensa, Memorias y Publicaciones de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, 1966); Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois, Vida e Obra de Fray B. de Sahagún (Léon, 1973); Leandro Tormo, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún’, Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España, 4 Vols. (Madrid, 1972-1975) IV, 2135; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 175-175 (no. 761); J. García Icazbalceta, Bibliografía Mexicana del siglo XVI (Mexico, 1981³), 322-387; H. Wissmann, Sind doch die Götter auch gestorben (Göttingen, 1981); A.H. de Léon-Portilla (ed.), Bernardino de Sahagún (Mexico, 1990); LThK, 3^rd ed. II, 279; Christian Duverger, La conversión de los Indios de Nueva España con el texto de los ‘Coloquios de los Doce’ de Bernardino de Sahagún (1564) (Mexico, 1993); R.M. Berrio, ‘Bernardino de Sahagún y la antropología cultural de los siglos XIX-XX’, in: Los castellanos y leoneses I (1996), 335-340; J. Llorente Resines, ‘Sobre el catecismo pictográfico atribuido a Bernardino de Sahagún’, Estudios de historia social y económica de América 12 (1995), 325-330. [Appeared in more detail in Estud. August. 31 (1996), 245-298, 449-548]; Luis Reyes Garcia, Documentos Nahuas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (Mexico: Archivo General de la Nación-Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1996) [also dealing with Sahagun’s Exercicio Quotidiano]; V.C. Renstrom, ‘Censoring Encyclopedic Knowledge: The case of Sahagun and Sixteenth Century Spanish America’, in: Pre-Modern Encyclopedic Texts, ed. Peter Brinkley (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 1997), 315-325; Fabio Trancarelli, ‘Da Sahagún alla Nuova Spagna. La coesistenza di culture nel Vecchio e nel Nuovo Mondo’, Flor. 12 (1998), 119-137; Miguel Leon-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagún: pionero de la antropologia, Cultura Náhuatl, Monografias 24 (México, 1999); Ramón Pereira Somoza, Valoración de la cultura y la religión nahuas en relación con la Evangelización en la ‘Historia general de la Nueva España’ de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Thesis ad Doctoratum in Sacra Theologia totaliter edita (Rome, 2001); David Carrasco, City of sacrifice. The Aztec Empire and the role of violence in civilization (Boston, 1999); Walden Browne, Sahagún and the transition to modernity (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000); Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, text, and image in the work of Sahagún, ed. Eliose Quiñones Keber (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002) [cf. Americas 60 (2004), 467-469]; Miguel León-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagún: First Anthropologist, trans. Mauricio J. Mixco (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002) [cf. Americas 60 (2003), 144-145]; Javier Péres Gil, Juan José Sánchez Badiola & José R. Sola Alonso, ‘El convento de San Francisco de Sahagún y su iglesia de la Peregrina’, Archivo Ibero-Americano 62 (2002), 643-711; Sahagún at 500: Essays on the Quincentenary of the Birth of Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, ed. John Frederick Schwaller, Publications of the Academy of American Franciscan History. Franciscan Publications in Nathuatl, Series 3 (Berkeley CA, 2003); Márcia Helena Alvim, ‘Um franciscano no Novo Mundo: frei Bernardino de Sahagún’, Estudos Ibero-Americanos 31 (2005), 51-60.

Quadragesimale de Evangelio Aeterno [65 sermons, composed between 1430-1444]. This collection can be found in several old Opera Omnia editions, as well as separately (a.o. Spyer, 1484; Basel, 1490). A critical edition can be found in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965),Volume III-V. The sermons for the period between Sabbato post III Dominicam in Quadragesima and Feria quarta post Dominicam de Passione (Volume IV, 117-416) are also known separately as the Tractatus de Contractibus et Usuris. The large Sermo de sacratissima Passione et Mysteriis Crucis, meant for the Feria sexta in Parasceve (Volume V, 68-170), can also be found as a separate treatise..

1. Prologus de Evangelio Aeterno. III, 3-19. [See also Appendix, 463-465.]

2. De Origine Caritatis seu divini Amoris. [Sermo I-Dominica in quinquagesima. In Mane] III, 20-29.

3. Declaratio Epistolae Pauli de laudibus Caritatis. [Sermo II-Dominica in Quinquagesima. Infra Diem] III, 30-45.

4. De Excellentia divini Amoris. [Sermo III-Feria secunda post Dominicam in Quinquagesima] III, 46-59.

5. De Affectionibus triplicis inflammati Amoris, scilicet Deit, sui et proximi, de quibus verum Carnisprivium celebratur. [Sermo IV-Feria tertia post Dominicam in Quinquagesima] III, 60-86.

6. De Mercantia divini Amoris. [Sermo V-Feria quarta in Die cinerum] III, 87-99.

7. De Fide viva et mortua. [Sermo VI-Feria quinta post Cineram] III, 100-119.

8. De proximorum Dilectione. [Sermo VII-Feria sexta post Cinerum] III, 120-133.

9. De divina Protectione, et quomodo a Deo per Angelos Iustorum Civitas et Anima ab Adversitatibuss custoditur. [Sermo VIII-Sabbato post Cinerum] III, 134-145.

10. De magna Efficacia et Fructibus Verbi Dei. [Sermo IX-Dominica prima in Quadragesima. In mane] III, 147-158. [see also Appendix, 464-465]

11. De Observantia Sabbati et Celebratione Festorum. [Sermo X-Dominica prima in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] III, 159-196.

12. De Iudicio generali [Sermo XI-Feria secunda post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 197-229. [See also Appendix, 465-468]

13. De Aeternitate Infernalium Tormentorum. [Sermo XII-Feria tertia post Dominicam I in Quadragesima] III, 230-242.

14. De Fidei Improbabilitate. Contra Praesumptuosos et Curiosos quaerentes Signa, Miracula et Portenta vel naturales rationes de Fide. [Sermo XIII-Feria quarta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 243-254.

15. De Iudicio temerario, praesumptuoso et falso. [Sermo XIV-Feria quinta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 255-66.

16. De horrendo Peccato contra Naturam. [Sermo XV-Feria sexta post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 267-284.

17. De Regimine Principum et quorumque Regentium. [Sermo XVI-Sabbato post I Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 285-304.

18. De Honore Parentum. [Sermo XVII-Dominica secunda in Quadragesima. In Mane] III, 306-318.

19. De duodecim Sceleribus propter quae Deus Patrias et Regna saepe iudicat et flagellat. [Sermo XVIII-Dominica secunda in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] III, 319-329.

20. De Signis per quae cognosci potest quando Deu Iudicia sunt propinqua. [Sermo XIX-Feria secunda post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 330-339.

21. De multiplici Causa quare Populi de proximo Futuraa super eos Iudicia non cognoscunt nec verentur. [Sermo XX-Feria tertia post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 340-351.

22. De multiplici Hominum Ignorantia. [Sermo XXI-Feria quarta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 352-365. [See also Appendix, 468-469]

23. De Suppliciis infernalibus omnium Damnatorum et maxim quorumcumque Scelatorum. [Sermo XXII-Feria quinta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 366-379.

24. Apertis Rationibus demonstratur quod extra unicam et catholicam Fidem nemo salvari potest; et quare tanta erit Multitudo Damnatorum et tanta Paucitas Salvandorum. [Sermo XXIII-Feria sexta post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 380-391.

25. De sacra Religione, et quod melius est Bonum facere ex Voto quam ex libera Voluntate. [Sermo XXIV-Sabbato post II Dominicam in Quadragesima] III, 392-435.

26. Contra Partialitates Cordis, Oris et Operis; et maxime contra Guelphos et Ghibellinos. [Sermo XXV-Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. In Mane] III, 437-449.

27. Prophetia beato Ioanni Evangelistae revelata de eisdem Partialitatibus Cordis, Oris et Operis. [Sermo XXVI-Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] III, 450-460.

28. De sacra Confessione et Fructibus eius. [Sermo XXVII-Feria secunda post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 5-34.

29. De Correctione fraterna. [Sermo XXVIII-Feria tertia post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 35-55. [See also Appendix, 609-610]

30. De odibili et exsecranda Detractione. [Sermo XXIX-Feria quarta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 56-79.

31. De Detractione et de Remediis contra eam. [Sermo XXX-Feria quinta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 80-96.

32. De Conversione Samaritanae. Expositio Evangelii secundum mysticum Intellectum. [Sermo XXXI-Feria sexta post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 97-116.

33. De Origine Dominiorum et Rerum Translatione. [Sermo XXXII-Sabbato post III Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 117-139.

34. De Mercationibus et Artificibus in generali et de Conditionibus licitis et illicitis earundem. [Sermo XXXIII-Dominica quarta in Quadragesima. In Mane] IV, 140-163. [Cf. Appendix, 610-617]

35. De Temporis Ventitione, et quando hoc liceat vel non liceat. [Sermo XXXIV-Dominica quarta in Quadragesima. Infra Diem] IV, 164-188.

36. Quo Pretio aestimari debeant Res venales, et de Cupla vendentium Res maculatas. [Sermo XXXV-Feria secunda post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 189-203.

37. De Voragine Usurarum. Ubi declaratur quid sit Usura, in quibus committi potest, et quas Excusationes assumunt qui defendunt Usuram. [Sermo XXXVI-Feria tertia post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 204-222.

38. De Mutuo, et quomodo et quando quilibet teneatur Mutuum dare gratis. [Sermo XXXVII-Feria quarta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 223-240.

39. Quod Lege Naturae, Scripturae et sanctae Ecclesie prohibetur Usura. [Sermo XXXVIII-Feria quinta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 241-264.

40. De Contractibus Usurariis et de Securitatibus Mercantiarum ac de Varietate multiplici Cambiorum. [Sermo XXXIX-Feria sexta post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV. 265-294.

41. De variis Soccidis Animalium. [Sermo XL-Sabbato post IV Dominicam in Quadragesima] IV, 295-306.

42. De impraestitis Venetorum et de Monte Florentinorum ac de Ianuensium Locis, quae idem in Substantia sunt. [Sermo XLI-Dominica V in Quadragesima, id est Dominica de Passione. In mane] IV, 307-346.

43. De Interesse. Et in quibus Casibus et quare liceat accipere ultra Sortem. [Sermo XLII-Dominica de Passione. Infra Diem] IV, 347-369.

44. Quantum Usura adversetur Deo et Usurarium Idolatrare facit. Et quam gravi Blasphemia Dei ac Fidei suae sit Usurariis faenerandi Libertatem praestare. [Sermo XLIII-Feria secunda post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 370-387.

45. Quantum et quot impiis Modis Usura Proximo sit nociva. [Sermo XLIV-Feria tertia post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 388-400.

46. Quot Pravitatibus depravetur Homo per Pravitatem Usurae. [Sermo XLV-Feria quarta post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 401-416.

47. De ardentissimo Amore sanctissimae Magdalenae. [XLVI-Feria quinta post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 417-441.

48. Descriptio Similitudinis Vanitatis mundanae quae in vanis Mulieribus regnat. [XLVII-Feria sexta post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 442-463.

49. De laudibus Virginitatis. Et de duodecim mysticis Domicellis Virginis Matris Dei. [Sermo XLVIII-Sabbato post Dominicam de Passione] IV, 464-484.

50. De glorioso Nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi. [Sermo XLIX-Dominica Olivarum. In Mane] IV, 487-515.

51. De Pace et Concordia Inimicorum ac de Remissione Iniuriarum. [Sermo L-Dominica Olivarum. Infra Diem] IV, 516-536.

52. De admirandi Gratiis beatae Virginis. [Sermo LI-Feria secunda post Dominicam Olivarum] IV, 537-561.

53. De Conscientia Bona et Mala. [Sermo LII-Feria tertia post Dominicam Olivarum] IV, 562-584. [See also Appendix, 617-623]

54. De triplici Statu Conscientiae malae, et de Illuminatione et Reformatione eiusdem. [Sermo LIII-Feria quarta post Dominicam Olivarum] IV, 585-608.

55. De Corpore Christi et de Mirabilibus quae contingunt circa hoc Sacramentum. [Sermo LIV-Feria quinta in Cena Domini. In Mane] V, 5-42.

56. De triplici varia Sumptione quae tam Mali quam Boni assumunt Corpus Christi. [Sermo LV-In Cena Domini. Infra Diem] V, 43-67.

57. De sacratissima Passione et Mysteriis Crucis. [Sermo LVI-Feria sexta in Parasceve] V, 68-170.

58. Iterum de sanctissimo Sacramento. Et quomodo pro Die Paschatis quilibet se praeparare debet ad sacram Communionem [Sermo LVII-Sabbato Sancto] V, 171-190.

59. De Homine novo et Peregrino cui beatus Franciscus vel alius Sanctus potest appropriari. [Sermo LVIII-Feria secunda post Resurrectionem] V, 191-205.

60. De Stigmatibus sacris gloriosi Francisci. [Sermo LIX-Feria tertia post Resurrectionem] V, 206-230.

61. De Sitibus et Desideriis Animarum tam Bonis quam Malis, et de Matrimonio et Fornicatione spirituali. [Sermo LX-Feria quarta post Dominicam Resurrectionis] V, 231-245. [See also Appendix, 347-352]

62. De duodecim Gradibus divini Amoris, qui possunt gloriosae Magdalenae vel aliqui Sancto appropiari. [Sermo LXI-Feria quinta post Resurrectionem] V, 246-264.

63. De duodecim Bonis seu Gratiis ad quae valent Opera bona extra Caritatem facta. [Sermo LXII-Feria sexta post Dominicam Resurrectionis] V, 265-279. [See also Appendix, 352-355]

64. Quod Purgatorium sit multipliciter stabilitur. [sermo LXIII-Sabbato in Albis] V, 280-296.

65. De Purgatorii Statu, hoc est de Purgandorum Poenalitate, Iudunditate atque Necessitate. [Sermo LXIV-Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. In Mane] V, 297-318.

66. De Gloria eorum qui in Caritate fideliter et triumphaliter perseverant usque in Finem. [Sermo LXV-Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. Infra Diem] V, 319-344. [See also Appendix, 355-357]

Tractatus de Vita Christiana [three sermons/ discourses, composed before 1430]. Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.

1. De christiana Modestia, quae triplex est. VI, 5-19.

2. De christiana Iustitia. VI, 20-44.

3. De Pietate christiana. VI, 45-64.

[see also Appendix, VI, 481-534.]

Tractatus de B. Virgine [11 sermons, composed between 1430 and 1440] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.

1. De glorioso Nomine Mariae, scilicet quod dicitur `Stella Maris'. VI, 65-76.

2. De glorioso Nomine Mariae, et quod interpretatur `amarum Mare'. VI, 77-87.

3. Iterum de glorioso Nomine Mariae, et quomodo Maria `Domina' interpretatur. VI, 88-98.

4. De Admirandis Gratiis B. Virginis. [Sermo in Festivitatibus beatae Virginis] [edited in Vol. IV, 537-584.]

5. De Consensu Virginali. [Sermo in sacratissimo Die Dominicae Annuntiationis in Mane] VI, 100-110.

6. Iterum de Virginali Consensu. [sermo in Annuntiatione gloriosae Virginis - infra Diem] VI, 111-121.

7. De Salutatione angelica. [edited in Vol. II, 153-162.]

8. De superadmirabili Gratia et Gloria Matris Dei. [edited in Vol. II, 371-397.]

9. De septem Verbis Virginis gloriosae in uibus septem Gradus seu Processus Amoris insinuantur. [Sermo in Visitatione beatae Mariae] VI, 123-144.

10. Sermo in Die Purificationis beatae Mariae Virginis. VI, 145-161.

11. In Assumptione gloriosae Virginis Mariae. VI, 161-181.

Tractatus de Spiritu Sancto et de Inspirationibus [six sermons, composed between 1422 and 1444] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.

1. De Donis Spiritus Sancti, et quomodo communicantur Divino Amori. [Sermo in Die Pentecostes] VI, 183-222.

2. Tractatus de Inspirationibus. Et Primo de Inspirationum varietate. [Feria II post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 223-242.

3. De Inspirationum Discretione. [Feria III post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 243-290.

4. De multiplici Lumine quo cognosci possit quae sunt Inspirationes implendae et quare merentur et quid merentur. [Feria IV post Diem Pentecostes]VI, 291-311.

5. De duodecim Fructibus Spiritus Christi et Ligni Vitae. [Feria V post Pentecosten et pro Dominica XIV post Pentecosten-De Epistola] VI, 312-319.

6. De Manifestatione Spiritus Sancti per duodecim Signa. [Feria sexta et Dominica X post Diem Pentecostes] VI, 320-331.

Tractatus de Octo Beatitudinibus Evangelicis [nine sermons, composed between 1441- and 1443] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VI.

1. De Excellentia et Dignitate Beatitudinum Evangelicarum et de Sufficienti Numero et Ordine Praedictarum. VI, 333-347.

2. Primo Beatitudo est Paupertas Spiritus quae Beatitudinem parit. VI, 348-364.

3. Secunda Beatitudo est Mititas. VI, 365-375.

4. Tertia Beatitudo est Luctus cui promittitur Consolatio vera. VI, 376-393.

5. Quarta Beatitudo est Esuries iustitiae seu Famelica Iustitia. VI, 394-413.

6. Quinta Beatitudo est Affectus Misericordiae. VI, 414-429.

7. Sexta Beatitudo est Munditia Cordis. VI, 430-445.

8. Septima Beatitudo est Pax. VI, 446-459.

9. Octava Beatitudo est Patientia. VI, 460-479.

Sermones de Tempore [18 sermons, composed between 1440 and 1444] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VII.

1. De variis Iudiciis et Tormentis inflictis Peccatoribus in Adventu iusti Iudicis Iesu Christi. [Domenica II de Adventu] VII, 7-15.

2. De sancto Ioseph Sponso beatae Virginis. [In vigilia nativitatis Domini] VII, 16-30.

3. De triplici Christi Nativitate [In nativitate Domini] VII, 31-49.

4. Sermo in Epiphania Domini. VII, 50-64.

5. De Sacrificio Abrahae. [Dominica in Quinquagesima] VII, 65-78.

6. De sacratissima Oratione et de Circumstantiis eius. [In die rogationum seu in majoribus litaniis aut pro quocumque alio tempore] VII, 79-93.

7. Sermo in Assensione Domini Nostri Iesu Christi. VII, 94-118.

8. De ascensione Sanctissima Iesu Christi. [Infra Diem] VII, 119-135.

9. De duodecim Fructibus Eleemosynae sanctae. [Dominica prima post Pentcostem] VII, 136-152.

10. Quantae Efficaciae sit in bonum atque in malum Societas bona vel mala. [Domenica III post Pentecosten] VII, 153-173.

11. De Multiloquio atque de Remediis eius necnon et de multiplici Remedio contra omnia Vitia Linguae. [Dominica V post Pentecosten] VII, 174-175.

12. De multiplicibus Rationibus quare a Deo Prospera Mundi dantur Iustis.[Dominica VIII post Pentecosten] VII, 192-201.

13. Contra Confidentium sui ipsius; et de Humiliatione Superborum et Exaltatione Humilium in Evangelio Pharisaei et Publicani. [Dominica X post Pentecosten] VII, 202-212.

14. Quanta fecerit Dominus Animae Rationali. [Dominica XI vel XXII Dominica post Pentecosten] VII, 213-227.

15. De divina Dilectione, et quare et uomodo diligendus est Deus. [Dominica XII vel XVII post Pentecosten] VII, 228-242.

16. De Calamitatibus et Miseriis Humanae Vitae et Maxime Senectutis. [Dominica XVI post Pentecosten] VII, 243-262.

17. De triplici Statu Animae, scilicet Offensionis, Illuminationis et Conversionis (De Peccatoris Conversione) [Dominica XX post Pentecosten] VII, 263-291.

18. De multiplici Veritate. [Dominica XII post Pentecosten] VII, 292-305.

Sermones de Diversis [11 sermons from different periods] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VII.

1. De triplici Statu Animae Iustae. VII, 309-334.

2. De Amore inter Deum et Animam. VII, 335-354.

3. De summa Perfectione evangelicae Obedientiae atque de Obedientia cuiuscumque Religionis. VII, 355-381.

4. Disputatio de Obientia et maxime de illa quae evangelica nominatur; quae per Dialogum fit. VII, 382-407.

5. De Rectoribus et Praelatis. VII, 408-420.

6. De Taciturnitate Bona et Mala. VII, 421-429.

7. De multiplici Mendacio. VII, 430-450.

8. De desiderabili Veritate. VII, 451-471.

9. De Amore proprio seu privato; et quomodo tam in Angelis quam in Hominibus Radix est omnium Malorum. VII, 472-491.

10. De Mundi Amore et malis Conditionibus eius. VII, 492-504.

11. De Exercitu Spirituum malignorum. VII, 505-525.

Sermo in Nativitate Domini. Edited in S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), VII, 529-537.

Sermones Imperfecti [25 sermons] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VIII.

1. De Vocatione ad Bonum operandum. [In Septuagesima et pro Dominica infra Octavam Corporis Christi et pro Dominica XIX post Pentecosten] VIII, 3-7.

2. De Conversione Seniorum. [Pro Septuagesima et pro Dominica XIX post Pentecosten] VIII, 7-11.

3. De Verbo Dei et de Conditionibus Auditorum. [In Sexagesima] VIII, 11-23.

4. De Spe. VIII, 23-25.

5. De Gradibus Amoris. VIII, 25-27.

6. De Dilectione. VIII, 27-32.

7. De Caritate Ordinata. VIII. 32-38.

8. De Dilectione. VIII, 38-40.

9. De Stimulis Amoris. VIII, 40-42.

10. De Conservatione et vera Custodia Civitatum. VIII, 42-50.

11. De Confessione. VIII, 50-53.

12. Ad Scholares. VIII, 53-57.

13. De Matrimonio Regulato, Inordinato et Separato. VIII, 57-67.

14. De Eleemosyna Descriptione, Distinctione et Obligatione. VIII, 67-76.

15. Quis potest facere Eleemosynam, quibus et de quibus. VIII, 76-84.

16. De Eleemosynae Inductione, Ordinatione et Remuneratione. VIII, 84-89.

17. De Negligentia. VIII, 89-96.

18. De Sollicitudine. VIII, 96-101.

19. Pro uno Martyre. VIII, 101.

20. De Circumstantiis. VIII, 102.

21. De triplici Statu Ecclesiae. VIII, 102.

22. De Quatuor Daemonibus Satanae Collateralibus. VIII,112-115.

23. De Confessione Peccatorum. VIII, 115-138.

24. Sermo quare Adversa dantus Malis. VIII, 138-146.

25. Sermo quare Tribulationes dantur Iustis. VIII, 146-158.

[26.] Quare dantur hic Adversa Iustis. VIII, 158-160.

Itinerarium Anni [a kind of index with themes for 221 predicable sermons during the ecclesiastical year] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VIII, 163-306.

Epistolae [21 letters] Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume VIII,

1. Summo Pontifici Martino V. [ante 28-01, 1428] VIII, 311.

2. Francisco Marci, dicto Pecorario, de Senis. [22-02, 1429] VIII, 311.

3. Catharinae de Columna, Comitissae Montisferetri [12-09, 1433] VIII, 312.

4. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [14-01, 1434] VIII, 313.

5. Fratribus de Observantia totius Italiae. [5-08, 1438] VIII, 314.

6. Officialibus Fabricae S. Petronii Bononiae. [25-11, 1438] VIII, 315.

7. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [21-01, 1439] VIII, 316. See also Paolo Vian, ‘Di un testimone vaticano della lettera di S. Bernardino ai magistrati senesi del 21 gennaio 1439’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Cacciotti & Pacifico Sella, Medioevo, 5 (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002), 377-400.

8. Rectoribus Podiibonitii. [13-07, 1440] VIII, 316.

9. Declaratio S. Bernardini de Senis circa aliqua dubia super Regulam Fratrum Minorum (…) Fratribus de Observantia totius Italiae [31-07, 1440] VIII, 317.

10. Magistro Iacobo Biade, Ord. Min. [27-09, 1440] VIII, 321.

11.Sorori Nicolinae Abbatissae. [10-11, 1440] VIII, 321.

12. Fratri Baptistae de Bononia. [5-01, 1441] VIII, 323.

13. Fratri Baptistae de Bononia [13-02, 1441] VIII, 325.

14. Fratri Ioanni de Capistrano. [14-02, 1441] VIII, 326.

15. Cuidam Fratri Innominato. [1-05, 1441] VIII, 327.

16. Fratri Ioanni de Capistrano. [18-05, 1441] VIII, 328.

17. Antianis Civitatis Bononiae. [20-06, 1442] VIII, 329.

18. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [13-12, 1442] VIII, 329.

19. Rectoribus Civitatis Senarum. [12-02, 1443] VIII, 330.

20. Petro Thomasio de Venetiis. [14-04, 1443] VIII, 331.

21. Summo Pontifici Eugenio IV. [ca. 15-08, 1439] VIII, 332.

Postillae in Epistolas et Evangelia Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume IX.

1. Dominica I de Adventu. IX, 3-9.

2. Dominica II de Adventu. IX, 9-20.

3. Dominica III de Adventu. IX, 20-28.

4. Feria IV Quatuor temporum de Adventu. IX, 28-39.

5. Dominica IV de Adventu.IX, 39-45.

6. In Nativitate Domini. IX, 45-55.

7. In Sancti Stephani. IX, 55-56.

8. In Innocentibus. IX, 56-60.

9. Dominica infra Octavam Nativitatis. IX, 60-69.

10. In Octava Nativitatis. IX, 69-71.

11. In Vigilia Epiphaniae. IX, 71.

12. In Epiphania. IX, 71-78.

13. Dominica infra Octavam Epiphaniae. IX, 78-95.

14. Dominica II post Epiphaniam. IX, 95-105.

15. Dominica III post Epiphaniam.IX, 105-109.

16. Dominica IV Post Epiphaniam.IX, 109-113.

17. Dominica V post Epiphaniam. IX, 113-120.

18. Dominica in Octava Resurrectionis. IX, 120-126.

19. Dominica II post Pascha. IX, 126-127.

20. Dominica III post Pascha. IX, 127-131.

21. Dominica IV post Pascha. IX, 131-137.

22. Dominica V post Pascha. IX, 137-140.

23. In Litaniis. IX, 140-145.

24. In Die Ascensionis. IX, 145-155.

25. Dominica infra Octavam Ascensionis. IX, 155-157.

26. In Vigilia Pentecostes. IX, 157-160.

27. In Die pentecostes. IX, 160-171.

28. Feria II post Pentecosten..IX, 171-174.

29. Feria III post Pentcosten. IX, 174-175.

30. Feria V post Pentecosten. IX, 175-176.

31. Dominica I post Pentecosten. IX, 176-179.

32. Dominica II post Pentecosten. IX, 179-183.

33. Dominica III post Pentecosten. IX, 183-191.

34. Dominica IV post Pentecosten. IX, 191-199.

35. Dominica V post Pentecosten. IX, 199-201.

36. Dominica VI post Pentecosten. IX, 201-204.

37. Dominica VII post Pentecosten. IX, 204-210.

38. Dominica VIII post Pentecosten. IX, 210-215.

39. Dominica IX post Pentecosten. IX, 215-220.

40. Dominica X post Pentecosten. IX, 220-228.

41. Dominica XI post Pentecosten. IX, 228-229.

42. Dominica XII post Pentecosten. IX, 229-240.

43. Dominica XIII post Pentcosten. IX, 240-244.

44. Dominica XIV post Pentecosten. IX, 244-251.

45. Dominica XV post Pentecosten. IX, 251-253.

46. Dominica XVI post Pentcosten. IX, 253-259.

47. Sabbato post XVII Dom. post Pentcosten. IX, 259-261.

48. Dominica XIX post Pentecosten. IX, 261-265.

49. Dominica XX post Pentecosten. IX, 265-269.

50. Dominica XXII post Pentecosten. IX, 269-274.

51. Dominica XXIII post Pentecosten. IX, 274-279.

52. Dominica XXIV post Pentecosten. IX, 279-292.

53. In Conversione Sancti Pauli. IX, 292-300.

54. In Purificatione Beatae Mariae. IX, 300-305.

55. In Annuntiatione. IX, 305-323.

56. In Nativitate Sancti Ioannis Baptistae. IX, 323-326.

57. In Assumptione Beatae Mariae.IX, 326-331.

58. In Festo Evangelistarum. IX, 331-332.

59. In Nativitate Plurimorum martyrum. IX, 332-338.

60. In Dedicatione Ecclesiae. IX, 338-340.

61. Canticum `Magnificat' IX, 340-344.

Selecta ex Autographa Budapestinensi Edited in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia (…) Studio et Cura Patrum Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 9 Vols. (Ad Claras Aquas/ Quaracchi, 1950-1965), Volume IX.

1. Partialitatum Triplex Culpa Cordis, Oris et Operis. IX, 347.

2. Peccatorum Septem vel Novem gradus. IX, 352.

3. De Morte et Sepultura Animae Peccatricis. IX, 357.

4. Contra Raptores et Officiales et Domini iniusti. IX, 360.

5. Contra Partialitates. IX, 362.

6. De Fide.; Contra Arlias. IX, 368.

7. Amoris Dei, Sui et Proximi 21 Affectus; Item pro Communicantibus. IX, 370.

8. De natura Amoris. IX, 371.

9. De triplici Statu naturae. IX, 373.

10. De Honore Parentum. IX, 374.

11. Yhesus Nomen multipliciter commendatur. IX, 380.

12. Contra Arlias. IX, 384.

13. De Çelotipia Coniugum. IX, 389.

14. de Stipendiariis. IX, 390.

15. De Puellis Gubernandis. IX, 391.

16. De Saccomanno Vite eterne. IX, 392.

17. Dominica II de Adventu. IX, 397.

18. Contra Vanitates Capitis. IX, 399.

19. De Missa quomodo debet audiri. IX, 402.

20. In Festo Omnium Sanctorum. IX, 404.

21. Pro Scholaribus septem discipline. Pro Auditoribus Verbi Dei. IX, 406.

22. Tractatus de Septem tentationibus. IX, 409-419.

23. Quod Denarii assimilantur Muscis. IX, 420.

24. De Domino Tiroço Capitaneo Philocaptorum. IX, 421.

25. De Matrimonio et Uxore Capienda. IX, 425.

26. De Mysteriis Nominis Yhesu. IX, 426.

27. Contro Soddomiam. IX, 427.

Confessio et Pulchritudo [a Summa Confessionis, not included in the Opera Omnia of Quaracchi, because it was at that time not reckoned to be a genuine work of Bernardinus] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 151-176; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 566-587; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 457-474; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III-421-437.

Defensio Sui Ipsius Facta Coram Martino V. [not included in the Opera Omnia of Quaracchi, because it was at that time not reckoned to be a genuine work of Bernardinus] Edited in: E. Bulletti, in: `Vita Inedita di S. Bernardino col testo dell'Autodifesa dall'Accusa di Eresia per la Causa del Nome di Gesù', Boll. di Studi Bernardiniani, 3 (1937), 179-186.

Tractatus de Preceptis Regulae Fratrum [not included in the Opera Omnia of Quaracchi, because it was at that time not reckoned to be a genuine work of Bernardinus] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 591-595; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 478-481; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 440-443.

Litterae: C. Piana, ‘Lettera inedita di S. Bernardino da Siena ed altra corispondenza per la storia del pulpito di S. Petronio a Bologna nel ‘400’, AFH 47 (1954), 54-87.

Latin dubia

(?) Tractatus de Speculo Peccatorum sue De Contemptu Mundi [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 95.] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) III, 543-548; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 587-591; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 474-477; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 437-440.

(?) Tractatus de Mortuis seu Sermo de Morte. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 97] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) III, 503-506; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 509-511; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 410-412; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 377-379.

(?) Sermo de Poenis Damnatorum. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 97] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 108-119; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 517-526; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 416-423; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 383-390.

(?) De Luxuria [two treatises/sermons, see: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 98]

1. Sermo de Luxuria. Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 131-135; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 491-493; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 394-396; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 363-365.

2. Iterum de Luxuria. Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 126-131; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 493-498; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 369-400; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 365-368.

(?) De Satisfactione pro Peccato. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 98] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 135-142; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 503-509; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 405-410; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 373-377.

(?) De Iudicio Extremo. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 99] Edited in: Opera Omnia (Venice, 1591) IV, 142-149; Opera Omnia (Paris, 1635) III, 512-517; Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1650), III, 412-416; Opera Omnia (Venice, 1745²), III, 379-383.

(?) Tractatus de Religione et Utilitatibus eius. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 99] Not edited?? MS Vat.Lat. 1237 f. 174c-181d

(?) Oratio S. Bernardini de Nomine Iesu. [See: De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 101] Not edited? MSS: Vat.Regin. Lat. 156 ff. 12-13; Zürich CLVI ff. 195-197; Vat. Lat. 10099 ff. 73-75; Düsseldorf Stadtsbibl. >>f. 24v; Brussels, 775 f. 13; London, Brisish Museum Harl. 2445 ff. 20-22.

Latin spuria

For the definite spuria, see also De sancti Bernardini Senensis Operibus Ratio Criticae Editionis, ed.D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 102-114.

editions of vernacular works:

Trattato della confessione `Renovamini'; La divota confessione volgare [=`Specchio di confessione']; Trattato dell'amore di Dio, ed. D. Pacetti, in: S. Bernardino da Siena, Opere volgari (Florence, 1938), 47-316.

Il nome di Gesù. Predica volgare inedita, ed. E. Bulletti, in: Bullettino di Studi Bernardiniani, 3-4 (1938), 189-226.

S. Bernardino da Siena, Le prediche volgari: Quaresimale Fiorentino del 1424, ed. Ciro Cannarozzi, 2 Vols. (Pistoia: Pacinotti, 1934). For a different reportatio of these sermons, see the decription of Carlo Delcorno, in ‘Note sulla tradizione manoscritta delle prediche volgari di San Bernardino da Siena’, AFH 73 (1980), 90-123; Alda R. Bart, ‘Frammenti dei quaresimali fiorentini di S. Bernardino da Siena’, Studi Francescani 78 (1981), 251-305. Some sermons of this reportatio have been published by Carlo Delcorno in Bullettino abruzzese di storia patria 70 (1980).

S. Bernardino da Siena, Le prediche volgari: QuaresimaleFiorentino del 1425, ed. Ciro Cannarozzi, 3 Vols. (Florence: Libreria Editrice, 1940).

S. Bernardino da Siena, Le Prediche Volgari: Predicazione del 1425 in Siena, ed. Ciro Cannarozzi, 2 Vols. (Florence: Rinaldi, 1958).

Prediche della settimana santa, Firenze 1425, ed. M. Bartoli (Milan, 1995/Torino: Edizione Paoline, 1996)

On the unedited vernacular sermons held in Assisi (July-September 1425), See D. Pacetti, `La predicazione di S. Bernardino a Perugia e ad Assisi nel 1425', CF, 9 (1939), 494-520 & CF, 10 (1940), 5-28, 161-188. See also Cantini, `Una ignorata redazione…', Bullettino di studi bernardiniani, 2 (1936), 284-300 & Bullettino di studi bernardiniani, 3 (1937), 290-295

Le prediche volgari di San Bernardino dette nella Piazza del Campo l'anno MCCCCXXVII, ed. Luciano Bianchi, 3 Vols. (Siena, 1880-1888) [These are the careful reportationes written by Benedict Bartholomaei (Benedetto Bartolomei)]; Re-edited in: S. Bernardino da Siena, Le prediche volgari, ed. Piero Bargellini (Milan, 1936). Revised and extended edition in: Prediche Volgari sul Campo di Siena, 1427, ed. Carlo Delcorno, 2 vols (Milan, 1989).

Sermoni (37 sermons held at Assisi between July and September 1425 and 36 sermons held at Perugia between September and November 1425). Not edited? For a description of the manuscripts containing them, see: D. Pacetti, ‘La predicazione di S. Bernardino da Siena a Perugia e ad Assisi nel 1425’, Collectanea Franciscana 9 (1939) & 10 (1940).

Quaresimale Padovano (1443). Not edited? For a description of the manuscripts containing them, see: D. Pacetti, ‘Nuove codice di prediche inedite di S. Bernardino da Siena’, Bullettino di studi bernardiniani 1 (1935).

Cf. also: S. Bernardino da Siena, Abbozzi (inediti) di sermoni, ricostruiti sul ms. VII G., 29 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. S.F. Di Zenzo & I. Siggillino (Naples, 1986).

See also the following anthologies: Prose di fede e di vita nel primo tempo dell’Umanesimo, ed. M. Bontempelli (Florence, 1913); Le più belle pagine di Bernardino da Siena, ed. P. Misciattelli (Milan, 1924); Le prediche volgari-Campo di Siena 1427, D. Pacetti (Siena, 1935); Le prediche volgari inedite. Firenze 1424-25; Siena 1425, ed. D. Pacetti (Siena, 1935); Ecco il segno. Antologia dalle prediche in italiano di S. Bernardino, ed. G.V. Sabatelli (Siena, 1974); Novellette, esempi morali e apologhi di S. Bernardino da Siena, ed. Zambrini, Scelta di curiosità letterarie inedite o rare disp. XCVII (Bologna, 1868); Le streghe di Roma, storiella di San Bernardino da Siena non mai fin qui stampata (Imola, 1876/Naples, 1955); La fonte della vita, ed. G.V. Sabatelli (Florence, 1964) and Bernardino da Siena, Favole. Lettura in linguaggio corrente delle prediche a sfondo pedagogico-didattico tenute a Siena nell’estate del 1427. In appendice le favole nella versione volgare originale, ed. Cinzia Bei (Massarosa (Luca), 1999). See on these vernacular sermons also C. Delcorno, ‘Nota sulla tradizione manoscritta delle prediche volgari in San Bernardino da Siena’, AFH 73 (1980), 90-123.

vitae

Barnabas da Siena, Vita Sancti Bernardini, AASS 20 Maii, IV (Venice, 1740), 739-746.

Maffeo Vegio, Vita Sancti Bernardini, AASS 20 Maii, IV (Venice, 1740), 749-766.

Quemdam Fratrem. Vie de S. Bernardin de Sienne. Texte inédit du XVe siècle, ed. F. Delorme (Rome, 1906); Quemdam Fratrem, ed F. van Ortroy, Analecta Bollandiana, 25 (1906), 304-338.

Sante Boncor, Vita di San Bernardino da Siena, ed. S. Gaddoni (Arezzo, 1912).

Vespasiano da Bisticci, Sancto Bernardino da Massa di Maremma, in: Le Vite di uomini illustri, ed. A. Grecco (Florence, 1970); Vespasiano da Bisticci, Sancto Bernardino da Massa di Maremma, ed. L. Bianchi, in: Le prediche volgari di San Bernardino dette nella Piazza del Campo l'anno MCCCCXXVII, ed. L. Bianchi, I. (Siena, 1880), XIX-XXVIII.

L. Benvoglienti, Vita Sancti Bernardini, ed. F. van Ortroy, Analecta Bollandiana, 21 (1902), 53-80.

Baudouin de Gaiffier, ‘La Vie de S. Bernardin du manuscrit de Rouge-Cloître’, Analecta Bollandiana 71 (1953), 282-322.

See also B. de Gaiffier, `Le mémoire d'André Biglia sur la prédication de Saint Bernardin de Sienne', Analecta Bollandiana, 53 (1935), 308-358. [About Andrea Biglia, De Institutis, Discipulis et Doctrina Fratris Bernardini Ordinis Minorum]; Letizia Pellegrini, ‘Miracoli di Bernardini da Siena. A margine del processo di canonizzazione: racconti e scritture’, in: Microcosmi medievali. Atti del convegno svoltosi in occasione della quindecima edizione del ‘Premio internazionale Ascoli Piceno’. Ascoli Piceno, 15-16 febbraio 2002, ed. Enrico Menestò (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2002), 115-183.

major bibliographical works concerning Bernardinus

V. Facchinetti, `Bollettino bibliografico', Aevum, 4 (1930).

B. Stasiewski, Der hl. Bernhardin von Siena. Untersuchungen über die Quellen seiner Biographen(Münster i.W., 1931) [Also: as Franz. Stud., 13 (1950) [=Supplement 13]]

Bollettino di Studi Bernardiani (Siena, 1935-1950)

A. Ghinato, Saggio di bibliografia bernardinia (Rome, 1966).

F.E. Frascadore, `Bibliografia bernardiniana dell'ultimo ventennio', Antonianum, 55 (1980).

Enciclopedia Bernardiniana, I, ed. E. d'Angelo (L'Aquila, 1980)

Collectanea Francescana, Bibliographia>>

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