Ladislaus Marsoni (d. 1506) Beatus (1586)

Polish friar. Entered the order at the age of 16 after hearing a sermon of John Capistran. Known for his commentaries on the OT and NT and for his elevation miracle when preaching.

literature

Wadding, Script., 158; Sbaralea, II, 163; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5342; AFH, 4 (1911), 338; Zawart, 355

Ladislaus de Gielniow (ca. 1440 - 4 May 1505) Beatus (1750)

OFMObs. Polish friar from Gielniow (Poland, Gniezno diocese). Studied theology (?) at the university of Cracow and entered the Polish OBS (1462). Was guardian of the Observant Cracow convent by 1487, at which date he was elected provincial vicar, a post he held until September 1490. Was elected for another term on 24 June 1496 and attended the general chapter of Milan (1498) as provincial vicar of the Polish Observant vicariate. Was famous for his barefooted travels throughout the large Polish vicariate (between 1487-1490 and again after 1496) to visit the various convents. Made a series of new constitutions for the Polish OBS, which were approved on the provincial chapter of Cracow (12 August 1488), and established a several new convents (such as Skepe (Poland,) and Polock (Hungary, 1498). Cf. AFH 63 (1970), 80-82). At the end of his life, Ladislaus was elected guardian of the Warschaw convent in September 1504. Died there on 4 May, 1505. Was highly regarded for his saintly lifestyle and received a cult after his death. This cult received papal approbation by Benedict XIV on 11 February 1750. The same pope named him the patron of Poland and Lithuania on 19 August, 1753. Apparently, the dossier for his official canonisation is still in preparation

Aside from his constitutions, Ladislaus left a substantial number of sermons for sun- and feast days, many of which addressed the passion of Christ and its moral and eschatological implications. In addition, he composed a series of religious songs, to be sung/recited during and after hearing the sermon. Several of these songs (notably Judasz Jesusa sprzedal (Judas has sold Christ) and some songs on the Virgin Mary) became very popular (also helping to bolster Polish antisemitism). He also devised a lengthy devotional exercise (taking up ca. one hour) for after the Vespers, consisting of eight Pater Noster and 72 Ave Maria recitations, interspersed with meditations on the joys and sorrows of the Virgin. According to some bibliographers, Ladislaus is also the author of a penitential manual (Taxatae Poenitentiae Metricae) that concentrates on the appropriate penance for severe vices.

manuscripts

Sermones:>> cf. esp. the study of Kantak

Religious Songs:>> cf. esp. the study of Kantak

Devotional Exercises:>> cf. esp. the study of Kantak

?>>Taxatae Poenitentiae Metricae

vitae

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

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum XV (Quaracchi, 1933) 349-351 (an. 1505, no. 25-30); Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 163; J. Komoroswski, ‘Memoriale Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (…) Specialiter de Provincia Poloniae’, Monumenta Poloniae Historica 5 (Lwow, 1888), 256-258, 266, 291-293; K. Kantak, ‘Les données historiques sur les bienheureux Bernardins (Observants) polonais’, AFH 22 (1929), 444-451; Clément Schmitt, ‘Ladislas de Gielniow’, DSpir IX, 60; Alicja Szulc, “Reduc me in memoriam’. Wokol nurtu pasyjnego sredniowiecznych kazan bernardynskich’, in: Bernardyni na Slasku w poznym sredniowieczu, ed. Jakub Kostowski (Wroclaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, 2005), 157-168. On affective themes and terminology in late medieval Observant preaching, esp. in the sermons of Ladislaw de Gielniow.

Ladislaus Pelbartus (late fifteenth cent.)

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editions

Pomerium Sermonum (1483/Hagenau, 1498/Strasbourg, 1505, Lyon, 1509 & 1514) [etc. At least nine editions until 1515] 

Ladislaus Sappel (1721-1796, Lenzfried)

OFM (1741). Active in the Upper Germany province and later in Lenzfried.

editions

Liber singularis ad formandum gen. conceptum de statu Ecclesiae et Summi Pontificis potestate contra Iustinum Febronium, 4 Vols. (1767-1775).

Geschichte der fortgepflanzten Religion, 3 Vols. (1783).

literature

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

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

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

manuscripts

Sanct Franciscken Leben: Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.o.17a ff. 11v-118r (13th cent.) It amounts to a versified vernacular elaboration of Celano I in 5049 lines. The work, which is one of the oldest surviving pieces of Franciscan literature, did not have a large reception, maybe because of the suppression of the Celano materials after the production of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major.

Tochter Syon: Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum cod. 42563/64 (second half 13th cent.; fragments); Prague, Národní Muzeum cod. X I 13 ff. Ira-XXXIvb (second half 13th cent.); Berlin, mgo 403 (olim Lobris/Schlesien, Gräfliche Nostitzische Bibliothek) ff. 19r-59v (anno 1314); Gießen, Universitätsbibliothek cod. 102 ff. 1r-99v (second half 14th cent.). Amounts to a versified vernacular reworking in 4312 lines of a Cistercian Daughter of Sion treatise (which was repeatedly translated in the vernacular; >? De Languore Animae Amantis/Liber Amoris). It is an allegorical representation of the spiritual marriage or mystical union between the soul (the daughter of Sion) with the heavenly groom (Christ). Lamprecht might have been given access to this Cistercian work by friar Gerard (mentioned in lines 46ff and 140ff), the Franciscan provincial minister of the Upper Germany province. Lamprecht repeatedly refers to the mysticism of female religious in Brabant and Bavaria. For the relationship between Lamprecht’s versified translation and other Latin and German versions of the Daughter of Sion treatise, see Joachim Heinzle, VL² V, 522 and W. Wichgraf (1922).

editions

Sanct Franciscken Leben, edited in: Lamprecht von Regensburgs Sanct Franciscken Leben und Tochter Syon, ed. K. Weinhold (1880), 43-260

Tochter Syon, edited in: Lamprecht von Regensburgs Sanct Franciscken Leben und Tochter Syon, ed. K. Weinhold (1880), 261-544; W. Wichgraf, ‘Der Traktat von der Tochter von Syon und seine Bearbeitung’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 46 (1922), 173-231 (includes an edition of the prose adaptation found in MS Munich Cgm 29 pp. 177-181 (15th cent.)); Kurt Ruh, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 100 (1971), 346-349 has published a fragment of the text that according to him represents the oldest witness of the text. For editions of medieval Dutch versions, see: Van der Dochtere van Syon (Antwerp, 1492) [cf. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke VII, no. 8589], facsimile reprint as Van der Dochtere van Syon, introd. J. van Mierlo (Antwerp, 1941); Van der Dochtere van Syon, ed. J.-M. Willeumier-Schaly, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde 67 (1949), 1-23 [cf. Collectanea Franciscana Bibliographia Franciscana 11 (1954-1957), 256, n. 986. This edition is based on an older text]

literature

W. Wichgraf, ‘Der Traktat von der Tochter von Syon und seine Bearbeitungen’, PBB 46 (1922), 173-231; L. Reypens, ‘Het latijnsche Origineel der Allegorie van der Dochtere van Syon’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 17/2 (1943), 174-178; J. Morson & H. Costello, ‘‘Liber Amoris’. Was it written by Guerric of Igny?’, Cîteaux 16 (1965), 125-135; K. Ruh, ‘Fragmente der Tochter von Syon Lamprechts von Regensburg’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 100 (1971), 346-349; Margo Schmidt, ‘Einflüsse der ‘Regio dissimilitudinis’ auf der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters’, Revue des études augustiniennes 17 (1971), 299-313 (310-313); M. Schmidt, ‘Lambert (Lamprecht) de Ratisbonne’, DSpir 9 (1976), 142-143; N.R. Wolf, ‘Beobachtungen zum ‘Franziskusleben’ Lamprechts von Regensburg’, Franziskanische Studien 60 (1978), 155-167; S. Solf-Maennersdoerffer, in: Seligenthal 1231-1981, ed. G. Busch, Rhenania Franciscana Antiqua 1 (Cologne, 1981), 317-382; M. Schierling, ‘Lamprecht von Regensburg’, NDB 13 (1982), 466; J. Heinzle, ‘Lamprecht von Regensburg’, VL² V, 521-524; Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, My secret is mine. Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages, Studies in Spirituality, Supplement, 4 (Louvain, Peeters, 2000). [with reference to Lamprecht von Regensburg’s  Tochter Syon]; Cornelius Bohl, ‘Belehren und Bekehren. Das ‘Sante Francisken Leben’ des Lamprecht von Regenburg als Zeugnis franziskanischer Bildung, Seelsorge und Frömmigkeit Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland’, in: Europa und die Welt in der Geschichte. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Dieter Berg, ed. Raphaela Averkorn, Raimund Haas & Bernd Schmies (Bochum: Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 2004), 574-592; Edith Feistner, ‘Regensburger Blicke auf einen europäischen Heiligen: Zur mittelhochdeutschen Franziskusvita Lamprechts von Regensburg’, in: Kulturarbeit und Kirche. Festschrift für Paul Mai zum 70. Geburtstag, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Bistums Regensburg, 39 (Regensburg: Pustet Verlag, 2005), 339-348; Edith Feistner, ‘Regionalisierung und Individualisierung in europäischen Dimension: der Blick Lamprechts von Regensburg auf den hk. Franziskus von Assisi’, in: Das mittelalterliche Regensburg im Zentrum Europas, ed. Edith Feistner, Forum Mittelalter. Studien, 1 (Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2006), 177-189.

Landulfus Caraccioli (Landulphus de Mazoriis/first half fourteenth century; doctor collectivus, d. 1355)

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

manuscripts and editions

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

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

Sermones Domenicales/Postilla in Evangelia Domenicalia: Naples, Naz. VIII.AA.16 (??>see Cenci, II, 741-2); Padua Bib. Univ. 1462 (an. 1353) ff. 1r-108r; Assisi?

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

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

Sermones de S.: Clm 8872 (?)

Liber Collationum spiritualium: Vat.Lat>>

Sermones in Quatuor Evangelia (Naples, 1637)

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

Sermones de Exaltatione Crucis:>> Vat. Lat.?

Oratio ad Papam Nomine Reginae Siciliae:>> Vat. Lat. ?

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

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

literature

Wadding, Script., 158; Wadding, Annales Minorum>>; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 163-165; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scotus nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia (Rome, 1927), 67-75; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5365-7; Schneyer, IV, 1-11 [lengthy listing of sermons]; Zawart, 290; D. Scaramuzzi, ‘L’Immacolato concepimento (…)’, Studi Francescani 28 (1931), 33-69; A. Emmen, 'Het getuigenis van Landulphus Caraccioli over Scotus' dispuut van de onbevlekte ontvangenis', Coll. Franc. Neerl. VII (1946), 92-129; Doucet, AFH 47 (1954), 143; G. Mascia, ‘Landolfo Caracciolo (Rossi) da Napoli (d. 1351) e Leonardo De’Rossi da Giffoni (1407), due grandi figure francescane del quattrocento’, Cenacolo serafico (Naples, May-June, 1966); W. Grocholl, Der Mensch in seinem ursprünglichen Sein nach der Lehre Landulfs von Neapel. Edition und dogmengeschichtliche Untersuchung (Munich, 1969); Clément Schmitt, DSpir IX, 194-195; S.D. Dumont, `William of Ware, Richard of Conington and the Collationes Oxonienses of John Duns Scotus', in: John Duns Scotus. Metaphysics and Ethics, ed. L. Honnefelder, R. Wood & M. Dreyer (Leiden, 1996), 66-67; L. Ricciardi, `Manoscritti di Mons. Landolfo Caracciolo', in: La chiesa di Amalfi nel medioevo, 475-482; Chris Schabel, ‘Landulphus Caracciolo and a Sequax on Divine Foreknowledge’, Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 66 (1999), 299-343; Chris Schabel, ‘Landulph Caracciolo and Gerard Odonis on Predestination: Opposite Attitudes toward Scotus and Auriol’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 65 (2002), 62-81; Chris Schabel, ‘Parisian Commentaries from Peter Auriol to Gregory of Rimini, and the problem of predestination’, in: Mediaeval Commentaries on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard. Current Research, ed. G.R. Evans 2 Vols. (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2002) I, 221-265; Christopher Schabel, ‘Landulph Caracciolo’, in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, 24 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003),  409-410.

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

Laureano de la Cruz (17th cent.)

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manuscripts

Descripción de la América Austral: Madrid, Nac. 2950 [Castro, Madrid, no. 177]

literature

Civezza, Saggio (Madrid, 1900), 269-300, no. 325; Sánchez Alonso, Fuentes II, 339, no. 7454; AIA, 4 (1944), 138-9

Laurentius Caraducci (d. ca. 1505)

OMConv. Friar from Fabriano>>

manuscripts

Sermones Festivae et Feriales: Fabriano, Bibl. Conv. S. Francisci, >>?

literature

Zawart, 324

Laurentius (early 14th century)

Provincial minister Terrae Laboris>>>

Laurentius de Ancona (Lorenzo d’Ancona>>>)

Observant friar. Inquisitor.

literature

P. Iocco, ‘Il caso giudiziario di un inquisitore inquisito: fr. Lorenzo d’Ancona (OFM)’, Picenum Seraphicum 22-23 (2003-2004), 11-65.

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

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

manuscripts & editions

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

literature

Manuel de Castro y Castro, Bibliografía hispano franciscana (Santiago, 1994), nn.  6921f, 7040; Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 

Laurentius a Brundusio (Lorenzo da Brindisi, 1559 - 1619) Sanctus

OFMCap. Vicar general of the capuchin order. Propagator of Mary devotion.

editions

Opera Omnia, XV Vols. (Padua, 1928-1956); Thesaurus Laurentii a Brundusio, I: Opera theologica et exegetica. Series A – Formae. Enumeratio formarum. Index formarum a tergo ordinatarum. Index formarum secundum normam collatarum. Tabulae frequentiarum. Concordantia formarum, ed. Paul Tombeur, Paolino Zilio et al., Corpus Christianorum. Thesaurus Patrum Latinorum (Turnhout: brepols, 2005) [see CF 77 (2007), 705f].

Lorenzo da Brindisi (Laurentius de Brundusio), De Rebus Austriae et Bohemiae Commentariolum, edited in: Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 25 (1909).

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

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

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

literature

Anselmo de Legarda, ‘Vestigios clásicos en san Lorenzo de Brindis’, Estudios franciscanos 61 (1960), 389-430; Arturo da Carmignano, San Lorenzo da Brindisi, dottore della Chiesa universale (1559-1619) (Venice-Mestre, 1960-1963); Felix a Mareto, Bibliographia laurentiana, opera complectens an. 1611-1961 edita (Rome, 1962); Giacomo Carlini, ‘S. Lorenzo da Brindisi, Vicario provinciale in Toscana. Riflessioni storico-critiche’, Fra noi 13 (1996), 221-236; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘L’Eucaristia nella vita e nella dottrina di san Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: L’unico Salvatore, 167-181; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: Lexicon. Dizionario dei Teologi, 810-812; Vincenzo Criscuolo, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: Il grande libro dei Santi II, 1215-1218; Alfonso Pompei, ‘Lorenzo da Brindisi’, in: Dizionario di omiletica, 877-878; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La figura e l’opera di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 3-21; Giorgio Basso, ‘Bibliografia laurenziana. Opere su S. Lorenzo da Brindisi scritte dal 1961 al 1999’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 207-221; Paolino Zilio, ‘I manoscritti di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi. Primo approccio’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 23-90; Simonetta Pelusi, ‘Descrizione dei manoscritti laurenziani conservati presso l’Archivio Provinciale dei Cappuccini veneti di Venezia-Mestre’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 91-110; Fabio Gambetti, ‘Filosofia ed ermeneutica biblica in S. Lorenzo da Brindisi: le ‘Dissertationes’ della ‘Explanatio in Genesim’’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 151-170; Claudio Favero, ‘Le note della vera Chiesa nella “Lutheranismi Hypotyposis” di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 171-206; Leny Escalada, ‘The mystery of the Incarnation in the writings of St. Lawrence of Brindisi’, Chronicle (Quezon City, Philippines) 1 (2000), 43-50; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La spiritualità di S. Lorenzo da Brindisi Dottore Apostolico della Chiesa’, Laurentianum 41 (2000), 111-149; Arturo M. de Carmignano, ‘Saint Laurent de Brindes (1559-1619)’, in : Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 71-100; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Saint Laurent de Brindes à Arras en 1602’, in : Idem, Miscellanea IV, 1634-1640 ; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een Nederlandsch Gedicht over S. Laurentius van Brindisi (1783)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea III, 1197-1200; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Amor esponsal de Dios-Trinidad a la virgen Maria siguiendo el ‘Mariale’ de san Lorenzo de Brindis’, : Negotium Fidei. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Mariano D’Alatri in occasione del duo 80° compleanno, ed. Pietro Maraneso, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 67 (Rome-Bravetta, 2002), 287-313; Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart V⁴, 120; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘Le vie della bellezza verso Maria nel Mariale di san Lorenzo da Brindisi’, Collectanea Franciscana 72:1-2 (2002), 231-249; Ferdinando Mastroianni Fiorenzo, Immacolatissima. Maria in san Lorenzo da Brindisi (Naples, 2003); B. de Armelladda, ‘The spirituality of saint Lawrence of Brindisi: apostolic doctor of the church’, Greyfriars Review 17:1 (2003), 85-121; Giacomo Carito, ‘Massimiliano di Baviera e Lorenzo da Brindisi per la pace tra protestanti e cattolici nei paesi d’oltralpe’, Apulia 7 (2005), 200-203; Angelo Catarozzolo, “Padre Brindisi”, apostolo senza frontiere. Riflessioni sulla spiritualità di Giulio Cesare Russo, Padre Brindisi, nel suo itinerario ascetico, culturale, storico (s.l. Cattedra Laurenziana, 2005); Leonardo Lotti, San Lorenzo da Brindisi Dottore della Chiesa, Sentieri, 45 (Terlizzi (Bari): Ed. Insiemme, 2005); Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La Virgen María en tres sermones de San Lorenzo de Brindis’, Naturalezza y Gracia 52 (2005), 359-383; Bernardino de Armellada, ‘La Inmaculada Concepción de la Virgen en s. Lorenzo de Brindis’, in: La ‘Scuola Francescana’ e l’Immacolata Concezione. Atti del Congresso Mariologico Francescano, ed. Stefano M. Cecchin, Studi Mariologici, 10 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, 2005), 427-453; Luis Valbuena, ‘San Lorenzo de Brindis (1559-1619)’, El Mensajero Seráfico 117: 1542 (Madrid, 2005), 256-259.

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

OFMConv. Born in Lauria (Calabria, 10 April 1612). Became a cleric in service of the Policastri convent. After a severe illness, he entered the Franciscan order in the Nola convert, changing his name into Lorenzo. He studied at Lecce, Rutigliano and Bari (also under the Jesuit teacher Vincenzo Colella, 1633-1634). Thereafter he entered the St. Bonaventure Collegium in Rome, where he obtained a doctorate. Following his studies, he taught in several Italian convents (in Aversa, Florence, Ferrare, Bologne, Rome). In and after 1647, Lorenzo was the secretary and assistant of the minister general Michelangelo Catalani. He also functioned for some time as the guardian of the Holy Apostles convent, the home of the minister general. After his renunciation of these positions (which may have been induced by criticisms), he was asked by the minister general Michelangelo d’Albano to embark upon a major Scotist commentary concerning sacramental issues. (Commentaria in quatuor libros Sentent. Mag. Ioannis Duns Scoti), in which can be traced some aspects of the strugle against Jansenism and the contemporary Catholic answer to it in centres like Louvain and Paris. Due to his work on Scotus, Lorenzo obtained the esteem of cardinal Fabio Chigi, who helped him to become professor of theology at the Sapienza (1653), where Lorenzo finished his Epitome Canonum. After Fabio Chigi was elected pope, (Alexander VII, 1655-1667), Lorenzo became counsellor of the Holy Office. More functions and favours followed, both under Alexancer VII and under this pope’s successors: Clement IX, Clement X and Innocent XI. The last-mentioned of these pope made him a cardinal (1681) and librarian  of the Vatican. In the wake of these various functions, Lorenzo wrote several works on mission and became active in several congregations, through which he became involved with several actual debates (regarding the condemnation of the Spanish Quetist Miguel de Molinos, issues of laxism and rigorism etc.), which enticed him to write his Opuscula tria de Deo quoad opera praedestinationis, reprobationis et gratiae actualis. Lorenzo died on 30 November 1693.

editions

Commentaria in tertium et Quartum Librum Sententiarum Mag. Ioannis Duns Scoti, 9 Vols.(Rome, 1653-1665).

Epitome Canonum Omnium Qui in Conciliis Generalibus ac Provincialibus, in Decreto Gratiani, in Decretalibus, in Epistolis, in Constitutionibus Romanorum Pontificum usque as SS. D.N. Alexandri VII Annum Quartum Continentur (Rome, 1659/Venice, 1673/Cologne, 1683/Cologne, 1684/Venice, 1689/Venice, 1706). This work was later re-issued by the Barnabite provincial vicar Gian-Paolo Paravicini: Polyanthea Sacrorum Canonum Coordinatorum, 3 Vols. (Prague, 1708/Cologne, 1728).

Opuscula Octo de Oratione Christiana Ejusque Speciebus, in Tyronum Orantium Gratiam Editam ab Eorum Amantissimo (Rome, 1685/Venice, 1687/Brescia, 1687/Montreuil-sur-Mer, 1891). This work deals with prayer in general, mental prayer, contemplative prayer, explanations of the active and the contemplative life, the nature of acquired contemplative insight, requirements for the contemplative life, infused grace and supernatural support in the contemplative life, and mystic union with the divine.

Opuscula Tria de Deo quoad Opera Praedestinationis, Reprobationis et Gratiae Actualis, in Commodum Tyronum Sancti Augustini Doctrinae Studiosorum Elucubrata (Rome, 1687/Rome, 1770/Rouen, 1705).

Devota ad D. N. Jesum Christum Precatio; Devota Laudis ad SS. Trinitatem Oratio; Gratulatoria Humilis et Devota Oratio ad Omnes Caelestium Civium Ordines; Devota ad Beatam Semper Virginem Mariam Salutatio (Rome, 1688/Rome, 1689/Rome, 1695).

Index Alphabeticus Rerum et Locorum Omnium Memorabilium ad Annales Cardinalis Baronii, ed. Joâo de Lima y Mello (Rome, 1694).

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

literature

B. Commando, Vita Fr. Laurentii Brancati de Laurea Card. Bibl. (Rome, 1698); G. Baba, Vita del cardinalo Lorenzo Brancati (Rome, 1699); DThCat. IX, 13-16; D. Sparacio, ‘Cardinalo Lorenzo Brancati’, Miscellanea Francescana 25 (1925); M.-Th. Disdier, ‘Brancati’, DHGE X, 396-398; R. Ravaschio, ‘De gratia sufficienti et efficaci iuxta Card. Laurentiu Brancati, OFMConv (d. 1693)’, Miscellanea Francescana 49 (1949), 205-247; Giuseppe Pignatelli, ‘Brancati da Lauria, Lorenzo’, DBI 13 (1971), 827-831; Bruno Neveu, L'erreur et son juge (Naples, 1993), 256-259, 291-294, 471-473, 645-651.

Laurentius Brandersen (d. 1496)

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

literature 

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

Laurentius Brito (fl. c. 1340)

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

manuscripts

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

Laurentius de Paris (d. 1631)

OFMCap>>>

editions

Palais de l’amour divin (1599)

literature

C. Bérubé, L’amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfiel et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997).

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

OFMDisc. Member of the San Diego province (Andalucia)

literature

AIA 32 (1929), 58-59; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 141 (no. 514).

Laurentius de Villamagna >>>> beatus

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manuscripts

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

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editions

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literature

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Laurentius Fassanus Viola (fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Scotist theologian.

editions

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

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

OFM. Preacher from the Castilia province.

literature

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

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

OFM. Preacher in the Valencia province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 307; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) XI, nos. 2663-2664; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 124 (no. 382).

Laurentius Guilelmus de Savona/Savoria (Traversagnis, 1425-1503 (1505?))

OFMConv from Savona. Studied at Savona and Padua. Disciple of pope Pius IV. Taught theology in England, Paris, Avignon and in the Austrian lands (a.o. Vienna). First humanist to teach rhetorics in Cambridge. His revised Margarita Eloquentiae Castigatae/Nova Rhetorica, based on lectures delivered at the Universities of Paris and Cambridge, was printed for the first time by Caxton in 1479. Rhetorics is presented as both a liberal art and as an art of preaching. The goal of rhetorics is the promotion of virtue (ethical discipline). He also wrote an Ars Epistolandi, letters, poems, and a variety of theological works. O’Malley (1986) sees the Margarita Eloquentiae Castigatae in the same category as the Ecclesiastes of Erasmus.

manuscripts and editions

Triumphus Amoris D.N.J. Christi [written in London, 1485]: London, Lambeth Library>>

De Arte Metrica: Bloomington Indiana University Library, Poole 118

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

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

Letters and speeches. See Sharpe, Handlist, 364.

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

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

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

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

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

Directorium Humanae Mentis ad Deum (Toulouse, 1462).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

literature

Sbaralea Suppl., II, 167; Zawart, 373; J. Ruysschaert, ‘Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni de Savone, un humaniste franciscain oublié’, AFH 46 (1953), 195-210; J. Ruysschaert, ‘Les manuscrits autographes de deux oeuvres de Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni imprimées chez Caxton’ Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 36 (1953-54), 191-197; J.J. Murphy, ‘Caxton’s Two Choices. ‘Modern’ and ‘Medieval’ Rhetoric in Traversagni’s Nova Rhetorica and the Anonymous Court of Sapience’, Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 3 (1972), 241-255; R.H. Martin, ‘The ‘Epitome Margaritae Eloquentiae’ of Laurentius Guglielmus de Saona’, in: Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section) 14 (1970-1972), 99-187; John O’Malley, ‘Form, Content, and Influence of Works about Preaching before Trent: The Franciscan Contribution’, in: I frati minori tra ‘400 e ‘500, Atti del XII Convegno Internazionale Assisi, 18-19-20 ottobre 1984 (Assisi, 1986), 26-50; D. Luscombe, `The Ethics and the Politics in Britain', in: Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, ed. J. Marenbon (Turnhout, 1996), 345; Sharpe, Handlist, 362-365.

Laurentius Loti (Lorenzo Lotto di Venezia)

Grimaldi Floriano, Oblatio spectabilis viri magistri Laurentii Loti Veneti (Loreto (Brecce), 2002).

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

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

editions

Aureum Sacrorum Hymnorum Opus, 4 Vols (Foligno, 1547).

literature

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

Laurentius Receveur (1757-1788)

OFMConv>>

literature

I. Gatti, `Laurent Receveur OFMConv (1757-1788) scienziato e circumnavigatore', MF, 95 (1995), 605-666.

Laurentius von Schnüffs (Laurentius Martin von Schnifis, 1633-1702)

OFMCap. Preacher and composer of songs.

editions

Laurentius van Schnüffis, Lieder, ed. Berthold Büchele (Vorarlberg, 2002).

literature

Annemarie Geissler, ‘‘Mirantische Wald-Schallmey’, eine Mixtur aus Satire, emblematischer Predigt und Lied-Dichtung des vor 300 Jahren verstorbenen Laurentius von Schnüffs (1633-1702), eines zunächst schweizerischen und hernach vorderösterreichischen Kapuziners’, Helvetia Franciscana 31 (2002), 184-226; ‘Laurentius vin Schnifis (1633-1702). ‘Singspiele zum 300. Todesgedenken’, Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 85 (2002), 76-79; Tine Nouwen, ‘Laurentius von Schnifis (1633-1702) zum 300. Todesgedenken. Festvortrag am 8.1.2002 in Schnifis, Vorarlberg’, Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 85 (2002), 5-8; Gaudentius Walser, ‘2002: Gedenkjahr für Laurentius Martin von Schnifis, 1633-1702’, Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 85 (2002), 168-173; Ruth Gstach, Mirant, Komödiant und Mönch. Leben und Werk des Barockdichters Laurentius von Schnifis (Feldkirch: W. Neugebauer Verlag, 2003) [cf. review in CF 75 (2005), 423-425]; Ruth Gstach, ‘Unbekannte Liederhandschrift im ‘Mirantischen Flötlein’ des Laurentius von Schnüffis’, Montfort: Vierteljahresschrift für Geschichte und Gegenwart Vorarlbergs 57:2 (2005), 151-170; Ruth Gstach, ‘Originalwerke des Barockdichters Laurentius von Schnüffis in deutssprachigen und ausländischen Bibliotheken’, Montfort 57 (2005), 270-285; Ruth Gstach, ‘Himmlisches Paradies und ewige Hölle. Tod- und Jehnseitsvorstellungen im 17. Jahrhundert. Laurentius von Schnüffs und Martin von Cochem’, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80^o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam (Rome: Ed. Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 515-557.

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

OFM. Member of the Quito province.

literature

AIA 20 (1923), 67-68; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 138 (no. 488)

Leo Assisiensis (Leo de Viterbo, d. 13 November 1271) Beatus

Friar from Viterbo (and not from Assisi). One of the close compagnions of Francis of Assisi and also a close friend of Clare of Assisi. Became a point o reference for future generations of Spiritual Franciscans.

editions:

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

Compilatio Assisiensis/Legenda perusina: Compilatio Assisiensis. Scriti di fr. Leone e Compagni, prima edizione integrale dal ms. 1046 di Perugia con versione italiana a fronte, ed. Marino Bigaroni, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana-Chiesa Nuova-Assisi, 2 (Assisi, 1975).

Liber de Intentione S. Francisci/Intentio Regulae & other writings in: Documenta Antiqua Franciscana I: Scripta Fr. Leonis socii S.P. Francisci, ed. L. Lemmens (Quaracchi, 1901), 83-99.

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

Rotula:>>

Flores Trium Sociorum: Several dossiers/reminiscences used by other Franciscan hagiographers (such as Thomas de Celano), that were later reworked in the Legenda Trium Sociorum and in the Fioretti. For the Legenda Trium Sociorum, see: Fontes Franciscani, 1372-1445.

literature

There exists a large body of literature on Leo and the other close compagnions of Francis. Here is only given a small selection of some older studies and texts: Fr. Bartoli de Assisio, Tractatus de Indulgentia S. Mariae de Portiuncula, ed. P. Sabatier (Paris, 1900); Actus B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius, ed. P. Sabatier (Paris, 1902) & Actus B. Francisci et Sociorum Eius ed. Cambell (>>>>); AFH 8 (1915), 12-22; F.C. Burkitt, ‘Scripta Leonis and the Speculum Perfectionis’, in: Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle III (Rome, 1924), 1-24; L. Lemmens, ‘Die Schriften des B. Leo von Assisi’, Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle III (Rome, 1924), 25-48; Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli, Sociorum S. Francisci, ed., trans. & stud. R.B. Brooke (Oxford, 1970); DSpir IX, 631-633; Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Gli autografi di frate Francesco e di frate Leone, Corpus Christianorum Aurographa Medii Aevi, V (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000); Felice Accrocca, ‘L’illetterato e il suo testimone. Considerazioni sull’autografia di Frate Francesco e Frate leone in margine ad un recente volume’, Collectanea Franciscana 72 (2002), 337-355; Tommaso Calió, ‘Leone d’Assisi (Leone da Viterbo)’, DBI 64, 549-552.>>>>>>. For more info, see also the vitae & miracula section [general info, info on Francis, and info on Leo]

Leo de Perego (Leo Valvassori, 1257)

Italian friar and bishop.

literature

Grado Giovanni Merlo, ‘Leone da Perego, frate Minore e arcivescovo’, Franciscana 4 (2002), 29-110; Gli atti dell’arcivescovo e della curia arcivescovile di Milano nel sec. XIII: Leone da Perego (1241-1257). Sede vacante (1257-1262 luglio), ed. Maria Franca Baroni (Milan: Università degli Studi, 2002). Cf. Archivo Stor. Lomb. 8 (2002), 471-473. 

Leo Strohl (18th cent.)

Franciscan preacher>> A. Mangold, Franz. Stud., 12 (1925), 166-169

Leonardus de Porto Mauritio (Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, 1676-1751)

OFMRef. Italian friar. Preacher and missionary>>

editions

San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, Epistolario, ed. Katalin Soltész Frattaioli (Santa Maria degli Angeli (Pg), Edizioni Porziuncola, 2000). [See reviews in Collectanea Francescana 72 (2002), 748f; Frate Francesco 68 (2002), 429-431; Il Santo 41 (2001), 531f.]

Via Cucis>>

literature

AIA 22 (1924), 425-426; Hildeberto Schmidt, ‘Opere complete ed edizioni particolari di s. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio’, AFH 40 (1947), 208-275 & 60 (1967), 164 (nos. 2474-2478); Marino Bigaroni, `Lettere inedite di San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio', AFH, 64 (1971), 172-196; LThK <sup>3</sup>VI 836; Bianca Maria Donatiello & Katalin Soltész, `San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio. Lettere e documenti inediti', Studi Francescani, 94, 3-4 (1997), 353-425; Fabio Berti, an Leonardo, testimone di speranza’, Frate Francesco 65 (1999), 24-29; Leonardo García Aragón, Concordancias de los propósitos de San Leonardo de Puerto Mauricio (Guatemala, Iglesia de la Recolección, 2000); Giovanni Bensi, Fra Leonardo da Porto Maurizio  padrone dei cuori di Roma. Dai Santi Ritiramenti nel Palco di Prato alle prediche romane per il Giubileo di Benedetto XIV (1750) (Prato, Santa Maria del Giglio, 2000); Luciana Maria Mirri, ‘Il metodo missionario di s. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, del b. Bartolomeo [Maria] Dal Monte [ofs † 1778] e di s. Elia Facchini [ofm † 1900]’, Vita Minorum 60 (2000), 226-244; Luiz Pérez Simón, ‘San Leonardo de Porto Mauricio. Presbítero franciscano (1676-1751)’, in: Nuevo Año cristiano (Madrid: EDIBESA, 2001-2002) XI, 453-455 (26 Nov.); Katalin Soltész Frattaioli, ‘Appunti di san Leonardo da Porto Maurizio per le missioni di Roma (1749) in preparazione dell’anno giubilare 1750’, Frate Francesco 69 n.s. (2003), 149-154; Cesare Vaiani, La Via Crucis di san Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (Milan: Edizioni Glossa, 2003); Sanleonardiana. Per la bibliografia di S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (1676-1751), ed. Giovanni Bensi (Rome: Ecogeses, 2004); Cesare Vaiani, La Via Crucis di San Leonardi da Porto Maurizio (Milan: Edizioni Glossa, 2003) [cf. Review in Il Santo 46/1-2 (2006), 296-297; Dario Busolini, ‘Leonardo da Porto Maurizio, santo’, DBI 64, 437-439.

Leonardus de Cremona (Leonardus Mainardus, early fifteenth century)

Active in Bologna. Might be the compilor of a Compilatio Artis Mensurativae Practicae

manuscripts

Compilatio: Rome, Bibl. Boncompagni 302 (14th cent.) & 303 (15th cent.)

See also MSS Ambr. J. 253 inf. and Parma Parm. 984.

literature

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

Leonardus de Grifonio (de Ciffono, di Rossi, de Giffono, de Jovis Fano, de Rubeis; c. 1335/40 - 1407/15)

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

manuscripts

Grifonio’s works related to the schism (esp. Utrum Via renuntiationis (1395) & Ex Septuplici Medio (1398)), have been studied and edited by Clément Schmitt in AFH 50 (1957) & 51 (1958). [Also lists manuscripts; a.o. MS Grenoble, Bibl. Municipale 988]

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

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

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

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

literature

Wadding, Script., 159; Wadding, Annales Minorum VIII (ed. Quaracchi, 1932), 327 (n. 19); Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 172-173; DThC IX (1926), 396-397; C. Schmitt, ‘La position du cardinal Léonard de Giffoni, O.F.M., dans le conflit du Grand Schisme d’Occident’, AFH 50 (1957), 273-331 & 51 (1958), 25-72, 410-472; Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (Cambridge, 1963), 257-258; G. Mascia, ‘Landolfo Caracciolo (…) e Leonardo De’Rossi da Giffoni, due grandi figure francescane del quattrocento’, Cenacolo serafico (Naples, May-June, 1966); Stegmüller, RB, III, 5390; Catholicisme VII (1969), 364-365; Clément Schmitt, ‘Léonard de Giffoni’, DSpir IX, 644-646.

Leonardus de Reutlingen>>

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manuscripts

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

Leonzinus de Arimino († ca. 1389)

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

literature:

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

Leopoldus Bebenbergius ? (sive Lupoldus Babenbergius?)

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editions

Tractatus de iure Regni et Imperii Romanorum & Libellus de Zelo Christiane Religionis Veterum Principium Germanorum, ed. in prep. Christoph. Flüeler>>

Leopoldus de Gaicho (Giovanni Croci/Leopoldo da gaiche, d. 1815)

OFMRif

literature

Serena Veneziani, ‘Leopoldo da Gaiche (al secolo Giovanni Croci)’, DBI 64, 667f.

Leo Valvasorius de Peregro (d. 1257)

Provincial minister of Milan. Famous preacher during the 1233 Alleluia. Archbishop of Milan in 1241. did some of his work survive?

literature

Sbaralea>>> ; M.P. Alberzoni, Francescanesimo a Milano nel Duecento, Fonti e Richerche 1 (Milan: Ed. Biblioteca Francescana, 1991), 168; Grado Giovanni Merlo, ‘Leone da Peregro, frate Minore e arcivescovo’, Franciscana 4 (2002), 29-110; Gli atti dell’arcivescovo e della curia arcivescovile di Milano nel sec. XIII, IV: Leone da Peregro (1241-1257). Sede vacante (1257 ottobre –1262 luglio), ed. Maria Franca Baroni et al. (Milan: Università degli studi, 2002).

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

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editions

Summarium super Non Remotione Cultus>>

literature

Arnaldo Sancriccia, ‘La ‘Genealogia delle Provincie de’Beati e Santi della Religione di s. Francesco’. Un’Opera a stampa attribuita a Fra’ Mariano da Firenze nel Summarium super non remotione cultus’ di s. Liberato da Loro’, Picenum Seraphicum 24 (2005), 147-189.

Liberatus Weiss (d. 1716)

OFMRef

literature

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

Libertus de Broeckem (Broekom; ca. 1420-1506)

Friar of the Cologne province.>>

literature 

>>De Troeyer, Bio-Bibl. Franc. Neerl. Ante Saec. XVI, I. 170-187.

Livius Brechius (Lieven de Brecht/Livius Brechtanus/Livinus Brechtanus, c. 1515-c. 1660)

OFM. Belgian friar. Born at Antwerp around 1515. Studied at Louvain, and entered in the Franciscan order at the Observant convent of Louvain. Became a renowned preacher as well as an esteemed author of Latin poetry and tragedies.  At the same time staunch defender of Franciscan poverty. He died as the guardian of the Mechelen (Malines) convent in 1558 or 1660.

manuscripts/editions

Euripides, Tragoedia Christiana, de Vitae Humanae Inconstantia (Louvain, 1549/Louvain, 1550/Cologne, 1555/Cologne, 1556). An expanded edition, with additional poems came out as Euripides, Tragoedia Christiana, de Vitae Humanae Inconstantia, cum Appendice Selectorum Aliquot Carminum (Cologne, 1568). This tragedy was performed at the Faucon college of Louvain university, where Lieven de Brecht had studied himself.

Sylvia Piorum Carminum (Louvain, 1555). A collection of religious poetry.

Carmen Natalicium: MS Brussels, Royal Library>>

Epistola ad Ansonium: MS Brussels, Royal Library>>

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

Memorabilis Historia Martyrum (Louvain, 1551). A compilation of martyr histories.

Vita B. Christinae Mirabilis (>>>). A reworking of the work of Thomas of Cantimpré. Lost?

literature

J.-N. Paquot, Mémoire pour servir à L’histoire littéraire XI (Louvain, 1768), 402-404; P. Hoffman-Peerlkamp, ‘De vita ac doctrina omnium Belgarum qui latina carmina composuerunt’, Mémoires couronnés de l’Académie Royale de Belgique 2 (Brussels, 1822), 55;  Idem, De Poetis Latinis (Haarlem, 1838), 60; Biographie nationale de Belgique II, 913; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères mineurs de l’Observance de Saint-François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 79-81; Holzapfel, Handbuch, 586; Lindenboom, ‘Anna byns en haar invloed in katholieke kringen’, Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis 11 (Den Haag, 1914), 324-331; Ons Geestelijk Erf 7 (1933), 361; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 98-100; F. Baix, ‘Brecht’, DHGE X, 483; B. De Troeyer>>>>?

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

Observant friar.

literature

Dario Busolini, ‘Galanti, Livio’, DBI 51, 343-344

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

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

Lope Monte (fl. 15^th cent.)

OFM. Poet in the Castilia province.

literature

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

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

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

manucripts/editions [some of the works mentioned below are probably not of Lopez himself, but of some of his fellow friars in the Villacrez movement]

Memoriale Religionis/Memorial de los oficios activos y contemplativos de la religión de los frailes menores, ed. in Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1958), 687-713.

Memorial de la vida y ritos de la Custodia de Santa Maria de los Menores, Ibidem, 714-746.

Constituciones, Ibidem, 747-774.

Satisfacciones I, Ibidem, 775-851.

Satisfacciones II, Ibidem, 852-896.

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

Memorial contra las laxaciones y abusiones de prelados y súbditos, Ibidem, 926-931.

Declaración de un pasaje de la regla que dice: ‘Donde quiera que los frailes sepan e conozcan que no pueden guardar la Regle espiritualmente, puedan et deban recurrir a sus ministros’, Ibidem, 932ff.

Instrucción sobre la misa/Instrucción sobre el modo de oir devotamente la misa, Ibidem, 936-945.

>> Collationes Spirituales [Wadding, >>; Zawart, 344]

literature

Introducción a los orígenes de la Observancia en España. Las reformas en los siglos XIV y XV, pubblicaciones de `Archivio Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1958); M. Andrés Martin, Historia de la teologia en España, 1470-1570 (Rome, 1962), 91-97, 101-106, 110-111, 124-129; DSpir IX, 993-996.

Lucas Baglioni (Luca Baglioni, fl. later sixteenth cent.)

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editions

L’arte del predicare contenuta in tre libri, secondo i precetti rhetorici (Venice: A. Torrisano, 1562).

literature

John O’Malley, ‘Form, Content, and Influence of Works about Preaching before Trent: The Franciscan Contribution’, in: I frati minori tra ‘400 e ‘500, Atti del XII Convegno Internazionale Assisi, 18-19-20 ottobre 1984 (Assisi, 1986), 44.

Luca Belludi (Lucas de S. Antonio; Lucas de Padua; d. 1287) beatus (1927)

Born ca. 1195 in Padua (correct? Are we dealing with one or two Lukes?One Lucas de Padua lector and preacher (d. 1287) and a Lucas Belludi de Padua, socius S. Antonii (d. 9 June 1285: Cf. Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 1178 (n. 2611)) . Entered the Franciscan order in 1220, when he probably had spent some years at the schools of Padua. Was ordained priests and came in contact with St. Anthony (one of his close companions) After Anthony's death Luca was one of the editors of his sermons. Also author of Sermones Dominicales and Sermones de Adventu et Festivis of his own. Famous preacher, lector and several times provincial minister (1267, 1281-1284)

manuscripts

Sermones Dom. & Sermones de Fest.: Padua Anton. Mss 417, 418, 419, and partly also in 466 and 527; Clm 14281

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

editions

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

literature

AF, IV (1906), 274; Wadding, Annales, IV (Quaracchi, 1931), 335n.X; Schneyer, IV, 72-94; A. Blasucci, `Belludi, beato', Bibliotheca Sanctorum, II, 1085f.; Antonio Rigon, ‘Una ignorara deposizione testimoniale del B. Luca Belludi (1275)’, Atti e Memorie dell’Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 90 (1977-1978), 43-51.

Lucas Espinosa (fl. c. 1750)

OFM. Latinist and philologist in the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 38 (1935), 81-82; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 110 (no. 289).

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

French Recollect friar and painter. Known for his altar pieces and other religious paintings executed in France and Canada.

literature

Ch.-Ph. De Chennevières-Pointel, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de quelques prêtres provinciaux de l’ancienne France (Paris, 1847-1862) III, 305-306; H. Lemay, ‘Un peintre de renom à Quebec en 1670: le diacre Luc François, récollet’, Royal Society of Canada Transactions 3^rd s., 26 (1932), 65-82; Gérard Morisset, La vie et l’oeuvre de Frère Luc (Quebec, 1944); Dictionary of Canadian Biography I (Toronto-Qquebec, 1966), 312-315; R. Aubert, ‘François (Claude), dit Frère Luc’, DHGE XVIII, 796.

Lucas de Bitonto (Lucas Bituntinus/Lucas Apulus d. in or shortly after 1242)

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

manuscripts

Sermones Dominicales, Quadragesimales et de Festis: a.o. MS Naples, VIII.A.6; VIII.A.14; VIII.AA.36; Paris BN Lat 3738 (?); Paris BN Lat. 15958; Paris, BN Nouvelles Acquisitions 410; Rome Casanat 17; S. Florian 226 & 352; Padua, Sacro Conv. 417 & 418 & 419 13th cent.) & 527 (14th cent.); Uppsala, UB, C. 634 (ca. 1450), ff. 43-48 & C. 665 (ca. 1400) ff. 45-46v; Rome, BAV Chigi C.VI.164; BAV Vat. Lat 6010; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 1356 (13th c.); MS Avignon, B.M., Lat 83 (The prologue on f. 3a: ‘Quare cum insufficentiam meam videam et impericiam cognoscam ad insipientiam mihi mandato superioris urgente, necnonet quorumdam fratrum desiderio impellente, opusculum sermonum dominicalium coactus sum annotare.’ probably refers to the request by the Franciscan minister general Elia da Cortona, Luke’s provincial minister and fellow friars by 1233 to put into writing his sermons for the instruction of the friars:therewith turning the spoken word into an authorised Latin text.); Würzburg, Franziskanerkloster cod. I.85; Florence, Bibl. Naz. Conv. Soppr. C-7-236 [=Laurenz. Plut. XXXIV Sin Cod 5; [; >>>more than 100 mss? For an initial overview (that probably will change somewhat after further study), see Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, BGPhThM XLIII (Münster, 1972) IV, 49-71.

Semones Domenicales (s.l., 1483)

editions

Sermones Dominicales, Quadragesimales et de Festis (s.l. 1483) [a copy of this incunable edition is found in the Public library of Bruges, Belgium (Stedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek).

The prologue to the Sermones Dominicales (Narraverunt mihi iniqui) has been edited in: B. Sderci da Gaiole, L’apostolato di S. Francesco e dei francescani, I (Quaracchi, 1909), 374-381; A. Barzon, ‘Saggio dei sermoni di frate Luca’, Il Santo 1,4 (1930), 348-357; Moretti, Lucas Apulus, 162-172. The sermon for the first Sunday of Advent (Universe vie Domini) has been edited in A. Barzon, ‘Saggio dei sermoni di frate Luca’, Il Santo 3 (1930), 77-88. The sermon for sexagesima Sunday (Exiit qui seminat) has been edited in C. Delcorno, ‘La predicazione volgare in Italia (sex. XIII-XIV): teoria, produzione, ricezione’, Revue Mabillon 65 (1993), 104-105. The sermon for Ash Wednesday (In domo pulueris) and of the Feria VIa after the first Sunday of the Passion (Domine, omes, qui) can be found in Moretti, Lucas Apulus, 187-190, 190-196. A complete edition of Luke’s sermons is presently being prepared by Rasolofoarimanana

literature

Wadding, Script., 162; Sbaralea, Supplement II, 174-175; Zawart, 285; B. Sderci, L’apostolato di S. Francesco e dei Francescani (Quaracchi, 1909), 372-381; G. Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa I, 97, 99, 109, 128-129, 135 & II, 283-284; R. Zanocco, ‘I Sermoni ‘Narraverunt’ sono del b. Luca Belludi?’, Il Santo 1 (1929), 337-343; L. Guidaldi, ‘Due codici sconosciuti del sermoni di fr. Luca’, Il Santo 1 (1929), 344-347; A. Barzon, ‘Saggio dei Sermoni ‘Narraverunt’ (…)’, Il Santo 1 (1929), 348-357 & 3 (1930), 77-88; L. Guidaldi, ‘Il vero autore dei Sermoni ‘Narraverunt’, Il Santo 3 (1930), 59-76; A. Murray, ‘Piety and impiety in thirteenth century Italy’, Popular Belief and Practice, Studies in Church History 8 (Cambridge, 1972), 83-106; Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 49-71; D. Forte, Itinerari Francescani in terra di Bari (Bari, 1973), 12-15, 2611-263; Pierre Péano, ‘Luc de Bitonto’, DSpir IX, 1121-1122; David L. D’Avray, The Preaching of the Friars. Sermons diffused from Paris before 1300 (Oxford, 1985), 156; Felice Moretti, Luca Apulus, un maestro francescano del secolo XIII (Bitonto, 1985); Felice Moretti, ‘I sermoni di Luca da Bitonto fra cattedra e pulpito’, Il Santo 40 (2000), 49-69; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Une interpolation dans un sermon de Noël de Luca de Bitonto, OMin. survenue au cours de la tradition manuscrite’, AFH 95 (2002), 185-203; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Luc de Bitonto, Omin, et ses sermons’, in: Predicazione e società nel medioevo. Riflessione etica, valori e modelli di comportamento/Preaching and Society in the Middle Ages: Ethics, Values and Social Behaviour, Atti/Proceedings of the XII Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium Padova, 14-18 Iuglio 2000, ed. Laura Gaffuri-Riccardo Quinto (Padua, 2002), 239-247; F. Moretti, ‘I sermoni di Luca da Bitonto, francescano del Duecento’, in: Studi di storia sociale e religiosa, 39-60; N. Pice, ‘I “Sermones LXXVI e XXXI” di Luca da Bitonto’, in: Studi di storia sociale e religiosa, 61-79; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Luca da Bitonto e Servasanto da Faenza. Sermoni contenuti nel Cod. Vat. Lat. 6010’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Caciotti & Pacifico Sella (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002), 171-262; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘Sermons anonymes de Sanctis attribués à Luca de Bitonto, Omin’, AFH 96:3-4 (2003), 301-372; Jean Désiré Rasolofoarimanana, ‘La tradition manuscrite des sermons de fr. Luca de Bitonto, OMin.’, AFH 97 (2004), 229-274 & 99 (2006), 33-132.

Lucas de Sansepolcro (d. 1517)

OMConv [see also Luca Pacioli, CF, Bibl. 18 n. 2232!]

editions

Traité des comptes et des écritures, ed. P. Jouanique (Paris, 1995) [=Tractatus XI of his Summa de Arithmetica]

literature

J. Richard Edwards & B.S. Yamey, in: Accounting, Business and Financial History, 4 (1994), 1-235; A. Donnini, Studi Franc., 92 (1995), 127-141

Lucas de San Gemignano (fl. second half 15^th cent.)

A friar who, between 1442 and 1494, carried a notebook around, in which he copied prophecies, trying thus to understand his own time and to unravel the mysteries of the future.

manuscripts

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Magl. X, no. 50, provenienza Strozzi. 4o, #652.

literature

Marjorie Reeves, Prophecy, 434.

Lucas de San José Angulo (fl. first half 18^th cent.)

Probably a native from Granada, Nicaragua and a preacher in that area. His Ensayo devoto de la muerte refer to him as a friar who had studied in the Colegio de Cristo Crucificado de Guatemala.

manuscripts

Siete Tomos de Sermones de Tempore y de Sanctis

Doctrinas Morales

Tratados de ortografía y de retórica

editions

Ensayo devoto de la muerte, para estar el Christiano bien prevenido, quando se llegare su Muerte verdadera (Guatemala, 1724).

literature

J.M. Beristain y Souza, Biblioteca Hispano Americana Septentrional, 5 Vols (Mexico, 1816-1821/Amecameca, 1883/Mexico, 1947), >>; D. Sánchez García, Catálogo de los escritores franciscanos de la Provincia Seráfica del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala (Guatemala, 1920), 9; G. Valenzuela, La imprenta en Guatemala (Guatemala, 1933), 110; Eleanor B. Adams, A Bio-bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America (Washingthon D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 9.

Lucas Franciscus Assisiensis (fl. c. 1428)

Italian friar. Bacc. Sententiarum in Paris in 1422. Received the licence in 1426 and became magister on 20 october 1427. Regent master between 1427 and 1429. [CHUP IV, 447 no. 2264; 478 no. 2315; 486 no. 2331; 592 no. 2491; Paris BN 5494 f. 78; Paris BN Lat. 5657a f. 16v] Taught some form of Scotism as regent master of the Franciscan studium. Among his students were Gerard Feuleti (Seuleti) and Guillelmus Vorilongus. After 1429 he returned to Assisi. Became guardian of the Assisi convent and inquisitor for the valley of Spoleto in Umbria.

manuscripts

In I-IV Sent.: Assisi Bibl. Com.>> [check!]

literature

Wadding, Scriptores 160; Gonzaga, De Origine Seraph. Rel., 83; Sbaralea Supplementum II, 174; Murphy, ‘A History of the Franciscan Studium Generale at the University of Paris in the Fifteenth Century’, Diss. U. of Notre Dame (Notre Dame Indiana, 1965), 130, 240

Lucas Pacioli (Luca Pacioli, c. 1445-1514)

Italian friar, mathematician.

editions

Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (Venice, 1494/Venice, 1523)

Tractatus de Computu

La Divina Proportione (Venice, 1503); La Divina Proportione, ed. C. Winterberg (Vienna, 1889/reprint 1950).

Tractatus Mathematicus ad Discipulos Perusinos, ed. G. Calzoni & G. Cavazzoni (Perugia-Città di Castello, 1996).

De Viribus Quantitatis: MS. Bologna, Archiginnasio 173.

De Ludis in Genere/De Scacchis/Schifanoia

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II 176-178; L. Pungileone, ‘Cenni sulla vita ed opere di Fra Luca Paciolo’, Giornale Arcadio 62-64 (Rome, 1834-35); F; Barciulli, Memorie intorno a fra Luca Paciolo e Pietro della Francesca (Rome, 1852); E. Narducci, Intorno a due edizioni della Somma di arithmetica di fra Luca Pacioli (Rome, 1863); G. Mancini, ‘‘De Corporibus Regularibus’ di Pietro Franceschi detto Della Francesca, usurpata da fra Luca Pacioli’, Memorie della classe di scienze morali e filosofiche della Regia Accademia dei Lincei ser. 5, 114 (1916); A. Agostini, ‘Il ‘De viribus quantitatis’, di Luca Pacioli’, Periodico di matematica 4 (1924); A. Agostino, ‘Sopra un preteso plagio di Luca Pacioli’, Archivio di storia della scienza 6 (1925); D. Ivano Ricci, Fra Luca Pacioli, l’uomo e lo scienziato (Sansepolcro, 1940) Reviw of this work by L. Di Fonzo, in Miscellanea Francescana 62 (1943), 294; Robert Emmet Taylor, No Royal Road: Luca Pacioli and His Times (Chapel Hill, 1942) Review by L. Di Fonzo in Miscellanea Francescana 66 (1947), 623; O. Puletti, Fra Luca Pacioli e le sue opere (Viterbo, 1955); G. Calzoni, ‘L’insegnamento della matematica applicata agli affari nel secolo XV a Perugia: l’inedito ‘Tractatus mathematicus ad discipulos perusinos’’, Rivista di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale (1992); G. Cavazzoni, ‘Tractatus mathematicus ad discipulos perusinos’, Rivista di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale (1992); Maria Paola Negri, ‘Luca Pacioli e Daniele Gaetani. Scienze matematiche e retorica nel Rinascimento’, Annali Bibl. Statale e Libreria Civica di Cremona 45 (1994), 11-144; Ambrogio Donnino, ‘Fra Luca Pacioli: memoria di un annoversario’, Studi Francescani 92 (1995), 143-148; Cynthia M. Pyle, Milan and Lombardy in the Renaissance. Essays in cultural history (Rome, 1997), passim; Luca Parisoli, Volontarismo e diritto soggettivo. La nascita medievale di una teoria dei diritti nella scolastica francescana. Con prefazione di Andrea Padovani, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 58 (Rome, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 1999); .

Lucas Parisiensis

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manuscripts

Postilla: MS Prague, National Museum XIV B 7 (cat. no. 3428) [Liber venerabilis Luce doctoris fr. Minorum scriptura a.d. 1412 et per procopium, plebanum in Skopecz, comparatus]. Inc. Narraverunt mihi iniqui…

Lucas Ramírez Galán (1715-1774)

OFM. Friar from the Los Angeles province. Bishop of Cartagena (1761-1769), and thereafter bishop of Chiapa, Santa Fe de Bogotá y Tuy. Died in ofice in 1774.

literature

AIA 25 (1926), 215, 240, 241-244; Manuel Rodriguez Pazos, ‘El obispo P. Lucas Ramirez Galán, OFM (1715-1774)’, AIA 2 (1942), 281-306; AIA 15 (1955), 407-409; AIA 31 (1971), 338-339, 356; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 168 (no. 708).

Lucas van der Heij (fl. c. 1508-1520)

Franciscan friar from Holland, active in Leiderdorp, Diest and Emmerik. He published in 1508 a Dutch translation of the Stimulus Amoris (which Lucas still ascribed to Bonaventure) under the title Den Prickel der Minnen Gods (Leyden: Jan Severszoon, 1511). In 1517, he publishes Den spinrocken ghegeven voer een nyeuwe iaer den religiosen ioncfrouwen van mariendael binnen diest mitten naycorf, samen met een Sermoen van de Moeder ons Heeren op een gedaente van een naycorf (Leyden: Jan Seversz., 1517). These texts were based on sermons held before the female Augustinians of Mariëndaal (Diest). Around 1520, he produced een Bouxken van den Oflaeten (Leyden: Jan Seversz, c. 1520), which was based on a sermon held in the Calvary monastery of Emmerik in 1518.

literature

W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 76-78, 90; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 25-26.

Lucas Wadding (1588-1657)

OFMRec. Franciscan historian, editor and diplomat. Born in Ireland (Waterford) in an affluent Irish Catholic family. Studied at the Irish college in Lissabon and entered the Franciscan order at Matozinhos in 1604. Further studies in Leiria, Lissabon, Coïmbra (under Suárez). He taught for a short while at León and thereafter at Salamanque (1618).

Sent to Rome in 1618 as theological counsellor of the Spanish ambassey; active in the struggle against Jansenism, and engaged in providing a definition of the doctrine of the immaculate conception. Very active in Rome for the Franciscans in general and for the Irish in particular (also for the Irish cause (the confederation of Kilkenny)). In 1625, he founded the St. Isidor College, which quickly became a renowned centre of Scotist studies. Highly respected in papal circles yet refused to become bishop and cardinal. (check)>>

Well-known for his Annales Ordinis Minorum; his works on Saint Francis; his editions of Scotus (from 1639 onwards), replete with the commentaries of Francesco Lechetto (Lychetus), Anthony Hickey (Hicquaeus) and Hugh McCaghwell (Cavellus); his Scriptores Ordinis Fratrum Minorum; his works on the immaculate conception.

Oeuvres>>> a.o.:

B.P. Francisci Assisiatis Opuscula (Antwerp, 163); Annales Minorum (latest ed: Quaracchi, 1931-1933), 17 Vols; Opera Omnia of Duns Scotus (Lyon, 1639, Paris (Vives, 1891-1895) 26 vols.; Immaculatae Conceptioni B. Mariae Virginis non adversari ejus mortem corporalem (Rome, 1655); De redemptione B. Mariae Virginis (Rome, 1656); De Baptismo B. Mariae Virginis (Rome, 1656); Scriptores Ordinis Minorum (Rome, 1650; latest ed. 1906).

literature

Vita Fratris Lucae Waddingi, ed. F. Harold (Quaracchi, 1931 (third ed.); Atanasio López, ‘Correspondencia epistolar de Waddingo con el P. Fr. Jerónimo de San José, carmelita’, AIA 15 (1921), 219-225; B. Jennings, Wadding Papers 1614-1638, Irish Manuscript Commission (Dublin, 1955); F. Casolini, Luca Wadding, l'analista dei Francescani (Milan, 956); B. Pandzic, `Gli Annales Minorum de P. Luca Wadding', Studi Francescani, 54 (1957), 275-287; C. Mooney, `The Writings of Fr. Luke Wadding', Franciscan Studies, 18 (1958), 225-239; Father Luke Wadding Commemorative Volume (Dublin, 1957) [a.o. Manuel de Castro, ‘Wadding and the Iberian Peninsula’, pp. 119-170]; Manuel de Castro, ‘El analista P. Lucas Wadding, OFM (1588-1657) y sus relaciones con la Península Ibérica’, Salmanticensis 5 (1958), 107-162; M. O'Carrol, `Wadding', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1281-3; Justin Lang, ‘Wadding, Lucas’, LThK³ X, 918; Herman H. Schwedt, ‘Wadding, Luke’, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XIII, 139-146; Ignatius Fennesey, ‘Printed Items among the Wadding Papers (FLK, MS D 1-10 and others)’, in: Coll. Hibernica 39-40, 32-95 [papers in the Franciscan library of Killiney]; Maria Gabriela Oliveira, ‘A reedição dos ‘Annales Minorum’ de Lucas Wadding e a figura de Fr. Joseph Maria da Fonseca e Évora, in: Frei Marcos de Lisboa: cronista franciscano e bispo do Porto. Actas do Colóquio patrocinado por la Facultade de Letras do Porto, Série ‘Linguas e Literaturas’, 12 (Porto: Centro Interuniversitario de Historia da Espiritualidade – Istituto de Cultura Portuguesa, 2002), 93-104; Joseph MacMahon, 'Irish Franciscan Scotists of the Seventeenth Century', Canterbury Studies in Franciscan History 2 (2009), 85-112.

Lucio Ferrarensis (d. 1763)

Franciscan canonist>>

editions

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literature

Dict. Droit Canonique, 5 (Paris, 1953), 831; >>>

Ludolphus Nicolai (d. 1541)

OFMObs. Friar from Zwolle (Netherlands). Vicarius in Kampen (1530) and Brussels (1540). Spiritual author. His works show a heavy didactical approach, and aim to instill in every christian the proper moral and ascetical dispositions, as well as a proper understanding of the workings of divine love. 

editions

Dit is een oeffeninghe ende verclaringhe van dat eerste en alder opperste ghebot der liefden Gods (waer toe alle kersten menschen die tot haren jaren van discretien, oft tot volcomen gebruyck der reden ghecomen zijn verbonden zijn somtiden metten wercken te volbrenghen). Het is ghemaect eerst in latijn ende na in duytsche vanden eerweerdighen pater, broeder Ludolphus Nicolai van zwol (Antwerp: Willem Vorsterman, before 1540 (2x))

Die beduydinghe der Missen nae die meyninghe der heyliger Apostelen, ende der discipulen Christi, ende van die oude ende eerste Doctoren der heyligher kercken. Ende die drie oeffeninghen der missen. Waerom die Misse ende dat ambacht der missen alder eerst vanden heyligen Apostelen ingheset is, ghenomen wt die oudste doctoren der heyliger Kercken, te weten: Dionisius, Origenes, Chrysostomus, Augustinus, Gregorius, Gelasius, Rupertus, ende meer andere. Ghemaect vanden Eerwaerdighen Pater Broeder Ludolphus (Antwerp, 1530/Antwerp, 1551/Antwerp, 1554/Louvain, 1568/etc.)  [A detailed vernacular mass explanation, independent from and more thorough that the famous Boexken vander Missen of Gerardus de Gouda.]

Een tractaetken van vier wercken der liefden dye Christus aent cruyce volbracht heeft daer hem oock een kersten mensche dicwil in sal oeffenen bisonder onder die misse ghemaect ende ghepreect vanden selven Pater Ludolphus vice-gardiaen van de minderbroederen van Brussele (Antwerp: Weduwe van Hendrik Petersen, 4 April, 1551/Antwerp: Weduwe van Hendrik Petersen, 24 April, 1554/Louvain: Jan Bogaerts, 1568) [This work presents Christ’s four works of love, namely the: Versoeninghe van die heel werelt; Gesontmakinge van alle geestelike crancheden; Heilichmakinghe van die heel kersten kercke; Een versadinghe van alle goddelijcker begheerten. The work concludes with a prayer, confirming one’s faith: O Vader inder godheyt ic bekenne door mijn gelove…’]

Een devote oeffeninge ende een rechte conste omme God te dienen om door een oprecht kersten leven te comen tot een salich sterven (Antwerp: Willem Vorsterman, after 31 October 1530/Antwerp: Willem Vorsterman, ca. 1535) [There are some doubts concerning the authenticity of this work, although a work of the same title is announced at the end of some editions of the Oefferninghe van dat eerste Ghebot der liefden Gods. For more information, see B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 119-120.

literature

W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 75-76, 90-91; D. van Heel, ‘Het minderbroedersklooster te Kampen’, Bijdragen voor de Geschiedenis van de Provincie der Minderbroeders in de Nederlanden 1 (1947), 213, 217-219; J. Nouwens, De veelvuldige H. Communie in de geestelijke literatuur der Nederlanden vanaf het midden van de 16e eeuw (Bilthoven-Antwerpen, 1952), 18-20; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 118-121.

Ludovicus (late thirteenth-early fourteenth century)

Probably a German friar, active around 1300. Not much is known concerning his life except that he was an important preacher, who left impressive series of Latin sermones de tempore (56 sermons) and Latin sermones de sanctis (38 sermons). Several remarks in these sermon collections make clear that Ludovicus was alive during the pontificate of Boniface VIII and the deposition of King Adolf of Nassau (1298), that his mother tongue was German, and that he might have been active in Saxony. His sermons are rather akin to those of Conrad of Saxony and Berthold of Regensburg, who worked a generation before him. Like the sermons of these earlier preachers, Ludovicus’ sermons are meant for a wide audience. They deal with moral themes (greed, avarice, treachery, violence), and address all layers of the population in their moral admonitions (some scholars therefore speak of sermones ad status). Ludovicus’ sermons betray some sympathy for the peasants and the poor, and lament the contemporary state of the church, which is in decay and beset with heresies. This lamentable position is placed within an eschatological context: the end of times is drawing near, replete with the approaching tribulatons by the Devil and Antichrist. Some role is given to the new mendicant orders as last forces of renewal, but there are no traces of overt Joachimism (for a different verdict on this, see Franz (1907), 65ff.).

manuscripts

Sermones de Tempore: a.o. Trier Stiftsbibl. 759/306; Munich, clm 2983; Klosterneuburg 285; Leipzig UB, 637 & 719; Graz UB, 730 f. 52 [in all 15 known manuscripts, listed by Franz (who describes the two Leipzig manuscripts), and Schneyer, Rep. IV, 112-117 (description of an additional 12 manuscripts)]

Sermones super Commune Sanctorum: Leipzig UB, 639; Rome BAV, Lat. 4405 (14th cent.) ff. 2ra-81rb [Etzkorn, IVF, 134-6];

editions:

No editions available, only some short fragments and manuscript descriptions in the secundary literature

literature:

A. Franz, Drei deutsche Minoritenprediger aus dem xiii. und xiv. Jahrhundert (Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1907), 49-103; Zawart, 313-314; Schneyer, Repertorium IV, 112-116; Quellen zur Geschichte des deutschen Bauernstandes im Mittelalter, ed, G. Franz (1967), 412-415 (no. 155: Ludovicus’ sermon on peasants); D'Avray, Preaching of the Friars, p. 153, n.1.; K. Ruh, ‘Frater Ludovicus OFM’, VL² V, 988-990; Etzkorn, IVF, 134-146.

Ludovicus Argentus (Louis d’Argentan, 1615-1680)

OFMCap.

editions

Les grandeurs de Jésus Christ>> also translated into Castilian

Les grandeurs de Marie>>

Ludovicus Béreur (Louis Béreur, d. 1636)

OMCap. Capuchin theologian from Dole. Known for his Disputatio quadripartita de modo coniunctionis concursum Dei et creaturae ad actus liberos ordinis naturalis, which adopts the positions of Duran of St. Pourçain to fight the determinism of scholars like Domingo Báñez as well as more scientific evaluations. In his own time, the work of Louis Béreur caused a theological controversy (for instance with Jean de Launoy. Béreur’s ideees had some aftermath, as Leibniz quoted him in his Théodicée I, § 27.

editions

Disputatio quadripartita de modo coniunctionis concursum Dei et creaturae ad actus liberos ordinis naturalis (Paris, 1636).

Ludovicus Biscardi (Luigi Biscardi, ca. 1735-1816)

OFMCap. Tuscan friar from Livorno. Entered the order when he was ca. 20 years old. Professed on June 3rd, 1755. Active as a lector and definitor. Strong polemicist against Jansenist tendencies in Tuscany. Most of his polemic works on this issue have remained anonymous, and it is difficult to ascribe any anonymous surviving Tuscan text related to this with certainty to Luigi (as there were other polemicists at works as well). Maybe a linguistic analysis would offer some results. Yet some of the polemics bear his name. He also left behind some basic ecclesiological works. His uncompromising anti-Jansenist stance brought him many enemies. Eventually, due to the intervention of Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, Luigi was forced to retire to the Cortona convent. Luigi wrote on this ‘persecution’ by his Jansenist enemies a Memoriale, in which he depicted himself as a sufferer of Jansenist iniquities. He sent a copy of this text to the Grand Duke. After the Jansenists’s position in Tuscany weakened and one of their ringleaders (Scipio Ricci) had to flee from Tuscany in April 1791, Luigi was able to leave Cortona. He became the theological advisor of the bishops of Imola, Perugia and Arezzo. In this period, he wrote several works on the defense of Catholic marriage, against anti-clerical measures taken in Revolutionary France and a preaching handbook (Discorsi). It would seem that all these works have remained unedited and can be found in the provincial Capuchin archives of Tuscany. In addition, Luigi wrote annotations to a Foligno edition of the sermons of the Capuchin bishop of Parma Adeodato Turchi. Luigi died on February 16, 1816.

manuscripts/editions

Polemical works against the Jansenists:>>>>

Confutazione di sei casi, istorico-liturgico-canonico-dommatico-morali decisi e stampati nel calendario della diocesi di Pistoia (1786) [Another anti Jansenist work]

Può egli un vescovo con il suo presbitero ordinare a’suoi parrochi particolari divise:>>>

Cosa è un cardinale:>>>>

Memoriale:>>>>

Trattato sulla matrimonio:>>>>

Discori su varie materie predicabili:>>>>

literature

Sisto da Pisa, Storia dei cappuccini toscani II, 487, 508-510, 515-520, 542; A. Teetaert, ‘Biscardi’, DHGE VIII, 1544-1545. 

Ludovicus Bolanus (Luis de Bolaños, 1539-1629)

OFM. Spanish friar from Mancia. Entered the order in the Andalusian province. Traveled to South America, to work as a preacher and missionary in the Assompción province (Paraguay and Tucuman) for more than half a century. Active catechetical writer and knowledgeable in local languages (such as Guarani, for which he wrote a grammar).

editions

Ludovicus Bonesi (Lodovico Bonesio/Luigi Therin, 1705-1780)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Turin. Joined the Capuchins in the Piedmonte province around 1725 after studies in the liberal arts and classical philology. In 1740, the Capuchin minister general Maria-Giuseppe da Terni chose him to become his secretary. On the provincial chapter of 1746, he was elected provincial of Piedmonte, and on the general chapter of May 1747, he was elected definitor and general procurator for the order. On top of these order positions, he was appointed by pope Benedict XIV in the position of episcopal visitator and counsellor of the congregation for indulgences and relics. He guided the first stages of the beatification of the Capuchin nun veronica Giuliani. At the recommendation of King Carlo-Emmanuel III of Sardegna, he was appointed bishop of Bobbio by Clement XIII in January 1766. He died on 28 July 1780. Author.

editions

Compendium Doctrinae Christianae (Cremona, 1780).

literature

Boniface de Nice & Michelangelo da Rossiglione, Cenni biografiche e ritratti di padri illustri dell’ordine capuccine sublimati alle dignità ecclesiastica (Rome, 1850) I, 98-100; Johann-Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 31; Bullarium Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1883), 402-403; Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 8 (1892) 170; LexCap>>>>

Ludovicus Carvajensis (Luis de Carvajal, ca. 1500, Baeza-1552, Ubeda)

OMObs. Of noble Andalusian ancestry (Orosio family), Luis joined the Observants in the Andalucia province at the age of fifteen. He studied for thirteen years at Salamanca, Alcalá and Paris, partly helped by the patronage of the Spanish nobleman Lorenzo Suaréz de Figuera. Luis was a pupil of Etienne Formon and Petrus de Cornibus. Preacher at the court of emperor Charles V. Lector of theology, and subsequently guardian of the convent of Jerez (1535) and of Seville (1541, and again between 1548-51). Visitator of the Extremadura province (1541) and the province of Flanders (1548). Provincial of Andalusia in 1551. Between 1528 and 1533, Carvajal engaged in bitter controversy with Erasmus. Some kind of reconciliation in 1533. In 1546-1547, Luis attended the early sessions of the council of Trent, where he defended the immaculate conception of Mary. He died at Jódar, in August 1552.

editions:

Apologia Monasticae Religionis Diluens Nugas Erasmi (Salerno/Salamanca, 1528/Basel, 1529/Antwerp, 1529) [Defense of the religious life of monks and friars against the ridicule of Erasmus]

Dulcoratio Amarulentiarum Erasmicae Responsionis ad Apologiam Fratris L.C. (Paris, 1530). This book came on the index.

De Restituta Theologia Liber Unus (Cologne, 1545: re-issued as Theologicarum Sententiarum Liber Unus (Antwerp, 1548) [regarded as Luis’ major work; consisting of a methodical inventory of the sources of Christian belief, followed by a synopsis of Christian dogma]

Declamatio Expostulatoria pro Immaculata Conceptione Genetricis Dei Mariae (Sevilla, 1533/Paris, 2^nd edition with refutations of objections, 1541).

Oratio Habita in Concilio Tridentino/Oratio Loisii Carvajali Ordinis Minorum Habita in Concilio Tridentino, Dominica Secunda Quadragesimae 1547 (Antwerp, 1548) [delived on 6 March 1547]

literature:

Wadding, Scriptores >>; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 184f; DThCat. II, 1811ff; Concilium Tridentinum. Diariorum, Actorum, Epistularum, Tractatuum Nova Collectio I, Diarium Prima Pars (Freiburg in  Breisgau, 1901), 460, 463, 607, 614; Concilium Tridentinum. Diariorum, Actorum, Epistularum, Tractatuum Nova Collectio V, Actorum Pars Altera (Freiburg in  Breisgau, 1911), 631, 858, 931; AIA 4 (1915), 474-476; Concilium Tridentinum. Diariorum, Actorum, Epistularum, Tractatuum Nova Collectio XII, Tractatuum Pars Prior (Freiburg in Breisgau, 1930), 502, n.3; M. Sancho, Fr. Luis de Carvajal en Jerez de la Frontera (1532-1541) (Madrid, 1943); Pio Sagüés, ‘Doctrina de Immaculata B.V. Mariae Conceptione apud Ludovicum de Carvajal, OFM (d. 1552)’, Antonianum 18 (1943), 141-162, 245-270; M. Bataillon, Erasme et l'Espagne (Paris, 1936 & 1991), Vol 1, 228, 318-328, 345-356; Hipólito Sancho, ‘Fr. Luis de Carvajal en Jerez de la Frontera (1532-1541). Documentos y notas para su biografía’, AIA 3 (1943), 50-89; AIA 15 (1955), 248-249; AIA 20 (1960), 122; E. Rummel, Erasmus and his Catholic Critics (Nieuwkoop, 1989), Vol. 2, 99-104; William B. Jones & T.B. Deutscher, ‘Luis de Carvajal’, in: Contemporaries of Erasmus, A Biographical Register I, 275-276; LThK 3^rd ed. II (1994), 963.

Ludovicus de Alcala (Luis de Alcalá, fl. ca. 1540)

OFM. Member of the Castilia province.

editions/literature 

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 474-475.

Ludovicus de Arboribus (later 14th cent.)

Master of theology>> surviving works?

literature

BF, VI, no. 920A

Ludovicus de Bononia (=Ludovicus de Venetiis?/ later 14th century)

Mentioned in 1372 as one of the friars who argued to bestow the magisterium on Nicolas Muzio de Venetiis OFM.>>> author?

literature

BF, VI, no. 1235;

Ludovicus de Bononia (Lodovico da Bologna/Lodovico Severi, fll. mid 15^th cent.)

Italian friar.Papal legate in the East between 1455 and 1457.

literature

Angelo Bargellesi Severi, ‘Nuovi documenti su fr. Lodovico da Bologna, al secolo Lodovico Severi, Nunzio Apostolico in Oriente (1455-1457)’, AFH 69 (1976), 3-22; Paolo Evangelisti, ‘Politica e credibilità personale. Un diplomatico francescano tra Tabriz e la Borgogna (1450 - circa 1479)’, Quaderni Storici 1 (2005), 3-40; A.M. Piemontese, ‘L’ambasciatore di Persia presso Federico da Montefeltro, L. Bononiense O.F.M. e il cardinal Bessarione’, in: Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae XI (Città del Vaticano, 2004), 539-565.

Ludovicus de Castro (Louis de Chateau, d. 1632)

OFMConv. Polemical author

literature

DTHCat II, 2318-2319

Ludovicus de Cruce (Luis de la Cruz, fl. c. 1630)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Pedro de Alcántara province (Naples).

literature

AIA 29 (1928), 155-156; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 141 (no. 520).

Ludovicus de Escobar (Luis de Escobar, 1475 - in or after 1551)

OFMObs. Born in Sahagún (León). Friar of the Castilia province (Concepción), and regular inhabitant of the Medina de Rioseco convent(Valladolid). Known as advisor for the Castilian admiral Don Fadrique Enríquez. Luis might have been the co-author (with the Observant friar Francisco Tenorio)of the Passio Duorum/Tratado de devotíssimas y muy lastimosas contemplaciones de la pasión del Hijo de Dios e compasión de la Virgen sancta Maria su madre, por esta razón llamado Passio duorum (Valladolid, 1526 etc.: See elsewhere in this catalogue under Francisco Tenorio). More secure is the ascription of his other works, listed below.

manuscripts

Poesía: Madrid, Nac. 1804 ff. 85v-88

editions

Historia de Guadalajara (Saragossa, 1522).

Officium Transfixionis Beatae Maria Virginis (Saragossa, 1522).

Carro de las Donas, cf. AIA 41 (1981), 517-518.

Las quatrocientas respuestas a otras tantas preguntas que el yllustrissimo señor don Fadrique Enríquez, almirante de Castilla y otras personas (...) embiaron a preguntur al autor, con quinientos proverbios de consejos y avisos a manera de letanía o las respuestas quinquagenas (Valladolid: Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, 1545/Madrid, 1545/Saragossa, 1545/Valladolid, 1550/Antwerp, 1550/Valladolid, 1552/Munich, 1603 [German translation]) [A lengthy gnomic poem/series of poems, describing the author’s experiences in the world and in which he attacks in a satyrical fashion the various social classes and all kinds of actual subjects (a.o. the interpretation of free will, and the use of corpses for anatomical lessons). Some parts/individual poems have become well-known in their own right, such as the: Tiempos de miseria, the Peligros del mundo, the Trabajo del mundo, and the poetic reflections on the Miserere, Ora pro Nobis and the Libera nos Domine]

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 21-22; Romancero y cancionero sagradas, Biblioteca de Autores Españoles XLII (Madrid, 1857), 549-550; Revista Franciscana 22 (1894), 118-125, 155; Eijan, La poesía franciscana (Santiago, 1935), 101-107; Rodríguez, Autores espirituales, RHCEE III, 478; Christoph E. Schweitzer, ‘La parte de Albertino, Escobar y Guevara en el ‘Zeitkürtzer’, AIA 18 (1958), 217-223; Hispania 19 (1959), 230-240; Juan meseguer Fernández, “Passio duorum’, Autores ediciones, la obra’, AIA 29 (1969), 217-268; M. de Castro, Manuscritos franciscanos de la Biblioteca nacional (Valencia, 1973), 106, n. 99; AIA 37 (1977), 394-397; Antonianum 56 (1981), 173-178; DSpir XV, 193.

Ludovicus de Ezura (fl. 1466)

OMObs. (or Conv?) Lector of theology & provincial of Castille

manuscripts

Conciones de B.Virg. Maria: Toledo, Bib. S. Franc. FF. N. 15

literature

Zawart, 298

Ludovicus de Fontibus (fl. 1383)

Aragonese Friar. Sent to Cambridge in 1383 by the general chapter to read the Sentences. He is known as the author of a Scala Perfectionis, which was reworked in English by Hilton, and also influenced the latter's Scale of Perfection.

literature

AFH, 17 (1924), 165.

Ludovicus de Imola (d. ca. 1500)

OMConv. Lector at Bologna and provincial of Bologna>>

editions

Oratio ad Populum Bononiensem (Bologna, 1494) [=sermon for the general chapter at Bologna, 1494]

Oratio in Funere Petri Ferrici Cardinalis (Rome, 1478?)

Oratio in Die S. Stephani (Rome, ca. 1480 [two editions?]) [held for the body of cardinals]

Orazione de Nomine Jesu (Rome, 1486?) [before pope Innocent VIII & cardinals]

literature

Zawart, 294

Ludovicus de Ionata de Anglono

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manuscripts

Breve dell'anima fr. Ludov. De Ionatha de Anglono ad utilitatem suorum filiorum: Naples, Naz. XII.F.11 ff. 81v-99v

Ludovicus de L’Aquila (Luigi della Genga, c. 1390 - c. 1452)

OFMObs. Italian friar from Genga (Assergi, near L’Aquila). Entered the order at the San Giuliano convent in L’Aquila. Was two times vicar general of the Observant Abruzzi province (1446 and 1449; cf. AFH 21 (1928), 564). Was on friendly terms with John of Capistran, to whom Luigi sent two letters, and to whom he dedicated a Carmen de S. Cruce. Also known to be the author of a Carmen de Miraculis S. Bernardini Senensis, relating no less than 30 miracles that took place in Siena in the first 52 days after the death of Bernardine of Siena. Luigi’s poetic style betrays some humanist leanings. He probably died c. 1452 in the San Giuliano convent of L’Aquila.

editions

Littera, ed. in AFH 60 (1967), 320-323.

Carmen de S. Cruce, ed. in AFH 60 (1967), 320-323.

Carmen de Miraculis S. Bernardini Senensis (Venice, 1572); Bullettino della Deputazione Abruzzese di Storia Patria (L’Aquila, 1944), 121-132. Cf. also AASS Maii V, 284-287. The work is dedicated to cardinal Giovanni de Tagliacozzo.

literature

Mariano de Florentia, Compendium Chronicarum, AFH 4 (1911), 130; A. Chiappini, Reliquie letterarie Capestranesi (L’Aquila, 1927), 47-48 (no. 62-64); AFH 60 (1967), 317-324. 

Ludovicus de Maluenda (Luis de Maluenda, c. 1488-c. 1547)

OFMObs. Spanish friar. Born at Burgos (Huerta del Rey), from a conversos family. Studied at the university of Salamanca. There he took the Franciscan habit around 1505, becoming a member of the Santiago province. Due to family connections, Luis was able to cultivate the friendship of several high Church dignitaries in the Castilian kingdom, and to maintain relatively close relations with the royal courts of Castille and Portugal. Was heavily influenced by the anti-erasmian friar Francis de Castillo and the Observant vicar of the Santiago province, Diego de Bobadilla. They strengthened him in his anti-judaic, anti-Erasmian, and anti-protestant feelings, thereby also feeding his innate tendency to overreact. This latter tendency eventually made him somewhat of a liability for the Santiago province, for which reason he was more or less forced to move over to the province of Burgos. He died c. 1547.

editions

Tratado Llamado excelencias de la fe ayuntado de muchas flores de los libros de los excelentes varones, así santos como paganos & Tratado Llamado mysterios de la devoción (Burgos, 26 June, 1537) [ Both works composed at the convent San Francisco à Toro. The first work amounts to a educational treatise for crown prince Philip (Later Philip II of Spain), in the form of an anti-erasmian and anti-‘alumbrados’ pamphlet. He defends traditional religion against all novelties, interspersing doctrinal arguments from the church fathers with ideosyncratic personal interpretations. Interestingly enough, and without admitting it, Luis uses Erasmus’ Quaerela Pacis to deplore and attack the laxity of the pope and the bishops, and their failure to attack heresies and reform the Church. He adamantly defends the position and practices of the inquisition (esp. in chapters 23 and 66), representing inquisitors as surgeons, who operate on the ailing body of the Church. The second work is an introduction to devotional excercises, and describes the fruits of veritable devotion, namely the tranquility of the soul that allows for contemplation and the chance to unite with God]

Vergel de virginidad con el edificio espiritual de la caridad y los mysterios de la Virgen sin par & Tratado Llamado mysterios de los ángeles, con trece servicios que hace el ángel custodio (Burgos, 2 june, 1539) [The first work extolls virginity, denouncing the ‘new doctrines’ and forges a strong link between virginity and charity. The work also highlights the mediation qualities of the Virgin Mary. The second, rather curious, work holds not only that everyone has a guardian angel, and that those working in church or with public responsibilities have two guardian angels, but that all cities, regions, realms and other social and political bodies have their own heavenly protectors.]

Tratado llamado leche de la fe del principe christiano. Con 62 milagros de Jesucristo nuestro Dios y Redentor. Y con los mysterios del Antecristo. Y con las ropas de las virtuded morales y teologales (Burgos, 16 January, 1545) [This work is a diatribe against the sins of the time (oppression of the poor, the negligence of priests, the baseness of high court officials etc.), and puts all this in an apocalyptic perspective not unlike of that of contemporary spirituals. Luis sees the coming of Antichrist in the near future, enumerating many ‘signs’ that would herald his coming.]

literature

M. de Castro, Impresos raros de la provincia franciscana de Santiago en el siglo XVI (Madrid, 1978); M. Avilés Fernandez, Una mistica de la intransigencia en la España de los eramistas y alumbrados (Madrid, 1978).

Ludovicus de Miranda (Luis de Miranda, fl. c. 1617)

OFM. Friar from the Santiago province. Biblical author and Immaculist theologian.

literature

AIA 30 (1928), 353-371; AIA 32 (1929), 34-35; AIA 34 (1931), 34; AIA 15 (1955), 346-347; AIA 25 (1965), 435-442; AIA 28 (1968), 426-427; Luis Maria Diéguez, ‘Los escritores piadosos y laa Inmaculada’, Liceo Franciscano 7 (1954), 149-163; Bernardo Aperribay, ‘La Inmaculada según Fr. Luis de Miranda, OFM’, in: Virgo Inmaculata VII/2 (Rome, 1957), 166-181; Baltasar Suárez Andrade, ‘Los sentidos bíblicos según el P. Luis de Miranda’, Liceo Franciscano 13 (1960), 69-90; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 149 (no. 578); Enrique Llamas, ‘La Inmaculada Concepción y el desarrollo de la Mariología española en el siglo XVII’, Estud. Marianos 71 (2005), 241-267; Enrique Llamas, ‘El siglo XVII, Siglo de Oro de la Corredención Mariana’, Salmanticensis 52 (2005), 213-253.

Ludovicus de Padua (later fourteenth century)

Taught in Paris. Forced in 1362 to withdraw 14 articles of his Vesperes (evening disputations)>>

manuscripts

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literature

Denifle-Cahetelain, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis (Paris, 1894), III, n. 1270; Paul Marangon!!>

Ludovicus de Pirano (de Strassoldo/de Foro Iulii/de Udine/Ludovico da Cividale, d. 1447/1452)

OMConv. Friar from Forlì, theologian and preacher. Later also bishop of Forlì. Took an active part in the council of Ferrara (a.o. the filioque discussion with the Greeks). Renowned for his innovative ars memorativa.

manuscripts

Feriales Sermones:>>?

Regulae Memoriae Artificialis: MS Marc. Lat. VI 274 [2885]

Dialogus de Papali Potestate [to Eugene IV]: BAV Vat.Lat. 4143

Dialogus de Regia ac Papali Potestate [to the emperor Sigismund]: BAV Chigi D IV 97; British Museum Add. 19063

Super Commune Sanctorum:>>?

De Angelis:>>?

De Quibusdam Sanctis:>>?

Sermones Extraordinariae de B.V. Maria:>>?

[check, Venice S. Marco>>]

literature

Zawart, 323; Sbaralea Supplementum II, 192-193 ; B. Ziliotto, ‘Frate Lodovico da Pirano (1390?-1450) e le sue ‘Regulae memoriae artificialis’’, in: Atti e Memorie della Società Istriana di Archeologia e Storia Patria 49 (1937), 185-225; B. Ziliotto, ‘Frate Lodovico da Cividale e il suo ‘Dialogus de papali potestate’, Memorie storiche forogiuliesi 33-34 (1937-1938), 151-191; A. Campana, ‘Un nuovo dialogo di Lodovico di Strassoldo OFM (1434) e il ‘Tractatus de Potestate regia et Papali’’, in: Miscellanea Pio Paschini (Rome, 1949) II, 127-156; Cesare Cenci, ‘Ludovico da Pirano e la sua attività letteraria’, in: Storia e cultura al Santo, ed. A. Poppi, Fonti e studi per la storia del Santo a Padova 1 (Vicenza, 1976), 265-278; Francis Yates, ‘Lodovico da Pirano’s Memory Treatise’, in: Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of P.O. Kristeller, ed. C.H. Clough (New York, 1976), 111-122; Lorenzo Di Fonzo, ‘Ludovico da Pirano, OFMConv. (ca. 1380-1450) maestro scolastico e oratore padre conciliare e vescovo di Forlí’, Miscellanea Francescana 99 (1999), 603-699 [also published separately, in the series Quaderni Francescani 29 (Rome, 1999).]; Lorenzo Di Fonzo, ‘Ludovico da Pirano OFMConv. Ca. 1380-1450, grande maestro e vescovo conciliare nel 550° della morte’, Comm. O.F.M.Conv. 97 (2000), 118-125; Lorenzo Di Fonzo, ‘Il Maestro Ludovico da Pirano, OFMConv (ca. 1380-11450)’, in: Sedem stoletij minoritskega samostana sv. Franciska Asiskega v Piranu: 1301-2001, ed. Urednika France M. Dolinar et al. (Ljuljana: Slovenska monoritska provinca sv. Jozefa, 2001), 159-177;  Bruno Figliuolo, ‘Sul dialogo “De regia ac papali potestate” di Ludovico di Strassoldo (de Cividale, de Foro Iulii, de Udine), min. (1434)’, in: Medioevo. Mezzogiorno. Mediterraneo. Studi in onore di Mario Del Treppo, ed. Gabriella Rossetti & Giovanni Vitolo, GISEM, Europa mediterranea Quaderno 13 (Naples: Liguori Editore, 2002) II, 231-246; Dieter Girgensohn, ‘Lob des tüchtigen Staatsmannes: der Panegyrikus von Ludovico da Pirano ofm auf den Venezianer Adeligen Francesco Corner und dessen Testamente’, in: Margarita amicorum. Studi di cultura europea per Agostino Sottili, ed. Fabio Forner et al., 2 Vols. (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2005) I, 429-461.

Ludovicus de Poix (Louis de Poix, 1714-1782)

OFMCap since 1736. Language scholar (Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean etc.). Founder and president of the Parisian Capuchin Société des Etudes Orientales, the later Clementine Academy. This academy produced an important body of exegetical work, based on detailed philological and linguistic studies.

editions

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Ludovicus de Prussia (Ludovicus Prutenus/Ludwich von Preußen/Joannes Wohlgemuth, late 15th century)

Born in Hilsberg/Heilsberg an der Alle (Eastern Prussia). Received the degree of doctor in theology at the U. of Cologne in 1457. Active as teacher in the schools of Görlitz, Posen, Thorn and elsewhere. Between 1464-66 he entered the Observant Francicans in Austria. Ludwich held several teaching positions in the order and took part in the 1493 general chapter of the Cismontan Observants in Florence, where he held a general lecture. At this general chapter, Ludwich also received permission to publish his Trilogium Animae, which he had written in the studium/convent of Brünn. For three years, the work remained in the hands of the censor Louigi della Torra, the provincial vicar of the Venetian Observants. Eventually, Glassberger assisted with production of the printed edition (two letters (dating from February 1496 and February 1498) to that extent can be found at the beginning of the 1498 edition). According to Minges (1914), 303, the work is ‘eine Art Enzyklopädie fast des gesamten Wissens, das ein Pristerkandidat speziell ein junger Franziskanerkleriker damals wissen sollte’. The Trilogium Animae, which is divided in three parts, pays much attention to the human soul (its essence, passions and habitus), and contains a wide gamut of basic theological knowledge, guidelines pertaining to confession and liturgical matters, an explanation of the rule of Francis (following the verdicts of the council of Vienne), concise introductions to biblical books (canonical and apocryphical), the Sentences of Lombard, canon and civil law, and the arts (artes liberales & artes mechanicae). For the 1498 edition, Glassberger added genealogical materials on several important dynasties. Wohlgemut’s main sources are Aristotle, Augustine, Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure and Thomas, Nicholas of Lyra, and Jean Gerson. Pawis (VL² V, 1032) suggests that the work betrays a sympathy for mystical theology (along Bonaventurean lines) and provides an indication for the quality of education within the mendicant orders at the end of the fifteenth century.

manuscripts

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editions

Trilogium animae non solum religiosis verum etiam saecularibus, praedicatoribus, confessoribus, contemplantibus, et studentibus lumen intellectus et ardorem affectus amministrans (Nürnberg: Anton Koberger, 1498) [Hain 10315 & 10008. See Minges for a lengthy introduction and analysis of the work]

literature

Nikolaus Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, vi-ix; Wadding, Annales Minorum XV (Quaracchi, 1933), 103 (ad. an. 1494, n. 63); Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 193; B. Kruitwagen, `Bio-bibliografisches zu Ludovicus de Prussia (...)', Franz. Stud., 12 (1925), 347-363; P. Minges, `Das Trilogium Animae des L. v. Preußen', Franz. Stud., 1 (1914), 291-311; E. Wegerich, Franz. Stud., 29 (1942), 180-182; L. Hardick, LThK² (1961), VI, 1195; C. Schmitt, DSpir IX (1976), 1058; R. Pawis, VL² V, 1030-1033.

Ludovicus de Rocha >>>

Provincial minister of Genua>>

manuscripts

Tractatus de Praedicatione: Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente, 50 ff. 135ra-144ra [This manusript also contains an other Ars, namely the Libellus de arte praedicatoria by a Dominican friar. see also Charland, Artes Praedicandi, 48-50 and C. PIANA, 'Descriptio Codicum franciscalium necnon S. Thomae Aquin. in Bibliotheca Albornotiana Collegii Hispani Bononiae asservatorum', Antonianum 17 (1942), 116-117. Inc. in Bologna manuscript: Reverendissimo in Christo patri et domino franisco dei gratua et apostolice sedi astench. frater lodovicus de rocha ord. min. minister provincie Ians. et inter doctores sacre pagine minimus et quasi neophitus discipulus (...) Nuper rogatus a vestra dominatione et a multis fratribus aliis varias formas sermocinandi colligere et quasi species in unum tractaticulum componere]; MS Munich, lat. 3865 ff. 86-94v [expl.: Et ista regula memorativa ad habendam memoriam omnium auctoritatum. Et hec sermocinandi dicta sufficiant.' This explicit is followed by yet another ars praedicandi, which resembles in its beginnings somewhat the ars written by Alphonso de Alprão].

literature

Zawart, 373; Piana, Antonianum, 17 (1942), 117.

Ludovicus de Sancto Augustino (Luis de San Agustín, fl. c. 1660)

OFMDisc. Member of the San José province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 291; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 141 (no. 521).

Ludovicus de Sancto Josepho (d. 1737)

Alcantarine friar.

literature

Martiniano Casero Martín Nieto, ‘Fray Luis de San José, alcantarino inmaculista’, Verda y Vida 58 (2000), 589-604.

Ludovicus de S. Martino de Venetiis

>>> author?

literature

BF, VI, no. 1185, 1247, 1450

Ludovicus de Tolosa (Louis de Toulouse/Louis d’Anjou, 1274-1297) Sanctus

Second son of Charles II of Anjou and Mary of Hungary. Was educated at Brignoles, where he frequented the friars minor and had the Franciscan Francis Brun as confessor. Took the Franciscan habit after having been held hostage (together with his younger brothers) for seven years by the king of Aragon (during this hostage period (1288-1295), he kept up a correspondence with Peter Olivi, and had close contacts with other Franciscan friars with spiritual leanings). Made bishop of Toulouse by Boniface VIII in December 1296. Died on 19 August 1297. Buried in the convent church of the Friars Minor at Marseille (but later (1433) transported to the cathedral of Valencia). Louis was known for his saintly and ascetical lifestyle and love of spiritual learning. This, as well as some political motivations, stimulated his quick canonisation (7 April, 1317) by Pope John XXII. Louis left behind ca. 15 sermons (on the feasts of the Apostles and on several saints), several letters, hymns, explicatory notes on the mass and other liturgical elements, and a testament (19 August, 1297).

manuscripts

Sermones de S & de T: Venice Marc. Lat. Fondo antiquo 91-1775 ff. 1-16;>>>

Hymni: Naples, Naz. VII.D.4 ff. 6r-7v

Litterae:>>

In Breviario & In Missali: several manuscripts in Naples, see Cenci, Napoli, II, 1084

Testament:>>

editions

A. Amelli, ‘Di uno scritto inedito di S. Lodovico vescovo di Tolosa intorno alla musica’, AFH 2 (1909), 378-383.

vitae

AFH 1 (1908), 278-290, 569-576; AFH 40 (1947), 118-142; AASS August, III, 775-797 [or 775-822 in ed. Antwerp, 1737]; BHL II, 750-751 (no. 5054-5057); Vies des saints VIII (Paris, 1949), 345-351; Processus Canonizationis, AF, 7 (1951); Bibliotheca Sanctorum VIII, 300-307; Cf. also the studies of M.R. Toynbee, J. Paul and L. Carolus-Barré below

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 187; V. Verlaque, S. Louis d’Anjou (…) et la famille d’Anjou au XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1885); B. Kleinschmidt, ‘St. Ludwig von Toulouse in der Kunst’, AFH 2 (1909), 197-215; Zawart, 300; M.R. Toynbee, S. Louis of Toulouse and the Process of Canonisation in the Fourteenth Century (Manchester, 1929); C. Vielle, S. Louis d’Anjou (…) Sa vie, son temps, son culte (Vanves, 1930); M.-H. Laurent, Le culte de S. Louis d’Anjou à Marseille au XIVe siècle (Rome, 1954); E. Pasztor, Per la storia di San Ludovico d’Angio (Rome, 1955); Schneyer, Repertorium (…) Sermones IV, 117-118; J.Paul, `Saint Louis d'Anjou, franciscain et évêque de Toulouse (1274-1297)', CFanj, 7 (1972), 59-90; J. Paul, ‘Evangélisme et franciscanisme chez Louis d’Anjou’, Cahiers de Fanjeaux 8 (1973), 375-401; J. Paul, ‘Témoignage historique et hagiographique dans le procès de canonization de S. Louis d’Anjou’, Provence Historique 23/93-94 (1973), 305-317; J. Paul, ‘Le ‘Liber Miraculorum’ de saint Louis d’Anjou’, AFH 69 (1976), 209-219; Pierre Péano, ‘Louis d’Anjou (saint)’, DSpir, IX, 1038-1039; L. Carolus-Barré, Le procès de canonisation de saint Louis (1272-1297) Essai de réconstruction, École Française de Rome (Rome, 1994); Roest, Reading the Book of History, 87; Christian Humbert, ‘Saint Louis d’Anjou, un évêque mal connu’, Petite Bibliothèque de l’Association Les amis des archives de la Laute-Garonne 85 (1997); Michael Henry, ‘Saint Louis d’Anjou à Marseille’, Lettres des Amis des archives de la Haute Garonne 149 (dec. 1997), 9-11; Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart V⁴, 543; William Chester Jordan, ‘Saint Louis in French epic and drama’, in: Idem, Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 705 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), Essay VI: 174-194; William Chester Jordan, ‘The case of Saint Louis’, in: Ideology and Power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 705 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), Essay IV: 209-217; Jérôme Pédraïta, L’image de Saint Louis de Toulouse en Italie à la fin du Moyen Age, un instrument de propagande, 2 Vols. (Paris: Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2001-2002). [cf. review in AFH 95 (2002), 463f]; M. Roncetti, ‘Appendix Ludoviciana. Nuove acquisizioni sull’iconografia di san Ludovico di Tolosa’, Bollettino della Deputazione di Storia Patria per l’Umbria 99 (2002), 5-40; Francisco García Mota, ‘San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, patrón de Málaga’, in: Hagiografía y archivos de la Iglesia, 2: Santoral hispano-mozárabe en las diócesis de España. Actas del XVIII Congreso de la Asociación celebrado en Orense, 9 al 13  septiembre de 2002, ed. Agustín Hevia Ballina, Memoria  Ecclesiae, 25 (Oviedo: Asociación de Archiveros de la Iglesia en España, 2004), 99-109.

Ludovicus de Turro (Ludovico della Torre, d. 1502)

OFMObs. Italian friar from Verona.

literature 

Rino Avesani, ‘Per l’antica biblioteca del convento di S. Bernardino a Verona. Il codice di S. Agostino donato da Costanzo Sforza a Ludovico della Torre e utilizzato dal card. Angelo Mai’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Cacciotti & Pacifico Sella, Medioevo, 5, 2 Vols. (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002) I, 401-417; Ennio Sandal, ‘Di alcuni libri di Fra Ludovico della Torre veronese’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Cacciotti & Pacifico Sella, Medioevo, 5, 2 Vols. (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002) I, 419-429

Ludovicus de Venetiis (excuted in 1386)

Friar from Venice (and probably not from San Martino da Venezza, near Rovigo. Cf. Miscellanea Francescana 36 (1936), 524). Member of the Venetian St. Anthony province. Made doctor of theology on 15 March 1363 by papal bull (Urban V; BF VI, n. 856). At that moment Ludovicus was lector of theology in the general studium of Pisa (since 17 June 1362. Cf. Miscellanea Francescana 36 (1936), 531-532 [on appointment by minister general Marcus of Viterbo]). In 1364, Louis is among the nine founding professorss of the new theology faculty of Bologna. Probable active as inquisitor in Venice and the Marca Trevigiana in between 1366-1370, and in 1373 (BF VI, no. 1247). Provincial minister in Venice (in 1370, and 1376). Later procurator general, and appointed vicarius general by Pope Urban VI in 1378 after the deposition of minister general Leonard Giffoni/Grifonio (who supported the Avignon papacy). Minister general in 1379 (chosen on the general chapter of Esztergom (Hungary), which was obedient to Rome). Papal diplomat in Hungary. Made cardinal in 1381 (with support of the Senate of Venice). Lost the favour of the pope after a failed diplomatic mission at the court of the neapolitan king Charles I of Durazzo. Arested with five other cardinals, and taken into captivity at Genua. Executed in December 1386, together with other cardinals suspected to conspire against the pope. According to Sbaralea, Louis is the author of several homiletic, disciplinary and exegetical works, which thus far have not been found. Some of his letters do survive.

manuscripts/editions

Conciones et Orationes:>>?

Litterae (from the archives of Mantua and the Biblioteca Comunale of Assisi), partly edited in: AFH 58 (1965), 37-39, 45, 201-202; C. Cenci, Documentazione di Vita assisiana, 1300-1530 Vol. I (Grottaferrata, 1974), 168.

Liber Exhortationum ad Fratres:>>?

Sermones de Tempore:>>?

Commentarius in Septem Psalmos Poenitentiales:>>?

literature

Sbaralea, Suppl., II, 187; B. Pergamo, AFH, 27 (1934), 10-11; G. Abate, ‘Il minorita Ludovico Donati di Venezia, lettore a Pisa nel 1362-1363, e l’inaugurazione nel 1364 della facoltà teologica di Bologna’, Miscellanea Francescana 36 (1936), 524-532; Le Venezie Francescana 6 (1937), 98-105; C. Albasini, ‘L’ambasciata del P. Lodovico Donati da Venezia presso la corte ungarica nel 1379’, Le Venezie Francescane 18 (1951), 5-66, 99-114, 151-159; DHGE XIV (1960), 1511-1514; U. Betti, I cardinali dell’ordine dei Frati Minori (Rome, 1963), 46-47; C. Piana, Chartularium Studii Bononiensis S. Francisci, AF XI (Quaracchi, 1970), 87*, 262, 266; Clément Schmitt, ‘Louis de Venise’, DSpir IX, 1067-1068.

Ludovicus de Viadana (Lodovico da Viadana/Lodovico Grossi, d. 1627)

OFMObs.

literature

Augusto Petacchi, ‘Grossi, Lodovico (Lodovido da Viadana)’, DBI LIX, 811-814. 

Ludovicus de Vicentia (later 15th cent.)

Vicarius General in 1461.>>>

manuscripts

Vita S. Bernardi (=Officium?): Naples, Naz., VII.G.59; VIII.B.30 f 108a-c

editions

Vita S. Bernardi, ed. Z. Lazzeri, in: Bullet. di Studi Bernardiniani, 1 (1935), 112ff.

Ludovicus Hennepin (17th cent.)

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manuscripts

Obras: Madrid, Nac. 1379 [Castro, Madrid, n. 189]

editions/literature

M. da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografía geografica, storica, etnografica sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 231-236, no. 283; S. Dirks, Histoire litt. Et bibliogr. des frères mineurs (...) en Belgique (Antwerp, 1885), 329-337; J. Goyens, ‘Le P. Louis Hennepin, O.F.M., missionnaire au Canada au XVIIe siècle. Quelques jalons pour sa biographie’, AFH 18 (1925), 318-345, 473-510; DHGE, 23 (1990), 1027-1029; Catherine Broué, ‘En filigrane des récits du Père Louis Hennepin: “trous noirs” de l’exploration louisianaise 1679-1681’, Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française 53 (2000), 339-366.

Ludovicus Filicaia (Ludovico Filicaia, fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFMObs and later OFMCap. Florentine friar, with a rich literary culture (probably obtained in Observant studia). Became as Capuchin a prolific writer of biblical translations and versified saints’ lives, which he was able to publish, notwithstanding the difficulties to publish for capuchin friars, due to stringent order regulations. Maybe as a result of his literary style and culture, most Capuchin sources remain silent about him (probably because such ‘culture’ was frowned upon in the early Capuchin order).

editions

La Vita del nostro salvatore Jesu Christo, overo sacra storia evangelica tradotta non solo di latino in volgare, ma etiam in verso per dare materia al lettore di più suavemente côrre el frutto necessario alla vita di ciascuno fedel christiano dallo evangelico arbore, per me inutile servo di Christo frate Lodovico da Filicaia da Firenze, frate capuccino (Venice: Nicolò de Buscarini, 1548).

Gli Atti degli Apostoli secondo san Luca, tradotti in lingua volgare in terza rima, la Vita anchora et morte de dodici Apostoli di Jesu in quarta rima (Venice, 1549). [Also includes a Vita di san Giovanni Battista and several Laude]

Legenda overo Vita del dispregiator del mondo christofero santo Francesco, composta in ottave rime per lo inutile servo di Iesu Christo Lodovico da Filicaia da Firenze, frate capuccino indegno figiuolo del sopradetto (Venice, 1549). This text was re-edited in: Sisto da Pisa, ‘La Vita di santo Francesco del p. Ludovico Filicaia da Firenze, capuccino’, L’Italia francescana 12-15 (1937-1940). This Legenda is an Italian versified version of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major. Another vernacularisation of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major from this period is for instance the 1477 translation of the Legenda Major, published in Milan by Antonio Zaroto. See esp. Stanislao da Campagnola, ‘Un cinquecento francescano che contesta ‘novelle, poesie, historie e li prurienti canti’’, in: San Francesco e il Francescanesimo nella letteratura italiana dal rinascimento al romanticismo. Atti del Convegno Nazionale (Assisi, 18-20 maggio 1989), ed. Silvio Pasquazi (Rome, 1990), 57-89 (65, note 27& pp. 76ff.)

literature

Francesco Gonzaga, De Origine Seraphicae Religionis, 88.

Ludovicus Henning (Ludwig Henning, fl. early 16th cent.)

German friar. Provincial minister of the Saxony province. Active in reforming female religious houses of Poor Clares. In 1507 and 1508, he produced a series of religious rules for the Poor Clares of Breslau. For the Poor Clares of Weißenfels, he wrote in March 1513 a series of new statutes (which he previously had communicated orally).

manuscripts/editions

Statutes for the Nuns of Weißenfels: MS Dresden, Staatsarchiv Or.Ur. 9964. These statutes have been edited by Ferdinand Doelle, Franziskanische Studien 1 (1914), 359-362. [Apparently, the Weißenfels statutes are the only surviving medieval/early modern statutes of Poor Clares communities in the Saxony province. Many elements of these statutes are directly concerned with the maintenance of religious life (taken from the Doelle edition, 360-362): ‘Et quidem imprimis moneo et hortor vos omnes et singulas sorores in visceribus Jesu Christi, ut mutuam pacem, concordiam et charitatem fovere et conservare studeatis, quod, ut melius observeretur, sub pena excommunicationis mando, ne aliqua sororum altere detrahat, aut quippiam mali de ea loquator, aut infirma aliqua secularibus personis revelet. Item nulla soror temere loquatur contra edificia erecta aut erigenda, cum ex mea ordinatione et beneplacito fiant pro bono monasterii vestri. Item mando, ut nulla soror loquatur cum artificibus aut edificatoribus quemadmodum, nec cum aliis quibuscumque personis secularibus, nisi exigente necessitate et opportunitate, et tunc fiat de licentia domine abbatisse iuxta modum vobis prescriptum in regula. Ad id districte mando, ut nulla soror sola loquatur talibus personis secularibus aut religiosis, sed ordinentur et deputentur due mature sorores, que ambo, aut ad minus una earum, sint presentes, audientes et attendentes, ut verba sororum sic loquentium religiosa sint et honesta statui et ordini earum non derogancia. Et sorores, que sic licentiate personis talibus loquuntur, non debeat submurmurare aut silenter auribus insusurrare, sed patenter, que necessaria et oportuna fuerint, loqui, ita ut auscultatrices presentes id valeant audire. Item statuo, ordino et mando, ut puelle seculares nequaquam maneant aut retineantur in monasterio vestro, nisi forte ordinem et religionis vestem assumere velint, in quo casu anuo, ut uno anno aut dimidio vobiscum in monasterio manere et in hiis, que honestatis religionisque sunt, inbui valeant, antequam ordinem et religionis vestem assumant. Et nunc quidem consensi et consentio, ut sex poelle investiantur, deinceps vero nulla assumetur ad ordinem aut investiatur sine consensu meo speciali. Item, ut sorores novicie et alie iuvencule studiosius in disciplina regulari educantur, ordino et precipio, ut per dominam abbatissam deputetur una honesta et matura soror, cuius directioni (p. 361) omnes predicte novicie et iuvencule subsint. Et ipsa sit communis magistra et informatrix omnium talium. Et nulla soror aliquas novitias specialiter sibi deputare aut in curam suam suscipere amplius presumat. (…) Item mando, ut clausura monasterii diligentissime observetur. Nec sub horis divinis aperiatur, nisi magna id exigerit necessitas. Super quod venerabilis domina abbatissa et seniores singulariter invigilare debent unacum patribus confessoribus, quibus id sub eterne maledictionis pena, quemadmodum per ordinationes apostolicas michi iniungitur, mando. (…) Item mando sub pena excommunicationis, ut nulla soror quicquam, sive magnum fuerit sive parvum, extra monasterium et ordinem personis secularibus dare aut vendere presumat, cum iuxta statum, ordinem et professionem vestram sic passim dare aut vendere minime potestis, eo quod nullam proprietatem in speciali habere debitis. Item ordino et mando, ut omnes et singule sorores, quas causa rationabilis et manifesta non excusat, die noctuque ad persolvendum divinum officium in choro conveniant. Et si alique frequenter Matutinum neglexerint, puta bis aut eo amplius in ebdomada, puniantur, ut tempore prandii sedeant in terra. (…) Item ordino et sub pena excommunicationis districte precipio, ut nulla soror litteras seu brevia, aut dirigat principibus, aut aliis quibuscunque secularibus sive religiosis personis, nisi prius domina abbatissa ad hoc consensum prebuerit et ipsas litteras viderit et legerit. (…) (p. 362) Hec sunt, charissime sorores, que, dum presens fui, vive vocis oraculo vobis tradidi, et jam in hiis scriptis trado monendo, hortando, rogando et districte precipiendo, ut ea studiose adimplere curetis, quo tandem per viam mandatorum et consiliorum Christi, que servare vovistis ad terminum felicitatis supreme pervenire sine offensa valeatis.’

literature 

L. Lemmens, ‘Die Provinzialminister der alten sächsischen Provinz’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz vom hl. Kreuze 2 (1909), 10f; F. Doelle, ‘Die Statuten der Klarissen zu Weißenfels aus dem jahre 1513’, Franziskanische Studien 1 (1914), 356-362.

Ludovicus Hieronymus de Oré (Luis Jerónimo de Oré, early seventeenth cent.)

OFM. Franciscan preacher and chronicler from Peru. Active in the Doce Apóstoles province. Expert in Quechua & Aymara, the Indian languages of the Andes region. Bishop of La Imperial, Chili, in 1620 (Concepción?). Productive author.

editions

Symbolo Cathólico Indiano (Lima, 1598)

Rituale seu Manuale Peruanorum (Naples, 1607)

Relación de los Mártires de la Florida (Madrid, 1617)

Relación histórica de la Florida, escrita en el siglo XVII, ed. Atanasio Lopez, 2 Vols. (Madrid, 1931). Also published in Erudición Ibero-Americana 1 & 2 (1930-1931).

literature

Odilo Gómez, ‘El conocido misionero franciscano, historiador y obispo, Fr. Luis Jerónimo de Oré, conduce en 1613 una expedición de su orden a Venezuela’, AIA 30 (1970), 513-515; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 156 (no. 635).

With thanks to dr. Robin Vose, University of Notre Dame.

Ludovicus Iglesias González (1767-1834)

OFM. Born in Santa Maria de Asados, Rianjo (La Coruña). Member of the Santiago province. Minister general of the order. Died in Aranjuez.

literature

Manuel de Castro, ‘Luis Iglesias González, OFM’, in: Gran enciclopedia gallega XVI, 210-213; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 130 (no. 434).

Ludovicus Jacobili

Mario Sensi, `Il Trattato del terz'Ordine di S. Francesco di Lodovico Iacobilli', Analecta TOR, 29 (1998), 87-142 (= Santi e Santità nel Movimento Penitenziale Francescano dal Duecento al Cinquecento. Atti del Convegno di Studi Francescani Assisi, 11-12 febbraio, 1998, ed. Lino Temperini (Rome: Editrice Analecta TOR, 1998).

Ludovicus Kellen (Louis Kellen, 1617-1694)

OFM. Friar from Luxemburg. Order administrator in German and Belgian provinces; author and translator of catechetical, ascetical, and hagiographical works….

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 299; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 272; Unsere Toten (=Rhenania Franciscan Sondernummer 1941), 108-109; Franziskanische Studien 37 (1955), 201-217; DSpir VIII, 1695-1696

Ludovicus Luzanus (Luis Lozano, fl. c. 1700)

OFM. Member of the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 336-337; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 141 (no. 517).

Ludovicus Maria Sinistrari (Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, 1632-1701)

OFMRif. Italian friar from the Milan province. Active as preacher and theology professor. Wrote several large books for inquisitors and confessors. His De Demonialibus, one of the last major works on demonology to appear in the Early Modern Period recapitulates a lot of lore concerning demons, incubi and succubi. The work was used by Joris-Karl Huysmans (d. 1907) for his roman on Satanism (1891).

manuscripts and editions

Practica Criminalis illustrata (Rome, 1693).

Formularium Criminale & De Delictis et Poenis (…) (Venice, 1700).

De Demonialibus et Animalibus Incubis et Succubis (…): MS Milan, Ambrosoana>>l London, British Library>>. Only one part of this text was published by Ludovico himself in the De Delictis. A first full edition with French translation was provided by Isidore Liseux in 1872, based on a manuscript from London. Other French and English editions followed in the late 19^th century. A new issue of Liseux’s edition/translation appeared as: De la Démonialité et des animaux incubes et succubes, où l’on prouve qu’il existe sur terre des créatures raisonnables autres que l’homme… rachetées  par N.S. Jésus-Christ et capables de salut ou de damnation. Traduit du Latin par Isidore Liseux. Traduction revue et annotée par Isabelle Hersant, ed. Xavier Carrère (Toulouse: Editions Ombres, 1998). Cf. review in AFH 91 (1998), 596f.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 273; AFH 18 (1925), 131, 139; Collectanea Franciscana 13 (1943), 185; Collectanea Franciscana, Bibliographia Franciscana X, 164; Studi Francescani, 3^rd ser. 23 (1951), 93-100.

Ludovicus Maria Vidua (Vedova/Lodovico Maria Vedova di Venetia, fl. early 18th cent.)

Observant friar.

editions

Essercitii spirituali da farsi per i giorni della settimana (Venice: P. Baglioni, 1706)

Considerazioni morali (Parma, 1695).

literature

 DSpir XVI, 338-339.

Ludovicus Miske (d. 1768)

Chronicler.

literature

Witold Henryk Gral, ‘Kroniki franciszkanskie Zakonu Braci mniejszych Konwentualnych w Polsce’, Lignum Vitae 6 (2005), 361-379.

Ludovicus Mondellus (d. after 1510)

Italian friar. Edited Mario Filelfo’s Novum Epistolarium sive Ars Scribendi Epistolas (1481) [and no less than 17 later editions).

Ludovicus Rinieri (Luigi Rinieri, fl. 18^th cent.)

OFM. Chronicler

editions

Memorie del convento dell’Osservanza di Bologna 1712-1784, ed. Marco Poli & Manuela Rubbini, Collana di Cronache bolognesi d’epoca medioevale, moderna e contemporanea, 3 (Bologna, 1999). 

literature 

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Ludovicus de Sancto Francisco (Luis de San Francisco, fl. later 16th cent.)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Member of the Santiago province. Professor of Hebrew at Salamanca.

editions

Globus Canonum et Arcanorum Linguae Sanctae (1586)

literature

A. Kleinhans, ‘De grammatica Hebreica P. Ludovici S. Francisci’, Antonianum 1 (1926), 102-108; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 141 (no. 522).

Ludovicus Rodriguez (Luis Rodríguez, fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Friar from Noya (la Coruña). Scotist theologian in the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 5 (1945), 81-83; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 170 (no. 730).

Ludovicus Schönmerlin (fl. 1485)

OMObs. Lector in the convent of Than (1483). In 1483-1485 he compiled and rewrote in Solothurn a liturgical-catechetical collection [Jahrzeitenbuch: MS Munich cgm 4700 (autograph)].

manuscripts

Calendarium: MS Munich cgm 4700, ff. >>

Orationes: MS Munich cgm 4700, ff. >>

Ludwich Schönmerlin’s German version of Robertus Caracciolus’ lengthy Good Friday Sermon De Doloribus, Anxietatibus et Amaritudinibus Christi [Sermo 69 of Robert’s Quadragesimale]: MS Munich cgm 4700, ff. 15r-145v.

Ludwich Schönmerlin’s reworking of a confession treatise, dating from 25 Sept, 1483, and dedicated to ‘frow Elß von Mosack’. It amounts to a reworking of a fourteenth-century Bihtebuochs that he had encountered in a now lost manuscript kept in Straßburg, Johanniterbibl. (of which we have a partial 18th-century manuscript copy in Straßburg, Bibl. Municip. 810b that does not contain the Bihtebuochs, however. We still have a 1784 printed version of that work, included in the work of Oberlin. by Oberlin). Schönmerlin's reworking can be found in: MS Munich cgm 4700, ff. 201r-260v.

Register on a biblical commentary by Petrus de Tarantasia: MS Munich clm 5622 ff. 220r-223v (an. 1469)

literature

J.J. Oberlin, Bihtebuoch, dabey die Bezeichenunge der hl. Messe (Straßburg, 1784), 1-74; L. Pfleger, ‘Fr. Ludwich Schönmerlin, ein Thanner Franziskaner des ausgehenden 15. Jahrhunderts’, Straßburger Diözesanblatt 4 (1902), 107f.; F. Landmann, ‘Zum Predigtwesen der Straßburger Franziskanerprovinz in der letzten Zeit des Mittelalters’, Franziskanische Studien 15 (1928), 107f; Alemania Franciscana Antiqua III (1957), 112; Alemania Franciscana Antiqua VIII (1962), 215f; K. Berg, Der Tugenden Buch, MTU 7 (1964), 66f, 225-227; Nigel Palmer, ZfdA 108 (1979), 174; Karin Schneider, ‘Schönmerlin, Ludwig OFM’, Die deutsche Lit. des MA, Verfasserlexikon, VIII, 827-828 & XI, 1384.

Ludovicus Sotelo (d. 1624), beatus)

OFMDisc.

literature

Gerold Fussenegger, ‘Sotelo, Luis’, Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche ³IX, 741.

Ludovicus Zapata de Cardena (Luis Zapata de Cardenas, d. 1590)

OFMObs. Missionary and Bishop. Author of catechetical works.

literature

John Jairo Marin Tamayo, Une stratégie de construction d’une nouvelle indentité socioculturelle chez les indigènes du Nouveau-Royaume de Granade au XVIe siècle: la production du ‘Catéchisme de Fray Luiz Zapata de Cardenas’, Diss. (Laval, 2002). 

Luzzo Amadeus de Venetia (Luzzo Amadeo da Venezia, d. 1748)

OFMObs.

literature

Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Carteggi con Aa … Amadio Maria di Venezia, ed. Gianni Fabbri & Daniela Gianaroli, Edizione Nazionale del Carteggio di L.A. Muratori 1 (Florence, 1997). [Cf. Aevum 71 (1997), 894-895.]