OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR

This entry refers to Peter Philargi, who reigned as Pope Alexander V from 1409 to 1410. Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal, and Supreme Pontiff, he was elected at Pisa by the wondrous consensus of all the Cardinals of two factions to eradicate the schism The Western Schism, a period when there were rival claimants to the papacy.. A man truly learned and good, he wrote:
Commentaries on the four books of the Master of the Sentences. The "Master" refers to Peter Lombard, whose "Sentences" was the standard theological textbook of the Middle Ages. These are held in manuscript form in quite large volumes in the Library of the Conventual Minors at Assisi and Pienza. They also exist in Toulouse in the Library of the College of Foix, written on parchment by the hand of Cardinal Peter of Foix, who built the College.
Quodlibetal Questions. Quodlibeta: Formal scholastic debates where a teacher answered spontaneous questions on any subject.
Various Sermons. These are held in the Vatican Library, edited by him in manuscript.
Rules of the Chancery, and another work titled, On Obligations. He died in Bologna in the year 1410 on the nones of May May 7th, buried among the Minors with this epitaph added:

We have added another Epitaph in the Annals (year 1410, no. 2 and following), and we defended this great man from the slanders of many. Consult the aforementioned Annals.
ALEXANDER ALBERTINUS from Rocca Contrada, in Picenum A region in central Italy., published a work for the liberation of the possessed, to which he gave the title:
The Hammer of Demons, or four most experienced Exorcisms, collected from the Gospels. To these he added at the end two blessings and one common Italian prayer for the unlearned and for women, so that they might be able to preserve and free themselves, with God's help, if they do not have a Priest. These were published in Milan by the heirs of Pacificus Pontius in the year 1624.
ALEXANDER ALEMANICUS, a Saxon, called the Unstained Doctor, wrote:
Commentaries on the Apocalypse.
On the four books of the Sentences.
ALEXANDER OF ALEXANDRIA, from the territory of the Statielli in the Duchy of Milan, a member of the Province of Genoa, and later Minister General of the entire Order (Annals, years 1313 and 1314). Elected at Barcelona in 1313, he wrote:
On the Master of the Sentences.
A Summary of the questions of Saint Bonaventure on the four books of the Sentences.
Quodlibetal Questions.
A Treatise on Usury.
On the books 'On the Soul' and other works of Aristotle.
On Metaphysics; the commentaries circulated under the name of Alexander of Hales are said to be his.
A Postil on Ecclesiasticus. Postilla: A commentary written alongside or after a biblical text.
On Isaiah and Tobias.
On the Gospel of John. This is held in the Vatican Library among the books of the Count Palatine, codex 299.
On the Epistles of Paul. His Postil on the Epistle to the Romans is held in the Vatican Library.
One book of Various Questions. Held in manuscript in the Vatican. He died during his Generalate in the year 1314 and was buried in Rome at the Aracoeli.
ALEXANDER DE ARBITRIS, wrote:
A Handbook for Confessors. Venice, in the year 1522.

ALEXANDER ARIOSTUS, of the Province of France, of the Regular Observance A branch of the Franciscans seeking a stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Francis., wrote:
A Handbook, or Interrogatory for Confessors for the care of the salvation of souls, in which he includes a compendium of all the cases that frequently arise in that study. It was published in Paris in the year 1520 in quarto, and in Brescia by Peter Bazzolus in 1579; in Venice by Philip Pincius of Mantua in 1513; and in Lyon in 1523.
A Treatise on the true and perfect state of the Minors.
A second Treatise on the Rule, which is called "The Serene Conscience."
A third Treatise, which he titled, An Elucidation of the rational separation of the Friars Minor of the Observance from the other brothers of the same Order. See under the entry for Gaspar Tullien.
ALEXANDER BARCLAY, over whose birth the Scots and English contend; first a Priest of Saint Mary of Ottery in England, then of the Order of Saint Benedict, and finally he became a Minorite. Well instructed in the more refined disciplines, a poet and rhetorician of no common sort, he eventually became chaplain to Thomas Cornish, Bishop of Tyne, and later a suffragan of the diocese of Bath. He placed all his study in pious matters and in reading and writing the histories of the saints. He wrote several things himself, but he translated much more from the Latin into the English language:
Mancinus on the Virtues, in one book.
The Life of Saint Margaret.
The Life of Saint Ethelreda.
The Life of Saint Catherine.
The Life of Saint George, from the Mantuan.
Five Eclogues of the same.
The Castle of Labor.
The Bucolics of Codrus.
The Fourth Eclogue.
The Ship of Fools, dedicated to Bishop Thomas Cornish, in one book.
Against Skelton, in one book.
On the Miseries of Courtiers, in one book.
Illustrious Poets for the Nine Muses.
Sallust on the Jugurthine War, in one book. I remember this from earlier years.
On French Pronunciation, in one book. Many and various literate men; and many other things.
He died at Croydon, not far from London, in the year 1552, in the month of June.
ALEXANDER BONANNUS, of Palermo, a Professor of Sacred Theology, wrote:
A Lenten Sermon Cycle, to which he prefixed the title The Port of Palermo. Venice, by the Guerræi brothers, in the year 1574. He flourished in the year 1574.
ALEXANDER OF HALES, an Englishman, so named from Hales, a monastery in the county of Gloucestershire, where in his youth he emerged most highly instructed in the defenses of all human and divine sciences. Acute in intellect, eloquent in speech, solid in judgment, he was second to hardly any of the philosophers and theologians of his time. After laying the best foundations of his studies in England, he attained the laurel of Sacred Theology at Paris, then taught as a public professor for many years, to his own great praise and the benefit of his students. Because of the most solid foundations in every kind of learning and the invincible truth in his opinions, he was called the Fountain of Life, Teacher of Teachers, and the Irrefragable Doctor. original: "Doctor Irrefragabilis"