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The Syllogistic Method, together with a treatise on the logic of affirming consequences. Printed in Venice by Christophoro Zanneto in the year 1572.
ALEXANDER OF VILLEDIEU, a Norman—or, as others prefer, from Dol in Brittany, but certainly not from Burgundy as some believe—was highly skilled in the humanities and mathematics and was a Doctor of the Sorbonne; he wrote:
The Acts of the Apostles in Leonine verse. Leonine verse is a form of medieval Latin poetry where the middle of the line rhymes with the end.
A compendium of the entire Old and New Testaments in 212 hexameter verses, arranged so that a single word expresses the summary of each chapter; but because brevity often brings obscurity, he added a number below each word to remove it, intertwining small words written with a fine pen to serve as a sort of interlinear gloss. I place this paradigm before your eyes:
1 2 3 4
SIX , FORBIDS , THEY SIN , ABEL ,
1 2 3 4
days , the tree of life , the first parents , is killed ,
5 6 7
ENOCH , AND THE ARK IS MADE , THEY ENTER
5 6 7
is taken up , by Noah , into the ark .
He also wrote:
A book on the Ecclesiastical Computus. A manual for calculating the dates of moving feasts like Easter. A ms. abbreviation for manuscript is held in the Vatican Library.
On the Sphere.
On the Art of Numbering.
A Doctrinal for Boys. A famous medieval Latin grammar textbook.
Various Letters.
Several Sermons.
His works were rendered more polished by the French poet Hubert Sussanné, who removed many errors and added not a few things.
He was very dear to the Bishop of Dol and undertook the education of the Bishop's nephew in the humanities. He lived in the year 1240.
I do not know why Nauclerus (generation 42, under Alexander IV) said he was a Benedictine, since Trithemius, the Fasciculus Temporum, Bergomensis, and other historians agree he was a Franciscan.
ALEXIUS HURTADO of Salamanca, a Spaniard, born in the noble Spanish city of Zamora and a student of the province of St. James, wrote:
Three Dialogues on the Commonwealth of Christ the Lord. Published in Lyon by Sebastian Bartholomaeus Honoratus in the year 1556.
ALEXIUS LOPEZ, a Capuchin Preacher, published:
A Report on the North Cape. Rouen, 1635.
ALEXIUS SALAMANCA, wrote:
Three Dialogues on the Commonwealth of Christ. Lyon, 1558 in octavo, and 1616.
ALEXIUS SEGALA, an Italian Capuchin from Salò, a distinguished preacher of the divine word, conspicuous for his learning and integrity of character, published in Italian:
The Wondrous Art of Loving and Honoring the Glorious Virgin Mary. Venice, by Giovanni Battista Combi, 1621; it had appeared previously in Brescia in the year 1608.
Considerations, or Meditations on the Life and Heroic Virtues of the Blessed Virgin. Brescia, 1612.
The Angelic Exercise for Gathering the Mind while Reciting the Office of the Mother of God. In the same place, by Giacomo Sarzina, 1637; and other small spiritual works, such as:
The Exercise of Virtues.
The Triumph of the Souls in Purgatory.
Practice for Offering Service to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Celestial Crown, or Meditations for the Entire Year.
These works were translated into the French language and printed in Lyon in octavo and 16-mo in the year 1616.
ALEXIUS OF SEREGNO, of Milan, Bishop of Piacenza, wrote:
A Lenten Sermon Cycle, 1444. A ms. manuscript is held in Milan in the friary of St. Francis. He died in Piacenza in 1447.
ALEXIUS TROUSSET, a Frenchman from the friary of Tours and a Doctor of Paris, wrote in French:
Sermons on the Eucharist, which he titled "The Precious Pledge" (le Gage precieux).
A Compendium of Philosophical Terms.
ALEXIUS TUDERTINUS, an Italian of the Strict Observance from the province of St. Francis, Lecturer in the Arabic language at San Pietro in Montorio original: "ad sancti Petri in Janiculo" in Rome:
At the command of Paul V, he oversaw the reprinting of the Christian Doctrine, or Catechism for Eastern Nations, printed in Arabic and Latin, corrected and expanded, with an added Italian translation, as well as the seven penitential psalms, with the Litany of the Saints and the Virgin. Rome, at the press of the Propaganda Fide, 1642, in quarto.
ALFONSUS DE BENAVIDES, a Spaniard, Custos of the Province of the Regular Observance and the conversion of New Mexico, and Commissary of the Holy Inquisition; he gave to Philip IV, King of Spain:
A Report, or a diffuse narration in the manner of a memorial or petition written in Spanish, regarding the great spiritual and temporal treasures detected in New Mexico by God's inspiration and help. Madrid, at the Royal Printing House, 1630. This was translated into Latin by Joannes de Cranendonc, of the same order, and published by the press of Christopher Ketsemberger in Salzburg in the year 1634, in octavo.
ALFONSUS BRIZENO, see Ildefonsus.
ALFONSUS OF CASARUBIOS, from a town in Spain, wrote:
A Compendium of the Privileges of the Friars Minor and other Mendicants; which is the fourth edition, but revised according to the decrees of the Council of Trent and the Supreme Pontiffs who succeeded from Clement VII to Clement VIII, and enriched with additions by Hieronymus a Sorbo, General of the Capuchins, with the addition also of the very learned notes of Antonio of Córdoba. The first edition appeared in Salamanca by Alfonso de Porras in 1532; another in Paris in 1590; the fourth, which I use, in Venice in 1609; the fifth in Cologne by Johann Kinch in 1619.
ALFONSUS A CASTRO, born in Zamora, a most noble city in Spain on the river Douro, of the province of St. James; a man indeed learned and of great esteem with Charles V and Philip II, who therefore employed him as a counselor and traveling companion in many expeditions; he was also the preacher and confessor to Charles. His singular virtue shone especially in the pursuit of heretics; he declared a most bitter war against the Lutherans, who were then devouring the German lands like a plague of locusts, and striving to suffocate both old and new errors as they sprouted, he wrote:
Three Books on the Just Punishment of Heretics. Written in Salamanca and dedicated to Charles V in 1547.
Various and diametrically opposed...
Fourteen Books Against All Heresies, in a clear method...