Innocentius Romerus (Innocenzo Romero da Carmagnola, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Piemont. Active as confessor in female religious houses. Author of devotional and hagiographical texts.

works

Istoria dell' origine della Corona di sette Poste o decenè di Maria Vergine(...) (Monteregalo, 1626/Mondovì, 1651).

Aggiunta alla divozione di sant'Antonio di Padova (Mondovì, 1624?).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 114; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 382; Onorato Derossi, Scrittori piemontesi savoiardi nizzardi registrati nei catalogi del vescovo Francesco Agostino della Chiesa e del monaco Andrea Rossotto (...) (Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1790), 81, 203; Gioacchino Grassi, Della tipografia in Mondovì, 2nd Ed. (Mondovì: Gianandrea, e figli Rossi, 1804), LV; .

Innocentius Salvius (Innocenzo Salvio, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMRef. Italian friar. According to Juan de San Antonio a neapolitan friar, yet that is questioned by Sbaraglia. Nevertheless, he is mentioned in Il Regno di Napoli in prospettiva diviso in dodeci provincie, in cui si descrivono la sua metropoli fidelissima città di Napoli, e le cose piú notabili (...) Parte prima (...) (Naples: Michele Luigi Mutio, 1703), 63. He was general preacher and theology lector in the Santa Maria del Giardino friary Milan in the early 1630sand wrote a number of works that were issued in Milan, Florence and Naples.

works

Stellarium B. Virginis Mariae (Florence, 1637). Italian title?

L'Api Barberine protettrici della Serafica Religione Franciscana de'Minori Osservanti, e Reformati. Oratione del R.P.F. Innocentio Salvio Napolitano de Minori Osservanti Reformati Predicatore Generale e nel Giardino di Milano di Sacra Theologia Lettor Generale attuale (Milan: Francesco Paganello, 1633). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books (title search and with author name Innocentio Salvio). A metaphorical work that explains why the 'Barberini Bees', i.e. the hardworking Barberini prelates, cardinals and popes, like to seek out Franciscan pastures (and flowers), to develop an argument about the reasons why the Franciscan order over time has received such preferential treatment from this important lineage.

Il maestoso advento in Italia del Serenissimo D. Ferdinando d'Austria cardinale infante (Naples, 1633)

Oratio in Adventu Fr. Joannis Baptista Campanae totius Ordinis Minorum Ministri (1633). Italian title?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 114; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 382; Gernot Mayer, Close Reading. Kunsthistorische Interpretationen vom Mittelalter bis in die Moderne (Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021), 512-515, 516, notes 27-32

Ireneus Affo (Ireneo Affó, 1741-1797)

OFM. Italian friar from Busseto (near Parma). Born at 10 December 1741. Studied first at Soragno and later with the Jesuits in his home town. Soon recognised for his erudition, he was allowed to become a youthful member of a local academy, in which context he wrote the poem La fuga dal mondo. On 28 June 1761, he entered the Observants of the Bologna province. Studied philosophy and theology and became a lector of philosophy at Parma in 1767, and taught between 1768 and 1778 at the Guastalla lyceum (at the request of Duke Ferdinand I of Parma). In 1778 he became under-librarian of the Palatina library of Parma. Due to some scholarly conflicts and intrigues, he lost the favour of Duke Ferdinant between 1782 and 1784 and had to leave Parma (he even exchanged his Franciscan habit for a normal clerical robe, to prevent embarassment for his order). By 1785, these problems apparently were resolved, for in that year he was promoted to the position of head librarian in the same institute, after a failed attempt at becoming the head librarian at the La Brera library of Milan. In the context of these various assignments, he corresponded with many erudites and wrote a very large number of works on many different subjects (not all of which saw the way to the printing press). In addition to these scholarly activities, Ireneo fulfilled several administrative functions within the order (definitor general in 1791, provincial minister of the Bologna province in 1795). He died unexpectedly on 14 May 1797, during a visitation of the Busseto friary and was buried in the Franciscan church.

works

Della vera origine di Guastalla dissertazione del p. Ireneo Affò minor osservante regio professore di filosofia nella medesima città (Guastalla: Stamperia dell'Illustrissima Comunità, 1773). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Antichità e pregi della chiesa guastallese ragionamento storico-critico del padre Ireneo Affò minor osservante professore di filosofia nelle regie scuole di Guastalla (Parma: Reale Stamperia, 1774). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Dizionario precettivo, critico, ed istorico della poesia volgare del p. Ireneo Affò di Busseto (...) (Parma: Carmignani, 1777). Accessible via the library of La Sapienza University in Rome and via Google Books.

Vita del b. Giovanni da Parma (Parma, 1777).

De' cantici volgari di San Francesco d'Assisi dissertazione del padre Ireneo Affò Minor Osservante, lettor giubilato e regio professore di filosofia nelle scuole di Guastalla (Guastalla, 1777). [questioning the authenticity of several vernacular poems ascribed to Francesco d’Assisi]

Vita di Vespasiano Gonzaga Duca di Sabbioneta, e Trajetto (...) scritta dal P. Ireneo Affo (...)Con gli annali Ebreo-tipografici di Sabbioneta del Signor Dottore Giambernardo De-Rossi (Parma: Carmignani, 1780). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

Delle zecche e monete di tutti i Principi di casa Gonzaga che fuori di Mantova signoreggiarono (Bologna, 1782).

Vita di Frate Elia da Cortona (Parma, 1783/Parma, 1819).

Vita di monsignore Bernardino Baldi da Urbino primo abate di Guastalla scritta dal p. Ireneo Affò lettor giubilato(...) (Parma: Carmignano, 1783). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

Vita del graziosissimo pittore Francesco Mazzola, detto il Parmigianino (Parma: Carmignani, 1784). Accessible via Google Books.

Istoria della città e ducato di Guastalla, 4 Vols. (Guastalla: Salvatore Costa, 1785-1787). The first volume is accessible via Goole Books.

Vita della beata Orsolina da Parma, scritta compendiosamente dal P. Ireneo Affò (...) (1786).

Memorie di tre celebri principesse della famiglia Gonzaga offerte a sua eccellenza il signor conte Stefano Sanvitale parmigiano (...) in occasione delle sue felicissime nozze con la sua eccellenza la signora principessa donna Luigia Gonzaga mantovana (...) (Parma: Carmignani, 1787). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

La zecca e moneta Parmigiana illustrata (Parma, 1788).

Vita di San Bernardo degli Uberti abate gen. di Vallombrosa cardinale di s. Chiesa e vescovo di Parma scritta dal padre Ireneo Affò minor osservante bibliotecario di sua altezza reale a professor onorario di storia nella r. università (Parma: Carmignani, 1788). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence and via Google Books.

Memorie degli scrittori e letterati di Parma, 5 Vols. (Parma: Stamperia Reale, 1789-1797). [this work was continued by Pezzani, his successor at the Palatina library of Parma, who includes a lengthy biography and bibliography on Ireneo in Volume VI of the Memorie, including listing of Ireneo’s works] Several volumes now accessible via several digital portals.

Storia della città di Parma scitta dal P. Ireneo Affò Minor Osservante, regio bibliotecario, professore onorario di storia nella R. Università e socio della R. Accademia delle belle arti, 4 Vols. (Parma: Carmignani, 1792-1795). In any case the first and the fourth volume are accessible via the Bibliothèque Numérique de Lyon (check Numelyo), the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and Google Books.

Ragionamento del padre Ireneo Affò regio bibliotecario ... sopra una stanza dipinta dal celeberrimo Antonio Allegri da Correggio nel monistero di S. Paolo in Parma (...) (Parma: Carmignani, 1794). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale of Naples and via Google Books.

To be continued

literature

B. Vitali, In morte del P. Ireneo Affò (Parma, 1797); Pompilio Pozzetti, Elogio d’Ireneo Affò, 2^nd ed., ed. Luigi Bramieri (Parma, 1802); Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 859; L. Modona, Bibliografia del P. Ireneo Affò (Parma, 1898) [also published in the Archivio storico per le provincie Parmesi 6 (Parma, 1897); G. Picconi, Serie cronologico-biografica dei ministri e vicari provinciali della minoritica Provincia di Bologna (Parma, 1908), 283-288; DBI>>>; Eugenio Bartoli, ‘‘In soccorso dei vincitori. Ireneo Affò e la ‘Istoria della città e ducato di Guastalla’, 1785-1787. Storiografia militante tra vecchie e nuove dinastie’, Annali di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea 8 (2002), 279-297.

Ireneus Avallonensis (Irenaeus Avalonensis/Irenée d'Avallon, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French Capuchin friar from Burgundy, and member of the San Louis province. Anti-Protestant preacher and controversialist.

works

Action funebre, Faicte à Lyon en l'Eglise des Reverends Peres Capucins, sur le corps de feu tres-R.P. Ange de Joyeuse, Provincial des Capucins en la Province de Paris (...) (Lyon: Claude Morillon, 1609). Accessible via Google Books.

Explication des raisons qui ont mey les sieurs de Pessades, et du Mazel, gentils-hommes du Gevaudan, et autres, à professer la verité catholique puis quelques iours, entre les main du P. Irenée d'Avallon, predicateur Capucin (...) (Puy: Estienne André, 1623).

Controverses contre les calvinistes, les huguenotes, et les anabaptistes (Lyon, 1628).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna & Dionisio da Genoa, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum Retexta & Extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 160; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 257; Louis Desgraves, Répertoire des ouvrages de controverse entre catholiques et Protestants en France (1598-1685) I, 365 (1613) no. 3120; Roméo Arbour, L'ère baroque en France: répertoire chronologique des éditions de textes littéraires, Quatrième partie: Supplément (1585-1643) (Geneva: Droz, 1985), 178 (1609) no. 19937.

Ireneus Avionensis (Irénée d'Avignon, fl. 18th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar and apostolic missionary in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). He also would have been a succesful conversionary preacher in regions with Calvinist strongholds.

works

Année pastorale, contenant un recueil et plan de catéchismes de morale, sur les evangiles des dimanches & fetes de l'annee depuis la Toussaint (...), 4 Vols. (Avignon, 1792).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Sancti Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 160; Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 29; Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 535.

Ireneus Brasavolus (Irenaeus Brasavolus/Ireneo Brassavole/Ireneo Brasavola, d. 1621)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from Ferrara, and as a young men was under the protection of Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. He joined the order on 17 December 1578 in Bologna, taking the religious of Ireneo. He was ordained in 1584. He taught philosophy and theology in order schools, showing a predilection for Scotist positions. He was guardian of the Bologna friary (1608-1611), and provincial minister between 1611 and 1614. Made Bishop of Castro (a town under the control of the Duke of Parma) in 1617, receiving his official appointment from Pope Paul V, and he was consecrated in Rome on 15 January by Cardinal Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini. He died in office on 23 March 1621.

works

Lubrucationes in logicam, philosophiam, ac theologiam. Mentioned/alluded to in the Apparato de gli Huomini Illustri della Città di Ferrara, I quali nelle Lettere, & in altre nobili Virtù fiorirono. Diviso in tre parti (Ferrara: Francesco Suzzi, 1620) of Augustinus Superbus, and in letters to Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandino.

Quaestiones de primis et secundus intentionibus super formalitates Scoti (Venice, 1591). Accessible via the BnF (Paris), and via the Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio-Emanuele in Rome.

Quaestionum uniuersalium Ioan. Duns Scoti expositio eruditissima, & accurata (Venice 1599). Accessible via the BnF (Paris), the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, and via the Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio-Emanuele in Rome.

Quaestiones quodlibetales, seu Miscellaneae theologicae, ac philosophicae, omnibus, praecipuèque doctrinam Scoti profitentibus necessariae (Venice, 1600). Present in the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (Bibl. Barberiniana), and in the Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio-Emanuele in Rome.

literature

Antonio Guarino, Compendium Historicum Ecclesiae Ferrariensis, 346; Augustinus Superbus, Apparato de gli Huomini Illustri della Città di Ferrara, I quali nelle Lettere, & in altre nobili Virtù fiorirono. Diviso in tre parti (Ferrara: Francesco Suzzi, 1620), >>; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 475.

Ireneus d'Eu (Irenaeus Deu/Irenaeus Edeu/Irenée d'Eu/Irénée Mithou/Irénée Mithon, fl. 17th cent.)

TOR. French regular tertiary from Normandy. Born in Eu. Member of the St. Yves province. Provincial and religious author.

works

Le vrai chemin du Ciel pour les gens du monde (1639).

Cantiques spirituels sur la vie purgative et illuminative (Paris, 1639).

Exercises de l'homme chrétien pour se disposer à la confession et à la comunion (Paris, 1642).

Rayons du soleil de justice dans le Saint-Sacrement de l'Autel (Paris, 1643).

Exercices du soldat chrétien (Paris, 1644).

La Retraite de dix jours (Paris, 1647).

Le portrait des jeunes gens (Paris, 1647).

Livre d'exercices et de dévotion pour tous les jours de la semaine, en faveur de la confrérie de Nôtre-Dame de Nazareth (Paris, 1649).

La perfection du chrétien sur le modèle des perfections de la sainte Vierge (Paris, 1654).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 257; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 475; Théodore Éloi Lebreton,Biographie normande III (Rouen: A. Le Brument, 1861), 86; Jean Baptiste Glaire, Dictionnaire universel des sciences ecclésiastiques, I: A-J (Paris: Poussielgue, 1868), 615.

Isaac Oxoviensis (Isaac Ostoviensis/Isaac ab Ochsenfurt/Isaak von Ochsenfurt/Isaac Oehninger, d. 1708)

OFMCap. German Capuchin friar from Franconia and member of the Bavarian province. Theologian, preacher, guardian, definitor. Religious author and translator. He died in Munich in 1708 on All Saints.

works

Leben vnd Thaten Deß Heiligen vnd Glorwürdigen Martyrers Sebastiani, Eines sonderbahren Patronen wider die Pest vnter der Figur verschiedener Sinn-Bilder, auff Reymen-Arth verfasset. Wie auch Mit Sittlichem Lehr-Stucken, vnd Gottseligen zu gedachtem Heiligen gerichten Anmuthungen erleuchtet (Augsburg: Stephanus Maystädter & Sebastian Hauser, 1693). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, and via Google Books.

Elogia Mariana ex lytaniis lauretanis deprompta: ac sacro poëmate rythmico, biblicis sententiis, ac figuris, solidis sanctorum patrum effatis, ac variis probatorum auctorum discursibus ; quae omnia in annotationibus post quaelibet poëmata apponuntur ad longum, luculenter explanata. Opus non solùm fovendae devotioni erga Beatissiman Virginem per opportunum, sed etiam panegyricis de eadem sermonibus efformandis accommodatissimum (Augsburg: Johann Philip Steudner, 1700). This 1700 edition is accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Narodni Knohovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books. A German version of this work came ou as: Marianische Ehren-Titlen: In der Lauretanischen Lytaney begrieffen: Vnd in gebundener Redens-Arth, durch Sentenz und Figuren der Göttlichen Schrifft, kräfftige Aussprüch der Heiligen Vätter (...) gründlich erklähret, und außgeleget (...) (Würzburg: Heinrich Engmann & Johann Dehninger, 1703). This German version is also accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

(as translator) Consultationes Theologicae et Spirituales Christianae vere fidelis & vere devoti de excellentiis sanctissimae Virginis Mariae Matris Dei (...) (Augsburg-Dillingen: Sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1701/1723/1726). Several editions are accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Narodni Knohovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books. This is a Latin translation of a French work by Ludovicus Franciscus (Louis François de Strasbourg). See for a German version also Theologische und Geistliche Bedäncken Eines warhafftig frommen und rechtglaubigen Christen, Von denen Vortrefflichkeiten Gottes (...) (Augsburg: Veith, 1736). This German version is also accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna & Dionisio da Genoa, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum Retexta & Extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 160-161; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 257.

Isabella Astorch (Isabel Astorch/Elisabetta Astorch, 1583–1616)

OSCCap. Spanish (Catalan) Capuchin nun and older sister of Maria Angela Astorch. Born in 1583, Isabel joined the new Capuchin house Santa Margarita la Real in Barcelona on 6 July 1599, where she subsequently worked as secretary and assistant of the founder Ángela Serafina Prat. Isabel later became abbess herself (1613) and wrote a life of Ángela Serafina shortly before her own death on 25 March 1616.

works

La Vida de mi Madre Ángela Margarita Serafina, fundadora de las capuchinas de España: MS. Later issued as: Vida de la Ven. Madre Angela Margarita Serafina, fundadora de las religiosas capuchinas de España, ed. Juan Pablo Fons SJ & Miguel Torbavi SJ (Barcelona: Catalina Mathevad, 1653).

literature

V. Serra de Manresa, Les clarisses-caputxines a Catalunya i Mallorca: de la fundació a la guerra civil (1599-1939) (Barcelona: Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 2002), ad indicem. See also https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/28127/isabel-astorch

Isabella Auta-Alegre (Isabel Auta-Alegre, fl. 17th cent.)

OSC. Portuguese Poor Clare. Born as daughter of the Viscount of Alegre. She joined the Poor Clares in the Madre de Dios monastery of Lisbon.

works

Relación de la admirable muerte de la Madre Magdalena de Jesús, hija del Conde de Ericeira y abadesa del monasterio: MS once kept in the family library of the Alegre Viscounts.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 325-326.

Isabella Bautista (Isabel Bautista, fl. 17th cent.)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare from Cifuentes (Guadalajara, Spain). Religious poet.

works

Romance al Santísimo Sacramento, published in: Justa poética que hizo al Santísimo Sacramento en la villa de Cifuentes el doctor Juan Gutiérrez (Madrid: Imp. Real, 1621).

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españoles (Madrid, 1903) I, 152.

Isabella de Aguilar (Isabel de Aguilar y Saavedra, fl. early 17th cent.)

TOR. Spanish Observant Regular Tertiary in the Monasterio de la Piedad in Guadalajara. Poet.

works

Poesía jocosa. Her writings are listed in José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976), IV, nos. 143, 1946-1947. They comprise for instance a series of versifications and spiritual letters: 'Pastillas de amor de un caballero a cierta dama', 'A una librea que lució en un juego de cañas un caballero', 'Romance del beso de manos', 'Soneto al Marqués de Montesclaros', 'Décima en elogio de D. Juan Enríquez de Zúñiga'.

literature

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IV, nos. 143, 1946-1947; Colleen Baade, 'Music and Misgivings: Attitudes towards nuns' music in early modern Spain', in: Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe An Interdisciplinary View (2017), Chapter 4.

Isabella de Baena (Isabel de Baena, fl. mid 16th cent.)

OSC. Spanish charismatic Clarissan nun from the de Santa Clara de Alcalá monastery with potential heterodox tendencies. She corresponded with various noble women and female spiritual guides, such as María Ortiz (who came under suspicion of heresy and was questioned by the inquisition).

works

Cartas, see: L. Nuñez, 'Dos cartas de Sor Isabel de Baena a la Duquesa del Infantado', Archivo Ibero-Americano 2 (1914), 322-325.

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españoles (Madrid, 1903) I, 146.

Isabella de Francia (Isabelle de France/Isabelle de Longchamp, 1225-1270)

French princess and order founder. Daughter of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, and sister of Saint Louis (Louis IX) of France. Foundress of the Urbanist Longchamp monastery of Minoresses (Sorores Minores inclusae) and maker of a new rule for this house and subsequent houses of Minoresses (in collaboration with the Franciscan masters Bonaventure, William of Meliton, William of Harcombourg and Eudes of Rosny). A first version of this rule was approved in February 1259; an second version was issued in 1263.

works

Rule of Isabelle of France (1263 version), edited in: Bullarium franciscanum II, 275-287. Other editions of the Latin text of Isabelle’s rules can be found in Lucas Wadding, Annales Minorum seu trium ordinum a S. Francisco institutorum, Third Ed., Volume 4 (Florence: 1931), 573-582; Bullarii franciscani epitome sive Summa bullarum in eiusdem Bullarii quatuor prioribus tomis relatarum, ed. C. Eubel (Quaracchi: 1980), 269-275 (no. 41). Recently much additional scholarship has become available on the rules of Isabelle, and this has also led to the production of several new translations into English and French, with recourse to medieval manuscript witnesses of the Latin text. See for an up-to-date English translation Sean L. Field, The Rules of Isabelle of France: An English Translation with Introductory Study (Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2014), 55-111. An up-to-date French translation is included in Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, Jean-Baptiste Lebigue & Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie, Isabelle de France Soeur de Saint Louis (Paris: Éditions franciscaines, 2014). 136-183.

vitae

In 1283, Agnes of Harcourt, third abbess of Longchamp, wrote the first vernacular Vie d’Isabelle, edited in: Histoire de S. lovys IX du nom Roy de France, écrite par Iean Sire de Ioinville Senéchal de Champagne, ed. Du Cange (Paris, 1668), 169-181; The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt: The Life of Isabelle of France and the Lettter on Louis IX and Longchamp, ed. Sean Field (Notre Dame, IN, 2003). See also Laura Ingallinella, 'Lost and Bound: A Thirteenth-Century Manuscript of the Vie d'Isabelle de France by Agnes of Harcourt', Revue Mabillon 32 (2022), 133-155. An eighteenth-century Latin translation (by J. Stilting) was printed in Acta Sanctorum August, VI, 798-808. A new edition appeared in Sean L. Field, The Princess, the Abbess, and the Friars: Isabelle of France and the Course of Thirteenth-Century Religious History (Northwestern University, 2002). Appendix A. ; Sean L. Field, 'The Missing Sister: Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont's Life of Isabelle of France', Revue Mabillon n.s. 19 (2008), 243-270; For an early seventeenth-century vita, see S. Roulliard, La saincte Mère ou vie de saincte Isabel de France (Paris, 1619).

literature

Gaston Duchesne, Histoire de l'Abbaye royale de Longchamp (Paris, 1906); Livarius Oliger, 'Le plus ancien office liturgique de la B.se Isabelle de France', in: Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, 2 Vols (Rome: Bibiotheca Apostolica Vaticana, 1946) II, 484-508; Albert Garreau, Bienheureuse Isabelle de France, Soeur de St. Louis (Paris: Editiones Franciscaines, 1955); A. Blasucci, 'Clarisse Isabelliane o Minoresse', in: Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione II, 1146; B. Lynn, 'Clare of Assisi and Isabelle of Longchamp: further Light on the Early Development of the Franciscan Charism', Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality 3 (1997), 71-98; T. Worcester, 'Neither married nor Cloistered: Blessed Isabelle in Catholic Reformation France', Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999), 457-472; Sean L. Field, The Princess, the Abbess, and the Friars: Isabelle of France and the Course of Thirteenth-Century Religious History, PhD. Thesis (Northwestern University, 2002); Sean L. Field, 'New Evidence for the Life of Isabelle of France', Revue Mabillon n.s. 13 (2002), 109-123; Sean L. Field, 'Gilbert of Tournai’s letter to Isabelle of France: an edition of the complete letter', Mediaeval Studies 65 (2003), 57-97; William Chester Jordan, 'Isabelle of France and religious devotion at the court of Louis IX', in: Capetian Women, ed. Kathleen Nolan, The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave, 2003), 209-223; Anne Rudloff Stanton, 'Isabelle of France and her manuscripts', in: Capetian Women, ed. Kathleen Nolan, The New Middle Ages (New York-Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 225-252; Anne-Hélène Allirot, 'Isabelle de France, soeur de saint Louis: la vierge savante. Etude de la Vie d'Isabelle de France écrite par Agnès d'Harcourt', Médiévales 48 (2005), 55-98; Sean L. Field, Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006); Christian-Frederik Falskau, ''Hoc est quod cupio': Approaching the Religious Goals of Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Bohemia, and Isabelle of France', Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality 12 (2006), 3-29; Gabrielle Joudiou, Isabelle de France et l'Abbaye de Longchamp (Paris: Éditions Franciscaines, 2006); Sean L. Field, 'Imagining Isabelle: The Fifteenth-Century Eputaph of Isabelle of France at Longchamp', Franciscan Studies 65 (2007), 371-403; Anne-Hélène Allirot, 'Longchamp et Lourcine, deux abbayes féminines et royales dans la construction de la mémoire capétienne: (fin XIII-I moitié du XIV siècle)', Revue d'Histoire de l'Église de France 94 (2008), 23-38; Lezlie S. Knox, Creating Clare of Assisi. Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy, The Medieval Franciscans, 5 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008), ad indicem; Sean L. Field, 'The Missing Sister: Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont's Life of Isabelle of France', Revue Mabillon n.s. 19 (2008), 243-270; Anne-Hélène Allirot, Filles de roy de France: princesses royales, mémoire de saint Louis et conscience dynastique de 1270 à la fin du XIVe siècle (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010) [esp. Chapter 8]; Rina Lahav, 'Ambitions of Faith: Mystical Instruction from Gilbert of Tournai to Isabelle of France', in: Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi: From the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Constant J. Mews & Claire Renkin (Mulgrave: Broughton Publishing, 2010), 209-220; F. Guilloux, 'La Regle et la vie des Sereurs meneurs encloses', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 106:1-2 (2013), 5-39; Anne-Hélène Allirot, 'Longchamp and Lourcine: The Role of Female Abbeys in the Construction of Capetian Memory (Late Thirteenth Century to Mid-Fourteenth Century)', in: Memory and Communication in Medieval Culture ed. Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen & Mary Franklin-Brown (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), 243-260; Bert Roest, Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, The Medieval Franciscans, 8 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), ad indicem; Sean L. Field, The Rules of Isabelle of France: An English Translation with Introductory Study (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2013); Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field & Jean-Baptiste Lebigue, Isabelle de France: soeur de Saint Louis: une princesse mineure (Paris: Éditions Franciscaines, 2014); Sean L. Field, 'Pierre Perrier’s 1699 Vie de Sainte Isabelle de France: Precious Evidence From An Unpublished Preface', Franciscan Studies 73 (2015), 215-249; Cristina Andenna, ''Lo spazio della parola' come luogo di incontro fra il chiostro e la corte', in: Spazio e mobilità nella 'societas christiana'. Spazio, identità, alterità, ed. Giancarlo Andenna, Nicolangelo D'Acunto & Elisabetta Filippini (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2017), 245-262; Sean L. Field, Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019) [Chapter 1]; Sean L. Field, 'La mort d'Isabelle de France (23 février 1270): entre histoire et mémoire', Études franciscaines n.s. 13 (2020), 217-233; Gerard Pieter Freeman, 'Grata e porta nelle Regole del XIII secolo per le damianite', Forma sororum 57 (2020), 175-191, 208-217, 267-279; Bert Roest, ‘The Rules of Poor Clares and Minoresses’, in: A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries, ed. Krijn Pansters (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020), 315-342; Sean L. Field, 'Isabelle of France, Alexander IV, and the 1259 Rule for the Order of Humble Maidservants of the Blessed Glorious Virgin Mary: An Elite Framework for Female Franciscan Life', in: Virtuosos of Faith: Monks, Nuns, Canons, and Friars as Elites of Medieval Culture, ed. Gert Melville & James D. Mixson (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2020), 171-188; Sean L. Field, 'Douceline of Digne and Isabelle of France: Forming Female Franciscan Identities in Thirteenth-Century France', in: Franciscan Women. Female Identities and Religious Culture, Medieval and Beyond, ed. Lezlie S. Knox & David B. Couturier (St. Bonaventure (NY): Franciscan Institute Publications, 2020), 83-98; Gerard Pieter Freeman, 'Grata e porta nelle Regole del XIII secolo per le damianite', Forma sororum 57 (2020), 175-191, 208-219, 267-279; Sean L. Field, 'La mort d'Isabelle de France (23 février 1270). Entre histoire et mémoire', Études Franciscaines 13 (2020), 217-233; Sean L. Field. 'Henry 3. and the Fate of Longchamp in 1587: a miracle of Isabelle of France in BnF MS nouv. acq. fr. 10871', in: L'épaisseur du temps. Mélanges offerts à Jacques Dalarun, ed. Sean L. Field, Marco Guida & Dominique Poirel (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), 569-581; Jacques Dalarun, Larry F. Field & Sean S. Field, 'Guibert of Tournai's Letter to Lady Isabelle: An Introduction and English Translation', Franciscan Studies 80 (2022), 31-57; Isabella di Francia Sorella di San Luigi. Fonti e documenti sulla fondatrice delle Sorelle minori, ed. Marco Bartoli, Jacques Dalarun & Sean L. Field, Franciscalia, 3 (Padua: Edizioni Messaggero, 2023) [lengthy presentation in Antonianum 99 (2024), 405-422].

Isabella de Granada (Isabel de Granada/Isabel de Solís/Aixa princesa nazarí, 1472-1560)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare of Islamic descent. Daughter of Emir Abu Abdallah Muhammad XII Boabdil of Granada and Sultana Morayma Ibn Athar. After the fall of Granada to the forces of the Catholic rulers Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Aixa for a while became the mistress of Ferdinand, and had an illegitimate son by him (Miguel Fernández Caballero de Granada). Later in life, Aixa joined the Poor Clares and eventually became abbess of the Santa Clara de Santiago de Compostela monastery (1549). She died on 1 January 1560.

works

Cartas. Cf. Serrano y Sanz.

Gloss on the Pater Noster. Cf. Serrano y Sanz.

Testamento: MS Santa Clara de Santiago de Compostela [cf. https://www.granadaporelmundo.com/el-testamento-de-aixa/ last accessed Thursday 8 Saptember 2022].

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903).

Isabella de Medina (Isabel de Medina/Elisabeth de Medina, d. 1636)

OSF. Spanish noble woman and lay tertiary.

works

Epistola ascetica symbolica, adressed at a family member, friar Francisco de Medina.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 228.

Isabella de Presentatione (Isabel de la Presentación, fl. ca. 1700)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare. Member of the San Antonio de Trujillo monastery. Known for a short letter on the virtues and writings of her fellow nun Mariana of San José.

works

Carta su las virtudes y escritos de Sor Mariana de San José.

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) II, 137.

Isabella de Ribadeneira (Isabel de Ribadeneira, fl. early 17th cent.)

TOR. Spanish courtly lady in waiting and Regular Tertiary known for her poetic works, several of which were inserted in seventeenth-century collections.

works

Poetry. A poetic reflection on the Eucharist Sacrament was apparently included in: Justa poética que hizo al Smo. Sacramento en la villa de Cifuentes el doctor Juan Gutiérrez (Madrid: Impr. Real, 1621); A sonnet on Saint Joseph found its way into: Vida, excelencias y muerte del glorioso Patriarca San José, ed. Joseph de Valdivieso (Toledo: Diego Rodriguez, 1604/Alcalá: Luis Martínez Grande, 1612); An eulogy on the poet Lope de Vega (who she was befriended with) ended up in: Lo hallamos en Rimas de Lope de Vega, ed. Fernando Coutinho (Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeck, 1605/Milan, 1611) [see also https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/sonetos-a-lope-de-vega-siglos-xvi-a-xx--0/html/00004810-82b2-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_4.html].

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) II, 147-148; S. Eijan, La poesía franciscana (Santiago, 1936), 266.

Isabella de Villena (Elionor Manuel de Villena/Isabel de Villena, 1430-1490)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare. Born in Valencia. After spending some years at the royal court, in the entourage of queen Maria of Aragon (wife of Alfonso V), Isabella entered the Valencian Trinitá convent (which had been established by Maria of Aragon). In 1462, Isabelle became abbess of the convent, a position that she kept until her death in 1490. In the course of her adult life, she also wrote several spiritual works. The only surviving work of hers is the large, but unfinished Vita Christi. It was published by her successor, abbess Aldonça de Montsoriu (at the request of Queen Isabella of Castile), and was reprinted several times in different versions in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.

works

Vita Christi, ed. Aldonça de Montsoriu (Valencia: Lupo de Rocca, 1497); Vita Christi (Barcelona: Jorfe Costilla, 1513) [changing the style]; Vita Christi (Barcelona: Carlos Amoros, 1527) [following the first edition]; Vita Christi, ed. R.Miquel y Planas, 3 Vols. (Barcelona, 1916); Isabel de Villena, Jesús i les dones: antologia de la Vita Christi (Barcelona, 2012); Isabel de Villena, Vita di Cristo, ed. Simone Sari (Milan, 2013); Portraits of holy women: selections from the Vita Christi, ed. & trans. Robert D. Hughes & Joan Curbet (Barcelona, 2013). [The large and quite original Vita Christi, which is written in a refined and courtly Catalan vernacular, consists in its surviving form of 291 chapters. It is based on a wide range of sources: using not only the Gospels and the apocryphical books, but also many late medieval works of passion devotion, theological treatises and mariological works. The Vita Christi deals with the life of Christ and with the Virgin Mary. Isabella developes the theme of man’s frailty and his dependence on the work of reparation. Strong emphasis on the importance of Christ’s passion, the importance of the Eucharist, the role of Mary as mother of Christ and as loving intercessor for mankind, and the role of Joseph. An interesting element is the way in which Isabella elaborates the importance of Mary as authoritative informant of and support for the apostles, due to her special revelations and communications with the Divine. She is represented as master and doctor of Divine love, and as a perfect embodyment of the active and the contemplative life. This representation of Mary gave Isabel the chance to emphasize the dignity of woman: the role of the Virgin shows that women are more honored than men. And she makes a point for the greater charity and piety among women in general. It has been argued that Isabella wrote the Vita Christi partly in response to the strongly mysoginist Llibre de les Dones by Jaume Roig]

Sermones. Spanish sermons. Manuscripts? Isabelle composed a series of sermons and gathered them in a volume that was passed on to a Carmelite friar, who lost it. Currently, only a few of her sermons still survive in manuscrit format in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid. Check!

literature

Agustin Sales, Historia del real monasterio de la SS. Trinidad (Valencia, 1761); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 228; J. Comerma, Historia de la literatura catalana (Barcelona, 1923), 130-134; M. Aguilo Fuster, Catálogo de obras en lengua catalana (madrid, 1927), 290-292; J. Ruiz i Calonja, Historia de la literatura catalana (Barcelona, 1954), 213-215; Marti de Riquer, Historia de la literatura catalana (Espluges de Llobregat, 1964) III, 453-484; DSpir VII, 2058-2060; J. Fuster, 'El món literari de sor Isabel de Villena', in: Obres completes (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1968), I, 153-174; J. Fuster, 'Jaume Roig i sor Isabel de Villena ', in: Obres completes (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1968), 175-210; J. Berg Sobré, 'Eiximenis, Isabel de Villena and some fifteenth century catalan illustrations of their works', in: Actes del Primer Col.loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-Amèrica (Urbana, 30 de març-1 d'abril de 1978) (Barcelona: Publ. d'Abadia de Montserrat, 1979), 303-314; Biblioteca Biblica Ibérica Medieval, ed. Kl. Reinhardt & H. Santiago (Madrid, 1986), 168; R. Ferreres, 'La Vita Christi de sor Isabel de Villena y la tradición de las Vitae Christi medievales', in: Studia in Honorem Professor M. de Riquer, Quaderns Crema (Valencia: Quaderns Crema, 1987) II, 105-164; P. García Aparicio, 'Sor Isabel de Vilena, una monja feminista al segle XV?', L'Aiguadolç. Revista de literatura 4 (1987), 31-38; T. Martínez Romero, 'Dues antologies de la Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Villena (Vita Christi, Antologia, introd. i ed. de L. Parra (...) i Protagonistas femenines de la 'Vita Christi' ed. à càrrec de R. Cantavella i L. Parra (..))', Llengua & Literatura 3 (1988), 622-629; R. Ferreres, 'El món cultural d'Isabel de Villena', in: Actes del Segon Congrès Internacional de la Llengua Catalana-València 1986 (Valencia, 1989) VIII, 541-552; Albert Guillem Hauf i Valls, 'Isabel de Villena i la 'Istòria de la Passió'', in: Actes del Segon Congrès Internacional de la Llengua Catalana-València 1986 (Valencia, 1989) VIII, 541-552; A.G. Hauf i Valls, 'Vigència de sor Isabel de Villena. En el cinc-cents anys de la mort de la literata valenciana, autora de Vita Christi', Quadern de cultura de La Vanguardia 18:9 (1990); M.M. Marçal, 'Isabel de Villena i el seu 'feminisme' literari', Revista de Catalunya 44 (1990), 120-130; Albert Guillem Hauf i Valls, 'Text i context de l'obra de sor Isabel de Villena', in: Literatura Valenciana del segle XV. Joanot Martorell i Sor Isabel de Villena, ed. G. Colón et al. (Valencia: Consell Valencià de Cultura, 1991), 91-124; R. Alemany Ferrer, 'Dels limits del feminisme de la Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Villena', in: Actes del Novè Col.loqui Int. de Llengua i Literatura catalanes (Alacant-Elx 1991) (Barcelona: Publ. d'Abadia de Montserrat-Univ. de Alicante, de Valencia y Jaume I, 1993) I, 301-313; J.L.I. Orts Molines, 'A propòsit de l'estil femení de Sor Isabel de Villena', in: Actes del Novè Col.loqui Int. de Llengua i Literatura catalanes (Alacant-Elx 1991) (Barcelona: Publ. d'Abadia de Montserrat-Univ. de Alicante, de Valencia y Jaume I, 1993) I, 315-326; R. Recio, 'Las interpolaciones latinas en la 'Vita Christi' de sor Isabel de Villena: traducciones, glosas o amplificaciones?', Anuario Medieval 5 (1993), 126-140; C. Papa, ''Car vos senyora sou la gran papesa' Mariologia e genealogie femminili nella 'Vita Christi' di Isabel de Villena', in: Las sabias mujeres: educación, saber y autoría (siglos XIII-XVII) (Madrid: Asociación Cultural Al-Mudayna, 1994), 213-225; R. Alemany Ferrer, 'La Vita Christi de sor Isabel de Villena: un texto feminista del siglo XV?', in: La voz del silencio, I: Fuentes directas para la historia de las mujeres (siglos VIII-XVIII) (Madrid: Asociación Cultural Al-Mudayna, 1995), 251-264; R. Alemany Ferrer, 'Lematització provisional del lèxic de la Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Villena (A-F)', Anuari de l'Agrupació Borrianenca de Cultura 8 (1997), 7-36; R. Alemany Ferrer, 'Lematització del lèxic de la Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Vilena (G-Z)', Anuari de l'Agrupació Borrianenca de Cultura 9 (1998), 63-98; J. 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Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida & Rosa Vidal Doval (Madrid, 2005), 189-202; David Barnett, 'The voice of the Virgin: Accessible authority in the Visitation episode of Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi', La Corónica 35:1 (2005), 23-45; Monserrat Piera, 'Mary Magdalene's Iconographical Redemption in Isabel de Villena's 'Vita Christi' and the 'Speculum Animae'', Catalan Review 20 (2006), 313-328; A.G. Hauf i Valls, La 'Vita Christi' de sor Isabel de Villena (s. XV) come arte de meditar. Introducción a una lectura contextualizada, Isabel de Villena, Facs. Edition, Volume 2 (Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 2006); Lesley K. Twomey, 'Poverty and Richly Decorated Garments: A Re-Evaluation of Their Significance in the 'Vita Christi' of Isabel de Villena', Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3 (2007), 119-134; Rosa Maria Gregori, 'La reivindicación del papel de la mujer en la obra de sor Isabel de Villena', in: La Gran Historia de la Comunitat Valenciana, 3: Ocho siglos de historia medieval. De Al-Andalus a la sociedad feudal (711-1519), ed. Enric Guinot Rodríguez, Francesc A. Martinez & Antonio Laguna (Valencia: Prensa Valenciana, 2007), 196-201; Dominique de Courcelles, 'Sor Isabel de Villena dans la Renaissance valencienne. S'écrire soi comme l'Autre', in: L'auteur à la Renaissance, ed. Rosanna Gorris (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), 403-418; Lesley K. Twomey, 'Manus mee distillaverunt mirram: la esencia de la Virgen y una interpretación de la mirra en la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena', in: Actas del XIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (Valladolid, 15-19 de de septiembre de 2009): In Memoriam Alan Deyermond , ed. José Manuel Fradejas Rueda et al., 2 Vols. (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2010) II, 1747-1754; Pilar Godayol, 'La "Vita Christi" de Sor Isabel de Villena: escritura en femenino', Antonianum 85 (2010), 301-311; María del Mar Graña Cid, 'Teólogas de una nueva memoria evangélica en el Renacimiento hispano: Jesucristo como defensor de las mujeres (Isabel de Villena y Juana de la Cruz)', in: Memoria e comunità femminili: Spagna e Italia, secc. XV-XVII = Memoria y comunidades femeninas: España e Italia s. XV-XVII, ed. Gabriella Zarri & Nieves Baranda Leturio, Biblioteca di storia (Firenze), 12 (Florence: Firenze UP, 2011), 49-72; María del Mar Graña Cid, 'Una paradigma femenino de excelencia política. La Virgen María de la Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Villena (siglo XV)', Miscelanea Comillas 69 (2011), 305-324; Rosanna Cantavella, 'Sobre la prosa d'art en Isabel de Villena', Studia Philologica Valentina 13 (2011), 249-266; Rosanna Cantavella, 'Intellectual, Contemplative, Administrator: Isabel de Villena and the Vindication of Women', in: A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies, ed. Xon de Ros & Geraldine Hazbun (Woodbridge, etc.: Boydell & Brewer, 2011), 97-108; Joan Curbet Soler, 'La espiritualidad afectiva: el ejemplo de Isabel de Villena', Medievalia (Barcelona) 15 (2012), 23-27 [http://revistes.uab.cat/medievalia/article/view/v15-curbet2/pdf ]; María del Mar Graña Cid, 'Sor Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) y el rostro femenino del cristianismo', in: Las mujeres en el cristianismo: once calas en la historia, ed. María Jesús Fernández Cordero (Santander: Sal Terrae, 2012), 61-83; Dominique de Courcelles, 'Espiritualidad femenina y teología trinitaria: sor Isabel de Villena, Valencia, finales del siglo XV', in: Dones i literatura: entre l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, ed. Ricardo Bellveser, 2 Vols. (Valencia, 2012) I, 55-78; María Luz Mandingorra Llavata, 'Memoria de la gestión, gestión de la memoria: sor Isabel de Villena', in: Dones i literatura: entre l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, ed. Ricardo Bellveser, 2 Vols. (Valencia: Diputació de València, Institució Alfons el Magànim, 2012) II, 735-758; Eduardo Mira, 'Sor Isabel de Villena-n'Elionor d'Aragó-Anjou: heràldica i intencionalitat comunicativa', in: Dones i literatura: entre l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, ed. Ricardo Bellveser, 2 Vols. (Valencia: Diputació de València, Institució Alfons el Magànim, 2012) II, 759-796; Pere Maria Orts Bosch, 'Sor Isabel de Villena (Elionor d'Aragó i de Castella)', in: Dones i literatura: entre l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, ed. Ricardo Bellveser, 2 Vols. (Valencia: Diputació de València, Institució Alfons el Magànim, 2012) II, 913-925; Lesley K. Twomey, The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013); Lesley K. Twomey, 'Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary: Women Seeing the Resurrection in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi and in the Vita Christi Tradition', La Corónica 42:1 (2013), 321-348; Lesley K. Twomey, 'Manus mee distillaverunt mirram': The Essence of the Virgin and an Interpretation of Myrrh in the 'Vita Christi' of Isabel de Villena', in: Medieval Hispanic studies in Memory of Alan Deyermond, ed. Andrew M. Beresford, Louise M. Haywood & Julian Weiss, Colección Támesis A, 315 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013), 189-214; Myriam Criado, 'La Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Villena y la teología feminista contemporánea', Lemir 17 (2013), 75-86; Germán Colón Domènech, 'El denominat 'estil afectiu' en la Vita Christi d'Isabel de Villena', in: Els escriptors valencians del segle XV, ed. Germán Colón Domènech (Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I, Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions, 2013), 193-234; Albert Guillem Hauf Valls, 'La lectura 'al spiritual' del c. 12 del Vita Christi d'Isabel de Villena. Notes d'exegesi isabelina', in: Els escriptors valencians del segle XV, ed. Germán Colón Domènech (Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I, Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions, 2013), 235-257; Lluis Ramón, 'Isabel de Villena (UU. DD. vol. I, tema 10)', in: Adentrándonos en la literatura catalana: edad media, ed. Julia Butinyà Jiménez & Josep Antoni Ysern Lagarda (Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – UNED, 2013), 303-330; Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, 'Amores humanos, amores divinos. La Vita Christi de sor Isabel de Villena', Scripta. Revista internacional de literatura i cultura medieval i moderna 4 (2014), 11-30 [https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/scripta/article/view/4485 ]; Lesley K. Twomey, 'De aquestes raons de la Senyora, los apdstols e Magdalena e les altres dones prengueren molta consolació: Establishing Female Identity through the Virgin's words in the Vita Christi of Sor Isabel de Villena', in: Identities On The Move, ed. Flocel Sabaté Curull, Identities, 1 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2014), 53-74; Lesley K. Twomey, 'Mary Magdalene and Martha: Sor Isabel de Villena's Self-fashioning through Constructing Her Community', in: Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, ed. Laura Delbrugge, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 59 (Leiden-Boston, 2015), 298-326; Lesley K. Twomey, 'Preaching God's Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher', in: Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400 - 1700), ed. Thomas V. Cohen, Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 14. (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015), 421-445; Rosanna Cantavella, 'Isabel de Villena i família: una reconsideració biogràfica', Anuario de Estudios Medievales 45 (2015), 715-732 [http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosmedievales/article/view/773/785 ]; Antoni Ferrando Francès, 'Llengua i espiritualitat en la Vita Christi d'Isabel de Villena', Scripta. Revista internacional de literatura i cultura medieval i moderna 6 (2015), 24-59 [https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/scripta/article/view/7838 ]; Roxana Recio & Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, 'Isabel de Villena y la espiritualidad del siglo XV', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 1-4 [https://raco.cat/index.php/Mirabilia/article/view/310248 ]; Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, 'Sor Isabel de Villena: de la religio amoris al amor religionis', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 5-29 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.01.pdf ]; Roxana Recio, 'Otra forma de literatura humanística de los siglos XV y XVI: las vitae Christi de Isabel de Villena y Cristóbal de Fonseca', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 30-56 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.02.pdf ]; Vincent Josep Escartí, 'Sobre la voluntad didáctica en la obra de sor Isabel de Villena', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 57-76 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.03_0.pdf ]; Miryam Criado López Picazo, 'La narración como vehículo de cohesión grupal: aprendizaje experiencial, experiencia colectiva y sublimación en la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 77-95 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.04.pdf ]; María del Mar Graña Cid, 'Mariología, reginalidad y poder en Isabel de Villena: una teoría política femenina del siglo XV', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 96-127 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.05.pdf ]; Carmen Arronis Llopis, 'Dos lecturas de la vida de María: la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena y la Vida de la sacratíssima verge Maria de Miquel Peres', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 128-153 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.06.pdf ]; María Dolores Esteba de Llobet, 'Isabel de Villena, una mirada teológica en femenino muy singular', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 154-175 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.07.pdf ]; Lesley K. Twomey, 'Isabel de Villena: Prayer and Franciscan Spirituality', Mirabilia. Revista Eletrônica de História Antiga e Medieval 22 (2016), 176-200 [http://www.revistamirabilia.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/22.08.pdf ]; Lesley K. Twomey, 'The Aesthetics of Beauty in the Writings of Cloistered Women in Late Medieval and Golden Age Spain (Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel de Villena and Teresa de Ávila)', eHumanista. Journal of Iberian Studies 32 (2016), 50-68; Lesley K. Twomey, 'Knowing Christ Incamate: Late-Medieval Women (Constanza de Castilla, Isabel de Villena, and Teresa de Cartagena) Writing the Senses', in: Christ, Mary, and The Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain, Andrew M. Beresford & Lesley K. Twomey (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018), 113-146; Albert Toldrà i Vilardell, 'El més enllà en sant Vicent Ferrer, Francesc Eiximenis i sor Isabel de Villena. Els llimbs dels patriarques', Scripta. Revista internacional de literatura i cultura medieval i moderna 14 (2019), 175-188; Anna Isabel Peirats Navarro, 'La Vita Christi d'Isabel de Villena, misericòrdia restaurativa i profitosa doctrina al servei de la meditació', Scripta. Revista internacional de literatura i cultura medieval i moderna 14 (2019), 205-228; Dominique de Courcelles, 'Amour et mort, vie de sainteté dans la littérature et la spiritualité à València au XVème siècle: de saint Vicent Ferrer à Sor Isabel de Villena', Scripta. Revista internacional de literatura i cultura medieval i moderna 14 (2019), 276-288; Vicent Josep Escartí, 'Isabel de Villena: L'espiritualitat feminina al claustre', in: Vides castalanes que han fet història, ed. Borja de Riquer i Permanyer (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2020), 215-222; Steven J. McMichael, 'Women of Resurrection Belief: The Role of Mary Magdalene: Saint Anne, Judith, and Esther in the Vita Christi of Isabel of Villena (d. 1490)', in: Franciscan Women. Female Identities and Religious Culture, Medieval and Beyond, ed. Lezlie S. Knox & David B. Couturier (St. Bonaventure (NY): Franciscan Institute Publications, 2020), 167-184; María Victoria Triviño Monrabal, 'Tres místicas franciscanas en contraste: Isabel de Villena, Juana de la Cruz y María de Jesús', in: Feminidad, literatura mística y traducción. Aproximación a la mística feminina: contrastes y recepción, ed. Pilar Martino Alba, Miguel Ángel Vega Cernuda & Juan Antonio Fuentes, Traducción, 10 (Madrid: Ommpress, 2020), 171-195; Rafael Alemany Ferrer, 'Versemblanga i simbolisme en la vita Christi de sor Isabel de Villena: un tándem efectista i efectiu', in: Miscel.lània Antoni Ferrando, Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes, 74-75 (Barcelona: Publicacions Labadia Montserra, 2020-2021) I, 213-230; Rosanna Cantavella, 'La carta pròleg d'Aldonça de Montsoriu a la "Vita Christi" d'Isabel de Villena', in: Qui fruit ne sap collir: homenatge a Lola Badia, ed. Anna Alberni, Lluís Cifuentes Comamala, Joan Santanach & Albert Soler, 2 Vols. (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2021) I, 135-143; Rafael Alemany Ferrer, 'El tàndem Maria-Eva en la Vita Christi de sor Isabel de Villena', Specula. Revista de Humanidades y Espiritualidad 2 (2021), 39-66; Isabel de Villena i l'espiritualitat europea tardomedieval, ed. Anna Isabel Peirats Navarro, Colección Plural (Valencia: Tirant Humanidades, 2022) [several very relevant essays, including (to name but a few): Holly Flora, 'Passion Narratives, Art, and Female Devotion in the Early Renaissance', 273-302; Rubén Gregori Bou, 'Dos formas de ver y dos formas de imaginar: variaciones en la representación del judío', 325-356; María Luz Mandingorra Llavata, 'La escritura de Sor Isabel de Villena: entre autoría y anonimato', 443-468; Angela Muñoz Fernández, ‘Molt alta, molt poderosa, christianíssima reyna e senyora’. Aldonza de Montsoriu y la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena (o cómo transformar el estatus cultural de un texto)', 469-498; Anna Maria Compagna, 'La badessa e le monache. La Vita Christi per il recupero dal peccato nei monasteri femminili?', 499-518; Miguel Navarro Sorní, 'Isabel de Villena, teòloga: La Immaculada Concepció de Maria en la seua Vita Christi', 519-548; Simone Sari, 'Metafora del canto e della danza nella Vita Christi d’Isabel de Villena', 549-598; Carme Arronis Llopis, 'Maria i Magdalena: santedat excelsa en la Vita Christi i altres relats coetanis', 599-628; Rafael Alemany Ferrer, 'L’al·legoria de l’amor profà en la relació Jesús-Maria Magdalena de la Vita Christi de Sor Isabel de Villena', 629-650; Anna Isabel Peirats Navarro, 'Salut i conversió a la Vita Christi d’Isabel de Villena', 651-680; Beatriz de Ancos Morales, 'Isabel de Villena y Teresa de Jesús: concomitancias textuales de dos mujeres escritoras', 709-724].

Isabel Losa de Cardona (Isabel Losa de Cardona/Isabel Orrit i Pagès, 1490-1564)

OSC. Spanish (Catalan) Clarissan nun. Daughter of a well-known Catalan family: her father was Vicenç Orrit, who held doctorates in Romand and canon law and fulfilled important functions as royal counselor. Isabel married Guillem Ramon de Josa i Cardona, with whom she had three children. After the death of her husband, she joined the Poor Clares, and ended up in Nothern Italy, where she became known for her theological erudition. She died on 5 March 1564 at the age of 73. Elements of her biography have been used to create a non-existing Poor Clare and abbess Isabel Losa de Còrdova, who allegedly would have obtained a universitary degree in theology. See on this the lecture of Arturo Rodríguez [https://www.inh.cat/blog/Isabel-Losa-de-Cordova,-la-savia-inexistent-que-fins-i-tot-te-un-carrer ; last accessed 28 May, 2022].

works

Theological works? They are alluded to by Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 326.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 326; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 227; Arturo Rodríguez, 'Isabel Losa de Còrdova, la sàvia inexistent que fins i tot té un carrer', https://www.inh.cat/blog/Isabel-Losa-de-Cordova,-la-savia-inexistent-que-fins-i-tot-te-un-carrer [last accessed 28 May, 2022].

Isabella Maria de Santa Anna (Isabel María de Santa Ana, fl. second half 18th cent.)

OSC. Spanish Poor Clare from Ricote, Murcia (born on 2 June 1750). She joined the Poor Clare monastery of Mula at the age of twelve. Later she became abbess and took a leading part in the foundation of the Observant Cieza monastery. She lived an exemplary religious life and received a vita by P. Ginés Cuartero.

works

Diario de conciencia (1600 pages): MS ? Apparently a spiritual/confessional autobiography.

vitae

Ginés Cuartero, Vida admirable de la Madre Sor Isabel María de Santa Ana, religiosa profesa, abadesa y fundadora del monasterio de la Purísima Concepción de religiosas descalzas de la primera Regla de N. seráfica Madre Santa Clara.

literature

To be continued...

Isabella de Sancto Francisco (Isabel de San Francisco/Isabel Chaves de Castro, d. 1679)

OSC. Spanish Observant nun. Born in Cambados as the fifth daughter of the lawyer Antonio Vázquez de Chaves and María de Castro. After the death of her mother, the family moved from Galicia to the Salamanca region, where Antonio became a city governor. Isabel was apparently not well treated and suffered from health problems. Financial troubles forced Isabel and her sister Beatriz to enter into domestic service in the house of don Cristobal de Solis. The latter enabled both women to take the habit at the Franciscan 'Descalzas' monastery of Salamanca. Isabel took her vows in 1632. She continued to have spiritual troubles ascribed to demoniacal visitations. One of her Franciscan confessors ordered her to write a detailed exposition of her life. In 1645 he asked her to use her prophetical gifts to foretell the election of the new provincial minister. A letter relating this came into the hands of the new provincial Antonio Calderón, who ordered her to burn all her writings and made her life miserable during the twelve years of his provincialate. Notwithstanding his interference, she became abbess of her community in 1654. From 1667 onwards, she wrote down accounts of her spiritual life at the request of another confessor, the Benedictine monk José Gómez. Her next confessor, the Benedictine Felipe de Beaumonde started to write a biography of her during her lifetime and asked her to provide a complete autobiography in 1676. Elements of the ‘Relación de su vida’ have survived in the biography dedicated to her by the Jesuit author Gabriel de Aranda.

works

Relación de su vida, see: Gabriel de Aranda, SJ, Vida de la Ven. Madre Sor Isabel de San Francisco, religiosa descalza en el convento, que la Religión Seráfica tiene en la ciudad de Salamanca (Sevilla: Tomás López de Haro, 1694). Gabriel de Aranda used the second autobiography of Isabel, compiled between 1676 and 1679 at Salamanca by order of her confessor Felipe de Beaumonde, as well as the unfinished biography of Isabel by the latter and several of Isabel's letters.

Cartas.

literature

Isabelle Poutrin, Le voile et la plume. Autobiographie et sainteté féminine dans l’Espagne moderne, Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez (Madrid-Ciudad Universitaria: Casa de Velázquez, 1995), ad indicem.

Isabella Piccini (Elisabetta Piccini, 1644-1734)

OSC. Italian Poor Clare from Venice. Painter, etcher and illuminator. Daughter of the etcher and engraver Giacomo Piccini, who trained her in engraving and illustration techniques. She joined the Santa Croce monastery in Venie in 1666, changing her name from Elisabetta Piccini to Sister Isabella.

works

Missal illustrations. See: Paola Bonfadini, 'Angeli del focolare, angeli del chiostro. Note su alcuni messali settecenteschi illustrati da suor Isabella Piccini, ora in Casa di Dio a Brescia', Brixia Sacra 3rd Ser. 1 (2007), 737-748.

Engravings. See: https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/11/09/isabella-piccini-and-angela-baroni-18th-century-engravers/

literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Piccini

Isabella Rodriguez (Isabel Rodríguez, fl. 17th cent.)

OSC. Poor Clare from Allariz. Wrote religious poetry.

works

Religious poetry. Cf. Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) II, 161; S. Eijan, La poesía franciscana (Santiago, 1936), 267-268.

literature

Serrano y Sanz, Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritores españolas (Madrid, 1903) II, 161; S. Eijan, La poesía franciscana (Santiago, 1936), 267-268.

Isabella Theodora de Jesu (Isabel Teodora de Jesús Timón y Vigario, 1651-1681)

OSC. Spanish nun from Zafra of noble descent. Born on 18 April 1651 as the daughter of Francisco Timón Cabrera and Ana Vigario. In 1663, at the age of 12, she was sent for her formation/education to the local Franciscan Convento de la Santa Cruz, and on 1 May 1667, she joined the local Clarissan monastery. Known for her 'Carta' directed to her spiritual director. She died on 7 January 1681. Acclaimed for her virtues by Franciscan chroniclers.

works

'Carta' [directed to her confessor, informing him about her devotional activities and spiritual concerns]. This was published in: Francisco Soto y Marne, Crónica de la Santa Provincia de San Miguel (Salamanca, 1743), 323-325.

literature

To be continued...

Isidorus Alphonsus de Castaneyra (fl. ca. 1700)

OFM. Spanish friar, member of the San Evangelio province (Mexico). Preacher, choir master etc..

works

Manual summa de las ceremonias de la provincia de el Santo Evangelio de México, segun el orden del capitulo general de Roma, el año de 1700 / depuesta de orden, y mandato de los Superiores, por el R.P. Fray Isidro Alphonso de Castaneyra (Mexico: Miguel de Rivera Calderón 1703).

De sensibus, et clavibus Sacrae Scripturae : opusculum in duos quàm per utiles, ac manuales tractatus divisum. Illustriss., ac Reverendiss. Dño. D. Fr. Matthaeo a S. Stephano, Episcopo cephaludensi, dicatum, et elaboratum a R. P. F. Isidoro Alphonso de Castaneyra Ordinis Minor. Regularis Observantiae prov. S. Evang. concionatore, caeremoniarum, ac chori magistro jubilato, &c. (Roma: Georgius Plach, 1707).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 188-189.

Isidorus de Leon (Isidorus Legionensis/Isidoro de Léon/Isidro, de León, fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish Capuchin friar and member of the Castile province.

works

Mistico cielo en que se gozan los bienes del alma, y vida de la verdad. Adornado de tres Gerarquias y en cada una tres órdenes que hacen nueve coros de espíritus viadores en el destierro; a semejanza del cielo beatífico (...), 3 Vols. (Madrid: Roque Rico de Miranda, 1685-1687). For instance accessible via the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna & Dionisio da Genoa, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum Retexta & Extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 161; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 258; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica XII, 137; La Provincia de Frailes Menores Capuchinos de Castilla (1949), 326.

Isidore de Niort (Isidore de Niort/Isidore Binet, 1620-ca. 1690)

OFMCap. French Capuchin friar from Niort and member of the Touraine province. Entered the Capuchins at Poitiers after finishing his education. Became active as a theology lector, and as a preacher, who defended the Catholic faith against Protestantism and engaged in polemics with Calvinists. He fulfiled repeatedly the functions of guardian (Poitiers friary), definitor and provincial in the Capuchin Touraine province. On request of his order superiors, he collected a number of his sermons and polemics in Le missionaire controversiste. This work not only explains the major points of dissent between Catholic and Protestant beliefs, refuting the latter, but in in the margins refers the reader to the theological and biblical authorities that back up the Catholic position.

works

Le missionaire controversiste, ou cours entier de controverses, dans lequel tous les points de la foy catholique, apostolique et romaine, combattus par les calvinistes, sont pleinement prouvez par l’Ecriture sainte, les conciles, les Pères grecs et latins, et par les ministres de la religion prétendue réformée (Poitiers: Jean Fleuriau, 1686/1710). At least the 1686 copy is accessible via the Hesburgh Library of the University of Notre Dame [BX 1780 Is3m].

literature

Bernardo di Bologna & Dionisio da Genoa, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum Retexta & Extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 161 [as Isidorus Niostensis]; Éduard d’Alençon, ‘Isidore de Niort’, DThCat VIII, 84; A. Teetaert, ‘Binet’, DHGE VIII, 1505-6 & XXVI, 210; Lex.Cap. 879-880.

Isidorus de Oggione (Isidoro d’Oggione, 1606-1677)

OFM. Italian Franciscan missionary in the Holy Land.

literature

Adolfo Nessi, Padre Isidoro D’Oggione O.F.M. 1606-1677, missionario in Terra Santa (Oggione, 1976).

Isidorus de Perugia (Isidorus Perusinus/Isidoro di Perugia, fl. ca. 1650)

OFM. Italian friar. Canonist. Alleged author of a work on restitution in confessional contexts.

works

work on restitution in confessional contexts. Check!

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, >>; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 258-259.

Isidorus de Scicli (Isidorus Siclensis/Isidoro da Scicli/Isidoro dei Spinelli, fl. ca. 1630)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) Capuchin friar, born as a scion of the Spinella family. He joined he order in the Sicily province.

works

La nuova Settimana, nella quale si ragiona della Vita del B. Guglielmo Protettore di Sicilia (Palermo: Alfonso da Isola, 1632). Under the pseudonym Giulio Xiso.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 259; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 475.

Isidorus de Sevilla (Isidoris Hispalensis/Vicente Gregorio de Medina y Rojas/Isidro Rodriguez de Esquibel/Vicente Gregorio Rodríguez de Medina Vicentelo de Leca, 09-05, 1662 - 07-11, 1750)

OFMCap. Spanish Capuchin friar from Sevilla, born in a noble Andalusian family. Studied under the Jesuites at the local St. Hermengild college, to enter the Capuchins of Sevilla on 05-05, 1681. After he was ordained priest (celebrated his first mass on 02-04, 1687), he embarked on a career as popular preacher in and around Cadiz, following in the footsteps of Pablo of Cadiz and Felician of Sevilla. After his return to Sevilla, Isidore became guardian of the local Capuchin convent. In this period he inaugurated a new form of Mary devotion (the devotion of ‘La Divina Pastora’/‘La Pastora Coronada’), and stimulated the formation of confraternities in to this purpose in Sevilla and other Andalusian towns. Thanks to the missionary efforts of the Capuchins, this new devotion spread throughout Spain, the kingdom of Naples, and even to the Americas. Throughout his later life, Isidore remained active as defender and promotor of this new form of Mary devotion, witness his many Marian sermons (more than 10000 according to his biographers) and other writings on the ‘Pastora.’ He was a very prolific preacher, and also engaged in the writings of saints’ lives and provincial order chronicles as official chronicler if the Andalusian province.

works

Corona florida imperialis magnae Reginae angelorum et hominum Virginis Mariae (Cadiz, 1698).

La nube del occidente. Vida y virtudes del venerable siervo de Dios Fr. Pablo de Cádiz, predicator (...) capuchino (Cadiz: Christoval de Requena, 1702). Accessible via Sevilla, Universidad de Sevila, Fondo antiguo.

La Pastora Coronada. Idea discursiva y predicable en que se propone Maria Santíssima nu stra Señora, Pastora Universal de todas las criaturas (Sevilla, 1705).

Novena a la Soberana Emperatriz de los Cielos, nuestra Señora Amantíssima Pastora de las Almas (Sevilla, 1714/& several later editions, until 1936).

Novena a S. Felix de Cantalice (Sevilla, 1720).

La fuente de las pastoras, primer pastora de el mundo: sermon de la milagrosissima imagen de Maria Santissima, la primera, que en el mundo con titulo y trage de pastora se le ha consagrado a Su Magestad sita en la Iglesia Parroquial de Sra. Santa Marina de la Ciudad de Sevilla / predicolo (...) el Padre Fray Isidoro de Sevilla (...) el dia 16 de agosto (...) (Sevilla: Francisco Sanchez Reciante, 1722 [1723?]). Accessible via the library of the Universidad de Sevilla.

El Phenix de Sevilla: Sermon del Gloriosissimo Principe de España... San Hermenegildo / Predicolo en la Iglesia del Santo, en la Puerta de Cordoba en su dia treze de Abril ... Fray Isidoro de Sevilla...Sacalo a la luz un devoto (Sevilla: Por Iuan Francisco Blas de Quesada, 1725). Accessible via Sevilla, Universidad de Sevila, Fondo antiguo.

Mapa breve, compendio de la vida de Sta María Magdalena (Sevilla: Diego Lopez, 1726/Sevilla, 1733 & 1757),

La Mejor Pastora Assumpta (Sevilla, 1732/Sevilla: Diego Lopez, 1738). [big Mariological work]

Gritos del cielo con que los angeles abrasados en el amor a Dios, y en el zelo de la salvacion de las almas, procuran, y persuaden a los mortales todos, a que huigan, aborrezcan, y eviten el pecado mortal (Sevilla: Viuda de Francisco Lorenzo de Hermosilla, [s.a., 1733?]). Accessible via the library collections of the Universidad de Sevilla.

Vida y virtudes del venerable siervo de Dios Fray Francisco de Lorca (Cadiz: Pedro Gomez de Requeña, 1734/Cadiz, 1740).

Sermon que en la solemnidad de la beatificacion del Beato Joseph de Leonissa, de el Orden de Capuchinos (...) celebrò la comunidad de dichos Capuchinos de la Ciudad de Sevilla, el domingo dia cinco de octubre del año de 1738. predicòlo (...) Fr. Isidoro de Sevilla (...) Orden de Capuchinos (Sevilla: mprenta y Libreria de los Gomez, 1738). Accessible via the Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla.

Sermon funebre, que en las solemnissimas exequias, que el excelentissimo señor D. Luis de Salcedo y Azcona, Arzobispo de Seuilla, le consagrò al venerable Padre Frai Luis de Ouiedo, del Orden de Capuchinos (...) predicò el M.R.P Fr. Isidoro de Seuilla (...) año de 1740 (...) (Sevilla: Miguel Gomez, ca. 1740). Accessible via the Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla.

Sermon funebre en las magnificas exequias, que el venerable clero de la antigua, y mui noble villa de Utrera celebrò, con assistencia de excelentissimo señor D. Luis de Salcedo y Azcona (...) predicòlo (...) Frai Isidoro de Sevilla, del orden de los Capuchinos (...), el dia 12 de el mes de junio de el año de 1741 (...) (Sevilla: Juan de Bassoas, 1741). Accessible via Sevilla, Universidad de Sevila, Fondo antiguo.

El montañas capuchino y missionario andaluz. Vida y virtudes del venerable Padre Fray Luis de Oviedo (Sevilla, 1743).

Several of his works can now be accessed via the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes [https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obras/autor/32680/][last checked on 9 August 2016].

literature

Bernardo di Bologna & Dionisio da Genoa, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum Retexta & Extensa (Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, 1747), 161; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 258; Miguel de Zalamea, Sermón fúnebre de honras (Sevilla, 1751); Nicolás de Bilbao, Immortal memoria del capuchino más peregrino. Panegyris fúnebre (Sevilla, 1751); Estudios Franciscanos 36 (1925), 40-51, 126-132, 215-219, 291-296; Estudios Franciscanos 38 (1926), 120-127, 432-437; J.B. de Ardales, La Divina Pastora y el Bto Diego José de Cádiz. Estudio histórico (1703-1900) (Sevilla, 1949); Lex.Cap. col. 880; Mariano de Sanlúcar, ‘El cristocentrismo en los escritos del V.P. Isidoro de Sevilla y su proyección sobre la devoción a la Divina Pastora’, Estudios Franciscanos 61 (1960), 63-72; Metodio da Nembro, Quattrocento scrittori spirituali (Rome, 1972), 286-287; A. González Caballero, ‘Escritores capuchinos de la provincia de Andalucía’, Estudios franciscanos 87 (1986), 74-97; Isidoro de Villapdierna, ‘Isidore de Séville’, DHGE XXVI, 218-219; Alvaró Román Villalona, La divina Pastora en los escretos de frey Isidoro de Sevilla (1662-1750), PhD. Diss. (Rome, 2009).

Isidorus de St. Michael (Isidoro de San Miguel, 1662 - 1740 (?))

OFMDisc. Mexican or Spanish friar. Entered the Alcantarine branch of the order in 1688. There are quite divergent accounts of his career. Some scholars situate his career predominantly in the Granada Alcantarine province and in the San Diego de Murcia friary. Other situate a significant part of his career in the Neapolitan Alcantarine province. Became novice master and professor of theology (apparently with Scotist leanings) and fulfilled several functions at the provincial, playing a role in the final separation of the Spanish and neapolitan Alcantarines in 1702. In 1704, he was provincial commissionar for the neapolitan Alcantarines, as well as guardian of the Sta Lucia del Monte convent at Naples. During his years as novice master and professor of theology, as well as during his subsequent administrative career, Isidore published several works (see below).

works

Reflexos de la verdad, y centellas de divino amor conque los amorosas rayos de el sol divino de justicia alumbraron y encendieron al sol de la Iglesia S. Augustín al contemplativo portento de penitencia S. Pedro de Alcantara (Naples, 1698) [The work amounts to a series of reflections for Alcantarine novices and other beginners, providing them with a primer in the theological thought of Augustine (part one), and an outline/florilegium of the writings of Petrus de Alcantara (part two)]

Paradiso cultivado: Vida de V. Fr. Sebastián de Aparicio (Naples, 1695); Vita V. Fr. Sebastiani de Aparicio Minoritae, de cujus canonizatione agitur (Rome, 1699 [Latin version])

Splendores Veritatis, ac Divini amoris scintillae (Naples: apud Felicem Mosca, 1698/Murcia: Typis Josephi Díaz, 1717).

Certamen historiale paneggiricum ad honorem Beatissimae V. Mariae eiusque fidelissimi doctoris Ioannis Duns minorum magistri (Naples: Typis Felicis Mosca, 1701)

De temporali, humana et mystica D.N. Iesu Christi generatione observatio genealogica, panegirica mystica, dogmatica et moralis super primum caput. S. Matthaei (…) (Naples: ex nova typografia Dominicii Antonii Parrino, 1704) [A learned commentary on the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark]

Vida de Pedro de Alcantara (Murcia: José Diez, ?).

Historia S. Michaelis Archangelis (Naples: per Dominicum Antonium Parrino, 1716).

Historia animae, et vitae hominis ab initio mundi, 6 Vols. (Granada: ex typografia Sanctissimae Trinitatis, 1720-1723).

Vita S. Petri Alcantarensis, adjectis Meditationibus (Murcia: per Josephum Díaz, 1723).

literature

J.M. Beristain de Souza, Bibliotheca III, 249; Joannes a S. Antonio, Minorum Fratrum, origine, domiciliove Discalceatorum, attramento et sanguine Scriptorum Bibliotheca (Salamanca, 1728), 160-161; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 258; J.P. Tejera y R. De Moncaco, Biblioteca del murciano II, 175; AIA 30 (1928), 128, 407; AIA 11 (1951), 281; AIA 15 (1955), 432-433; AIA 22 (1962), 365-366; Fr. d’Andrea, I frati minori napoletani nel loro sviluppo storico (Naples, 1967), 299-300, 312-314; Repertorio bibliografico dei frati minori napoletani (Naples, 1974), 129-131; ‘Scotismo e scotismi francescani delle province di Napoli’, in: Giovanni Duns Scoto nel VIII centenario della nascità (Naples, 1967), 235; Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española, ed. Gonzalo Díaz Díaz (Madrid: Editorial CSIC, 1991) IV (H-LL), 315; DHGE 26, 213-214.

Isidorus de Velasco (Isidoro de Velasco, fl. ca. 1700)

OFM. Spanish friar.

works

Sermón sobre le trionfi (...) Felipe V (...) (Sevilla: Juan Francisco Blas, 1704). We have not yet been able to trace this work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 259.

Isidorus Felix de Espinosa (Isidoro/Isidro Félix de Espinosa/Isidro de Espinosa, 1679-1755)

OFM. Mexican friar. Born in 1679 in Querétaro. Studied with the Jesuits and entered in 1696 the Franciscan Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz in his home town. He was ordained priest in 1703, and held several offices in his order, and also became the official chronicler of the San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacán province. In April 1709, when already stationed at the mission of San Juan Bautista of Río Grande, Isidro and his fellow friar Antonio de San Buenaventura Olivares (guardian of the Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz) were tasked by the Viceroy Cuke of Albuquerque to travel to eastern Texas, in order to sound out the Asinais people. He died in the San Francisco de México friary in 1755.

works

Compendio de la vida marabillosa del gloriosissimo Padre S. Francisco de Assis patriarcha y fundador primero del Orden de los Menores (Mexico City, 1735). To a large extent a remake of Damián Cornejo, Chronica Seraphica y Vida del glorioso Patriarca San Francisco y de sus primeros discipulos, Parte Primera (Madrid: Juan García Infanzón, 1682).

El peregrino septentrional Atlante. Delineado en la exemplarísima vida del venerable Padre Fr. Antonio Margil de Jesús, fruto de la floridissima ciudad de Valencia, hijo de su seráfica observante provincia, predicador misionero, notario apostólico, y ex-guardián de tres colegios, prefecto de las misiones de Propaganda Fide en todas las Indias Occidentales (...) (Valencia: Joseph Tomas Lucas, 1742). Accessible via the University Library of Valencia and also via the Biblioteca Municipal of the same town.

Diario del viaje que hicieron los PP. Fr. Antonio de Olivares y Fr. Isidro de Espinosa al Río de San Marcos, edited in: Otto Maas, Viajes de Misioneros Franciscanos a la Conquista del Nuevos México. Con un mapa y dos estadísticas de las Misiones franciscanas en los años de 1786 y 1788 (Sevilla: Imprenta de San Antonio, 1915), 50-63.

Crónica de la provincia franciscana de los apóstoles San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacán, 2^nd. ed. Nicolás Léon (Mexico: Imprenta El Tiempo, 1899/reprint 1945).

Chronica apostolica y seraphica de todos los colegios de Propaganda Fide de esta Nueva-España de Missioneros Franciscanos Obseruantes (...) Parte primera (Mexico: Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1746). See also: Crónica de los colegios de Propaganda Fide de la Nueva España. New Edition with Notes and Introduction, ed. Lino Gómaz Canedo (Washington: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1964/Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Querétaro, 1997).

literature

Archivo Ibero-Americano 16 (1921), 327; AIA 32 (1929), 44-47; Miguel B. McCloskey, ‘Fr. Isidoro Félix de Espinosa. Companion and biographer of Margil’, The Americas 7:3 (1951), 283-295; Francisco Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografía de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, III: D-F (Madrid: Instituto Miguel de Cervantes, 1984), 201; F.D. Almaraz Jr., 'Franciscan Missions Along the Coahuila-Texas Corridor: The Formative Years, 1700-1720', Catholic Social Science Review 1 (1996), 137-145; Asunción Lavrin, 'Franciscan Missionaries as Witnesses of Nature in Colonial Mexico', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 115:1-4 (2022), 237-285 (ad indicem).

Isidorus Gutierrez (Isidoro Gutiérrez, fl. c. 1701)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from Biar. Member of the San Juan Bautista province (Valencia). Apostolic preacher, provincial definitor, custos. He died in the Gandia friary on 23 March, 1729.

works

Tratado de la Insigna Archicofadria del Cordon de N.P.S. Francisco, instituida por el Papa Sixto V. y Gracias espirituales que gozan sus Cofadres. Con un tratado del Exercisio del Via Crucis, de los siete Dolores de N. Señora, y de su glorioso Esposo (...) (Valencia: Diego de Vega, 1699).

Explicacion de la Doctrina Christiana, en que se declara copiosamente, que deve creer; y obrar el Christiano para salvarse: con singulars, y raros exemplos, que confirman las materias que se tratan; y en el fin se añade el Exercicio devoto de Via Crucis (Valencia: Diego de Vega, 1701/extended edition in 1704).

Compendio de la prodigiosa Vida, virtudes, y milagros del glorioso San Pasqual Baylon. Con una breve Relacion de la magestuosa pompa, y sagradas ceremonias con que le escrivio en el Catalogo de los Santos, el papa Alexandro VIII (...) (Valencia, 1702).

Compendio de las excelencias del SS. Rosario de Maria Señora nuestra: Tesoro unestimable de gracias, e Indulgencias con que los Sumos Pontifices hasn enriquecido su insigne Cofafria (...) (Valencia: Diego de Vega, 1704).

Tratado de la devocion de las Almas del Purgatorio, donde se declara con doctrinas de los Santos, y sucessos prodigiosos, la utilidad de esta piadosa devocion, la terribilidad de las penas que padecen las benditas Almas (...) (Valencia: Joseph Garcia, 1705).

Rosario della Vergine (...) (Valencia: Diego de Vega, 1705). Ascribed by Juan de San Antonio. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

Canonica Demonstracion de la Immunidad Eclesiastica, que gozan las Beatas del Habito descubierto (Alicante, 1713).

Historia de la Virgen del Orito (Alicante, 1714).

Storia del. Vergina de Loreto (...) (1715). Ascribed by Juan de San Antonio. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 257-258; Vicente Ximeno Presbitero, Escritores Del Reyno De Valencia: Chronologicamente Ordenados (...) II, 215-216; AIA 18 (1922), 80; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 126 (no. 394).

Isidorus Kirnigi (Isidoro/Giovanni Felice Kirnigi, 1667-1737)

OFM. Austrian friar from Southern Tyrol. Born at Bolzano (18 May 1667). Entered the Franciscan order in his home town in 1687, taking the name Isidoro. Was ordained priest in June 6, 1691, and embarked on a career as a local minister and caretaker, putting special emphasis on spiritual counselling of the ill. In 1700, Isidoro, supported by his provincial Johann Aichberger, started an initiative to establish a female Franciscan order active in the world. Isidoro was helped by the Franciscan nun Maria Hüber, one of his spiritual disciples. Maria started with a school in Brixen (Bressanone), and therewith started an educational movement that spread throughout Tyrol. Isidoro died at Brixen on 16 January 1737. At least 135 letters by Isidoro to Maria and her sisters still survive.

works

135 letters by Isidoro to Maria Hüber and her congregation of teaching sisters. Check!

literature

M. Vettori, Die Tertiar-Schulschwestern in Süd- und Nord Tirol. Ihr Werden und Wirken, 1700-1955 (Innsbruck, 1955/2^nd ed. 1973).

Isidorus Rota (Isidoro Rota, fl. ca. 1600)

OFM. Italian (Venetian) friar. Compiler of sermons by Cornelio Musso and Francesco Panigarola.

works

(as editor) Lectiones Cornelii Mussi in Psalmo De Profundis/Expositio Psalmi 129: De profundis clamavi (Venice; Giovanni de Gara, 1588).

(as editor) Prediche di Monsig. Reuermo. Panigarola Vescovo d'Asti, fatte da lui straordinariamente, e fuor de' tempi quadragesimali (...) postillate dal R.P.F. Isidoro Rota Venetiano (...) (Venice: Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1592/Venice: Gio. Battista Ciotti Senese, 1599/Venice: Pietro Miloco, 1618). Hence an edition of the sermons of Francesco Panigarola.

(as editor)Tre prediche di mons. reuerendissimo Panigarola vescouo di Asti. Fatte da lui in Parigi. Postillate dal Rever. P. Isidoro Rota Venetiano Minore Osservante (Asti: Virgilo Giovanni Grandi, 1592).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 259; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 475; Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia III, 15.

Ivan Ancic (1624-1685)

OFM. Bosnian friar and order historian.

works

Annales. See the remarks in the 2017 study by Nada Zecevic.

literature

Nada Zecevic, 'Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography of Bosnia', in: A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europa, ed. Zara Martirosova Torlone , Dana LacCourse Munteanu & Dorota Dutsch (Chistester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017), 336-347.

Ivan Lukacis (Ivan Lukacic, 1585-1648)

works

Sacrae cantiones singulis binis ternis quaternis quinisque vocibus concinendae (Venice: A. Gardano, 1620). For a modern edition, see: Sacrae Cantiones (Venezia 1620). Mottetti a 1-5 voci, Corpus Musicum Franciscanum, 01 (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 1986). Some of these compositions were printed in other collections as well. Hence one of the motets was included in Deliciae sacrae musicae… Quas ex lectissimo lectissimorum nostri aevi musicorum penu, quaternis vocibus, cum basso ad organum applicato, suavissime modulandas exprompsit… ac… publice posuit, Ioannes Reininger (Ingolstadt, 1626). Five motets from the Sacrae cantiones ended up in Promptuarii musici concentus ecclesiasticos CCXXXVI. selectimos, II. III. & IV. vocum. Cum basso continuo & generali, organo applicato, e diversis et praestantissimis Germaniae Italiae et aliis aliarum terrarum musicis collectos exhibens, pars tertia… Opera et studio Joannis Donfrid, scholae Neccaro Rottenburgicae, nec non ad D. Martini ibidem musices moderatoris (Strasbourg, 1627).

literature

Dragan Plamenac, 'Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries in Dalmatia', in: Papers Read by Members of the American Musicological Society 1939 (New York, 1944), 21-51; Dragan Plamenac, 'Music in the Adriatical Coastal Areas of the Southern Slavs', in: Music in the Renaissance, ed. Gustav Reese (New York, 1959), 757-762; Dragan Plamenac, 'Tragom Ivana Lukacica i nekih njegovih suvremenika', Rad JAZU 351 (1969), 63-90 [on Ivan Lukacis and his contemporaries]; Lovro Zupanovic, 'Umjetnost Ivana Lukacica Sibencanina', Radovi Instituta JAZU u Zadru 13-14 (1968), 377-400 [On the baroque music of Ivan Lukacic of Sibenik); Lukacic. Zbornik radova znanstvenoga skupa odrzanog u povodu 400. obljetnice rodenja Ivana Marka Lukacica (1585-1985), ed. Ljudevit Maracic (Zagreb, 1987) [A collection of essays on the composer at the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth]; Koraljka Kos, 'Vertonungen lateinischer Texte von Schutz und Lukacic. Vergleichende Analyse/Schutzove i Lukaciceve skladbe na latinske tekstove. Usporedna analiza', in: The Musical Baroque, Western Slavs, and the Spirit of the European Cultural Communion/Glazbeni barok i zapadni Slaveni u kontekstu europskog kulturnog zajednistva, ed. S. Tuksar (Zagreb, 1993), 45-61, 197-213; Ljudevit Anton Maracic, 'Fra Ivan Marko (Giovanni Marco) Lukacic alla luce della più recente documentazione archivistica', in: Venice, Schiavoni and the Dissemination of Early Modern Music. A Companion to Ivan Lukacic, ed. Vito Balic, Vincent Besson & Ennio Stipcevic, Epitome musical (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022), 65-79; Lucija Konfic, 'Compositions by Ivan Lukacic in the Context of Contemporary Music Anthologies — a View From the Perspective of Digital Musicology', in: Venice, Schiavoni and the Dissemination of Early Modern Music. A Companion to Ivan Lukacic, ed. by Vito Balic, Vincent Besson & Ennio Stipcevic, Epitome musical (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022), 79-90; Dario Poljak, 'Lukacic’s Sacrae Cantiones (1620) and Historically Informed Performances in Croatian Festivals From 1980s to 2010s', in: Venice, Schiavoni and the Dissemination of Early Modern Music. A Companion to Ivan Lukacic, ed. Vito Balic, Vincent Besson & Ennio Stipcevic, Epitome musical (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022), 233-242; Tomislav Buzic, 'The Reception of Ivan Lukacic’s Motets by Croatian 20th and 21st Century Composers', in: Venice, Schiavoni and the Dissemination of Early Modern Music. A Companion to Ivan Lukacic, ed. Vito Balic, Vincent Besson & Ennio Stipcevic, Epitome musical (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022), 243-256.