Salvator Bartholucius (Salvatore Bartolucci, d. 1599 or 1603 )

Salvator Bartholucius (Salvatore Bartolucci, d. 1599 or 1603 ) OFMConv. Italian (Umbrian or Venetian) friar (Umbrian according to Sbaralea). Appointed magister Studium in Bologna in 1559. Obtained the magisterium theologiae at the general chapter of Milan in 1562. Regent lector in the Franciscan studia of Perugia, Venice, and Padua. Also active as inquisitor in the Assisi region. Represented his order in sermons at the Council of Trent. Held the public chair of metaphysics at the university of Padua between 1582 and 1597, when he had to give up his position due to illness. His successor as chairholder of Scotist metaphysics was Cesare Lippo. Salvatore was a major editor of Scotist works and of commentaries of fellow Scotist specialists. His works became a foundation for the works of Wadding.

Works

• In 1580, he issued his edition of the Oxford lectures on the Sentences by Scotus: Ioan. Duns Scoti Ordinis Minorum theologorum omnium eminentissimi atque Academiae subtilium antesignani, Quaestiones Quatuor Voluminum scripti Oxoniensis Super Sententias A.R.P. Salvatore Bartolucio Assisiate, eiusdem institui, artium, ac sacrae Theologiae Doctore (...) Fidelissime recognita, collationeque multorum codicum, emendatiores, castigatioresque, nunc reddita (...) Superadditae sunt Resolutuones Doct. à R.P. Melchiore Flavio illustratae , 4 Vols. (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1580). Partially available via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, and via Google Books.

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• Resolutiones in quartum lib. Sentententiarum Fr. Ioan. Duns Scoti, Doct. Subtilis, Ordinis minorum. In quibus, ea quae prolixius, & obscurus a Doctore pertractantur, brevis & clarius disseruntur, a R.P. Melchiore Flavio eiusdem instituti variis luminibus illustratae, necnon a patre Salvatore Bartoluccio Assisiensis, Scoticarum speculationem dilucidatore, accuratissime recognitae & castigatae (...) (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1580).

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• F. Ioan. Ioan. Duns Scoti Ordinis Minorum theologorum omnium eminentissimi atque Academiae subtilium antesignani, Quaestiones quodlibetales ex quatuor voluminibus scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias, A.R.P. Salvatore Bartolucio de Assisio (...) Nec non variarum lectionum, atque observationum dote locupletatae, ornatae, & illustratae. Cum compendio Quolibetorum, & Syllabo rerum memorabilium (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1580). Available via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books.

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• Syllabus Generalis in Quatuor Volum. Scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias. Lectissimos universae Doctrinae Scoticae flosculos, et omnes materias, Definitiones, Distinctiones, Axiomata, enunciationes insigniores, propositiones tum Theologica, tum Peripateticas, strictium attingens (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1580). Available via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books. According to Sbaralea, this is a revision of the Tabula generalis or Maremagnum Scoticum of Antonio Fanto.

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• F. Ioan. Duns Scoti Doctoris Subtilis Ordinis Minorum Theologorum omnium principis Disputationes collationales. Nuperrime à R.P. Salvatore Bartoluccio de Assisio, quàm diligentissime recognitae, ab innumeris mendis repurgatae candorique pristino restitutae (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1580). Available via the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele in Rome, and via Google Books.

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• Apologia brevis pro Scoto contra Jovium , included in the Syllabus Generalis .

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• In 1581, Salvatore issued an edition of Peter Tartaret's commentaries on the Ysagoge of Porphyrius and the logical works of Aristotle: Petri Tatareti Parisiensis, Ioan. Duns Scoti, Doctoris Subtilis, sectatoris fidelissimi, In Porphyrij Isagogen, ac vniuersos logicorum Aristotelis libros, eruditissimae explanationes: per r.p.f. Saluatorem Bartol. de Assisio ... diligentissime recognitae, atque emendatae. ... Cum syllabo locupletissimo (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1581). This work seems to be available via the BnF (Paris).

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• The same year Salvatore issued an edition of Tartaret's In Summulas Petri Hispani exactae explicationes : Petri Tatareti Parisiensis Ioan. Duns Scoti Doctoris Subtilis, sectatoris fidelissimi, In Summulas Petri Hispani exactae explicationes. Per R. P. F. Salvatorem Bartol. De Assisio conventualem Franciscanum, accuratissime recognitae, candorique pristino restituta (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1581). Available via the Bibliothèque Provinciale des Frères Mineurs Franciscains in Paris.

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• Stil the same year Salvatore likewise issued an edition of Peter Tartaret’s Scotist Aristotle commentaries, complete with the questions of metaphysics of his Franciscan predecessor in the chair of metaphysics in Padua Jacobino Malafossa. This edition was issued for the first time in 1581 as: Petri Tatareti Parisiensis, Ioan. Duns Scoti, Doctoris Subtilis, sectatoris fidelissimi. In Aristotelis Philosophiam Naturalem, Divinam, et Moralem exactissima Commentaria, quibus passim inserunt quaestiones quam- plurimae, tanto ingenii accumine, discussae, ut nihil amplius desiderari posse videatur. Additae sunt calce duae quaestiones R.P.M. Iacobini Bargii, Scotistae Clarissimi. Omnia nunc a mendis expurgata per R. P. F. Salvatorem Bartol. de Assisi Theologum Franciscanum, atque in Patavino Gymnasio Metaphysicam publicae profitentem. Cum syllabo copiosissimo (Venice: Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1581). Revised editions followed in 1591, 1613 and 1621.

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• In 1588, he edited the In Formalitates Antonii Syrecti Turonensis Isagoges Laurentii Brixiani Minoritae (Paris: Jean Bouc, 1588).

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