Gabrielus Brunus (Gabriele Bruno Veneto, active in the second half 15th century)
Gabrielus Brunus (Gabriele Bruno Veneto, active in the second half 15th century) OMConv. Italian friar, Born in Venice. Entered the Conventuals. Became `Magister Sacrae Scripturae et Theologiae', inquisitor and provincial minister of the Holy land and/or Greece (1508). He was guardian of the Venetian convent of St. Job in 1464 and later vicarius of Candi. In 1472 he went with two other friars to the province of Milan to negociate and bring to an end an internal conflict. In 1472 he also was commisioned by pope Sixtus IV to unify the vicaries of Brescia and St. Anthony. In 1480 he seems to have been guardian of a Franciscan convent, whereas near the end of his life he was provincial minister of the Holy Land province. He prepared an edition of the Vulgate , together with a tabula alfabetica: the Tabula Alfabetica Historiarum Biblie . Besides he wrote two treatises, the Translatores Biblie and The Modo Intelligendi Sacram Scripturam . He is also known for his emendation of Petrarch's Trionfi and for his translation into Italin of Giordano Ruffi's De Arte Equorum Cognoscendorum / De medicina equorum . Alledgedly he also is the author of several Quaestiones Super Physicam .
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Quaestiones Super Physicam ? Mentioned by Sbaralea, Lohr, and others. We have not yet found any further evidence.
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Tabula Alfabetica Historiarum Biblie : MS Troyes 1511, ff 7ra-38rb (copy from 1490)
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MS Cambridge University Libray, 947 (Ee.II.29) ff. 171-182. These tables were included in Gabriele Bruno's edition of the Vulgate Biblia Sacra .
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De Modo Intelligendi Sacram Scripturam , included in editions of the Vulgate Biblia Sacra issued by him and others.
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Translatores Biblie , apparently included in his editions of the Vulgate Biblia Sacra .
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Biblia Sacra cum tabula nuper impressa et cum summariis nouiter editis. (Venice, 1490/1492/1494/Venice: Bevilaqua, 1498/1501/1519/Lyons, 1513) [Several of these editions include Gabriele Bruno's Tabula Alfabetica Historiarum Biblie and De Modo Intelligendi Sacram Scripturam ]
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Francesco Petrarcha, Gli Triumphi, col commento di Bern. Jlicino , ed. Gabriele Bruno Veneto (Venice: Piero de Zohane di Quarengi 1494).
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He also would have translated in or around 1492 into Italian Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum , which would have appeared for the first time in Venice, in 1554.
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