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Albaspina, Nicola

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ALBASPINA, NICOLA. - Ascetical writer of the Conventual Friars Minor, b. in France ca. 1550, d. after 1620. He was guardian of the convent of Toulouse, then Provincial of Aquitaine.

An erudite humanist and a practicing orator, he left various small spiritual works and, mostly in French, commentaries on the Franciscan Rule and constitutions. His interpretations reflect somewhat his inconstancy (et aliquantum inconstans in viis suis, modo ad laxiorem, modo ad strictiorem observantiam deflectens [Wadding]). Notable: Fouet des Apostats, augmenté d'une response... (4th ed., Toulouse 1606); Traité de la vocation et fin des Religieux, et par spécial des Frères Mineurs (Tulle 1615); Commentarius de reformatione ad Pont. Paulum V (Toulouse 1610, Paris 1618).

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BIBL.: L. Wadding, Scriptores Ord. Minorum, 2nd ed., Rome 1906, p. 176; J. H. Sbaraka, Supplementum ad Scriptores Ord. Min., II, 2nd ed., Rome 1921, pp. 264-65.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 654.

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Di, Fonzo Lorenzo. “Albaspina, nicola.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 654. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/albaspina-nicola.

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Di, Fonzo Lorenzo. “Albaspina, nicola.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 654. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/albaspina-nicola.

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  author    = {Di, Fonzo Lorenzo},
  title     = {Albaspina, nicola},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {654},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/albaspina-nicola}
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