ANTONIO DA MONEGLIA (A *MONELIA*) - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. I, p. 927

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ANTONIO da MONEGLIA (at *Monelia*). — Franciscan mystical theologian, d. c. 1527. A Ligurian, he belonged to the Bolognese province, in which he successively served as lector of theology, guardian, and from 1526 as provincial. Some historians confuse him with Antonio Pagliettino, also from Moneglia, his contemporary and of the same Order.

His principal writings concern mysticism: *In Divini Dionysii mysticam theologiam clarissima commentaria* (Bologna 1522); *Sursum corda*, a work divided into three parts: *In Directiorum inflammandi mentem in abyssum divini lumini per sacrarum Scripturarum sensus reseratos et ad unguem materiae applicatos* in 4 books (Bologna 1522); *Tropheum Israeliticum trigenium mysticam vitiorum stragem significans* in 4 books, the first of which was published in Bologna in 1526, the others posthumously in 1529; *Trophaeum Israeliticum quadrigenium*, unpublished (G. Piccone doubts that the manuscript still exists).

BIBL.: P. Britius, *Seraphica Subalpinae D. Thomae Provinciae monumenta*, Turin 1647, p. 286; G. Piccone, *Cenni biografici su uomini illustri della Francescana Osservante Provincia di Bologna*, I, Parma 1894, pp. 164-171; id., *Atti Capitolari della Minoritia Provincia di Bologna dall’anno 1438 al 1700*, ibid. 1901, passim; id., *Serie cronologico-biografica dei Ministri e Vicari Provinciali della Minoritia Provincia di Bologna*, ibid. 1908, p. 139 sq.; L. Wadding, *Script. Ord. Min.*, ed. novissima, I, Rome 1906, p. 28; J. H. Sbaralea, *Supplementum ad Script. Ord. Min.*, I, Rome 1908, pp. 88-89. Felicissimo Tiniella.