ARLOTTO da PRATO. - Franciscan theologian, b. at Prato, d. at Paris in 1286. He studied at Paris and, having become a « magister », taught theology at least from 1281. From

1282 to 1285 he was provincial of Tuscany and on 13 May 1285 he was elected, at Milan, minister general of the Order. He died soon afterward and was buried in the convent of Paris (1286), in repute of holiness and learning.

There remains of him a Quaestio disputata (dated 1281) in Cod. lat. 14726 of the National Library of Paris, which also preserves his Sermones. Many writers attribute to A. the Biblical Concordances, which begin with the preface Cuilibet. But these are the 3rd edition of the Concordances of Hugh of St. Cher, prepared by Conrad of Halberstadt, and reprinted many times. A. seems entirely unconnected with this work; but perhaps he put the final hand to the Moral Concordances, composed by the Friars Minor and erroneously attributed to St. Anthony of Padua.

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BIBL.: L. Wadding, Script. Ord. Min., Rome 1906, p. 13; J. H. Sbarales, Supplementum ad Script. Ord. Min., Rome 1908, pp. 101-102; L. Oliger, s.v. in DHG, IV, coll. 251-52; A. Kleinhaus, in Antoninum, 6 (1931), pp. 316-24.

Arduino Kleinhaus

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