VINCENT BARON. – Preacher and controversialist, born 11 May 1604 at Martres, died in Paris on 21 January 1674. Dominican at Toulouse in 1621. A profound theologian of wide learning, clear and fluent in expression.
Works: *Theologia moralis adversus laxiores probabilistas, pars prior* (Paris 1665); *Manuductionis ad moralem theol. pars altera* (ibid. 1665); *S. Augustini et s. Thomae vera et una mens de libertate humana et gratia divina explicatur* (ibid. 1666); *Theologiae moralis summa bipartita* (2 vols., ibid. 1667–68); *Libri 5 apologetici pro religione, utraque theologia, moribus et iuribus O.P.* (ibid. 1666); *Duo postremi apologiae libri* (ibid. 1666): these last two works, published in five volumes, were placed on the Index because of their rigorism; *Ethicae christianae XVII loci* (ibid. 1673); *Apologia pro s. congreg. Indicis* (Cracow 1662); *Responsio ad librum Joh. de Cardenas, s. n. t.* [1672?]; *L'hérésie convaincue ou la théologie des luthériens et des calvinistes réduite à quatre principes et refutée* (Paris 1668).
BARONCELLI, Niccolò. – Sculptor, also called Nicolò dal Cavallo, born in Florence, died in Ferrara in 1453.
He was a pupil of Brunelleschi; then, after going to Padua (before 1434), he came under the influence of Donatello’s art. From this period survive a terracotta bas-relief with St Eligius (Civic Museum) and the side door of the church of the Eremitani (1442). Ten statues that B. carved for the tomb of GalcaZZZ da Santa Sofia (1436) and the sumptuous tomb of Battista Sanguinacci (1440, church of the Eremitani in Padua) have been lost. The Donatellesque influence, felt with a harsh northern edge, is very much alive in the bronze *Crucifixion* in Ferrara cathedral; in this city B. worked for Leonello d’Este. In 1451 he executed the horse for the equestrian monument of Niccolò III d’Este (for this work, now lost, B. was dubbed “Niccolò dal cavallo”). In Ferrara he ran an active workshop that, after his death, was continued by his son Giovanni and by Domenico Paris.