BARTOLOMEO d'URBINO (CARUSI). — An Augustinian theologian and disciple of Agostino Trionfo, he completed the D. P. Augustini Milleloquium veritatis (Lyons 1555), which he dedicated to Clemente VI. The Pope wished to reward him by appointing him bishop of Urbino (1347), where he died a saintly death shortly thereafter (1350). He was a great friend of Petrarca. He taught theology at Paris and Bologna.
He knew almost the whole of s. Agostino by heart, and from his works he compiled a volume entitled Commentarii tam in Vetus quam in Novum Testamentum d. Augustini ex omnibus lucubrationibus collecti. These commentaries, however, were published under his own name by the plagiarist Giovanni Gast of Basel (Basel 1542). He took part in the struggle against Marsilio da Padova and Guglielmo d'Occam, who challenged papal authority, with two unpublished treatises: De Romani Pontificis, Christi Vicarii, auctoritate tractata contra errores quorundam, qui tempore Ludovici Bavariae ducis, contra Ecclesiam Christique Vicarium insurrexerunt and Libri Aegidii Romani de regimine principum. In the latter, which is a compendium of Egidio Romano’s book of the same name, he defends the theory of the potestas directa of the Roman pontiff over the temporal power of princes.
Other unpublished works of his still survive: Index in Milleloquium s. Augustini cum encomiis virorum illustrium de s. P. Augustino; Milleloquium D. Ambrosii; De re bellica spirituali per comparationem temporalis, partes III; Opus de pugna spirituali; Tractatus de quattuor novissimis.