BERNARDO DA BOLOGNA

His *Bibliotheca scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum* (Venice 1747) is still sought after as a useful working tool. In it, completing earlier biographies, he lists the printed and manuscript works of 1102 authors; it was continued up to the year 1852 by Giovanni M. da Ratisbona in the *Catalogus scriptorum Ord. Min. Capuc.* (Rome 1853). A reader of theology and philosophy, he defended the sceptic doctrine in the works: *Institutio theologica* (4 vols., Venice 1764; Ferrara-Venice 1746 and 1756), *Institutio philosophiae praemittenda theologiae* (3 vols., Venice 1766), used as a manual in the schools of the Order. Always instructive are his *Lezioni sopra la regola dei frati Minori di S. Francesco* (Venice 1743 and 1753; Modena 1749; Bologna 1754 and 1764). The brief *Manuale confessorum Ordinis Capuccinorum* (Venice 1737 and 1740; Palermo 1738) was censured by the Holy Office in 1741 regarding the doctrine on reserved cases; corrected editions appeared in Venice-Modena 1745, Bologna 1752 and 1771, Prato 1832, Turin 1835. For the use of writers and orators he composed a convenient *Frasarium Sacrae Scripturae* (Venice 1742, 1760, 1761, 1762; Milan 1761).