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Aurifex Buonfigli, Nicola

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AURIFEX BUONFIGLI, NICOLA. - Italian Carmelite, b. around 1529 in Siena, where he took the Carmelite habit and earned a doctorate in theology; d. in Siena in 1601. In 1565 he was numbered among the theologians of the University of Florence, of which he was dean in 1578. He subsequently held the office of prior of the convent of Siena, of regent of studies of the college of Paris, of Padua (1575) and of Venice (1580), as well as provincial of Tuscany (1581).

Works: Examen ordinandorum (Venice 1567); Novum examen ordinandorum (Florence 1586); Speculum Missae; Tractatus de antiquitate et caeremonis Missae (Venice 1572); Trattato della Passione del Signore (ibid. 1567); Sommario delle indulgenze... (Florence 1592); Summa aurifica (Venice 1603).

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BIBL.: Mazzucchelli, II, iv, pp. 2384-86; Hurter, III, col. 613; C. de Villiers, Bibl. Carm., II, Orléans 1752, pp. 476-78; P. Anastase de s. Paul, Nicolas A. B., in DThC, XI, coll. 560-61.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 412.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Aurifex Buonfigli, nicola.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 412. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/aurifex-buonfigli-nicola.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Aurifex Buonfigli, nicola.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 412. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/aurifex-buonfigli-nicola.

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  author    = {Ambrogio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Aurifex Buonfigli, nicola},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {412},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/aurifex-buonfigli-nicola}
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