DE NATALIBUS, PIETRO. - Hagiographer, born in Venice, where he was parish priest of the SS. Apostoli until 1370, when he was appointed bishop of Equilio (Iesolo, also called Cavazuccherina). The last notice we have of him is from 1400.

He wrote: Catalogus Sanctorum et eorum gestorum ex diversis et multis voluminibus collectus, begun in 1369, finished in 1372, published in Vicenza in 1493 and about ten times in the first half of the sixteenth century. Some editions, such as that of Lyon 1542 (in-fol.), have additions of saints canonized after the author's death (St. Bernardino of Siena, St. Bonaventure, etc.). It was also translated into French: Le grand catalogue des saints et saintes (Paris 1523-24). The work, divided into 12 books, contains more than 1500 notices, arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar. In the prologue he enumerates his sources, among which Vincent of Beauvais, James of Varazze,

Pietro Calò. As a critic the author still stands in the full Middle Ages and is worth no more than James of Varazze.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Acta SS. Januarii, I, Paris 1863, p. XXI; Analecta hollandiana, 29 (1910), pp. 34-36; BHL, I, p. XXX.

Livario Oliger

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