John of Paolo (Johannes Pauli) (GIOVANNI DI PAOLO (JOHANNES PAULI))

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GIOVANNI di PAOLO (Johannes Pauli). - Apostle and anti-Lutheran writer, of the Conventual Friars Minor, born in Alsace around the mid-15th century, died at Thann around 1530.

Article illustration — GIOVANNI da NOLA - The Virgin between St. John and St. Matthew (1536). Altar of St. Mary of the Snow - Naples, church of St. Dominic Major.
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A student of the Argentinian province (Strasbourg), in 1490 he was a lecturer in Villingen; preacher in various monasteries of the Poor Clares, guardian of Strasbourg (1506-10), then in Colmar and especially in Thann, to which convent he was affiliated. He published Geiler (v.) of Kaysersberg and translated his Navicula fatuorum. Witty and biting in the anti-Lutheran struggle, he published the famous Schimpf und Ernst (Strasbourg 1522), which were widely read and recently reprinted (1866 and 1924).

BIBL.: A. Linsenmayer, Die Predigten des J. Pauli, in Hist. Jahrbuch (1898), pp. 873-91; C. Schroeder, in Franz. Studien, 2 (1926), pp. 393-97; L. Pfleger, J. Pauli und seine Ausgaben Geilerscher Predigten, in Archiv für Elsässische Kirchengeschichte, 1928, pp. 47-96; A. Zawart, The history of franciscan Preaching, New York 1928, pp. 415-16; L. Pfleger, s. V. in LThK, VIII, col. 19. Lorenzo Di Fonzo