MANNUCCI, UBALDO. - Patrologist and canonist, b. at Montagano (Campobasso) on 8 Nov. 1883, d. at Rome on 20 May 1935. He studied at the Roman Seminary, earning a doctorate in theology and in utroque iure at the Apollinare. He was professor of patrology at the Augustinian College of St. Monica in Rome.
He published: Irenaei Lugdanensis adv. Haereses libri 5, in Bibliotheca sanctorum Patrum, by G. Vizzini, Rome 1907: a text that remained incomplete. Following the prohibition of Rauschen's manual of patrology, he composed, with the help of his beloved disciple, the Augustinian Fr. Antonio Casamassa: Istituzioni di patrologia ad uso delle scuole teologiche (2 vols., Rome 1914-15): after the author's death Casamassa kept the two volumes up to date, which reached the 6th ed. (21st thousand). He translated various works from German, among them L. Fonck, Il metodo del lavoro scientifico (Rome 1909), and composed many others; moreover he compiled the patrology bulletin of the Rivista storico-critica delle scienze teologiche.
Appointed Auditor of the S. Romana Rota, he oversaw the edition of several volumes of the Decisiones S. R. Rotae and directed for many years the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, of which he left unpublished the index for the first 25 years, which is preserved, but only in part, by his heirs.
Antonio Piolanti