MARCAL MARZAL (MARÇAL), FRANCESCO. - Lullist, Franciscan of the province of Majorca, of which he was also superior, b. at Mahon (Minorca) in 1591, d. 27 May 1688 in the Convent of St. Francis at Majorca. He is one of the principal representatives and propagators of the Lullian school (v. LULLO, RAYMUNDO).

He was professor of the Ars lulliana first in the royal convent of Majorca, where a special chair existed, and then in the convent of Aracoeli in Rome. He oversaw the publication of the Ars generalis et ultima of Raymond Lull (Palma de Mallorca 1645), and wrote several works, among which the following are known: De arte inveniendi medium, certamen dialecticum (Palma 1666); Resolutio quaestionum beati Raymundi Lulli in IV libros Sententiarum (ibid. 1673); furthermore Ars brevis Raymundi Lulli (Majorca 1669), to which is added Nova et naturalis discurrendi methodus.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: Wadding, Scriptores, p. 84; I. de S. Antonio, Bibliotheca universa Franciscana, I, Madrid 1732, p. 403; Sbaraka, I, p. 282; E. Rogent and E. Duran, Bibliografia de les impressions lullianes, Barcelona 1927, p. 185.

Gaudenzio Melani

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Marcal Marzal (Marçal), Francesco

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