MONALDO of CAPODISTRIA. — Canonist, who was certainly a member of the Franciscan Order, died at Capodistria before 1285.
Scant information survives about him; indeed, he has often been confused with the similarly named Monaldo of Ancona or Monaldo Beneventano. Within the Order he held various offices and served as provincial of Dalmatia. Among his works are several sermons, delivered with doctrinal apparatus and resembling short treatises on individual topics. His best-known work, printed in Lyon in 1516, is commonly called the *Summa Monaldina*, composed around 1274. It has also been styled the *Summa aurea* (*perutilis atque aurea*), and in the past was sometimes mistaken for a *Summa casuum conscientiae*, though it was generally referred to as the *Summa iuris casuum coniici* because of its frequent references to the *Decretals* and to principles of law. It has not yet been definitively established that the work is his, though this is highly probable.