TOMMASO di CAPUA. - A native of Capua, he was appointed archbishop of Naples (1215) and cardinal with the title of S. Sabina (1216: Eubel, I, pp. 4, 359). He died at Agnani on 22 Aug. 1243.
Chancellor of the Curia under Innocent III, he later became, probably, major penitentiary. Gregory IX entrusted him with several legations, including missions to Emperor Federico II. He left some hymns, antiphons, and sequences in honour of St Francis and the Virgin. He transmitted his experience as an excellent curial drafter in the Ars dictandi (ed. E. Heller, in Sitzungsb. der Heidelb. Ak., 19 [1928-29], fasc. 4) and in the valuable, still unpublished formulary known by the title Summa dictaminis.
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