UGO di NEWCASTLE. – Franciscan theologian of the 14th century, called de Novo Castro, a locality whose exact location is uncertain and which, according to some, was in England, while according to others it lay on the Franco-German frontier.
Known as “the Scholastic,” he was a fervent follower and defender of Duns Scoto, whom he calls in his writings doctor noster; he is in fact represented among the medallions of the 14 principal Scotists, placed in 1513 around Scoto’s tomb in Cologne. He wrote: Comment. in IV Sententiarum (unpublished); Tractatus de victoria Christi contra Antichristum, composed in 1319 (Nuremberg 1471), and other works whose authenticity is uncertain.
BIBL.: Wedding, Scriptores, p. 121 (accepts the English origin of U.); L. Amorós, H. de Novo Castro O.F.M., und sein Kommentar zum ersten Buch der Sentenzen, in Franziskaner Studien, 20 (1933, 1), pp. 177-223 (with bibliography); O. Bonmann, Ein franzisk. Literaturkatalog des XV. Jahrh., ibid., 23 (1936), p. 131. Gaudenzio Melani