Hugo de Prato Florido

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Hugo de Prato Florido ( lat . From the flower meadow , also Hugo de Vinacensibus * to 1262 in Prato , † 4. December 1322 in Pisa ) was an Italian Dominican and author.

Life

Little is known about Hugo's life. In 1276 he lived in Florence . In 1288/89 he was a theology student at the University of Florence . On March 6, 1301 he entered the Dominican convent of Pisa, where he stayed until the end of his life.

Hugo wrote samples preached in Latin. One volume contained sermons on the Gospel readings and the Epistles readings on Sundays, and another sermon on the Holy Days.

Works

Cover of the 1479 Sermones dominicales super evangelia et epistolas from the Indersdorf monastery
  • Sermones dominicales super evangelia et epistolas - Sunday sermons on the Gospels and letters. Printed in Nuremberg in 1483, previously in Strasbourg in 1472 . The same work was also printed in Heidelberg in 1485 , where it was the first demonstrably locally produced print.
  • Sermones Hugonis de Prato Florido de Sanctis. Heydelberge 21. I. 1485. Digitized
  • Biblia cum postillis de Lyra . Printed in Nuremberg in 1485.

(Both of these incunabula are in the possession of the library of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin ).

  • Also a quotation from: DE SACROSANCTIS NOVI FOEDERIS IESU CHRISTI SACRAMENTIS by Anton Praetorius from 1602:
    • Appendix ex Hugone de Prato, supra epist. dom. 6th Trinity.
      • "Virtus baptismi non est ab aqua, neque a verbis, neque a baptizante, neque a baptizato, sed a Jesu Christo." Et paulo post: "Potius debemus dici baptizati et mundati in morte Christi, quam in Baptismo."
    • Translation: Here is a quote from Hugo de Prato, About the Sunday readings on the 6th Trinity Sunday
      • “The effect of baptism does not come from the water, nor from the words, not even from the Baptist or the baptized, but from Jesus Christ.” And a little later: “It is rather to be said of us that we were baptized and purified in the death of Christ than in baptism. "

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