Ubertinus de Casale

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Ubertinus de Casale , Italian Ubertino da Casale , German Ubertin von Casale (* 1259 in Casale Monferrato , † after 1328 ) was an Italian theologian who, as a spokesman with Angelus Clarenus and Petrus Johannes Olivi, belonged to the spiritual movement within the Franciscan order .

Ubertin sharply criticized the incumbent popes in his surviving writings. In his writing arbor vitae crucifixae , in the fifth book, the interpretation of the Revelation of John , he interprets the first beast (Rev 13) to Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the second to Benedict XI. (1303-1304). Even the number 666 (Rev 13:18) is interpreted as Benedict ( Βενεδίκτος with Greek letters).

Ubertino da Casale appears in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose . There he is named as the author of the book Arbor vitae crucifixae , which is said to have been the essential template for Dante Alighieri's "great poem", which probably means the Divina Commedia .

literature

  • Beirich, Gregory Scott. Franciscan Poverty as a Basis for the Reform of the Church in Ubertino Da Casale's Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu. in Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. Thomas M. Izbicki & Christopher MB Leiden: Brill, 2000. 50-74.
  • Burr, David. The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis. Pennsylvania: State University Press, 2003.
  • Damiata, Marino. Pietà e storia nell'Arbor Vitae di Ubertino da Casale. Firenze: Biblioteca di Studi Francescani, 1988.
  • Davis, Charles T. Ubertino Da Casale and His Conception of Altissima Paupertas. in Studi Medievali 22 Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1981. 1-56.
  • Ehrle, Franz. On the prehistory of the Council of Vienne. in Ed. Heinrich Denifle & Frank Ehrle. Archive for literary and church history of the Middle Ages 3 Berlin: Herder, 1887. 41–160. ( includes a comprehensive biography of Ubertin's writings )
  • Huck, Johannes C. Ubertin von Casale and his circle of ideas: A contribution to the age of Dante. Freiburg: Herder, 1903.
  • Knoth, Ernst: Ubertino from Casale. A contribution to the history of the Franciscans at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries , Marburg, 1903.
  • That. Ubertino from Casale. His life and his writings. in Journal for Scientific Theology 44 Leipzig: Friedrich Mauke, 1901. 101–150.

Web links

Works in full text

  • Ubertino da Casale. Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu in the BSB Munich Ed. Andrea de Bonetis. Venice: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1485.
  • Arbor vitae crucifixae of Jesus Christ. Andreas de Boneti, 12th III., Venice 1485. ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Wilhelm Bousset, Die Revelation Johannis, Göttingen 1906, p. 79 .
  2. ↑ Gunda Ostermann: Ubertin von Casale or how Umberto Eco breathes life into an unknown person in church history . In: Rolf Becker, Gerhard Hotze, Gunda Ostermann, Hans Peterse, Michael Widhalm (eds.): Theo-Light. Ecumenical-theological journal in Osnabrück and Vechta . No. 1/1998 . Osnabrück 1998, p. 20-49 (ISSN 1435-7208) .
personal data
SURNAME Ubertinus de Casale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ubertino da Casale; Ubertin of Casale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1259
PLACE OF BIRTH Casale Monferrato
DATE OF DEATH after 1328