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Bartolommeo, Fra Painter, born Soffignano, Italy , 28 March 1472 ; died Florence , Italy , 31 October 1517 . A pupil of Cosimo Roselli, he was a successful artist when, through the influence of Savonarola, he abandoned art and entered the Dominican convent of San Marco, in 1500 . He resumed his painting by … Continue reading “Bartolommeo, Fra”

Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino Painter, born Soffignano, Italy , 28 March 1472 ; died Florence , Italy , 31 October 1517 . A pupil of Cosimo Roselli, he was a successful artist when, through the influence of Savonarola, he abandoned art and entered the Dominican convent of San Marco, in 1500 . He resumed … Continue reading “Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino”

Bartolomeo Platina Also known as Sacchi. Humanist; born in 1421 in Piadena, Italy; died in 1481 in Rome, Italy. Deprived of his membership in the College of Abbreviators by Pope Paul II he wrote a scathing and false account of his character in his Vitae Pontificum (Lives of the Popes), which influenced historical opinion for … Continue reading “Bartolomeo Platina”

Bartolomeo Eustachius Anatomist , born San Severino, Italy , 1520; died Rome, Italy, 1574 . Appointed professor of anatomy at the Roman University, he availed himself of opportunities for original work and recorded his anatomical investigations in a series of plates with text attached, Clement XI defraying the expense of publishing those which had been … Continue reading “Bartolomeo Eustachius”

Bartolomeo Dias (died 1500 ) Portuguese navigator. He first planted the cross on South African soil at Croix Island, Algoa Bay (1486 ), near the Cape of Good Hope which he discovered later (1488 ). He was lost in a shipwreck while taking part in Cabral’s expedition to the Indies. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari Colomba (1831-1846) Born Belluno, Italy , 1765; died Rome, Italy . He entered the Camaldolese Order and later was sent to Rome, where he wrote a treatise on the infallibility and temporal sovereignty of the papacy. As cardinal, and prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , he arranged concordats … Continue reading “Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari Colomba”

Bartolomeo Maestro, an Italian pIainter, flourished about 1236 in Florence. In the Church of the Servi in that city, according to Lanzi, is an Annunciation, painted in 1236, still ill good preservation, which is held in the highest veneration, and is inscribed Ecce Virgo Concipiet, etc. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bartolome de Las Casas Dominican , born Seville, Spain, c.1474; died Madrid, Spain, 1566. Abandoning the practise of law, 1510, he was ordained a secular priest, and went with the Spanish governor, Ovando, to the Antilles, where he endeavored to improve the condition of the Indians; in 1519 he established a post at Cumana, Venezuela. … Continue reading “Bartolome de Las Casas”

Bartolome Casaus Dominican , born Seville, Spain, c.1474; died Madrid, Spain, 1566. Abandoning the practise of law, 1510, he was ordained a secular priest, and went with the Spanish governor, Ovando, to the Antilles, where he endeavored to improve the condition of the Indians; in 1519 he established a post at Cumana, Venezuela. He became … Continue reading “Bartolome Casaus”

Bartolocci, Giulio A Cistercian monk and learned Hebrew scholar, b. at Celleno in the old kingdom of Naples, 1 April, 1613; d. at Rome, 19 October, 1687. He began his Hebrew studies under Giovanni Battista, a converted Jew, and in 1651 was appointed professor of Hebrew and rabbinical literature at the Collegium Neophytorum at Rome … Continue reading “Bartolocci, Giulio”