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of " Disputationes philosophicse " (1630) and an edi- tion of various patristic works (1634). After leaving the Oratory in 1637, he pubhshed several other works, including "A Brief History of the Church in Scotland" (1643). Father John VVhyte, of Loughill in Ireland, en- tered the Oratory in 1647 and died a member in 1678. He was also a noted theologian and published "Theo- remata ex universa theologia" (1670). A still more distinguished member about this period was Father Stephen Gough of Sussex. At first chaplain to the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury and doctor at Ox- ford, he was converted to Catholicism by the Orato- rians of the court of Henrietta of France, whom we mentioned above, and in 1652 entered the Oratory of Paris, at the age of twenty-seven. The general of the

in France. He appears to have been professor of theology and philosophy in the University of Angers, where he enjoyed great reputation as an expounder of the teaching of John Duns Scotus. After 146.5 he wrote his chief work, a commentary on the Four Books of Sentences. He was interred in the church of the Ara Cceli on the Capitoline. His chief works are: "Expositio in IV Sententiarum Libros", a com- pilation based on the teachings of John Duns Scotus, published first at Rouen without date or place (s. 1. et a.) and then at Rouen without the year (s. a.); at Paris, twice in 14S8, again in 1499, 1511, and 1517; at Lyons, 1503; at Hagenau, 1.503; Venice, 1507; "Ex- positio in XII Libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis secun- dum viam Scoti" (Bologna, 1485; Paris, 1505) ; "Ex-

The Last Jttdqment Andrea Orcagna, Campo Santo, Pisa

Oratory, Father Bourgoing, stationed him at Xotre- Dame-des-Vertus, near Paris, at the head of a semi- nar}'for English Catholic priestswhich hehad founded, and for which the English clergy thanked the Oratory in a beautiful letter of congratulation. From 1661 Father Gough lived in Paris as almoner of the Queen

positio Logicse secundum Doctrinam Doctoris Sub- tilis Scoti" (Parma, 1482; Basle, 1494; Venice, 1507); "Logic^e Summula", with passages from Francis of Mayron, Antonio Andrea, Bonetus, and Scotus (Venice, 1489 and 1500). "Compendium Mathema- ticum" appeared without place or date (about 1485)

of England. He died of apople.xy in 1682, without (Bologna, 1485); "De Scientia Mathematica, Phy-

publishing the commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul with immediate reference to the Protestant contro- versy, which he had been preparing for many years. In contrast to this illustrious convert is Father Levas- Bor of Orleans, who entered the Oratory in 1667. A man of ability, but, according to Batterel, "too fond of sport and good cheer", he ended by leaving the Ora- tory and apostatizing, and died in England in 1718, a canon in the Established Church.

Perraud, VOratoire de France (1865); Batterel. Mimoirea domestiques; Ingold, Bibtiographie aratorientie.

A. M. P. Incold. Orbellis, Nicolas d', Franciscan theologian and philosopher, Scotist; b. about 1400; d. at Rome,

sica" etc. (Basle, 1494 and 1.503).

Wadding, Annates O. Min., XIII (Rome. 1735), 166; XIV, 125; XV, 319; Wadding, Scriptares 0. Min. (Rome, 1650), 268; ibid. (1806), 182 aq.; ibid. (1906), 179 sq.; Sbaralea, Supple- ment, ad Script. O. Min. (Rome, 1806). 561-2; Glassberger, Chronica Observ. in Analecta Franciseana, II (Quaracchi. 1887), 460; OnDiNCs, Scriptares ecclesia.il.. Ill (Leipzig, 1722), 2546-7; Port, Diet, de Maine-et-Loire. Ill (Paris, 1878), 35; Hain, Reper- tor. bibliogr., 120419a.; Coppinoer, Supplem., 1204333.

Michael Bihl.

Orcagna (the conventional name in art history of Andrea di Cione, also called ARCAONnoLo or Arcan- Gio) ; b. at Florence, early in the fourteenth century ; d. there, 1368. The son of a^oldsmith, he became archi- tect, sculptor, mosaist, painter, and poet. His broth-

1475. He seems to have entered the monastery of ers, Nardo, Jacopo, and Matteo, were also architects, the Observantines, founded in 1407, one of the first sculptors, and painters: Nardo, the eldest, painted the