[DCRM-L] Antoninus, Confessionale: Latin? Italian?

[Noble, Richard]

Definitely FWIW:

It's very hard to get a fix from any source I can access as to the original
language of the three parts of Saint Antoninus' Confessionale.

I *think* that New Catholic Encyclopedia has it right in saying (with just
that lack of explicitness that does not make a cataloger's day):

"His first work, which really consists of three distinct treatises, has
been called the *Confessionale* (1472, 1473, 1475). The 102 incunabula
editions attest its importance and practicality. The *Omnium mortalium cura*
(1475), written in Italian to help the faithful in approaching the tribunal
of Penance, was a guide to Christian living. The *Defecerunt* (1473) and
the *Curam illius habe* (1472) constituted manuals for priests in the
administration of the Sacrament of Penance."

I take this to mean that the first part, *Omnium mortalium cura* (actually
first printed in 1472), was written in Italian, but that the others,
intended for priests, were written in Latin (and only later translated into
Italian). Current AR for *Curam illius habe* has a 670 in which these two
sentences are misconstrued to mean "Confessionale, written in Italian,
consists of three distinct treatises; the Curam illius habe and Defecerunt
are manuals for priests on the administration of the sacrament of penance";
the AR for *Defecerunt* (of which there are many Latin editions) is silent
on the question of language.

*Nobody* that I could find says flat out and unambiguously what I think the
*NCE* has right. It's a minor thing that has only to do with "041 yes or
no", the least of my worries, but is there an expert on the list?

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