[641] C. 3, Clem. v. iii.—Ripoll II. 172.—Wadding. ann. 1331, No. 5.—Paul Lang. Chron. Citicens. (Pistor, I. 1207, 1210).—Gob. Person. Cosmodr. Æt. VI. c. 71.—D’Argentré I. I. 315 sqq.—P. de Herenthals Vit. Joann. XXII. ann. 1333 (Muratori S. R. I. III. II. 501).—Guill. Nangiac. Contin. ann. 1331.—Villani, X. 226.—Chron. Glassberger ann. 1331.
[642] W. Preger, Die Politik des Pabstes Johann XXII. pp. 14, 66, 69.—Alphons. de Spina Fortalic. Fidei Lib. II. Consid. xii.—Vitodurani Chron. (Eccard. Corp. Hist. I. 1806-7).—Martene Thesaur. I. 1383.—D’Argentré I. I. 316-17. 319-22.—Isambert, Anc. Loix Franç. IV. 387.—Guillel. Nangiac. Contin. ann. 1333.—Raynald. ann. 1334, No. 27, 37, etc.—Wadding. ann. 1334, No. 14.—Villani, XI. 19.—Baluz. et Mansi, III. 350.—Grandes Chroniques, ann. 1334 (V. 97).
[643] Molinier, Études sur quelques MSS. des Bibliothèques d’Italie, p. 116.—Chron. Glassberger ann. 1334.—Benedict. XII Vit. Tert. ann. 1335-6 (Muratori S. R. I. III. II. 539-41).—Ejusd. Vit. Prim. ann. 1338 (Ibid. p. 534).—Eymeric. p. 421.—Concil. Florent. ann. 1439 P. II. Union. Decret. (Harduin. IX. 986).
A remark of Æneas Sylvius in 1453 shows that, notwithstanding these authoritative definitions, the old belief still lingered that the glory of the saints was postponed till the Day of Judgment (Opp. inedd.—Atti della Accad. dei Lincei, 1883, p. 567).
[644] S. Anselmi Cur Deus Homo Lib. II. c. xvi.; Ejusd. Lib. de Conceptu Virginali.—S. Bernardi Epist. 174, ad Canon. Lugdun.—D’Argentré I. II. 60.—Pet. Lombardi Sententt. Lib. III. Dist. iii. Q. 1.—Innoc. PP. III. Sermo XII. in Purif. S. Mariæ.
[645] Pet. Blesens. Sermo XII., XXXIII.,XXXVIII.—S. Bonavent. Speculi Beatæ Virginis c. i., ii., viii., ix.—The mediæval conception of the Virgin, as the intercessor between God and man and the source of all good, is expressed by Fazio degli Uberti—
“Tu sola mitigasti la discordia
Che fu tra Dio e l’ uomo; e tu cagione
Sei d’ ogni bene che quaggiù si esordia.”
[646] Thom. Aquin. Summ. I. ii. Q. 81, Art. 4; III. Q. 14, Art. 4, Q. 27.—D’Argentré I. I. 275.—Alvar. Pelag. de Planctu Eccles. Lib. II. Art 52.—Chron. de Saint-Just (Vaissette, Éd. Privat, VIII. 225).—Concil. Londin. ann. 1328 c. 2 (Harduin. VII. 1538).
The epitaph of Duns Scotus gives him the credit of defending the Immaculate Conception.
“Concepta est virgo primi sine labe parentis
Hic tulit—” (Mosheim de Beghardis, p. 234.)