Landolfo Caracciolo

Landolfo Caracciolo (Latin: Landulphus Caracciolus; died 1351) was a Franciscan theologian, diplomat and prelate from the Kingdom of Naples.

Landolfo[1] Caracciolo, whose name is sometimes anglicized Landulf or Landulph, was born in Naples in the final quarter of the 13th century, probably around 1280 or 1285.

[2] On 7 July 1331, the king sought to have the monastery on the island of Rovigliano [it] transferred to his administration in order to increase his income.

[2][4] On 29 February 1332, he received the pallium from Pope John XXII, who praised him for helping to suppress the sect of the Fraticelli in the Kingdom of Naples.

[2] It also includes two speeches: Manuscript 513 of the Biblioteca Comunale di Assisi contains sermons by Caracciolo and François de Meyronnes without specifying who authored what.

[3] Book 2 of this commentary was printed at Naples by Francesco Del Tuppo [it] in the final decade of the 15th century.

"[8] A lost work by Caracciolo on the Immaculate Conception is cited in the Elucidarium virginis of Antonio Bonito de Cucharo (1507).

Historiated initial at the start of Caracciolo's commentary on the Sentences in a 14th-century manuscript
Caracciolo (second from right) depicted in a fresco from the Franciscan Friary, Bolzano (1500)