Barletta, Gabriel

Barletta, Gabriel a Dominican monk of Barletta, in Naples, who was living in 1480. He became so distinguished as a preacher that it was a saying in his time, "Qui nescit Barlettare nescit praedicare." He published some extraordinary sermons, entitled Sermones a Septuagesima ad Ferian tertiam post Pascha. Item Sermones 28 de Sanctis. Item Sermones 3, de Paucite salvandorum, de Ira Dei, et de Choreis, et 4 pro Dominicis Adventus (Brescia, 1498, Biog. Uni.; Paris, 1502), etc. — Biog. Univ. 3, 384; Landon, Eccles.Dictionary, 2:37.