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Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury in Britain, an Italian by nation, of Pavia by fatherland, formerly Abbot of the monastery of Caen [Codoniensis] — the most learned of all in his time in every kind of letters, and by far the most illustrious in the Council which was held at Rome against Berengar, deacon of the Church of Angers, the heretic, by 113 bishops under Nicholas II — left, among other monuments of his excellent genius, pious and learned commentaries on the whole Psalter and on all the Epistles of Paul. He flourished under the Emperor Henry III, in the year of the Lord 1060.
Lawrence Justinian [Laurentius Iustinianus], a Venetian by fatherland, of the Celestine order [so printed], Patriarch of the illustrious city of Venice, most renowned for the sanctity of his life, the glory of his miracles, and the candor of his sincere erudition, wrote — in a not inelegant style — on the 12th, 13th, and 14th chapters of John, one book On the discourse of the Lord at the Last Supper, most delightful for its sweet colloquies. He flourished in the year of the Lord 1410.
Lorenzo de Villavicencio [Laurentius Villauincentius], a Spaniard, a preacher among the people of Burgos, of the Order of Hermits, collected tables of memorable things which can be treated in the individual gospel and epistle lections of the festal days, exceedingly useful to preachers. The preface of these begins, The office demands. He flourished in the year of the Lord 1560.
Leander, Bishop of the Church of Seville in Spain, an African by nation, of Carthage by fatherland, a monk by institute, a man illustrious for his erudition in the holy Scriptures — to whom Gregory I, Supreme Pontiff, dedicated his commentaries on Job [the Moralia] — published many volumes of edifying reading, but among the rest a twofold order of prayers and meditations on the whole Psalter. He flourished under Reccared [Richardus], the most pious king of the Visigoths, whom he converted from the Arian perfidy, together with the whole nation of the Visigoths subject to him, to the Catholic faith — having before led back from that same impiety also his brother Hermenegild [Hermilgildus], son of Leovigild [Leuigildus] king of the Goths, whom his most cruel father, a defender of the Arian impiety, on the vigil of Easter — beheaded for the confession of the Catholic faith — crowned with the laurel of martyrdom. He flourished under the Emperor Maurice, in the year of the Lord 590.
Leo, the first Pope [Leo I the Great], a Tuscan by nation, most learned in the divine Scriptures and most eloquent in delivering homilies, under Leo Augustus [the Emperor], in the year
…[Leo I flourished under the Emperor Leo,] in the year of the Lord 461. Among many homilies he wrote on the fifth chapter of Matthew two homilies, of which the first begins At that time Jesus, seeing the crowds; but the second, While the Lord was preaching. Likewise, on the Transfiguration of Christ, from Matthew chapter 17, a Sermon beginning The gospels, dearly beloved.
León de Castro [Leo Castri], professor of Theology in the University of Salamanca, wrote commentaries on Isaiah, which were printed at Salamanca in the year 1570. [The 1570 imprint post-dates Sixtus’s death (1569) — a later-edition detail.]
Leonard of Giffoni [Leonardus Giphonensis], or “from the temple of Jove” [ex Iovis phano], which is a town of Campania — thirty-fourth Minister General of the Franciscans, and thereafter Cardinal of the Roman Church, a most noble professor of Scholastic Theology — wrote a huge scholastic Lectura upon the Song of Songs, [divided] into one hundred and forty Canticles, that is, divided into as many particles or sentences of that book, containing many secrets of the more abstruse Theology; which Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, writes that he saw and read, in the third volume of his Chronicles. He flourished under Charles IV, Augustus, [in] 1370.
Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus, an eloquent and learned man, who composed five books against the Iconoclasts and dictated many panegyric orations, wrote on the 17th chapter of Matthew one homily On the Transfiguration of the Lord, cited in the 6th session of the Second Council of Nicaea. He flourished about the times of the Emperor Phocas, in the year of the Lord 610.
Lucas, Abbot of the mountain of St. Cornelius [Kornelimünster], of the Benedictine order, endowed with a noble genius in expounding the divine Scriptures, wrote a little work, collected from the writings of Aponius, on the Song of Songs, in the year of the Lord 1130.
Lucas, a Greek monk of the institute of St. Basil, wrote an exposition on the four Gospels, which is kept, written in Greek, in the Library of San Salvatore at Bologna.
Lucian, a most eloquent man, presbyter of the Church of Antioch, and afterward Bishop of Nicomedia [so printed; Lucian was a presbyter of Antioch, martyred at Nicomedia], and a most holy martyr — having examined all the editions made before him, and most diligently compared them with the Hebrew verity — delivered to the Christians his own Greek edition, as Euthymius testifies, much more corrected than the earlier ones; which, written by his hand, was found at Nicomedia in a certain tower among the Jews, smeared with lime, after Lucian’s own death, under Constantine the Great, Emperor. This [edition], since it agrees in sense with the edition of the Seventy interpreters, and its copies are by some called Λουκιάνεια [Lucianic], but among some received the name of the Seventh Edition — although Isidore, Bishop of Seville, judges that Origen was the discoverer not only of the fifth and sixth, but also of the seventh edition. Of this Lucianic translation all the churches, from Constantinople to Antioch, made public reading and use. And Lucian suffered as a martyr at Nicomedia for the confession of Christ, under the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian; and he was buried at Helenopolis in Bithynia, in the year of the Lord 280.
Lucretius Tyroboscus of Asolo [Lucretius Asulanus], a Carmelite, wrote — [dedicated] to the illustrious John Trevisan, Patriarch of the city of Venice — a concise Paraphrase on Psalm 118, to which he gave the title The Ethics of the Holy Spirit [Ethica Spiritus Sancti], in the year of the Lord 1566.
Ludolph [of Saxony] [Ludolphus], a Saxon by nation, of the Order of Preachers — after the thirtieth year of his profession transferred to the institute of the Carthusians, and received in the monastery of Strasbourg — a man most studious in the holy volumes, scholastic in profession, simple in speech, and lovable for certain fervent affections, gathered from the sentences of Jerome, Augustine, Cassiodorus, and Peter Lombard an exact exposition on the Psalms: in which he especially pursues the typical [figurative] senses, yet not so as to neglect the literal understanding, adding at the foot of each Psalm a devout prayer, consonant with that Psalm. The beginning of the work is, As of old the manna. The same [Ludolph] gathered from the four Evangelists a single history of the life of Christ [the Vita Christi], which he illustrated with most lucid and most pious explanations according to the fourfold sense, adding at the end of the individual chapters most devout prayers, serving the theme of the preceding chapter. The work begins, Another foundation. He flourished under the Emperor Louis IV, in the year of the Lord 1330.
Louis the Younger of Parete [Ludouicus Iunior Parisetus], of Reggio, wrote in heroic verse — [dedicated] to his brother Vario Ptolemaeus — on the first chapter of Genesis, six books of Theopoeia, whose beginning is:
Long since has a desire come upon the soul of Ptolemaeus.
He flourished in the year of the Lord 1550.
Louis Pittorio of Ferrara [Ludouicus Pictorius, Ferrariensis], a not-ignoble poet, published in prose a Paraphrase on the Psalter, in the year of the Lord 1510.