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| Collection: | Sermones quadragesimales |
| Code: | 4/1/40 |
| Liturgical day: | T20/5 Thursday after Reminiscere |
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Fratres rogamus vos etc (1 Thessalonians 4:1) |
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Nulla enim fidelitas est in mundo. Ogni exercitio e ogni arte è imbastardita e falsificata. Unde de quolobet contrahente, sive vendat, sive emat, sice locat, sive conducat, sive permutet, verificatur quod dicit in Psalmo: Quid gloriaris in malitia? Tota die cogitavit iniustitiam lingua tua, sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum [Psalm 51,4]. Ubi nota tres modos per quos homo circumvenit et decipit proximum suum in negocio, quando cum illo contrahit, quorum:
Primus dicit astutia mentalis
Secundus dolositas verbalis
Tertius fraus realis
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No faithfulness is in the world. Every work and art is corrupted and falsified. Therefore, for everyone involve in business, either selling or buying, renting, leasing, or exchanging, it is true what the Psalm states: Why do you glorify yourself in malice? Your tongue thought about injustice all the day long, as a sharp razor you did deceit [Psalm 51.4]. Here note three ways through which a person cheats and deceives his neighbour in business, when negotiating with him, of which
the first one is the mental slyness,
the second the deceit in words,
the third the fraud in deeds.
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1) Astutia mentalis. 2) Dolositas verbalis. Following Thomas Aquinas, the sermons states that «dolus est executio astutie»; yet it can be done through words («per verba»), and this is dolus, or through deeds («per facta»), and this is fraus (fol. 182v). Cherubino lists and discusses five types of verbal deceit: «Hanc autem dolositatem verbalem in negociis faciunt negociatores multipliciter. Primo vitium et defectum rei venalis occultando. Secundo sophistice loquendo. Tertio multipliciter mentiendo. Quarto invanum iurando et periurando. Quinto merces aliorum infamando». (fol. 183r) |
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Title of the sermon: "De dolositatibus que perpetrantur a multis maxime a mercatoribis et artificibus in negociando"
The sermon takes several elements (in particular the exempla from Bernardino da Siena (namely, the 1427 sermon on the merchants) but also from Antoninus. The third point (fraus realis) is discussed in the following sermon.
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