MALMESBURY, WILLIAM OF. See William.

MALTA, KNIGHTS OF. See John, Saint, Knights of.

MALVENDA, TOMAS: Spanish Dominican; b. at Xativa (43 m. s.s.w. of Valencia) 1566; d. at Valencia May 7, 1628. He devoted his chief efforts to the text of the Bible, although he also wrote on dogmatics and church history. In 1600 he submitted to Cardinal Baronius a list of passages in the Annales ecclesiastici, and the Roman Martyrology which he deemed incorrect, and the cardinal thereupon summoned him to Rome, where the general of his order entrusted him with the correction of the Dominican breviary, missal, and martyrology, his work appearing in 1603. At the direction of the Congregation of the Index, Malvenda revised the Bi6liotheca. patrum of Margarin de la Bigne (9 vols., Paris, 1575-76), and in 1607 published at Rome his critical notes on this work. About the same time he began his Annales ordinis fratrum prcedicatortcm, but carried it only through thirty years (ed. D. Gravina, 2 vols., Naples, 1627). In 1610 Malvenda was recalled to Spain and appointed by the grand inquisitor on a committee to prepare a Spanish Index lZrorum prohibitoretm. His chief . work, however, was his commentary on the Bible, together with a new translation from the Hebrew, as far as Ezek. avi. (5 vols.; Lyons, 1650). Among his numerous other writings special mention may be made of his Ltbri reovem de Antichristo (Rome, 1804) and his De paradiso voluptatis (1605).

O. Zöckler†.

Bibliography: J. QuEtif and J. ,~L' Chard, $cr6ptorsa ordinis prosdicatorum, ii. 454-455, Paris, 1721; L. E. Du Pin, Nouvelle bibliotUque des auteurs ecclesiastiques, xvii. 8893, 35 vols., Paris, 1898-1711; H. Hunter, Nomenclafor litermsua theolagias recentioria, i. 312-314, Innsbruck, 1892; F. H. Reusch, Der Index den verbWenen Bücher, i. 554-555, Bonn, 1883; KL, viii. 582.

MAMACHI, ma-ma'chf, TOMMASO MARIA: Italian Roman Catholic; b. in the island of Chios Dec. 3, 1713; d. at Corneto, near Montefiascone (50 m. n.n.w. of Rome), June 7, 1792. He was taken to Italy by his parents at an early age and was educated in the cloister of St. Mark at Florence by the Dominicans, of whose order he afterward became a member. In 1736 he was ordained priest and was made by Benedict XIV. a doctor of divinity and a member of the Congregation of the Index. Under Pius VI. he became master of the holy pal. ace and in 1779 secretary of the Index. Among his works may be named: De rations tempontm Athanasacanorum, deque aliquot aynodia iv. aeculo celebrates, epistoke iv (Rome, 1748), directed against G. D. Manse; Originum et areliquitatum Christianarum Zibri xz (four books only were published; 6 vols., 1749-55; new ed., 8 vols., 1839-51); De' costume de' primitive Cristiani lt'bri tre (3 vols., Venice, 1757; new ed., 2 vols., Florence, 1853; Germ, transl., 3 vols., Augsburg, 1796); Del diritto libero dells sheers di acquistare a di posaedere beni temporali (3 vols., Rome, 1769-70); and De rations regendce Christiana reipublicee, degas legitima Romani pontificis auctoritate (3 vols., Rome, 1778-1778), directed against J. N. von Hontheim (q.v.).

Bibliography: H. Hunter, Nomenclator literarius, iii. 412-413, Innsbruck, 1888; KL, viii. 583-584; Lichtenberger, EBR, viii. 822-823.