Salimbene di Adam
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Salimbene di Adam was an Italian Franciscan friar, theologian, and chronicler. Salimbene was one of the most celebrated Franciscan chroniclers of the High Middle Ages. His Cronica is a fundamental sou
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Elias of Cortona
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Elias of Cortona was a close associate of Saint Francis of Assisi and one of the earliest followers to join the newly founded Order of Friars Minor. A lay brother, he rose to positions of significant
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…Claudian, Prosper of Aquitaine and others. On 4 February 1238 Salimbene, then seventeen, was admitted into the Franciscan Order by the minister general, Elias of Cortona. He moved to Fano, where he continued his studies under the guidance of Umile da Milano, a disciple of Haymo of Faversham. After completing his novitiate…
Replica of a lost portrait of Elia da Cortona by Giunta Pisano