Jacobus de Voragine


Jacobus de Voragine

Jacobus de Voragine with the Golden Legend in his hand, fresco by Ottaviano Nelli, chapel of Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy
Bornc. 1230
Varagine, Republic of Genoa (present-day Varazze, Italy)
Died13 or 16 July 1298 or 1299
Genoa, Republic of Genoa (present-day Italy)
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified11 May 1816, Genoa by Pope Pius VII
Feast13 July

Jacobus de Voragine,[a] OP (c. 1230 – 13/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.[3]

  1. ^ Steven A. Epstein (2016), The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine: A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe, Cornell University Press, p. 1 n1.
  2. ^ a b Carla Casagrande (2004). "Iacopo da Varazze". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 62: Iacobiti–Labriola (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  3. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jacobus de Voragine". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 121.


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