Jacobus de Voragine | |
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.jpg) Jacobus de Voragine with the Golden Legend in his hand, fresco by Ottaviano Nelli, chapel of Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy | |
| Born | c. 1230 Varagine, Republic of Genoa (present-day Varazze, Italy) |
| Died | 13 or 16 July 1298 or 1299 Genoa, Republic of Genoa (present-day Italy) |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 11 May 1816, Genoa by Pope Pius VII |
| Feast | 13 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]
- ^ Steven A. Epstein (2016), The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine: A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe, Cornell University Press, p. 1 n1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jacobus de Voragine". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 121.
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