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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 71 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALIMBENE , or more usually SALIMBENE OF See also:

PARMA (I22I-c. 1290), the name taken by the See also:Italian writer, Ognibene di Guido di Adamo. The son of a crusader, Gui di Adamo, and See also:born at Parma on the 9th of See also:October 1221, Ognibene entered the See also:order of the Minorites in 1238, and was known as See also:brother Salimbene. He passed some years in See also:Pisa and other Italian towns; then in 1247 he was sent to See also:Lyons, and from Lyons he went to See also:Paris, returning through See also:France to See also:Genoa, where he became a See also:priest in 1249. From 1249 to 1256 he resided at See also:Ferrara, engaged in See also:writing and in copying See also:manuscripts, but later he found See also:time to move from See also:place to place. His concluding years were mainly spent in monastic retirement in See also:Italy, and he died soon after 1288. Salimbene was acquainted with many of the important personages of his See also:day, including the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II., the See also:French See also:king St See also:Louis and See also:Pope See also:Innocent IV.; and his Chronicon, written after 1281, is a See also:work of unusual value. This covers the See also:period 1167-1287. Salimbene is a very discursive and a very See also:personal writer, but he gives a remarkably vivid picture of See also:life in France and Italy during the 13th See also:century. The See also:manuscript of the See also:chronicle was found during the 18th century, and passed into the Vatican library, where it now remains. The See also:part of the Chronicon dealing with the period between 12I2 and 1287 was edited by A. See also:Bertani and published at Parma in 1857.

This edition, however, is very defective, but an excellent and more See also:

complete one has been edited by O. Holder-See also:Egger, and is printed in See also:Band xxxii. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores (See also:Hanover, 1905). See U. Balzani, Le Croniche italiane nel medio evo (See also:Milan, 1884); L. Cledat, De fratre Salimbene et de ejus chronicae auctoritate (Paris, 1878); E. See also:Michael, Salimbene and See also:seine Chronik (See also:Innsbruck, 1889); A. See also:Molinier, See also:Les See also:Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii. (1903); D. W. Duthie, The See also:Case of See also:Sir See also:John Faslolf and other See also:Historical Studies (1907) ; G. G.

Coulton, From St See also:

Francis to See also:Dante (1906).

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