Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa (c. 1230–1298)
Not to be confused with Jacobus de Boragine, a glossator.
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Jacobus de Voragine
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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] (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.
^ abCarla 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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