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Adam of Usk

ADAMO DI USK

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ADAM OF USK. - English chronicler, b. at Usk (Monmouthshire) ca. 1360 or 1365, d. after 1430. He was in Rome, at the court of Boniface IX, in 1402. His chronicle runs from 1377 to 1405.

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BIBL.: U. Balzani, La storia di Roma nella cronica di A. di U., Rome 1880; E. M. Thompson, s. v. in Dictionary of National Biography, I (1885), pp. 83-84.

Luigi Michelini Tocci

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By Luigi Michelini Tocci

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 285.

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Michelini, Tocci Luigi. “Adamo di Usk.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 285. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-di-usk.

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Michelini, Tocci Luigi. “Adamo di Usk.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 285. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-di-usk.

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@incollection{ec1_adamo_di_usk,
  author    = {Michelini, Tocci Luigi},
  title     = {Adamo di Usk},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {285},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-di-usk}
}

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