ANONIMO PIACENTINO. – This is the designation given to an unknown man who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with several companions, leaving an account of his journey, in which internal evidence enables us to date the pilgrimage to 570. Since he begins by narrating that, when departing from Piacenza, he invoked the protection of St. Antonino, a martyr (apparently under Diocletian) who was greatly venerated there, it was long mistakenly believed that the pilgrim was none other than St. Antonino himself. H. Grisar deserves credit for having definitively dispelled the misunderstanding. The account reveals a certain readiness to believe the tales told by the guides.
BIBL.: Edition by P. Geyer, Itinera Hierosolymitana ssec. IV-VIII (CSEL, 39), Vienna 1898, pp. XXIV-XXXIII, 157-191, 195-218; H. Grisar, La pietra di Cana e l’Itinerario del cosiddetto Antonino di Piacenza, in La Civiltà Catt., 18th series, 11 (1903, III), pp. 600-609; id., in Zeitschrift für hash. Theologie, 1902, pp. 760-70; 1903, pp. 776-80. Gaetano M. Perrella