ANTONIO da RIMINI. – An Observant Friar Minor, born in Rimini in an unspecified year. He flourished around 1450. He was vicar of the Umbrian province and is chiefly remembered as a most celebrated preacher, an imitator of s. Bernardino and a promoter of regular observance. Wadding writes of him that, « post peregritam Italiam instructasque verbo Domini urbes praecipuas », he died in the convent of Monte Luco. He left Lenten sermons, panegyrics of saints, as well as a treatise De Virginitate.
BIBL.: L. Wadding, Annales Minorum, X, Quaracchi 1932, p. 127; XII, there, 1932, p. 72; Chronica fratris Nicolai Glaberger, in Analecta Franciscana, II, Quaracchi 1887, p. 396; J. H. Sbaraka, Supplementum, I, Rome 1908, p. 73. Luigi Berra