CAVALCANTI, ALDOBRANDINO. - Dominican preacher and writer, b. in Florence in 1217, d. there on 30 Aug. 1279. He was a religious in the convent of S. Maria Novella of his native city (1231), where he several times was prior (1245-50, 1256) and worked successfully for the construction and embellishment of the church and the convent. He was also prior at Lucca (1261-62), then Roman provincial (1262-68). He was sent as an ambassador of peace by Urban IV to the Pisans and the Lucchesi in conflict (1263), and by Clement IV to the Florentines (1266), who had been struck by censures; in 1272 he was created bishop of Orvieto. During the Council of Lyon he was vicar of Gregory X at Rome. He left a few volumes of Sermones (Padua, University Library, cod. 646).

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