CLARENO, Angelo. - Franciscan (more correctly A. da Chiarino, also known as da Cingoli), leader of the Zelanti or Spirituals (see V. ZELANTI), born at Chiarino (Recanati; or at Fossombrone), died at S. Maria d'Aspro (Lucania) on 15 June 1337. He entered the Order around 1270 and was soon involved in the repression of the Spirituals, and with them condemned to perpetual imprisonment; however, he was released (c. 1289) and sent to Lesser Armenia (Cilicia). Returning to Italy in 1294, he fled with his followers to Greece (c. 1296).
Chlamys - Christ clothed in the c. and the Samaritan woman (late 2nd century) - Rome, cemetery of Praetextatus.
Repatriated in 1305, he remained in the vicinity of Rome, then went to Avignon (1311-18), where in 1317 he was tried and acquitted. With the Spirituals condemned and excommunicated, of which C. had been their leader since 1307, by the bull *Sancta Romana* (30 Dec. 1317), and with the death of his protector Cardinal Giacomo Colonna (12 Aug. 1318), he returned to Italy and, without submitting, continued to govern his followers from his refuge at Subiaco. Feeling insecure due to the Inquisition’s actions, in 1334 he took refuge in Lucania, where he died.
Venerated by his followers as a saint and a friend of the blessed Simone da Cascia, C. appears as a man of integrity, high ideals, but incapable of subordinating his ideas to superior commands, and not lacking in a certain culture, as shown by his writings. These are: 1) *Historia septem tribulationum Ord. Min.*, i.e., the history of the persecutions of the Spirituals from the time of St. Francis up to about 1318: a reliable source for the period in which the author lived. There is no complete edition. An old Italian translation was published by L. Malagoli: *Cronaca delle tribulazioni di A. C.*, Turin 1931. 2) *Expositio regulae fratrum Minorum*, ed. L. Oliger, Quaracchi 1912. 3) *Epistola excusatoria ad papam* (John XXII), published by Fl. Annibali da Latera: *Ad Bullarium franciscanum supplementum*, Rome 1780; *Animadversiones*, pp. 153-164. 4) *Epistolario* (1311-36), partly edited by F. Ehrle, in *Archiv für Literatur und Kirchengeschichte*, I (Berlin 1885), pp. 543-69. 5) *Praeparantia Christi Iesu habitationem... in nobis...*, published by N. Mattioli, *Il b. Simone Fidati da Cascia* (*Antologia apostolica*, II), Rome 1898, pp. 467-71. 6) *Breviloquium super doctrina salutis ad parvulae Christi*, ibid., pp. 471-87. Moreover, he translated into Latin from Greek the Rule of St. Basil, the *Scala* of John Climacus, and a *Dialogue* attributed to St. Macarius; on these translations cf. *Expositio Regulae*, ed. L. Oliger, pp. xxxiv-Lv.