FALCANDO, UGO. - Historian. Nothing is known about his origins; he lived in Sicily during the 12th century and is the author of a Historia or Liber regni Siciliae, in which he recounts the events of the island from 1154 to 1169, that is
FALDA - The apostolic protonotaries sustain the f. of His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
from the death of Roger II to the regency of Margaret during the minority of William II, recounting the events of the island from 1154 to 1169, that is, from the death of Roger II to the regency of Margaret during the minority of William II, setting forth the facts of which he was a witness or which he heard from direct witnesses, dwelling purposely and passionately on the struggles of the parties and court men.
Twenty years later he wrote the Epistula ad Petrum Panormitiae ecclesie thesaurarium, in which, more as a politician than as a historian, faced with the threat of foreign domination following the marriage of Constance with Henry VI, he invokes the concerted action of all Sicilians under an Italian king against the Germans, forecasting the evils that would otherwise soon follow.