FALCOI PULIGNANI, Michele. Prelate and historian, born in Foligno on 9 July 1856; ordained priest on 12 April 1879; professor in the local Seminary and in that of Assisi; librarian of the Iacobelli and municipal libraries; vicar general of the diocese of Foligno and of the archdiocese of Spoleto. Died on 1 October 1940.
He worked for the restoration of local monuments (the Cathedral, Palazzo Trinci, etc.); he amassed a rich library of local history (8,000 volumes and 300 manuscripts) which he bequeathed to his city. In addition to his activity as a journalist and polemicist in the political and social sphere, F., whose works—both manuscript and printed—number 523, devoted himself to updated and brilliant studies in the field of hagiography (La « Passio Sancti Feliciani » e il suo valore storico, 1917), ecclesiastical history (I primi della catacomba di Foligno, 1914), local figures, historical episodes, diaries and chronicles (Fragmenta Fuldinalis historiae: RIS, XVI, 1933), the Signoria of the Trinci (Le arti e le lettere alla corte dei Trinci, 1888), etc.
Noteworthy are his writings on Le origini del cristianesimo in Umbria (in Archivio storico per le Marche e per l'Umbria, 1913 and following, of which he was a co-founder, and in Archivio per la storia ecclesiastica dell'Umbria, of which he was founder), as well as those on Franciscan topics, largely published in Miscellanea Franciscana, of which he was founder and director from 1886 to 1931.