Faloci Pulignani, Michele

FALOCI PULIGNANI, MICHELE. - Prelate and historian, b. at Foligno on 9 July 1856; ordained priest on 12 Apr. 1879, professor at the local Seminary and at the regional one of Assisi, librarian of the Iacobilli Library and of the municipal library, vicar general of the diocese of Foligno and of the archdiocese of Spoleto. D. on 1 Oct. 1940.

He worked for the restoration of the city's monuments (Cathedral, Palazzo Trinci, etc.); he gathered a rich library of local history (8,000 volumes and 300 manuscripts) which he bequeathed to his city. Besides carrying on the activity of journalist and polemicist in the political and social field, P., whose works, between manuscript and printed, amount to 523, directed his attention to the hagiography of Foligno (La « Passio Sancti Feliciani » e il suo valore storico, 1917), to ecclesiastical history (I priori della cattedrale di Foligno, 1914), to figures, historical episodes, diaries and local chronicles (Fragmenta Fulginalis historiae: RIS, XVI, 1933), to the Lordship of the Trinci (Le arti e le lettere alla corte dei Trinci, 1888), etc.

Noteworthy are his writings on Le origini del cristianesimo nell'Umbria (in Archivio storico per le Marche and per l'Umbria, 1913 ff., of which he was co-founder, and in Archivio per la storia ecclesiastica dell'Umbria, of which he was founder), and those on the Franciscan subject, for the most part in Miscellanea Franciscana, of which he was founder and director from 1886 to 1931.

Carlo Pietrangeli