GIORDANO da GIANO. - Franciscan, b. ca. 1195 at Giano (Spoleto), d. at Magdeburg after 1262. Received into the Order by St. Francis, he took part in the Chapter of Mats and in Sept. 1221 set out for Germany with Friar Cesarius. He established his seat at Salzburg and, barely a year later, his activity extended to the territories of Speyer, Worms, Mainz.
On 27 Oct. 1224 he was sent to Thuringia with seven German friars, and as custos he directed the Franciscan movement at Erfurt, Eisenach, Gotha, Nordhausen, Mühlhausen. He returned to Italy twice; a third journey of his to Rome for the reform of the Order in '39 is probable. As vice-minister of the provinces of Bohemia and Poland, in May '41 he was at Prague and the following year at Altenburg for the Chapter. Urged by Baldwin of Brandenburg, in 1262 he dictated in a medieval Latin, at times mixed with vernacular forms, the Cronica, which, for the knowledge of the Minorite movement in Germany and also for the history of St. Francis, is to be considered a work of the highest importance.
Bibliography3 worksThe Cronica is edited by H. Boehmer, in Collection d'études et de documents, IV, Paris 1908, p. LIX; Analecta Franciscana sive Chronica alia
BIBL.: The Cronica is edited by H. Boehmer, in Collection d'études et de documents, IV, Paris 1908, p. LIX; Analecta Franciscana sive Chronica aliaque documents ad historiarum Minorum spectantia, I, Quaracchi 1881, pp. 1-19; and Italian trans., with introduction and notes, by L. Pompili, Brescia 1932.
Fallani, Giovanni. “Giordano da Giano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 436. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/giordano-da-giano.
MLA
Fallani, Giovanni. “Giordano da Giano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 436. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/giordano-da-giano.
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@incollection{ec6_giordano_da_giano,
author = {Fallani, Giovanni},
title = {Giordano da Giano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {436},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giordano-da-giano}
}
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