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Today (22. April) is also the feast day of:
Francis of Fabriano (Francesco Venimbeni, Franciscus Fabrianensis; d. 1322;
blessed). Born on 2 September 1251 at Fabriano (AN) in the Marche, F. was
the son of a medical doctor. He received an education in "philosophy"
and at age sixteen joined the Franciscan order. After ordination to the
priesthood, F. became a preacher in the Marche and devoted himself to
the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden. Late in life he was twice
superior of a new Franciscan convent in his native town. Of scholarly
bent, F. used his inheritance to purchase books for the convent's
library and wrote a miscellany chronicle on Franciscan matters that
today survives only in fragments. One of these fragments is a
well-regarded rhymed lament on the death of St. Bonaventure, _O lugubre
Ecclesiae planctus_. His grave in the convent quickly became a cult
site, in 1334 he was the subject of a Vita (by a nephew, fra Domenico di
Bonaventura), and in 1339 his remains were found to be incorrupt. He
was beatified in 1775.
The fundamental article on F. remains that of Giacinto Pagnani, "Frammenti
della Cronaca del B. Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano ( + 1322)," _Archivum
Franciscanum Historicum_ 52 (1959), 153-77 (_O lugubre Ecclesiae planctus_
edited on pp. 175-77). Based upon this is Pagnani's later entry in the
_Bibliotheca Sanctorum_, vol. 5 (1964), cols. 155-56 ("Francesco da
Fabriano [F. Venimbeni]").
Fabriano is of course famous in the history of European paper-making.
Its Museo della Carta e della Filigrana ("Museum of Paper and of
Watermarking"), whose website is here:
http://www.museodellacarta.com/home_page.html
with an English-language version here:
http://www.museodellacarta.com/ing/home_page.html
, has a reproduction of a medieval paper mill shown in the following
virtual tour:
http://www.museodellacarta.com/gualchiera.html
English-language version:
http://www.museodellacarta.com/ing/gualchiera.html
A site on historic Fabriano, with many illustrated subordinate pages, is
here:
http://www.fabrianostorica.it/index1.htm
This also has a link to the site of an exhibition on Fabriano's
outstanding exponent in painting of the International Gothic style,
Gentile da Fabriano, that has just opened in Fabriano:
http://www.gentiledafabriano.it/
The Getty's page on Gentile, with expandable views on two subordinate
pages, is here:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=675&page=1
A few other pages on Gentile:
http://www.abcgallery.com/F/fabriano/fabriano1.html
http://tinyurl.com/jhnbs
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=11800
Best,
John Dillon
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