The Chronicle of Brother Salimbene by Salimbene de Adam (.ePUB)
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The Chronicle of Brother Salimbene of Parma (Translated): A Modern English Edition of Medieval Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, 1212–1265 by Salimbene de Adam
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Overview: Complete modern English translation of Cantarelli’s 1882 text, 1212–1265
Medieval Italy, told by a Franciscan who watched its empires, popes, and cities collide.
Salimbene de Adam was born in Parma, defied his father to join the Friars Minor, and spent decades moving through the courts, convents, councils, and war-torn communes of thirteenth-century Europe. His chronicle is one of the period’s most vivid primary sources: eyewitness history alive with Frederick II, the papacy, the Hohenstaufen struggle, Franciscan debates, crusading, prophecy, sermons, miracles, political gossip, and sharply drawn personalities.
This edition covers 1212–1265 in a complete modern English translation of Carlo Cantarelli’s 1882 Italian text. The year-by-year narrative preserves Antonio Bertani’s introduction, Cantarelli’s notes and errata, and source-language quotations, while modern editorial material adds a foreword, afterword, timeline, glossary, guide to people and organizations, bibliography, and eight historical images.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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