This paper examines how the Dominican friar Galvaneus de la Flamma used Franciscan geographic sources in his "Cronica universalis" and his "Cronicon maius". The "Cronica" (ca. 1340), which was recently rediscovered thanks to the finding of its only extant manuscript (dating from late fourteenth century), contains a long geographical digression which, besides traditional bibliographic references, features the travel accounts of John of Pian del Carpine and of Odoric of Pordenone, the letters of John of Montecorvino and still unpublished passages that Galvanus attributes to an unknown frater Symon predicator. The Appendix to the article contains a transcription of the section of the "Cronicon maius" devoted to the Mongols (ms. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, A 275 inf., ff. 197ra-198rb), consisting of passages taken from the works of John of Pian del Carpine and Hayton of Corycus.
Viaggiatori mendicanti nelle opere di Galvano Fiamma / G. Greco. - In: FRANCISCANA. - ISSN 1129-230X. - 22:(2021), pp. 225-266.
Viaggiatori mendicanti nelle opere di Galvano Fiamma
G. Greco
2021
Abstract
This paper examines how the Dominican friar Galvaneus de la Flamma used Franciscan geographic sources in his "Cronica universalis" and his "Cronicon maius". The "Cronica" (ca. 1340), which was recently rediscovered thanks to the finding of its only extant manuscript (dating from late fourteenth century), contains a long geographical digression which, besides traditional bibliographic references, features the travel accounts of John of Pian del Carpine and of Odoric of Pordenone, the letters of John of Montecorvino and still unpublished passages that Galvanus attributes to an unknown frater Symon predicator. The Appendix to the article contains a transcription of the section of the "Cronicon maius" devoted to the Mongols (ms. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, A 275 inf., ff. 197ra-198rb), consisting of passages taken from the works of John of Pian del Carpine and Hayton of Corycus.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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