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Jacobus de Voragine
Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa (c.
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1230–1298)
Not to be confused with Jacobus de Boragine, a glossator.
Jacobus de Voragine,[a]OP (c. 1230 – 13/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.
He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.[3]
Biography
Jacobus was born either in Varazze[4] or in Genoa, where a family originally from Varazze and bearing that name is attested at the time.[2] He entered the Dominican order in 1244, and became the prior at Como, Bologna and Asti in succession.[5] Besides preaching with success in many parts of Italy, he also taught in the schools of his own fraternity.
He was provincial of Lombardy from 1267 till 1286, when he was removed at the meet