Salimbene di Adam, O.F.M., (or Salimbene of Parma) (9 October 1221 – c. 1290) was an ItalianFranciscan friar, theologian, and chronicler who is a source for Italian history of the 13th century.
He was born in Parma, the son of Guido di Adam, a crusader. His father's first cousin, Berardo Oliverio di Adam, died in the battle of San Cesario in 1229. Salimbene was a follower of Joachim de Fiore, and a believer in his apocalyptic teachings. Salimbene joined the Franciscan order in 1238 at the friary of Fano.
He then led a life of wandering, avoiding his father who did not wish him to join the Order, and visited Pisa and other Italian towns; then in 1247 he was sent to Lyon, and visited Paris, FerraraCremona, Troyes, Florence, Ravenna, Genoa, Reggio and the friary of Montefalcone (near San Polo d'Enza in the region of Emilia-Romagna). The last was the probable site of his death.
Works
Salimbene's main work was his Cronica ("Chronicle"), covering the years 1167–1287.[1] It was begun around 1282 and begins with the founding of Alessandria. His extensive travels meant that he met many important people of the time including Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IX of France and Pope Innocent IV. He was a friend of Filippo da Pistoia. He also describes everyday life vividly and gives numerous details of internal disputes in the Franciscan order at the time.
He also wrote The Twelve Calamities of Emperor Frederick II and several treatises now lost. "The Twelve Calamities" is set up as a kind of servant's narrative (Exempla, examples), made to demonstrate the faults of Frederick II - often with loosely fitted biblical quotations. One of the major themes of the work is Salimbene's emphasis on numerology. The chronicle itself is set up to demonstrate the parallel between the ten plagues and the ten calamities of Frederick II (conveniently he tacked on the last two after the parallel). Emphasizing the Christian nature of his narrative and the non-Christian nature of Frederick, Salimbene turns a phrase used during the crusades claiming that “if he had been a good Catholic and had loved God, the Church, and his own soul, he would scarcely have had an equal as an emperor in the world.”[2]
Notes
^Edited by G. Scalia in the series "Scrittori d'Italia", Bari 1966, and earlier in the same series by F. Bernini, 1942 (see link below).; G.C. Coulton, From St Francis to Dante: translations from the chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene (London 1907; reprinted Philadelphia 1972) is called a "paraphrase" by David Abulafia, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor (Oxford 1988) p. 444.
^Di Adam, Salimbene. "The Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam". Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986, p.351.
Further reading
Salimbene de Adam, Cronica, nuova ed. critica, a cura di Giuseppe Scalia (Bari: Laterza, 1966)
The Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam ed. by J.L. Baird, G. Baglivi & J.R. Kane (Binghamton, N.Y.; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986)
Emerton, Ephraim (1915). "Fra Salimbene and the Franciscan Ideal" (PDF). Harvard Theological Review. Cambridge University Press. 8 (4): 480–503. doi:10.1017/s0017816000009196. JSTOR 1507265.
, Ferdinando Bernini, Bari, 1942; scan of the complete text.
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Salimbene degli Adami" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
February 11, 2023
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