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Nicholas Papini
The Catholic Encyclopedia
or An historian, born at San Giovanni Valdarno, between Florence and Arezzo, about 1751; died at Terni, Umbria, 16 Dec., 1834. Having entered the Order of the Conventuals he taught Italian literature at Modena, was secretary of the Provincial of Tuscany, custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, 1800(?)-1803, a short time guardian of Dodici Apostoli at Rome, and finally named Minister General of the Conventuals 1803-09. Later on he lived at Assisi and Terni, where he is buried. His printed works are "L'Etruria Francescana o vero raccolta di notizie storiche interessanti l'Ordine de FF. Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco in Toscana", I, Siena, 1797; "Notizie sicure della monte, sepoltura, canonizzazione e traslazione di S. Francesco d'Assisi e del ritrovamento del di lui corpo", 2nd ed., Foligno, 1824; "Storia del Perdono d'Assisi con documenti e osservazioni", Florence, 1824; "La Storia di S. Francesco di Assisi, opera critica," 2 vols., Foligno, 1827.
ROBINSON, A Short Introduction to Franciscan Literature (New York, 1907), 19, 44; EUBEL, Sbaraleas und Papinis literarischer Nachlass in Historisches Jahrbuch, X (1889), 67-9; Manuale dei Novizii e Professi Chierici e Laici Minori Conventuali (Rome, 1897), 278, 342; LANZI, Note e ricordi sulla Chiesa di S. Francesco in Terni in Miscellanea Francescana, IX (1902), 6-7.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Nicholas Papini'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/n/nicholas-papini.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
