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Celano's "Legenda Prima," was not completed until the following year.[1]
There are, to my mind, two conclusive arguments, both adduced by Père Edouard,[2] against attributing the authorship to Giovanni da Parma. Fra Ubertino da Casale in a
- ↑ Add to all this that the "Sacrum Commercium" contains not a single citation from the Office of St Francis—which it is natural to suppose that the imaginative writer would have here and there availed himself of—and it seems to me that the date of 1227 is proved with something like certainty, and the date of 1247 excluded beyond a doubt.
- ↑ Op. cit. p. xii. and p. 41 et ss.
