Quotes:Jacobus de Voragine

Zirkoff, Boris

Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298). Italian chronicler, archbishop of Genoa, born at Varazze. Joined the Dominicans in 1244. Provincial of Lombardy, 1267-86, and represented his own province at the councils of Lucca (1288) and Ferrara (1290). Consecrated archbishop, 1292, distinguishing himself by his efforts to appease the civil discords of Genoa. Buried in the Dominican Church in Genoa. The chief works of Jacobus are the Chronicon januense (partly pr. in Muratori, Scriptores Rer. Ital. IX, 6), dealing with the history of Genoa, and the *Golden Legend or Lombardica historia, one of the most popular religious works of the middle ages, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints. The most convenient edition of the original is that of Dr. Th. Graesse, Dresden, 1846. The best translation is the French of Gustave Brunet, Paris, 1843, 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 532