The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Opicino, de Canistris, 1296-approximately 1354

LC control no.nr 87000260
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingOpicino, de Canistris, 1296-approximately 1354
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Anonimo ticinese, 1296-approximately 1354
Canistris, Opicino de, 1296-approximately 1354
Opicinus, de Canistris, 1296-approximately 1354
LocatedAvignon (France)
Pavia (Italy)
Birth date12961224
Death date1354~
Place of birthLomello (Italy)
Place of deathAvignon (France)
AffiliationDuomo di Pavia
Catholic Church
Profession or occupationPriest
Found inHis Il libro delle lodi della città di Pavia, 1984: t.p. (Opicino de Canistris) p. 11 (Anonimo ticinese)
NUC, pre-56 (Opicinus de Canistris, 1296-ca. 1336)
Grande diz. enc. UTET (Opicino, de Canistris; b. 1296; d. after 1334)
OCLC 80244377: Morse, V.M. A complex terrain : church, society, and the individual in the works of Opicino de Canistris (1296-ca.1354), 1996.
E-mail message from Fred Odwalla, editor in chief, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Oct. 31, 2013 (research from at least 1997 onwards shows that the death date is approximately 1354) attached PDF of introduction to Karl Whittington's forthcoming book Body-worlds : Opicinus de Canistris and the medieval cartographic imagination, 2014 (b. Dec. 24, 1296, Lomello, west of Pavia; became chaplain of the Cathedral in Pavia, 1318; ordained in Parma, 1320; took over the Church of S. Maria Capella in Pavia, 1323; left Pavia, July 1328; settled in Avignon, 1329; appointed as a scribe in the papal penitentiary, Dec. 1330; fell ill in Avignon, 1334; nothing is known about the circumstances of his death, which took place sometime between 1352 and 1355)
Associated languagelat