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'''John Marchesinus''' (called in [[Latin]] ''Johannes Marchesinus'' and in [[Italian language|Italian]] ''Giovanni Marchesini'') was an [[Italian city-states|Italian]] [[Franciscan]] [[friar]], probably of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, who was the author of religious works.

Little is known of Marchesinus, apart from what is said in his own work. Even the date of his life is uncertain and in the words of P. S. Allen "has been put both at 1300 and at 1466".[1]

His ''[[Mammotrectus super Bibliam]]'', written at [[Reggio Emilia]] probably towards the end of the 13th century, was an etymological analysis of the [[Vulgate]], the Latin [[Bible]]. There were at that time many priests who were barely literate, and Marchesinus declared himself to be "impatient with his own lack of skill, and compassionate towards the rudeness of poor clerics promoted to the office of preaching". In view of that, he wrote to "edify their understanding with etymology".[2]

In his ''Confessionale'', compiled around 1300 and called a "little work", the first thing Marchesinus considers is the correct setting for a confession, advising that "The priest hearing [[confession]] should sit in a public and honourable place, lest, if this be wanting, he may appear to be an adulterer".[3]

== Works ==
* ''Mammotrectus super Bibliam''. Martin Flac, Strassburg 1494 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-117173 digital]

==Notes==
* 1. P. S. Allen, The Age of Erasmus (1914; 2006 edition), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GoQZyNycba8C&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 26]
* 2. Thomas Graves Law, ed. P. Hume Brown, Collected Essays and Reviews of Thomas Graves Laws with a Memoir (2005), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RLrnfkilbsQC&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 22]
* 3. Dallas George Denery, Seeing and being seen in the later medieval world (2005), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a-UwgCHs9fAC&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 52]

[[Category:Franciscans]]
[[Category:Franciscan scholars]]
[[Category:Medieval Christian clergy]]
[[Category:People from the Province of Reggio Emilia]]
[[Category:People of medieval Italy]]

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