Papini, Nicholas, historian, b. at San Giovanni Valdarno, between Florence and Arezzo, about 1751; d. 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 “T/ Etruria Francescana o vero raccolta di notizie storiche interessanti !’Ordine de FF. Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco in Toscana”, I, Siena, 1797; ‘Notizie sicure della morte, 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; Huset, 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.
Livarius Oliger.