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Alessandro Novello
Alessandro Novello ( – February 1320) was the Franciscan bishop of Feltre and Belluno from 1298 until his death. Novello was born at Treviso in the early 1250s. His brother Prosapio Novello was the bishop of Treviso from 1279. Alessandro entered the Franciscan order at Treviso and served as a papal inquisitor in the March of Treviso in 1293–1296. He was consecrated bishop of the united dioceses of Belluno and Feltre in Rome on 20 April 1298. Later that year he received from Patriarch Raimondo della Torre investiture with the temporalities of his double see. Thereafter, he is always designated "bishop and count" in official documents. As bishop, Novello is best remembered for an episode mentioned by Dante Alighieri in his '' Paradiso'', 9:51–60, the so-called ''difalta'' (error). In July 1314, at the request of Pino della Tosa, the governor of Ferrara,He was an appointee of King Robert of Naples, who was acting as vicar of the States of the Church. See . Novello handed ov ...
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The Franciscans are a group of related Mendicant orders, mendicant Christianity, Christian Catholic religious order, religious orders within the Catholic Church. Founded in 1209 by Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi, these orders include three independent orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), orders for women religious such as the Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis open to male and female members. They adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary. Several smaller Franciscan spirituality in Protestantism, Protestant Franciscan orders exist as well, notably in the Anglican and Lutheran traditions (e.g. the Community of Francis and Clare). Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval from Pope Innocent III in 1209 to form a new religious order. The o ...
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