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 been so. Again Fra Salimbene da Parma (ob. 1287 or 1290) knew the Blessed Giovanni intimately, and alludes to him frequently in his Chronicle. He even refers to writings of Giovanni's, but there is never a hint of the "Sacrum Commercium." The only theory on which it is possible to ascribe the authorship to Fra Giovanni is so wild as scarcely to be worthy of mention. We should have to suppose, see-*