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Nicholas of Osimo (Ausmo, Auximanus) (b. at Osimo, Italy, in the second half of the fourteenth century; d. at Rome, 1453) was an Italian Franciscan preacher and author.
After having studied law, and taken the degree of doctor at Bologna, he joined the Friars Minor of the Observants in the convent of San Paolo. Some sources present him as a companion of James of the Marches in Bosnia, but this information is controversial. According to another misinterpretation, he was appointed Custodian of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, although we only know that he was only nominated for the office, which was officially taken by someone else. However, it is certain that Nicholas has been Provincial Vicar of the Franciscan Observants in Apulia (ca. 1439). Between the 1430s and 1440s he mostly dwelled in the Franciscan Observant convents of Bologna, Ferrara, and Milan. He also spent some time in Florence between 1440 and 1441, where in March 1441 delivered a petition to back the autonomy of the Observant family within the Franciscan Order. [1] Not earlier than 1445, he moved to the convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, where he died in 1453. Nicholas greatly contributed to the prosperity of the Observants and supported their independence from the Conventuals.
Nicholas wrote both in Latin and Italian a number of treatises on moral theology, the spiritual life, and on the Rule of St. Francis. They include:
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