sole author of the Fioretti is not so clear. His labour, which consisted chiefly in gathering the flowers for his bouquet from written and oral local tradition, appears to have been completed before 1328. References Sources Luke Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum (1650), 179 Giovanni Sbaralea, Supplementum et castigatio ad scriptores trium ordinum S. Francisi (8106), addenda 727 Luigi da Fabriano, Disquisizione istorica intorno all' autore dei Fioretti (Fabriano, 1883) Cenni cronologico-biografici dell' osservante Provincia Picena (Quaracchi, 1886), 232 sqq. Alessandro Manzoni, Fioretti (2nd ed., Rome, 1902), prefazione Candido Mariotti, I Primordi Gloriosi dell' ordine Minoritico nelle Marche (Castelplanio, 1903), VI Arnold, The Authorship of the Fioretti (London, 1904) Camillo Pace, "L'autore del Floretum in Rivista Abruzzese", ann. XIX, fasc. II François Van Ortroy, in Analecta Bollandiana, XXI, 443 sqq. External links The Little Flowers of Saint Francis text, in English This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article "Ugolino Brunforte" by Paschal Robinson, a publication now in the public domain. 1262 births 1348 deaths Italian male writers 14th-century Latin writers 14th-century Italian historians Italian Friars Minor Italian chroniclers