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The Contribution of Arnaldo Fortini to Franciscan Studies

For religious and lay culture, Arnaldo Fortini is known as the Franciscan historian par excellence. It is our task to determine why this is so, seeking to find the fundamental motives which have determined his scholarly work and the direction which it took. The personality of an author can generally be explained on the basis of his individual formation, by considering as an indivisible unit, the family, the society, the social context within which he lived. Arnaldo Fortini, even as a boy, was interested in the truly extraordinary history of his city of origin, Assisi. He had a profound love for it, which as time went on, became absolutely a civic obligation, a duty; it is as if it were his obligation to recognize the people, places, trees, and stones of this land, where his family had very ancient roots. The name "Fortini" in reality goes back to the 5th century B.C. and is found mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, indicating them as one of the early Latin peoples.1 Until thirty years ago, the heights to the north of Assisi were populated solely by Fortini, descendants of that ancient people. At the time of St. Francis, and more precisely, in 1204, a Fortino was judge of the mayoralty of Assisi, as his son John would also be in 1235. 2 Arnaldo Fortini also was a man of the law: his profession was that of penal advocate at the Tribunal of Perugia, and he often repeated, in support of his profession, that it is proper for human beings, whether guilty or innocent to have the right to a defense. During the First World War, at twenty-seven years of age, Arnaldo Fortini generously defended before the Military Tribunal soldiers and officials accused of desertion and treason who were condemned to be shot. The people of Valdagno in the Venetian Province of Vicenza,