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between "Joannes Parenti" and "Joannes Parmensis." All this proves his acumen and ingenuity, but he is too severely scientific a scholar to advance a clever theory as proof positive. For the present it is safest to admit frankly that the author of the "Sacrum Commercium" is unknown, and to conclude with Fra Ubertino da Casale that he was "quidam sanctus doctor hujus Sanctæ Paupertatis professor et zelator strenuus."