Saverio Lomartire

The presence of a high number of relics in the churches of Pavia during the medieval period, and particularly in the early medieval age, can be explained by the city’s role as a capital for several centuries. This is already documented by the inventory produced in the first half of the 13th century based on the surveys of Bishop Rodobaldo Cipolla, and later by the lists compiled by Opicino de’ Canistris in his Liber de Laudibus civitatis Papie...