Jacobus de Voragine, OP was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages. 1228 – 1298; died at about 70. Alive at the same time as Marco Polo, Thomas Aquinas, Fibonacci, Kublai Khan, and William of Ockham. Wiki link