Abstract
Fra Salimbene's observation of society, spiritual and temporal, was colored by an interpretation of Joachim of Fiore's revolutionary scheme. As a chronicler, he found at times events explicable through and important to Biblical understanding which he articulated through a system of prefigurative connections. He followed a loose plan of exegetic explanatory speculation for present eschatological definition by attempting to classify the events of the apocalyptic Scriptures. The end result produced a chronicle which in part depicted a history of successive fulfillment in his present time. This paper explores four noticeable Joachite themes which are easily extracted from the Cronica: his view of the Order of Friars Minor as the novus ordo for the New Age, the Whore of Babylon, the Manifestations of Antichrist, and the Period of Tribulations.
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