Colonna, Giovanni, 1298?-1343 or 1344. Mare historiarum

found: Landolfo e Giovanni Colonna secondo un codice bodleiano, 1885, via Archive.org, January 23, 2018:page 8 (this Giovanni Colonna has been confused with several family members of the same name, and his works have been wrongly attributed to them; the most significant of his works, although it remains almost entirely unpublished, is Mare historiarum, which has been universally attributed to a relative named Giovanni who was named archbishop of Messina in 1255, but it has been shown to have been composed towards the middle of the 14th century, when the archbishop was long dead)

found: Surdich, Francesco. "Colonna, Giovanni," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 27, 1982, via Treccani website, January 26, 2018(Colonna, Giovanni; born in last decade of 13th century, not possible to determine the date 1298 with certainty; exact date of death unknown, between the last months of 1343 and first of 1344; author of Mare historiarum, a compilation of universal history, of which the complete text survives in two manuscripts) - http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-colonna_res-073fd459-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/

found: Kamp, Norbert. "Colonna, Giovanni," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 27, page 330, col. 1, via Treccani website, January 23, 2018(entry for Colonna, Giovanni, 1205-1263, named archbishop of Messina in 1255: Mare historiarum and other historical writings regularly attributed to this Giovanni Colonna since the 15th century have now been shown without doubt to have been written by the Giovanni Colonna, a Dominican, who lived between approximately 1298 and 1343) - http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-colonna_res-06f86afe-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/

found: Modonutti, Rino. Fra Giovanni Colonna e la storia antica da Adriano ai Severi, 2013:back cover ("Il domenicano Giovanni Colonna di Gallicano (1298-1343) ... compose due opere storico-erudite, entrambe ancora inedite: il De viris illustribus e il Mare historiarum, compilazione di storia universale dalla creazione del mondo al 1250. Il volume presenta il primo organico saggio di edizione del Mare historiarum, dopo gli excerpta pubblicati da Georg Waitz per i Monumenta Germaniae historica. Vengono edite secondo il codice autografo Laurenziano Edili 173 tutte le rubriche dei capitoli non edite dal Waitz (578 titoli) e la prima parte del libro vi ... Si vuole così offrire finalmente un indice completo del Mare historiarum e una prima significativa sezione del testo con il riconoscimento delle fonti, tra cui spiccano gli Scriptores historiae Augustae")

found: Forte, Stephen L. "John Colonna, O.P.: life and writings," in Archivum fratrum Praedicatorum," v. 20 (1950), pages 369-414:pages 394-395 (Mare historiarum "meant to be a universal history, political and religious, from the beginning of the world to the author's own times, but it stops abruptly in 1250"; written approximately 1340 (a year mentioned in the text); perhaps started when Colonna returned to Rome about 1438) page 402, note 73 ("The anonymous history of the world called 'Mer des histoires,' published several times, and attributed to John Colonna (cf. Coppinger [Copinger], Supplement to Hain's Repertoriurn bibliographicum, part. II, vol. I, Berlin 1926, 401, nos. 3990, 3991, 3992) is certainly not a French version of the Mare historiarum of John Colonna. This false attribution has been already refuted by Quétif-Echard, Script. ord. Praed. This work is entirely different from the Mare historiarum, and its author, judging from his knowledge of, and interest in, Dominicans, may have been a Dominican. He frequently refers to Vincent of Beauvais, Martin of Troppau and Henry of Herfordia, but we did not detect a single reference to John Colonna")

[Often wrongly attributed to Colonna, Giovanni, 1205-1263 [no2018016253], archbishop of Messina. Do not confuse with Rudimentum novitiorum [no2006091494] or the French adaptation of the latter, Mer des histoires [no2006091497]]