[1] Some sources placing his birth around 1200,[2] but this would make him an unusually old man when first elected bishop.
Nor is he to be identified with a certain Friar Alluminato, born Accarino della Rocca, who had an adult son named Enrico in October 1238.
According to Salimbene de Adam, he worked in the convent of Assis for the minister general, Elias of Cortona, in 1238, taking dictation and transcribing letters.
The approval of this unusual procedure was held up by the lengthy inquiry of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, but was finally confirmed by Pope Gregory X on 23 July 1274.
He was dead by 23 March 1282, when Pope Martin IV confirmed his successor, Simone Offreduzzi, also a Franciscan.