Quilichino da Spoleto

It is divided into four books of unequal length. The Alexandreis survives in about twenty manuscripts, the four earliest from the 14th century. The final sixteen verses of the Alexandreis, which have the heading De dictatore huius historie ('on the writer of this history') are the only source on the life of Quilichinus. Some manuscripts contain the additional claim that he was born in Recanati. He completed the work in 1236 but edited the following year, completing it after Frederick II's victory in the battle of Cortenuova on 27 November 1237. Since he hews closely to the J 3 version of the Romance and manuscripts of that recension are only known from a century later, the date of his work is the terminus ante quem (latest possible date) for the production of J 3 recension. In the final lines of the Alexandreis, Quilichinus claims to have also written a preconia principis, an elegy of Frederick. The poem Cesar, Auguste, multum mirabilis has sometimes been identified as that elegy, since it is found in one manuscript alongside the Alexandreis. The modern consensus, however, is that the Cesar, Auguste was written by Terrisio di Atina. Likewise erroneous are the attributions to Quilichinus of the poem De providentia divina and of the ars dictaminis entitled Pomerium rethorice by Quichilino da Spello. Quilichinus' elegy appears to be lost. The Alexandreis is an unpolished work, although Quilichinus occasionally adapted phrases from Boethius. Its division into four books was meant to emphasis Alexander's several royal titles, which paralleled those of Frederick II, who was king of Germany, Italy and Sicily as well as emperor. In the early 14th century, it was translated into Italian verse by Domenico Scolari. Later that century, a German verse translation appeared, the Wernigerode Alexander. Quilichinus is the first author to apply the name "Tartars" to the Mongols when describing the peoples enclosed behind the Caspian Gates by Alexander.

The recorded working language is medieval Italian and medieval Latin. Works named in the authority record are Historia Alexandri Magni.