{p> The Dominican preacher Giovanni da San Gimignano was born between 1260 and 1270 and died after 1333. He wrote mainly sermons. Four collections are attributed to him without doubt: Sermones de mortuis, Sermones de tempore, Sermones de Sanctis and a Quadragesimale. However, the Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum, a moralized encyclopedia in 10 books, reached the largest diffusion. The aim of this paper is to identify the quotations of the Physiologus B in this work and to point out the intermediary source through which they were probably quoted in the De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Books IV and V are dedicated to the zoological matters, but only Book v presents some quotations from the Physiologus ; therefore, it is the only one considered here. - [Abstract]

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.4000/rursuspicae.423