The Physiologus is a small anonymous work, made of an inconsistent number of short chapters, where real or more often fanciful features of some- times imaginary animals, vegetables and minerals are described and construed in the way of a christian symbolism to the spiritual edification of believers. This work, probably written in Greek between the 2nd and 3*d century in Alexandria, met with the greatest reception until modern times in the West as well as in the Christian East. In Ethiopia it appears to have been translated directly from the Greek soon after the earlier versions of the Scriptures. The following is the first Italian translation of the Ethiopian Physiologus.

Language: Italian