Gian Luca Potestà

Frédérique Lachaud and Francesco Siri have recently identified a new witness for two lesser works by Joachim of Fiore – the Praefatio super Apocalypsim and the Genealogia sanctorum antiquorum patrum – in ms. 167 of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, copied after the Commentarium in Leviticum of Ralph of Flaix. Frédérique Lachaud agreed with the editors of the two works to join in writing a note describing the important discovery...

Further to the author’s recent book Dante in conclave. La lettera ai cardinali, this article returns to the question of the controversial identity of the “Trasteverino”, who had been attacked by Dante in Epistola XI, and provides new grounds why he should be identified with Cardinal Matteo Rosso Orsini...