L'uso della Bibbia e di altre fonti nella trecentesca Descriptio Terre Sancte di Fra Giovanni di Fedanzola da Perugia

Examining the book named Descriptio Terre Sancte of Giovanni di Fedanzola from Perugia, Italy, – one of the most interesting accounts of pilgrimage to the Holy Land – this article tries to present the sources on which the book is based and thereby to uncover the authorʼs approach to the Sacred Scripture, his goal and interests. First, all quotations from the Old Testament and the New Testament – whether explicitly and literally or implicitly and allusively – are identified. What follows next is an analysis of the quotations of the Auctoritates, such as the Fathers of the Church (Bede the Venerable, Georgius Nicomadiensis, and St. Jerome), the important authors of the antiquity (Flavius Joseph, Walafridus Strabus, Rabbi Shelomoh Ben Ysahaq, who is known as Rashi), and the contemporary authors or those immediately preceding Fedanzola (Nicolaus of Lyre and Peter Comestor). Furthermore, some Jewish traditions included in this book as well as the authorʼs special relationship to two other pilgrims (Martin Sanudo and Burchard of Mount Sion), are also taken into consideration.