Le versioni latine della «Passio s. Demetrii»

The article examines and publishes some Latin versions of the legend of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki. The analysis of the Latin dossier shows that, alongside the translation by Anastasius, there is another version of the first Greek passio, spread in Northern Italy at least since the 13th century (BHL 2124d, whose two witnesses are published here for the first time). Of the second Greek form there existed an initial translation, made in Byzantine territory in the 11th century, from which derive both the form BHL 2124 (published here on the basis of the six witnesses found), and BHL 2125 (of which the editio princeps is given from the only witness). The northern version is the primary source for the double entry on Demetrius (in turn published here) of the Legendae de sanctis by Pietro Calò, who integrated it with the form BHL 2124; from that of Calò, Pietro Nadal drew the entry for his Catalogus sanctorum, also using a different witness of BHL 2124.