La Scolastica usa la diceria? Un caso in tre sermoni di Bonaventura di Bagnoregio a proposito dell’invenzione dell’icona della Pietà

The examination of three sermons dedicated to Mary mother of Jesus and delivered in Paris between February 2, 1268 and April 6, 1268, shows how Bonaventure elaborates - in the course of these works - the icon of the Pietà: the body of Jesus dead exhibited by his mother in perfect solitude. The icon corresponds to what could be called an apocryphal tale (having no correspondence in the accounts of the passion found in the New Testament), but also it corresponds to the image of god that is emerging at the end of the XIII century. The references to anonymous hymnography (with expressions such as quidam dixit or dicitur) show how Bonaventure in the elaboration of the figure of the Pietà also refers to what can be considered a diceria, in a salvific historical time in which he believes he can give truth value to the vox populi (as shown by some references in the Collationes in Hexaemeron).