A Killing Joke

The work goes well beyond the Liber monstrorum de diversis generibus: an unwillingness to moralizing bestiary that is in late-ancient or medieval, but it is a book of wonders, that knows how to scare, surprise, a book in the odor of magic that transcends reality prejudice always attentive witness.
The message is didactic, allegorical and religious at the same time, it is a grammar of nature that classifies and creates creatures. In Medieval times this book pursues the semantic polyvalence and multifunctionality, in spite of all the enlightenments; as in Isidore of Seville Etymologiae each page begins with "Bestiarum vocabulum proprie convenit ..." (the word animal, wild animal, suits ...).