QUAGLIA, Giovanni. - Franciscan theologian and writer, born in Parma at the beginning of the 14th century, died c. 1398. Sparse biographical details survive; he is found as a doctor and master of theology at the University of Bologna in 1373 and teaching in Pisa c. 1380.
Quadriportico - Q. of the basilica of St Paul - Rome.
Of his authentic writings now known are: Rosa-
rium (unpublished; chapter titles in Études franciscaines,
11 [1904], pp. 566 ff.), an ample collection of philosophical and poetic sentences, divided into four parts treating respectively of the general conditions of man, of vices, of virtues and of beatitude; De civitate Christi (Reggio Emilia 1501), dedicated to Benedetto Gambacorta of Pisa; Expositio in Pater noster (unpublished); Hexaemeron (unpublished), discovered by Fedele da Fanna in two codices of Graz and Würzburg; Proverbia (ed. E. Natucci, in Miscellanea franc., 3 [1888], pp. 131-39): a characteristic collection of one hundred proverbs in Latin and Italian verse, dedicated to Andrea Gambacorta, whose acrostic reveals the author and the recipient.