Juan Gil de Zamora

Juan Gil de Zamora (Latin: Aegidius Zamorensis; c. 1240 – c. 1320) was a Castilian Franciscan friar and prolific writer of the literary circle around Alfonso X. He wrote hagiography, history, music theory, natural science, poetry and sermons.

Quotes

• Virga de Jesse prodiit,
  virga virens tenella,
  quae tota florens exiit
     de materna fiscella,
  purissima, sanctissima,
  rorifera, fructifera,
     carens omni procella.
  • De Beata Maria. Ad Nocturnum, l. 1. Text from Dreves, Analecta Hymnica, vol. 16, p. 62