"Vigrino" e gli altri. Considerazioni sui nomi di persona nella Vita di Andrea salos (BHG 115z)

The byzantine hagiographical text known as "Life of Andrew salos" presents a wide range of characters, but only few of them are labelled with proper name. This is a literary choice in order to outline the loneliness of the hero of the text. Given the passion of the author for literary puns, these few names seem to be loaded with a series of implications, and this is especially true of the wizard "Vigrinos" - an important character in the strategy of the text - whose name is a sort of "riddle" for the scholars. My paper suggests on historical-cultural as well as palaeographical basis that "Vigrinos" is a literary metamorphosis of "Virgilios", the Latin poet who was famous as a sorcerer not only in the West but also in the Byzantine East.