'Il Dio di Randazzo' e i "goffi, et ignoranti" dell'Academico Arciasino
In one of his Postille storico-letterarie dedicated to Bruno, Vincenzo Spampanato identified the so-called ‘Dio di Randazzo’ mentioned in De la causa with the sixteenth-century ‘crocifisso della pioggia’ attributed to Giovanni de Matinati of Messina. However, the real ‘God of Randazzo’ is an older, wooden, Byzantine-style crucifix in which Christ is wearing a tunica inconsutilis and has suffering features that are typical of the iconography of the Holy Face.