L'eventus di Gargano, eroe eponimo della Montagna dell'Angelo

The article examines the initial section of the so-called «narrative of Garganus and the bull» in the hagiographical text De Apparitione sancti Michaelis in Monte gargano, probably belonging to the second half of the eighth century. It suggests the interpretation of the term eventus in the usual sense of event, rather than adventus, in the light of both lexical occurrences of the term in similar contexts and the hagiographical account, which, of the word Garganus, aims to spread a new etymology more suited to the new religious climate