Marcus Terentius Varro
The work was not very influential and was already almost forgotten in the . It was never printed, unlike the very successful encyclopedia "De proprietatibus rerum" by Bartholomeus Anglicus, from which Bandini had borrowed heavily. He also frequently cited the earlier works of Marcus Terentius Varro, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Julius Solinus, Isidore of Seville and Hrabanus Maurus.