[1] The book has the form of a dialog, in which a group of Valencia citizens ask several questions to a Franciscan about social and political matters, and even about morality and religion.
The second one, that consists in other twenty chapters, deals with practical matters, specially about social and political ones.
Nevertheless, some works of Jaume Riera Sans[2] and Curt Wittlin[3] have proved that Eiximenis was not the author of this book.
The main reasons would be the following ones: Curt Wittlin suggests that the author of this work could be Ramon Soler, who was a jurist and important citizen of Valencia, and also a close friend of Francesc Eiximenis.
Furthermore, C. Wittlin has found a lot of influence from the works of the mediaeval jurist Albertanus of Brescia.