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Encyclopedia Britannica



PAULUS DIACONUS, or WARNEERIDI

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 965 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PAULUS DIACONUS, or WARNEERIDI , Or CASINENSIS (c. 720c. 800), the historian of the Lombards, belonged to a noble Lombard family and-flourished in the 8th century. An ancestor named Leupichis entered Italy in the
train
  of Alboin and received lands at or near Forum Julii (Friuli). During an invasion the Avars swept off the five sons of this warrior into Illyria, but one, his namesake, returned to Italy and restored the ruined fortunes of his
house
 . The grandson of the younger Leupichis was Warnefrid, who by his wife Theodelinda became the father of Paulus. Born between 720 and 725 Paulus received an exceptionally good education, probably at the court of the Lombard king Ratchis in Pavia, learning from a teacher named Flavian the rudiments of Greek. It is probable that he was secretary to the Lombard king Desiderius, the successor of Ratchis; it is certain that this king's daughter Adelperga was his pupil. After Adelperga had married Arichis, duke of Benevento, Paulus at her request wrote his continuation of Eutropius. It is possible that he took
refuge
  at Benevento when Pavia was taken by Charlemagne in 774, but it is much more likely that his residence there was anterior to this event by several years. Soon he entered a monastery on the lake of Como, and before 782 he had become an inmate of the great
Benedictine
 
house
  of Monte Cassino, where he made the acquaintance of Charlemagne. About 776 his brother Arichis had been carried as a prisoner to France, and when five years later the Frankish king visited Rome, Paulus successfully wrote to him on behalf of the captive. His literary attainments attracted the notice of Charlemagne, and Paulus became a potent factor in the Carolingian renaissance. In 787 he returned to Italy and to Monte Cassino, where he died on the 13th of April in one of the years between 794 and 800. His surname Diaconus, or Levita, shows that he took orders as a
deacon; and some think he was a monk before the fall of the Lombard kingdom.
The
chief
 
work
  of Paulus is his Historia gentis Langobardorum. This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and deals with the story of the Lombards from 568 to the death of King Liutprand in 747. The story is told from the point of view of a Lombard patriot and is especially valuable for the relations between the Franks and the Lombards. Paulus used the document called the Origo geniis Langobardorum, the Liber ponticfialis, the lost history of Secundus of Trent, and the lost annals of Benevento; he made a free use of Bede, Gregory of Tours and Isidore of Seville. In some respects he suggests a comparison with Jordanes, but in Iearning and literary' honesty is greatly the superior of the Goth, Of the Historia there are about a hundred manuscripts extant. It was largely used by subsequent writers, was often continued, and was first printed in Paris in 1514. It has been translated into English, German, French and Italian, the English translation being by W. D. Foulke (Philadelphia, 1807), and the German by 0. Abel and R. Jacobi (
Leipzig
 , 1878). Among the editions of the Latin the best is that edited by L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores rerum langobardicarum (Hanover, 1878).
Cognate with this
work
  is Paulus's Historia romana, a continuation of the Breviarium of Eutropius. This was compiled between 366 and 771, at Benevento. The story runs that Paulus advised Adelperga to read Eutropius. She did so, but complained that this heathen writer said nothing about ecclesiastical affairs and stopped with the accession of the emperor Valens in 364; consequently Paulus interwove extracts from the Scriptures, from the ecclesiastical historians and from other sources with Eutropius, and added six book:, thus bringing the history down to 553. This work has little value, although it was very popular during the middle ages. It has been edited by H.
Droysen
  and published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Auctores antiquissimi, Bd. w (1879).
Paulus wrote at the request of Angilram, bishop of Metz (d. 791), a history of the bishops of Metz to 766, the first work of its kind north of the Alps. This Gesta episcoporum mettensium is published in Bd. ii. of the Monuments Germaniae historica Scriptores, and has been translated into German (
Leipzig
 , 188o). He also wrote many letters, verses and epitaphs, including those of Duke Arichis and of many members of the Carolingian family. Some of the letters are published with the Historia Langobardorum in the Monumenta; the poems and epitaphs edited by E. Dummler will be found in the Poetae latini aevi carolini, Bd. i. (Berlin, 1881). Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems (Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus) has been edited by Karl
Neff
  (Munich, 1908). While in France 'Paulus was requested by Charlemagne to compile a collection of homilies. He executed this after his return to Monte Cassino, and it was largely used in the Frankish churches. A life of Pope Gregory the Great has also been attributed to him.
See C. Cipolla, Note bibliografiche circa l'odierna condizione degli studi critici sul testo delle opere di Paolo Diacono (Venice, 1901); the Atli e memorie del congresso storico tenuto in Cividale (Udine, 1900) ; F. Dahn, Langobardische Studien, Bd. i. (Leipzig, 1876) ; W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Bd. i. (Berlin, 19o4); A. Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, Bd. ii. (Leipzig, 1898); P. del Giudice, Studi di scoria e diritto (Milan, 1889); and U. Balzani, Le Cronache italiane nel medio evo (Milan, 1884).


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