Dialogues (book 2: the life of Benedict)
Gregory the Great · 593 · Latin West · public-domain-original
8 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Benedict of Nursia 2 claims
- Scholastica 1 claim
Events it narrates
What else rests on it
2 institutions · 2 institution roles
Four books of stories about Italian holy men, the second of which is entirely Benedict and is the only narrative source for him there is. Gregory says he had it from four of Benedict's own disciples whom he names. It is a book of miracles and was meant to be, so the ordinary facts in it are the ones to take. The 1608 English of "P. W." edited by Edmund G. Gardner (London: Philip Lee Warner, 1911). GREGORY DATES NOTHING. He narrates Subiaco and Monte Cassino without a year, an indiction or a regnal date anywhere in book II, so a foundation year taken from this book would be the editor's or the reader's and not Gregory's.