[317] Dummler, “Gedichte aus Abdinghof,” in Neues Archiv, v. 1 (1876), p. 181 (cited by Novati, p. 192).
[318] Dummler, Anselm der Peripatetiker, p. 36 sqq.; cf. Hauréau, Singularités historiques, p. 179 sqq.
[319] The account is from Radolphus Glaber, Historiarum libri, ii. 12.
[320] On Damiani’s views of classical studies, see Opusc. xi., Liber qui dicitur Dominus vobiscum, cap. i. (Migne 145, col. 232); Opusc. xlv., De sancta simplicitate (ibid. col. 695); Opusc. lviii., De vera felicitate et sapientia (ibid. col. 831). For the life and works of this interesting man see post, p. 262 sqq., and post, Chapter XVI.
[321] Vita Anselmi, 1247 (cited by Ronca, p. 227).
[322] Another great politico-ecclesiastical Italian was Lanfranc (cir. 1005-1089), whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous with that of Hildebrand. He was born in high station at Pavia, and educated in letters and the law. Seized with the desire to be a monk, he left his home and passed through France, sojourning on his way, until he came to the convent of Bec in Normandy, in the year 1042. A man of practical ability and a great teacher, it was he that made the monastery great. Men, lay and clerical, noble and base, came thronging to hear him: Anselm came and Ives of Chartres, both future saints, and one who afterwards as Pope Alexander II. rose before Lanfranc, then Archbishop of Canterbury, and said: “Thus I honour, not the Archbishop of Canterbury, but the master of the school of Bec, at whose feet I sat with other pupils.” William the Conqueror made Lanfranc Primate of England and prince-ruler of the land in the Conqueror’s absence.
[323] Petri Damiani Ep. i. xvi. (Migne 144, col. 236). Damiani’s works are contained in Migne 144 and 145. Alexander II. was pope from 1061 to 1073, when he was succeeded by Hildebrand.
[324] Migne, Pat. Lat. 145, col. 961, 967.
[325] Opusculum, xxxvi. (Migne 145, col. 595). It is also bad to be an abbot, as Damiani shows in plaintive and almost humorous verses:
“Nullus pene abbas modo
Valet esse monachus,
Dum diversum et nocivum
Sustinet negotium:
Et, quod velit sustinere,
Velut iniquus patitur
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“Spiritaliter abbatem
Volunt fratres vivere,
Et per causas saeculares
Cogunt illum pergere;
Per tam itaque diversa
Quis valet incedere?”
De abbatum miseria rhythmus
(Migne, Pat. Lat. 145, col. 972).