“Nostra, Rogere, tibi cognoscis carmina scribi,
Mente tibi laeta studuit parere Poeta:
Semper et auctores hilares meruere datores;
Tu duce Romano Dux dignior Octaviano,
Sis mihi, quaeso, boni spes, ut fuit ille Maroni.”
Muratori, Scriptores, v. 247-248.
[289] Muratori, Script. v. 407-457.
[290] Muratori, Script. vi. 110-161; also in Migne.
[291] Written at the close of the twelfth century. On these people see Ronca, Cultura medioevale e poesia Latina d’ Italia (Rome, 1892).
[292] Muratori, vii. pp. 349-482; Waitz, Mon. Germ. xxii. 1-338. Godfrey lived from about 1120 to the close of the century. The Pantheon was completed in 1185. Cf. L. Delisle, Instructions du comité des travaux historiques, etc.; Littérature latine, p. 41 (Paris, 1890).
[293] Matthaei Vindocinensis ars versificatoria, L. Bourgain (Paris, 1879).
[294] Ante, Chapter XXX., III.
[295] Text from Hauréau, Les Mélanges poetiques d’Hildebert de Lavardin, p. 60: also in Notices des manuscrits de la bib. nat. t. 28, 2nd part (1878), p. 331.
[296] Hauréau gives a critical text of the Carmen ad Astralabium filium, in Notices et extraits, etc., 34, part ii., p. 153 sqq. Other not unpleasing instances of elegiac verse are afforded by the poems of Baudri, Abbot of Bourgueil (d. 1130). They are occasional and fugitive pieces—nugae, if we will. See L. Delisle, Romania, i. 22-50.
[297] The substance of this poem has been given ante, Chapter XXIX. On Alanus see also post, Chapter XXXVI., III.