- Landolfus Sagax
Landolfus Sagax or Landolfo Sagace ("sagax" meaning "expert" or "scholar") was a Lombard historian who wrote a "Historia Romana" in the last quarter of the tenth century or beginning of the eleventh.
When his "Historia" was first published by
Pierre Pithou inBasel in1569 , due to its varied content and sources, Pithou gave it the title "Historia Miscella". The manuscript from the Palatine Library at Heidelberg ("Pal. lat." 909) preserved in theVatican Library is written inBeneventan script and shows evidence of having been committed to parchment under the supervision of Landulf himself.The "Historia", an expansion and extension of
Paul the Deacon 's eighth-century "Historia Romana", [Paul's "Historia Romana" is itself a continuation of the "Breviarium" ofEutropius .] contains a list ofByzantine emperors until the then-livingBasil II andConstantine VIII (d. 1028) and another of empresses fromFausta toEudoxia , wife of Michael IV. There are exhortations to a "princeps", perhaps implying that it was written at court, but which court is disputed. Some scholars, like Traube, have favouredNaples and others, like Amedeo Crivellucci, [Crivellucci, "Landolfi Sagacis Historia Romana" (Rome) 1912.]Benevento , where a prince was then reigning. Surviving manuscripts are littered with marginal notes, many of Landulf's authorship.Landulf was probably a layman, as his chronicle does not manifest an interest in ecclesiastical affairs and he included a copy of "
De Re Militari ", an expressly secular work.Notes
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*Caravale, Mario (ed). "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: LXIII Labroca – Laterza".
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