Alberich from Montecassino

Alberich von Montecassino (* around 1030 near Benevento; † after 1105) was a monk in Montecassino and author of theological and hagiographic writings as well as treatises on the art of style.

By 1065 at the latest he was a monk in Montecassino, where he worked as a teacher. Johannes von Gaeta was one of his pupils and he was friends with Desiderius von Montecassino and Petrus Damiani . In 1079 he discussed the doctrine of the Eucharist with Berengar von Tours in Rome , the treatise De corpore Domini is lost. In another lost treatise he defended Gregory VII against Henry IV. His rhetorical treatises include the Breviarium de dictamine and the Flores rhetorici , while the authorship of the Rationes dictandi is disputed in modern literature. He was a representative of the older rhetoric, but his works show approaches to Ars dictandi , which were taken up and further developed by the first teachers of this art in northern Italy.

There are no contemporary sources for the assumption first published by Onofrio Panvinio , which has been repeated many times, that he was a cardinal.

expenditure

• Filippo Bognini (ed.): Alberico di Montecassino: Breviarium de dictamine. SISMEL, Florence 2008, ISBN 978-88-8450-265-0 (critical edition)

literature

• Anselmo Lentini :  Alberico di Montecassino, senior. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 1:  Aaron – Albertucci. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
• Hans Martin Schaller : Alberich from Montecassino . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 281.

Web links

• Publications about Alberich von Montecassino in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Alberich from Montecassino. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website) (dated October 17, 1088.)