Dialogues (Pope Gregory I)

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Miniature of Gregory the Great writing, from a 12th-century copy of his Dialogues

The Dialogues (Template:Langx) of Gregory the Great is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy.

Summary

Writing in Latin in a time of plague and war, Gregory structured his work as a conversation between himself and Peter, a deacon.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> His focus is on miraculous events in the lives of monastics.

The second book is devoted to a life of Saint Benedict.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Reception

The Dialogues were the most popular of Gregory's works during the Middle Ages, and in modern times have received more scholarly attention than the rest of his works combined.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> From this, the author himself is sometimes known as Gregory the Dialogist.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Pope Zachary (Template:Reign) translated the Dialogues into Greek.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>

External links

Text

• A critical edition of the entire Dialogues in Latin with a Greek translation, in Sancti Gregorii Papae I, cognomento Magni, opera omnia jam olim ad manuscriptos codices Romanos, Gallicanos, Anglicanos emendata, aucta, & illustrata notis, studio & labore Monachorum Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, e Congregatione Sancti Mauri, published by Carobolus and Pompeiatus in Venice in 1769.
• Partial text of the Dialogues, Template:As of including the preface and book 2, at the Bibliotheca Augustana

Translations

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