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<p> flourished near the beginning of the 6th century. In the controversy excited by the monks whom ecclesiastical writers call Scythae, who came from the diocese of Torni, on the south bank of the Danube, Peter took a prominent part. He had accompanied the delegates sent to Rome by the monks, and while in the [[Eternal]] City united with his colleagues in addressing to Fulgentius, and the other African bishops who were then in exile in Sardinia, a work entitled De Incarnatione et Gratia Domini nostri [[Jesu]] [[Christi]] Liber. To this Fulgentius and his companions replied in another treatise on the same subject. The work of Peter, which is in Latin, was published in the Monumenta SS. Patrum Orthodoxographa of Grynaeus (Basle, 1569), and has been reprinted in various editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum. It is in the ninth volume of the [[Lyons]] edition of Galland (Ven. 1776, fol.). </p>
<p> a learned Benedictine of Monte-Cassino, of a Roman patrician family, was born about the close of the 11th century, in the reign of [[Alexius]] I Comnenus. In the Jus Graeco-Romanum of Leunclavius (lib. 6:395-397) are given Interrogationes quas solvit reverendissimus Chartularius, Dominus Petrus. idemque Diaconus Majoris Ecclesiae (sc. of St. Sophia at Constantinople), [[A.M. 6600=AD]]  1092. We learn from this title when the author lived, and that he held the offices described. He seems to have been admitted into the Benedictine Order at the very early age of fifteen. In a controversy of his convent with pope [[Innocent]] II, he defended the monastic interests to great advantage before the emperor Lothaire in 1138, while he was in South Italy. So well pleased was the emperor with Peter that he was made chartularius and chaplain of the Roman realm. Later he was intrusted by pope [[Alexander]] with the management of the convent of Monte-Cassino, where he died after the middle of the 12th century. The following of his writings are instructive for the contemporaneous history of the Church, De vita et obitu Justorum Coenobii Casinensis: '''''—''''' Lib. illustrium virorum Casinensis Archisterii: '''''—''''' Lib. de locis sanctis: '''''—''''' and De Novissinis temporibus. There are, or were, extant in MS. in the king's library at Paris, [[Petrus]] Diaconus et Philosophus de Cyclo et Indictione, and Petri Diaconi et Philosophi [[Tractatus]] de Sole, Luna, et Sideribus (Codd. CMXXIX, No. 7, and MMMLXXXV), but whether this Petrus Diaconus is the canonist is not clear.-Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biog. and Mythol. 3:223; Potthast, Bibl. Med. AEvi, page 490; Fabricius, Bib. Graeca, 11:334 sq.; Cave, Hist. Litt. 2:161. </p>


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Peter The Deacon [1]

a learned Benedictine of Monte-Cassino, of a Roman patrician family, was born about the close of the 11th century, in the reign of Alexius I Comnenus. In the Jus Graeco-Romanum of Leunclavius (lib. 6:395-397) are given Interrogationes quas solvit reverendissimus Chartularius, Dominus Petrus. idemque Diaconus Majoris Ecclesiae (sc. of St. Sophia at Constantinople), A.M. 6600=AD 1092. We learn from this title when the author lived, and that he held the offices described. He seems to have been admitted into the Benedictine Order at the very early age of fifteen. In a controversy of his convent with pope Innocent II, he defended the monastic interests to great advantage before the emperor Lothaire in 1138, while he was in South Italy. So well pleased was the emperor with Peter that he was made chartularius and chaplain of the Roman realm. Later he was intrusted by pope Alexander with the management of the convent of Monte-Cassino, where he died after the middle of the 12th century. The following of his writings are instructive for the contemporaneous history of the Church, De vita et obitu Justorum Coenobii Casinensis: Lib. illustrium virorum Casinensis Archisterii: Lib. de locis sanctis: and De Novissinis temporibus. There are, or were, extant in MS. in the king's library at Paris, Petrus Diaconus et Philosophus de Cyclo et Indictione, and Petri Diaconi et Philosophi Tractatus de Sole, Luna, et Sideribus (Codd. CMXXIX, No. 7, and MMMLXXXV), but whether this Petrus Diaconus is the canonist is not clear.-Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biog. and Mythol. 3:223; Potthast, Bibl. Med. AEvi, page 490; Fabricius, Bib. Graeca, 11:334 sq.; Cave, Hist. Litt. 2:161.

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