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monastery with many books”. Amongst these were 
the Institute and Novels of Justinian, the Pandects 
not having yet been discovered at Amalfi. 
new era of learning and fame. This celebrated 
Secretary. Having been converted to Christianity he 
ame a monk, and retired to the monastery © 
mount Casino, about the year 1075, when Desiderius 
was the abbot. He died in 1087; by his wonderful 
cures, the multitude of books he wrote, and the 
*° Chron. Cass. lib. iii. cap. vii. lxiii,; lib. i. cap. xxxiil. 
Pet. Diac. De viris ill, cap. xii. xix. 
* Gian. vol, ii, p. 112. 118.; lib. x. cap. ii. Leo. p. 413. 
Vita Desiderii. 
