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Updated: June 20, 2025
The tale of King Florus the gem of the book recalls the early part of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and the bet about a wife's virtue, which forms the subject of many romances, not a few folk-tales, and at least one folk-song. The Romance of the Violet, by Gerbert de Montruil, circa 1225, derives its name from the mother's mark of the heroine, which causes her husband to lose his bet.
Seeing the dismay and incredulity which were depicted in his listeners face, the prior hastened to read aloud a passage describing von Metternichs discovery of his daughters love for the humble squire, and Gerbert could no longer doubt that his fate was sealed. The prior looked at him kindly. Gerbert, he said, I am not going to put the cruel order into execution.
The Greek was cultivated; the writers of the times mention several persons skilled in it. Notker, in a letter to one of his correspondents, informs him, that "his Greek brothers salute him." Poetry was a favourite study: the celebrated Gerbert, afterwards Pope Silvester II, and Waldram, bishop of Strasburgh, were the best poets of their times.
As early as the Tenth Century, Gerbert, afterwards Pope Sylvester II., had passed into Spain and brought thence arithmetic, astronomy, and geometry; and five hundred years after, led by the old tradition of Moorish skill, Camille Leonard of Pisa sailed away over the sea into the distant East, and brought back the forgotten algebra and trigonometry, a rich lading, better than gold-dust or many negroes.
Gerbert approached him with becoming reverence, bent his knee, and presented the missive. The prior turned his gaze so earnestly on the young mans face that Gerbert dropped his eyes in confusion. A moment later the prior broke the seal and hastily scanned the letter. Who mayest thou be, youth? he asked abruptly. Gerbert von Isenburg, sir. And thy mother?
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