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Updated: May 5, 2025
And now I come to the final settlement of Italy and the Lombard race; and to do that well, I must introduce you to-day to an old chronicler a very valuable, and as far as we know, faithful writer Paul Warnefrid, alias Paul the Deacon. I shall not trouble you with much commentary on him; but let him, as much as possible, tell his own story.
You recollect the Lombards, of whom Tacitus says, 'Longobardos paucitas nobilitat. Paulus Warnefrid was one of their descendants, and his history carries out the exact truth of Tacitus' words. He too speaks of them as a very small tribe. He could not foresee how much the 'nobilitat' meant.
The names of Paul Warnefrid, of Alcuin, of Luitprand, and Eginhard, are even yet universally respected. They all, however, wrote in Latin. They had all of them, by the strength of their intellect, and the happy circumstances in which they were placed, learned to appreciate the beauty of the models which antiquity had left them.
Nothing that could be effected by a prince thus gifted and disposed, was left untried by Charlemagne. He drew to him the celebrated Alcuin, Peter of Pisa, Paul Warnefrid, and many other distinguished literary characters: he heaped favours upon them; and a marked distinction was always shewn them at his court. He formed them into a literary society, which had frequent meetings.
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