Paul The Deacon
History of the Lombards
Historia Langobardorum
Translated by Fatima Immacolata Pretta
Copyright © 2020 - Paul The Deacon
Published by Tektime
CONTENT OF THE BOOK
The book contains a short preface divided into thematic sections, followed by the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, divided into seven paragraphs which contains the legend of the name and of Scandinavian origins. This is followed by Paolo Diacono's Historia Langobardorum. After Paolo's six books there is Andrea's Chronicon from Bergamo composed of nineteen sections which humbly completes the story of the Historia and makes us know, at least partially, the events that followed the Franca occupation.
GBL CATALOG
e-Books
Foro Barbarico
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - Latino (IT) - ISBN 9788822856029
2 - Storia dei Longobardi - Paolo Diacono - Italiano - ISBN 9788822882547
3 - Edictum Rothari Regis - Scriptorium di Bobbio - Latino (IT) - ISBN 9788827504161
4 - Editto di Rotari - Scriptorium di Bobbio - Italiano - ISBN in lavorazione
5 - Origo Gentis Langobardorum - Re Rotari - ISBN 9788822814661
6 - Chronicon Gentis Langobardorum - Andrea da Bergamo - ISBN 9788822812841
7 - Codicis Gothani - Anonimo cavaliere Franco - ISBN 9788826464893
22 - Costituzione - Giustiniano - Latino - ISBN In lavorazione
23 - Costituzione - Giuistiniano - Italiano - ISBN
Foro Ellenico
1 - Iliade - Omero - Greco Antico - ISBN 9788832502022
2 - Iliade - Vincenzo Monti - Italiano - ISBN 9788834182192
3 - Odissea - Omero - Greco Antico - ISBN 9788832533460
4 - Odissea - Omero - Italiano - ISBN
Foro Italico
1 - Le Grazie - Ugo Foscolo - ISBN 9788829584000
2 - I Sepolcri - Ugo Foscolo - ISBN in lavorazione
3 - Confessioni di un Italiano - Ippolito Nievo - ISBN 9788835356738
4 - Il Milione - Martco Polo - ISBN in lavorazione
Foro Latino
1 - De Bello Gallico - Gaius Iulius Caesar - Latino (IT) - ISBN 9788827516478
2 - Sulla Guerra in Gallia - Gaio Giulio Cesare - Italiano - ISBN 9788899163556 (Fermento Editore)
3 - De Bello Civili - Gaius Iulius Caesar - Latino (IT) - ISBN 9788827567807
4 - Sulla Guerra Civile - Gaio Giulio Cesare - Italiano - ISBN 9788834167359
5 -Sulla Guerra Alessandrina - Gaio Giulio Cesare - Italiano - ISBN 9788827565667
6 - De Bello Africo - Gaio Giulio Cesare - Italiano - ISBN 9788827539668
7 - De Bello Hispanico - Gaio Giulio Cesare - Italiano - ISBN 9788827573792
8 - Bellum Civili - Gaius Iulius Caesar - Latino (IT) - ISBN 9788834176948
9 - Sulla Guerra Civile Romana - Gaio Giulio Cesare - Italiano - ISBN 9788835349815
10 - Eneide - Virgilio - Latino (IT) - ISBN 9788832587180
11 - Eneide - Virgilio - Italiano - ISBN in lavorazione
12 - Storia di Roma - Tuto Livio - Latino - ISBN in lavorazione
13 - Storia di Roma - Tuto Livio - Italiano - ISBN in lavorazione
14 - Le vite dei Cesari - Svetonio - Latino - ISBN in lavorazione
15 - Le vite dei Cesari - Svetonio - Latino - ISBN
Arena Letteraria
1 - Non Farti Male - Alessandro Lepri - ISBN 9788826016917
TRADUZIONI - TRANSLATION
English
Barbaric Forum
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - Latin (EN) - ISBN 9788835402640
2 - History of the Lombard Peoples - Paul The Deacon - English (EN) - ISBN in lavorazione
5 - Origo Gentis Langobardorum - Re Rotari - Latin (EN) - ISBN 9788827527665
Forum Latino
4 - On The Civil War - Gaio Julio Caesar - English text - ISBN
5 - On The Alexandrian War - Gaio Julius Caesar - English and Latin text - ISBN 9788835404064
6 - On The African War - Gaio Julius Caesar - English and Latin text - ISBN
7 . On The Spanish War - Gaio Julius Caesar . English and Latin text - ISBN
Français
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - Latin (FR) - ISBN 978882287964
2 -
5 - Origo Gentis Langobardorum - Re Rotari - Latin (FR) - ISBN 9788827531433
Deutsch
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - Latin (DE) - ISBN 9788873041740
2 - Geschichte der Langobarden - Paul Warnefried - Deutsch - ISBN in lavorazione
5 - Origo Gentis Langobardorum - Re Rotari - Latin (DE) - ISBN 9788827534892
Português
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - Latino (PR) - ISBN 9788873040224
2 - Historias dos Lombardos - Paolo Diacono - Português - ISBN 9788873043164
5 - Origo Gentis Langobardorum - Re Rotari - Latino (PR) - ISBN 9788827524541
(Cinese)
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - (CI) - ISBN in lavorazione
2 - - (Storia dei Longobardi) - Paolo Diacono - - ISBN 9788873046462
5 - (Origo Gentis Langobardorum) - Re Rotari - Latin (CI) - ISBN 9788828336730
LIBRI - BOOKS
1 - Historia Langobardorum - Paulus Diaconus - ISBN 9788822898722
2 - Storia dei Longobardi - Palo Diacono - ISBN 9788826053431
History of the Lombards
Historia Langobardorum
Paul The Deacon
Paulus Diaconus
English Text
English Edition
eBook
Barbaric Forum
Volume 2
GBL Grande Biblioteca Latina
www.grandebibliotecalatina.com
BOOK OPTIMIZED FOR THE BLIND PEOPLE
On the cover, a digital copy of a detail of the frescoes in the Teodolinda chapel in Monza, a small town a few kilometers from Milan.
PREFACE
EDITOR'S NOTE
If you know the text of Paolo Diacono you can omit to read this preface or you can read only the parts that interest you.
However, it is divided into short and clear thematic sections, useful for framing the text correctly.
History
Why publish an old and manifestly biased book in Latin? The reason is right there, in the definition of "part": written history is always part because it is generated by a "cultural structure"; entity that often coincides with the "nation-state". In practice for history, the same concept is valid for art, each era gives a different judgment on a given work of art. As a boy, when I studied art in high school, I went to the school library to consult a famous and beautiful series dedicated to painters, in those books the critical judgments of art experts and artists of different eras were reported. There you could see the change of opinion over time. So a Baroque work first pleases, then is despised and then returns to be found beautiful. This change of opinion is closely linked to historical events and social changes. To explain some basic concepts I will continue to use the art-history parallelism, which I believe is the most suitable. Here I briefly describe a personal experience I had at the University in taking a Medieval History exam. Attending the exams of some students of my age, I noticed their difficulty in defining historical periods, their attachment to dates. The teacher of the Statale di Milano was greatly irritated to see the inability to argue about the beginning and end dates of the Middle Ages. The dates are school conventions, the ancient age does not end a day in a certain place, but it is a border that shifts and brings with it social changes, often not uniform. The Gothic kingdom in Italy is perhaps already Middle Ages but we consider it late ancient, because we tend to start the Middle Ages in Italy with the twenty years of the Gothic wars or with the Lombard invasion in the peninsula. The right answer to the question `` when does the Middle Ages begin? '' Is the conventional date of the dismissal of the last Roman emperor of the West, accompanied by the clarification that it is, in reality, a long transition period going from Odoacre, to the Lombards, and does not involve the whole territory uniformly. If we look at art, we see the splendid mosaics of Ravenna, but then the imposing mausoleum of Theodoric appears, I point out that, after these, we move on to a paleo-Christian poor art: art marks well the passage from the ancient world to the new times. In the same way, regardless of the date on which Columbus was discovered to have discovered America, the art of the second quarter of Florence already showed the Renaissance, which appears briefly and immediately dissolves into Mannerism which will become Baroque already in the Michelangelo's dome of San Pietro . Thus the Municipalities become Lordships and politics reconnect the thread with classical antiquity which has in itself the symbols of power. A strange history of Classical art was born in democratic Athens to become an instrument of every imperial ambition. In any case, even art decrees the end of the Middle Ages, with the return to plasticity and Vasari's "stil novo". In practice it is Michelangelo's David and not Colombo, the right date to remember.