Self-portrait, the tonsured poeta himself, in Liber ad honorem Augusti, 1196.

Peter of Eboli or Petrus de Ebulo^[1] (flourished ca. 1196–1220) was a didactic versifier and chronicler. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (485x1016, 255 KB)Petrus de Ebulo from Liber ad honorem Augusti The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (485x1016, 255 KB)Petrus de Ebulo from Liber ad honorem Augusti The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of... Events Spring, London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern. ... Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s Years: 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219 - 1220 - 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 See also: 1220 state leaders The world in 1220 Middle Ages in Europe Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) Events Mongols...

Biography

A monk from Eboli (Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Naples), Peter became a court poet to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. His flattering verse Liber ad Honorem Augusti, sive de rebus Siculis, probably written in Palermo, was his first work; it was dedicated to Henry VI, King of Sicily by right of his wife Constance, the Norman heiress and mother of the heir who would be "in every way blessed" according to Peter—Frederick II, stupor mundi— whose birth is described in terms reshaped from Virgil's fourth Eclogue, which Christians read as foretelling the coming of Christ. Peter's "Book in Honor of the Augustus, or Events in Sicily" celebrated in glowing terms of the victory of Henry over his opponent, the illegitimate usurper Tancred, who, though a doughty fighter, was of such short stature that Peter ridicules him as Tancredulus ("Little Tancred"). The copy from Palermo is illuminated with palace scenes, processions and battles in tableaux that vye with the text itself, together with the Bayeux tapestry a precious record of eleventh-century scenes. Eboli (ancient: Eburum) is a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, from which it is 16 miles east by rail, situated 470 feet above sea level, on the south edge of the hills overlooking the valley of the Sele. ... Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (November 1165, Nijmegen – September 28, 1197, Messina) was king of Germany 1190-1197, and Holy Roman Emperor 1191-1197. ... Nickname: Palermu Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Constance of Sicily ( 1154 - November 27, 1198) was in her own right Queen of Sicily, became German Empress as the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, and was the mother of the Emperor and King of Sicily Frederick II. She was the posthumous daughter of Roger II of... The Normans (adapted from the name Northmen or Norsemen) were a mixture of the indigenous people of France and the Viking invaders under the leadership of Hrolf Ganger, who adopted the French name Rollo and swore allegiance to the king of France (Charles the Simple). ... Frederick II (December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250. ... A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation). ... An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. ... Tancred (d. ... The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20in by 230ft) long embroidered cloth which depicts scenes commemorating the Battle of Hastings in 1066, with annotations in Latin. ...

Peter of Eboli also wrote a didactic poem, De Balneis Puteolanis ("The Baths of Pozzuoli") that is the first widely distributed guidebook to thermal baths, a weapon in the local economic rivalries that arose over healing, medicinal bathing and the medieval tourist industry in southern Italy during the High Middle Ages. A copy is included in the historical miscellany at the Huntington Library, HM 1342. Pozzuoli (pop. ... The Huntington Library is an educational and research institution established by Henry Huntington in San Marino, California. ...

Peter's Mira Federici gesta ("remarkable deeds of Frederick") is lost.

Note

1. ↑ In medieval dog-latin, more correctly Petrus Eburensis.

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References

• "Guide To Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library" HM 1342 See folios 176-187.
• Mario Sirpettino, "The healing powers of the thermo-mineral waters in the Phlegraean Fields" Baths listed by Peter of Eboli.
• Theo Lölzer und Marlis Sträli: Petrus de Ebulo: Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis, (Jan Thorbecke Verlag), 1994 ISBN 3799542450