Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke.

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1830
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Credit: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Che fa nascere i fiori e i frutti santi Qui ^ Maccario, qui h Romoaldo: Qui son li frati miei, che dentro a chiostri Fermar ]i piedi, e tennero '1 cor saldo This monastery partook of the vicissitudes of the south of Italy. Sixty years after its foundation it was totally destroyed by Zoto, the Lombard duke of Benevento; the abbot and monks fled to Rome, and were permitted by Pelagius the second to build a monastery near the Lateran. After an absence of one hundred and thirty years, their original habita- tion was rebuilt in its primitive splendour^^. It was afterwards frequently plundered by the Lom- bard princes, and the Saracens^^. In 884 it was burned by the Saracens, and saint Bertharius the abbot was slain. The monks escaped to Teano, and from thence to Capua^ where they resided for sixty years, when they returned. to Casino ^'^. Nor were they more secure under the Normans. In 1045^ under Rodolf, they attempted to get possession ^f the place, but were defeated by the monks ^^. Dante, Pardiso, canto xxii. stanza 37. »2 Mabillon, vol. i. Gian. vol. i. p. 254. Ibid. vol. ii. p. 645. 670.; vol. v. p. 170. etc. »* Ibid. vol. iii. p. 250, 481. Chron. Cass. de vita Abbatis Desiderii, p. 413. 15 Ibid. vol. iv. p. 469.