Resumen de Alla scuola di Attone. Note sulla «Vita» di san Marco papa
The anonymous author of the Life of Pope Mark I [BHL 5293, 5294, 5294a], composed at the invitation of John, cardinal of the title of St. Mark in Rome, exhibits a well-defined literary profile, characterized by an evident interest in lexical preciousness. Upon closer analysis of the text, it becomes evident that the author drew inspiration from a rare work, the Polipticum attributed to Atto of Vercelli. An examination of the data obtained from the text and its tradition leads to the hypothesis that the short work, published here in its entirety for the first time, was composed in the second half of the 11th century, most likely in an area between Tuscany and Rome.
