“ After Adelperga had married Arichis, duke of Benevento, Paulus at her request wrote his continuation of Eutropius. It is possible that he took refuge at Benevento when Pavia was taken by Charlemagne in 774, but it is much more likely that his residence there was anterior to this event by several years. Soon he entered a monastery on the lake of Como, and before 782 he had become an inmate of the great Benedictine house of Monte Cassino, where he made the acquaintance of Charlemagne. ”

“ About 776 his brother Arichis had been carried as a prisoner to France, and when five years later the Frankish king visited Rome, Paulus successfully wrote to him on behalf of the captive. His Uterary attainments attracted the notice of Charlemagne, and Paulus became a potent factor in the Carolingian renaissance. In 787 he returned to Italy and to Monte Cassino, where he died on the 13th of April in one of the years between 794 and 800. ”

“ F. Dahn, Langobardische Studien, Bd. i. (Leipzig, 1876) ; W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Bd. i. (Berlin, 1904) ; A. Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, Bd. ii. (Leipzig, 1898) ; P. del Giudice, Studi di storia e diritto (Milan, 1889) ”