ABBO OF SAINT-GERMAIN. - Monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (mid-9th century). Little is known about him, and he has often been confused with his namesake of Fleury.

He wrote a poem in three books (hexameter verses), De Bellis Parisiacae Urbis, in which he describes the siege of Paris by the Normans (885-87). All editions prior to Migne (PL 132, 721-61) and Pertz (MGH, Scriptores, II, 776-805) do not include the 3rd book, which is much more imperfect than the others and stuffed with digressions and allegories with exceedingly obscure glosses. Defective in style and language, the poem has a singular historical value. A. is also the author of five sermons (PL 132, 761-78), and of an epistle (Bibl. Patrum, V).

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BIBL.: R. Ceillier, Histoire générale des auteurs sacrés et ecclésiastiques, XII, 2nd ed., Paris 1862, pp. 789-92; J. Petitjean, Abbon l'humble, son poème sur le siège de Paris par les Normands: 835-26, in Annales de la Faculté des Lettres de Caen, (1888), pp. 61-74; A. Molinier, Les sources de l'histoire de

France, I, Paris 1901, p. 255; M. Roussès, s. v. in DHG, I, coll. 51-52.

Giuseppe Sanità

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Abbo of Saint-Germain

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