ADSONE, EMERICO. — Benedictine, hagiographer, born into a noble family in the Jura around 920, died in 972. He became a monk at Luxeuil and taught at Toul, but in 968 was elected abbot of Moutier-en-Der (hence his Latin name: Dervensis). In 972, while making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he died and was buried on one of the Cyclades islands, Antipalea.
Among the most notable scholars of his time, he was the author of an interesting treatise on the Antichrist and of several hagiographical works: on St. Mansuetus of Toul, St. Gualbert (abbot of Luxeuil), St. Bercharius (patron of Moutier-en-Der), and St. Basolus. Very little of his poetry has survived.
BIBL.: Le opere, in PL 137, cols. 597–609; M. Manitius, Gesch. der lat. Liter. des Mittelalters, II, Munich 1923, pp. 432–42. Cesario van Hulst