ANGELOMO di LUXEUIL. - Benedictine exegete, among the best of the 9th century, d. c. 855. Trained under a certain Mellino (PL 115, 108), he taught for a time at the palace school of Emperor Lotario. Having returned to his monastery of Luxeuil, he devoted himself entirely to biblical study. The following have survived (PL 115, 107-628): Commentarius in Genesin; Enarrationes in 4 libros Regum; Enarrationes in Cantica Canticorum (dedicated to Lotario); his commentary on the four Gospels, mentioned by him (ibid., 108), is lost.
He adopted the then not uncommon method of compilation or “Stromata”: he drew upon the written tradition (Girolamo, Agostino, Gregorio Magno, Isidoro, Beda, Rabano Mauro), at times making extracts from it, at times summarizing its meaning; he included explanations received from the oral tradition (Mellino) “et quae in tomis penes nos invenire non potui” (ibid., 110). Although he knew the sevenfold interpretation of Sacred Scripture (ibid., 245-46), he preferred to expound Genesi and Re « iuxu iugitatem triplicis divisionis », that is, in the historical, allegorical, and moral senses (ibid., 110, 246); in the Cantico dei Cantici, however, “nihil... historialiter requiras, sed flores allegoriarum cum morali intellectu investiges” (ibid., 554).