ATTONE DI MILANO

ATTONE of Milan. — Cardinal of the title of S. Marco and archbishop of Milan in the second half of the 11th century, he was forced to abandon his see because of opposition from the imperial party. In Rome, where he spent the rest of his life, he compiled, for the use of the clergy of his title, a collection of brief juridical fragments drawn, in addition to the pseudo-Isidorian and Dionysian collections, from the epistles of St. Gregory the Great, concerning especially the rights of the Roman Pontiff, the rights and duties of the clergy, the administration of the Sacraments, censures, and ecclesiastical judgments. This work is commonly called the Capitolare, but was entitled by its author Defloratio canonum. It consists of 500 chapters and was compiled during the pontificate of Alexander II or at the beginning of the pontificate of Gregory VII.