PAOLINO DI PÉRIGUEUX (PETRICORDIA) - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. IX, p. 442

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

PAULINUS of PÉRIGUEUX (Petricordia). – He wrote around 470, at the invitation of Archbishop Perpetuus, a Life of St Martin in six books.

The first three books are based on the Vita s. Martini of Sulpicius Severus, while the fourth and fifth draw upon the two Dialogues of the same author. The sixth book versifies a collection of miracles of St Martin, gathered by Archbishop Perpetuus of Tours. For the new basilica of the saint at Tours, built by Perpetuus, P. composed a metrical inscription. Moreover, the *Versus Paulini de visitatione nepotuli sui* recount a further miracle of Martin.

Stylistically, P. is influenced by Virgil, Ovid, Catullus (v. C. Weyman, *Beiträge zur Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie*, Munich 1926, pp. 140 ff), Juvencus and Sedulius.

BIBL.: ed. by M. Petschenig in CSEL, 16, pp. 1 ff.; Studies: A. Huber, *Die poetische Beschreibung der Vita s. Martini des Sulpicius Severus durch P. V. P.*, Kempten 1901; J. Chase, in *Harv. Stud. for Class. Philol.*, 1932, pp. 51 ff.; V. also P. Courcelle, *Histoire littéraire des grandes invasions germaniques*, Paris 1948, pp. 142 and 233 ff., note.