The Dialogues (Latin: Dialogi) of Gregory the Great is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy.
Summary
editWriting in Latin in a time of plague and war, Gregory structured his work as a conversation between himself and Peter, a deacon.[1] His focus is on miraculous events in the lives of monastics.
The second book is devoted to a life of Saint Benedict.[2]
Reception
editThe Dialogues were the most popular of Gregory's works during the Middle Ages, and in modern times have received more scholarly attention than the rest of his works combined.[3] From this, the author himself is sometimes known as Gregory the Dialogist.[4]
Pope Zachary (r. 741–752) translated the Dialogues into Greek.[5]
References
edit- ^ Moorhead, John (2002). "The figure of the deacon Peter in the Dialogues of Gregory the Great". Augustinianum. 42 (2): 469–479. doi:10.5840/agstm20024227.
- ^ Meyvaert, Paul (2004). "The Authentic Dialogues of Gregory the Great". Sacris Erudiri. 43: 55–130. doi:10.1484/j.se.2.300121.
- ^ Moorhead, John (July 2003). "Taking Gregory the Great's Dialogues Seriously". The Downside Review. 121 (424): 197–210. doi:10.1177/001258060312142404. S2CID 169438580.
- ^ Demacopoulos, George (2010). "Gregory the Great and a Post-Imperial Discourse": 120–137. doi:10.7916/D88S505K.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Ivan Havener (1989), "The Greek Prologue to the Dialogues of Gregory the Great: The Critical Text", Revue bénédictine, 99 (1–2): 103–117, doi:10.1484/J.RB.4.01416.
External links
editText
edit- A critical edition of the entire Dialogues in Latin with a Greek translation, in Sancti Gregorii Papae I, cognomento Magni, opera omnia jam olim ad manuscriptos codices Romanos, Gallicanos, Anglicanos emendata, aucta, & illustrata notis, studio & labore Monachorum Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, e Congregatione Sancti Mauri, published by Carobolus and Pompeiatus in Venice in 1769.
- Partial text of the Dialogues, as of 2022[update] including the preface and book 2, at the Bibliotheca Augustana
Translations
edit- Gardner, Edmund Garratt (1911). The dialogues of Saint Gregory, surnamed the Great; pope of Rome & the first of that name. Divided into four books, wherein he entreateth of the lives and miracles of the saints in Italy and of the eternity of men's souls. London: Warner.
- Zimmerman, ODO John (1959). Saint Gregory the Great: Dialogues. New York: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 9780813211398.
- Zimmerman, John (2021). Saint Gregory the Dialogist: The Dialogues - Miracles of the Italian Fathers. Arizona: SAGOM Press. ISBN 9781945699382.