Authority Cited: Fortunatus; Ven. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
Author name and dates: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c.530–c.600/609)
BKG Bio-tweet: Italian Latin poet in Merovingian court; hymnodist; later Bishop of Poitiers; SJ quotes Latin in etymologies
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Fortunatus cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Fortunatus cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Fortunatus cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ is unknown.
The abbot, ric and harp cites were first found in Venantii Honorii Fortunati, Pictaviensis Episcopi, Opera. vol. 2, 1822, Cameraci: Sumptibus et Typis A.F. Hurez. The poem citations below are to this volume.]
An early edition is Venantii Honorii Clementiani Fortunati Italici Presbyteri, Episcopi Pictauensis Vetusti et Christiani Poeta Carminum, epistolarum & expositionum Libri XI. Multis Poematis ... aucti: Omnes ... castigati. Additi, Praeter Supplementa, de vita S. Martini Libri IV. Omnia recens illustrata Notis sacris ... a Christophoro Browero, 1603, Moguntiae: Balthasarus Lippius. See image below.
Author name and dates: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c.530–c.600/609)
BKG Bio-tweet: Italian Latin poet in Merovingian court; hymnodist; later Bishop of Poitiers; SJ quotes Latin in etymologies
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Fortunatus cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Fortunatus cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Fortunatus cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ is unknown.
The abbot, ric and harp cites were first found in Venantii Honorii Fortunati, Pictaviensis Episcopi, Opera. vol. 2, 1822, Cameraci: Sumptibus et Typis A.F. Hurez. The poem citations below are to this volume.]
An early edition is Venantii Honorii Clementiani Fortunati Italici Presbyteri, Episcopi Pictauensis Vetusti et Christiani Poeta Carminum, epistolarum & expositionum Libri XI. Multis Poematis ... aucti: Omnes ... castigati. Additi, Praeter Supplementa, de vita S. Martini Libri IV. Omnia recens illustrata Notis sacris ... a Christophoro Browero, 1603, Moguntiae: Balthasarus Lippius. See image below.
- Letter to the abbot Paternas: abbot (etymology) Dict.: "Thus Fortunatus to the abbot Paternus: Nominis officium jure, Paterne, geris." (Poematum Liber III, XXIX ad paternem abbatem, de codice, emmendatum)
- Venantius Fortunatus (no work cited); harp (etymology) Dict.: Romanusq; lyrâ plaudat tibi, Barbarus harpâ. Ven. Fort. (Poematum Liber VI, VIII Ad Eudem Ducem (about the same leader); VII is de lupo duce egregio (about the excellent leader of the wolf)) [BKG Note: Prof. Barry Baldwin kindly informs me that "lupo" may refer to Lupus, the Duke of Champagne, and refers to Verses for Lupus, Duke of Champagne. Four Poems by Venantius Fortunatus, Herschend, Frands, 1996, Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Archaeology (English). The poem number citations in the article appear to be to a different base text, but the text is not indicated.]
- Fortunatus verses: ric (etymology) Dict.: "Fortunatus: Hilperice potens, si interpres barbarus adsu, Adjutor fortis hoc quoque nomen habet." (Poematum Liber VIII, I Ad Chilpericum regem, quando synodus brinnaco habita est. [BKG Note: also found in Camden's remains and in Gibson's Camden under "usuall Christian Names"]
