Self-portrait, the tonsured poeta himself, in Liber ad honorem Augusti, 1196.

Peter of Eboli or Petrus de Ebulo^[1] (flourished ca. 1196–1220) was a didactic versifier and chronicler who wrote in Latin. Didacticism is an artistic philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in Literature and other types of Art. Poetaster, like rhymester or versifier, is a contemptuous name often applied to bad or inferior poets Generally a chronicle (chronica from Greek (from) is a historical account of facts and events in chronological order Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.

A monk from Eboli (Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Naples), Peter became a court poet to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. MONK is a Monte Carlo software package for simulating nuclear processes particularly for the purpose of determining the neutron multiplication factor or k-effective Eboli is a town of Campania, Italy, in the Province of Salerno, on the south edge of the hills overlooking the valley of the Sele. Campania is a region of Southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5 The Kingdom of Naples was an informal name of the Polity officially known as the Kingdom of Sicily which existed on the mainland of the southern Italian Henry VI (November 1165 – 28 September 1197) was King of Germany from 1190 to 1197 Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197 and King His flattering verse Liber ad honorem Augusti, sive de rebus Siculis (Book to honor the Emperor, or The Affairs of Sicily), probably written in Palermo, was his first work; it was dedicated to Henry VI, King of Sicily by right of his wife Constance, the Norman heiress and mother of the heir who would be "in every way blessed" according to Peter—Frederick II, stupor mundi— whose birth is described in terms reshaped from Virgil's fourth Eclogue, which Christians read as foretelling the coming of Christ. The Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis ("Book in honour of the Emperor or on Sicilian affairs" also called Carmen de motibus Siculis Palermo ( Sicilian: Palermu, Greek: Panormus, al-Madinah during Muslim rule is a historic City in Constance of Sicily (1154 &ndash November 27, 1198) was the heiress of the Norman kings of Sicily and the wife of Henry VI Holy Roman Emperor The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. Frederick II ( December 26, 1194 &ndash December 13, 1250) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was a Pretender to the title Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BCE &ndash September 21, 19 BCE later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or An eclogue is a Poem in a classical style on a Pastoral subject The book celebrates in glowing terms the victory of Henry over his opponent, the illegitimate usurper Tancred, who, though a doughty fighter, was of such short stature that Peter ridicules him as Tancredulus ("Little Tancred"). Tancred (died February 20, 1194) was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194 The copy from Palermo is illuminated with palace scenes, processions, and battles in tableaux that vie with the text itself and form a precious record of twelfth-century life, as those of the Bayeux tapestry do for the eleventh. The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft long embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of

Peter of Eboli also wrote a didactic poem, De Balneis Puteolanis ("The Baths of Pozzuoli") that is the first widely distributed guidebook to thermal baths, a weapon in the local economic rivalries that arose over healing, medicinal bathing and the medieval tourist industry in southern Italy during the High Middle Ages. Pozzuoli is a city of the Province of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. A copy is included in the historical miscellany at the Huntington Library, HM 1342. The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is an educational and research institution established by Henry E

Peter is known to have written three poems because he lists them all at the end of De Balneis Puteolanis in the following elegiac couplets:

The second poem of the three listed here, the mira Federici gesta ("remarkable deeds of Frederick") is lost.

References

• "Guide To Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library" HM 1342 See folios 176-187.
• Mario Sirpettino, "The healing powers of the thermo-mineral waters in the Phlegraean Fields" Baths listed by Peter of Eboli.
• Theo Kölzer und Marlis Stähli (Edd. ): Petrus de Ebulo: Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis. Codex 120 II der Burgerbibliothek Bern. Eine Bilderchronik der Stauferzeit, Textrevision und Übersetzung von Gereon Becht-Jördens (Jan Thorbecke Verlag), Sigmaringen 1994 ISBN 3-7995-4245-0 (reproductions in high quality of the entire manuscript)

Notes

1. ^ In current medieval Latin; more correctly Petrus Eburensis.