Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum
· Atto, bishop of Vercelli (d. 961)
· c. 950-961
· treatise
Latin · domain: latin-tenth-eleventh · researched 2026-11-14
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
The only modern edition in HOLLIS is Giacomo Vignodelli's 'Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum' (Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini d'Italia 54, SISMEL, 2019), catalogued as Latin and Italian with the uniform title 'Perpendiculum. Italian', i.e. Latin text with an Italian translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Atto%20Vercelli&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 That author query (18 records) shows no English version of the work and no English translation of Atto at all. Migne PL 134 prints the Polipticum at col. 859 (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0134mign). No English translation was located.
A prose-and-verse satire in which a bishop walks the whole social order of the Italian kingdom past a plumb-line, measuring clergy, nobles, judges and kings against the gospels. It is the sharpest contemporary picture of the tenth-century Italian church and one of the earliest Latin mirrors of princes written by a man with governing experience; the Italian edition of 2019 has still not been matched in English.
Bauer, Joachim, 1942-. "Die Schrift "De pressuris ecclesiasticis" des Bischofs Atto von Vercelli : Untersuchung und Edition." [s.l. : s.n.], 1975 (Heidelberg : M. Schmidt). https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990010541270203941
Atto, Bishop of Vercelli, -961. "Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum." Firenze : SISMEL · Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155182413903941
Vignodelli, Giacomo. "Il filo a piombo : il Perpendiculum di Attone di Vercelli e la storia politica del regno italico." Spoleto (Perugia) : Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990132481490203941
Wemple, Suzanne Fonay. "Atto of Vercelli : Church State and Christian society in tenth century Italy." Roma : Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1979. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990009681670203941