Sermones
· Atto, bishop of Vercelli (d. 961)
· before 961
· homily
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
HOLLIS on 'Atto of Vercelli sermons' returns three records: an Italian translation, 'Omelie' (Qiqajon, Magnano, 1986, translated by Edoardo Arborio Mella), and two English volumes that are not Atto's - 'No uncertain sound: sermons that shaped the pulpit tradition' (1948) and the essay collection 'Sermo doctorum' (2013) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Atto%20of%20Vercelli%20sermons&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 3 records). The author-level query again shows no English Atto (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Atto%20Vercelli&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Migne PL 134 prints the 'Sermones' at col. 833 (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0134mign). What survives is described in the standard account of Atto as a small selection of sermons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atto_of_Vercelli). No English translation was located.
The sermons are the pastoral counterpart of the De pressuris: preaching to a city church in the 940s and 950s, with the same obsession with clerical marriage, simony and the courts. They are short, they are quoted in every study of tenth-century Italian preaching, and a selection would be a modest translation project.
Petry, Ray C., 1903-. "No uncertain sound; sermons that shaped the pulpit tradition." Philadelphia, Westminster Press [1948]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990027141250203941
"Sermo doctorum : compilers, preachers, and their audiences in the early medieval West." Turnhout : Brepols, c2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990140119790203941