Paulinus of Perigueux versified Sulpicius Severus's Life of Martin in six books around 470, creating the verse hagiography that Fortunatus later imitated, and there is no English translation. HOLLIS finds only French versions: Vie de saint Martin: prologue, livres I-III (Cerf, 2016), which stops at Book III, and La vie de Saint-Martin, suivie des vers de Paulin et du testament de Perpetuus (Paleo, 2008) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Paulinus%20of%20Perigueux%20Life%20of%20Saint%20Martin&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The only English volume in that search is N. M. Kay's edition of Fortunatus's Vita sancti Martini, a different poem, which treats Paulinus as a source rather than translating him (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma99154208604303941). Paulinus is not represented in White's Early Christian Latin Poets (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990085386220203941).
The first verse Life of Martin, and the missing middle term between Sulpicius's prose and Fortunatus's epic; it is also a dense display of how a fifth-century Gallic poet converted hagiographic prose into Virgilian narrative. English readers can get Sulpicius and half of Fortunatus, but not the poem that established the verse form between them.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (CSEL, 1888); Internet Archive scan |
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| Vie de saint Martin : prologue, livres I-III | Paulin de Périgueux, active 459-472. "Vie de saint Martin : prologue, livres I-III." Paris : Les éditions du Cerf, 2016. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990147375700203941 |
| La vie de Saint-Martin, évêque de Tours ; suivie des vers de Paulin et du testament de Perpetuus | Paulinus, Petricordiae, active 459-472. "La vie de Saint-Martin, évêque de Tours ; suivie des vers de Paulin et du testament de Perpetuus." Clermont-Ferrand : Paleo, ©2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990122410910203941 |
| Vita sancti Martini. Prologue and Books I-II | Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600. "Vita sancti Martini. Prologue and Books I-II." Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5n… |
| Studies on medieval empathies | "Studies on medieval empathies." Turnhout : Brepols, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990137125400203941 |