Life of the Blessed Romuald

Vita beati Romualdi · Peter Damian (1007-1072) · c. 1042 · hagiography

Latin · domain: latin-tenth-eleventh · researched 2026-11-14

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS on 'Peter Damian Life of Romuald' returns eight records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Peter%20Damian%20Life%20of%20Romuald&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 8 records). The only English item is 'The mystery of Romuald and the five brothers: stories from the Benedictines & Camaldolese' (1994), whose catalogue uniform titles are 'Vita beati Romualdi. English' and 'Vita Quinque fratrum. English'; the others are a French volume, 'Saint Pierre Damien et Saint Bruno de Querfurt ... La vie du bienheureux Romuald' (Collection Les écrits des saints, 1962), and English studies ('Medieval hagiography: an anthology', 2000; a 2012 theology of Peter Damian; Butler's Lives). The 1994 English volume is a devotional compilation without the Latin and I could not verify from the record that its rendering is complete, so the status is partial rather than full. The Life was written about 1042 for the monks of Pietrapertosa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Damian).

The Life of Romuald is the founding document of the Camaldolese and, more broadly, of the eleventh-century eremitical revival that produced Peter Damian himself; it is also a first-order source for Otto III's Rome and for the Italian monastic landscape around 1000. Because the English version is a devotional retelling, a reader cannot check Peter Damian's Latin, and no etext was verified here.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
The Mystery of Romuald and the Five Brothers: Stories from the Benedictines & Camaldolese · 1994 language: en · popular devotional English rendering of the Vita beati Romualdi (and Bruno of Querfurt's Vita quinque fratrum); not a critical or annotated translation
La vie du bienheureux Romuald · Collection Les écrits des saints · 1962 language: fr · French translation, published with Bruno of Querfurt's Life of the Five Brothers

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Peter Damian Life of the Blessed Romuald — 2 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
The mystery of Romuald and the five brothers : stories from the Benedictines & Camaldolese Matus, Thomas · 1994 · eng	Matus, Thomas. "The mystery of Romuald and the five brothers : stories from the Benedictines & Camaldolese." Trabuco Canyon, CA : Source Books/Hermitage Books, 1994. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990051310770203941
Butler's lives of the saints Butler, Alban, 1711-1773 · 2003 · eng	Butler, Alban, 1711-1773. "Butler's lives of the saints." Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990092030280203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of the Blessed Romuald” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-petrus-damianus-vita-romualdi