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Amarcius, active 11th century

LC control no.no 96033746
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPA8250.A2
Personal name headingAmarcius, active 11th century
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Variant(s)Amarcius, 11th cent.
Amarcius, Sextus, active 11th century
Piosistratus, Sextus Amarcius Gallus, active 11th century
Sextus Amarcius, active 11th century
Beginning date10
Associated countryGermany
Place of birthZurich (Switzerland)
AffiliationCatholic Church
Profession or occupationMonks
Poets
Satirists, Latin
Found inSermones, 1969: t.p. (Sextus Amarcius)
LCCS: PA8250.A2 (Amarcius, 11th cent.)
Lex. des Mittelalters (Amarcius; Sextus A. Gallus Piosistratus: pseud.; author of 4 books of Sermones (Satires) patterned after Horace; worked in the region of Speyer around 1100)
Dict. of the Middle Ages (Amarcius, fl. 1070; Sextus Amarcius Gallus Piosistratus, pseud.; noted for his 4 books of Sermones, satires modeled on those of Horace, written probably between 1056 and 1080)
Satires, 2011: page vii-viii (Sextus Amarcius Gallus Piosistratus, little is known about the most-likely monastic poet; Hugh of Trimberg's Registrum multorum actuorum (ca. 1280), describes him as "a teacher of truth, catholic, a satirist, born in the province of Zurich near the alps; prevailing scholarly view today is that he was Germanic)
Associated languagelat