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The Church Fathers · c. 393–431
The Letters and Poems
Paulinus of Nola · c. 354–431
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What it is
The correspondence and annual birthday poems of a wealthy senator who gave away an enormous fortune to live beside the tomb of a minor saint.
Why it lasted
The best documented case of aristocratic renunciation in late antiquity, and a window on the friendship networks that bound the Latin fathers together.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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