Chapter XII

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[240] _Chronicon_, cap. 35 (Migne 139, col. 46). The sense is easy to follow, but the impossible constructions render an exact translation quite impossible. It is doubtful whether this Benedictus was an Italian. The Italian writing of this period, like that of Liutprand, is easier than among more painful students north of the Alps. But otherwise its qualities are rarely more pronounced. Ease is shown, however, in the _Chronicon Venetum_ of John the Deacon (d. cir. 1008). See _ante_, Chapter XIII ., III.

[241] Migne 133. This work fills four hundred columns in Migne. On Odo see _ante_,