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[287] The following leonine hexameters are attributed to Donizo:

“Chrysopolis dudum Graecorum dicitur usu, Aurea sub lingua sonat haec Urbs esse Latina, Scilicet Urbs Parma, quia grammatica manet alta, Artes ac septem studiose sunt ibi lectae.” Muratori, _Antiquitates_, iii. p. 912.

[288] William was a few years older than Donizo, and died about the year 1100. His hero is Robert Guiscard, and his poem closes with this bid for the favour of his son, Roger:

“Nostra, Rogere, tibi cognoscis carmina scribi, Mente tibi laeta studuit parere Poeta: Semper et auctores hilares meruere datores; Tu duce Romano Dux dignior Octaviano, Sis mihi, quaeso, boni spes, ut fuit ille Maroni.” Muratori, _Scriptores_, v. 247-248.

[289] Muratori, _Script._ v. 407-457.

[290] Muratori, _Script._ vi. 110-161; also in Migne.

[291] Written at the close of the twelfth century. On these people see Ronca, _Cultura medioevale e poesia Latina d’ Italia_ (Rome, 1892).

[292] Muratori, vii. pp. 349-482; Waitz, _Mon. Germ._ xxii. 1-338. Godfrey lived from about 1120 to the close of the century. The _Pantheon_ was completed in 1185. Cf. L. Delisle, _Instructions du comité des travaux historiques, etc._; _Littérature latine_, p. 41 (Paris, 1890).

[293] _Matthaei Vindocinensis ars versificatoria_, L. Bourgain (Paris, 1879).

[294] _Ante_,