was edited by Karl Neff (Munich, 1908). Neff denied, however, that Paul had written the most famous poem in the collection, the hymn to St. John the Baptist , which Guido of Arezzo set to a melody that had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4.11. From the initial syllables of the first verses of the resultant setting, Guido then took the names of the first notes of the musical scale. Paul also wrote an epitome, which has survived, of Sextus Pompeius Festus's De verborum significatu, which he dedicated to Charlemagne. While Paul was in Francia, Charlemagne asked him to compile a collection of homilies. Paul granted this request after returning to Monte Cassino; the compilation was largely used in the Frankish churches. Paul also composed two important homilies In Assumptione, in the second of which, unlike Ambrose Autpert, he admits the possibility of Mary's bodily assumption into heaven. A life of Pope Gregory the Great has also been attributed to Paul, and he is credited with a Latin translation of the Greek Life of Saint Mary the Egyptian. Notes References Attribution: Endnotes: Carlo Cipolla, Note bibliografiche circa l'odierna condizione degli studi critici sul testo delle opere di Paolo Diacono (Venice, 1901) Atti e memorie del congresso storico tenuto in Cividale (Udine, 1900) Felix Dahn, Langobardische Studien, Bd. i. (Leipzig, 1876) Wilhelm Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Bd. i. (Berlin, 1904) Albert Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, Bd. ii. (Leipzig, 1898) , Studi di storia e diritto (Milan, 1889) Ugo Balzani, Le Cronache italiane nel medio evo (Milan, 1884) Further reading Christopher Heath (2017) The Narrative Worlds of Paul the Deacon: Between Empires and Identities in Lombard Italy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press} External links Works of Paulus Diaconus at Bibliotheca Augustana (in Latin) History of the Lombards 720s births 799 deaths Year of birth uncertain Medieval Latin poets Italian Benedictines Frankish historians 8th-century Latin writers 8th-century Italian historians 8th-century Lombard people 8th-century Frankish writers 8th-century poets 8th-century translators