Paulinus of Nola in the Literary Tradition
Joseph T. Lienhard
Paulinus of Nola (ca. 355–431)—the wealthy aristocrat from Aquitaine and once governor Campania who converted to asceticism, sold his wife's property, went live as a monk at St. Felix's shrine, was eventually elected bishop Nola—is remembered not so much for any single great achievement number smaller ones. His contemporaries admired he is counted among the earliest Christian Latin poets. descriptions buildings are important archaeology, known many fathers, including Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome. Of works, about fifty letters thirty poems extant. also through other writers, both contemporary later; what follows an attempt trace him in literary tradition own day Carolingian age.
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