Venantius Fortunatus

The Christian-Latin poet and priest Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (530/540-610), born in Valdobbiadene near Treviso in present-day Veneto (Italy), is considered the last Roman poet of late antiquity, but also the first poet of the Middle Ages. His works represent an important source for the end of Gallo-Roman culture at the turn from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Among other things, he wrote the epic poem "De virtutibus Martini Turonensis" about St Martin of Tours (316-397), who is now venerated as a wine saint.

Around 588, during a boat trip on the Moselle from Metz to Andernach, St Martin described the beauty of the landscape and also praised the wine in a similar way to his fellow poet Ausonius (310-395). He also mentioned the Calmont vineyard (in the municipalities of Bremm and Eller), where the Romans had already cultivated vines. He became bishop of the western French city of Poitiers, where he also died. Of his religious poems, the Passion hymns "Vexilla regis prodeunt" and "Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis" as well as the Marian hymn "Quem terra pontus aethera" are well known. The image is a detail from a miniature portrait in an 11th century manuscript.

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