But when Pope Hadrian I called for help from the powerful king Charlemagne, Desiderius was defeated at Susa and besieged in Pavia, while his son Adelchis had also to open the gates of Verona to Frankish troops.

It is also possible that discussions took place around the marriage of Charlemagne ’ s sister, Gisela to Desiderius ’ son, Adalgis.

He also painted the occasional portrait, making his international mark with portraits of the humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.

However it was, by the end of the year Bertrada and Charlemagne had successfully encircled Carloman: Charlemagne had married Desiderata, the daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, Carloman's immediate eastern neighbor, and the marriage created an alliance between Charlemagne and the Lombards ; Bertrada had also secured for Charlemagne the friendship of Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, her husband's nephew ; she had even attempted to secure Papal support for the marriage by arranging for Desiderius to cede to Rome certain territories to which the Papacy laid claim, although Pope Stephen III remained in theory hostile to an alliance between his allies the Franks and his enemies the Lombards, and in reality deeply conflicted between the threat the Lombards posed to him and the chance to dispose of the anti-Lombard Christopher the Primicerius, the dominant figure at the Papal court.

He had been left without allies: he attempted to use his brother's alliance with the Lombards to his own advantage in Rome, offering his support against the Lombards to Stephen III and entering into secret negotiations with the Primicerius, Christopher, whose position had also been left seriously isolated by the Franco-Lombard rapprochement ; but after the violent murder of Christopher by Desiderius, Stephen III chose to give his support to the Lombards and Charlemagne.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

Renaissance Humanism, of which Desiderius Erasmus ( c. 1466 – 1536 ) was an important advocate, had also gained a firm foothold and was partially responsible for a climate of tolerance.

The last king of the Lombards, Desiderius, had also been duke of Brescia.

* The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, with a short life of the Author by Hendrik Willem van Loon of Rotterdam who also illustrated the Book, 1942

Desiderius Erasmus was a humanist scholar, also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Ado wrote also a book on the miracles ( Miracula ) of St. Bernard, archbishop of Vienne ( 9th century ), published in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum ; a life or Martyrium of St. Desiderius, bishop of Vienne ( d. 608 ); and a life of St. Theudericus, abbot of Vienne ( 563 ).

It was also during these later regencies that Desiderius, Bishop of Vienne ( later Saint Didier ) publicly accused her of incest and cruelty.

Saint Didier, also known as Desiderius ( c. 580-November 15, traditionally 655 ) was a Merovingian royal official of aristocratic Gallo-Roman extraction.

The Programme is named after the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, known as an opponent of dogmatism, who lived and worked in many places in Europe to expand his knowledge and gain new insights, and who left his fortune to the University of Basel in Switzerland.

By a letter of April 8, 630, Dagobert made known his consent, and Desiderius was consecrated Bishop of Cahors.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

He went to Cava de ' Tirreni, where he obtained permission to enter the monastery of S. Sophia at Benevento, where he changed his name from Dauferius to Desiderius.

It is probable that he was secretary to the Lombard king Desiderius, a successor of Ratchis ; it is certain that this king's daughter Adelperga was his pupil.

That such a letter was a fiction was demonstrated very soon after ; when Stephen asked Desiderius to fulfil the promises he had made over the body of Saint Peter, the Lombard king responded:

Desiderius continued to stir trouble in Italy ; in 771, he managed to convince the bishops of Istria to reject the authority of the Patriarch of Grado, and to have them place themselves under the Patriarch of Aquileia, which was directly under Lombard control.

The assembly now lost all patience ; Desiderius was seized and dragged to the Church of St. Lucy, where he was forcibly vested in the red cope and given the name of Victor on 24 May 1086.

Gerberga's flight ultimately precipitated Charlemagne's destruction of the Kingdom of the Lombards ; he responded to Desiderius ' support of Carloman's children, which threatened Charlemagne's own position, by sweeping into Italy and subjugating it.

Desiderius and his family were captured, tonsured, and sent to Frankish religious houses ; the fate of Gerberga and her children by Carloman is unknown, although it is likely that they, too, were sent by Charlemagne to monasteries and nunneries.

Moreover, Gerberga, the widow of Charlemagne's brother Carloman, sought the protection of the Lombard king after her husband's death in 771 ; and — probably in return for the insult Charlemagne had given to the Lombards by rejecting Desiderata — Desiderius recognised Gerberga's sons as lawful heirs, and attacked Pope Adrian for refusing to crown them kings and invaded the Pentapolis.

* Expertise ( ability, skills ) ( the power of medicine to bring about health ; another famous example would be " in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king " – Desiderius Erasmus )

Charles had produced an alliance with the Lombards by marrying one of Desiderius ' daughters, Desiderata ; within a year, however, he had changed his mind about the marriage and alliance, and divorced his wife, sending her back to her father.

* Desiderius Erasmus ( 1466 – 1536 ) was not a philosopher strictly speaking ; indeed, he wrote excoriatingly about philosophers.

Some of the authors of these poems included Jean Molinet and Desiderius Erasmus ; Johannes Lupi provided another musical setting.

# Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly ; Colloquies

* Hieromartyr Januarius of Benevento, bishop, and his companions Festus, Proculus, and Sosius, deacons ; Desiderius, reader ; and Eutychius and Acutius, laymen ; at Pozzuoli.

He was a zealous promoter of monastic life and founded a monastery in the vicinity of Cahors, the church of which was dedicated to St. Amantius ; later on the convent was called after its founder St Géry ( i. e. Dierius, from Desiderius ).

The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus wrote to her: " For a long time I have cherished all the many excellent gifts that God bestowed upon you ; prudence worthy of a philosopher ; chastity ; moderation ; piety ; an invincible strength of soul, and a marvelous contempt for all the vanities of this world.

Even this error was sometimes compounded by a back formation to Desideria, a more probable first name ( the feminine form of Desiderius, her father's name ), or translated ( as into French, Désirée ).

Writers and humanists such as Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard and Desiderius Erasmus were greatly influenced by the Italian Renaissance model and were part of the same intellectual movement.

Desiderius was a self-adopted additional name, which he used from 1496.

Desiderius Erasmus was born in Holland on 28 October in the late 1460s.

After his defeat of Ratchis, the last Lombard to rule as king was Desiderius, duke of Tuscany, who managed to take Ravenna definitively, ending the Byzantine presence in northern Italy.

They either argue that it was left unfinished or say that earlier sources, such as Richard Eden's The Decades of the New Worlde Or West India ( 1555 ) and Desiderius Erasmus's Naufragium / The Shipwreck ( 1523 ), sufficiently account for some of the phrasing and images in The Tempest.

Shortly after Adrian's accession the territory ruled by the papacy was invaded by Desiderius, king of the Lombards, and Adrian was compelled to seek the assistance of the Frankish king Charlemagne, who entered Italy with a large army.

Desiderius, abbot of Monte Cassino was first chosen pope as Victor III when Gregory VII died in 1085, but after Victor's short reign, Otho was elected Pope Urban II by acclamation ( March 1088 ) at a small meeting of cardinals and other prelates held in Terracina in March 1088.

Consequently, an embassy was sent to the Lombard king, Desiderius, in 770, which included Charlemagne ’ s mother, Bertrada of Laon.

At the same time, a message was sent from Desiderius to the people of the city, declaring that:

It was at Bari, when about to sail for the East, that the news of the pope's death reached Desiderius.

Desiderius was the greatest of all the abbots of Monte Cassino with the exception of the founder, and as such won for himself " imperishable fame " ( Gregorovius ).

Desiderius was able to exert the help of the Normans of southern Italy repeatedly in favour of the Holy See.

In 1084, when Rome was in Henry's hands and the pope besieged in Castel Sant ' Angelo, Desiderius announced the approach of Guiscard's army to both emperor and pope.

On 23 May a great meeting was held in the deaconry of St. Lucy, and Desiderius was again importuned to accept the papacy but persisted in his refusal, threatening to return to his monastery in case of violence.