He became abbot of San Vicenzo on the Volturno in South Italy in the time of Desiderius, king of the Lombards.

It was rebuilt and reached the apex of its fame in the 11th century under the abbot Desiderius ( abbot 1058-1087 ), who later became Pope Victor III.

It dates from 944, and was reconstructed by the abbot Desiderius ( afterwards Pope Victor III ) of Monte Cassino.

The Normans were by this time firmly established in southern Italy, and later in the year 1059 the new alliance was cemented at Melfi, where the Pope, accompanied by Hildebrand, Cardinal Humbert and the abbot Desiderius of Monte Cassino, solemnly invested Robert Guiscard with the duchies of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily, and Richard of Aversa with the principality of Capua, in return for oaths of fealty and the promise of assistance in guarding the rights of the Church.

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 ).

According to Lowe the perfected form of the script was used in the 11th century, while Desiderius was abbot of Monte Cassino, declining thereafter.

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.

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 ).

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

At about Easter the bishops and cardinals assembled at Rome summoned Desiderius and the cardinals who were with him at Monte Cassino to come to Rome to treat concerning the election.

Anselm spent the seven years of his exile at the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, but returned to Nonantola after Desiderius was taken prisoner by Charlemagne in 774.

Francis Newton states that it is likely that Annals 11-16 were in Monte Cassino during the first half of the rule of Abbot Desiderius ( 1058-1087 ) who later became Pope Victor III.

* Desiderius, Abbot of Monte Cassino ( circa 1026-1087 ), successor of Pope Gregory VII

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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

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.

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.

However, Michael, in league with the Lombard king Desiderius, and the Duke of Rimini had imprisoned Leo, who had been elected first.

Ferrara appears first in a document of the Lombard king Desiderius of 753 AD, as a city forming part of the Exarchate of Ravenna.

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 ).

The series originated with the first printed Greek New Testament, published in 1516 — a work undertaken in Basel by the Dutch Catholic scholar and humanist Desiderius Erasmus.

The first half is a rock opera about a seven-year-old child on a beach who meets a stranger from New York City who tells her a story that takes her all around the world and through time where she encounters various characters, many of which are based on historical individuals such as Desiderius Erasmus.

She recommended him to marry his first wife, Desiderata, a daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, but he soon divorced her.

In Praise of Folly ( Greek title: Morias Enkomion ( Μωρίας Εγκώμιον ), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid ) is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.

In 1845 the first treatments with peat pulp were offered by the physician Desiderius Beck.

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 ).

Alessandro Manzoni in his Adelchi, names one duke Guinigi of Ivrea, chosen by king Desiderius as defender of Pavia.

Somewhat later Desiderius attached himself to the court of Pope Victor II at Florence.

The Roman people had expelled the antipope Clement III from the city, and hither Desiderius hastened to consult with the cardinals on the approaching election.

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.

Conflict with the Holy See under Pope Stephen III arose, for Stephen opposed Charlemagne's marriage to Desiderius ' daughter.

Stephen III opposed Charlemagne's marriage to Desiderius ' daughter, Desiderata, in 768, but by his death in 772, he had made peace with the Lombards.

Even Pope Stephen III seems to confuse the two and the chroniclers and annalists seem to believe that Gerberga fled, when her husband died, to the court of her father ( she fled to Desiderius, who was definitely not her father ).