VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMENTIANUS FORTUNATUS
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A Latin poet; born near Treviso, in northern Italy, about 530; died at Poitiers, France, about 609. He was educated at Milan and Ravenna; in 565 went to France, where he was welcomed at the court of Sigebert, king of Austrasia. At Poitiers he became chaplain to Queen Radegonda, and about 592 succeeded to the episcopate of Poitiers. His prose is mechanical, but his poetry has an easy rhythmical flow. Besides the beautiful hymn beginning "Vexilla regis prodeunt" (The banners of the king advance), which has been translated into several modern languages, he wrote lives of St. Martin of Tours, Saint Radegonda, etc.; hymns; epitaphs, poetical epistles, and some other verses.
By Charles Dudley Warner
