The Dialogues (Latin: Dialogi) of Gregory the Great is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy.

Summary

Writing in Latin in a time of plague and war, Gregory structured his work as a conversation between himself and Peter, a deacon.^[1] His focus is on miraculous events in the lives of monastics.

The second book is devoted to a life of Saint Benedict.^[2]

Reception

The Dialogues were the most popular of Gregory's works during the Middle Ages, and in modern times have received more scholarly attention than the rest of his works combined.^[3] From this, the author himself is sometimes known as Gregory the Dialogist.^[4]

Pope Zachary (r. 741–752) translated the Dialogues into Greek.^[5]

References

External links

Text

• A critical edition of the entire Dialogues in Latin with a Greek translation, in Sancti Gregorii Papae I, cognomento Magni, opera omnia jam olim ad manuscriptos codices Romanos, Gallicanos, Anglicanos emendata, aucta, & illustrata notis, studio & labore Monachorum Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, e Congregatione Sancti Mauri, published by Carobolus and Pompeiatus in Venice in 1769.
• Partial text of the Dialogues, as of 2022^[update] including the preface and book 2, at the Bibliotheca Augustana

Translations

• Gardner, Edmund Garratt (1911). The dialogues of Saint Gregory, surnamed the Great; pope of Rome & the first of that name. Divided into four books, wherein he entreateth of the lives and miracles of the saints in Italy and of the eternity of men's souls. London: Warner.
• Zimmerman, ODO John (1959). Saint Gregory the Great: Dialogues. New York: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 9780813211398.
• Zimmerman, John (2021). Saint Gregory the Dialogist: The Dialogues - Miracles of the Italian Fathers. Arizona: SAGOM Press. ISBN 9781945699382.