William of Aquitaine, a retiring warrior, receives a monk's habit from the abbot Benedict of Aniane. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino, 1620.

The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516) : the renaissance of monastic humanism / by Noel L. Brann.

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William of Aquitaine, a retiring warrior, receives a monk's habit from the abbot Benedict of Aniane. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino, 1620.

The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516) : the renaissance of monastic humanism / by Noel L. Brann.