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Humbertus de Romanis
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The Religious Vows and Virtues
"Humbert de Romanis, O.P. (1194?-1277). The writer of this fragment of thirteenth-century asceticism was well qualified to give us of the the wisdom of his time. Few men had better chance of learning by experience or by discipleship. The University of Paris had given him an introduction to the ripest scholarship of his age - perhaps of any age. Paradoxically enough, though he was at Paris for the study of law, he seems to have become in that age of giants in Scripture exegesis a leader amongst the giants. His knowledge of the Bible is such that from his works alone it would almost be possible produce the entire text of the inspired Books. ... The present treatise is a characteristic fragment of thirteenth-century wisdom, couched in a language which give it enve a literary finish. It would be difficult to find Latin terser or more epigrammatic. Students of national proverbs cannot afford to overlook the storehouse provided by the works of Blessed Humbert...."--
De oratione
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