Peter of Eboli

Peter of Eboli or Petrus de Ebulo

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Peter of Eboli also wrote a didactic poem, De balneis Puteolanis ("The Baths of Pozzuoli") that is the first widely distributed guidebook to thermal baths, a weapon in the local economic rivalries that arose over healing, medicinal bathing and the medieval tourist industry in southern Italy during the High Middle Ages. A copy is included in the historical miscellany at the Huntington Library, HM 1342.

Peter is known to have written three poems because he lists them all at the end of De balneis Puteolanis in the following

The second poem of the three listed here, the mira Federici gesta ("remarkable deeds of Frederick") is lost.

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References

• "Guide To Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library" HM 1342 See folios 176-187.
• Mario Sirpettino, "The healing powers of the thermo-mineral waters in the Phlegraean Fields" Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine Baths listed by Peter of Eboli.
• Theo Kölzer und Marlis Stähli (Edd.): Petrus de Ebulo: Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis. Codex 120 II der Burgerbibliothek Bern. Eine Bilderchronik der Stauferzeit, Textrevision und Übersetzung von Gereon Becht-Jördens (Jan Thorbecke Verlag), Sigmaringen 1994
  ISBN 3-7995-4245-0
  (reproductions in high quality of the entire manuscript)

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• Peter of Eboli: De balneis Puteolanis, Italian digitized codex, at Somni