Plutei of Theodota
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The Plutei of Theodota are two mid 8th-century
peacocks.[3]
They are named after Theodota, a Byzantine noblewoman[1] who became the lover of king Cunipert (688–700), who later placed her in the Santa Maria Teodote monastery, also known as Santa Maria della Pusterla[1][4] (now the Diocesan Seminary for Pavia), near which was later built the oratorio di San Michele.
References
- ^ a b c (in Italian) Lida Capo, 'Commento' in Paolo Diacono, Storia dei Longobardi, pp. 556-557.
- ISBN 88-450-4219-7
- ^ (in Italian) Pierluigi De Vecchi-Elda Cerchiari, I Longobardi in Italia, p. 311.
- Historia Langobardorum, V, 37 in Georg Waitz, ed. (1878). Monumenta Germaniae Historica. p. Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI–IX, 12–219.