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Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini

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Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Medieval commentatorc. 735–804

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Northumbrian scholar trained in the cathedral school of York, master of Charlemagne's palace school at Aachen from 782 and abbot of Saint Martin at Tours from 796. He drove the Carolingian revival of learning, corrected the text of the Latin Bible and wrote a commentary on the Gospel of John, letters, and school texts. Aquinas quotes his commentary on John in the Catena Aurea.

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