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ca 1070 - probably 1144. Italy. Notary and judge in Benevento. Author of the Latin Chronicon Beneventanum (Chronicle of Benevent). The chronicler, of Beneventan origin, was active from 1092 as notarius et scriba Sacri Beneventani Palatii (notary and scribe of the Sacred Beneventan Palace) and from 1133 as judge in his homeland, as 16 extant documents written and signed by him testify. Clues to Falco's political activities are to be found also in his Chronicon, in which the history of the city of Benevento takes first place. Due to its acephalic preservation, his work …

[Guglielmo di Puglia] late 11th, early 12th century. Southern Italy. Author of a Latin verse history of Norman activities under Robert Guiscard. Nothing is known of William's background or social status, though he was probably from Apulia. He began the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi at some point between 1088 and 1098, and finished writing before 1111. This five-book epic, written in Latin hexameters, deals with early Norman history, beginning with the arrival of the first Norman pilgrims in Southern Italy and ending with the death of Guiscard.…

[Petrus Diaconus] 1107/10 – after 1159. Italy. Monk, archivist and librarian in Montecassino. Author of a continuation and re-working of the Leo of Ostia, and thus a contributor to the Latin Chronica monasterii Casinensis.Peter was born between 1107 and 1110 and was a descendant of the noble family of the Earl of Tusculum, if the information he gives can be believed. He entered the Montecassino monastery as puer oblatus in 1115 at the age of five. After the dismissal of his patron, Abbot Oderisius III, Peter had to leave the monastery in 1128 and spent the next three years in nearby Atina, wher…