Alberic of Monte Cassino

Alberic of Montecassino (* 1030 in Benevento, † after 1105) was a monk at Montecassino and author of theological and hagiographical writings and treatises on the art style.

No later than 1065, he was a monk in Monte Cassino, where he worked as a teacher. Among his pupils was John of Gaeta, he was friends with Desiderius of Montecassino and Peter Damian. In 1079 he discussed in Rome with Berengar of Tours on the Eucharist doctrine, the treatise De corpore Domini is lost. In another lost treatise he defended Gregory VII against Henry IV. Among his rhetorical treatises include the Breviarium de dictamine and Flores rhetorici, while for the Rationes dictandi the authorship in the recent literature is contested. He was a representative of the older rhetoric, however, show his works approaches to Ars dictandi that have been taken up and developed by the first teachers of this art in northern Italy.