BRUNO Bishop of Segni.
BRUNO of Asti, Canon of the Cathedral Church of that City, and afterwards of that * 1.1 of Sienna, went to Rome in the time of Pope Gregory VII. in whose presence he disputed against Berengarius, and by way of recompence, was made Bishop of Segni: He retir'd to Mount Cassin under Paschal II. who was offended at his retreat, and drew him out of that Monastery, to send him in Quality of his Legate into France and Sicily. He govern'd the Abbey of Mount Cassin for some time, but afterwards return'd to his Bishoprick, and died there A. D. 1123.
The Works of this Author were publish'd by Maurus Marchesius, a Monk of Mount Cassin, who caus'd them to be printed in two Tomes at Venice in 1651.
The First contains his Commentaries on the Pentateuch, on the Books of Job, Psalms and Canticles, and on the Revelation of St. John; in which he adheres more to the Moral, than to the other Senses of the Text.
In the Second, are compris'd Forty five Sermons on the Gospels of the whole Year, the greatest part of which were printed under the Name of Eusebius of Emisa and St. Eucherius; A Treatise on the Song of Zachariah: Another of the Incarnation and Burial of Jesus Christ, in which he enquires how long our Saviour continued in the Sepulchre: A Tract to prove the use of Unleaven'd Bread against the Greeks: An Explication of certain Ceremonies of the Church: The Life of Pope Leo IX. A Treatise about the Corruption of the Age, pro∣ceeding (as he says) from Simoniacal Practices; in which he discourses of the Invalidity of Or∣dinations made by Simonists, and of those of Persons guilty of that Crime: The Life of St. Peter of Anagnia: Two Letters, viz. One directed to the Bishop of Porto, and the Other to Pope Paschal: Six Books of Sentences or Moral Discourses on divers Subjects, which some have attributed to St. Bruno Founder of the Carthusian Order, and which Marchesius restor'd to Bruno of Segni upon the Credit of Petrus Diaconus, by reason of the conformity of the Style, and in regard that the Author of these Discourses makes it appear, that he ob∣serv'd St. Benedict's Rule, and that he wrote on the Apocalypse.
To these Works are annexed a Commentary on the Book of Psalms, by ODO a Bene∣dictin * 1.2 Monk of Asti, dedicated to Bruno of Segni.
The Treatise of the Sacraments or Rights of the Church, by Bruno Bishop of Segni, were published by Father Luke Dachery, in the Twelfth Tome of the Spicilegium, as a new Piece, although it was printed in the Venice Edition.