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The Church Fathers · 537
The Variae
Cassiodorus · c. 485–c. 585
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What it is
Official letters drafted for the Ostrogothic kings of Italy, collected as models of style, and covering everything from theology to sewer repair and the price of pepper.
Why it lasted
The best surviving picture of how a barbarian kingdom actually governed a still-Roman society.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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