Spento Explained

Spento (Italian: Spentone) was the Abbot of Farfa following the very brief abbacy of Nordepert in 888.^[1] As early as the next year (889), he was replaced by Vitalis, sometimes considered a surrogate abbot.^[2] During his brief tenure he reportedly acquired many lands for the abbey.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Marios Costambeys, Power and Patronage in the Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics, and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700–900 (Cambridge: 2007), 162n. The period from 883 to 919 in the history of Farfa is exceedingly obscure.
2. Marino Marini, Serie cronologica degli abati del monastero di Farfa: Dissertazione epistolare (Rome: 1836), 13–14.