Cassiodorus
c. 485 – c. 580 C.E.
In modern Calabria, next to his birthplace in Scyllaceum, today’s Squillace, he founded a double monastery in a place called Vivarium Castellum, to which he added a well furnished library, all costs being covered by his private funds. He was a ninety-two year old layman when he compiled for his monks his last work, a treatise De orthographia. Most probably unmarried, he devoted his ascetical idealism to the preservation of the cultural heritage of the church.
Charles Kannengiesser, Handbook of Patristic Exegesis: The Bible in Ancient Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 1327.
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