Liutprand

Liutprand, or LUITPRAND, an author to whom we owe much of our knowledge of the history of the 10th century, was born of a distinguished Longobard family in Italy about the year 922. He entered the service of Berengar, king of Italy; but, having fallen into disgrace, he repaired to Germany, and served the Emperor Otto I., with whom he returned to Italy in 961. Otto made him Bishop of Cremona, and afterwards sent him on an embassy to Constantinople. He died about 972. His Antapodosis treats of the period from 886 to 950. He wrote also De Rebus Gestis Ottonis Magni Imperatoris, covering the years 960 to 964, and De Legatione Constantinopolitana, a satire on the Greek court. The best edition of his works is printed in Pertz's Monumenta Germanice, vol. iii. See Köpke, De Vita Liutprandi (1842).