Eugenios of Palermo, a civil servant and poet at the Norman-Swabian court, was imprisoned for (perhaps) conspiring against Henry VI, husband of Constance of Hauteville. During his imprisonment in Germany (or, perhaps, after his release) he wrote a poem (I, ed. Gigante) in which he lamented the instability of human fortune, likening it to a wheel. Alongside references to Boethius and Christian Greek poetry, I suggest that Eugenios may have read and imitated, in Terra d’Otranto, Nicholas of Corcyra’s poem on his resignation from metropolitan of the Ionian island.

Eugenio da Palermo lettore di Nicola di Corcyra?

Gioacchino Strano
2026-01-01

Abstract

Eugenios of Palermo, a civil servant and poet at the Norman-Swabian court, was imprisoned for (perhaps) conspiring against Henry VI, husband of Constance of Hauteville. During his imprisonment in Germany (or, perhaps, after his release) he wrote a poem (I, ed. Gigante) in which he lamented the instability of human fortune, likening it to a wheel. Alongside references to Boethius and Christian Greek poetry, I suggest that Eugenios may have read and imitated, in Terra d’Otranto, Nicholas of Corcyra’s poem on his resignation from metropolitan of the Ionian island.
2026
Eugenios of Palermo; Nicholas of Corcyra; Norman Sicily; Terra d’Otranto.
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