• It is a question whether Peter Damiano and Peter the Sinner are the same person, or whether by the latter is meant Peter Onesti of Ravenna; for both in their humility took that name. The solution of the question depends upon the reading fui or fu in this line; and of twenty-eight printed editions consulted by Barlow, fourteen were for fui , and fourteen for fu . Of the older commentators, the Ottimo thinks two distinct persons are meant; Benvenuto and Buti decide in favor of one. Benvenuto interprets thus:⁠— “In Catria I was called Peter Damiano, and I was Peter the Sinner in the monastery of Santa Maria in Porto at Ravenna on the shore of the Adriatic. Some persons maintain, that this Peter the Sinner was another monk of the order, which is evidently false, because Damiano gives his real name in Catria, and here names himself [Sinner] from humility.” Buti says:⁠— “I was first a friar called Peter the Sinner, in the Order of Santa Maria.⁠ ⁠… And afterwards he went from there to the monastery at the hermitage of Catria, having become a monk.” ↩
• In 1057, when he was made Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia. ↩