Note 82 — Front matter (continued 2)
Reading edition
Dr. H.A. Mann (The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, 1902, etc.) would show that Gregory had a regard for culture by quoting much praise of secular learning from the Commentary on the First Book of Kings. This is not a work of Gregory at all. Even the Benedictine editors of the Migne edition claim only that it was written by an admirer who took notes of Gregory's homilies, and they admit that it frequently departs from Gregory's ideas.