Colman nepos Cracavist
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Colman[1] (floruit c.ā800),[2] called nepos Cracavist ("grandson of Cracavist"),[3] was a Hiberno-Latin author associated with the Carolingian Renaissance. His poetry is full of classical allusions and quotations of Virgil.[4] He may have been a cleric at Rome, as the manuscript which nicknames him states; there were several such Colmans at Rome in the ninth century. He may be one of those responsible for spreading the cult of Saint Brigid in Italy.[2] One manuscript suggests he was a bishop.[5]