Infatti quando san Benedetto nacque, l’Impero romano d’Occidente era da poco scomparso e l’Europa romanizzata era divisa in numerosi potentati locali in guerra con la parte latina e spesso anche tra di loro. ###>In fact when Saint Benedict was born the Roman Empire of the West had recently disappeared and Romanized Europe was divided among many local potentates at war with the Latin part and often among themselves also.