Placiti Cassinesi
The Placiti Cassinesi are four official juridical documents written between 960 and 963 in southern Italy, regarding a dispute on several lands among three Benedictine monasteries and a local landowner. They are considered the first extant documents written in a Romance vernacular of Italy, along with the Veronese Riddle.Text
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The documents called "placiti" are a group of four parchments and were discovered by Erasmo Gattola in the benedectine monastery of Monte Cassino, about 130 kilometres southeast of Rome, in the 1700s. The documents are a resolution of a dispute on the property of several lands located in the Italian cities of Capua, Sessa Aurunca and Teano, between three monasteries owned by Monte Cassino and Rodelgrimo d'Aquino, a local landowner. With these documents, after the deposition of three witnesses, the judge clearly stated that the three monasteries were the legitimate owners of the lands.
