Gastadelli on the letter of St. Bernard to St. Hildegard

The legend of "The [enthusiastic] oral intervention of Bernard [of Clairvaux on Hildegard’s behalf to the effect that a luminary of that caliber should not remain obscure, but should rather be, by the papal authority of Eugenius III, proclaimed to be the recipient of a great grace, as indeed she was (according to the medievalist [Philipp] Jaffé) in Trier between 13 and 15 February 1148 (Regesta II, no. 9188),] is to be blamed on the fanciful [(phantasievoller)] biographers of Hildegard [Gottfried and Theodoric], exactly as the interpolation [of 1180/90] into [the authentically quite cagy] Epistle 366" (sometimes numbered 390) of 1147 in 11 of the 12 manuscripts of that famous letter.

     [Ferruccio Gastadelli], "Zu Brief 366" ("Aus Opere di San Bernardo, Vol VI/1, Milano 1986"), in Bernhard von Clairvaux Sämtliche Werke lateinisch-deutsch, ed. Gerhard B. Winkler et al., vol. III, p. 1188 (1187-1188).  Image:  Die Legend des heyligen hertzogen sant Ruprechts bey Byngen uff sant Ruprechts berg leyplich rastende [(Oppenheim:  Köbel, 1524)], XXVI =MDZ scan 55, Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ) of the Bavarian State Library (BSB).