The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Fonte Avellana was at this time under the influence of St. Peter Damian, who promoted penitential self-mortification. It is through his vigorous embrace of this practice that Dominic Loricatus has become most well known, particularly through a mention by Edward Gibbon in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Vol. V, C. LVIII):