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Cento vergilianus de laudibus Christi
''Cento vergilianus de laudibus Christi'' (; ''A Virgilian Cento Concerning the Glory of Christ''), also known as ''De laudibus Christi'' and ''Cento Probae'', is the name of a fourth century AD Virgilian cento, crafted by Latin Roman Christian poet Faltonia Betitia Proba crafted sometime c. AD 350–360 following the author's conversion to Christianity. By reworking verses extracted from several works of Virgil, Proba's poem details several stories from the Old and New Testament of the Christian Bible, with the crux of the work focusing on the story of Jesus Christ.
The impetus for the creation is unknown, although several hypotheses have been put forward, namely that Proba was trying to circumvent a law put in place by Roman Emperor Julian’s law that forbade Christian from teaching classical Greek and Latin literature which they themselves did not believe in, or that Proba was responding to and rebutting the rather unflattering and demonizing descriptions of Jesus put forth by Julian in his works ''Caesares'' and ''Contra Galilaeos''. The work was circulated heavily, and—despite being disliked by St. Jermone and deemed apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I—was praised by the likes of Isidore of Seville, Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio. In the 19th century, the work was criticized for being of poor quality, but recently, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the work.
==Origin and style==
Faltonia Betitia Proba, the cento's author, was born around AD 322. Proba was married to Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, who was a prefect of Rome in AD 351.〔Kaczynski 2013, pp. 131–132.〕 Proba was a noted poet, who first composed a piece, now lost, known as ''Constantini bellum adversus Magnentium'', which dealt with the war between Roman Emperor Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius.〔〔Cullhed 2015, p. 24.〕
At some point in her life, Proba converted from paganism to Christianity. This work, ''De laudibus Christi'', was written following her conversion, probably sometime c. AD 350–360,〔〔 and was an attempt by the poet to “turn away from battle and slayings in order to write holy things.”〔Kaczynski 2013, p. 132.〕 The work takes the form of a Virgilian cento, or a patchwork of verses extracted from several works of Virgil, with minimal modifications (in this case, with the introduction of Biblical names).〔Kaczynski 2013, p. 131.〕
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