Although the Benedictine abbey at Montecassino loomed large over the region,
Cassinese sources show a high degree of standardisation and relatively few non-standard items; this is also true of other centers within the Beneventan orbit that shared a close affinity with Montecassino.
Some of the commentaries to the Commedia accuse Dolcino of being a Patarine (Codice
Cassinese, Pietro Alighieri), but Patarines were not heretics.
In Italy, moreover, the Imitatio had been enthusiastically espoused by the
Cassinese Benedictines.
(79) Nello stesso periodo Novati inizio a raccogliere in volume, con nuove cure, gli scritti dispersi in varie riviste; videro cosi la luce i suoi Studi critici e letterari (Torino, Loescher, 1889), comprendenti i suoi precedenti saggi su "L'Alfieri poeta comico"; "Il ritmo
cassinese ele sue interpretazioni"; "Un poeta dimenticato (Giovan Luigi Redaelli e il suo Canzoniere)"; "La parodia sacra nelle letterature moderne".
1202, a late eleventh-century
Cassinese lectionary for the feasts of three great Benedictine saints, the founder himself, his sister St.
Boe geographically classifies the three groups of manuscript altar books containing the prefaces as Beneventan,
Cassinese, and border-area (written in Roman miniscule rather than in the distinctive Beneventan script).
Erchempert, a contemporary
Cassinese chronicler has left a description in his Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degencium of this struggle, of which, in some part, he was an eye-witness.