books.google.com - Having witnessed the endless string of disasters that shattered his beloved Italy in the late 6th century AD, Gregory the Great set down in the Dialogues a sequence of tales to help his contemporaries escape from their worldly troubles and contemplate eternal life. To modern readers, these tales of visions,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dialogues_of_Saint_Gregory_the_Great.html?id=H-lrSGeNTAMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great