At the end of the 6th century Gregory the Great / Gregory the Dialogist wrote his 4 famous Dialogues during a very tumultuous time in Italy: depopulation, disease, famine, foreign invasion, the collapse of trade, and the fall of the Western Roman Empire. In the Dialogues he shows that despite the tumult God is still active in history and has not forsaken Italy as evidenced by the numerous lives of Italian saints that he recalls.

The translation I used is the Odo John Zimmerman translation (Catholic University of America - Fathers of the Church - Volume 39)

Older translation of the text can be found here: https://www.saintsbooks.net/books/Pope%20St.%20Gregory%20the%20Great%20-%20Dialogues.pdf

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