Spento ( it, Spentone) was the
Abbot of Farfa
Farfa Abbey ( it, Abbazia di Farfa) is a territorial abbey in northern Lazio, central Italy. In the Middle Ages it was one of the richest and most famous abbeys in Italy. It belongs to the Benedictine Order and is located about from Rome, in t ...
following the very brief abbacy of
Nordepert in 888.
[Marios Costambeys, ''Power and Patronage in the Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics, and the Abbey of Farfa, ''c''.700–900'' (Cambridge: 2007), 162n. The period from 883 to 919 in the history of Farfa is exceedingly obscure.] As early as the next year (889), he was replaced by
Vitalis, sometimes considered a surrogate abbot.
[Marino Marini]
''Serie cronologica degli abati del monastero di Farfa: Dissertazione epistolare''
(Rome: 1836), 13–14. During his brief tenure he reportedly acquired many lands for the abbey.
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889 deaths
Year of birth unknown