A poem composed by Venantius Fortunatus to a Vitalis, a bishop of Ravenna, traditionally identified as Maximian of Ravenna, but also as bishop Vitalis of Milan, bishop Vitalis of Altino, or even an eponymous, otherwise undocumented bishop of Pula.
Venantius Fortunatus composes a poem in celebration of the construction of the church of St. Andrew, built by a Vitalis, the bishop of Ravenna (most probably a laudatory nickname for Bishop Maximian).
Under Lombard King Cunipert, the Synod of Pavia takes place where the representatives of the schismatic clergy of the ecclesiastical province of Aquileia officially accept the decrees of the 5th Ecumenical Council (Constantinople II) and finally desist from their schism; narrative account from the contemporary "Poem on the Synod of Pavia" (Carmen or Rythmus de Synodo Ticinensi).
Late 8th-century poem lamenting the destruction of Aquileia at the hands of the Huns in the mid-5th century, composed either by Paulinus II of Aquileia (ⴕ 802) or Paul the Deacon; the poem was later used by Venetian authors to argue that Aquileia had never been restored following this destruction and that Grado, therefore, succeeded it as the capital of the ecclesiastical province of Venetia et Histria.
A poem dedicated to the memory of the late Duke Eric of Friuli, composed by Patriarch of Aquileia Paulinus II.
A poem composed in response to the Synod of Mantua (6th of June, 827), arguing that Aquileia, the old metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province Venetia et Histria, was so thoroughly destroyed by barbarians (Attila, the Avars, Lombards and Goths) that it was never rebuilt; thus, the metropolitan see transferred to "the Venetians" and Aquileia was demoted to a status of a mere parish.