Atto (bishop)

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Atto (924 or 925 — 960 or 961), was a French monk, made bishop of Vercelli, Italy before the year 945. During the period he presided over this see, he made himself known through a great part of Europe by his enlightened zeal for the spiritual and temporal welfare of his diocese and of the church.Rose, Hugh James [1853] (1857). [A New General Biographical Dictionary], London: B. Fellowes et al.

Among his writings that still remain are a collection of letters, some sermons, and several treatises on ecclesiastical matters. Some of Atto's works were printed by Dom Luc d'Achéry, in the eighth volume of his Spicilegium Hist. Lit. de Fr. vi. 281.. In 1768, an edition of Atto's works, in 2 volumes, folio, was published at Vercelli by the Archbishop Carlo Luigi Buronzo del Signore. Another work by this bishop, titled Polipticum, has been published by Angelo Maio.

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