Liutprand, also Liudprand, Liuprand, Lioutio, Liucius, Liuzo, and Lioutsios, was a historian, diplomat, and Bishop of Cremona born in northern Italy, whose works are an important source for the politics of the 10th century Byzantine court.
Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis (detail from III, c. 32-34) Northern Italy, second half of the 10th century. Munich, Bavarian State Library, Clm 6388, fol. 51r
Surrender of the Mandylion to the Byzantines
Liutprand of Cremona. Opera. Antwerp: Balthasar I Moretus, 1640.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Cremona
The Diocese of Cremona is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Italy. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Milan. The bishop of Cremona's cathedra is in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
Cremona Cathedral