He lived during a turbulent period in Italian history when the peninsula was occupied, first by the Goths and then by the Byzantines.
संपूर्ण बायबल एकाच खंडात सामावण्याचे महत्त्वपूर्ण पाऊल फ्लेव्हियस कॅसियोदोरस याने सहाव्या शतकात उचलले.