Publisher's Synopsis
De bono viduitatis ("On the good of widowhood") was written about the year 414.This was just a decade after Augustine had written On the good of marriage, On holy virginity, and On the work of monks, meaning that he had then written about all the major styles of living. De bono viduitatis contains about 12,000 words. It was written as a letter, and Augustine considered it such. Because of this, it was not mentioned by Augustine in his Retractiones ("Retractions'), and Possidius mentions it in chapter 7 of his Indiculus (his list of Augustine's writings)
