Editing Amalasuintha (section)

== Sources ==
The letters of [[Cassiodorus]], chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuintha, and the histories of [[Procopius]] and [[Jordanes]], give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuintha.<ref name="EB1911"/> Cassiodorus was a part of a greater pro-Roman party that desired to Romanize the traditional Ostrogothic kingship, further evidence of the pro-Roman circle that Amalasuintha surrounded herself with.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Foote|first=David|date=2009|title=Reviewed Work: Il principe, il filosofo, il guerriero: Lineamenti di pensiero politico nell'Italia ostrogota by Massimiliano Vitiell|jstor=42586872|journal=Mediaevistik |volume=22}}</ref>