Benedict has become very frail and his voice is barely audible, his biographer Peter Seewald told German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse. He is understood to be suffering from shingles. Mr Seewald told the paper: "His thinking and memory are sharp, but his voice is barely audible at the moment.
The 93-year-old returned to his native Bavaria in June to pay his ailing brother Georg Ratzinger a final visit. Mr Ratzinger, aged 96, died shortly afterwards.
It was Benedict's first trip outside Italy since 2013, the year he resigned the papacy.
Mr Seewald is understood to visited Benedict in Rome on Saturday to present him with a copy of his biography.
The Geman paper said: "At the meeting the emeritus Pope, despite his illness, was optimistic and declared that if his strength increased again he would possibly take up his pen again."
Benedict's spiritual will, which has already been written, is to be published after his death.
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He has chosen the tomb of St John Paul II in the crypt of St Peter to be his final resting place,
He felt particularly attached to this predecessor whose sarcophagus is now worshiped in a side chapel next to the Pietà Michelangelos in the entrance area of St Peter's Basilica in the heart of Rome.
(Additional reporting by Monika Pallenberg)
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