ript. tom. v. p. 23) and
of Camillo Pellegrino, (tom. ii. pars i. p. 246.) Both were extremely
scarce, when they were reprinted by Muratori.]

[Footnote 10: Baronius (Annal. Eccles. A.D. 874, No. 2) has drawn this
story from a Ms. of Erchempert, who died at Capua only fifteen years
after the event. But the cardinal was deceived by a false title, and
we can only quote the anonymous Chronicle of Salerno, (Paralipomena, c.
110,) composed towards the end of the xth century, and published in the
second volume of Muratori's Collection. See the Dissertations of Camillo
Pellegrino, tom. ii. pars i. p. 231-281, &c.]

[Footnote 11: Constantine Porphyrogenitus (in Vit. Basil. c. 58, p. 183)
is the original author of this story. He places it under the reigns of
Basil and Lewis II.; yet the reduction of Beneventum by the Greeks is
dated A.D. 891, after the decease of both of those princes.]

[Footnote 12: In the year 663, the same tragedy is described by Paul the
Deacon, (de Gestis Langobard. l. v. c. 7, 8, p. 870, 871, edit. Grot.,)
under the walls of the same city of Beneventum. But the actors are
different, and the guilt is imputed to the Greeks themselves, which in
the Byzantine edition is applied to the Saracens. In the late war in
Germany, M. D'Assas, a French officer of the regiment of Auvergne, is
said to have devoted himself in a similar manner. His behavior is the
more heroic, as mere silence was required by the enemy who had made him
prisoner, (Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XV. c. 33, tom. ix. p. 172.)]

[Footnote 13: Theobald, who is styled Heros by Liutprand, was properly
duke of Spoleto and marquis of Camerino, from the year 926 to 935. The
title and office of marquis (commander of the march or frontier) was
introduced into Italy by the French emperors, (Abrege Chronologique,
tom. ii. p. 545-732 &c.)]

[Footnote 14: Liutprand, Hist. l. iv. c. iv. in the Rerum Italic.
Script. tom. i. pars i. p. 453, 454. Should the licentiousness of the
tale be questioned, I may exclaim, with poor Sterne, that it is hard
if I may not transcribe with caution what a bishop could write without
scruple What if I had translated, ut viris certetis testiculos amputare,
in quibus nostri corporis refocillatio, &c.?]

The establishment of the Normans in the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily
[15] is an event most romantic in its origin, and in its consequences
most important both to Italy and the Eastern empire. The broken
provinces of the Greeks, L