k.
[26] The northern climates are less propitious to the education of the
silkworm; but the industry of France and England [27] is supplied and
enriched by the productions of Italy and China.

[Footnote 20: See Constantine, (in Vit. Basil. c. 74, 75, 76, p.
195, 197, in Script. post Theophanem,) who allows himself to use many
technical or barbarous words: barbarous, says he. Ducange labors on
some: but he was not a weaver.]

[Footnote 21: The manufactures of Palermo, as they are described by Hugo
Falcandus, (Hist. Sicula in proem. in Muratori Script. Rerum Italicarum,
tom. v. p. 256,) is a copy of those of Greece. Without transcribing
his declamatory sentences, which I have softened in the text, I shall
observe, that in this passage the strange word exarentasmata is very
properly changed for exanthemata by Carisius, the first editor Falcandus
lived about the year 1190.]

[Footnote 22: Inde ad interiora Graeciae progressi, Corinthum, Thebas,
Athenas, antiqua nobilitate celebres, expugnant; et, maxima ibidem
praeda direpta, opifices etiam, qui sericos pannos texere solent,
ob ignominiam Imperatoris illius, suique principis gloriam, captivos
deducunt. Quos Rogerius, in Palermo Siciliae, metropoli collocans, artem
texendi suos edocere praecepit; et exhinc praedicta ars illa, prius a
Graecis tantum inter Christianos habita, Romanis patere coepit ingeniis,
(Otho Frisingen. de Gestis Frederici I. l. i. c. 33, in Muratori Script.
Ital. tom. vi. p. 668.) This exception allows the bishop to celebrate
Lisbon and Almeria in sericorum pannorum opificio praenobilissimae, (in
Chron. apud Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. ix. p. 415.)]

[Footnote 23: Nicetas in Manuel, l. ii. c. 8. p. 65. He describes these
Greeks as skilled.]

[Footnote 24: Hugo Falcandus styles them nobiles officinas. The Arabs
had not introduced silk, though they had planted canes and made sugar in
the plain of Palermo.]

[Footnote 25: See the Life of Castruccio Casticani, not by Machiavel,
but by his more authentic biographer Nicholas Tegrimi. Muratori, who has
inserted it in the xith volume of his Scriptores, quotes this curious
passage in his Italian Antiquities, (tom. i. dissert. xxv. p. 378.)]

[Footnote 26: From the Ms. statutes, as they are quoted by Muratori in
his Italian Antiquities, (tom. ii. dissert. xxv. p. 46-48.)]

[Footnote 27: The broad silk manufacture was established in England in
the year 1620, (Anderson's Chronological Deduction, vol. ii.