erator, operante eo, qui corda Principum
sicut vult, & quando vult, humiliter inclinat, leonina feritate
deposita, ovinam mansuetudinem induit."--_Romualdi Salernitani
Chronican, apud Script. Rer. Ital._, 1725, vii. 230.

[559] {474} _Rer. Ital._, vii. 231.

[560] {475} See the above-cited Romuald of Salerno. In a second sermon
which Alexander preached, on the first day of August, before the
Emperor, he compared Frederic to the prodigal son, and himself to the
forgiving father.

[561] Mr. Gibbon has omitted the important _ae_, and has written Romani
instead of Romaniae.--_Decline and Fall_, chap. lxi. note 9 (1882, ii.
777, note i). But the title acquired by Dandolo runs thus in the
chronicle of his namesake, the Doge Andrew Dandolo: "Ducali titulo
addidit, 'Quartae partis, & dimidiae totius Imperii Romaniae; Dominator.'"
And. Dand. _Chronicon_, cap. iii. pars xxxvii. ap. _Script. Rer. Ital._,
1728, xii. 331. And the Romaniae is observed in the subsequent acts of
the Doges. Indeed, the continental possessions of the Greek Empire in
Europe were then generally known by the name of Romania, and that
appellation is still seen in the maps of Turkey as applied to Thrace.

[562] See the continuation of Dandolo's _Chronicle_, ibid., p. 498. Mr.
Gibbon appears not to include Dolfino, following Sanudo, who says, "Il
qual titolo si uso fin al Doge Giovanni Dolfino." See _Vite de' Duchi di
Venezia_ [_Vitae Ducum Venetorum Italiae scriptae_, Auctore Martino
Sanuto], ap. _Script. Rer. Ital._, xxii. 530, 641.

[563] {476} "Fiet potentium in aquis Adriaticis congregatio, caeco
praeduce, Hircum ambigent, Byzantium prophanabunt, aedificia denigrabunt,
spolia dispergentur; Hircus novus balabit, usque dum liv. pedes, & ix.
pollices, & semis, praemensurati discurrant."--_Chronicon, ibid_., xii.
329.

[564] {477} _Cronaca della Guerra di Chioza, etc._, scritta da Daniello
Chinazzo. _Script. Rer. Ital._, xv. 699-804.

[565] {478} "Nonnullorum e nobilitate immensae sunt opes, adeo ut vix
aestimari possint; id quod tribus e rebus oritur, parsimonia, commercio,
atque iis emolumentis, quae e Repub. percipiunt, quae hanc ob caussam
diuturna fore creditur."--See _De Principatibus Italia Tractatus Varii_,
1628, pp. 18, 19.

[566] {479} See _An Historical and Critical Essay on the Life and
Character of Petrarch_; and _A Dissertation on an Historical Hypothesis
of the Abbe de Sade_. 1810. [An Italian version, entitled _Riflessioni
intorno a