[Page 81.] Niccolò Pesce. See Nap. Nob. (1896). Schiller's ballad, "Der Taucher," will of course be found in any collection of his works.
[Page 88.] The best book on the Hohenstaufen is Von Räumer, Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, a very fine and interesting work. Frederick loved more than Arab art, unless history is unjust. Amari speaks of him and his grandfather, King Roger, as "i due Sultani battezzati di Sicilia."
[Page 97.] Upon the vexed question where Palæopolis stood, or if it stood anywhere at all, Beloch seems a little wilful, arguing stoutly that there never was such a city. "But," says Mr. Hodgkin, "in the face of Livy's clear statement (viii. 22) as to the situation of the two cities, and the record in the Triumphal Fasti of the victory of Publilius over the 'Samnites Palæopolitanei,' this seems too bold a stroke of historical scepticism" (Italy and Her Invaders, vol. iv. p. 53).
[Page 108.]et seq. See Camillo Porzio, La Congiura de' Baroni.
[Page 121.] Upon the churches of Naples there are two works which surpass all others—namely, Documenti per la storia, le arti e le industrie, by Prince Gaetano Filangieri, a monument of vast learning; and Denkmaeler der Kunst des Mittelalters in Unter Italien, by H. W. Schulz, whose work forms the basis of almost every guide-book published on southern Italy.
[Page 123.] This tale of the graceless Duke of Calabria is in Giannone, Storia di Napoli, lib. xxii. ad init.
[Page 126.] Those who desire more information on the everyday life of Naples will do well to seek it in Kellner's work, Alltägliches aus Neapel, the tenth volume of the well-known series, "Kennst du das Land," which is sold everywhere in Italy.
[Page 137.] The account of this storm is in book v. epist. 5, of Petrarch's letters. The storm may, or may not, be the one which destroyed Amalfi. I know of no evidence pointing either way, save the improbability that two tempests should have wrought such devastation.
[Page 140.] Fucini's work is called Napoli a Occhio Nudo.
[Page 141.] Any history of Naples will give the facts of the struggle between Frederick the Second and Innocent. See especially von Räumer or Giannone.