[e] Ruggiero Bonghi, Leone XIII e il governo italiano.
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A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDIÆVAL AND MODERN ITALY
LIST OF AUTHORITIES QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
About, Edmund, The Roman Question, New York, 1859, 1 vol.—Ademar, Chronicon Aquitanicum, a history of the Frankish monarchy from its beginning to 1029.—Adomoli, G., Da San Martino a Mentana, Milano, 1892, 8 vols.—Anna Comnena, Alexias.
Anna Comnena (1083-1148), daughter of the eastern emperor Alexis I, was famous for her beauty and her talent. She was carefully educated by her father, and is said to have early surpassed all her contemporaries in philosophy and eloquence. At her father’s death in 1118 she made an unsuccessful attempt to place her husband, Nicephorus Bryennius, on the throne. Her Alexias, a biography of her father, is one of the most important works of Byzantine historiography. By some critics, indeed, it is placed almost on a par with the ancient classics.
Annales Genuenses, edited by Pertz, Monumenta Germaniæ historica, vol. 18, and Muratori, vol. 6.
The Annales Genuenses, written largely by commission of the republic, form the most complete series of chronicles of their age. They cover a continuous period of almost two centuries (1100-1294). Caffaro, who began the series, was a citizen of distinction, having served the republic as general, consul, and ambassador. He kept a careful record of what he himself saw and what was told him by consuls and others in authority. When in 1152 he presented his book to the consuls they ordered it to be copied and preserved in the archives of the city. Pleased at this prompt appreciation, he continued his annals to 1163. He was succeeded by the chancellor Chertus, whose connection with the events he relates likewise gives value and interest to his writing. Other names connected with the annals are Ottobonus, Marchirius, Bartholomeus, and James D’Oria. The annals are characterised from first to last by impartiality and precision and a great abundance of facts, names, and dates.