Studies of Travel: ItalyFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
History
Studies of Travel: Italy
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Italy -- Description and travel
_Bari_, Western, as opposed to Antivari, 279, 280, 295; under
Mussulman rule, 296; won back by both Empires in 871, _ib._;
under the Eastern Empire, _ib._; protected by Venice, 297;
Norman conquest of, _ib._; council at, held by Pope Urban,
_ib._, 305; Greek character of, 298; mixed Norman and Italian
style of architecture in, _ib._; Abbey of St. Nicolas and
cathedral church of St. Sabinus at, 299-305; its cosmopolitan
character, 306; tomb of Bona, Queen of Poland, in church of
St. Nicolas, 306, 307
_Barletta_, 285, 287
_Basilicas_, 238-241
_Belisarius_, at Beneventum, 273
_Beneventum_ (Benevento), the battle-ground of Pyrrhos and
Manfred, 262, 272, 278; its position in history, 264 _et.
seq._; principality of, _ib._; Lombardy duchy of, 266;
papal possession of, _ib._; its change of name, _ib._, 267;
described by Procopius, _ib._, 279; arch of Trajan at, 268,
271, 272; among the Thirty Cities, 273; Belisarius at, _ib._;
taken by Totilas, _ib._; monumental records preserved in its
metropolitan church, _ib._, 274; overthrown by Frederick the
Second, 274, 275; Canterbury cope worn by archbishop of, 276,
305; the castle, 277; _Quaranta Santi_, 278
_Bitonto_, mixture of Norman and Italian elements in its
cathedral church, 288-294
_Bona_, wife of Sigismund, King of Poland, her tomb at Bari,
306, 307
_Boniface VIII._, Pope, his end at Anagni, 164, 168; his
vestments kept at Anagni, 183
_Brundisium_ (Brindisi), 285; final point in the journey of
Horace and Mæcenas, 307; whence the meaning of _Brentesium_?
_ib._, 308
_Bunbury_, Sir E. H., on Anagnia, 177
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_Calor_ (Calore), tributary stream of Vulturnus, 256, 264
_Campo di Annibale_, 119, 122
_Capua_ (Vulturnum), old and new, 226, 227, 240;
amphitheatre, 227-229; contrasted with the Roman coliseum,
228, 229; date of the ancient city, 230; its Roman
citizenship, 231; its revolt, 232; Roman conquest of, _ib._,
242; taken by the Saracens, _ib._
_Caserta_, 226, 227
_Casilinum_, new Capua, ancient Capua moved to, 226, 232,
241; Norman principality of, 241, 242
_Cassius_, Spurius, wins over Anagnia to the Triple League,
170, 172
_Castel Gandolfo_, 118, 119
_Castel Giubeleo_, 77, 83. See _Fidenæ_.
_Castiglione Fiorentino_, 13
_Chiana_, tributary of the Arno, 3; valley of the, local
tradition assigned to its fossil elephants, 8, 9
_Circeii_ (Monte Circello), 120, 128, 143
_Colline Gate_, the, its historical associations, 79-81, 259,
261
_Constantine Porphyrogenêtos_, his description of the Sultan
of Bari, 296
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