The Kingdom in the Sun (75 page)

Peter
of Eboli

Peter of Eboli's long poem, the
Carmen de Rebus Siculis,
gives us a detailed account of the last days of the Sicilian Kingdom, from the death of William the Good to the arrival of Henry VI. As with Falcandus, his reliability as a historian is diminished by his hatred—in this case for Tancred of Lecce, his family and his adherents. His facts can all too seldom be checked against other sources, and when they can they are not always found to be accurate. On the other hand he appears to have lived at the court of Henry VI, so that he must have been better placed than most people to see what went on. Here is another work that cries out for a good modern translation; for the moment, none exists. When it appears—as some day it must—we can only hope that it will include reproductions of the delightful and often brilliandy witty drawings with which Peter has embellished his text. Four of them are reproduced in this book.

I. ORIGINAL SOURCES

i.
Collections of Sources

(The abbreviations used elsewhere in this bibliography and in the footnotes follow each entry in parentheses.)

amari,
m.
Biblioteca Arabo-Sicula.
Versione Italiana.
2
vols. Turin and

Rome,
1880-81.
(B.A.S.) Archivio Storico Siciliano. (A.S.S.)

bouquet,
m.
et al. Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
23
vols.

Paris,
1738—1876.
New Series, Paris,
1899-
(in progress). (R.H.F.)
caruso,
g.
b.
Bibliotheca Historica Regni Siciliae.
2
vols. Palermo,
1723.

(C.B.H.)

Corpus Scriptorum Historiae By^antinae.
Bonn,
1828-97.
(C.S.H.B.)

graevius,
j.
c.
Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae, Neapolis, Siciliae, Sardiniae, Corsicae, Melitae, atque adj. terrarum insularumque.
10
vols, in
45
fol. Leyden,
1704-25.
(Vol. X, which is so called only in the general index, is that specifically relative to Sicily and has
1
5
parts.)
(G.T.A.)

guizot,
f.
Collection des Memoires Relatifs a I'Histoire de France.
29
vols.

Paris,
1823-27.
(G.M.H.F.)
jaffe
, p.
Bibliotheca Rerum  Germanicarum.   6
vols.  Berlin, 
1864-73.

(J.B.R.G.)

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Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ab cond. Feci, ad a. 1198.
2nd
edn.,

2
vols. Leipzig,
1885-88.
(J.R.P.R.) Liber Pontificalis,
ed. L. Duchesne.
2
vols. Paris,
1886-92.
(L.P.)
migne
, j. p.
Patrologia Latina.
221
vols. Paris,
1844-55.
(M.P.L.)
Monumenta Bambergensa,
ed. Jaffe.
J.B.R.G.,
vol. V.

Monumenta Germaniae Historica,
ed. G. H. Pertz, T. Mommsen
et al.

Hanover,
1826-
(in progress).
(M.G.H.) Monumenta Gregoriana,
ed. Jaffe.
J.B.R.G.,
vol. II.

muratori,
l.
a.
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25
vols in
28.
Milan,
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New Series, ed. G. Carducci and V. Fiorini. Citta di Castello—Bologna,

1900-
(in progress).
(R.I.S.)
re,
g.
del
Cronisti e Scrittori Sincroni della Domina^ione Normanna nel Regno

di Puglia e Sicilia.
2
vols. Naples,
1845,
1868.
(R.C.S.S.)

Recueil des Historiens des Croisades.
Publ. Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Paris,
1841-1906.
Historiens Occidentaux,
5
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(R.H.C.Occ.) Historiens Orientaux,
5
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(R.H.C.Or.)

stubbs
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(S.C.)

watterich
, j.
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2
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1862.
(W.P.R.)

2.
Individual Sources

abu
shama
, Shihab ed-Din Abdul-Rahman ibn Ismail,
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Gardens.
Extracts, with French tr., in
R.H.C.Or.,
vols IV-V.
al-edrisi
, Abu Abdullah Mohammed,
Geographie d'Edrisi,
tr. A. Jaubert.

2
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1836.
(Vols V and VI of
Recueil de Voyages et de Memoires,

published by the Societe de Geographie.)
A
lexander
of
telese
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R.C.S.S.,
vol. II (with Italian tr.).
al
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French tr. by E. Blochet. Paris,
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al-marrakeshi
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French tr. by E. Fagnan. Algiers,

1893.

ambroise
L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte.
Ed. and tr. into modern French by Gaston Paris. Paris,
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English tr. and notes by M. J. Hubert and J. L. La Monte. New York,
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Annates Barenses.
In
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vol. V.

Annates Beneventani.
In
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vol. III.

Annates Casinenses.
In
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vol. XIX.

annalista
saxo
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vol. VI.