presence odious and formidable. They descended
from the Alps, at the head of their barbarians, who were strangers and
enemies to the country; and their transient visit was a scene of tumult
and bloodshed. [141] A faint remembrance of their ancestors still
tormented the Romans; and they beheld with pious indignation the
succession of Saxons, Franks, Swabians, and Bohemians, who usurped the
purple and prerogatives of the Caesars.

[Footnote 135: For the history of the emperors in Rome and Italy, see
Sigonius, de Regno Italiae, Opp. tom. ii., with the Notes of Saxius, and
the Annals of Muratori, who might refer more distinctly to the authors
of his great collection.]

[Footnote 136: See the Dissertations of Le Blanc at the end of his
treatise des Monnoyes de France, in which he produces some Roman coins
of the French emperors.]

[Footnote 137: Romanorum aliquando servi, scilicet Burgundiones, Romanis
imperent?.... Romanae urbis dignitas ad tantam est stultitiam ducta,
ut meretricum etiam imperio pareat? (Liutprand, l. iii. c. 12, p.
450.) Sigonius (l. vi. p. 400) positively affirms the renovation of the
consulship; but in the old writers Albericus is more frequently styled
princeps Romanorum.]

[Footnote 138: Ditmar, p. 354, apud Schmidt, tom. iii. p. 439.]

[Footnote 139: This bloody feast is described in Leonine verse in the
Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, (Script. Ital. tom. vii. p. 436, 437,)
who flourished towards the end of the xiith century, (Fabricius Bibliot.
Latin. Med. et Infimi Aevi, tom. iii. p. 69, edit. Mansi;) but his
evidence, which imposed on Sigonius, is reasonably suspected by Muratori
(Annali, tom. viii. p. 177.)]

[Footnote 1391: The Marquis Maffei's gallery contained a medal with Imp.
Caes August. P. P. Crescentius. Hence Hobhouse infers that he affected
the empire. Hobhouse, Illustrations of Childe Harold, p. 252.--M.]

[Footnote 140: The coronation of the emperor, and some original
ceremonies of the xth century are preserved in the Panegyric on
Berengarius, (Script. Ital. tom. ii. pars i. p. 405-414,) illustrated
by the Notes of Hadrian Valesius and Leibnitz. Sigonius has related
the whole process of the Roman expedition, in good Latin, but with some
errors of time and fact, (l. vii. p. 441-446.)]

[Footnote 141: In a quarrel at the coronation of Conrad II. Muratori
takes leave to observe--doveano ben essere allora, indisciplinati,
Barbari, e bestials Tedeschi. Annal. tom. viii. p. 368.]