Excerpt from The History of Italy, Vol. 1: From the Abdication of Napoleon I., With Introductory References to That of Earlier Time Republics of Italy - The free Cities the Representatives of the Muni cipal Institutions of the Roman System - Greatness of these Cities - Accession of the Emperor Frederick I. - His Diet at Roncaglia -submission of Milan - Its second Revolt - It is levelled to the Ground - Origin of the Lombard League - Frederick marches on Rome - Return of his Army - Building of Alexandria - Contest of Frederick with the Lombard League - Battle of Legnano Acquisi tion of Sicily by Marriage - The Emperor Henry VL - His Son Frederick a Ward of the Pope - Assumes the Imperial Crown as Frederick II. - His quarrel with the Church - His Excommunica tion and his Crusade in the Holy Land - Manifestoes of the Pepe and the Emperor - Attempted Council by the Pope - Seizure of the Bishops by the Pisan Fleet - Death of the Pope - Council of Lyons - Excommunication of Henry - His Death - Early Death of his Son conrad-manfred King of Sicily - Conquest of Naples by Charles of An jou - Conradin Son of Conrad claims the Crown, his defeat and execution - The Sicilian vesmm;mects of the Papal enmity to Frederick II. And his family - Reflections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.