This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...jealousy had forced Berenger to fly to the court of Otho. However, no sooner did he descend the Alps with a small army than the lascivious and avaricious Hugo found himself abandoned by all. As a last resort he resigned the crown of Italy to his popular son, Lothaire, and with his money-bags went back to Provence (946) ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...jealousy had forced Berenger to fly to the court of Otho. However, no sooner did he descend the Alps with a small army than the lascivious and avaricious Hugo found himself abandoned by all. As a last resort he resigned the crown of Italy to his popular son, Lothaire, and with his money-bags went back to Provence (946), where he died the following year. Among the jottings of news entered by Frodoard under the year 946, we find recorded the return of Hugo to his Transalpine kingdom, the accession of Agapitus, and the fact that "peace was concluded between the Patrician Alberic and Hugo, king (of Italy)." Berenger For a year or two, with the consent of Berenger and the ben, kings nobility, Lothaire retained the title of king, while Berenger 95o.taly' held its power. This unsatisfactory state of things was terminated in November 950 by the death of Lothaire, poisoned, as some relate, at the behest of Berenger. The next month Berenger and his son Adalbert were proclaimed kings of Italy. But the lawlessness of their rule soon raised a hornet's nest about them. The youngadow of Lothaire was treated by them with the utmost gnity, and then imprisoned (April 951); justice was sold,1 and papal property seized in the most brigand-like style.2 By Liutprand3 Berenger is lashed in unmeasured terms. Quoting Job (xxxix. 13, i8)he says: "'The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron and of the hawk.... When the time comes, she setteth up her wings on high; she scorneth the horse and his rider.' Whilst Hugo and Lothaire were still to the fore, that great and voracious ostrich was not good, indeed, but it had the semblance of good. But on their death.... how he raised his wings and despised all of us, I have to tell not so much in words as in sighs an...
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