The Ferraris Chronicle

<p>This is the first English translation of a chronicle completed in 1228 about the Normans and Swabians in Italy. Drawn partly from earlier works it complements our knowledge of a complex era of Italian history. Its anonymous author was a monk at an abbey near Naples. His informative account breathes life into the figures who forged the Kingdom of Sicily especially Frederick II who the chronicler probably knew. This is the last chronicle contemporaneous to Frederick's reign to be translated into English. It takes us to the period immediately prior to his departure to claim the crown of Jerusalem. Discovered during the nineteenth century and conserved as a single known manuscript it was first published in the original Latin in 1888. This volume includes a lengthy introduction maps genealogical tables photographs over 400 endnotes a timeline and features such as a list of personages with capsule biographies concordance and a bibliography. Jacqueline Alio who authored this volume is one of Sicily's leading medievalists one of just a few Sicily-based history scholars whose books have been published in English.</p>