. The Archaeological journal . month of June in the same year weretaken prisoners by Belisarius, and sent into Sicily. CesareBalbo,^ in his History of Italy under the Barbarians, givesthe number of this garrison as 1000 men. The nextmention is in the year 742, when we find ^ that PopeZacharia having gone to Terni to meet the Lombard KingLiutprand, and obtain restitution of four cities, the lattersent back with him his nephew Agiprand, Duke of Chiusi,to give him possession of the contested towns. Againwe find Pope Adrian I. writing to Charlemagne* in theyear after the fall of the Lombard k
. The Archaeological journal . month of June in the same year weretaken prisoners by Belisarius, and sent into Sicily. CesareBalbo,^ in his History of Italy under the Barbarians, givesthe number of this garrison as 1000 men. The nextmention is in the year 742, when we find ^ that PopeZacharia having gone to Terni to meet the Lombard KingLiutprand, and obtain restitution of four cities, the lattersent back with him his nephew Agiprand, Duke of Chiusi,to give him possession of the contested towns. Againwe find Pope Adrian I. writing to Charlemagne* in theyear after the fall of the Lombard kingdom, that Regnibaldo, ^ Muratori. Annali dltalia, 538. misit in ejus obsequium Agiprandum - Cesare Balbo. Storia dItalia, book diicem Clusinum iiepotem suiim atque ii. cbap. 5. .... easdemque civitates cum suis 3 Anastasius. De Vitis Pontifieum habitatoribus traderent, quod et factum Romanorum : Alia vero die, quae fuit est. /secuuda feria vale faciuus ei i\)ini rex Muratori. Aunali dltalia, 775. .^^^^y%. Plate GOLD ORNAMENTS FOUND AT CTIIUST. 105 01 Reginaldo, Duke of Cliiusi, was conspiring with theDukes of Spoleto and Benevento to assist Adelchis, son ofthe dethroned King Dcsidcrius, in retni-ning to power. The principal interest now attaching to Chiusi is in itsearher history and the inexhaustible field it affords to theantiquary. Denniss Cities and Cemeteries of Etruriacontains a full account of it during the period of its Etruscanindependence, and the light thrown upon the arts in primi-tive times by the treasures yielded from its tombs. Duringthe winter months excavations are yearly made by thelanded proprietors in the neighbourhood of Chiusi, or, ifnot so inclined themselves, they give or sell the right ofexcavating in their possessions; and some of the diggers,from long practice, possess a kind of instinctive knowledgeof the most promising localities likely to reward their search is, however, made for Etruscan tombs only, fromwh
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