A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ty annals, and in particu-lar those of the Lf)nil)ard cities, where historiography had passed outof the hands of the clergy into those of la3^nen. In Lodi, whichwas consistently imperial, and therefore harshly treated by Älilan, acitizen, — Otto Morena,—who in the times of Lothair and ConradIII. had found employment as a legate, wrote, about 1155, a Idstoryof the city, with constant reference to the general relations of Lom-bardy. He was followed therein by Acerbus Morena, employed inseveral capacities by
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ty annals, and in particu-lar those of the Lf)nil)ard cities, where historiography had passed outof the hands of the clergy into those of la3^nen. In Lodi, whichwas consistently imperial, and therefore harshly treated by Älilan, acitizen, — Otto Morena,—who in the times of Lothair and ConradIII. had found employment as a legate, wrote, about 1155, a Idstoryof the city, with constant reference to the general relations of Lom-bardy. He was followed therein by Acerbus Morena, employed inseveral capacities by Frederick, till he, too, succumbed to the epi- ANNALS OF MILAN AND OTHER CITIES. 139 deniic, in 1167. The Milanese Annals represent the anti-imperialLombaidian standjjoint, tlie older records being continued by ?variousauthors from 1154 to 12o0. A detailed history of Genoa is contrib-uted by a city official, a scion of the f)ld Genoese burgher-house ofCafaro. Similar memoirs had their origin in Pisa; and in the Nor-man kingdom of South Italy, Archishop Romoald of Salerno wrote. Fig. 64. — Bronze monument to Henry the Lion in Brunswick, llfi6 was erected in l(il(i. (From a photograph.) The annals which, from his position and participation in important affairs,are of high value. The biographies of Fredericks contemporarieson the papal chair,— Eugenius IV., Adrian IV., and Alexander III.,— though necessarily one-sided, are worthy of attention. In North German, and especially in Saxon, history the powerfulfigure of Henry the Lion (Fig. (jI) shows with special is eminently the case in the continuatiou of the Chronicle of 140 TBE HISTORICAL SOURCES. the Slavs. Valuable, also, are the annals of the abbeys of Pegauand of Pöhkle, which occasionally appeal to the reports of personsengaged in the transactions, and are, in their older portions, espe-cially interesting as enabling us to observe the gradual infusion oflegends into historical tradition
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