Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke.

Date:
1830
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Credit: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    To these miseries were added tlie attempts of the emperors of tlie east to recover their Italian do- minions. The dissensions and contests of the Lom- bard princes themselves were unceasing^ and the destructive practice of dividing their dominions amongst their sons had portioned out the country into a vast number of independent states A country so distracted and weakened was an easy conquest to the Normans. The sons of Tancred of Hauteville arrived in 1035^ and were received with kindness by Guimar the fourth^ the prince of Salerno. As the allies of the Lombards, they at first attacked only the Greeks and the Arabians. Robert Guiscard, to establish his power by an aliiance with the Lombard princes^ having divorced his first wife Alverada, married Sicelgaita;, the sister of Gisulf the second, who had succeeded his father Guimar. A quarrel, followed by a war^ ensued between the brothers-iri-law. Robert besieged SalernO;, took the city, made Gisulf a prisoner;, and possessed himself of the principality, which was thus united to the dukedom of Apulia in 1075. By this and other acquisitionsj, the Norman power at length extended over the whole of what now constitutes the kingdom of Naples and Sicily. Robert Guiscard Avas suc-