Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 160
pe, the Italian cities were sur-rounded with strong walls, to protect the peacefulcitizens from the attacks of those rude tribes; and sincethen they had gradually risen in importance and pros-perity. Three centuries later, not very many years beforeRichard Coeur de Lion led his army of Crusaders to… … Germany. After the death of Charlemagne, his empirewas broken up, and France was ruled over by one kingand Germany by another. But the king of Germanystill called himself emperor, and he was acknowledgedas chief by a large part of Italy.Now Frederick Barbarossa, or RedBeard, who was emperor of…
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