[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER XLIX: Conquest Of Italy By The Franks
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390-408,) who has well studied the Codex Carolinus.
I believe, with him, that they were only verbal.
The most ancient act of donation that pretends to be extant, is that of the emperor Lewis the Pious, (Sigonius, de Regno Italiae, l.iv.
Opera, tom.ii.p.
267-270.) Its authenticity, or at least its integrity, are much questioned, (Pagi, A.D.817, No.
7, &c.
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