[Footnote 15: The original monuments of the Normans in Italy
are collected in the vth volume of Muratori; and among these
we may distinguish the poems of William Appulus (p. 245 -
278) and the history of Galfridus (Jeffrey) Malaterra, (p.
537 - 607.) Both were natives of France, but they wrote on
the spot, in the age of the first conquerors (before A.D.
1100,) and with the spirit of freemen. It is needless to
recapitulate the compilers and critics of Italian history,
Sigonius, Baronius, Pagi, Giannone, Muratori, St. Marc, &c.,
whom I have always consulted, and never copied.
Note: M. Goutier d'Arc has discovered a translation of the
Chronicle of Aime, monk of Mont Cassino, a contemporary of
the first Norman invaders of Italy. He has made use of it
in his Histoire des Conquetes des Normands, and added a
summary of its contents. This work was quoted by later
writers, but was supposed to have been entirely lost. - M.]