THE MODERN PARTI OF AN Universal History, FROM THE Earliest AccOUNT of TIME. Compiled from ORIGINAL WRITERS. By the AUTHORS of the ANTIENT PART. VOL. XXVIII. JN REC LONDON: Printed for S. RICHARDSON, T. OSBORNE, C. HITCH, M.DCC.LXI. [1] Modern History: BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE Univerfal Hiftory. W The Hiftory of Naples. HEN Charlemagne put an end to the dominion of The duke the Lombards in Italy, by taking Defiderius their laft of Beneking prifoner, he at the fame time obliged the Lom- vento fubbard dukes of Friuli, Spoleto, and Benevento, to acknowlege mits to him as king of Italy; but allowed them to exercife the fame Charlepower and authority which they had enjoyed before his con- magne. queft . Of these three dukedoms Benevento was by far the A. D. moft powerful and extenfive, as it comprehended almost all that part of Italy which is at prefent known by the name of the kingdom of Naples, the Greek emperor poffeffing only the islands in the bay of Naples, that part of farther Calabria beyond the rivers Savuto and Peto, a few maritime cities in a Vide the Antient Univerfal History, vol. xix. PEREGRINUS in Differt. de finib. Ducat. Benevent. b CAMILL. 774. MOD. HIST. VOL. XXVIII. B hither |