BALZANI

(Count Ugo, 1847-1916, Italian Medieval Historian) Autograph Letter Signed to Reginald Lane Poole, (1857-1939,

Editor of the English Historical Review, Lecturer in Diplomatic at Oxford 1896-1927), thanking him for enquiring at the Bodleian, and for his review of “the Farfa book”, asking for “one or two extra copies ... to carry always ... with me”, he is now editing “from the autograph manuscript ... the Chronicon Farfense”, saying that a history of the Monastery at Farfa “may help to bring some light into the darkness of the history of Rome during the IX and X centuries and the first half of the eleventh”, he talks of the relation between Benedicts VIII and IX, and of recent clear evidence of “the exact date of the election of Benedict VIII ... Of what small stones the building of the medieval history of Rome is made !”, and says “it would give me a great pleasure to read and review Hartmann’s book”, handsome crowned ‘B’, 5 sides 8vo., 5 Royal Terrace, Weston super Mare, 15th November 1889

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