The History of Charlemagne (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1832. Excerpt: ... BOOK XIII. FROM CHARLEMAGNE'S LAST VISIT TO ROME, TO HIS DEATH. FROM A.D. 800, TO A.D. 814. AFFAIRS OF ITALY -- CONSPIRACY OF PASCHAL AND CAMPULU8 ATTEMPTED MUTILATION OF THE POPE -- HIS RECOVERY AND ESCAPE REINSTATED BY CHARLEMAGNE EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSATION BROUGHT AGAINST HIM--CHARLEMAGNE VISITS ROME -- INVESTIGATES IN PERSON THE CHARGES AGAINST LEO -- THEY' ARE UNSUPPORTED--CHARLEMAGNE SALUTED AND CROWNED EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS -- WAR WTTH BENEVENTUM -- CONCLUDED--NEGOTIATIONS CONCERNING THE LIMITS OF THE EASTERN AND WESTERN EMPIRES -- WITH IRENE -- WITH NICEPHORUS STATE OF VENICE -- WAR WITH THE DANES AVERTED FOR A TIME WAR WITH THE BOHEMIANS -- CHARTER OF DIVISION BETWEEN THE SONS OF CHARLEMAGNE -- WAR WITH THE BOHEMIANS CONCLUDED --WAR WITH THE DANES BEGUN AND ENDED--WAR WITH THE VENETIANS -- DEATH OF THE TWO ELDER SONS OF CHARLEMAGNE -- HE ASSOCIATES LOUIS TO THE THRONE--DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE--HIS CHARACTER. While such had been the occupations of Charlemagne in France and Germany, Rome had been the theatre of events which strongly called for his presence in Italy. The hatred which Campulus and Paschal, the two disappointed aspirants to the papacy, had conceived against the more successful Leo, had slumbered, but was not extinct; and towards the year 799, some circumstances, which are not known, seem to have roused it into new activity. The ecclesiastical situations held by the two factious Romans, and the favour with which they were regarded by the unsuspecting Leo himself, gave them many opportunities, we might imagjne, for executing any project of revenge, which went the length of assassination. It would appear, however, that Paschal and his fellow conspirator, though determined to gratify their vengeance, and to open the way to their ambition, by rendering the Pope incap...