![]() Histories of the Norman domination of the south and especially Sicily began to appear from the end of the sixteenth century and important works were produced by Du Moulin, Fazzello, Maurolico, Costanza, Caruso, Summonte, Giannone, Burigny, Testa and Gregorio. ![]() This imaginative literary approach to the Norman achievements continued in the poems of Spatafora, de la Harpe and de Pastoret. ![]() Boccaccio in his Decameron told the tragic love-story of a son of William II and a Muslim princess. The roumans de la conqueste de Césile were part of the inventory of Clement of Hungary and in the library of John d’Evreux. ![]() This is hardly surprising given what many saw as the exploits of the Norman warriors and the success of the Hauteville family in southern Italy and Sicily. The historiography of the Normans in southern Italy began with the chansons de geste of medieval Europe. ![]()
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