Apulia, Imperial Splendor in Southern Italy

New York: Praeger, 1959. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Quarto with light yellow boards and pictorial black stamping and spine title; tipped-in color plate frontispiece; 257 pages plates, map, plans; index; 29 cm Very good (-); boards show some dampstaining and sunning; light foxing to fore edge and scuffing to corners; inside is clean and bright; small price sticker to front flyleaf; else remarkably fresh and crisp. Hardcover.

Translation of: Apulien, Land der Normannen, Land dur Staufer . "Under the Normans and the Hohenstaufens the province of Apulia experienced a Golden Age, its brief decades of emergence from the darkness of obscurity into the radiance of history -- after which it sank back into oblivion and legend. To write about it entails describing the feats by which the sons and grandsons of the Norman Tancred de Hauteville brought Apulia this passing renown. Above all, it means describing the monuments which still survive there as the most striking evidence of the rise and development of Norman power, the completeness and perfection of Hohenstaufen domination -- the palaces and castles, cathedrals and fortresses." --Introductory chapter. //

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