[Footnote 94: This great event of the translation or
restoration of the empire is related and discussed by
Natalis Alexander, (secul. ix. dissert. i. p. 390 - 397,)
Pagi, (tom. iii. p. 418,) Muratori, (Annali d'Italia, tom.
vi. p. 339 - 352,) Sigonius, (de Regno Italiae, l. iv. Opp.
tom. ii. p. 247 - 251,) Spanheim, (de ficta Translatione
Imperii,) Giannone, (tom. i. p. 395 - 405,) St. Marc,
(Abrege Chronologique, tom. i. p. 438 - 450,) Gaillard,
(Hist. de Charlemagne, tom. ii. p. 386 - 446.) Almost all
these moderns have some religious or national bias.]