[Footnote 101: Fazellus, and a crowd of Sicilians, had
imagined a more early and independent coronation, (A.D.
1130, May 1,) which Giannone unwillingly rejects, (tom. ii.
p. 137 - 144.) This fiction is disproved by the silence of
contemporaries; nor can it be restored by a spurious
character of Messina, (Muratori, Annali d' Italia, tom. ix.
p. 340. Pagi, Critica, tom. iv. p. 467, 468.)]