[Footnote 37: The best accounts, the nearest the time, the
most full and entertaining, of the conquest of Naples by
Charles of Anjou, may be found in the Florentine Chronicles
of Ricordano Malespina, (c. 175 - 193,) and Giovanni
Villani, (l. vii. c. 1 -10, 25 - 30,) which are published by
Muratori in the viiith and xiiith volumes of the Historians
of Italy. In his Annals (tom. xi. p. 56 - 72) he has
abridged these great events which are likewise described in
the Istoria Civile of Giannone. tom. l. xix. tom. iii. l.
xx]