Editorial note — APPENDIX.
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The Guiscards had conquered (1059) Calabria and conciliated the Holy See by granting to it Benevento.
It may be noted that the influence of this invasion of the Norman adventurers was felt till a very recent period in Italy—as the contention between the Papal and Neapolitan governments about the possession of Benevento lasted till the present century—the dispute, in fact, gave Napoleon I. a pretext for seizing the duchy, which he did in 1806, and conferred it upon Talleyrand.