Note 117 — Chapter II · LOMBARD INVASION TO LIUTPRAND’S DEATH [568-744 A.D.]
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[Hodgkinb says of the Lombards: “They are the anarchists of the Völkerwanderung, whose delight is only in destruction, and who seem incapable of culture. Yet this is the race from which, in the fullness of time, under the transmuting power of the old Italian civilisation, were to spring Anselm and Lanfranc, Hildebrand and Dante Alighieri.”]