Capitolo 40
Ethelwolf, after a short stay in France it followed in Rome. His/her arrival
and here its visit attracted the great attention. How King of England him
it was accordingly a very considerable character, and then him
come with a great succession and in is magnificent. His/her religious
predilections also, inhaled him with a very strong interest in the
ecclesiastical authority and institutions in Rome, and wakened up,
reciprocally, in these authorities, a strong interest in him. He did
present expensive to the pope alcuni/e dei/lle which was particularly splendid.
A was a crown of pure gold that weighed that four pounds it is said.
Another was a sword, richly climbed on in the gold. There was a lot also
utensils and vases of Saxon form and construction, some of gold and
others of silver gilding, and also a considerable number of suits, everybody
very it richly decorated. King Ethelwolf also made a distribution in the money
to all the inhabitants of Rome: gold to the nobles and the clergy,
and it silvers to the people. As far its munificence on this occasion is able
you/he/she has been exaggerated at the Saxon reporters that, clearly, as
other first historians, liked magnifying all the enterprises, and
inflating, in every way the fame of the heroes of their histories,
we cannot now know. There is however without doubt, that all the
circumstances of the visit of Ethelwolf to the great capital were as
to attract universal attention to the event, and to do the small one
Alfred on which account that the trip was in a great completed measure,
an object of very general interest and attention.
In fact, there is every reason to believe that the Saxon nations had,
to that duration, it made such progress in wealth, population and the power as
to allow himself/herself/themselves such prince as Ethelwolf the means to do a great
exposes, if he chose to do so, on such occasion as that of a reality
leftovers through France and a visit in the great city of Rome. The
Saxons had owned England, to this many point one hundred
years; and nevertheless, during this whole period, they had been involved in