![]() for the great German Rulers of the past Kaisers are no more. NEW YORK by Republished 1957 and Co., arrangement with Constable First published Ltd., London 1931 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 57-9408 TO MY FRIEND WOLDEMAR COUNT UXKULL-GYLLENBAND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT PLAZA ^50.11.54 CITY C10.I UBKAR> PREFATORY NOTE WHEN the Kingdom of Italy, in May 1924, celebrated the seven-hundredth anniversary of the University of Naples, a foundation of the Hohenstaufen Frederick II, a wreath might have been seen on the Emperor s sarcophagus in the Cathedral of Palermo with this inscription : SEINEN KAISERN UND HELDEN DAS GEHEIME DEUTSCHLAND not to imply that the present Life of Frederick II was but that wreath may fairly be begotten of that episode in learned circles enthusiasm alone taken as a symbol that not This is. ![]() LORIMER With Seven Maps FREDERICK UNGAR PUBLISHING CO. The life of this dynamic explored in Ernst biography, filled and absorbing man is fully Kantorowicz notable with dramatic incident detail, and written with continued on back flap 92 F9H5k Kantorovicz Frederick the Second 65-01151* 1194-1250 FREDERICK THE SECOND MAY 1965 & 1966 FREDERICK THE SECOND 1194-1250 BY ERNST KANTOROWICZ Authorized English Version by E. At his Sicilian court scholars of all re Jew the Uni ish, Mohammedan- He founded was a and 1M4 in versity of Naples ligions were welcomed Christian, patron of the arts and sciences. Excommunicated three times by the Church, he was an absolute mon arch whose power, defended in almost continuous struggle, extended over of Germany and much Italy as well as the Holy Land Frederick was a complex man of cul tured tastes and licentious manners who had unusually wide intellectual interests. The last of the Hohenstaufens, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily and Jerusalem, Frederick and versatile ruler, tion in whose a II was an man energetic of great ambi lifetime the conflict be tween Emperor and Pope reached a new intensity. ![]() $5.50 FREDERICK THE SECOND is the story of the remarkable power and sphere of man whose influence straddled the worlds of Christendom and of Islam. ![]()
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