rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—The name of Guidarellns Guidarellius is mentioned in " Hist. Ravennatum," lib. vii., p. 625 (Graevius Thesaurus Hist.
Ital.) somewhat quaintly as to date : " Sub id tempus Fredericus Caesar Romam abiens . . , comites fecit anno
a partik Virginis, MCCCOLXVIII., mense Decembri : Romo- aldus Saxus, Guidarellus Guidarellius," &c. In another portion of the same work, "Historiae Italiae," vol. ii., part ii., p. 177, will be found the name of Fortebraccio, as follows :—
"Illud tamen verius quod inter eos Mortmannos, qui ad gloriam sibi comparanclam in Italiam e Francit advenerunt, Gulielmus Fortebracius erat, qui, occupat/1 11 Sarracenis Sicilia, Pontificis monitil, cum Molocco Graeco duce, in barbaros irruit, dominath liberavit. Moloceus insequutus, manus cum eo conseruit, vicitque Gulielmus et Apulia° comitis titulum ac,cepit."
As the date of this passage relates to the year (circiter) 1022,
the reference made by your correspondent to Fortebraccio- to whose honour the chapel of that name was built—was most probably intended as the greatest possible compliment to Guidarello.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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