amalphi

Updated: June 8, 2025

Among the new acquisitions of Guiscard, the science of Salerno, and the trade of Amalphi, may detain for a moment the curiosity of the reader. I. Of the learned faculties, jurisprudence implies the previous establishment of laws and property; and theology may perhaps be superseded by the full light of religion and reason.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Their services were liberally paid by the license or monopoly of trade, a profitable gift of many shops and houses in the port of Constantinople, and a tribute to St. Mark, the more acceptable, as it was the produce of a tax on their rivals at Amalphi.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Rome was oppressed by the iron sceptre of the exarchs, and a Greek, perhaps a eunuch, insulted with impunity the ruins of the Capitol. But Naples soon acquired the privilege of electing her own dukes: the independence of Amalphi was the fruit of commerce; and the voluntary attachment of Venice was finally ennobled by an equal alliance with the Eastern empire.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

After three hundred years of prosperity, Amalphi was oppressed by the arms of the Normans, and sacked by the jealousy of Pisa; but the poverty of one thousand fisherman is yet dignified by the remains of an arsenal, a cathedral, and the palaces of royal merchants. Part III. Roger, the twelfth and last of the sons of Tancred, had been long detained in Normandy by his own and his father' age.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5