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Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis

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The Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis ("Chronicle of the Roman Bishops and Emperors and of the Deeds Done in Apulia") is a 13th-century Latin prose chronicle by an anonymous monk of the monastery of Santa Maria della Ferraria in southern Italy. It is sometimes called the Chronica Ferrariensis or the Chronicle of Santa Maria di Ferraria.

It is a single undivided text, conceived as a continuation of the Chronica maiora of Bede. It covers events from 781 until 1228, when it abruptly ends. It is most valuable for the Norman period in southern Italy and for events connected with the monastery of Santa Maria. The author had access to now lost portions of the chronicle of Falco of Benevento, which in its surviving form covers the years 1103–1140. The Chronica Romanorum thus extends Falco's narrative to the years 1099–1103 and 1140–49.

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