4 INTRODUCTION. 
ceeded in 1085, by his son Ruggiero, with the title 
of duke of Apulia and Sicily +. 
From its connection with Constantinople and the 
Saracens, Salerno became the centre of the united 
learning of the Latins, the Greeks, and the Arabians: 
and hence it was one of the first cities in Europe 
where the sciences awoke from the slumber of bar- 
barism. Amongst other arts, it was celebrated very 
early for the profession of medicine®. But as nothing 
in those dark ages could be accomplished without a 
miracle, the first fame of Salerno was derived from 
the extraordinary cures said to have been performed 
by the relics of saint Archelais. This lady, with 
two other holy virgins, Thecla and Susanna, suffere 
martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian, about 
the year 293, and their remains were deposited at 
length in the church of the Benedictine nuns of 
saint George at Salerno‘, 
In an ancient Chronicle, quoted by Mazza, it is 
said, that the first founders of the school of Salerno 
were Rabinus Elinus a Jew, Pontus, a Greek, Adala, 
* Gian. vol. ii. p. 67. 74, e 
° In urbe Psalernitana, an maximez medicorem schole ab 
antiquo tempore habentur. Orderic, Vitalis 
alis ad 1059. 
Sin da tempi di papa Giovanni VIII. Gee from 872 to 882.) 
Gian. vol. ii, p. 124, 
Anton, Mazza, Salern, Hist, cap. Vi. 
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