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uncomfortable, but in the State were the series of Memorials of the City, the<br />

recording, including the essential elements of the Act and its document summary.<br />

(Above picture: ENZO 1224 Palermo - Bologna 1272)<br />

Portrait of King Enzo on the tombstone of the grave, in San<br />

Domenico in Bologna<br />

Different commentators and scholars argue that Conrad of Antioch, in the defeat of<br />

the Swabian in Tagliacozzo, has taken refuge in Sicily, w<strong>here</strong> he surrendered to<br />

Guido de Montfort, was first blinded and then hanged. This another transposition<br />

of Corrado Capece because of the confusion between the two characters (It is<br />

surprising that have fallen into the error even modern authors such as De Frede<br />

that in op. Cit., P.25, states "So the Montfort could have, then, reason of the<br />

rebels; also Corrado of Antioch was defeated and many others surrendered "). In<br />

Naples, Charles of Anjou sent Guido de Montfort to oblige obedience in Sicily.<br />

Corrado Capece falled in the network of Guillaume Estendard that in May 1270,<br />

made him blind and shortly afterwards hanged on the shore of the sea of Catania<br />

(N.Kamp, Corrado Capece, cit., P. 413).<br />

It should be remembered about the figure of Corrado Capece, which is in some<br />

contemporary chroniclers that contemporary scholars frequently use a unique<br />

mixture and confusion between him and Corrado of Antioch. The interchange of<br />

person, and the inclusion of one in the context of the facts and events that mention<br />

one other and vice versa, it could be the fact that in an Aragonese time a branch of<br />

the family of Antioch moved in Sicily w<strong>here</strong> they already possessed some fiefdoms,<br />

as Capizzi.<br />

Even Palumbo (op. Cit., P. 273 n. 1) points out that confusion. He points out that<br />

"From the contemporary chroniclers a contemporary historian marks a unique<br />

frequent confusion between Corrado Capece and Corrado of Antioch." Raffaele also<br />

falls into the error sheet lets that, 0p. Cit., P. 222, says Manfredi fate in the<br />

Marches "as Captain Corrado Capece son of Frederick of Antioch." The son of<br />

Frederick of Antioch was Corrado of Antioch and not Corrado Capece.<br />

It is important to emphasize that since the day after the battle of Tagliacozzo,<br />

Corrado proves excluded from the list of those sentenced to death (GP Carosi, op.<br />

Cit., P. 51). The same Charles I of Anjou wrote from the battlefield in a letter<br />

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