Tarente, in the south of Italy

9. décider quelqu'un à faire quelque chose, ' to détermine one to . .' ; décider de faire quelque chose, ' to détermine to do a thing. '

,, 10. il souriait à l'idée . ., ' the thought . . pleased him.'

, . 1 3. se faire un royaume : Bohemond's idea in going on the crusade was to hâve a prete.xt for acquiring the country from the Dalmatian coast to the northern shores of the Aegean. The city of Antioch became his after its capture, 1098 ; from it he made open war wilh Alexius, and was partly successful. He died 1109.

,, 18. fit ranger, for se ranger. Insiead of a refi. infin. a transitive infin. is regularly used -xix&x faire, and sometimes after laisser and voir ; e.g. —

je r en ferai souvenir.

ma mire me fit asseoir devant elle.

, , 20. s'embarquer pour : cf. —

partir pour, faire voile pour, se mettre en route pour.

, . 24. Richard, Count of Salemo, erroneously mentioned by Michaud for Richard II., Count of Capua, 1091-1106.

,. 25. Robert of Sourdeval, a Norman knight, remained in Antioch with Bohemond.

.. 29. Tancrède, cousin of Bohemond, son of Odo the Good and Emma, the sistcr of Robert Guiscard. Tiiough without the wealth or great retinue of Bohemond, Timcred is the Irue

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représentative of the fine spirit of the Crusaders. In him the ' very gentlc, perfect knight,' a mirror of chivalrous conrtesy, is best seen, He yielded Tarsus to Baldv\-in in 1097 ; treated his captives mercifully in the gênerai massacre at Jérusalem, 1099 ; stayed with Godfrey in Jérusalem ; ruled at Antioch for Bohemond, where he died in 11 12. The Jérusalem Delivered of Tasso paints the virtues of Tancred in the character of Rinaldo.