Gênes : torn by civil war and party spirit, the Genoese

unable to govern themselves, handed over the city to the duke of Milan.

34. le royaiime de Naples : in 1130 the Norman Robert Guiscard united the south of Italy and the island of Sicily intoone kingdom, the kingdomof the TwoSicilies, with Naples as its metropolis. In 1189 the kingdom passed to the Swabians ; but in 1266 Charles of Anjou defeated them and was crowned king. His descendants reigned until 1441, when the kingdom was ruled by the princes of Aragon.