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Title: Curious questions in history, literature, art, and social life. Designed as a manual of general information
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Killikelly, Sarah H. (Sarah Hutchins), 1840-1912
Subjects: Questions and answers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Keystone
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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etc. 13. A QUEEN WHO DRANK FROM A CUP MADE OFA HUMAN SKULL. The successors of Theodoric in the Gothic Kingdomof Italy were seven in number. After the death of the last of the seven, the Gothswere subdued by Narses, who administered the govern-ment as duke until A.D. 567. He was recalled by theemperor Justin II.; and, to avenge this insult, he invitedAlboin, king of the Lombards, into Italy. Alboin penetrated into Italy, and was proclaimedking in 568. In single combat he killed Cunimund, king of theGepidae, a German tribe, and forced Rosamond, thedaughter of the murdered king, to become his wife. He then had a wine-cup made of the skull of Cuni-mund, out of which he compelled the queen to drink. The beautiful Rosamond dissembled her indignantfeelings, but, waiting her opportunity, appealed to twoofficers for revenge, who, being admitted by her to thekings apartment, assassinated him as he lay asleep. According to agreement, Rosamond fled with one ofthe assassins, Helmichis, to Ravenna.
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TOMB OF THEODORIC THE GREAT. (Near Ravenna, Italy ) CURIOUS QUESTIONS. 2 I Afterward, to free herself from the power of HeLmichis, she gave him a cup of poison to drink; but he,detecting her treachery, drank half of it, and compelledher to drink the other half, so that they died together. 14. THE POET WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER. In the Protestant cemetery at Rome, there is a gravewith this inscription : This grave contains all that wasmortal of a young English poet, who on his deathbed,in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power ofhis enemies, desired these words to be engraved on histombstone : * Here lies one whose name was writ inwater. February 23, 1821. This is the grave of JohnKeats, aged twenty-four years, born in London, 1795,died at Rome, 1821. He published his first volume of poems in 1817. Inthe following year appeared Endymion, dedicated tothe memory of Thomas Chatterton. This work was soseverely handled in the English journals of the day, thathe left England,

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