Afar, is the reign of philosophy; close up is the chaos of the Carlovingian era.
In the decline of the Carlovingian monarchy, the republic of Amalphi promoted the interest of trade and religion in the East.
He instituted the school for it in the Lateran, whence the Carlovingian monarchs obtained teachers of singing and organ-playing.
Moreover, the Carlovingian race had been exhausted by producing a race of heroes like the Pepins and the Charleses.
The Carlovingian period, therefore, furnishes us with much over which to lament, but also with much over which to rejoice.