Celebrating Mitteleuropa: letter from Cividale.(Italy) The New Leader (9/7/1998)
...and legend. The town's heyday was between the sixth and the 15th centuries, when Lombard kings with fantastic names like Alboin, Cleft, Agilulph, and Liudprand held sway in the area. They were followed by Frankish patriarchs named Popp, Eberard...

Charlemagne in Italy. History Today (2/1/1996)
...assuming the title of king of the Lombards he showed that it was not his object to destroy the nationality of the countrymen of Alboin, nor to force them into one people with the Franks, Had his own son Pippin lived and transmitted his sceptre to his descendants...

Fair bowls you over; ANTIQUES Richard Edmonds visits the first of the new season Antiques For Everyone events.(News) The Birmingham Post (England) (4/10/1999)
...Antiques, where Peter Frost-Kelsey drew my attention to a fine example of Minton's pate-sur-pate ware made for Mintons by Alboin Birks around the turn of the century. Fashioned to resemble a wine jug, these beautiful pieces were apparently thick with...

Soave coming of age.(Spotlight) Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) (6/6/2007)
...personal white wine hit parade. The word Soave originated with the Suevians, an ancient Germanic people led into the region by Alboin the Lombard King. The two main indigenous grapes in Soave have evolved, over centuries, into a perfect marriage with the...

John Ciardi: soaring high above cliche Chicago Sun-Times (4/15/1986)
...Ciardi' is not natively Italian," he wrote. "Its root is Lombard, and the Lombards entered Italy from Germany under Alboin in the 7th century. At that point of entry the name was Gerhardt. But ask an Italian to say `Gerhardt' and he will say...