receded in 1200 by Pope Innocent III for the succession to the Empire, Frédéric II of Hohenstaufen will be couraged and sacred in 1220 by Honorius III. For many of his contemporary students, he has always been a subject of attention and controversy that crystallised in a series of opposing myths. The image of the souabia King and Emperor — politician, legislator, sponsorship, naturalist and letter man — has developed against a background of related spic and wonderful visions...