The Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis ("Chronicle of the Roman Bishops and Emperors and of the Deeds Done in Apulia") is a 13th-century Latin prose chronicle by an anonymous monk of the monastery of Santa Maria della Ferraria in southern Italy.
It is most valuable for the Norman period in southern Italy and for events connected with the monastery of Santa Maria.
[1] However, its last section, covering the reign of Frederick II, whom the chronicler met, is original and written in the present tense.
The author had access to now lost portions of the chronicle of Falco of Benevento, which in its surviving form covers the years 1103–1140.
[2] The format and scope of the chronicle's text has led to its characterization as the first history of the Kingdom of Sicily.