Talk:Iron Crown of Lombardy

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Was Napoleon really crowned as King of Italy on May 23, 1805 ? Both the Napoleon I of France page and the King of Italy page say May 26. Can someone familiar with this confirm the date and fix things accordingly, please ? Thank. -- PFHLai 14:20, 2005 May 15 (UTC)

"Its small size and hinged construction ..." -- so, how big is it? -- Securiger 11:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

the external diameter varies between 16,5 cm and 17,2 cm, and the internal circumference is of 48 cm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.6.224.138 (talk) 10:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] pic

Does anyone have a good idea of where to get a color picture of the crown? The current b/w picture makes the crown look like it is primarily iron, while the description says it is mostly "gold and enamel" with a narrow band of iron.

There is a nice on here. http://www.comune.monza.mi.it/ns/latuacitta/turismo/duomo/html/la_corona_ferrea.html Don't know about copyright and such. /roger.duprat.denmark

[edit] Unexpectedly erudite for Ahab?

The article states:

A surprising image of the Iron Crown figures in Chaper 37 "Sunset" of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The brief chapter is devoted to Captain Ahab's soliloquy. Among his delusions of persecution and of grandeur, he imagines himself crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy, an unexpectedly erudite touch for Ahab, though perhaps not for Melville.

This seems fairly POV to me, if not dead wrong. As far as I can tell from my reading, Ahab isn't obviously stupid enough for us to call his allusion "unexpectedly erudite", especially since the whole section is rather poetic. I've deleted the questionable text.

Starwiz 01:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing links

It says two links are *documented* lost. So it figures they'd have to shorten the inner band, the one made from the nails of the cross. Anyone knows what happened to the pieces? If the loss is documented, maybe someone knows. /roger.duprat.denmark