oa The Frankish incursion into Visigothic territory in 531

Some of the most important historians who wrote in the 6th and 7th centuries refer to the Frankish incursion into Visigothic territory which led to the defeat and death of Amalaric, the young king of the Visigoths. However, we are mostly faced with biased and lacunary texts, illustrating different versions of the event, which, motivated by their different rhetorical purposes, seldom show coinciding accounts. In this paper we tried to handle with these textual divergences in order to establish the events and motivations which would have characterized this episode of the struggle between Franks and Visigoths for the control of the rich south of mediterranean Europe.