After the death of Sicardo and the accession to the throne of the treasurer Radelchi, the "
Chronicon Salernitanum" testifies to the episode of the liberation of the future Prince
Siconolfo, a prisoner in Taranto
in the 40s of the 9th century. On that occasion, citizens of Salerno and Amalfi (
Landolfo di Capua and Orso di Acerenza) wandered among the crowds of the local Taranto market and the neighboring streets, pretending to be terracotta pot merchants: evidently the circumstance that saw in Taranto traders from the Campania coast intent on selling their wares was part of normalcy.