§ 5.—How the Florentines led an army against Pistoia, and laid waste the country round about
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§ 14.—How the Emperor Frederick came to enmity with the Church
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§ 22.—How the Emperor laid hold of King Henry, his son
133
§ 23.—How the war began between Pope Innocent IV. and the Emperor Frederick
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§ 24.—Of the sentence which Pope Innocent pronounced at the council of Lyons-on-Rhine, upon the Emperor Frederick
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§ 25.—How the Pope and the Church caused a new Emperor to be elected in place of Frederick, the deposed Emperor
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§ 26.—We will tell an incident in the affairs of Florence
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§ 33.—How the Guelf party was first driven from Florence by the Ghibellines and the forces of the Emperor Frederick
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§ 34.—How the host of the Emperor Frederick was defeated by the Parmesans, and by the Pope's legate
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§ 35.—How the Guelf refugees from Florence were taken in the fortress of Capraia
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§ 39.—How the Primo Popolo was formed in Florence to be a defence against the violence and attacks of the Ghibellines
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§ 41.—How the Emperor Frederick died at Firenzuola in Apulia
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§ 42.—How the Popolo of Florence peaceably restored the Guelfs to Florence
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§ 43.—How at the time of the said Popolo the Florentines discomfited the men of Pistoia, and afterwards banished certain families of the Ghibellines from Florence
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§ 44.—How King Conrad, son of Frederick the Emperor, came from Germany into Apulia, and had the lordship over the realm of Sicily, and how he died
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§ 45.—How Manfred, natural son of Frederick, took the lordship of the kingdom of Sicily and of Apulia, and caused himself to be crowned
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§ 46.—Of the war between Pope Alexander and King Manfred
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§ 50.—How the bridge Santa Trinita was built
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§ 53.—How the golden florins were first made in Florence
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§ 55.—How the Florentines marched against Siena, and the Sienese came to terms with them, and there was peace between them
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§ 65.—How the Popolo of Florence drave out the Ghibellines for the first time from Florence, and the reason why
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§ 69.—Incidents of the doings that were in Florence at the time of the Popolo
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§ 72.—How the great tyrant, Ezzelino da Romano, was defeated by the Cremonese and died in prison
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§ 73.—How both the king of Castille and Richard, earl of Cornwall, were elected king of the Romans
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§ 74.—How the Ghibelline refugees from Florence sent into Apulia to King Manfred for succour
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§ 75.—How the commonwealth and people of Florence led a great host up to the gates of Siena with the carroccio
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§ 76.—How King Manfred sent Count Giordano with 800 Germans to succour the Sienese and the Ghibelline refugees from Florence
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§ 77.—How the Ghibelline refugees from Florence prepared to deceive the commonwealth and people of Florence, and cause them to be betrayed
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§ 78.—How the Florentines raised an army to fortify Montalcino, and were discomfited by Count Giordano and by the Sienese at Montaperti
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§ 79.—How the Guelfs of Florence, after the said discomfiture, departed from Florence and went to Lucca