Villani's Chronicle. Giovanni Villani
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| BOOK IX. | |
| Here begins the Ninth Book. How Henry, count of Luxemburg, was made Emperor. | |
| § 1. | 393 |
| § 7.—How the Emperor Henry departed from Germany to go into Italy | 394 |
| § 8.—How King Robert came to Florence as he returned from his coronation | 395 |
| § 9.—How the Emperor Henry passed into Italy, and gained the city of Milan | 396 |
| § 10.—How the Florentines enclosed the new circle of the city with moats | 397 |
| § 11.—How the della Torre were driven out of Milan | 398 |
| § 12.—How there was great scarcity in Florence, and concerning other events | 400 |
| § 14.—How the Emperor besieged Cremona, and his people took Vicenza | 400 |
| § 15.—How the Emperor took the city of Cremona | 401 |
| § 16.—How the Florentines, by reason of the Emperor's coming, recalled from banishment all the Guelfs | 402 |
| § 17.—How the Florentines, with all the Guelf cities of Tuscany, made a league together against the Emperor | 402 |
| § 20.—How the Emperor Henry took the city of Brescia by siege | 403 |
| § 22.—How Pope Clement sent legates to crown the Emperor Henry | 405 |
| § 26.—How the ambassadors from the Emperor came to Florence, and were driven thence | 406 |
| § 28.—How the Empress died in Genoa | 407 |
| § 29.—How the Emperor put the Florentines under the ban of the Empire | 407 |
| § 32.—How the city of Brescia rebelled against the Emperor | 407 |
| § 34.—How the city of Cremona rebelled against the Emperor | 408 |
| § 35.—How the marshal of the Emperor came to Pisa, and began war with the Florentines | 408 |
| § 36.—How the Paduans rebelled against the lordship of the Emperor | 409 |
| § 39.—Of the gathering together made by King Robert and the league of Tuscany at Rome to oppose the coronation of the Emperor Henry | 409 |
| § 40.—How the Emperor Henry departed from Pisa and came to Rome | 410 |
| § 43.—How Henry of Luxemburg was crowned Emperor at Rome | 411 |
| § 44.—How the Emperor departed from Rome to go into Tuscany | 413 |
| § 45.—How the Emperor came to the city of Arezzo, and afterwards how he came towards the city of Florence | 414 |
| § 46.—How the Florentines were well-nigh discomfited at the fortress of Ancisa by the army of the Emperor | 415 |
| § 47.—How the Emperor Henry encamped with his host before the city of Florence | 416 |
| § 48.—How the Emperor abandoned the siege, and departed from San Salvi, and came to San Casciano, and then to Poggibonizzi | 419 |
| § 49.—How the Emperor departed from Poggibonizzi, and returned to Pisa, and issued many bans against the Florentines | 421 |
| § 50.—How the Emperor condemned King Robert | 422 |
| § 51.—How the Emperor made ready to enter into the Kingdom against King Robert, and departed from Pisa | 423 |
| § 52.—How the Emperor Henry died at Bonconvento, in the country of Siena | 424 |
| § 53.—Relates how, when the Emperor was dead, his host was divided, and the barons carried his body to the city of Pisa | 425 |
| § 56.—How the Florentines gave the lordship of Florence to King Robert for five years | 426 |
| § 59.—Of the death of Pope Clement | 427 |
| § 63.—How the Paduans were discomfited at Vicenza by M. Cane della Scala | 428 |
| § 66.—Of the death of Philip, king of France, and of his sons | 428 |
| § 70.—How Uguccione, lord of Lucca and of Pisa, laid siege to the castle of Montecatini | 430 |
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§ 71.—How, when the prince of Taranto was come to Florence, | |