The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 09 : $b Italy
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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 09 : $b Italy
World history
713, Paoluccio Anafesto; 717, Marcello Tegliano; 726, Orleo Orso; 737,
Orso killed--the republic ruled by annually elected _maestro della
milizia_; 742, Diodato Orso; 755, Galla Catanio; 756, Domenico Monegaro;
764, Maurizio Galbaio; 787, Giovanni Galbaio; 796, Maurizio Galbaio II
(associated); 804, Banishment of the Galbaii--Obelerio di Antenori,
Beato and Valentino di Antenori associated; 809, Angelo Badoer; 827,
Giustiniano Badoer; 829, Giovanni Badoer; 836, Pietro Tradenigo; 864,
Orso Badoer; 881, Giovanni Badoer II; 887, Pietro Sanudo; 888, Giovanni
Badoer II; Pietro Tribuno; 912, Orso Badoer II; 932, Pietro Sanudo II;
939, Pietro Badoer; 942, Pietro Sanudo III; 959, Pietro Sanudo IV; 976,
Pietro Orseolo I; 978, Vitale Sanudo; 979, Tribuno Memo; 991, Pietro
Orseolo II; 1008, Ottone Orseolo; 1026, Pietro Barbolano; 1033, Domenico
Flabenigo; 1043, Domenico Contarini; 1071, Domenico Selvo; 1084, Vitale
Falieri; 1096, Vitale Michieli; 1102, Orlando Falieri; 1117, Domenico
Michieli; 1130, Pietro Polani; 1148, Domenico Morosini; 1156, Vitale
Michieli II; 1173, Sebastiano Ziani; 1179, Orlio Malipiero; 1192, Henry
Dandolo; 1205, Pietro Ziani; 1229, Jacopo Tiepolo; 1249, Marino Morosini;
1252, Reniero Zeno; 1268, Lorenzo Tiepolo; 1275, Jacopo Contarini; 1280,
Giovanni Dandolo.
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CHAPTER II. IMPERIAL AGGRESSIONS OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY
FREDERICK BARBAROSSA IN ITALY
The long war of the investitures, between the Franconian emperors and the
popes, had given the first impulse to the ambition of the Lombard cities
for alliance; as general interests were involved, as it was a question
of distant operations and common danger, the cities felt the necessity
of alliances and of an active correspondence, which soon extended from
one extremity of Italy to the other. The smaller towns soon found that
this general policy was beyond their means, and that the great cities,
in which commerce and wealth had accumulated knowledge, and which alone
received the communications of the pope or of the emperor, naturally
placed themselves at the head of the league formed in their provinces,
either for the empire or for the church. These two leagues were not yet
known in Italy by the names of Guelf and Ghibelline, which in Germany had
been the war-cry of the two parties at the battle of Winsberg, fought
on the 21st of December, 1140, and which had previously distinguished,
the former the dukes of Saxony and Bavaria, devoted to the pope, the
latter, the emperors of the house of Franconia. But although these two
names, which seem since to have become exclusively Italian, had not yet
been adopted in Italy, the hereditary affection respectively for the two
parties already divided the minds of the people for more than a century,
and faction became to each a second country, often served by them with
not less heroism and devotion than their native city.[b]
[Sidenote: [1152-1155 A.D.]]
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