first began in Florence, albeit before that there had been a division secretly among the noble citizens, whereof some loved the rule of the Church and some that of the Empire; nevertheless they were all agreed as to the state and well-being of the commonwealth. Sec. 40.--_How the city of Damietta was taken by the Christians, and afterwards lost._ Sec. 41.--_How the Florentines caused the dwellers in the country around to swear fealty to the city, and how the new Carraia Bridge was begun._ [Sidenote: 1218 A.D.] [Sidenote: Inf. xxxii. 56, 57.] In the year of Christ 1218, when Otto da Mandella of Milan was Podesta of Florence, the Florentines caused all the dwellers in the country around to swear fealty to the commonwealth, seeing that before that time the greater part had obeyed the rule of the Counts Guidi, and of them of Mangone, and of them of Capraia, and of Certaldo, and of many Cattani which had taken possession of the lands by privileges and some by force of the emperors. And in this year the building of the bastions of the Carraia Bridge was begun. [Sidenote: 1220 A.D.] Sec. 42.--_How the Florentines took Mortennana, and completed the new bridge called Carraia._ END OF SELECTIONS FROM BOOK V. BOOK VI. [Sidenote: 1220 A.D.] _How Frederick II. was consecrated and made Emperor, and the great things which came to pass._ [Sidenote: Inf. x. 119; xiii. 59, 68, 75; xxiii. 66. Purg. xvi. 117. Par. iii. 120. Convivio iv. Canzone, ver. 21; also cap. 3: 37-44; 10: 6-12. De Vulg. El. i. 12: 20-35. Epist. vi. (5) 126-135. Par. iii. 118-120.] [Sidenote: Inf. x. 119.] [Sidenote: Cf. Purg. xvi. 115-117.]