Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni VillaniVillani, Giovanni
History
Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
Villani, Giovanni
Florence (Italy) -- History
Sec. 2.--_How through the confusion of the Tower of Babel
the world began to be inhabited_ 2
Sec. 5.--_Of the third part of the world called Europe, and
its boundaries_ 4
Sec. 7.--_How King Atlas first built the city of Fiesole_ 4
Sec. 8.--_How Atlas had three sons, Italus and Dardanus
and Sicanus_ 6
Sec. 9.--_How Italus and Dardanus came to agree which
should succeed to the city of Fiesole and the kingdom
of Italy_ 7
Sec. 10.--_How Dardanus came to Phrygia and built the city
of Dardania, which was afterwards the great Troy_ 8
Sec. 11.--_How Dardanus had a son which was named
Tritamus, which was the father of Trojus, after
whose name the city of Troy was so called_ 8
Sec. 17.--_How Antenor and the young Priam, having departed
from Troy, built the city of Venice, and that
of Padua_ 9
Sec. 21.--_How Aeneas departed from Troy and came to
Carthage in Africa_ 10
Sec. 22.--_How Aeneas came into Italy_ 13
Sec. 23.--_How the King Latinus ruled over Italy, and how
Aeneas had his daughter to wife, and all his kingdom_ 14
Sec. 29.--_How Rome was ruled for a long time by the
government of the consuls and senators, until Julius
Caesar became Emperor_ 16
Sec. 30.--_How a conspiracy was formed in Rome by Catiline
and his followers_ 18
Sec. 31.--_How Catiline caused the city of Fiesole to rebel
against the city of Rome_ 19
Sec. 32.--_How Catiline and his followers were discomfited
by the Romans in the plain of Piceno_ 20
Sec. 33.--_How Metellus with his troops made war upon the
Fiesolans_ 22
Sec. 34.--_How Metellus and Fiorinus discomfited the Fiesolans_ 22
Sec. 35.--_How the Romans besieged Fiesole the first time,
and how Fiorinus was slain_ 23
Sec. 36.--_How, because of the death of Fiorinus, the Romans
returned to the siege of Fiesole_ 24
Sec. 37.--_How the city of Fiesole surrendered itself to the
Romans, and was destroyed and laid waste_ 26
Sec. 38.--_How the city of Florence was first built_ 27
Sec. 39.--_How Caesar departed from Florence, and went to
Rome, and was made consul to go against the
French_ 30
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