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
Jean d'Appia, escaped with certain
others from the said discomfiture, and returned to Faenza.
[Sidenote: 1282 A.D.]
[Sidenote: 1283 A.D.]
[Sidenote: 1282 A.D.]
[Sidenote: 1283 A.D.]
[Sidenote: 1284 A.D.]
Sec. 82.--_How Forli surrendered to the Church, and how there was peace
in Romagna._ Sec. 83.--_How the king of Armenia with a great company of
Tartars was defeated at Cammella [Emesa] in Syria by the soldan of
Egypt._ Sec. 84.--_How the war between the Genoese and Pisans began._ Sec.
85.--_How the prince, son of King Charles, with many barons of France
and of Provence, came to Florence to march against the Sicilians._ Sec.
86.--_How King Charles and King Peter of Aragon engaged to fight in
single combat at Bordeaux, in Gascony, for the possession of Sicily._
Sec. 87.--_How on the appointed day, King Peter, of Aragon, failed to
appear at Bordeaux, wherefore he was excommunicated and deposed by the
Pope._ Sec. 88.--_How there was in Florence a flood of waters and great
scarcity of victuals._ Sec. 89.--_How a noble court and festival was
held in the city of Florence, whereat all were arrayed in white._ Sec.
90.--_How the Genoese did great hurt to the Pisans returning from
Sardinia._ Sec. 91.--_Still of the doings of the Pisans and the Genoese._
Sec. 92.--_How the Genoese discomfited the Pisans at Meloria._ Sec.
93.--_How Charles, prince of Salerno, was defeated and taken prisoner
at sea, by Ruggeri di Loria, with the fleet of the Sicilians._ Sec.
94.--_How King Charles arrived at Naples with his fleet, and then made
ready to pass to Sicily._
Sec. 95.--_How the good King Charles passed from this life at the city
of Foggia in Apulia._
[Sidenote: 1284 A.D.]
[Sidenote: Purg. vii. 113, 124, 128.]
[Sidenote: Par. viii. 31, 49-72; ix. 1.]
[Sidenote: Cf. Par. viii. 82, 83; Purg. xx. 79-84.]
[Sidenote: Par. viii. 76-84.]
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