duke of Calabria; the fourth was Philip, prince of Taranto; the fifth was Raymond Berenger (count that was to be of Provence); the sixth was John, prince of Morea; the seventh was Peter, count of Eboli. [Sidenote: 1284 A.D.] [Sidenote: 1285 A.D.] Sec. 96.--_How the prince, son to King Charles, was condemned to death by the Sicilians, and afterwards was sent prisoner into Catalonia by Queen Constance._ Sec. 97.--_How there was a great flood of waters in Florence, which overwhelmed part of the Poggio de' Magnoli._ Sec. 98.--_How the Florentines, with the Genoese and with the Tuscans, made a league against the Pisans, whereby the Ghibellines were driven out of Pisa._ Sec. 99.--_How the Florentines began the foundation of the gates, to build the new walls of the city._ Sec. 100.--_Of the great events that came to pass among the Tartars of Turigio._ Sec. 101.--_How the Saracens took and destroyed Margatto in Syria._ Sec. 102.--_How King Philip of France went with a great army against the king of Aragon._ Sec. 103.--_How the king of Aragon was discomfited and wounded by the French, of the which wound he afterwards died._ Sec. 104.--_How the king of France took the city of Gerona, and how his fleet was discomfited at sea._ Sec. 105.--_How the king of France departed from Aragon, and died at Perpignan._ [Sidenote: 1285 A.D.] [Sidenote: Purg. vii. 105.] [Sidenote: Cf. Purg. vii. 109.] [Sidenote: Par. xix. 143-148.] King Philip of France, seeing his fortune so changed and adverse, and his fleet, which was bringing victuals to his host, taken and burnt, was overcome with grief and melancholy in such wise that he fell grievously sick with fever and a flux, wherefore his barons took counsel to depart and return to Toulouse, and of necessity they were forced thereto by lack of victuals, and by reason of the adverse season of autumn, and because of the sickness of their king. And thus they departed about the first day of October, carrying their sick king in a litter, and they dispersed with but little order, each one getting away as best he could and most quickly; wherefore, when they were crossing the difficult pass of the Schiuse through the great mountains of Pirris [? the defiles of the great mountains of Pertus], the Aragonese and Catalans which were at the pass, sought to hinder the passing of the litter wherein the king of France lay sick. And when the French saw this, they gave battle in despair to them which were at the pass, to the end they might not take the body of the king, and by force of arms they broke them up and discomfited them, and drave them from the pass; but many of the French common people on foot were taken and slain, and many mules and horses and much baggage destroyed and taken by the Catalans and Aragonese. And a little while after the departure of the king of France and of his host, the king of Aragon received Gerona back on conditions. And when the host of the