Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni VillaniVillani, Giovanni
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Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
Villani, Giovanni
Florence (Italy) -- History
people, he was attacked and assaulted at the palace, the archbishop
giving the people to understand that he had betrayed Pisa, and given
up their fortresses to the Florentines and the Lucchese; and being
without any defence, the people having turned against him, he
surrendered himself prisoner, and at the said assault one of his
bastard sons and one of his grandsons were slain, and Count Ugolino
was taken, and two of his sons, and three grandsons, his son's
children, and they were put in prison; and his household and
followers, and the Visconti and Ubizinghi, Guatani, and all the other
Guelf houses were driven out of Pisa. And thus was the traitor
betrayed by the traitor; wherefore the Guelf party in Tuscany was
greatly cast down, and the Ghibellines greatly exalted because of the
said revolution in Pisa, and because of the force of the Ghibellines
of Arezzo, and because of the power and victories of Don James of
Aragon, and of the Sicilians against the heirs of King Charles.
[Sidenote: 1288 A.D.]
Sec. 122.--_How the Lucchese took the castle of Asciano from the Pisans._
Sec. 123.--_How the Pisan mercenaries, coming from Campagna, were routed
by the Florentine mercenaries in Maremma._ Sec. 124.--_Of the dash on
Latterina made by the Florentines as an attack on Arezzo._ Sec.
125.--_How Prince Charles was released from the prison of the king of
Aragon._ Sec. 126.--_Of a great flood of water that was in Florence._
Sec. 127.--_How the Aretines came and laid waste the territory of
Florence as far as San Donato in Collina._
Sec. 128.--_How the Pisans chose for captain the count of Montefeltro,
and how they starved to death Count Ugolino and his sons and
grandsons._
[Sidenote: 1288 A.D.]
[Sidenote: Inf. xxxiii. 1-90.]
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