In the said year all the county of Romagna, being obedient to Holy Church, and under the care of the bishop of Arezzo, which was count thereof for the Pope, Maghinardo da Susinana, with certain nobles and great men of Romagna, took the city of Forli by theft, and in it they took the Count Aghinolfo of Romena with his sons, which was brother to the said count bishop of Arezzo; and they besieged the said count bishop in Cesena; whence arose great war in Romagna. The said Maghinardo was a great and wise tyrant, holding many castles between Casentino and Romagna, and having many followers; and he was wise in war and very fortunate in many battles, and in his time did great things. He was a Ghibelline by race and by his works, but with the Florentines he was a Guelf and the enemy of all their enemies, whether they were Guelfs or Ghibellines; and in every expedition and battle which the Florentines undertook, whilst he was alive, he was with his people in their service as a captain; and this was because, when his father died, which was called Piero Pagano, a great nobleman, leaving the said Maghinardo, a young child and with many enemies, to wit, the Counts Guidi and the Ubaldini and other lords of Romagna, this said father left him to the care and tutelage of the people and commonwealth of Florence, him and his lands; by the which commonwealth his patrimony was benignly increased and guarded and improved, and for this cause he was grateful and very faithful to the commonwealth of Florence in all its needs. [Sidenote: 1292 A.D.] Sec. 150.--_How the Florentines took the castle of Ampinana._ Sec. 151.--_How Pope Nicholas, of Ascoli, died._ Sec. 152.--_How the whole city of Noyon, in France, was burnt._ Sec. 153.--_How Adolf was elected king of the Romans._ Sec. 154.--_How the Florentines marched upon the city of Pisa._ Sec. 155.--_Of the miracles which were manifested in Florence by S. Maria d'Orto San Michele._ END OF SELECTIONS FROM BOOK VII. BOOK VIII. _Here begins the Eighth Book. It tells how the second Popolo arose in the city of Florence, and of many great changes which by reason thereof came afterwards to pass in Florence, following on with the other events of those times._ [Sidenote: 1292 A.D.] [Sidenote: Par. xvi. 131, 132.]