for the people, with the said ensign, was enrolled in each country and district of Florence, and they were called the Leagues of the People. And the first of the said gonfaloniers was one Baldo de' Ruffoli of the Porte del Duomo; and in his time the standard sallied forth with armed men to destroy the goods of a family named Galli of Porta S. Marie, by reason of a murder which one of them had committed in the kingdom of France on the person of a popolano. This new decree of the people, and change in the State was of much importance to the city of Florence, and had afterwards many and divers consequences both ill and good to our commonwealth, as hereafter in due time we shall make mention. And in this new thing and beginning of the Popolo, the popolani would have been hindered by the power of the magnates but that in those times the said magnates of Florence were in greater broils and discords among themselves than ever before since the Guelfs returned to Florence; and there was great war between the Adimari and the Tosinghi, and between the Rossi and the Tornaquinci, and between the Bardi and the Mozzi, and between the Gherardini and the Manieri, and between the Cavalcanti and the Bondelmonti, and between certain of the Bondelmonti and the Giandonati, and between the Visdomini and the Falconieri, and between the Bostichi and the Foraboschi, and between the Foraboschi and the Malispini, and among the Frescobaldi themselves, and among the family of the Donati themselves, and many other noble houses. [And therefore let not the reader marvel because we have put this event at the head of our book, forasmuch as the most strange events arose from this beginning, and not only to our city of Florence, but to all the region of Italy.] [Sidenote: 1293 A.D.] Sec. 2.--_How the people of Florence made peace with the Pisans, and many other notable things._ Sec. 3.--_Of a great fire which broke out in Florence in the district of Torcicoda._ Sec. 4.--_How the war began between the king of France and the king of England._ Sec. 5.--_How Celestine V. was elected and made Pope, and how he renounced the papacy._ [Sidenote: 1294 A.D.] [Sidenote: Cf. Inf. iii. 58-60; xxvii. 104, 105.] [Sidenote: Par. xxvii. 41.] [Sidenote: Cf. Inf. iii. 59, 60.]