In the said year 1298, the commonwealth and people of Florence began to build the Palace of the Priors, by reason of the differences between the people and the magnates, forasmuch as the city was always in jealousy and commotion, at the election of the Priors afresh every two months, by reason of the factions which had already begun; and the Priors which ruled the city and all the republic, did not feel themselves secure in their former habitation, which was the house of the White Cerchi behind the church of San Brocolo. And they built the said palace where had formerly been the houses of the Uberti, rebels against Florence, and Ghibellines; and on the site of those houses they made a piazza, so that they might never be rebuilt. And they bought other houses from citizens, such as the Foraboschi, and there built the said palace and the tower of the priors, which was raised upon a tower which was more than fifty cubits high, pertaining to the Foraboschi, and called the Torre della Vacca. And to the end the said palace might not stand upon the ground of the said Uberti, they which had the building of it set it up obliquely; but for all that it was a grave loss not to build it four-square, and further removed from the church of San Piero Scheraggio. [Sidenote: 1299 A.D.] Sec. 27.--_How peace was made between the commonwealth of Genoa and that of Venice._ Sec. 28.--_How peace was made between the commonwealth of Bologna and the marquis of Este and Maghinardo da Sussinana by the Florentines._ Sec. 29.--_How King James of Aragon with Ruggeri di Loria and with the armada of King Charles defeated the Sicilians off Cape Orlando._ Sec. 30.--_How peace was made between the Genoese and Pisans._ Sec. 31.--_When the new walls of the city of Florence were begun again._ Sec. 32.--_How the king of France by his practices got hold of all Flanders, and had the count and his sons in prison._ Sec. 33.--_How the king of France allied himself with King Albert of Germany._ Sec. 34.--_How the prince of Taranto was defeated in Sicily._ Sec. 35.--_How Ghazan, lord of the Tartars, defeated the soldan of the Saracens, and took the Holy Land in Syria._ Sec. 36.--_How Pope Boniface VIII. gave pardons to all Christians which should go to Rome, in the year of the jubilee, 1300._ [Sidenote: 1300 A.D.] [Sidenote: Cf. Purg. ii. 98, 99.] [Sidenote: Par. xxxi. 104-108.] [Sidenote: Inf. xviii. 28-33.]