Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani — John Shaqi
Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni VillaniVillani, Giovanni
History
Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
Villani, Giovanni
Florence (Italy) -- History
Sec. 7.--_How that many Fiesolans came to dwell in
Florence, and made one people with the Florentines_ 74
Sec. 8.--_How the city of Florence increased its circuit, first
by moats and palisades, and then by walls_ 75
Sec. 9.--_How Conrad I. was made Emperor_ 78
Sec. 10.--_Of the nobles which were in the city of Florence
in the time of the said Emperor Conrad, and first of
those about the Duomo_ 79
Sec. 11.--_Concerning the houses of the nobles in the quarter
of Porta San Piero_ 80
Sec. 12.--_Of them of the quarter of Porta San Brancazio_ 81
Sec. 13.--_Concerning them of the great quarter of Porta
Santa Maria and of San Piero Scheraggio_ 81
Sec. 18.--_Narration of many things that were in those times_ 83
Sec. 19.--_Of Robert Guiscard and his descendants, which
were kings of Sicily and of Apulia_ 84
Sec. 20.--_Concerning the successors of Robert Guiscard,
which were kings of Sicily and of Apulia_ 89
Sec. 21.--_Of the Countess Matilda_ 92
Sec. 29.--_How the Florentines defeated the Vicar of the
Emperor Henry IV._ 95
Sec. 30.--_How the city of Florence took fire twice, whence a
great part of the city was burnt_ 95
Sec. 31.--_How the Pisans took Majorca, and the Florentines
protected the city of Pisa_ 96
Sec. 32.--_How the Florentines took and destroyed the fortress
of Fiesole_ 98
Sec. 36.--_How the Florentines destroyed the fortress of
Montebuono_ 98
BOOK V.
_Here begins the Fifth Book: How Frederick I. of Staufen of
Suabia was Emperor of Rome, and of his descendants, and
concerning the doings of Florence, which were in their times,
and of all Italy._
Sec. 1. 101
Sec. 2.--_How Pope Alexander returned from France to
Venice, and the Emperor returned to obedience_ 105
Sec. 3.--_How the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was reconciled
with the Church, and went over seas, and
there died_ 106
Sec. 8.--_Of the great fires which were in the city of
Florence_ 108
Sec. 9.--_How civil war began in Florence between the
Uberti and the government of the Consuls_ 109
Sec. 12.--_How the Emperor Frederick I. took their territory
from the city of Florence, and many other
cities of Tuscany_ 110
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