Sec. 77.--_How the Ghibelline refugees from Florence prepared to deceive the commonwealth and people of Florence, and cause them to be betrayed_ 174 Sec. 78.--_How the Florentines raised an army to fortify Montalcino, and were discomfited by Count Giordano and by the Sienese at Montaperti_ 177 Sec. 79.--_How the Guelfs of Florence, after the said discomfiture, departed from Florence and went to Lucca_ 181 Sec. 80.--_How the news of the defeat of the Florentines came to the court of the Pope, and the prophecy which was made thereupon by Cardinal Bianco_ 183 Sec. 81.--_How the Ghibellines of Tuscany purposed to destroy the city of Florence, and how M. Farinata degli Uberti defended it_ 184 Sec. 83.--_How the Guelf refugees from Florence sent their ambassadors into Germany to stir up Conradino against Manfred_ 187 Sec. 86.--_How the Guelf refugees from Florence, and the other exiles of Tuscany, drave out the Ghibellines from Modena and afterwards from Reggio_ 188 Sec. 87.--_How Manfred persecuted Pope Urban and the Church with his Saracens of Nocera, and how a crusade was proclaimed against them_ 190 Sec. 88.--_How the Church of Rome elected Charles of France to be king of Sicily and of Apulia_ 192 Sec. 89.--_How Charles, count of Anjou and of Provence, accepted the election offered him by the Church of Rome to Sicily and Apulia_ 193 Sec. 90.--_Incident relating to the good Count Raymond of Provence_ 195 BOOK VII. _Here begins the Seventh Book, which treats of the coming of King Charles, and of many changes and events which followed thereupon._ Sec. 1. 199 Sec. 2.--_How the Guelf refugees from Florence took the arms of Pope Clement, and how they joined the French army of Count Charles_ 201 Sec. 3.--_How Count Charles departed from France, and passed by sea from Provence to Rome_ 202 Sec. 4.--_How Count Guy of Montfort, with the horse of Count Charles, passed through Lombardy_ 204 Sec. 5.--_How King Charles was crowned in Rome king of Sicily, and how he straightway departed with his host to go against King Manfred_ 205 Sec. 6.--_How, after King Charles had taken the pass of Cepperano, he stormed the city of San Germano_ 207 Sec. 7.--_How King Manfred went to Benivento, and how he arrayed his troops to fight against King Charles_ 209