390

Sec. 120.--_How the ambassadors of Henry, king of the
Romans, came to Florence_ 391

BOOK IX.

_Here begins the Ninth Book. How Henry, count of Luxemburg,
was made Emperor._

Sec. 1. 393

Sec. 7.--_How the Emperor Henry departed from Germany
to go into Italy_ 394

Sec. 8.--_How King Robert came to Florence as he returned
from his coronation_ 395

Sec. 9.--_How the Emperor Henry passed into Italy, and
gained the city of Milan_ 396

Sec. 10.--_How the Florentines enclosed the new circle of
the city with moats_ 397

Sec. 11.--_How the della Torre were driven out of Milan_ 398

Sec. 12.--_How there was great scarcity in Florence, and
concerning other events_ 400

Sec. 14.--_How the Emperor besieged Cremona, and his
people took Vicenza_ 400

Sec. 15.--_How the Emperor took the city of Cremona_ 401

Sec. 16.--_How the Florentines, by reason of the Emperor's
coming, recalled from banishment all the Guelfs_ 402

Sec. 17.--_How the Florentines, with all the Guelf cities of
Tuscany, made a league together against the Emperor_ 402

Sec. 20.--_How the Emperor Henry took the city of Brescia
by siege_ 403

Sec. 22.--_How Pope Clement sent legates to crown the
Emperor Henry_ 405

Sec. 26.--_How the ambassadors from the Emperor came to
Florence, and were driven thence_ 406

Sec. 28.--_How the Empress died in Genoa_ 407

Sec. 29.--_How the Emperor put the Florentines under the
ban of the Empire_ 407

Sec. 32.--_How the city of Brescia rebelled against the
Emperor_ 407

Sec. 34.--_How the city of Cremona rebelled against the
Emperor_ 408

Sec. 35.--_How the marshal of the Emperor came to Pisa,
and began war with the Florentines_