428

Sec. 70.--_How Uguccione, lord of Lucca and of Pisa, laid
siege to the castle of Montecatini_ 430

Sec. 71.--_How, when the prince of Taranto was come to
Florence, the Florentines sallied forth with their
army to succour Montecatini, and were defeated by
Uguccione della Faggiuola_ 431

Sec. 72.--_More about the said battle and defeat of the
Florentines and of the prince_ 432

Sec. 81.--_Of the election of Pope John XXII._ 434

Sec. 86.--_How Uguccione da Faggiuola sought to re-enter
Pisa, and what came of it in Pisa, and of the
Marquis Spinetta_ 436

Sec. 87.--_How the Ghibelline party left Genoa_ 437

Sec. 89.--_How M. Cane della Scala led an army against
the Paduans, and took many castles from them_ 438

Sec. 90.--_How the exiles from Genoa with the force of the
Ghibellines of Lombardy besieged Genoa_ 438

Sec. 92.--_How the exiles from Genoa took the suburbs of Prea_ 439

Sec. 93.--_How King Robert came by sea to succour Genoa_ 440

Sec. 94.--_How the Genoese gave the lordship of Genoa to
King Robert_ 441

Sec. 95.--_Of the active war which the exiles of Genoa with
the Lombards made against King Robert_ 442

Sec. 97.--_How King Robert's followers discomfited the
exiles from Genoa at the village of Sesto, and how
they departed from the siege of the city_ 443

Sec. 99.--_How the exiles from Genoa with the Lombards
returned to the siege of Genoa_ 444

Sec. 100.--_How M. Cane della Scala took the suburbs of Padua_ 445

Sec. 121.--_How M. Cane della Scala, being at the siege of
Padua, was defeated by the Paduans and by the
count of Goertz_ 446

Sec. 136.--_Concerning the poet Dante Alighieri of Florence_ 448

INTRODUCTION

Sec. 1. _The Text._

This book of selections is not intended as a contribution to the study
of Villani, but as an aid to the study of Dante. The text of Villani
is well known to be in a very unsatisfactory condition, and no attempt
at a critical treatment of it has been made. The Florence edition of
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