to Florence_ 39

BOOK II.

Sec. 1.--_Here begins the Second Book: how the city of
Florence was destroyed by Totila, the scourge of
God, king of the Goths and Vandals_ 43

Sec. 2.--_How Totila caused the city of Fiesole to be rebuilt_ 47

Sec. 4.--_How the Goths remained lords of Italy after the
death of Totila_ 47

Sec. 10.--_How Charles Martel came from France to Italy
at the summons of the Church against the Lombards;
and of the origin of the city of Siena_ 48

Sec. 12.--_How Telofre [Astolf], king of the Lombards,
persecuted Holy Church, and how King Pepin, at
the summons of Pope Stephen, came from France
and defeated him, and took him prisoner_ 49

Sec. 13.--_How Desiderius, son of Telofre, began war again
with Holy Church, for the which thing Charles the
Great passed into Italy, and defeated him, and took
away and destroyed the lordship of the Lombards_ 51

Sec. 15.--_How Charles the Great, king of France, was
made Emperor of Rome_ 54

Sec. 21.--_How the city of Florence lay waste and in ruins
for 350 years_ 56

BOOK III.

_Goes back somewhat to tell how the city of Florence was
rebuilt by the power of Charles the Great and the Romans._

Sec. 1. 59

Sec. 2.--_Of the form and size in which the city of Florence
was rebuilt_ 62

Sec. 3.--_How Charles the Great came to Florence, and
granted privileges to the city, and caused Santo
Apostolo to be built_ 65

BOOK IV.

Sec. 2.--_Of the Emperor Otho III., and the Marquis
Hugh, which built the Badia at Florence_ 69

Sec. 4.--_Of the progeny of the Kings of France, which descended
from Hugh Capet_ 71

Sec. 6.--_How in the time of the said Henry, the Florentines
took the city of Fiesole, and destroyed it_ 71

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 th