BOOK I.

_This book is called the New Chronicle, in which many past things are treated of, and especially the root and origins of the city of Florence; then all the changes through which it has passed and shall pass in the course of time: begun to be compiled in the year of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1300. Here begins the preface and the First Book._

Sec. 1. 1

Sec. 2.--_How through the confusion of the Tower of Babel the world began to be inhabited_ 2

Sec. 5.--_Of the third part of the world called Europe, and its boundaries_ 4

Sec. 7.--_How King Atlas first built the city of Fiesole_ 4

Sec. 8.--_How Atlas had three sons, Italus and Dardanus and Sicanus_ 6

Sec. 9.--_How Italus and Dardanus came to agree which should succeed to the city of Fiesole and the kingdom of Italy_ 7

Sec. 10.--_How Dardanus came to Phrygia and built the city of Dardania, which was afterwards the great Troy_ 8

Sec. 11.--_How Dardanus had a son which was named Tritamus, which was the father of Trojus, after whose name the city of Troy was so called_ 8

Sec. 17.--_How Antenor and the young Priam, having departed from Troy, built the city of Venice, and that of Padua_ 9

Sec. 21.--_How Aeneas departed from Troy and came to Carthage in Africa_ 10

Sec. 22.--_How Aeneas came into Italy_ 13

Sec. 23.--_How the King Latinus ruled over Italy, and how Aeneas had his daughter to wife, and all his kingdom_ 14

Sec. 29.--_How Rome was ruled for a long time by the government of the consuls and senators, until Julius Caesar became Emperor_ 16

Sec. 30.--_How a conspiracy was formed in Rome by Catiline and his followers_ 18

Sec. 31.--_How Catiline caused the city of Fiesole to rebel against the city of Rome_ 19

Sec. 32.--_How Catiline and his followers were discomfited by the Romans in the plain of Piceno_ 20

Sec. 33.--_How Metellus with his troops made war upon the Fiesolans_ 22

Sec. 34.--_How Metellus and Fiorinus discomfited the Fiesolans_ 22

Sec. 35.--_How the Romans besieged Fiesole the first time, and how Fiorinus was slain_ 23

Sec. 36.--_How, because of the death of Fiorinus, the Romans returned to the siege of Fiesole_ 24

Sec. 37.--_How the city of Fiesole surrendered itself to the Romans, and was destroyed and laid waste_ 26

Sec. 38.--_How the city of Florence was first built_ 27

Sec. 39.--_How Caesar departed from Florence, and went to Rome, and was made consul to go against the French_ 30

Sec. 40.--_Of the ensign of the Romans and of the Emperors, and how from them it came to the city of Florence and other cities_ 31

Sec. 42.--_How the Temple of Mars, which is now called the Duomo of S. Giovanni, was built in Florence_ 32

Sec. 50.--_Of the city of Luni_ 34

Sec. 57.--_The story returns to the doings of the city of Florence, and how S. Miniato there suffered martyrdom under Decius, the Emperor_ 35

Sec. 59.--_Of Constantine the Emperor, and his descendants, and the changes which came thereof in Italy_ 38

Sec. 60.--_How the Christian faith first came to Florence_ 39