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