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 then by walls_ 75

Sec. 9.--_How Conrad I. was made Emperor_ 78

Sec. 10.--_Of the nobles which were in the city of Florence in the time of the said Emperor Conrad, and first of those about the Duomo_ 79

Sec. 11.--_Concerning the houses of the nobles in the quarter of Porta San Piero_ 80

Sec. 12.--_Of them of the quarter of Porta San Brancazio_ 81

Sec. 13.--_Concerning them of the great quarter of Porta Santa Maria and of San Piero Scheraggio_ 81

Sec. 18.--_Narration of many things that were in those times_ 83

Sec. 19.--_Of Robert Guiscard and his descendants, which were kings of Sicily and of Apulia_ 84

Sec. 20.--_Concerning the successors of Robert Guiscard, which were kings of Sicily and of Apulia_ 89

Sec. 21.--_Of the Countess Matilda_ 92

Sec. 29.--_How the Florentines defeated the Vicar of the Emperor Henry IV._ 95

Sec. 30.--_How the city of Florence took fire twice, whence a great part of the city was burnt_ 95

Sec. 31.--_How the Pisans took Majorca, and the Florentines protected the city of Pisa_ 96

Sec. 32.--_How the Florentines took and destroyed the fortress of Fiesole_ 98

Sec. 36.--_How the Florentines destroyed the fortress of Montebuono_ 98