BOOK V.

_Here begins the Fifth Book: How Frederick I. of Staufen of Suabia was Emperor of Rome, and of his descendants, and concerning the doings of Florence, which were in their times, and of all Italy._

Sec. 1. 101

Sec. 2.--_How Pope Alexander returned from France to Venice, and the Emperor returned to obedience_ 105

Sec. 3.--_How the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was reconciled with the Church, and went over seas, and there died_ 106

Sec. 8.--_Of the great fires which were in the city of Florence_ 108

Sec. 9.--_How civil war began in Florence between the Uberti and the government of the Consuls_ 109

Sec. 12.--_How the Emperor Frederick I. took their territory from the city of Florence, and many other cities of Tuscany_ 110

Sec. 13.--_How the Florentines took the cross, and went over seas to conquer Damietta, and therefore recovered their territory_ 111

Sec. 16.--_How Henry of Suabia was made Emperor by the Church, and how Constance, queen of Sicily, was given him to wife_ 112

Sec. 24.--_How the Order of the Minor Friars began_ 114

Sec. 25.--_How the Order of the Preaching Friars began_ 114

Sec. 26.--_How the Florentines destroyed the castle of Frondigliano_ 115

Sec. 30.--_How the Florentines destroyed the strongholds of Simifonti and of Combiata_ 116

Sec. 31.--_Destruction of Montelupo, and how the Florentines gained Montemurlo_ 116

Sec. 32.--_How the Florentines elected their first Podesta_ 117

Sec. 36.--_How during Otho's lifetime Frederick II. of Suabia was elected Emperor by the desire of the Church at Rome_ 118

Sec. 37.--_Concerning the death of the old Count Guido, and of his progeny_ 119

Sec. 38.--_How the parties of the Guelfs and Ghibellines arose in Florence_ 121

Sec. 39.--_Of the families and the nobles which became Guelfs and Ghibellines in Florence_ 123

Sec. 41.--_How the Florentines caused the dwellers in the country around to swear fealty to the city, and how the new Carraia Bridge was begun_ 125