BOOK VI.
_How Frederick II. was consecrated and made Emperor, and the great things which came to pass._
Sec. 1. 127
Sec. 5.--_How the Florentines led an army against Pistoia, and laid waste the country round about_ 129
Sec. 14.--_How the Emperor Frederick came to enmity with the Church_ 130
Sec. 22.--_How the Emperor laid hold of King Henry, his son_ 133
Sec. 23.--_How the war began between Pope Innocent IV. and the Emperor Frederick_ 134
Sec. 24.--_Of the sentence which Pope Innocent pronounced at the council of Lyons-on-Rhine, upon the Emperor Frederick_ 135
Sec. 25.--_How the Pope and the Church caused a new Emperor to be elected in place of Frederick, the deposed Emperor_ 138
Sec. 26.--_We will tell an incident in the affairs of Florence_ 140
Sec. 33.--_How the Guelf party was first driven from Florence by the Ghibellines and the forces of the Emperor Frederick_ 140
Sec. 34.--_How the host of the Emperor Frederick was defeated by the Parmesans, and by the Pope's legate_ 146
Sec. 35.--_How the Guelf refugees from Florence were taken in the fortress of Capraia_ 147
Sec. 39.--_How the Primo Popolo was formed in Florence to be a defence against the violence and attacks of the Ghibellines_ 149
Sec. 41.--_How the Emperor Frederick died at Firenzuola in Apulia_ 151
Sec. 42.--_How the Popolo of Florence peaceably restored the Guelfs to Florence_ 152
Sec. 43.--_How at the time of the said Popolo the Florentines discomfited the men of Pistoia, and afterwards banished certain families of the Ghibellines from Florence_ 153
Sec. 44.--_How King Conrad, son of Frederick the Emperor, came from Germany into Apulia, and had the lordship over the realm of Sicily, and how he died_ 154
Sec. 45.--_How Manfred, natural son of Frederick, took the lordship of the kingdom of Sicily and of Apulia, and caused himself to be crowned_ 156
Sec. 46.--_Of the war between Pope Alexander and King Manfred_ 158
Sec. 50.--_How the bridge Santa Trinita was built_ 160
Sec. 53.--_How the golden florins were first made in Florence_ 161
Sec. 55.--_How the Florentines marched against Siena, and the Sienese came to terms with them, and there was peace between them_ 162
Sec. 65.--_How the Popolo of Florence drave out the Ghibellines for the first time from Florence, and the reason why_ 164
Sec. 69.--_Incidents of the doings that were in Florence at the time of the Popolo_ 166
Sec. 72.--_How the great tyrant, Ezzelino da Romano, was defeated by the Cremonese and died in prison_ 167
Sec. 73.--_How both the king of Castille and Richard, earl of Cornwall, were elected king of the Romans_ 169
Sec. 74.--_How the Ghibelline refugees from Florence sent into Apulia to King Manfred for succour_ 169
Sec. 75.--_How the commonwealth and people of Florence led a great host up to the gates of Siena with the carroccio_ 170
Sec. 76.--_How King Manfred sent Count Giordano with 800 Germans to succour the Sienese and the Ghibelline refugees from Florence_ 173
Sec. 77.--_How the Ghibelline refugees from Florence prepared to deceive the commonwealth and people of Florence, and cause them to be betrayed_ 174
Sec. 78.--_How the Florentines raised an army to fortify Montalcino, and were discomfited by Count Giordano and by the Sienese at Montaperti_ 177
Sec. 79.--_How the Guelfs of Florence, after the said discomfiture, departed from Florence and went to Lucca_ 181
Sec. 80.--_How the news of the defeat of the Florentines came to the court of the Pope, and the prophecy which was made thereupon by Cardinal Bianco_ 183
Sec. 81.--_How the Ghibellines of Tuscany purposed to destroy the city of Florence, and how M. Farinata degli Uberti defended it_ 184
Sec. 83.--_How the Guelf refugees from Florence sent their ambassadors into Germany to stir up Conradino against Manfred_ 187
Sec. 86.--_How the Guelf refugees from Florence, and the other exiles of Tuscany, drave out the Ghibellines from Modena and afterwards from Reggio_ 188
Sec. 87.--_How Manfred persecuted Pope Urban and the Church with his Saracens of Nocera, and how a crusade was proclaimed against them_ 190
Sec. 88.--_How the Church of Rome elected Charles of France to be king of Sicily and of Apulia_ 192
Sec. 89.--_How Charles, count of Anjou and of Provence, accepted the election offered him by the Church of Rome to Sicily and Apulia_ 193
Sec. 90.--_Incident relating to the good Count Raymond of Provence_ 195