BOOK VIII.
_Here begins the Eighth Book. It tells how the second Popolo arose in the city of Florence, and of many great changes which by reason thereof came afterwards to pass in Florence, following on with the other events of those times._
Sec. 1. 301
Sec. 5.--_How Celestine V. was elected and made Pope, and how he renounced the papacy_ 304
Sec. 6.--_How Boniface VIII. was elected and made Pope_ 306
Sec. 8.--_How the great man of the people, Giano della Bella, was driven out of Florence_ 309
Sec. 10.--_How M. Gianni di Celona came into Tuscany as Imperial Vicar_ 312
Sec. 12.--_How the magnates of Florence raised a tumult in the city to break up the Popolo_ 313
Sec. 13.--_How King Charles made peace with King James of Aragon_ 315
Sec. 23.--_How the Colonnesi came to ask pardon of the Pope, and afterwards rebelled a second time_ 317
Sec. 26.--_When the palace of the people of Florence was begun, where dwell the Priors_ 318
Sec. 36.--_How Pope Boniface VIII. gave pardon to all Christians which should go to Rome, in the year of the jubilee_, 1300 320
Sec. 38.--_How the parties of the Blacks and Whites first began in the city of Pistoia_ 321
Sec. 39.--_How the city of Florence was divided and brought to shame by the said White and Black parties_ 323
Sec. 40.--_How the Cardinal Acquasparta came as legate from the Pope to make peace in Florence, and could not do it_ 327
Sec. 41.--_Concerning the evils and dangers which followed afterwards to our city_ 329
Sec. 42.--_Of the same_ 330
Sec. 43.--_How Pope Boniface sent into France for M. Charles of Valois_ 331
Sec. 45.--_How the Black party were driven out of Pistoia_ 332
Sec. 49.--_How M. Charles of Valois of France came to Pope Boniface, and afterwards came to Florence and drove out the White party_ 333
Sec. 59.--_How Folcieri da Calvoli, Podesta of Florence, caused certain citizens of the White party to be beheaded_ 339
Sec. 60.--_How the White party and the Ghibelline refugees from Florence came to Puliciano and departed thence in discomfiture_ 340
Sec. 61.--_Incident, relating how M. Maffeo Visconti was driven from Milan_ 342
Sec. 62.--_How there arose strife and enmity between Pope Boniface and King Philip of France_ 344
Sec. 63.--_How the king of France caused Pope Boniface to be seized in Anagna by Sciarra della Colonna, whence the said Pope died a few days afterwards_ 346
Sec. 64.--_We will further tell of the ways of Pope Boniface_ 350
Sec. 67.--_How King Edward of England recovered Gascony and defeated the Scots_ 352
Sec. 68.--_How there were in Florence great changes and civic battles through desire that the accounts of the commonwealth should be examined_ 353
Sec. 69.--_How the Pope sent into Florence as legate the Cardinal da Prato to make peace, and how he departed thence in shame and confusion_ 356
Sec. 70.--_How the bridge of Carraia fell, and how many people died there_ 360
Sec. 71.--_How Florence was set on fire, and a great part of the city burnt_ 361
Sec. 72.--_How the Whites and Ghibellines came to the gates of Florence, and departed thence in discomfiture_ 364
Sec. 80.--_How Pope Benedict died, and of the new election of Pope Clement V._ 369
Sec. 84.--_How there arose in Lombardy one Fra Dolcino with a great company of heretics, and how they were burnt_ 375
Sec. 88.--_Of the great war which was begun against the marquis of Ferrara, and how he died_ 376
Sec. 92.--_How and after what fashion was destroyed the Order and mansion of the Temple of Jerusalem by the machinations of the king of France_ 377
Sec. 96.--_How Corso Donati, the great and noble citizen of Florence, died_ 382
Sec. 101.--_After what manner Henry, count of Luxemburg, was elected Emperor of Rome_ 386
Sec. 102.--_How Henry the Emperor was confirmed by the Pope_ 389
Sec. 112.--_How Robert was crowned king over the kingdom of Sicily and Apulia_ 390
Sec. 120.--_How the ambassadors of Henry, king of the Romans, came to Florence_ 391